PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Monsanto: A Corporate Profile (Food & Water Europe, April 2013) Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and our Genetically Modified Future by Jason Louv (Ultraculture Press, 2013).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Steffy (McGraw-Hill, 2011). Historical Refernces Britain’s first North Sea oil rig collapses Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo News | December 24, 2013 December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. Federal Government (via USA SPENDING).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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Washington Nature

JULY 20, 2023

For comparison, the left is a photo of the Fraser River from 2011, the right was taken on November 17, 2021, showing the floods from space. What started as a vision for better floodplain governance has grown into an ambitious public-private partnership. SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Those calls have been ignored except for the adoption of the Act 13 drilling per well impact fee in 2013-- after the General Assembly and Gov. In 2011, it was Tropical Storm Lee , in 2017, it was Tropical Depression Harvey , in 2018 it was micro-storms causing flooding in communities all over the state and again just this week.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company sued the government of Argentina in 2012 for $10 billion after the country nationalized YPF with the backing of 80 percent of legislators of parliament. Mediterranean Reefs Will Be Destroyed Upon Repsol's Prospecting Published by Oceana | July 21, 2011 Information provided by Repsol Investigaciones Petrolíferas, S.

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Montrose

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The two firms have an established working relationship dating back to 2017, and have executed numerous projects together for the federal government and clients in the private sector. The certification enables the approved JV to bid on federal government contracts that are set aside for small, disadvantaged businesses. Navy, the U.S.

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Breezometer

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The 2011 Joplin tornado resulted in around $2.8 billion in economic damage , while the 2013 Moore tornado caused an estimated $2 billion in damage as well. For this recent devastation, we’re likely looking at billions in economic damage , probably culminating in record-breaking damage costs.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations. 2011, Provenza, Pringle et al. 2013, Roche, Schohr et al. Derner (2011).

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Backgrounds After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were temporarily shutdown due to safety concerns. Nevertheless, the Japanese government chose to expand coal-fired power generation, which is a major source of emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Those calls have been ignored except for the adoption of the Act 13 drilling per well impact fee in 2013-- after the General Assembly and Gov. On September 20, the Senate and House come back into voting session with only a few handfuls of voting days left until the end of 2021.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2011, Dr. Mohammed Islam, a tenured professor of electrical and computer engineering at UM received an additional appointment to UM’s medical school, for which he executed an employment agreement. After returning to UM in 2013, he filed non-provisional applications claiming priority to those provisional applications.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

In 2013, after many years as an EES in the field, she moved to Harrisburg to become a Natural Resource Program Specialist (NRPS) for DCNR - PA State Parks. This work has contributed to over 25 peer-reviewed articles and over 50 conference presentations on the topic since 2011. Click Here to learn more about the award winners.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority (2013) 57 Cal.4th My August 9, 2013 post on the case can be found here. Ten years and 358 blog posts later, it continues to be a challenging and rewarding task.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.” In July 2013, the D.C.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The leases had a term running from 2009 through 2013, with a holdover provision. acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). The leases allowed for rent adjustments if City makes a “dry” finding reclassifying the property by type or acreage. Please contact Arthur F.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This marked the first restart of a nuclear power plant in Japan since the country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) ceased all commercial nuclear operations in 2013 in response to the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster in March, 2011. earthquake occurred off the Japanese coast on March 11, 2011. new safety rules. 2010 Energy Plan.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

The Bay’s grade is a “C,” unchanged since 2012 when the 2011 “D+” was upgraded to a “C.” Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. In 2011, Maryland legislators passed the Fertilizer Use Act. As of October 2013, lawn fertilizer containing phosphorus is banned. Researchers at the. Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note that the court of appeals correctly cited current Rule 26(b)(1) in the second sentence, but then cites to pre-December 1, 2015 case law and even cites a 2011 decision that quotes the 2000 version of Rule 26(b)(1): This court recognizes broad and liberal treatment of the federal discovery rules. 2011) (quoting Fed. Holley , 942 F.2d

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 2767, which took effect on September 1, 2013, was enacted to encourage recycling of the wastewater produced in hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) and other oil and gas operations. In 2011, 3.5 A hotly contested issue is the consumption of water by fracking activities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

But as I showed in my 2013 and 2021 reports, the hype surrounding SMRs is way overblown, and my conclusions remain valid today. Getting past this obstacle has proven to be one of the main impediments to SMR deployment. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

To rapidly reduce methane emissions, governments (at the local, state, and national level) will need to develop legal, regulatory, and incentive policies that require implementation of available cost-effective methods and support development of new strategies. 2013 , IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Chapter 6 , González et al.,

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 8, 2024

DWR has long-term contracts with 29 local government contractors giving each of them rights to receive a certain portion of available SWP water supplies, and imposing obligations to pay for water received, and also to pay a proportional share of SWP development, operation and maintenance costs regardless of the amount of water received.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Delaware Rule of Evidence 502 governs the attorney-client privilege in Delaware. 510 governs privilege waiver. Friedman , 2013 WL 1668205, at *4 (Del. 2011 WL 532011 (Del. 2, 2011).]] ”[[N: Kalisman , 2013 WL 1668205, at *5.]] In re Information Management Services, Inc. Derivative Litigation ,[[N:81 A.3d

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Ultimately, cooperation between the parties ended, but real parties applied to County in 2013 for a specific plan and rezonings they believed were consistent with the agreement’s primary terms. City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th Citing Clover Valley Foundation v. 4th 200, 243; CEQA Guidelines, § 15064.7.).

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Considering social commentary, we look at Black History Month, the UK government’s review into the Human Rights Act and the plight of refugees from Afghanistan, as well as considering the FCA’s discussion paper on improving diversity and inclusion in the financial services sector and reviews of the Metropolitan Police.

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Capaccio

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The baseline levels were established by averaging the production and consumption from the start of 2011 to the end of 2013, plus fifteen percent of 1989 HCFC and 0.42 The Act will also create an allowance allocation and trading program relative to baseline production and consumption levels. percent of 1989 CFC levels.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A critical but difficult step in this process is for a government employee or independent valuator to determine the return on investment (ROI) to the public under various land use scenarios. Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5 , 72–77 (2013). Works Cited Angel, S.,

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

III/IRPD/GA/2011 (2019).]] N:Fair Trials, Strengthening Respect for Human Rights, Strengthening INTERPOL , at 14 (2013). ]] The number of new Red Notices rose from 3,126 in 2008 to 5,020 in 2009, and later to 6,344 in 2010, the first year that all new Red Notices were issued through I-link.[[N:INTERPOL, 83(1)(a)(i), Doc.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 23, 2022

In the face of intense and unrelenting local opposition, including the opposition and hostility of two levels of local government (the County and Town of Tiburon), the Martha Company (Martha) has tried for many decades to obtain the County’s approval of development of its 110-acre ridgeline property overlooking Tiburon and the Bay.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. Ruffatto , No.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., His parents, Gary and Shari Peters, documented six more kids in Aurora diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. With fresh eyes, Coulter came to the issue after caring for Jacob and another pediatric cancer patient in 2011. There are others across Nebraska. It was a career shift.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Securing state and federal permits, in 2013 and 2014, CHPE generated thousands of comments to the New York Public Service Commission and a promise of a $117 million trust fund to support environmental restoration.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm. They are also born smaller.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fresenius has also been fined $50 million after employees were caught destroying records prior to a 2013 inspection of a plant that manufactured cancer medicines in Kalyani, West Bengal, India. In 2016, the company agreed to pay out $250 million in compensation to families of U.S. The company agreed to pay $231 million to the U.S.

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