PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb. 11-12 [PaEN] -- PA Sea Grant/DEP: Pennsylvania Lake Erie Environmental Forum Webinar Set For Nov. 22 -- MorningAgClips: Franklin/Cumberland County Master Watershed Stewards Seeking Volunteers, Info Sessions Dec. 12 (In-Person), Dec.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

Seif [PaEN] -- 1995-2002: Awards And Recognition For Environmental Programs During The Ridge And Schweiker Administrations [PaEN] [Posted: May 21, 2025] PA Environment Digest Seif [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: In Praise Of Rachel Carson And Public Service; Happy Birthday Rachel Carson! - By James M.

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2025

On June 25, the Department of Environmental Protection reported to the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board federal funding will enable the plugging of an estimated 768 oil and gas wells abandoned by conventional well owners over the next year, noting the largest number of wells the agency plugged previously in one year was 441 in 2002.

2004

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Council of the European Union(2002) undergirds Greenlands ban on uranium mining. Germany, when a Swedish energy company sued Germany over its nuclear phase-out, showing how environmental policies can create massive financial liabilities for states.

Environmental Protection

HumanNature

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The role of resources and risks in regulating wild bee populations. Annual review of entomology, 56(1), 293-312. Williams, N. M., & Thorp, R. Crop pollination from native bees at risk from agricultural intensification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(26), 16812-16816.

2002

Scientific American

JULY 25, 2025

That’s how much ice has melted out of the Greenland ice sheet since just 2002. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American ’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Five and a half trillion tons. On supporting science journalism If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

Tom Ridge Talks About His Very Personal Connection To Lake Erie And The Need To Work Together To Restore The Great Lakes [PaEN] -- 1995-2002 - Environmental Accomplishments Of The Ridge & Schweiker Administrations [PaEN] -- Feature: Looking Back To Improve Pennsylvanias Environment Going Forward [PaEN] [Posted: May 10, 2024]

Conservation

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

That is how much water weight the Greenland ice sheet has lost to the ocean since just 2002. “Dirty ice,” Walcott-George said, completing the thought. They decided they’d try again tomorrow. Approximately 5,500,000,000,000 tons. billion of them.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2025

By 2002, that number had risen to 171 million, or about 59 percent of all Americans. At the Monroe Avenue Water Filtration Plant, engineers added sodium fluoride to the citys water supply. Photo CDC.gov In 1960, about 50 million Americans were receiving fluoridated water.

2002

Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

But outcry from farmers reversed the decision in 2002, resulting in a massive fish kill of over 30,000 salmon — a scar which has not yet faded for tribes. This is exactly what caused the fish kill in 2002. 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

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They [DEP] have 337 positions less now than in 2002, and since 2002, you've had an enormous increase in responsibility, such as the advent of the shale gas industry, more federal air and water regulations, you have to implement the emergence of PFAS and so forth.

2002

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The EPA had sued Guam in 2002 under the CWA, and the parties entered a consent decree whereby Guam paid penalties and shouldered the costs of containing and closing the disposal site.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

This process requires about half the energy, making it a credible option for Trinidad, which in 2002 got a plant that now produces 40 million gallons of water a day, and Israel, which got one in 2005 that now produces 85 million gallons of water daily. Many more plants followed, and this is now the standard way to desalinate water.

Technology

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Well, Fong is long-serving, having been appointed in 2002 by President George W. But when it comes to individual IGs like the USDAs Fong, there may also be something else going on, a combination of payback and protection of Musks business interests. The possible payback? Bush, so she has faced off against Trump wrongdoing before.

Government

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2024

11 Pasture Walk In Franklin County [PaEN] -- WPXI: New Study Tests Levels Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Linked To Cancer In Pittsburgh-Area Water -- WESA: Pittsburgh-Area Water Systems Have No Plans To Remove Fluoride -- TribLive/AP: Erie Slammed With Lake Effect Snow, Shapiro Declares Disaster Emergency -- Erie Times: Gov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

Since its inception in 2002, Chesapeake B-WET has reached more than 700,000 students and 25,000 teachers in the Bay region. Fortunately, theres time for environmental advocates in the Bay region to tell their members of Congress to reject the Trump administrations budget cuts and keep funding NOAAs B-WET program. Click Here to take Action.

Environmental Science

Physics World

MAY 6, 2025

Founded in 2002 by the Canadian plasma physicist Michel Laberge , General Fusion is based in Richmond, British Columbia. The announcement was made in an open letter published on 5 May by the company’s chief executive Greg Twinney. The moves follows what the firm says is an “unexpected and urgent financing constraint”.

2002

PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2025

The drought conditions in late 2024 were significant and in some areas were the driest on record since 2002. While all of the Commonwealth has officially returned to a normal status concerning drought, there may be pockets of the Commonwealth that continue to experience a slow recovery.

2002

Law Columbia

APRIL 14, 2025

Writing in 2002, Professor Perry Wallace argued that both the physical threats of climate change and the legal and economic impacts of societys response to those threats will inevitably implicate the heart of corporate governance. Broadly, fiduciary duties arise when one person entrusts another with discretion over their financial affairs.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

-- PUC Invites Stakeholder Comments On The Issue Of The Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: UGI Gas Customers To See Nearly 9% Increase In Natural Gas Costs For Non-Shopping Customers Dec. 1 -- WVIA: Heating Bills To Rise 8.7% For UGI Gas Customers Starting Dec.

Nuclear Power

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

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Steel Irvin Plant Discharges Into Monongahela River In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Three Rivers WaterKeeper Wants Stricter Water Permit For US Steel Irvin Plant To Stop Oily Releases Into Monongahela River In Allegheny County -- Post-Gazette: Industrial-Grade Chemical Used To Preserve Plastic Showing Up In Street (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2024

In His Grip, With Profits And Maybe Higher Gas Bills On The Horizon -- Reuters: Blackstone To Buy Stakes In EQT’s Pipelines For $3.5

Politics

Nature

JUNE 17, 2025

Solid Earth 107 , 2295 (2002). Article Google Scholar Poliakov, A. Dmowska, R. & Rice, J. Dynamic shear rupture interactions with fault bends and off-axis secondary faulting. Article Google Scholar Moore, D. & Rymer, M. Talc-bearing serpentinite and the creeping section of the San Andreas fault. Nature 448 , 795–797 (2007).

2025

Physics World

JULY 9, 2025

In a beautiful full-circle moment, the tracking network initiated by Ceplecha followed a 2002 meteorite fall that turned out to have the exact same trajectory as that 1959 space rock – confirming that the two came from the same parent body.

2002

Yale E360

MARCH 25, 2022

Mass beachings have grown more frequent with rising temperatures, afflicting the reef in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, and again this year. The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing its sixth mass bleaching event, as unusually warm waters stress corals, authorities say. Read more on E360 ?.

2002

PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

By David Hess, Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection at the Time of the Rescue On July 24, 2002 miners broke through into an abandoned, water-filled mine flooding the Quecreek Mine with over 150 million gallons of water.

2002

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 23, 2021

In 2002, courts ruled in favor of the Temuan, a tribe that had been served eviction notices in 1995 by Malaysian state authorities. . The notices arrived in late April, and gave families 30 days to move out, Mongabay reports. The timing coincided with the state giving a lease for the land to Sepang GoldCoast resort.

2002

New Scientist

AUGUST 9, 2024

A split in the southern vortex – not seen since 2002 – could lead to sudden warming of the Antarctic stratosphere and hotter weather in Australia and South America

2002

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The CDC study compared Legionnaires’ cases in the last two decades to a baseline period from 1992 to 2002, after which case counts began to rise. People are infected with the noncontagious disease when they inhale airborne bacteria attached to water droplets. times higher than the baseline period.

Cooling

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 7, 2024

By Jake Bolster In July 2002, 18 miners working at the Quecreek mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, entered a chamber 240 feet below ground and accidentally broke through the wall of an abandoned, flooded mine, unleashing millions of gallons of trapped water.

2002

Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The “law of small numbers ” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002). 775-816, 2002. There are too many examples of regional and local climate projections based on one or a small number of global climate model simulations. 775-779, 2012. TAKAYABU, H. KANAMARU, K. DAIRAKU, R.

2002

Scientific American

APRIL 19, 2023

Iceberg B-22A, which first broke off from Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier in 2002, is finally moving away from the South Pole after being freed from its seafloor tether

2002

National Law Center

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) was created in 2002 and is responsible for, among other things, border security, administration, and. The post Department of Homeland Security Makes Changes to Immigration Enforcement appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

2002

New Scientist

AUGUST 29, 2023

An object in the Kuiper belt named 2002 MS4 has a depression 45 kilometres deep and 320 kilometres across, unlike anything seen before on such a small world

2002

Physics World

OCTOBER 8, 2021

After obtaining his PhD in physics at UCM (Spain) in 1999, he was a Marie Curie postdoc at Paris-Sud University (France) in 2000–2002. Dr J M García-Martín is a research scientist at the Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology, CSIC. He joined CSIC in 2003 and secured a permanent position in 2006.

2003

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

percent for systems installed in 2002 to 20.1 PV modules keep getting more efficient. One finding is that the efficiency of PV modules keep climbing. Median values for modules in residential systems rose from 13.6 percent in 2021—that’s a 48 percent increase, much of it in the last decade.

2021