Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

The figure below shows how the installed cost of residential solar PV systems has been falling steadily since 2001, while the price of residential electricity has been rising steadily. The rapid growth in solar capacity is largely driven by the falling cost of solar PV systems, meaning that DERs are an affordable source of energy.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

Ruple & Kayla Race, Measuring the NEPA Litigation Burden: A Review of 1,499 Federal Court Cases, 50(2) Environmental Law 479 (2020) (finding that, between 2001 and 2013, only one in 450 NEPA decisions were litigated, and the amount of NEPA litigation was declining). [3] 3] See Prosser & Keeton on Torts, 5th Ed.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

In addition to a cleaner power supply, a key outcome of this microgridand a motivating factor for its installationwas cost savings: utility rates for residents after the microgrid was operational in 2015 were lower than rates in 2001. Remote microgrids can also help serve other needs besides resilience and cost-savings.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2025

Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Now more than 15,000 high school students across the state compete in 67 county Envirothons.

2003

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

meaning that mine sites must have been permitted and bonded between July 31, 1982 to August 4, 2001 where bonds have been forfeited in order to qualify. Now, that means that Growing Greener SMCRA will likely not fund projects on pre-act (1977 SMCRA) abandoned sites.

Earth Day

Law Columbia

JULY 30, 2025

Remedies The ICJ’s discussion of international responsibility is mostly framed in abstract terms, often repeating established principles included in the International Law Commission’s Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001).

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2025

Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Now more than 15,000 high school students across the state compete in 67 county Envirothons.

2003

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

2d 91, 95 (2001) , an implied intent to preempt may be found in a declaration of State policy by the State Legislature or from the fact that the Legislature has enacted a comprehensive and detailed regulatory scheme in a particular area. As explained in DJL Rest. City of New York , 96 N.Y.2d

Law

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020. Political controversies and deforestation policies Brazil has made progress in reducing deforestation, with a 30.6% drop in Amazon deforestation between 2023 and 2024. However, historical policies contributed to significant forest loss, with 54.2

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

According to FEMA, since 2001, the agency has implemented INF restrictions 9 times, including last year. This puts unnecessary stress on FEMA, which is already spread thin particularly during Danger Season.

Climate Change

Yale E360

MARCH 11, 2025

Since 2001, Alexandria has seen 290 buildings collapse. Essam Heggy and Sara Fouad Their research , published in Earth’s Future , showed that buildings are collapsing from the bottom up as a rising water table weakens soil and erodes foundations. The true cost of this loss extends far beyond bricks and mortar.

2001

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

Beginning in 2001, emissions regulations were phased in for newly built locomotive engines, along with requirements for rebuilt engines. and NO x since over 90 percent of switcher locomotives were built prior to 2001. emissions by nearly 90 percent.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2025

Bond Forfeiture Bond Forfeiture grants are designed to address legacy mining impacts that fit the definition of ABS Legacy Sites-- Mine sites, permitted and bonded from July 31, 1982 to August 4, 2001.

2001

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

2d 91, 95 (2001) , in New York State, an implied intent to preempt may be found in a declaration of State policy by the State Legislature or from the fact that the Legislature has enacted a comprehensive and detailed regulatory scheme in a particular area. Field preemption can be express or implied. As explained in DJL Rest.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

Tensions caused by the new restrictions on irrigation water soon came to a head in the drought of 2001. The Bureau of Reclamation shut off the Project’s irrigation water, citing critical conditions for fish as laid out by the ESA.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Michael Mann publishes famous hockey stick graph of global temperatures show extraordinarily rapid recent increases, causing apoplexy among climate deniers that continues to this day. Second IPCC report concludes that climate change is likely to have wide-ranging and mostly adverse impacts on human health, with significant loss of life.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JULY 14, 2025

The figure includes the $225 million that Texas gave up over the past 10 years as the government closed a series of partially spent hazard mitigation grants it had awarded the state since 2001. The grants were worth a total of $850 million, which means Texas did not spend more than a quarter of the money.

2016

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2025

Billion, 441 Deaths From 2001 to 2021 [ PDF of Article ] -- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Weather Spikes Cause Concern For Our Future [ PDF of Article ] -- LancasterOnline: Penn State Study Shows Lancaster County Well Sampling Found PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ -- Delaware River Basin Commission Holds Aug. 6 Hearing, Sept.

Natural Gas

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 27, 2025

11, 2001, … Continue reading The US energy market has its troubles, though it may not be a national emergency

2001

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Since 2001 DCNR imposed a moratorium on any further additions of ATV trails, and have had a blanket restriction of ATV recreational use on state forest roads. By allowing ATVs in the forest for the past 38 years, they have violated those duties, according to PEDF.

2001

Physics World

APRIL 7, 2025

Courtesy: iStock/Supersmario) In 2001 Fusion Lighting agreed to install a perforated metal shield around its lamps to reduce electromagnetic emissions by 95%. They feared that otherwise its bulbs would interfere with WiFi, cordless phones and satellite radio services in North America, which also operate at 2.4

Technology

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

Tom Ridge was elected twice for governor of PA and served from 1995 to 2001. Early on, he and his close Dillsburg friend, Lou Hoffman, publisher of the PA Sportsman, New York Sportsman, and Michigan Sportsman hunting and fishing magazines, suggested that a Governors Sportsman Advisory Council be established. million licensed fishermen in PA.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Households at or below 150% of the federal poverty level had "experienced termination rates at exceptionally high levels that have been growing exponentially since 2001. “And it also doesn't cover our municipal electric utilities or other rural electric cooperatives.

Electricity

Nanotech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The CRA was also used successfully one time in the 107th Congress (2001-2002) under The post House Leadership Announces Priorities for Congressional Review Act Action; No TSCA Rules Are in the Top Ten Targets appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

2001

Scientific American

JUNE 26, 2025

In 2001, the CDC set up the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment project, through which a network of eight U.S. The act set up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and VAERS. centers study rare vaccine reactions. But the vaccine safety system’s budget has been stuck at around $20 million most years.

2021

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Plan Calls For Massive Data Centers; Here’s How It May Affect Energy In The US -- Financial Times: Pittsburgh-based EQT Shale Gas Producer Urges US Congress To Cut Permit Times For Natural Gas Pipeline Projects, Limit Permit Appeals -- Reuters: US Natural Gas Firms EQT, Range Boost Output Plans For 2025 -- Reuters: CNX Resources Boosts 2025 Output (..)

Politics

Nanotech

JANUARY 14, 2025

billion for NNI, with cumulative funding totaling over $45 billion since the inception of NNI in 2001 when Congress approved increased funding for nanotechnology in FY 2021 The post NNCO Releases NNI Supplement to President Bidens 2025 Budget appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

2025

Nature

JUNE 17, 2025

Solid Earth 106 , 11373–11386 (2001). Orientation of the stress field surrounding the creeping section of the San Andreas Fault: evidence for a narrow mechanically weak fault zone. Article Google Scholar Poliakov, A. Dmowska, R. & Rice, J. Dynamic shear rupture interactions with fault bends and off-axis secondary faulting.

2025

Physics World

MAY 31, 2025

In 2001, the theoretical physicist Alexei Kitaev at Microsoft Research, proposed that “Majorana bound states” could be produced in nanowires comprising topological superconductors. However, such elementary particles have never been definitively observed.

2001

Scientific American

JUNE 9, 2025

His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, " Drowning New Orleans ," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. He edits History, the magazines department looking at science advances throughout time. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?

2001

Scientific American

JULY 21, 2025

His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, " Drowning New Orleans ," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. He edits History, the magazines department looking at science advances throughout time. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?

2001

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, " Drowning New Orleans ," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. He edits History, the magazines department looking at science advances throughout time. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?

2025

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Two decades ago, the so-called “Hockey Stick” curve , published in 1999 by me and my co-authors (Mann, Bradley and Hughes, 1999) , was featured in the all-important “Summary for Policy Makers” (SPM) of the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment report. The relevant statements in the SPM and Technical Summary are: A.2.2

2001

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We all remember where we were and what we were doing on September 11, 2001, but the employees of the Department of Environmental Protection remember better than most because they played a key role in responding to the Somerset County crash site of Flight 93. Related Articles: -- We Remember Sept.

2001

Scientific American

JULY 30, 2025

His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, " Drowning New Orleans ," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. He edits History, the magazines department looking at science advances throughout time. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?

2001

Frontiers

MARCH 15, 2022

The study shows that one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019 was due to fires, which is higher than previous estimates. The new map showed that the proportion of global forest loss due to fires between 2001 and 2019 is 26% to 29%, higher than previously estimated. Global forest fires 2001-2019 map.

2001