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Nanocolumnar films: applications in medicine, energy and aerospace

Physics World

OCTOBER 8, 2021

He joined CSIC in 2003 and secured a permanent position in 2006. In 2014, he led the project “Nanoimplant” that won the IDEA²Madrid Award (a partnership of Comunidad de Madrid in Spain and MIT in USA). After obtaining his PhD in physics at UCM (Spain) in 1999, he was a Marie Curie postdoc at Paris-Sud University (France) in 2000–2002.

2003

2003 2002 2006 2014

A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. When adjusting for the emissions since AR5 and SR1.5, used a 0.97°C

2018

2018 Climate Change 2013 2014

Mitigating Canal Seepage: A Great Avenue To Save Irrigation Water

HumanNature

MARCH 16, 2022

However, the biggest hurdle with those is the hefty upfront cost that can exceed the value of saved water in various applications (Wichelns and Oster 2006). 2021, Martin and Gates 2014, and Uribe et al. The permanent liners exhibit as high as 97% reduction in seepage (USDA 1997). Scalia IV, J., & Babar, M. Martin, C. Wichelns, D.,

2006

2006 2013 2021 2014

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Allows Enforcement to Require Removal of Unauthorized Wetlands Fill for Three Years After Each New Property Transfer

E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

John died in 2006, and Ann, then the sole owner, sold the property to Pesas in 2014. He never received a certificate of completion. In 1996, he transferred the property to himself and his wife Ann. The Commission did not seek enforcement. Before the transfer, the Commission noted the violation, and requested restoration.

2006

2006 2014 Conservation Regulations

People taking adult education classes run lower risk of dementia

Frontiers

AUGUST 22, 2023

These had been enrolled between 2006 and 2010, when between 40 and 69 years old. The authors focused on data from the enrollment visit and third assessment visit, between 2014 and 2018. On average, they had been followed for seven years by the time of the present study.

2006

2006 2010 2014 2018

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. The Local | December 14, 2014 Protesters plunged half-naked into the icy sea and unfurled banners Saturday to try to stop oil prospecting near Spain's Canary Islands, a major tourist destination. SEC 2006) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S.

2014

2014 2009 Rainforest 2001

SEC Historical Society Names Hawke to Board of Trustees

Arnold Porter

JANUARY 26, 2022

As a former chief of the SEC Division of Enforcement's Market Abuse Unit from 2010 to 2015 and Director of the SEC's Philadelphia Regional office from 2006 to 2014, Hawke contributes his experience at the SEC and knowledge of SEC history to the SEC Historical Society’s goals.

2006

2006 2010 2014 2015

General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million from the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Fund to balance the state budget; -- FY 2014-15 budget continues the $102.8 million from the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Fund to balance the state budget; -- FY 2014-15 budget continues the $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

2010

2010 2017 2014 2008

A Toxic Tour Helps Convey What Fenceline Communities Experience

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

It is important for people to recognize that, from 2006 to 2014, the richest 20 percent of our country have received about $10.8 The Justice40 goal As noted above, the Justice40ward Toxic Tours are happening all over the country in an effort to educate folks about the Biden Administration’s Justice40 goal. billion of those benefits.

Air Pollution

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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” May-Britt Moser, awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014, said, “I’m honored to contribute to the journal Frontiers for Young Minds. Grid cells in the brain , written by May-Britt Moser , awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014. Kornberg , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006.

2004

2004 2013 2014 Sustainable Development

Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

How Institute (2017-2021) The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (2017-2020) Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council (2023-present) Mitacs (2007-2012) Canada-India Business Council (2014-2017) Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (2014-2021) Canada China Business Council (2012-2020) Canadian Centre for Diversity (2006-2009) Empire Club (..)

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels 2003 Climate Change 2004

California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 2)

Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. billion.

2030

2030 Carbon Dioxide Natural Gas Regulations

Solving the proton puzzle

Physics World

JUNE 19, 2021

That made it nearly 4% smaller than the then official value set in 2006 by the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA) and, given the tiny error bars, completely at odds with it. In 2014 it called on “two pairs of knowledgeable researchers” to extract a value from the scattering data. Puzzling times.

2014

2014 2010 2002 2006

Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

During the most recent period analyzed, 2006-2018, it’s been rising at a rate of 3.7 Since 1901 sea level has risen by 20 cm, a rise unprecedented in at least 3,000 years (disclosure: I co-authored some of the research behind the latter conclusion). Source: IPCC AR6 Fig. Since 1900 the rise has greatly accelerated.

Sea Level

Sea Level Precautionary Principle Ocean Coastal Erosion

First District Affirms Judgment Upholding UCSF’s EIR for Long-Range Development Plan Substantially Increasing Parnassus Heights Campus Development Against Numerous CEQA Challenges

CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Per the Court, EIR’s alternatives provide a range of different amounts of new development: none in the no-development alternative, a little in the 2014 LRDP alternative, a medium amount in the Reduced Project alternative, and a large amount in the remaining alternatives.” Board of Trustees of California State University (2006) 39 Cal.4th

2014

2014 Law 2006 2023

What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

2014 , which nicely sums up the problem and gives some references: Using oceanic freshwater transport associated with the overturning circulation as an indicator of the AMOC bistability (Rahmstorf 1996), analyses of present-day observations also indicate a bistable AMOC (Weijer et al. 2006), indicating a model bias toward a monostable AMOC.

Ocean

Ocean Cooling 2011 2021

Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry.

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels 2017 2015 2016

20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. In 2006, the Arizona Department of Water Resources issued two certificates for 4,228 acre-feet of water – 1.35 billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

Recycling

Recycling 2022 Law Climate Change

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

HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2023

Water Resour Res 50 , 2376–2393 (2014). Hydrol Process 20 , 183–196 (2006). Geomorphology 80 , 295–309 (2006). Fanelli, R. & Lautz, L. Patterns of Water, Heat, and Solute Flux through Streambeds around Small Dams. Ground Water 46 , 671–687 (2008). Siegel, D. & Bauer, R. Sawyer, A. Bayani Cardenas, M. &

2008

2008 2006 2005 2012

Louisiana Second Circuit Provides Guidance as to Good Faith Required When Conducting Operations Necessary to Interrupt Prescription of Mineral Servitude

The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2020

In January 2006, approximately 6 months before the servitude would expire for non-use, the mineral servitude owner conveyed the servitude to an affiliated business entity on the condition that it drill a well on the property by June 15, 2006. A well was spud on March 28, 2006.

2006

2006 Law 2005 2014

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

HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

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., March 26, 2014. Particles that are less than 2.5 link] Pope III, C.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere Carbon Emissions 2020 2012

“Yes, San Francisco, There Is A CEQA”: First District Reverses Judgment Upholding City’s Categorical Exemption Determinations For Project To Add Four 90-Foot Tall Light Standards To High School Stadium In Residential Neighborhood

CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 7, 2022

2006) 141 Cal.App.4th 2006) 139 Cal.App.4th City and County of San Francisco (2014) 226 Cal.App.4th Monterey Peninsula Water Management Dist. 4th 677, 693-694.). San Lorenzo Valley Unified School Dist. 4th 1012 [726 new utility cabinets on public sidewalks] [my 6/2/14 post on which can be found here ].)

2006

2006 2018 2002 Law

Construction go-ahead for €2bn Square Kilometre Array

Physics World

JUNE 29, 2021

2006 Southern Africa and Australia are shortlisted to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) beating off competition from Brazil and China. 2014 Germany announces it will pull out of SKA the following year. Timeline: The Square Kilometre Array. SKA’s temporary headquarters at Jodrell Bank in the UK opens. India joins SKA.

2028

2028 2013 2019 2027

Bay Journal: Pennsylvania Launches Renewed Attack On Invasive Species

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The spotted lanternfly, a colorful leaf-hopping insect from Asia, showed up in Pennsylvania in 2014, likely in shipments of stone from China. The virus has not been found since 2006. Now, 34 counties are under quarantine. Pennsylvania, so far, has not adopted one important aspect of the New York model: dedicated funding.

2006

2006 2007 2009 2014

Forest recovery in the age of megafires – how can we predict if forests grow back?

HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

Science 2006 , 313 (5789), 940–943. Environmental Science and Technology 2014 , 48 (16), 8936–8943. Forest Ecology and Management 2013 , 294 , 54–61. link] (2) Westerling, A. Hidalgo, H. Swetnam, T. Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity. link] (3) Barbero, R.; Abatzoglou, J. Larkin, N.

Carbon Dioxide

Carbon Dioxide 2018 2015 2003

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

After missing that target, the company told regulators it would complete the job around 2006, then by 2013. In 2014, an EPA report confirmed the site posed an unacceptable cancer risk and identified radon as the greatest threat to residents’ health. Still, the cleanup target date continued shifting, to 2017, then 2022.

Waste

Waste Regulations Radiation Government

Locals Aim Their Protest at Weapons Maker Raytheon in Support of Palestine

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The company’s “bunker buster” bombs were also used by the Israeli military to target the homes of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2014. Raytheon’s “bunker buster” bombs were used by Israel to target civilian homes during its 2014 assault on Gaza. The shrapnel was later identified as belonging to Raytheon.

Technology

Technology Technology 2017 2023

15 people arrested during peaceful 'free Palestine' protest in Louisville

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The company’s “bunker buster” bombs were also used by the Israeli military to target the homes of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2014. Raytheon’s “bunker buster” bombs were used by Israel to target civilian homes during its 2014 assault on Gaza. The shrapnel was later identified as belonging to Raytheon.

Technology

Technology Technology 2017 2023

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

pounds in 2006. In 2014, many of those EGLE staff members provided the technical details underlying Republican Gov. The amount of phosphorus — especially dissolved reactive phosphorus — draining into streams was increasing. The CAEP researchers found that phosphorus applications increased to 18.6

Regulations

Regulations Waste 2022 2015

Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In 2014, areas where there had been selective logging and prescribed burning survived the high-intensity King megafire Eldorado National Forest. Food and Agriculture Organization, “Undernourishment around the world,” The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2006 (Rome: FAO, 2006), [link]. Villers Ruiz, 2014: North America.

Climate Change

Climate Change 2019 2020 Greenhouse

Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan.

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels 2015 2014 2018

UK: Coca-Cola Enterprises boss admits taking £1.5m in bribes

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan.

2015

2015 2014 2018 2017

USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan.

2015

2015 2017 2014 2018

Time crystals: the search for a new phase of matter

Physics World

APRIL 4, 2022

However, in 2014 physicists Haruki Watanabe and Masaki Oshikawa ruled out this conclusion by considering what being “at equilibrium” implies. In 2006 researchers in the US ( Ann. Wilczek, who coined the term “quantum time crystals’’, proposed that introducing a weak attraction between circulating Cooper pairs can make them bunch up.

Law

Law 2012 2006 2014

Federal District Court Upholds FDA’s GRAS Self-Determination Process

Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 27, 2021

N: FDA’s Approach to the GRAS Provision: A History of Processes (April 2006. In 2014, the Center for Food Safety filed a complaint in the District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that FDA had violated the Administrative Procedure Act by operating under the proposed GRAS rule and by failing to promulgate a final GRAS rule.

2016

2016 Regulations 2014 Law

Rights of Nature: Seeing the Forests and Trees

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. But in 2014, nearly 500,000 Toledo residents were placed under a. The modern movement in the United States began when residents of towns in Pennsylvania passed ordinances banning extractive activities harming water supplies and the natural environment. passed local law. tap water ban.

Law

Law 2017 2018 2019

New Judge, Same Result – $81 Million CWA Civil Penalty Appealed

The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2016

The judgment is the latest in a suit the EPA filed against CITGO under the Clean Water Act for a 2006 spill at the oil company’s St. The result is consistent, however, with the EPA’s 2014-2018 Strategic Plan of focusing on large cases, and its recent pattern of pursuing fewer enforcement actions with larger resolutions. Year in Rev.

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act 2015 2016 2006

EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Propose Significant Revisions to Definition of “Waters of the United States”

The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2014

On March 25, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) jointly released a proposed rule purporting to clarify the scope of the “waters of the United States” protected under the Clean Water Act. The agencies claim that, as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Rapanos v.

Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act 2006 Regulations 2014

The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron

Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

Peter Rowlands , a physicist currently at the University of Liverpool, has written a history of the department ( 125 Years of Excellence, The University of Liverpool Physics Department 1881 to 2006 ). The only parts of the accelerator for which we can be sure of their resting place are its rotating condenser and frame.

Electricity

Electricity Radiation Technology Technology

CEQA Remedies Go Both Ways: Fourth District Reverses Judgment Upholding San Diego County Board’s Decision Granting Project Opponents’ Administrative Appeal, Holds Board Erred In Finding CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 Statutory Exemption Inapplicable And Ordering EIR Prepared for Exempt Industrial Project

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

City of Turlock (2006) 138 Cal.App.4th Located in a steep valley directly west of Interstate 15, the Project site is also located adjacent to parcels of land zoned “semi-rural residential” and in proximity to a number of residential communities, which resulted in strong public opposition to the Project ultimately leading to litigation.

Recycling

Recycling Law 2024 Politics

Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

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. In 2014, they calculated the carbon intensity of PV energy as if the panels were made in Europe, with low-carbon energy,” Mariutti told Environmental Progress, referring to data compilers.

Electricity

Electricity Fossil Fuels Government Carbon Emissions

Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. Raytheon’s “bunker buster” bombs were used by Israel to target civilian homes during its 2014 assault on Gaza.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 2022

The "Patriots" at Raytheon

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. Raytheon’s “bunker buster” bombs were used by Israel to target civilian homes during its 2014 assault on Gaza.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 Government

Defense Stocks Soar as Trump Wages War on Syria

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. Raytheon’s “bunker buster” bombs were used by Israel to target civilian homes during its 2014 assault on Gaza.

Technology

Technology Technology 2023 Government

Nanocolumnar films: applications in medicine, energy and aerospace

A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

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Mitigating Canal Seepage: A Great Avenue To Save Irrigation Water

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Allows Enforcement to Require Removal of Unauthorized Wetlands Fill for Three Years After Each New Property Transfer

People taking adult education classes run lower risk of dementia

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

SEC Historical Society Names Hawke to Board of Trustees

General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

A Toxic Tour Helps Convey What Fenceline Communities Experience

Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 2)

Solving the proton puzzle

Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

First District Affirms Judgment Upholding UCSF’s EIR for Long-Range Development Plan Substantially Increasing Parnassus Heights Campus Development Against Numerous CEQA Challenges

What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

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

Louisiana Second Circuit Provides Guidance as to Good Faith Required When Conducting Operations Necessary to Interrupt Prescription of Mineral Servitude

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

“Yes, San Francisco, There Is A CEQA”: First District Reverses Judgment Upholding City’s Categorical Exemption Determinations For Project To Add Four 90-Foot Tall Light Standards To High School Stadium In Residential Neighborhood

Construction go-ahead for €2bn Square Kilometre Array

Bay Journal: Pennsylvania Launches Renewed Attack On Invasive Species

Forest recovery in the age of megafires – how can we predict if forests grow back?

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

Locals Aim Their Protest at Weapons Maker Raytheon in Support of Palestine

15 people arrested during peaceful 'free Palestine' protest in Louisville

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

UK: Coca-Cola Enterprises boss admits taking £1.5m in bribes

USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Time crystals: the search for a new phase of matter

Federal District Court Upholds FDA’s GRAS Self-Determination Process

Rights of Nature: Seeing the Forests and Trees

New Judge, Same Result – $81 Million CWA Civil Penalty Appealed

EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Propose Significant Revisions to Definition of “Waters of the United States”

The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron

Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

The "Patriots" at Raytheon

Defense Stocks Soar as Trump Wages War on Syria

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