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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 from the DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2010-11 budget; -- $180 million diverted from the DCNR Oil and Gas Fund to General Fund in proposed FY 2010-11 budget; -- $5.5 million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million from DEP, $1.5

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel. Charts and Graphs Included

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ethanol consumption grew rapidly between 2000 and 2010 but after 2010 biodiesel took over as the major source of biofuel growth before being eclipsed by renewable diesel after 2016. While ethanol remains the largest US source of biofuel, biodiesel and more recently renewable diesel have accounted for most of the growth since 2010.

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Where’d the wood go? The importance of wood in rivers and how we can learn to appreciate it

HumanNature

Hydrol Process 20 , 183–196 (2006). Water Resour Res 48 , (2012). Geomorphology 80 , 295–309 (2006). Geomorphology 116 , 305–319 (2010). Geomorphology 139–140 , 460–470 (2012). Impact of debris dams on hyporheic interaction along a semi-arid stream. Sawyer, A. Bayani Cardenas, M. & & Buttles, J.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy.

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What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Real Climate

2010; Hawkins et al. 2006), indicating a model bias toward a monostable AMOC. Here a quote from Liu et al. 1999; Huisman et al. 2011a,b; Bryden et al. 2011; Garzoli et al. These observational studies suggest a potentially bistable AMOC in the real world.

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Public Comment Period Begins on EPA’s Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft)

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billion gallons per year) in the growth of corn ethanol in the United States from 2002-2012 and may have played a more important role (0-2.1 The draft report concludes that the RFS Program likely played a relatively minor role (0-0.4 billion gallons per year) since 2013.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

µm in diameter, which include our black carbon particles of interest, have been shown to be particularly problematic because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and blood stream and cause cardiovascular and respiratory disease (Pope and Dockery, 2006; Brook et al., Particles that are less than 2.5 link] Brook Robert D., Black Carbon.”