Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The landscape of Kulaley Village in northern Kenya lays barren after a drought in 2011. In 2011, two failed rainy seasons thrust the Horn of Africa into the worst famine of the twenty-first century. Drought has left millions in the region facing food insecurity—and conditions are expected to get worse.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2011, EPA had estimated that the compliance cost would work out to $9.6 For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation. EPA confronted some of these issues recently in its reevaluation of a regulation limiting mercury emissions from coal power plants. (You

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

January 13, 2011: the RRC rescinds its no-harm letter. + February 17, 2011: TCEQ issues an order approving the application. April 2, 2011: TCEQ reissues the order. November 2010: After hearing on remand, ALJ recommends the application be denied. 20 days: The rescission takes effect. The litigation.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Austin first adopted the goal, which envisions diverting 90% of trash from landfills by 2040, in its comprehensive plan in 2011. Austin, Texas, adopted a new plan this month to renew efforts to help the city achieve its goal of zero waste by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

KV: In 2011, when we started our Facebook group, we were just a bunch of people like anyone else that had reconnected with old classmates and childhood friends on Facebook. CF: How did ‘ just a group of neighborhood kids who reconnected on Facebook in 2011’ get the attention of governing bodies to expand testing and cleanup in the St.

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Nanotech

MARCH 28, 2023

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) will hold a public meeting May 31-June 1, 2023 , to discuss the revision of the 2011 National Nanotechnology Initiative Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy (EHS Research Strategy). More information on NNI’s EHS Research Strategy is available in our October 21, 2011, blog item.

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Nanotech

MAY 25, 2023

OSTP seeks responses to the following questions: What are the research accomplishments in the following six core research areas identified in the 2011 NNI EHS Strategy? The ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of nanotechnology are considered across the core research areas of the 2011 strategy.

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Air Pollution 2011 2023 Technology 59

Nanotech

APRIL 6, 2023

OSTP seeks responses to the following questions: What are the research accomplishments in the following six core research areas identified in the 2011 NNI EHS Strategy? The ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of nanotechnology are considered across the core research areas of the 2011 strategy.

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Air Pollution 2011 2023 Technology 59

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

She served as Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association (2006-2011) and as Director of the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University where she holds an appointment as Senior Scholar and Adjunct Faculty.(2011-present). 2011-present).

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A 2018 government report found that between 1999 and 2011, the number of South African rivers in poor ecological health increased by 500 percent. However, even the South African government’s own data points to a disaster. A number of rivers were considered past the point of revival.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Harry B Gray and Dr Jay R Winkler at the California Institute of Technology, completing her PhD in 2011. From 2011–2012, Prof. As an NSF graduate research fellow, she carried out research with Prof. Dempsey was an NSF ACC postdoctoral fellow with Daniel R Gamelin at the University of Washington. She joined UNC in 2012.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, America generated almost four times as much renewable electricity from the sun and the wind as in 2011, with wind and solar now producing 11% of the nation’s electricity. Download the document. Clean energy is sweeping across America.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lockheed Martin to Pay $2 Million to Resolve Allegations Resulting from Fraudulent Submission of Government Contract US Department of Justice PaulaR Mon, 09/18/2023 - 19:48 Monday, January 24, 2011 Read more Case Involved National Center for Critical Information Processing and Storage at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Over the span of three years, from 2011 to 2014, I watched the trees on my parkway die from the top down, leaves crumbling, leaving gray, stark branches on the crown. Read the full story in Q Magazine. I had seen videos of deforestation in the Amazon and other major forests, but this was happening… Read more →

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Since Israel activated the Iron Dome in 2011, the cutting-edge rocket-defense system has intercepted thousands of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

2011; Garzoli et al. 2011), could be related to a bias in the northward freshwater transport in the South Atlantic by the meridional overturning circulation. Here a quote from Liu et al. 1999; Huisman et al. 2010; Hawkins et al. 2011a,b; Bryden et al. These observational studies suggest a potentially bistable AMOC in the real world.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The rule takes effect quickly and states that “Any entities, including small entities, that have manufactured (including imported) PFAS in any year since 2011 will have 18 months following the effective date of this rule to report PFAS data to EPA.” It requires reporting of information back to January 1, 2011.

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Wall Street Journal PaulaR Mon, 08/28/2023 - 12:50 Monday, May 23, 2011 Read more Mike Ramsey Volkswagen AG on Tuesday will celebrate the opening of a new Tennessee auto plant that gives the German auto maker much lower U.S. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2012

By Megan Spencer In our December 20, 2011 E-Newsletter , we reported on the status of: (1) EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule; and (2) the EPA Inspector General’s report, “EPA Must Improve Oversight of State Enforcement.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply. Eight states generate more than 25 percent of their electricity from wind. Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. 410 (2011). I will leave to others a discussion of “major question doctrine” and other aspects of the West Virginia case. I want to focus on the disingenuous way the Supreme Court deals with a previous ruling, and its implications for states. Now, in West Virginia v. Connecticut , 564 U. Post, at 20.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We pointed out in March that Scafetta had totally neglected observational uncertainty in calculating the observed change in temperature (2011-2021 compared to 1980-1990). Observational uncertainty. Now he has included it, but has made a massive error so that it is roughly a factor of ten too small (though this is progress of a sort!).

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 18, 2022

In previous iterations of our report When Women Lead (in 2003 and 2011), we analyzed the voting records of federal legislators going back to 1983 using League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Environmental Scorecard data. Read the full story from Rachel’s Network.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2021

The department’s inspector general (IG) said in a report issued last week that in 2011, Defense officials issued an alert saying… Read more → A report from an internal watchdog says that a lack of action from the Defense Department may have led to people being exposed to “preventable” risks from toxic chemicals.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S. And therein lies a threefold environmental crisis: First, “monster fracking” requires massive amounts of often-scarce water. oil and gas operators have consumed about 1.5 trillion gallons of water to support their fracking operations.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Published in the journal Global Environmental Change , this research combined information from 22,508 ICC beach and land cleanups across 116 countries from 2011-2017 with 7,290 PADI AWARE underwater cleanups across 118 countries from 2011-2018. Ocean Conservancy has worked closely with CSIRO scientists Drs. Never miss an update.

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Ocean Conservation Recycling 2011 115

Corp Watch

APRIL 18, 2023

Söldner bei Computerspiel-Release: "Die Jungs sind super drauf" TAZ PaulaR Tue, 04/18/2023 - 19:26 Monday, October 31, 2011 Read more Bei einer PR-Veranstaltung des First-Person-Shooters "Battlefield 3" erklärten die Kämpfer einer umstrittenen deutschen Söldnerfirma echte Kriegstaktiken.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 30, 2023

There is a lot more food waste than you might think: A 2011 report for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) stated that approximately one-third, or around 1.3 Read the full story at Glam. billion tonnes, of food production worldwide ends up as waste.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 23, 2021

The post-2020 global biodiversity framework builds on the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and sets out an ambitious plan… Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 1, 2023

utility-scale battery storage market has existed in earnest since 2011 led by one dominant battery chemistry choice: lithium. Read the full story at Solar Power World. Although still very much in its infancy, the U.S. According to data through 2021 from the U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

AB 2097 (Friedman) builds on work dating back to 2011 (I blogged about then-Assm. It’s finally ending local mandates that all new housing and infill projects must include car storage, even if they’re located within half-mile of transit.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In accordance with Act 57 of 2011, Oil City was eligible to receive 25 percent of the Act 57-eligible portion of civil penalties collected and use those funds for projects that eliminate or reduce air pollution for parks, recreation projects, trails, or open spaces.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2021

A bloom of Noctiluca scintillans, a single-celled algae, was seen off of Florida’s Panhandle in February 2011. First global review of marine harmful algal blooms identifies regional trends linked to the rise of fish and shellfish farming. Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons user FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

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