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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2002 SB1078. 2015 SB350. The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. To help you keep track, here is a timeline of California’s most important actions. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010).

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Landowners Vanquished by the Discovery Rule

Energy & the Law

The events: 2002 and 2004: Mustafa and Lahijani purchase land on which the Bash #1 well is located. 2002 : Americo acquires the 1937-era oil and gas lease on the land. February 2015: Contents of production tanks removed but tank bottoms containing sand, oil, and saltwater residue remain, leaving a noticeable area of stained soil.

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Texas NPRI Not Diminished by Pooling Ratification

Energy & the Law

Based on the 2002 partition deeds, Conoco believed Kenneth conveyed all of his surface and mineral rights in Tract B to George, and George conveyed all of his surface and mineral rights in Tract A to Kenneth. The Court of Appeals in 2015 determined that the parties had these interests:*. Prior Appeal.

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Life beyond the Nobel: Takaaki Kajita and the hunt for gravitational waves

Physics World

The work led him to sharing the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. For the work, Kajita followed in Koshiba’s footsteps and in 2015 shared half that year’s physics Nobel with the neutrino physicist Arthur McDonald “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million cut beginning in FY 2010-11; -- FY 2014-15 budget for the State System of Higher Education zeroes out funding again for the PA Center for Environmental Education ($368,000) and McKeever Environmental Center ($213,000); -- FY 2014-15 budget cuts $500,000 for Delaware River Basin Commission; -- FY 2015-16 transfer of $31.9

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An abnormally dry subject: drought

HumanNature

Alarmingly, a drought in 2012 cost the agricultural industry $30 billion (Rippey 2015). Nature Climate Change 2002. This unprecedented dryness has the potential to have many negative consequences throughout the US. Therefore, drought is an important phenomenon to understand, since it will impact both people and our natural areas.

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What’s Up With Water – June 21, 2021

Circle of Blue

Between 2002 and 2015, the number of wells nearly doubled but they were able to pump out less and less water. In research news, a new study is sounding the alarm on groundwater depletion in Iran. The study was published in the journal Nature. It found a concerning decline in the country’s aquifers.

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