PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The meeting will inform participants about the two programs and how to enroll. The World Trade Center Health Program and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund will hold a November 8 public meeting at the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department, 625 North St. in Shanksville, Somerset County starting at 6:00 p.m.

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Energy & the Law

JANUARY 3, 2024

This decision is about wholesale power generators. Takeaway: Texas does not recognize a legal duty owed by wholesale power generators to retail customers to provide continuous electricity to the electric grid and ultimately to the customers.

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Electricity 2002 Law 147

Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

There is an urgency underscored by the numerous reports of weather-related calamities around the world – we are not even adapted to the current climate and a newsreport from Washington Post reveals that 2023 September month global mean temperature was probably about 1.7°C 775-816, 2002. C above the preindustrial level.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

Braymer received his undergraduate degree in History from the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2002. Visit DEP’s Office of Chief Counsel webpage to learn more about the office and its role in DEP. Click Here to see DEP’s entire Executive Staff.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 24, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The United Nations (UN) has released a dire warning about the scale of climate impacts reported in 2023. In the last decade, the rate of sea-level rise doubled as compared to the previous decade of 1993-2002, WMO explained. The trend of ocean warming continues to head in one direction.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

In July 2002, in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, miners accidentally breached the wall of an adjacent abandoned, flooded mine. We did a lot of brainstorming and came up with ideas about how it would work,” she said. In 2022, there were about 6 million uses of the atlas.

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Physics World

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jesper Grimstrup is a Danish theoretical physicist who received his PhD in 2002. It is not so much about the search for the final theory, but about his search in particular. Half of it is an attempt to convey the mathematics that Grimstrup believes matches his 2002 idea. It’s an untypical book for the non-fiction genre.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The physical interpretation of the global mean temperature Dagsvik and Moen seem to be sceptical about the merit of estimating the global mean temperature, and their doubt is based on a misunderstood notion that it should have no basis in physics.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program and Conservation Stewardship Program together grant about $3 billion annually to support environmentally friendly agriculture projects and practices such as cover cropping, diverse crop rotations, or vegetative stream buffers. Congress could better target these programs to address climate change.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In 2002 an experiment at the GANIL accelerator facility in France revealed the first evidence for tetraneutrons – be it fleeting. The data suggest that the binding energy of the tetraneutron is about 420 keV. There have been, however, tentative sightings of tetraneutrons, comprising four neutrons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Performance products represent about one-quarter of the $50 billion aftermarket industry, and that $12 billion isn’t just being spent on the 2 percent of cars used exclusively on the track. What does the Clean Air Act say about emissions tampering? In fact, EPA finalized a rule way back in 2002 that provided allowance for conversion.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

“ First published in 2002, a second 10-year anniversary version was published in 2012. The many business cases provided and quoted are compelling and make you seriously think about making your company more sustainable and resilient. This is the one I read.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Yet, as a former state director of an environmental agency, I’m curious about government-to-government consultations between states and tribes. As background, in October 2002, Michigan entered into a Government-to-Government Accord with the tribes located in Michigan.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2022

The WMO report comes hot on the heels of the latest Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC’s) climate reports , about the increased urgency of cutting emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. . The annual increase from 2013 to 2021 is more than double the increase between 1993 to 2002.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2024

More about her accomplishments will be posted-- this is a start from her obituary -- A graduate of Vassar College (’60) and one of only a handful of women in her class at Penn Law School (’63), she built a pioneering career as a land use and environmental lawyer. On March 1, 2024, Joanne Denworth, 85, died of Alzheimer's disease.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2023

In 2002, amid a severe drought, groundwater levels plunged. About five years ago, Cleave Simpson, the general manager of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, approached the region’s conservation groups with a challenge. It can change incrementally, if we’re thoughtful about it.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Find out more about Friends of South Mountain Partnership. The Partnership serves Cumberland, Adams, Franklin, and York counties. Visit DCNR’s Conservation Landscape Initiatives webpage for more on similar programs around Pennsylvania.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Rifkin wrote a book about that in 1995. See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. This is about understanding long-term trends, spotting patterns over centuries and asking new questions about the future. Jeremy Rifkin is a thinker with a reputation for being ahead of his time.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added acrylamide to the Proposition 65 list of carcinogens in 1990, but acrylamide was not detected in foods until 2002. Acrylamide is not intentionally added to food products but is formed naturally when some foods are cooked or otherwise processed with heat.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Yet the mission, which was renamed in 2002 after a former NASA administrator, has been beset by delays and cost overruns. The promise of Webb is not what we know we will discover; it’s what we don’t yet understand or can’t yet fathom about our Universe. I can’t wait to see what it uncovers!”.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In 2002, the Department implemented the then current CARB emission standards for all Heavy-Duty Diesel engines and vehicles that have a gross vehicle weight rating of 14,000 pounds in response to an emissions cheating scandal in the late 1990s, when engine manufacturers installed emission control system defeat devices.

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Frontiers

MAY 20, 2021

World Bee Day raises awareness about pollinators and the many threats they face. Today (20 May) is all about highlighting the need for worldwide cooperation to restore and support pollinators and the crucial role they play in biodiversity conservation. Can you tell us about the research you’re currently working on?

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Ask anyone on the street, and chances are they can tell you about seahorses. Here are a few things to know about pipefish. These fish used to be an unusual sight in northern Norway, but in 2002, they expanded their range pole-ward. Some pipefish are quite small; the dwarf pipefish, for example, only grows to about four inches.

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Ocean Climate Change 2002 2007 73

Washington Nature

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Marco grew up playing on the beaches of the Hood Canal, a fjord formed by a retreating ice sheet about 13,000 years ago between the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsula. He found joy in digging up clams and chasing shore crabs. Today, he leads a resurgence in clam gardening, a sustenance staple for Samish people.

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Ocean 2002 Environmental Science Conservation 98

Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The work led him to sharing the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. This showed, for the first time, that neutrinos must have mass, albeit at only about 0.1 SNO data were able to confirm the fact that about two-thirds of the solar electron neutrinos change flavour by the time they reach the Earth.

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Physics World

APRIL 27, 2021

Part of this movement is an oscillation on a timescale of about a year – caused by short-term fluctuations such as changes in ocean currents and atmospheric pressure. Grace comprised two satellites that followed the same orbit, separated by about 200 km. While significant, the shift is too small to be noticed in our daily lives.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

Between 2002 and 2015, the number of wells nearly doubled but they were able to pump out less and less water. On average, Iran’s groundwater table dropped about a half a meter per year in that time period. The study was published in the journal Nature. It found a concerning decline in the country’s aquifers.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2021

An official value was first agreed in 2002, but a decade later, a new and more precise spectroscopy experiment on the muon found a proton radius 4% lower expected. Let us know what you think about the issue on Twitter , Facebook or by e-mailing us at pwld@ioppublishing.org.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

23 News From PA House & Senate The Feds Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events Grants & Awards PA Bulletin Public Notices Stories Invited - About PA Environment Digest Supporting Member PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers; PA Outdoor Writers Assn.;

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Photo Credit: International Monetary Fund, Flickr My research examines how global discourses about environmental issues incorporate security language to give practical and theoretical meaning to the emerging concept of environmental security. Flooding on the banks of Rio Negro in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil, 2021.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

.: 2009 – 2010 TC Energy Corporation: 2002 – 2008 Villain Career Profile Climate Villain Susannah Pierce works hard to raise global temperatures on behalf of the oil and gas industry, with two decades of experience marketing, developing, and lobbying the government for further expansion of fossil fuels.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The court was particulary concerned about implications of the Act towards the right to property, protected under article 14 German constutution. Moreover, the court ruled that due to formal issues the amendment never entered into force.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 21, 2021

When James Hanson and Al Gore testified about how the warming had already begun, I thought they were exaggerating — a lot. The debate about whether the planet was warming or not was “heating up.” When I asked him about the “debate” he said, “We stopped arguing about that years ago. Now it’s more about what to do about it.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2023

Since at least 2002, the emerald ash borer has been marching across our landscape, attacking ash trees. It’s not about “saving the Earth.” It’s about protecting the only home we’ve got. Though we may not understand or recognize the value of every thread, there are none that are “unnecessary.”

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Acoel

JULY 19, 2021

The proposed changes are likely to create a lot of confusion about “controls” on contaminated property and could adversely impact prospective purchasers’ ability to assert their Landowner Liability Protections (“LLPs”) under the 2002 Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”).

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Physics World

AUGUST 31, 2021

SN1987A was the closest supernova to be seen for well over 300 years, taking place about 170,000 light–years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Theory predicts that such supernovae should also give off neutrinos with billions of electronvolts within about a year of the explosion.

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