Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2022 AB 1279. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2015 SB350. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. 2016 SB 32. 2018 SB100.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Click Here for the 2022 week-by-week list of articles! 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! Posted: December 28, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

What’s Up With Water—April 26, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers paying for groundwater in California and a controversial canal project in Nebraska. The post The Stream, April 27, 2022: How a Rural Nebraskan Town Is Moving Forward a Year After Toxic Ethanol Plant Closes appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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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. We now think that a devastating drought is likely to happen again , in 2021/2022,” Funk wrote.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Both Winter Storm Elliott in 2022 and Winter Storm Uri in 2021 caused major failures on the nation’s power grid on a historic scale, triggering power outages for millions of people during some of the most dangerous weather conditions of the year. Source: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022. About 70 percent of US coal is transported at least part of the way by trains.

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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). We suggested this screening in our recent Nature commentary ( Hausfather et al, 2022. 26-29, 2022. Observational uncertainty. Hausfather, K. Marvel, G.A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

The chart above shows the oils and fats used to make biodiesel and renewable diesel in 2022. Among other links, in 2022 Chevron purchased the largest biodiesel producer in the US, the Renewable Energy Group, and Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66 are converting oil refineries to produce renewable diesel. percent in 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

County and municipal governments directly affected by drilling will receive a total of $157,349,593 for the 2022 reporting year. This year’s distribution is over $44 million higher than last year, driven primarily by the average price of natural gas in 2022 ($6.64 per MMBtu) versus the average price in 2021 ($3.84

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

2022 , see Figure 2. 2022 (my take: quite well). 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 compiled the AMOC reconstructions we could find in Caesar et al. 2021 , see Figure 3. 1999; Huisman et al.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

Click Here for more photos & maps Recent DEP Inspections DEP’s eFACTS database file for the Mohr A and B lists the sites as “active” and the last onsite inspection was conducted on September 8, 2022. Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 9, 2024

En 2022, más del 22 por ciento de la electricidad en el país se generó con fuentes renovables como el viento, el sol y el agua, casi el doble de su contribución en 2012. Falló una capacidad eléctrica aún mayor durante la Tormenta Invernal Elliott en 2022, y las centrales de gas representaron desproporcionadamente esa fallida capacidad.

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A Greener Life

MAY 4, 2023

degrees C set in 2011 in the eastern city of Elche. A long-running drought The Iberian Peninsula is suffering from a long-running drought and has experienced almost a 25% drop in rainfall since last October, confirming that 2022 was one of Spain’s driest years on record. The city of Cordoba in southern Spain recorded 38.8

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On October 7, the Independent Fiscal Office reported revenue from the Act 13 drilling impact fee could increase by nearly $75 million to a total of $221 million in April 2022 up from $146.2 This is the highest monthly price recorded since enactment of the fee in 2011. per MMBtu for October. per MMBtu for October.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

2022) , thus becoming more concentrated into smaller and more intense wet patches. 2659-2673, 2011. Bartow-Gillies, "State of the Climate in 2022", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , vol. e0000029, 2022. There are also additional mechanisms that can explain the rapid warming near the poles. Benestad, I.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

Since the 2022 Danger Season started in May, nearly half of all counties in the continental US (49.1 The land area in those counties amounts to nearly 3 million square kilometers, meaning that about 40 percent of the total land area in the contiguous US was under at least one fire weather alert since the 2022 Danger Season started.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

Such a policy may have prevented Benton Charter Township’s 2011 secession from the Benton Harbor water system — a move that financially hobbled Benton Harbor’s water revenue, and left Berrien County with three separate treatment facilities within a 5-mile area. That’s declined to about $3 billion a year. Brett Walton. Circle Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

But a March 2022 analysis from the investor consortium Climate Action 100+ determined that no major oil company was on track to meet the Paris goals. In a January 2022 report on its climate plans, ExxonMobil pledged to direct $15 billion toward emission reduction efforts over the next six years, but that $15 billion breaks down to $2.5

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The 2021-2022 Legislative Session was light on CEQA amendments, and once again did not produce any significant reform. SB 6 was the companion bill to AB 2011, but it does not create a ministerial approval process. Below is a short summary of the key features of these amendments.

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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. For more information, visit the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2023

On June 15, S&P Global reported on the results of a joint inquiry by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and North American Electric Reliability Corp into the impact of Winter Storm Elliot that caused a wave of unplanned power plant outages in December 2022, particularly in the PJM Interconnection electric grid region.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2022

The site was developed following the destruction of hundreds of homes during historic flooding from Tropical Storm Lee in 2011. PaEN] [Posted: August 2, 2022] PA Environment Digest Silk Mill Apartments was constructed on vacant land at 250 West 6th Street, previously occupied by the Bloomsburg Silk Mill. Get Flood Insurance Now!

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

On September 8, 2011, Tropical Storm Lee produced over 15 inches of rainfall in the 120 square mile Upper Swatara Creek watershed. Posted: December 16, 2022] PA Environment Digest Click Here for the complete announcement.

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Nanotech

JUNE 10, 2022

On June 10, 2022, the European Commission (EC) announced that it is clarifying the definition of nanomaterials in a new Recommendation that supports a coherent European Union (EU) regulatory framework for nanomaterials, helping to align legislation across all sectors. The new definition replaces the definition published in 2011.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

DEP collected a total of $897,750 in civil penalties pursuant to a consent order and agreement with Webco on December 12, 2022.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. After the Fiúkushima incident the government decided to speed-up the phase out and set 2022 as an end-date. The latter now issued a judgement in favour of Vattenfall ( BVerfG 1 BvR 1550/19 ). This, according to the judges, is `unacceptable´ to Vattenfall.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

The entire country has been in drought since January 2022, but the Catalonia region especially has seen massive decreases in its water supplies. According to a UNFPA report , the region has seen a more than 50 percent increase in child marriage and female genital mutilation from 2021 to 2022. The government passed a €2.2bn ($2.4

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Nanotech

JULY 29, 2021

As reported in our May 7, 2021, blog item , the European Commission (EC) recently held a targeted stakeholder consultation to update, test, and verify the preliminary findings of its review of the 2011 Recommendation on the definition of a nanomaterial.

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Brag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on August 1, 2022, a 15-day public comment period on two additional peer review candidates for the external peer review of the Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (RtC3). Comments are due August 16, 2022.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

That decision—along with a 2011 decision of the Ninth Circuit vacating the only two National Corridor designations—brought FERC’s transmission permitting activity to a halt. FERC Order No. But a 2009 decision of the Fourth Circuit struck down that interpretation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. The EPA is currently working on updating the RMP rule, slated to be released for public comment in September 2022 with a final rule issued by August 2023. This event was hardly unique.

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

Guest Post by Katie Nigro , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 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.,

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HumanNature

JANUARY 12, 2022

Guest Post by Brendon Anthony , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 2011; Sofo et al., Available online: [link] (accessed on 5 January 2022). NC-140) (Figure 2; Minas et al., increased soil organic matter) (Simon et al., Minas, I.S., Reighard, G.L., Brent Black, B., Cline, J.A., Chavez, D.J., Robinson, T.,

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 19, 2023

2011): 1239-1249. 2022): 720-730. With the rapid pace of development in ML technologies, the future for sustainable science has never looked brighter! Hughes, James P., “Principles of early drug discovery.” ” British journal of pharmacology 162.6 Coley, Connor W. “Defining and exploring chemical spaces.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

Under the COA, Shell will pay a civil penalty of $4,935,023 – and as required by Act 57 of 2011, 25 percent of this penalty will be directed to local communities. The COA resolves air quality violations during commissioning of Shell’s petrochemical facility in Potter and Center Townships, Beaver County.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Brett Walton, 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. Read part one here.

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