Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

While 2023 was a low year in terms of total acreage burned in the United States, some 2.6 That percentage was actually the same for wildfires between 2016-2020 in California – a high-risk wildfire state. With that, let’s get into the details. So how extensive is this problem and how does it happen?

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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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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. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023. These changes will set the CES standard at 60% in 2030 and 80% in 2050.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fifth international conference on regional climate ( ICRC 2023 ), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s ( WCRP ) coordinated downscaling experiment ( CORDEX ), has just completed. It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel.

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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. Posted: November 13, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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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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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Mather South, LLC, et al, Real Parties ) (2023) Cal.App.5 The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. Tsakopoulos Investments, LLC v. County of Sacramento, et al. residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, agriculture, etc.).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Read more here. Impoundments have since been removed.)

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CEQA Developments

MAY 30, 2023

In an opinion filed April 27, and certified for partial publication on May 19, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 2023) Cal.App.5th. City of Malibu (2011) 193 Cal.App.4th County of Placer (2020) 54 Cal.App.5th Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods v. The Regents of the University of California, et al. 4th 353, 366.)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

On December 31, 2023, he retired from the Clean Air Council after serving as the organization's executive director and chief counsel for over 35 years. He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications and six books, including 2023's Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Will your story be included in 2023? 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. Take some time to read through at least the headlines to see how people just like you are helping to make Pennsylvania a better place!

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Steffy (McGraw-Hill, 2011). Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Greenpeace stage ‘socially distanced protest’ at BP AGM Allister Thomas | Energy Voice | May 27, 2020 Greenpeace is staging a “socially distanced protest” outside BP’s London headquarters as the energy giant is due to begin its annual general meeting.

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

2020 Virtual Annual Meeting (originally planned for Salt Lake City, Utah) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall was recognized for her life-long commitment to science-based advocacy for clean air. Of note is the application of the model approach focusing on to the reciprocity between people and the “First Foods.” degrees Celsius.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

billion in latest US trial loss over Roundup weedkiller Reuters PaulaR Mon, 11/27/2023 - 13:42 Monday, November 20, 2023 Read more Tom Hals Nov 19 (Reuters) - A Missouri jury ordered Bayer (BAYGn.DE) to pay $1.56 Bayer ordered to pay $1.56 billion deal that failed to resolve all the litigation. Bayer Agrees to Pay $39.5

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. charges involving a 2011 pipeline rupture that spilled oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

million in Roundup cancer trial, jury finds Reuters PaulaR Wed, 10/25/2023 - 18:06 Friday, October 20, 2023 Read more Brendan Pierson Oct 20 (Reuters) - Bayer AG must pay $1.25 Million in Class Action Lawsuit Over Misleading Roundup Claims Faith Anderson | Consumer Justice Foundation | April 1, 2020 Bayer AG has agreed to pay $39.5

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, for reasons explained below, this incentive-based safeguard has become ineffective, and since 2020 California’s bio-based diesel has increasingly been made from soybean oil, some of it sourced directly from South America. In 2020, every state except Alaska blended at least 9.5 Reality is running well ahead of CARB projections.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The 2023-2028 SHIP was developed in collaboration with the Healthy Pennsylvania Partnership (HPP), with support from Harrisburg University. In 2020, DOH examined cancer incidence data in a four-county area in Southwest Pennsylvania (Washington, Fayette, Greene and Westmoreland). Click Here for a copy of the Plan. Of Health Awards $2.5

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period. ppb in 2023, with typical reductions of 0.1

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Guest Post by Marybeth Arcodia , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. ” Journal of climate 33.11 (2020): 4621-4640. 2011): 150-157. Kirtman, and Leo SP Siqueira. “How MJO teleconnections and ENSO interference impacts US precipitation.” Towards Data Science.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

2023 was a milestone year for electric car sales in the US. Sales figure from Atlas EV Hub In California, nearly half a million EVs were purchased in 2023 reaching a whopping one in four new vehicles. Here’s why I’m optimistic: Americans are interested in EVs, and they are buying them!!! Tesla dominates the U.S.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

This data is relied on by institutions worldwide, including the IPCC and IEA itself, to calculate their carbon footprint projections, including the sixth assessment report published as recently as March 2023. By 2020, Mariutti felt compelled to make his findings public. Based on such data, the IPCC claims solar PV is 48 gCO2/kWh.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Thus did the “Berlin Mandate” of 1995 (adopted at COP1) lead to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” of 2011 (adopted at COP17) lead to the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Factual and Procedural Background The General Plan Update and Certified Program EIR The County designated the project property for industrial use in its 2011 General Plan Update (GPU), the environmental impacts of which were reviewed under CEQA pursuant to a certified program environmental impact report (PEIR). Resources Code, § 21083.3.)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on August 20, 2023 -- The results of a long-awaited study of the effects of unconventional natural gas development — that is, hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” — on children’s health show that neither industry advocates nor environmental activists were exactly right.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

2020) (Su et al., 2020) As inhabitants of this earth, humans have been generating waste in all forms since early times. In fact, up until 1993, most construction and demolition (C&D) waste was mixed in with municipal waste and not sorted (Kumar, 2011). Copyright 2023 Perks Deconstruction. ALl RIghts Reserved.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 23, 2023

Guest Post by Jackie Billotte , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 14 18–24 Preprint at [link] (2011). Conservation Biology 25 , 9–20 (2011). Curr Dir Psychol Sci 29 , 583–591 (2020). 241 Preprint at [link] (2020). Animal Conservation vol. Roberge, J. & Angelstam, P. Branton, M. &

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

of all persons in Flint lived below poverty level, while 2020 census data shows that 37.3% Then once again in 2011, the state stepped in with an emergency manager when Flint faced a $19.1 In the budget, the city’s general fund was expected to be at a $17 million deficit in 2022-23, though that has since been deferred to 2023-24.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

UAW files unfair labor practice charges against Hyundai, Honda and Volkswagen CBC News PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:38 Monday, December 11, 2023 Read more Michael Wayland The UAW has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Honda, Hyundai and Volkswagen, the union said.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Inspired by Strike Wins, 1,000 Volkswagen Workers Sign Union Cards Labor Notes PaulaR Tue, 12/12/2023 - 17:01 Thursday, December 7, 2023 Read more Luis Feliz Leon Today workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee, assembly plant announced their third bid to unionize plant-wide with the Auto Workers (UAW).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Brazil: Volkswagen will pay more than R$10 million in labor lawsuits Poder360 PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 16:37 Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Read more Value corresponds to 34 agreements approved by the Superior Labor Court; another 28 cases are under negotiation Disclosure/Volkswagen POWER360 August 22, 2023 (Tuesday) - 1:30 pm Volkswagen must pay R$10.5

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

For fiscal year 2023, Michigan utilities indicated interest in $1.1 A report from the University of Michigan and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center examined SRF distributions by state between 2011 and 2020. The supply-demand problem is not disappearing, either. billion from both the drinking water fund and $1.7

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

She buried her parents, her older brother, older sister, and younger brother between 2011 and 2020. We Do Not Trust Foxes To Guard Henhouses' [PaEN] [Posted: November 9, 2023] PA Environment Digest I thought, ‘God is here in the City of Prayer,’ because this is exactly what the people need.” You're not going down.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW owners affected by "Dieselgate" in Switzerland will not receive compensation Swiss Info PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 16:38 Sunday, September 10, 2023 Read more Swiss VW drivers come away empty-handed in the so-called Dieselgate scandal. And, what other unions can learn from how badly that fight went for labor.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Climate protest at VW: activists try to stop production RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland | August 14, 2023 On Monday, climate activists gained access to the VW plant in Wolfsburg as part of a group of visitors. And, what other unions can learn from how badly that fight went for labor.

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