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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2006 AB 32. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2015 SB350.

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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. At a January 31, 2011, appointment the doctor ordered blood tests and chest X-rays, to check for infection. Everything is going according to plan,” Gary wrote in his journal on February 25, 2011.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Figure 7: Use of vegetable oil to produce bio-based diesel increased more than 4 fold between 2011 and 2022 and the share of US vegetable oil production used for biofuels exceeded 40 percent in 2022. A comparison with electric vehicles in instructive. Source USDA Oil crops yearbook.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013. We all used Chinese electricity mixes for c-Si PV. But what she told Mariutti was not reassuring. And we still got results nowhere near as high as you imply one would.

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The President and Congress Deliver $11 Billion for Abandoned Mine Cleanups

Circle of Blue

In recent rounds of reauthorization, Congress reduced the AML fee: the 2006 reauthorization reduced the fee by 10 percent in 2008, and another 10 percent in 2013. In 2006, the Wyoming delegation pushed for an amendment, which established a new, taxpayer-funded AML revenue stream for a handful of states. A regular tug-of-war ensued.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron

Physics World

This involved varying the frequency of the radio frequency (RF) electric field in a cyclotron to account for the relativistic effects that otherwise limited the energy of protons in an accelerator (see box). Once particles start to reach relativistic speeds, the beam goes out of phase with the electric field and cannot be further accelerated.