Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

billion in 2020 , and by the time Baiton left CPPIB to lead CAPP in 2021, the CPPIB revealed that over $17 billion was invested in hydrocarbon-dependent assets. Baiton’s career has been dedicated to promoting Canada’s fossil fuel sector to investors around the world. As always, the format is satirical but the information is real.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The fastest of them termed fast fires often erupt near towns and account for most structural wildfire damage according to researchers who analyzed over 60,000 fires from 2001 to 2020. Fast fires grow about 4,000 acres or more … Continue reading Fast fires

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 1, 2024

From 2001 through 2020, consumption of this fruit laden with healthy fats tripled nationwide, rising to over 8 pounds per person yearly. by Viridiana Hernández Fernández, University of Iowa Consumers’ love for avocados in the United States seems to know no bounds.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

DCNR and the Bureau of Forestry were forced to develop this pilot program by the 2020 Fiscal Code amendment. Only two of the five Forests Districts identified in the 2020 legislation are currently part of the program. “It On November 23, 2020, the General Assembly amended the Fiscal Code again to direct DCNR to “.evaluate

Natural Resources 98

Natural Resources 2020 2021 2018 98

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

was compared to the present day (2001 to 2020). . The researchers then analyzed the ‘percent of normal index’ (PNI, which gives the percentage of precipitation in a given period compared to the normal precipitation in the reference period) in a single climate model over the eight regions. Four future hot spots.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

11, 2001- DEP’s Betsy Mallison, One Of Thousands To Respond [PaEN] -- Groups Gathering Support For Letter Urging DEP, Gov. Thank you for your leadership! -- We Remember Sept. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support!

Conservation 79

Conservation Carbon Emissions Sea Level 2001 79

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy Sen. Of Interior Approves $76.4 31 to Sept. Million DOE Grant To Improve Siting Process For High-Voltage Electric Transmission Lines Sept. 11 Webinar On $396.1

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 1, 2023

When ship traffic off the northeastern United States was all but stopped after the attacks on September 11, 2001, North Atlantic right whales displayed a sharp decrease in stress-related hormones. There have been brief periods of time when shipping noise decreased, showing what quieter waters can do for marine animals.

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Ocean Conservation 2001 Regulations 78

Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The company has announced a new quantum chip called Pegasus, that would be used to make devices with more than 5000 qubits, originally scheduled for 2020 – but which has not yet materialized. Lu also worries about how easy it is to distort the potential of quantum computing.

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Technology Technology 2019 2020 145

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

“The inspiring five-year piping plover winning streak is a testament to the power of partnerships, resiliency of nature, and hope for the future, especially after the season we’ve had,” said Game Commission biologist Cathy Haffner, who has been involved in Great Lakes piping plover recovery since 2001.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

2] The Texas grid operator, ERCOT, in its pre-winter 2020 report on winter power plant availability for the winter of 2020/2021, expected some of the gas and coal fleet to experience winter outages, along with the loss of some capacity in normal winter high-demand periods, with further losses in extreme weather. percent, 47.4

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. The EU’s 2020 Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) requires that the Member States must collectively achieve 20% of their energy consumption from renewables by 2020.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Candidate in the Department of Construction Management and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University The Orange Sky is Not the Limit September 7, 2020, in Fort Collins, Colorado, unfolded with an eerie anomaly as I woke to a city engulfed in what seemed like an inferno. 2020, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000339.

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Climate Change 2020 2024 2001 52

ESA

MAY 25, 2021

Available records through December 2020 show that SEEDS has: Hosted 73 travel experiences for students since 1999. SEEDS National and Regional Field Trips (since 2001): 1,144 students. Coordinated 1,871 student travel awards for the following amazing trips! ESA Annual Meeting (since 1999): 809 students.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The Adaptation Fund, which supports projects to help developing countries adapt to climate change, was created in 2001 at the last COP held in Marrakech (i.e., Many hoped that COP22 would result in an agreement to increase funding for adaptation, perhaps through an extension of the Adaptation Fund established under the Kyoto Protocol.

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Paris Agreement Climate Change Clean Energy 2001 52

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Spanish unions announce strike at Repsol IndustriALL Global Union | December 1, 2020 The joint union committee announced strike action from December 9 to 12 and from December 21 to January 9, 2021, after the company refused to negotiate. Read More Other Key Sources Business & Human Rights profile of Repsol S.A.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

ACOE (2001)- Overruled ACOE jurisdiction of isolated wetlands based upon the migratory bird rule. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (2020)- Extended federal jurisdiction to direct discharges to navigable waters or when there is a “functional equivalent” to a direct discharge. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v. County of Maui v.

Clean Water Act 52

Clean Water Act 2001 2006 Regulations 52

Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

ACOE (2001)- Overruled ACOE jurisdiction of isolated wetlands based upon the migratory bird rule. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (2020)- Extended federal jurisdiction to direct discharges to navigable waters or when there is a “functional equivalent” to a direct discharge. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v. County of Maui v.

Clean Water Act 52

Clean Water Act 2001 2006 Regulations 52

Frontiers

JULY 27, 2022

However, the reality is that from 2001 to 2020, Switzerland lost 40.3kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 2.6% In 2022, Possenia’s efforts focus on restoration of ecosystems and rewilding. When people think of Switzerland, deforestation and destruction of ecosystems doesn’t really come to mind. decrease in tree cover since 2000.

Deforestation 52

Deforestation Rainforest 2001 Sustainable Development 52

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even with its Director, Kenneth Blanco, departing this week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been active in taking steps to implement the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act), which was enacted into law on January 1, 2021 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA).

2021 52

2021 2001 Law Regulations 52

Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Since 2001, Canada’s auto sector has shed one-fifth of its workforce, or about 35,000 good-paying largely unionized jobs, due to capacity reductions, layoffs and plant closures. Ontario’s share of North American vehicle production has dropped to about 11 per cent in 2020 from more than 17 per cent in 2010.

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Electricity Fossil Fuels 2030 2010 105

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The drought conditions in 2001 led to severe restrictions on water released for the Klamath Project, which the media portrayed as pitting “famers against fish.” Four dams are proposed to be removed beginning in 2020, along with various associated power generation facilities, water intake structures, canals, pipelines, and ancillary buildings.

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Endangered Species Act 2010 2008 2001 40

Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Since at least 2001, the Supreme Court has made it pretty clear that it finds the Clean Water Act’s Section 404 “dredge and fill” permit program distasteful. If we had any doubts about the Court’s feeling about NPDES permits, it gifted us in 2020 with the County of Maui v.

Clean Water Act 40

Clean Water Act 2001 2006 2008 40

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

DEP, 2001 EHB 131, 155-60; Conners v. 2020-016-L [4] 2021 EHB 144 [5] 2021 EHB at 169. [6] Herr, 716 A.2d 2d 678 (Pa. 1998); Envtl. & Recycling Servs., DEP, 2002 EHB 461; Smedley v. DEP, 1999 EHB 669 [2] Kiskadden v. DEP, 2015 EHB 377; Chimel v. DEP, 2014 EHB 957 [3] EHB Docket No. 6] 2021 EHB at 171.

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Waste 2001 2002 2021 40

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

As an illustrative example, the Finnish Posiva is now building a final repository for which it got a political permit (Decision-in-Principle) in 2001, and it is aimed to be operational in 2024. The time from political permit to a working facility was 23 years. COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/.of

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels Regulations Technology Technology 52

Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2020, sources in both the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) NOX annual program and the A(cid) R(ain) P(rogram) together emitted 0.78 He represents several major energy unions in environmental matters and was a member of EPA’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee from 2001 to 2010. million tons, a reduction of 5.1

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The primary purpose of the CTA, enacted as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act), is to protect the US financial system from being used for illicit purposes, including preventing corrupt actors, terrorists and criminals from hiding assets in anonymous shell companies.

Regulations 52

Regulations 2001 Law 2021 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

In the foreword to Barons , Eric Schlosser (author of the 2001 bestseller, Fast Food Nation ) calls unchecked market power “the central driving force of inequality.” Indeed, leading food system experts have warned of “hunger profiteering” by the giant companies that control the world’s food supply.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a federal agency that manages the agricultural water supply within the basin, began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Since 2001, it has paid farmers to pump groundwater approximately two out of every three years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A 2023 study states that, “The number of storms that intensify from a Category 1 hurricane (or weaker) into a major hurricane within 36 hours has more than doubled,” in 2001–2020 compared with 1971–1990. Data suggest that the increase of Atlantic intensification rates have a positive contribution from human-caused warming.

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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. But in 2020 the Governor overrode DCNR’s moratorium and signed into law the requirement for DCNR to construct new ATV trails through the northcentral forest.

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2001 Law 2024 Natural Resources 111

Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The time series were included in the Hausfather et al (2020) paper and in the latest IPCC report: Evaluation of old projections of global temperature, including Manabe (1970) and Manabe and Stouffer (1993). Both these predictions have been evaluated in recent years to see how well they did. 1975) , and Bryan et al. Gnanadesikan et al.,

Atmosphere 362

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 9, 2021

Anyone who has been following the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be well aware of the extreme heat many of the athletes have had to compete in. Greenpeace East Asia has been analysing how the scorching temperatures experienced at Tokyo 2020 are becoming more frequent in cities across East Asia. Photo credit: Loic Venance / AFP.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Grid failures start fires From 2001 to 2023, roughly 92 million acres in the United States have been burned by lightning-caused fires , and about 68 million acres have been burned by fires caused by human activity , electrical operations being just one example. So how extensive is this problem and how does it happen?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy [PaEN] -- TribLive: A Look Back At 9/11 And Impact On Shanksville: ‘Hallowed Ground’ -- Post-Gazette: After 23 Years, Impact Of 9/11 Flight 93 Crash Still Runs Deep -- TribLive Editorial: The Indelible Mark Of Sept. Click Here for full advisory. -- We Remember Sept.

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Natural Gas 2001 Natural Resources Conservation 106

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Flying Taco Mexican Grill has been serving authentic Mexican food since 2020 in Bradford County. Incorporated in 2001, Dogwood Acres Campground Inc. . -- The Flying Taco Mexican Grill in Towanda was awarded $33,792 to purchase and install a 25.6 kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic system.

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Clean Energy 2005 2009 2024 104

A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

In 2001, East Kalimantan had 126,000 sq km of primary forest. In addition, the mining law, which was revised in 2020, ensured that seven giant coal miners with coal contracts of work (known as PKP2B) due to expire between 2020 and 2025 will have an opportunity to extend their contracts. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent.

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Deforestation 2019 Government 2020 98