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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it?

2007 269
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How Bad Ballot Design Can Impact Election Outcomes—And What We Can Do 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nationally, since 2004, the evidence shows that the number of over- and undervotes averages about one percent.While that sounds low, a big problem is that certain districts have higher residual vote rates than others. times higher than the rest of the state in 2008 and five times higher in 2010.

2008 201
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3,190 New Stories In 2022 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership

PA Environment Daily

Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages. Take some time to read through at least the headlines to see how people just like you are helping to make Pennsylvania a better place!

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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. March 2016: Landowners visit the property for the first time since 2010 and noticed a “white area” around the saltwater tanks near the Bash #1. The two-year statute of limitations barred the landowners’ claim.

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Schwinger effect seen in graphene

Physics World

The material in its original form was first isolated in 2004 by Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (who shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for their work) and has since been extensively studied by groups around the world. Superconductivity or Schwinger effect?

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What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Real Climate

We don’t have direct measurements over such a long time (only since 2004 from the RAPID project ), but various indirect indications. 2010; Hawkins et al. For more on this see my Review Paper in Nature. The AMOC has weakened over the past hundred years. Here a quote from Liu et al. 1999; Huisman et al. 2011a,b; Bryden et al.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, December, 2004). Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States (National Research Council, April 2010).