Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Last year the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the authority of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to restrict large livestock farms to protect the state’s water, a rebuke to a 2011 state law that limited the DNR’s authority to regulate CAFOs. In 2016, the EPA identified phosphorus and nitrogen discharges from U.S.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Nevertheless, Jeff Landry—Louisiana’s AG since January 2016—seems more interested in defending the fossil fuel industry than his constituents. Since 2011, the industry has donated $78,450 to her campaigns for state treasurer and attorney general, according to OpenSecrets data , placing the sector among her top 10 industry contributors.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The nuclear energy industry has struggled following the fallout of the 2011 tsunami in Japan as nuclear reactors were shut down not only in Europe but across the world and Germany accelerated its nuclear phaseout.

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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. A particularly devastating bloom on the Chilean coast in 2016 killed an estimated 27 million farmed salmon and trout. Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons user FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

2016) These concerns have led me to ask the following research question: where is the market for sustainable deconstructed construction materials? In fact, up until 1993, most construction and demolition (C&D) waste was mixed in with municipal waste and not sorted (Kumar, 2011). Paruszkiewicz et al., BoD – Books on Demand.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

That percentage was actually the same for wildfires between 2016-2020 in California – a high-risk wildfire state. From 2000 to 2016, wildfire damage to California’s transmission and distribution systems amounted to more than $700 million.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Madalyn “Maddy” Spellman lived in Aurora and died from cancer in September 2016, at age 13. The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. Everything is going according to plan,” Gary wrote in his journal on February 25, 2011.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two hubs and digital attendence through zoom, was a change from previous ICRCs held in ICTP (2011) , Brussels (2013) , Stockholm (2016) , and Beijing (2019). 31-45, 2016. BENESTAD, H.V. STORCH, and J.H. Schumacher, J. Fischer, and S.

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

A pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, he took on leadership roles and organized workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019).

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

A pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, he took on leadership roles and organized workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019).

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

” Asimow has been previously recognized by the publication, which named him to their "Top 100 Lawyers in California" reports in 2011 and 2016 and their “Top Antitrust Lawyers” report in 2020.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. On 6 December 2016 the court largely rejected their main arguments against German`s nuclear phase out and the Atomic Energy Act ( BVerfG 1 BvR 2821/11, 1 BvR 321/12, 1 BvR 1456/12 ). The latter now issued a judgement in favour of Vattenfall ( BVerfG 1 BvR 1550/19 ).

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. The payments were concealed as an unspecified service fee, signing bonus, or success fee. The firm says it has taken significant action to build a new ethics and compliance program.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

All throughout the Obama administration, Republicans cut funding for the EPA, forcing staffing to drop from 17,359 in fiscal year 2011 to 14,779 in fiscal year 2016. In 2016, the high court—already at a 5-4 conservative majority—put the CPP on hold.

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Physics World

MAY 28, 2021

His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2012), Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), MRS Medal (2018), and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Her postdoc at ETH Zürich was followed by a position as Researcher at the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2011), and Visiting and Senior Scientist at MIT (2011–12). She has published more than 110 papers, holds 19 patents, and is a frequent speaker and panel member of the World Economic Forum.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2016 , LaHue et al., 2016 , Price et al., Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al., 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al., 2018 , Petersen et al., 2013 , IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Chapter 6 , González et al., 2020 , Linquist et al.,

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

This is driven by a sentiment shared among rural residents that political decisions are often made by those outside of their communities who have differing values and access to more resources including money, time and power (Cramer 2016). This feeling is not untrue. This map shows projected changes in U.S. Lower expenditures are blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. In our analysis , we linked Californians’ survey-reported personal experiences of supply impacts and concern about future supply reliability with their recent exposure to extreme event hazards (2016–2021) and projections of future climate hazards (2035–2064).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Arnold & Porter, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2016–2018). Dodd, Arnold & Porter, former US Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1981-2011). Christopher J. Ambassador Paul Myler, Embassy of Australia, Minister-Counsellor.

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Physics World

AUGUST 27, 2021

Dr Meng is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society; Editor in Chief of MRS Energy & Sustainability ; and co-founder of Unigrid LLC.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer (2016). Koch’s Web of Influence by John Farrell (Center for Public Integrity, April 2011). The Koch Brothers: What You Need to Know About the Financiers of the Radical Right (Center for American Progress Action Fund, April 2011).

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

175 Stories About Hundreds Of Great PA Environmental Stewards In 2018 -- 137 More Stories In 2017 About Hundreds Of Great PA Environmental Stewards -- Over 1,160 Stories On Thousands Of PA Environmental Stewards, 160 In 2016 Alone -- 1,000 Stories, On 1,000s Of PA Environmental Stewards Since 2004 (2015) -- 117 Stories About Hundreds Of PA Environmental (..)

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 13, 2021

My 2011 paper with Matt Kotchen on political economy of regulation was discussed by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show! Read my 2016 paper w ith Josh Graff-Zivin. Soren Anderson and co-authors have a nice paper on carbon tax voting in Washington State. I have published a 2013 paper and a 2015 political economy paper on carbon tax voting.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Non-native reforestation also sparks fears of hybridization in the Andes , making invasion even more complex as novel, physically indistinguishable hybrids can genetically pollute native populations and propagate without control in sight (Gaskin, 2016). link] Cao, S., Yu, X., & Wang, G. AMBIO , 39 (4), 279–283. link] Gaskin, J.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. With fresh eyes, Coulter came to the issue after caring for Jacob and another pediatric cancer patient in 2011. It was a career shift. If the U.S.

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

2016 Fort Lauderdale Annual Meeting Shannon Estenoz, Director of Everglades Restoration Initiatives, U.S. 2017 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, U.S. representative for Oregon’s 1st congressional district, was recognized for her advocacy for science and her stellar record of supporting STEM.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Haiti A series of natural disasters in Haiti – Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and a magnitude 7.2 Sudan, Egypt, and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Fighting between rival generals in Sudan threatens to affect the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which Ethiopia built upstream on the Nile’s main tributary in 2011.

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Frontiers

MAY 18, 2022

“During the monitoring period, sub-lethal effects of high temperatures (including compromised foraging, provisioning, and body mass maintenance) reduced the chance of hornbills breeding successfully or even breeding at all,” explained Pattinson.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million in across-the-board cuts to help fill gaps caused by reduced federal Medicaid appropriations-- $2.4 million; DCNR: $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Actions Since 2011 The order describes the steps taken since 2011 to inspect and evaluate 43 shale gas wells within the Dimock/Carter Road Area and identify the issues that lead to widespread contamination of local water supplies. Only the horizontal portion of the well may traverse under the Area to produce the natural gas.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

European world leaders and Russia celebrate during the opening ceremony of the gas pipeline Nordstream 1 in 2011. In the UK the David Cameron government (2010 – 2016) got rid of their energy efficiency programmes – labelling it as green crap. Photo credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2021

The Las Conchas fire in northern New Mexico in June 2011 pumped so much ash into the Rio Grande that the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority had to close its drinking water intake on the river. It dries out vegetation and kills trees, turning forests into matchsticks. Fires in river headwaters don’t just burn trees.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). Mendel continued to photograph and document flood zones around the world, visiting?Haiti He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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Physics World

JULY 3, 2021

With these results in the bag, NASA approved the Deep Space Atomic Clock mission in 2011. Liang Liu of the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics in China, who heads a cold-atom clock experiment that has been in orbit since 2016, welcomes the NASA project but finds its long-term stability of around 3×10 ?15

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