Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

Global aquaculture production increased 16-fold between 1985 and 2018, which is the study’s period of analysis. The post What’s Up With Water – June 14, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. One prominent example of coastal development is the dramatic rise of fish and shellfish farms. That is not easy work.”.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2022

million for calendar 2021, an increase of $87.6 However, this total is still short of 2018 revenue of $251.8 million, 2018 $251.8 million 2021 revenue will be divided primarily for these uses-- -- Local Governments & Housing: $129.3 million from 2020. In 2020, revenue totaled $146.3 million, 2019 $200.4 million.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 26, 2022

On May 26, the Independent Fiscal Office reported the lowest recent quarterly natural gas production in Pennsylvania since the fourth quarter of 2020 and a 105 billion cubic foot decrease (0.6%) in production since the fourth quarter of 2021. from the same period in 2021. from the prior year.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

percent in 2018. The post What’s Up With Water – December 6, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. It found a sharp rise in the number of Michigan households paying more than 5 percent of income on water and sewer services. That number, when adjusting for inflation, grew from 1.6 percent of households in 1980 to 6.7

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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. [ Photos: top- Nancy 13 circa 2018, Nancy 13 2023; bottom- James R.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 4, 2024

LLC -- an Ohio-based company-- to plug the Nancy 13 conventional gas well in Deerfield Township, Warren County that was found to be leaking brine and gas since at least December 20, 2018 -- continues. Read prior history here.] On February 8, 2019, a DEP inspection report said Commonwealth Court had issued an order to Tatonka Oil Co.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The report found that flows through the Colorado River basin decreased by nearly 20 percent between 2000 and 2018, but Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico are still overusing their share of the river’s waters. What’s Up With Water—December 13, 2021 – This week’s episode covers water scarcity in the Middle East and water contamination in Hawaii.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This condition was originally discovered by DEP on October 4, 2018 and the operator has been trying to correct the problem since then. DEP’s inspection reports for both wells indicate the violations issued on May 27, 2021 continue. SPLP estimates around five days for the cleanup.” “DEP Read more here. Read more here.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 21, 2022

The 2021 Governors’ Climate Resilience Playbook outlines 12 foundational steps to set and achieve an effective state-level climate resilience agenda. This Playbook updates the 2018 U.S. Download the document. Climate Alliance (USCA) New Governors’ Climate Resilience Playbook based on U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 30, 2021

What’s Up With Water – June 28, 2021 – This week’s episode covers the body of Indigenous activist Tomás Rojo Valencia that was recovered last week in Mexico and drought and toxic algal blooms in Iowa that are putting drinking water supplies for more than 500,000 people at risk. ON THE RADAR.

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This change applies only to QC’s recorded after the effective date of Septmber 1, 2021. This is a legislative “fix”, on the second try, to the 2018 Texas Supreme Court decision in ConocoPhillips et al v. Before this amendment, §16.025 applied only to forgeries. Loser: Royalty owners.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 11, 2021

Many residents who lived through the 2018 drought have already sold off their livestock and household assets to prepare for the coming year. The post The Stream, June 11, 2021: Proposal Would Cut Individual Water Use In Delhi By 17 Percent appeared first on Circle of Blue. 50 GALLONS PER CAPITA DAILY.

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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). 2 from IPCC (2021). in Canadell et al (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: Figure SPM.10 Source: Figure 2.3

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 26, 2021

What’s Up With Water – August 23, 2021 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers Afghanistan’s troubled water sector, water availability in the United States amid the pandemic, and an African nonprofit claiming that the textile and apparel industry is poisoning rivers with polluted wastewater. 6 DISTRICTS .

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 3, 2021

percent in 2018. What’s Up With Water—November 29, 2021 – This week’s episode covers water shortages in South Africa, unprecedented flooding in South Sudan that is superseding vaccine drives, and a battle over renewable energy in New England. That number, when adjusting for inflation, grew from 1.6 percent of households in 1980 to 6.7

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

more than in 2021 and 26.6% regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018. Three occupants of the home, a couple and their four-year-old son, sustained severe burns after the house at 161 Bowser Road exploded and caught fire on October 31, 2018.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

As we detailed in a pair of 2018 reports , the SWRCB has implemented curtailments only rarely, in certain watersheds, during certain major statewide droughts, using different approaches each time. 2021-69012-35916 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture via the Secure Water Future project.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

Maryland is on the cusp of being the first state in the country to authorize use of the new 2021 edition of the International Green Construction Code for public and private building. 46 days after publication allowing for a comment period, the Department will be free to adopt the 2021 IgCC by regulation. . The backstory is important.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

counties have experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021, with some having as many as 12 disasters during that time. In 2021 alone, the U.S. Pennsylvania From 2011 to 2021 Pennsylvania had 9 climate disaster declarations with six counties having fire or more disasters. PEMA estimated that in 2018 alone $101.5

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 25, 2021

What’s Up With Water – August 23, 2021 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers Afghanistan’s troubled water sector, water availability in the United States amid the pandemic, and an African nonprofit claiming that the textile and apparel industry is poisoning rivers with polluted wastewater.

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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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Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

This pattern was important for recent record or near-record years like 2016 or 2020 which started with El Niño, as well as below-trend years like 2017, 2021 etc. 2018 1.05 ± 0.14 2021 1.16 ± 0.14 that started with La Niña. 2017 1.06 ± 0.13 2019 1.18 ± 0.15 2020 1.21 ± 0.14 2022 1.23 ± 0.14 2023 1.22 ± 0.14

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 14, 2021

WRAP and IGD launched the ground-breaking Roadmap in September 2018, with a scope thatencompassed the entire supply chain from field to fork, and with a call for businesses to committo implementing a strategy of Target, Measure, Act. Download the document. This report outlines progress made in the third year of the Roadmap.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

More complete DEP records now show conventional oil and gas drillers reported spreading 977,671 gallons of untreated drilling wastewater on Pennsylvania's roads in 2021, according to an updated report by the Better Path Coalition released Wednesday. In 2021, the Bureau began reaching out to drillers to request determinations.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In Case You Missed It: In Benton Harbor, Residents’ Complaints of Lead-Tainted Water Carry Echoes – Water samples from Benton Harbor homes since 2018 consistently revealed elevated levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin that damages the brain and nervous system and is particularly dangerous to young children. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 7, 2021

Between 2018 and 2020, 75,107 acres across Hawaii have been lost to wildfires. The post The Stream, July 7, 2021: Study Finds Planting Forests in Europe Could Offset Drought There appeared first on Circle of Blue. Additionally, planting forests could increase rainfall in the summer by an average of 7.6 75,107 ACRES.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

HotSpots H2O: ‘Global Indigenous Agenda’ Calls for Water, Land, and Resource Governance at 2021 IUCN World Conference — Indigenous activists and organizations from around the world met virtually this week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Zoom-based World Conservation Congress.

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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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Washington Nature

APRIL 15, 2021

We’re proud of the work we’re doing to help people and nature thrive in Washington. © TNC/Courtney Baxter

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 11, 2021

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 11, 2021. billion in 2018. “We As of 2018, sixteen countries have water stress levels at or above 100 percent, meaning that more water is being withdrawn from rivers, lakes, and aquifers than is renewable annually. Climate change is poised to thrust billions more into water insecurity.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The MSA was amended for the third time in 2018 to extend the term until the end of 2021. A dispute arose about whether Gulfport Appalachia remained a party to the MSA after the 2018 amendment. The 2018 amendment was signed by a “Company” representative and a “Contractor” representative, so it bound all. The litigation.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

Conventional oil and gas operators just filed annual reports with DEP documenting their disposal of over 580,000 gallons of drilling wastewater by dumping it on dirt and gravel roads during 2021, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Waste Reporting Database. million gallons from 2018 to 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 10, 2022

Thirty five people are known to have been infected by Langya henipavirus in the Shandong and Henan provinces of China between December 2018 and May 2021

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Lacastro (2019) Anthony 564 OG (2020) Apex Energy (2020) ARG Resources (2017) ARG Resources (2018) ARG Resources (2019) ARG Resources (2020) ARMAC Resources (2019) Atlas Resources (2016) Auto Forge, Inc. Weaver (2019) Betz Oil (2016) Betz Oil (2021) Beverly A. 2017) Branch John (2021) Brokenstraw Oil Dev. 2018) Dev Well, Inc.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2021. 2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. Perhaps the most significant decision in climate litigation in 2021 came from the Netherlands.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue –– August 16, 2021. The last public records, from 2018, show the purse at $20 billion short. . Rain forecasts throughout the rest of 2021 are bleak, with only dry prospects. Madagascar © Etienne / Flickr Creative Commons.

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