PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On February 5, the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership awarded its 2023 Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Awards to Marlisa Yoder-Bontrager of Lancaster, and twin sisters Keisha and Tarsha Scovens of Lancaster and Philadelphia respectively. The sisters completed Pennsylvania Master Naturalist training in 2014-2015.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

10 Abandoned Well NOVs DEP issued 10 new notices of violation to conventional well operators for failure to plug a well upon abandoning it last week-- Stedman Energy, Inc. (4 The original NOV was issued on June 18, 2015 and a new NOV issued citing the current regulations on April 21, 2023. SWN Prod Co. Beech Creek Twp. -

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 24 PA Bulletin inviting comments on its determination that 57 major industrial facilities across the state meet Air Quality RACT II and RACT III requirements and the 2015 national ozone pollution standard. Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for additional details.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

And by the 2007 IPCC AR4 report, or in Lean and Rind (2008) ), at best, scientists had concluded that solar activity wasn’t likely to be responsible for more than 10% or so of the long term rise in global temperature. 2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). 409-452, 2015. Connolly, and M. Connolly, W. Connolly, S. Baliunas, J.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

On November 10, Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership awarded its 2022 Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Awards to Dr. Zeshan Ismat of Lancaster City and Brennan Ka’aihue of Central Pennsylvania. Posted: November 10, 2022] PA Environment Digest She is also the only woman to serve as PFA Board President.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 22, 2023

USA: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on Halliburton The Atlantic PaulaR Thu, 06/22/2023 - 10:28 Thursday, April 23, 2015 Read more Jesse Eisinger After reporting his own company to the SEC, it took Tony Menendez nine years to win back his dignity. JESSE EISINGER APRIL 23, 2015 Enjoy unlimited access to The Atlantic.

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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 20, 2023

The graph compiled by Ember is really impressive and shows an acceleration in the energy transition of the bloc : One of the many things that strike me in this picture is how renewables went from around 10-15% of total electricity in 2015 to now over 30 percent. This is equally impressive.

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Volkswagen: The scandal explained BBC PaulaR Thu, 08/24/2023 - 09:48 Thursday, December 10, 2015 Read more Russell Hotten What is Volkswagen accused of?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

23 to 29 - Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Wastewater Releases; Conventional Wells Venting Gas [PaEN] -- TribLive: Peoples Gas Seeks State Approval For 21.4% 23 to 29 - Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Wastewater Releases; Conventional Wells Venting Gas [PaEN] -- TribLive: Peoples Gas Seeks State Approval For 21.4%

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Acoel

MARCH 27, 2023

Like a predecessor rule in 2015 which attempted to broaden the definition of WOTUS, numerous states and industry groups have challenged the 2023 WOTUS rule. They also claim the rule is unconstitutional in that it violates the Commerce Clause, 10 th Amendment, Due Process Clause, and Non-Delegation Doctrine. 3:23-cv-32 (D.N.D.),

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Wind turbines and solar panels made up a tiny fraction of our energy infrastructure 10 years ago. The number of homes heated with clean, efficient electric heat pumps increased by 28% in a decade from 2005 to 2015. Today, they are everyday parts of America’s energy landscape. Just a few years ago,… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

From 2010 to 2015, Texas experienced its second-worst drought in the state’s history. Miller plant in northern Texas getting taken offline for almost a year, until enough rain replenished the supplying reservoir in 2015. The drought led to three gas-fired steam units totaling 403 megawatts (MW) at the R.W.

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Corp Watch

APRIL 18, 2023

Asgaard: Umstrittene deutsche Söldnerfirma auf Expansionskurs FOCUS Online PaulaR Tue, 04/18/2023 - 19:28 Thursday, September 10, 2015 Read more Sebastian Schöbel Die deutsche Militärfirma Asgaard will sich in den USA Aufträge angeln – angeblich mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A study led by the University of Leeds found that Himalayan glaciers have lost ice 10 times more quickly in the past few decades than they have on average since the Little Ice Age. One water utility, Southern Water, was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping wastewater into waterways from 2010 to 2015. ON THE RADAR.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The four wells that are part of this announcement were list as abandoned by DEP since April 14, 2015.] This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 14, 2015 - report not available, but noting ‘no adverse event or action reported.] operates 110 conventional wells.] [The

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2023

On January 10, Gov.-elect Cindy Dunn Cindy Dunn has served in the position of Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources since the beginning of the Wolf Administration in 2015. Click Here for her bio. Click Here for his bio.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This is our third annual report on funding trends in climate change mitigation philanthropy and covers seven years offunding data from 2015 to 2021. In last year’s report, we estimated that of $750 billion in total philanthropic giving worldwide in 2020, roughly $6 billion to$10 billion was dedicated to climate change mitigation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

There were 2 violations in 2017; -- Howard Drilling : There was 1 violation in 2015; These companies also reported road spreading their oil and gas well wastewater. Read more here.] .] -- Pennfield Energy: Did not submit any waste reports for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, although DEP did issue 2 notices of violation for 2 wells in 2021.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 23, 2023

Its franchise-tax reports to the Comptroller in 2013 and 2015 reported gains that were almost entirely attributable to the sale of the interests. Hegar , a Texas court addressed how Hibernia, a non-taxable entity under federal law, is taxable under Texas law. The franchise tax Hibernia sold leasehold interests.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 30, 2022

The report explains that the high emitters, the US and the European Union (EU) which are both pledging net-zero emissions by 2050, are only on a trajectory to reduce emissions based on 2015 levels by 27% by 2030. Only a few countries are on a net-zero path.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Farouk Kadded at Leica Geosystems said that this year, for the first time since 2015 – when scientists started measurements in June too – Mont Blanc’s snowpack in September had remained virtually unchanged from June.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

degrees C target that world leaders agreed upon in the Paris Agreement of 2015. Swiss glaciers lost about 10% of their remaining volume for the past two years. Even though there’s a month left of 2023, VMO feels confident enough to make the call that will leave us only 0.1 degrees C of breaching the 1.5

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In a widely read report in 2015 that ECCSCM conducted with the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club, Taylor revealed for the first time that nearly 700 million gallons of liquid manure was spread annually in the western Lake Erie basin. EGLE has not compiled records for manifested waste for 2015. In 2020, according to state figures, 85.3

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It wasn’t until 2015, however, that the maximum critical temperature took a major leap forward with the discovery that hydrogen sulphide has a T c of 203 K when compressed to pressures of 150 GPa. This same team has now found superconductivity in novel phases of both CeH 9 and another newly-synthesized material, CeH 10.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2022

Belan Ruia makes every drop of water count as she washes dishes in April 2015 in her East Porterville, California, home. In Mexico , drought forces one city to restrict water use to less than 10 hours a day. Like her neighbors, her well went dry during the state’s historic drought. Photo & copy; J. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The breakthrough happened in 2015, at the landmark conference in Paris. An analysis of 80 NDCs by the Global Water Partnership in 2018 found that nine in 10 plans connected in some way to water. The central story at that international gathering was an agreement to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius and to try for 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On November 4, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding announced that since January of 2015, Pennsylvania has enrolled 2.1 To apply for preferential tax treatment under Clean & Green, a property must be 10 acres in size and in agricultural use, agricultural reserve or forest reserve. million acres.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

on December 24, 2022 and 10:00 a.m. 20, 2015 during the polar vortex. on December 24, 2022, and 10 a.m. PJM is asking consumers to reduce their use of electricity, if health permits, between the hours of 4:00 a.m. on December 25, 2022. At 4:00 a.m. is 124,791 MW. The all-time winter peak was 143,296 MW set on Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 24 PA Bulletin inviting comments on its determination that 57 major industrial facilities across the state meet Air Quality RACT II and RACT III requirements and the 2015 national ozone pollution standard. Next scheduled meeting June 5. Contact: Randy D.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

Each participant’s daily intake of added sugars was estimated from their recall of their most recent consumption of food and drinks, given twice: once in a face-to-face interview, and once in a telephone interview between three and 10 days later.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

And while the most recent satellite data showed that Corcoran has sunk only about four feet in some areas since 2015, a water management agency estimates the city will sink another six to 11 feet over the next 19 years. million over 10 years on lift stations to help push the water along, costs paid for by farmers.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

The exhibition features 37 color photographs, a found-object display, and a video that is the culmination of 10 years of work by award-winning photographer Gideon Mendel. . © GIDEON MENDEL, Vilian Sousa da Silva,Taquari District, Rio Branco, Brazil, March 2015 C-print. all exposed to the floodwater that envelops them. Programming.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Annually, cancer kills 10 million people; only 28% of research published between 2015 and 2019 is openly accessible. Figures for climate research show that of the approximately 160K papers published between 2015 and 2019, just 29% were accessible to researchers, industry, and members of the public.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2023

As part of that process and with the completion of a 10-county Natural Heritage Inventory update for southwestern Pennsylvania, we developed an approach to prioritize and update Natural Heritage Areas – a primary program product. This year presented some challenges that led us to evaluate our needs and ways of operating. “As

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

Another good fact is that 2023, like 2022, did not have a named storm form before the official season start, unlike the 7 straight years from 2015 to 2021. Source: [link] The (maybe) bad We certainly know there is usually quite some difference between the forecast and the real numbers at the end of each season.

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