First Draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
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 →
The Hershey Company Releases 2020 Sustainability Report
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 2, 2021
On June 2, The Hershey Company released its 2020 Sustainability Report, highlighting its progress on key environmental and social initiatives during a year of unprecedented challenges. Hershey concluded 2020 with a 23.7 percent improvement in Scope 1 and 2 emissions and a 12.6 employees and of women globally to 47-50 percent by 2025.
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A Tale of Two Hockey Sticks
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
Temperatures during the most recent decade (2011–2020) exceed those of the most recent multi-century warm period, around 6500 years ago13 [0.2°C to 1.20] °C from 1850–1900 to 2011–2020, and the last decade was more likely than not warmer than any multi-centennial period after the Last Interglacial, roughly 125,000 years ago.
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USGS: Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Continued To Decline In 2018-2020
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Over the period of 2018-2020, the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay fell 3.5% However, from October 2019 to September 2020, more moderate river flows—53 billion gallons per day—brought approximately 246 million pounds of nitrogen, 14.4 Read more here. Geological Survey. million pounds of phosphorus and 14.9 Geological Survey (USGS).
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Results of a 2020 UK survey for the use of online treatment monitoring solutions for IMRT/VMAT
Physics World
APRIL 20, 2022
He completed his state registration as a clinical scientist at St Bartholomew’s hospital, London, in 2011 and has worked as a lecturer in oncology for the Institute of Cancer Research. The post Results of a 2020 UK survey for the use of online treatment monitoring solutions for IMRT/VMAT appeared first on Physics World.
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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2015 SB350.
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EPA Will Hold Webinar on PFAS Reporting Requirements on January 25, 2024
Nanotech
JANUARY 11, 2024
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a webinar on January 25, 2024, on its October 2023 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) reporting rule under Section 8(a)(7) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Renewables on the Rise
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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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy
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. Renewables are 42% of electricity.
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DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec. 8, On Medical Leave; Jessica Shirley Named Interim Acting Secretary
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. Read more here.
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Quantum computational advantage and beyond
Physics World
MAY 17, 2021
He obtained a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2004, and a PhD in physics from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 2011. Since 2011, he is a Professor of Physics at USTC. Speaker relationship with IOP Publishing.
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Corona and Energy Law
Energy and Climate Law
APRIL 29, 2020
It stipulates that customers who are not able to pay their electricity and gas instalments due to the corona-crisis shall be protected against termination of their electricity and/or gas contracts for three months (1 April 2020 until 30 June 2020).
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5 Powerful Facts for Global Wind Day
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. From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply.
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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley
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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The Stream, November 17, 2021: Meet The Activist Saving a Polluted Chinese Lake
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
A new report finds water and energy use from Oahu hotels did not decrease in 2020 despite lockdown orders. million gallons of water during 2020, only one million less than during 2019, when tourism peaked on the island. A study from the S. The neighborhood of Waikiki reportedly consumed 2.5 369 LAKES . A new study by the U.S.
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Scafetta comes back for more
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). Rye et al, 2020) ; Is cloud phase in some models being inappropriately tuned? Observational uncertainty. Maybe ( Cesana et al, subm ). Russell, L.S. Nazarenko, Y.
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DEP: Shale Gas Operator Found Responsible For Water Supply Contamination After Investigation Documents Chemical Contamination Spread Across 3 Townships In Greene County
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 2, 2024
On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.
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Indications of a promising future for nuclear energy as demand for uranium surges
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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Energy & Climate CounselFoley Hoag LLP Amendments to Massachusetts’ Clean Energy Standard Finalized, Accelerating Progress Towards Decarbonization of the State’s Electricity Sector
Law and Environment
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. CES-E eligibility is further limited to existing generation units located in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, or one of several eastern Canadian provinces.
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Recap of 2023 CEQA Amendments Now In Effect
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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DEP: Penalties Collected From Air Pollution Violations At Webco's Oil City Facility Funds Local Park Projects In Venango County
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.
Education, DEP, DCNR Honor Green Ribbon Schools For Environmental Sustainability Efforts In PA; Nominations Open
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Spring-Ford Area School District , Royersford, Montgomery County, and Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania , Shippensburg, Cumberland County, were recognized as 2022 ED-GRS schools, and officials also honored awardees from 2019, 2020, and 2021 during the first in-person ceremony since the pandemic.
The established ground and new ideas
Real Climate
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
2020) despite their merits, something we discuss in our recent discussion paper. 3383-3438, 2020. A motivation for this discussion paper was that it came as a surprise to me that it’s rare that EOFs are applied to joint datasets, known as ‘ common EOFs ’. 1645-1668, 2001. Benestad, J.
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Electrochemistry and coupled chemo-mechanical phenomena in batteries beyond intercalation
Physics World
AUGUST 27, 2021
Starting in 2005, Dr Meng served as the Founding Director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center, until she was named Inaugural Director of the Institute for Materials Discovery and Design in 2020. 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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Third District Affirms Judgment Denying CEQA Writ Petition Challenging Sacramento County’s Approval of Mather South Community Master Plan, Issues Narrow Holding Rejecting Challenges to County’s GHG Thresholds Methodology In Partially Published Opinion
CEQA Developments
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
The 2011 General Plan EIR ultimately established three thresholds of significance—one for residential, one for commercial and industrial, and one for transportation activities—based on the strategy and assumptions underlying AB 32’s year 2020 GHG emissions reduction goal, estimated in the 2008 Scoping Plan as 15% below 2005 levels.
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EUON Publishes Nanopinion on the Need for Updating Language Regarding Nanomaterials
Nanotech
JUNE 4, 2021
In 2011, the European Commission (EC) adopted a definition that describes a nanomaterial as a material at the nanoscale. In 2020, the EC amended Annex II of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation and introduced the use of the term “nanoform” in safety data sheets (SDS).
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Asimow Named to Daily Journal's 2021 ‘Top Antitrust Lawyers’ Report
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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When planting trees is planting hope no more: Perspectives on large-scale reforestation
HumanNature
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
To quote Brancalion & Holl (2020), “Well-planned tree planting projects can be a valuable intervention to address some of the most critical challenges of our time, such as mitigating climate change, conserving biodiversity and providing food, wood and income to small landowners.” References Brancalion, P. S., & Holl, K.
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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil
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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The Stream, November 2, 2021: As Temperatures In Greece Continue To Rise, Farmers and Fishermen Suffer The Most
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
In 2020, the value had more than halved. A report from 2011 by the Committee for the Study of Effects of Climate Change predicts that the country will experience 35-40 more days of heatwaves each year by the end of the century. According to a letter from U.S. In 2013, the average value of the salmon was $6.3 245 MILLION.
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It’s Heating Up: United States Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Proper Jurisdiction for Climate-Change Lawsuit
The Energy Law Blog
JANUARY 20, 2021
Climate Change Litigation: 2020 Update, January 15, 2020 ; (2) Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Kicks Climate Change Case Back to State Court, June 2, 2020 ; and (3) U.S.
Old habits
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
2020) and boundary layers (Bintanja et al., 2659-2673, 2011. If there is a permanent cloud cover, then we expect a reduced albedo-feedback connected with ice and snow. Clouds also affect the albedo, and both clouds and air moisture affect the surface heat loss to space. Other mechanisms include changes in the lapse rate (Boeke et al.,
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It’s alive! Our new lobbying bot let’s you track oil & gas lobbying at your fingertips
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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$18 billion to fossil fuels: Breaking Down the Numbers
Enviromental Defense
AUGUST 23, 2021
Last spring, we released a report – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – that revealed the federal government announced a minimum of nearly $18 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2020. billion in 2020 through CEWS. This measure resulted in $20 million in foregone revenue in 2020.
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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole
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 Read more here. -- FY 2020-21 $48.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2 million; DCNR: $1.5
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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant
HumanNature
MARCH 31, 2021
Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. 2011), and the World Health Organization has recommended evaluating a separate health standard for black carbon exposure independent of other particle concentration measurements (World Health Organization 2012). June 25, 2020. Arctic Council.
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52 Independent Fiscal Offices Estimates Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue To Increase By Nearly $75 Million In 2022
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 7, 2021
This is the highest monthly price recorded since enactment of the fee in 2011. National and regional prices recorded significant gains in 2021 due to the combination of weaker-than-usual supply growth and demand rebounding from closures and mitigation efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance
Corp Watch
MARCH 8, 2024
Essure: Women in England take legal action against sterilising-device maker Sophie Hutchinson | BBC News | November 15, 2020 Lawyers have begun legal action on behalf of 200 UK women against the makers of a sterilisation device, after claims of illness and pain. billion deal that failed to resolve all the litigation. Bayer Agrees to Pay $39.5
How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
As FEW nexus policy prescriptions are increasingly securitized (discussed and understood through the lens of security), my research finds that such spaces produce an environmental security narrative that situates economic productivity as that which is most at risk from threats posed by natural resource scarcities (Liebenguth 2020).
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We have the tools to design climate-adapted forests. Should we intervene?
HumanNature
APRIL 28, 2022
Figure adapted from: [link] Assisted migration is the term broadly used for the transfer of a species to a more climatically suitable area in order to protect the species from extinction due to climate change (Pedlar et al., 2012; Ste-Marie et al., There are several types of assisted migration. 2012; Ste-Marie et al., Whitman, E., Collins, B.
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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals
Corp Watch
JANUARY 23, 2024
Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.
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3,190 New Stories In 2022 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Conservation Leadership - 2004 to 2022: -- 1,198 New Articles In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA -- 233 Stories: These Conservation Leaders Gave Us Cleaner Water, Land & Air In 2020! They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support! -- Be Inspired By Hundreds Of Environmental Stewardship Leaders From 2019!
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First District Holds Increased Enrollment-Related CEQA Challenges To UC Regents’ 2018 SEIR For Berkeley Campus Development And Minor LRDP Amendment Are Mooted By Superseding 2021 LRDP Update EIR And Passage Of SB 118
CEQA Developments
MAY 30, 2023
City of Malibu (2011) 193 Cal.App.4th County of Placer (2020) 54 Cal.App.5th The Regents of the University of California, et al. 2023) Cal.App.5th. Whether SBN’s appeal was moot turned on the application of settled mootness principles, which the Court observed apply to CEQA cases. Citing Santa Monica Baykeeper v. 4th 1538, 1547-1548.)
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RELDI Files Amicus Brief in Support of New York State’s Renewable Energy Siting Regulations
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Since the new siting law was enacted in 2020, the pace of siting renewable energy projects has increased. The case is proceeding in the Appellate Division, Third Department, of the New York State Supreme Court under the caption Town of Copake et al. New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting et al. Docket Nos. 534318, 534413.
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