Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The German Federal Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the way in which compensation under the Atomic Energy Amendment Act of 10 July 2018 has been organized infringes the German constitution. The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. This, according to the judges, is `unacceptable´ to Vattenfall.

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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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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) It’s well known (among readers here, I assume), that ENSO influences the interannual variability of the climate system and the annual mean temperatures. El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.) impart a slight cooling. GISTEMP anomalies (w.r.t.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

While agricultural burning declined between 2003 and 2011, reducing particulate pollution by more than 50%, California’s record-breaking drought has led to a tripling of the amount of waste burned , with some fearing further escalation of burning as drought persists.

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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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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. We don’t have direct measurements over such a long time (only since 2004 from the RAPID project ), but various indirect indications. Here a quote from Liu et al.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2023

"Initial findings from the joint inquiry into the storm, presented by staff at FERC's June 15 monthly open meeting, echo those from inquiries into the root causes of deadly Texas blackouts in February 2021 and similar but less severe cold weather events in 2011, 2014 and 2018." "The

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

From 2009 to 2018, City’s water deliveries under the leases varied from 5.4 acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). In 2018, the City submitted a new form of proposed lease to the lessees that provided only for “dry” leases. acre feet per acre. The trial court ruled in favor of the County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

The Sunday after Thanksgiving is usually quiet, but for those who live along Route 9 in New Castle, Delaware, it’s hard to forget the harrowing events that unfolded in November 2018. In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

County of Fresno (2018) 6 Cal.8 County of San Diego (2018) 27 Cal.App.5 8 th 502, why it was not feasible to correlate the level of the project’s air emissions to specific human health impacts from the project. Department of Fish & Wildlife (2015) 62 Cal. 5 th 892 (“ Golden Door ”) (analyzed in my 10/8/18 post here ).

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Some argue that environmental degradation is best understood as a threat to human security (Barnett and Adger 2007), and others focus on the inextricable ties between human well-being and the health of ecological systems to which we belong (McDonald 2018). Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Dabelko (eds.).

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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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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One group of researchers found that from 2011 to 2018 there were “11,452 lobbying contacts with government officials. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) lobbied the federal government a whopping 118 times between January and July of this year, according to The Hill Times.

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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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Brag

AUGUST 8, 2022

The first report to Congress (RtC1), completed in 2011, provided an assessment of the environmental and resource conservation impacts associated with increased biofuel production and use. The second report to Congress (RtC2) was completed in 2018 and reaffirmed the overarching conclusions of RtC1. Comments are due August 16, 2022.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

From 2018 to 2021, hunters illegally killed at least 2,707 rhinos. As of 2018, 96% of all mammal biomass was human or livestock for humans. T]he Javan rhino was confirmed extinct from the Cat Loc part of the Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam in October 2011.” Poachers have helped decimate various animal and fish populations.

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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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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. At a January 31, 2011, appointment the doctor ordered blood tests and chest X-rays, to check for infection. Everything is going according to plan,” Gary wrote in his journal on February 25, 2011.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support! -- Be Inspired By Hundreds Of Environmental Stewardship Leaders From 2019! 197 Stories)! -- Be Inspired!

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants.

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana Representative Walter “Walt” J. Of note is the application of the model approach focusing on to the reciprocity between people and the “First Foods.” degrees Celsius. 2019 Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky Congressman John Yarmuth, U.S.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Fortunately, Manabe recently wrote a retrospective on his early work in response to receiving the Crafoord prize in 2018. Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). 9335-9350, 2018. Gnanadesikan et al.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If it does, it will reverse a decline in revenue since 2018 when revenue from the fee was $251.8 This is the highest monthly price recorded since enactment of the fee in 2011. million The near-month settlement price of natural gas on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), upon which Pennsylvania’s Impact Fee is based, is $5.84

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Physics World

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In 2011, with the telescope’s budget spiralling, the US House of Representatives moved to cancel it entirely , only for the troubled project to receive an eleventh-hour reprieve after scientists, the public and the media rallied to save it.

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018). and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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Law of the Lands

MAY 30, 2018

A Superior Court case heard in April, 2018 involved rural neighbours and the unauthorized removal of trees. The trees had been removed by T in February, 2011. Neighbour O sold trees on his property to the owner of a local sawmill, T. The Court rejected the limitation period defence.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018). and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2011, Provenza, Pringle et al. 2014, Lein 2018, Zabala, Sandbrook et al. 2018, Rost 2021). 2014, Lein 2018). Derner (2011). George; Lopez-Hoffman, Laura (2018). Mukherjee (2018). 2002, Brunson and Huntsinger 2008, Briske, Sayre et al. 2013, Roche, Schohr et al. 2009, Armatas, Venn et al. Briske, D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Smoke from California’s 2018 Camp Fire contained high levels of lead and metals from burning buildings. A decade ago, a review of nearly 12,000 studies conducted between 1991 and 2011 found that 97.2 percent of them agreed that humans were causing global warming.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the climate change lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore in 2018 against energy companies. In 2011, Congress amended Section 1447(d) to include federal officer removal grounds as a second exception to the general prohibition on appealing remand orders.

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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. In 2018, a group of 40 citizens filed a civil complaint and a group of 12 citizens filed an administrative complaint with support from an environmental NGO Kiko Network. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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HumanNature

JANUARY 12, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Colorado State University Recent sustainable agriculture guidelines are encouraging farmers to be able to grow more food, on less land, with less resources, and with a net zero (or even positive) impact on the environment (USDA-NIFA, 2018). 2011; Sofo et al.,

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Physics World

MAY 2, 2021

Antihelium-4 was created for the first time in 2011, in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. At the time, scientists stated that if antihelium-4 were detected coming from space, then it would definitely have to come from the fusion process inside an antistar.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In August 2018, dry natural gas production from the Haynesville shale averaged 6.774 billion cubic feet per day, which is the highest daily Haynesville production average since September 2012 when production averaged 6.962 billion cubic feet per day. August 2018 was not an anomaly. El Paso E & P Co. , El Paso E & P Co. ,

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. Today the Flood Management Program combines the efforts of more than 15 City agencies as well as state and federal partners, and it is led by the City’s Floodplain Manager who was hired in 2018. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department.

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