PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

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! They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

More continuous and densely arranged trees in such forests can easily carry and spread fire, and increase the risk of insect outbreaks like mountain pine beetle, which impacted nearly 40 million acres of forest in British Columbia during an outbreak that peaked in 2004. Mountain pine beetle killed trees in British Columbia.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

We don’t have direct measurements over such a long time (only since 2004 from the RAPID project ), but various indirect indications. 2021 , see Figure 3. From Boers 2021. For more on this see my Review Paper in Nature. The AMOC has weakened over the past hundred years. 2022 (my take: quite well). ” Figure 6.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

Emanuel 2021 ; Hall et al. 2021 ; Knutson et al. 2021 ), and changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). 57-70, 2021. 1321-1335, 2021. 1014-1019, 2021. 353-366, 2004. Although some modeling studies find an increase in storm frequency related to GWM-GHG warming (e.g., Mann et al.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Independence Conservancy will hold its final community tire collection of 2021 at the Aliquippa Street Department, 1497 Kennedy Blvd., Over 57,000 scrap tires have been properly disposed through the Community Tire Collection Program since its inception in 2004. Posted: October 12, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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HumanNature

JANUARY 12, 2022

Guest Post by Brendon Anthony , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. more ripe = improved quality) (Anthony and Minas, 2021). As a result, the tree density cannot exceed 500 trees per acre and so are defined as LDPs (Anthony and Minas, 2021). production efficiency) (Anthony and Minas, 2021).

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Media awareness about global warming and climate change has grown fairly steadily since 2004. My impression is that journalists today tend to possess a higher climate literacy than before. This increasing awareness and improved knowledge is encouraging, but there are also some common interpretations which could be more nuanced. Boeke, P.C.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Vazquez served as the chief scientific officer of MDPI from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2019 to 2021, and as the chief executive officer from 2016 to 2019. in molecular genetics in 2004 and an M.Sc. The University of Lille awarded Dr. Vazquez a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2001.

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Nanotech

OCTOBER 7, 2021

NIOSH states that it has been at the forefront of efforts to characterize the potential hazards for those working with engineered nanomaterials and to ensure safe workplaces since the early 2000s, including the creation of the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center in 2004.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons in 2021. million tons in 2021 The overall amount of waste being disposed in the state has increased 9.3 percent between 2015 to 2021-- 21.4 million tons in 2021 The overall amount of waste being disposed in the state has increased 9.3 million tons to 15.6

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

From July 2021 through June 2022, PROP (with funding from DEP) coordinated the study. In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the survey was sent to 2,713 schools with 199 responding. In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, 81.4% percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons in 2021. percent between 2015 to 2021-- 21.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

Since 1990 Western Mongolia summer temperatures are the warmest (over 1269 – 2004 C.E.). Researchers from over twenty institutions from around the world assessed a deadly 2021 Pacific Coast heat wave in Canada and the US border region as a one-in-1,000-year event.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Over 55,000 scrap tires have been properly disposed through the Community Tire Collection Program since its inception in 2004. 2 -- Keep PA Beautiful: Invites Businesses To Adopt A Road Or Area To Help Keep Communities Clean and Beautiful [Posted: September 16, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Healey Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Toyota Total Penalties $1,577,928,188 (June 10, 2021) Number of Records 42 Photo Gallery Image Toyota protest for dismissed workers photo Lennon Ying-Dah Wong Read More Image Toyota no.1 China fines Toyota 87.6 million yuan ($12.5 Kobe Steel, Toyota hit with U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2021

The Delaware Highlands Conservancy has awarded its “Delaware Highlands Conservancy/Yeaman Scholarship” for $1,175 to Amy Carpenter , a 2021 graduate from Delaware Valley High School, and the “Vanessa Van Gorder Memorial Scholarship” for $1,000 to Ella Clabaugh , a 2021 graduate of Wallenpaupack Area High School.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have avoided emitting more than 143 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2,), 2.7 Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have avoided emitting more than 143 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2,), 2.7 Posted: October 29, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

We have direct AMOC measurements only since 2004, a time span too short for this type of study. Now that the dust has settled, here some thoughts on the criticisms that have been raised about this study. I’ve seen two main arguments there. Do the data used really describe changes in AMOC? 2018 ( PDF ; I’m a coauthor on that paper).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2022

Finally, before retiring he was the first executive director of Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers from 1998-2004. He has also served as a leader at World Jamborees in Chile and Thailand, and he received the District Award of Merit in 2004 and the Silver Beaver Award in 2016.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 30, 2021

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implementing with due haste.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

In 2021 the Arizona Department of Water Resources halted new residential home construction in Pinal County, south of Phoenix, because groundwater pumping exceeded the supply. . The consequences are being felt across the arid West. For us, the incentives were aligned day one to use less water and conserve as much as possible.”.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Pick Up Pennsylvania, which began in 2004, is a lynchpin in the anti-litter movement growing in Pennsylvania, and DEP is pleased to support this grassroots campaign for community volunteers,” said DEP Acting Secretary Ramez Ziadeh. Those who’d like to register their own local cleanup event can do so at Organize an Event.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

LONDON, September 13, 2021 — Arnold & Porter announced today that James Castro-Edwards has joined the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Strategy group as Counsel, resident in London. Castro-Edwards was in private practice and served as a Solicitor in the data protection group at PwC Legal.

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Frontiers

JUNE 22, 2022

Created by EuroScience in 2004, the?EuroScience?Open The panel will present and discuss the results of a series of interviews with seven top-level science advisors, experts, and policy makers from Australia, Canada, Japan, Europe, and the United States conducted within Frontiers Policy Labs framework during 2020 – 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

Pennsylvania renewable energy projects have created almost 10,000 jobs spanning the entire supply chain since 2004, from technicians and engineers to salespeople, construction workers, and manufacturers. Entities that go solar wisely recognize that an investment in renewable energy is also an investment in their local communities.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Past Rate of Return on Housing for African-Americans In 2021, I released an NBER Working Paper where I use several data sets to make a simple point. 4 (2004): 1443-1479. If these ideas interest you, read my 2021 Yale Press book Adapting to Climate Change. I want to return to a paper by Baker, George P., and Thomas N.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Since 2004, Pennsylvania’s Conservation Landscape Program has been using place-based partnerships to drive strategic investments and actions around sustainability, conservation, community revitalization, and recreation projects. 28 Central Regional Workshops [Posted: September 15, 2021] PA Environment Digest 14 Eastern Regional, Oct.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 24, 2021

May 24, 2021) , attempting to clarify which settlements with the United States or a state trigger a right to settling-party contribution under section 113(f)(3)(B) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. On Monday, the Supreme Court decided Territory of Guam v. United States , No.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Fossil Fuels 2019 2008 2015 52

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

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). Individual Records & Summaries Click here for details of Bayer's violations.

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