Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 20, 2023

The latest GHG inventory for FY21 indicates that net emissions stand at 147,124 MTCO2e, representing a reduction of over 50% from the 2008 baseline. The post Cornell Aims to Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2035. Here’s How. appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 1, 2023

The Supreme Court held that “in light of the boundary stipulation and the signed 2008 letter, Ellison as a matter of law ratified the boundary line in the stipulation as the boundary of Ellison’s leasehold.” The Court overruled Ellison’s issue related to the existence of a contract. As an assignee of Samson’s contract, Concho had standing.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

By Bob Berwyn In 2008, polar bears had the dubious distinction of being the first animal placed on the United States’ endangered species list due to climate threats, specifically the loss of Arctic sea ice.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 29, 2024

This was a very different tune from that of the first climate plan, in 2008, when the conflict between the California Air Resources Board (the state … Continue reading California environmental justice organizers are writing the future of climate plans

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Physics World

JULY 30, 2021

Maskawa shared half the 2008 Nobel prize with the Japanese physicist Makoto Kobayashi for their work on the mechanism of “broken symmetry” that led to the prediction of a new family of quarks. It is the theory that explains this broken symmetry that has handed the 2008 prize to Maskawa. “Maskawa leaves an important legacy.”

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

But between 2008 and 2018, Philadelphia’s urban forest shrunk by 6%. The livability of our city depends on a healthy and well cared-for urban forest. It provides protection from the heat, improves mental and physical health, and it is a key tool in combating climate change.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Outlawing the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2008 and mandating low-nicotine cigarettes for others will help New Zealand reach its smoke-free vision, but vaping will still be an issue

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Energy & the Law

MAY 4, 2021

The 2008 letter could not have ratified the stipulation because it was not capable of being ratified. The 2008 boundary stipulation retroactively changed boundaries without evidence of error or dispute. The trial court agreed but the appellate court deemed the boundary stipulation to be void.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2021

by Garth Heutel, Givi Melkadze, and Stefano Carattini (Georgia State University) In 2008, as big banks began failing across Wall Street and the housing and stock markets crashed, the nation saw how crucial financial regulation is for economic stability – and how quickly the consequences can cascade through the economy when regulators are asleep at… (..)

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A substantial majority of the excess mortality occurred prior to 2008; as coal-fired EGUs increasingly installed scrubbers to control sulfur dioxide emissions, excess mortality declined rapidly, by more than 85%. I’m not qualified to opine on the technical merits of the study, but it does suggest a number of implications.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

April 2008: ALJ recommends that the permit be issued. December 2008: TCEQ remands the application for more modeling. August 2005: TexCom Gulf Disposal seeks a permit from the TCEQ for construction and operation of underground injection control wells for the disposal of non-hazardous industrial wastewater in Montgomery County.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Renewables are 6% of power. Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In 2008 the program expanded to Pittsburgh and smaller metropolitan areas, and since 2013 it has been available statewide. Since 1993 PHS has trained over 4,500 Tree Tenders in 150 Pennsylvania neighborhoods. Since 2004, the program has been supported by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

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PBS Nature

JUNE 12, 2023

In 2008, the country became the first nation in the world to enshrine the “rights of nature” in its constitution—granting wild species their own legal rights to exist. Ecuador is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, yet its wild spaces are also among the most threatened.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 5, 2022

It will be an update to a plan Chicago released in 2008, when it became the first major city in the U.S. Chicago will soon release a climate action plan — a comprehensive look at the effects of climate change in the city, and actions to address it.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2008 to preserve critical habitat for migratory birds and threatened and endangered species. In a bipartisan vote, Congress overwhelmingly approved the 22,000-acre Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge Act in 2008.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 13, 2022

NS, which first introduced a carbon calculator in 2008, says its new version is more accurate because it captures the full cycle of fuel usage, with fuel consumption from locomotives applied to … Continue reading Norfolk Southern introduces online carbon calculator.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 5, 2022

The GLC compiles annual water use data, a stipulation outlined in the 2008 regional water use agreement known as … Continue reading Industries and public water supplies top list of main consumers of Great Lakes water.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 6, 2022

When the 2008 recession came around, the sustainability function inside companies suffered as many positions were shed as part of cost-saving (euphemistically, “rightsizing”) measures. Read the full story at GreenBiz. Sustainability professionals are thriving. That in itself is news.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

So it won’t come as a surprise that a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the benefits of on-road emissions reductions from 2008 to 2017 could be measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars and almost 10,000 fewer deaths.

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PBS Nature

JUNE 12, 2023

In 2008, the country became the first nation in the world to enshrine the “rights of nature” in its constitution—granting wild species their own legal rights to exist. Ecuador is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, yet its wild spaces are also among the most threatened.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lockheed Settlement Aviation Week PaulaR Mon, 09/18/2023 - 19:44 Monday, January 7, 2008 Read more The U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) unveiled a self-described “major” settlement of a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against Lockheed Martin Corp.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2023

Since the seedlings for schools initiative began in 2008, 1.8 The Game Commission provides enough seedlings for each student to take a seedling home to plant. This year's seedling choices are white spruce or silky dogwood. million seedlings have been dispersed statewide to all counties of the Commonwealth.

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2023

Through the TMDL the Ohio EPA seeks to achieve a 40 percent reduction in total phosphorus loading, based on a 2008 baseline, with a three percent margin of safety. This reduction is calculated to achieve a target severity index that has been exceeded most years by varying amounts since 2008.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 3, 2023

and 119 species have been documented colliding with buildings in Philadelphia since 2008. Warblers (30 species and 48% of all individuals) and new world sparrows (nine species and 21% of all individuals) make up the largest percentages of the birds that have been documented colliding with buildings in downtown Philadelphia since 2008.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 21, 2023

That was in 2008. Virgin Atlantic proved in 2008 that you could fly an airliner on 5% SAF. I distinctly remember Richard Branson posing next to a jet powered by (5%) coconut biofuels and declaring “a biofuel breakthrough for the whole airline industry.” In 2019 less than 0.01% of global aviation fuel was SAF, according to IATA.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. One way of getting a handle on the amount of harm, though, is to assume that if Bush had kept his promise, emissions during his presidency would have declined as much as they did under his successor Obama.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

By Katie Caswell The House Ways and Means Committee has introduced HR 5351, the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008, which eliminates the manufacturing tax credit for major oil and gas companies and locks the credit at six percent for other producers and refiners.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 22, 2023

Afghanistan: It’s About Oil EarthIsland PaulaR Thu, 06/22/2023 - 10:32 Saturday, March 1, 2008 Read more Gar Smith In 1998, Dick Cheney (then CEO of Halliburton, a major US oil-services company) commented: “I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.”

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Corp Watch

MAY 12, 2023

Escándalo en España por golpizas de agentes de seguridad contra migrantes La Jornada PaulaR Fri, 05/12/2023 - 18:16 Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Read more Armando G.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

In 2008, after a series of Atlantic hurricane seasons that began earlier than normal, a study was published that explored whether the anomalously early starts may be part of a larger trend ( Kossin 2008 ). The days of formation for the 2020 named storms are shown by the red squares. References. Geophysical Research Letters , vol.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

And by the 2007 IPCC AR4 report, or in Lean and Rind (2008) ), at best, scientists had concluded that solar activity wasn’t likely to be responsible for more than 10% or so of the long term rise in global temperature. Lean, and D.H. 32, 2005.

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Environmental Leader

APRIL 22, 2022

Growth in the US solar photovoltaic market — US capacity was at 1.183 gigawatts in 2008 compared to 21.3 gigawatts today — has primarily been driven by the residential sector and large-scale initiatives from only the largest corporations, as well as utility companies.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 16, 2021

Some readings; 2008 Urban Growth and Climate Change 2010 Climatopolis 2021 Adapting to Climate Change The microeconomics research agenda is to trace out this expenditure function approach. See m y slides here starting on slide 9.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 15, 2023

The bank, the largest to fail since 2008, worked with more than 1,550 technology firms … Continue reading Silicon Valley Bank collapse threatens climate start-ups

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

In 2008, Samson’s landman prepared a Boundary Stipulation of Ownership of Mineral Interest between the Farmars (owners of the southeast-tract mineral estate) and the Richeys (owners of the northwest-tract mineral estate). The parties signed the stipulation in August and September 2008, and it was subsequently recorded in the county records.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2024

Founded in 2008 by Conservancy donors and outdoor enthusiasts Roy Weil and Mary Shaw, CADF provides grants to watershed organizations and other community groups to make the region’s rivers and streams more accessible for outdoor recreation by developing and improving access sites for canoeists, kayakers and anglers.

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