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DEP House Budget Hearing: Democrat Rep. Vitali Raises Concerns About Whether DEP Has The Resources To Fulfill Its Mission When Workloads Have Increased Dramatically

PA Environment Daily

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. They need more staff to investigate contaminants with regard to PFAS.

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On the effects of fault alignment on slip stability

Nature

Solid Earth 118 , 316–331 (2013). Solid Earth 107 , 2295 (2002). Nature 493 , 518–521 (2013). Interseismic deformation and creep along the central section of the North Anatolian Fault (Turkey): InSAR observations and implications for rate-and-state friction properties. Article Google Scholar Lindsey, E. & Fialko, Y.

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The 5th International Conference on Regional Climate

Real Climate

The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two hubs and digital attendence through zoom, was a change from previous ICRCs held in ICTP (2011) , Brussels (2013) , Stockholm (2016) , and Beijing (2019). The “law of small numbers ” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002).

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The world’s oceans are heading towards peak acidity?

A Greener Life

The annual increase from 2013 to 2021 is more than double the increase between 1993 to 2002. The fact that oceans store most heat and a large portion of CO2 emissions has contributed to them being more acidic than they’ve ever been for the past 26.000 years. And in just the past decade global sea levels have risen 4.5

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Microfluidic systems for the skin: Quantitative sensing of biomarkers in sweat

Physics World

He joined Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as director of this department from the end of 2000 to 2002.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

In other words, the debate about the role of the sun is old, and the explanation about the importance of sunspots has not stood the test of time, something I have described in the textbook ‘ Solar Activity and Earth’s Climate ‘ from 2002.

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: 2010 – 2013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Shell Canada Products Ltd.: 2021 – present LNG Canada Development Inc. (a