PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Going back in the compliance history of Nancy 13, a DEP inspection report dated December 20, 2018 noted the well was leaking brine, gas was venting from the well casing and the value used for fracking the well was still on the wellhead, but no violations were listed. [ Both wells had not been inspected in 10 years.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 30, 2023

Here, two events collectively rendered SBN’s challenges to the 2018 SEIR’s analysis of impacts from student enrollment increases moot. In an opinion filed April 27, and certified for partial publication on May 19, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. County of Placer (2020) 54 Cal.App.5th East Bay Regional Park Dist. 4th 353, 366.)

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Sea surface temperature trend 1993 – 2018, from European Atlas of the Seas. Here, 1 PW = 10 15 Watt and 4 kJ/kgK is the heat capacity of water.). x 10 14 W and according to model simulations can fully explain the observed cooling trend (2). Let’s compare two possibilities by a back-of-envelope calculation. (1) Robinson, A.,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

On November 18, the Public Utility Commission approved a settlement related to a massive pipeline failure and fire in Beaver County in 2018 involving the “Revolution Pipeline” – resulting in nearly $2 million in civil penalties and additional preventative measures required by the pipeline operator. Early on the morning of Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

The 2023 planting seasons will be the most ambitious yet for the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership , to directly fund and plant over 300,000 new trees for Pennsylvania this spring and add another 200,000 in the fall. Since it launched 2018, the partnership, coordinated by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, has grown to nearly 300 partners.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

She was employee #10 at the once-combined chapters. In 2018, the delegation met in council with the Haudenosaunee Elders at Akwesasne, a town near the Canadian border in upstate New York. “The Nature Conservancy is a perfect fit for me,” she said, “and it’s been that way for four decades.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of DCNR In 2018 at the Lancaster County farm for the kickoff of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership , I remember thinking about what an ambitious challenge planting that many trees would be and how important reaching that goal is for clean rivers and streams in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is a list of companies issued ten or move NOVs for abandoning conventional oil and gas wells without plugging them in any one year-- Advanced Petro Corp (2016) Aiello Bros Oil & Gas (2016; 2017) Allegheny Enterprises (2018) ARG Resources (2018) Bobcat Well & Pipeline (2017) Boyd G. & Eugene A.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Forest Service (USFS).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

On February 27, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation named Joe Hallinan as the new manager of the statewide Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership , and Erin Via as the partnership’s tree logistics specialist. Its goal is to plant 10 million trees for Pennsylvania by the end of 2025. “He Click Here to support their work.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

By Dave Blehi, Penn State News In November 2018, Pennsylvania adopted a Solar Future Plan to increase the state’s solar energy generation 10% by the year 2030. on Monday, October 10. This will require the use of large land areas that are often in competition with other uses, particularly agricultural production.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership has awarded its Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Awards to Kiasha Huling of Philadelphia and Shauna Yorty of Lancaster. CBF launched the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership in 2018, focused on Pennsylvania’s Clean Water Blueprint and with a goal of planting 10 million trees for Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Dr. Ismat received a 2022 Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Award from the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership for her conservation and Environmental Justice work in under-represented portions of her community. Also visit the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership to learn how you can help clean water grow on trees.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

On November 8, Carbon County voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum to allow the county to borrow up to $10 million to help improve water quality, working farms and wildlife habitat protection, according to KPVI. Residents Support Tax Increase To Save Crebilly Farm In Chester County [Posted: November 10, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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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. In October of 2022, the Partnership celebrated midpoint success by planting its 5-millionth tree.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This fall, the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership members will be digging success and improving local stream health by planting roughly 65,500 native trees. Landowners interested in having trees for spring should contact a local partner or CBF at Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership website by mid-November so a site visit can be arranged.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

population is aging as well, and people above age 65 and those with weaker immune systems are more susceptible to Legionnaires’ disease, which is fatal in about 10 percent of cases on average. Nationally, the number of cases in 2018, when adjusted for age differences, was about 5.5 times higher than the baseline period.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

From February 10 to 16, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 702 inspection entries. Medina was issued at least 10 NOVs for well abandonment in 2023. saying there was no basis for challenging a August 16, 2023 DEP administrative order. The wells included Calvin Niemeyer 1, 2 and 4. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Then came a crescendo: Solar and wind generated more than 5 percent of monthly electricity for the first time in 2013, passed the 10 percent point in 2017, and soared past 15 percent in 2021. The United States now has more than 73,000 utility-scale wind turbines in service, 26 percent more than it did in 2018.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

In the 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C 10 from IPCC (2021). in 2018, but they represent a significant update since AR5 in 2013. Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). This is illustrated in Fig.

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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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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The German Federal Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the way in which compensation under the Atomic Energy Amendment Act of 10 July 2018 has been organized infringes the German constitution. The legislator opted for a mix of options 2 and 3 and launched the Atomic Energy Act Amendment of 10 July 2018.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Sign our petition now and send to 10 of your friends who live in Ontario. ACTION Milton was formed in 2018 when James Dick Construction applied for a quarry licence and boasted they would be up and running within a year. Ask them to send it on.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On December 26, 2018, DEP issued an administrative order to Equitrans demanding the required information regarding wells that have or may have been drilled into the Swarts Field’s storage horizon and other information. regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

Steel must permanently close more than 10% of the pollution-spewing coke ovens used to process coal used in steel-making. Steel must permanently shut down coke oven Battery 15 , which consists of 60 highly polluting ovens – more than 10% of the remaining coke ovens at Clairton Works. To further reduce toxic emissions, U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

Instead of passing a new food and farm bill for the first time since 2018, Congress instead approved a one-year extension last fall and punted the task of crafting an updated bill to the new year. They operate at 10 regional locations throughout the country and are led by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Forest Service.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Last week, the rainfall over 24 hours was 10 times the average rainfall for the entire month of October. The efforts follow a severe three-year drought that nearly exhausted the city’s reservoirs in 2018. In India, heavy rains swept across the Himalaya region, causing deadly landslides and floods.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023. Setting the CES ACP rate at $35/MWh and the CES-E ACP rate at $10/MWh in 2022 through 2050. The agencies report that this higher rate is intended to “better ‘lock in’ the historic contribution of existing clean energy resources into the future.”.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Nature 2018. The background map shows the sea surface temperature change since 1870 based on ocean observations, including the AMOC slowdown fingerprint of a ‘cold blob’ in the subpolar North Atlantic and excessive warming north of the Gulf Stream. Figure adapted from Caesar et al.,

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 12, 2023

10 mammal species apart from ocelots learned to use them correctly. To enable ocelots to leave highways back into nature, novel exits were designed in 2018 by the Texas Department of Transportation. In 2018, 10 wildlife exits had been installed along this stretch. It was done along an 11.9-km-long

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A fuller response that addresses damages to personal assets and national infrastructure will require much more: estimates range from $10 billion to $30 billion, a price tag that will strain the country’s economic recovery during a politically unsettled period. has called for $150 million in international support.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Up to 50 kilos of fish caught in Brazil are thrown away for every kilo that arrives on land; more than 400,000 tons of marine life were discarded between 2000 and 2018 in just four states. Less than 10% of the 25,618 fishing boats registered by the Brazilian… Read more →

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

This same Station plagued the community with blowdowns releasing natural gas and liquid chemicals three times a day, seven days a week for nearly 10 years before Attorney General Shaprio brought criminal charges against CNX. From approximately 10:14 a.m. to at least 11:55 a.m. Click Here for a copy of the CNX incident report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The test was estimated to have released at least 140 kilotons of energy, approximately 7-10 times more than the bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Analysis of satellite imagery shows limited activity at this site between the fall of 2018 and the spring of 2022. The most recent test generated the largest explosive yield.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

. -- Attorney General Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2018 Natural Gas Home Explosion: On November 1, 2023 Attorney General Michelle Henry announced criminal charges against Equitrans, L.P. regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018. 30 to Jan.

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Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

Using quantum-mechanics-based calculations, two independent teams, led by Russell Hemley at George Washington University in the US and Yanming Ma at Jilin University in China, predicted in 2017 that lanthanum hydride (LaH 10 ) could be superconducting. A class of currently unexplored superconductors.

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