Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2022

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Ministers Chrystia Freeland and Mary Ng have just approved a giant new fossil fuel subsidy: a $10 billion loan guarantee for the Trans Mountain pipeline. billion project costs, and any additional costs to come.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

From February 4 to 10, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 623 inspection reports that resulted in reporting 65 violations of environmental regulations-- 49 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 16 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry. Oakland Twp. Donegal Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

million ahead of 2019 and well above average. In 2019, the last non-COVID year, visitation totaled 27,636,924 from January to August.-- From January through August, 31,559,249 people visited State Parks in 2021, compared to 34,227,859 during the same period in 2020-- or 2.6 million fewer. percent less than in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2023

The Fairmount Park Conservancy recently announced it has received a $10 million grant from the William Penn Foundation to support the implementation of the $250 million plan to dramatically transform FDR Park in Philadelphia. CEO of Fairmount Park Conservancy. “FDR

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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. Read more here.]

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 17, 2021

According to the ACAAI , allergic rhinitis already affects between 10%-30% of the entire world population. The global pollen allergies market is predicted to grow dramatically between 2019 and 2026. 10) Pollen Insights Could Inform Your 2022 Product, Marketing & Logistics Strategy.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. Electric power related emissions went down about 40% from 2009 to 2019. Total direct transportation emissions in 2019 were about the same as those a decade earlier. What’s the Overall Verdict?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nancy Kline (2017) Chautauqua Energy (2017) CNX Gas (2016) Cobra Resources 2019; 2021) D & M Energy (2019; 2020) Dannic Energy Corp (2016; 021) Deitz Gas & Oil (2017) Dev Well, Inc (2017) Diversified Oil & Gas (2017; 2018; 2019) Diversified Prod (2018; 2020; 2021) Donald D. 2016; 2017) IA Const Corp (2020) John H.

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Yale E360

JULY 23, 2021

power sector emissions dropped 10 percent between 2019 and 2020, owing to greater energy efficiency, less reliance on coal, and the coronavirus pandemic suppressing demand for electricity, according to a new report.

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NAEP Leadership Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Mary Oliver, one of the finest nature poets to have ever lived (Oliver passed away in January 2019), published American Primitive in 1978 to much literary acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. This nation’s environmental movement that began in the early 1960’s had gained considerable momentum by the end of that decade.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Carol Hill-Evans (D-York), Kevin Schreiber, CEO, York County Economic Alliance, and Jeff Vermeulen, Assistant Vice President for External Relations with York College to announce $10 million in state support for the first phase of the Codorus Greenway project through the City of York. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2023

In 2019, we put together a list of every professor teaching an energy law class and everyone who had written an academic article about energy in the previous few years. About 10% were in the broad area of environmental law, but that was still only 11 people. Second question: are there enough teachers to train these lawyers?

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A team of scientists has developed a free, open-access VR program that allows anyone to interact with single-cell datasets using a headset costing less than $10. Image: SciePro/Shutterstock. Previous tools used to view single-cell data visualizations in VR have been limited to the most expensive hardware, costing upwards of $2,500.

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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. Click Here for video and sound of a typical release from 2012 to 2019.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In a recent post , I analyzed the California Legislature’s recent passage and Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing into law of two important bills–SB 9 and SB 10–designed to confront California’s well-documented housing crisis. SB 9 and SB 10 take effect on January 1st.

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Energy & the Law

APRIL 5, 2022

30:10(A)(3) to pay a UMO who has not elected to market his share of production the tract’s pro rata share of proceeds from the sale of hydrocarbons. Chesapeake argued that “proceeds from the sale of production” in 10(A)(3) means “in cash” for balancing purposes as compared to “in kind” balancing preferred for other working interest owners.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 24, 2023

Specifically, the NRC determined that fusion energy be regulated under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s byproduct material framework contained in 10 C.F.R. All of the commercial nuclear reactors in service today are fission reactors, which are heavily regulated under 10 C.F.R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. Recently, a total of nearly $74 million dollars of funds was awarded for research, development, and demonstration of 10 recycling and repurposing projects. Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle. Source: NREL/Flickr.

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Acoel

JULY 12, 2021

Under the Amendments, between June 2020 and January 2021, EPA finalized the first 10 existing chemical risk assessments. In the final 10 risk evaluations, EPA found over 256 chemical conditions of use posed “unreasonable risk” – those findings are now the subject of EPA risk management rulemakings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Recently General Motors made headlines in saying they are looking at restarting production of PHEVs after moving to only BEVs in 2019. BEV or PHEV? Does this mean they are moving backwards on electrification? Not necessarily.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Solar: 10%. Energy Mix (2019): [link]. Energy Mix (2019): Con Ed’s investor report gives slightly different figures on pp. 10) PG&E. Sources and Complete Data. thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1) 1) NextEra Energy. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Coal: 2.5%. Natural Gas: 44.8%. Nuclear: 10.6%. Wind: 29.4%.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2019, 10 percent of U.S. The climate crisis and years of unsustainable farming in the United States have resulted in soil erosion, pollinator loss, farmworkers and livestock exposed to extreme heat, and other harmful impacts. greenhouse gas emissions came from agriculture.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Top 10 Louisiana Advisers For this edition, I thought that we would look at the top ten SEC registered investment advisers within the State of Louisiana. 21, 2019), available at [link]. ** In the Matter of Three Bridge Wealth Advisors, LLC , Investment Advisers Act Release No. IA-5325 (Aug. IA-5375, SEC (Sept.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 2020 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis, which shows that environmental releases of TRI chemicals by facilities covered by the program declined by 10% between 2019 and 2020. More than… Read more →

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. gigatons CO2e in 2019 and 1.89

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Migrant Workers Sue Jacobs For Alleged Abuse in Qatar World Cup Projects Engineering News-Record PaulaR Fri, 10/20/2023 - 14:47 Friday, October 13, 2023 Read more James Leggate Al Janoub Stadium, one of the eight 2022 FIFA World Cup venues, is seen under construction in 2019 in Doha, Qatar.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Tesla trial begins over whether ‘experimental’ autopilot caused driver’s death The Guardian PaulaR Thu, 10/19/2023 - 14:18 Thursday, September 28, 2023 Read more Lawsuit claims company knowingly sold defective car that led to Micah Lee’s 2019 death while Tesla blames ‘classic human error’ Reuters Fri 29 Sep 2023 03.04

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Click Here for the 2019 report.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Airbus reveals planes sold in last two years will emit over 1bn tonnes of CO2 The Guardian PaulaR Wed, 09/20/2023 - 17:10 Friday, February 26, 2021 Read more Jasper Jolly Landmark emissions disclosures cover 22-year lifetime of 1,429 aircraft sold in 2019 and 2020 Jasper Jolly @jjpjolly Fri 26 Feb 2021 07.30

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

The bill the Minnesota Senate passed, on the other hand, is nearly 10 times smaller. In 2019, Minnesota Gov. Two years later, he accelerated that plan by 10 years. The House has twice passed a 100-percent carbon-free electricity standard in line with the governor’s pledge—first in 2019, then again in 2021.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In 2019, researchers reported breaking hydrogen sulphide’s record with lanthanum decahydride (LaH 10 ), which they found to have a T c of 250–260 K. In 2019, members of the team synthesized a new cerium hydride with the formula P6 3 /mmc-CeH 9. million atmospheres) than other so-called “superhydrides”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. According to a 2019 study , longer commute times have been linked to more stress, poorer mental health, and lower satisfaction with jobs and leisure time activities. Yes, premature death. That’s not healthy.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%. Black Friday protests at Amazon warehouses in England The BBC | 29 November 2019 A union has held protests outside Amazon warehouses to coincide with the Black Friday sales. So far its reaction has only made matters worse.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Amazon sued by three employees who allege gender discrimination and ‘chronic’ pay inequity CNBC PaulaR Thu, 11/23/2023 - 13:10 Monday, November 20, 2023 Read more Annie Palmer Three staffers in Amazon’s corporate research and strategy division sued the company alleging gender discrimination and retaliation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also acknowledged that it has a role to play in identifying alternatives to EtO for sterilizing medical equipment.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%. Black Friday protests at Amazon warehouses in England The BBC | 29 November 2019 A union has held protests outside Amazon warehouses to coincide with the Black Friday sales. So far its reaction has only made matters worse.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For example in 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 10 million vehicles over unintended acceleration problems and in 2016, Toyota recalled 1.4 million yuan in 2019 over price-fixing on Lexus cars in eastern Jiangsu province. The automobile company announced lockout on November 10 last year following strike called by employees union.

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