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Great Barrier Reef Is Hit by Another Mass Bleaching Event

Yale E360

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 ?.

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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2002 SB1078. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. 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). AB 1493 (Pavley Act).

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DOE Recognizes Allegheny College For Energy Savings As A Better Buildings Challenge Partner

PA Environment Daily

In 2002, Allegheny adopted its Environmental Guiding Principles and was a charter signatory with the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. And, in 2020, Second Nature recognized the College as a Carbon Neutral Institution, the eighth higher education institution in the United States to do so.

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Nanocolumnar films: applications in medicine, energy and aerospace

Physics World

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. In 2017, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (USA) and in 2020, co-founded the spin-off Nanostine. He joined CSIC in 2003 and secured a permanent position in 2006.

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At the Limits of the Law: The Challenge of Invasives in 2020

Vermont Law

Going into 2020, anticipated federal regulation will significantly affect the nation’s response to the Emerald Ash Borer and aquatic invasives in ballast water. The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a terrestrial invertebrate native to East Asia, was first discovered in the United States in 2002. Thus, there is reason to be hopeful in 2020.

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Who Should Own Our Electric Utilities?

Legal Planet

In 2020, Chicago conducted a municipalization feasibility study that determined municipalization would not be financially feasible due primarily to the cost of severing the IOU’s infrastructure in Chicago with the rest of its infrastructure. Many more cities have considered or unsuccessfully attempted municipalization in recent years.

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PA Mine Map Atlas Has Served State Since The Quecreek Mine Rescue In Somerset County

PA Environment Daily

In July 2002, in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, miners accidentally breached the wall of an adjacent abandoned, flooded mine. In 2020, the PA DEP reported that there were over 40 active underground coal mines and 5,000 or more abandoned underground mines in Pennsylvania.

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