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. 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

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Guest Post by Sabari Kumar , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 2011): 1239-1249. 2021): 133-145. 2023-32-0052. SAE Technical Paper, 2023. ” (2023). ” (2023). ” Nature (2023): 1-6. ” Science 379.6637 (2023): 1123-1130. Coley, Connor W.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

2021 , see Figure 3. A recent study by Qasmi 2023 has combined observations and models to isolate the drivers and concludes for the ‘cold blob’ region: “Consistent with the observations, an anthropogenic cooling is diagnosed by the method over the last decades (1951–2021) compared to the preindustrial period.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

I lived through one of these storms recently in Texas: Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, which had me juggling microwaving food and charging devices as the local utility imposed rolling blackouts during the freeze. Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. Data: NOAA 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

per MMBtu) versus the average price in 2021 ($3.84 Details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011. Posted: June 20, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) 2023 is starting the year with a mild La Niña, which is being forecast to switch to neutral conditions by mid-year. It’s well known (among readers here, I assume), that ENSO influences the interannual variability of the climate system and the annual mean temperatures.

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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 Southern California Edison shut off power to more than 5,000 customers as recently as December 2023, with the event lasting roughly two days. With that, let’s get into the details. So how extensive is this problem and how does it happen?

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. All four oil majors publicly claim to support the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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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. There certainly wasn't any radon testing,” said Johnson.

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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. Impoundments have since been removed.)

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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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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

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. earthquake in 2021 – damaged the country’s water systems. Drought again plays a role as limited resources push families to seek out marriages for their daughters.

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Will your story be included in 2023? 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! Click Here for the 2022 week-by-week list of articles!

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

In 2011, he authored Clean Politics, Clean Streams: A Legislative Autobiography published by the Lehigh University Press. In 1972, he was elected to the first of two terms in the State Senate where he led a six-year struggle that resulted in the enactment of the state’s floodplain and stormwater management laws.

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Washington Nature

JULY 20, 2023

Over the course of seven days in November 2021, two atmospheric rivers brought down over 12 inches of rain across the Pacific Northwest. For comparison, the left is a photo of the Fraser River from 2011, the right was taken on November 17, 2021, showing the floods from space. SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0,

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (originally planned for Long Beach, California) Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, was recognized for his commitment to using science in creating nature-based solutions for building water and climate resilience across California. degrees Celsius.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

According to the 2023 Production Gap Report , the quantity of fossil fuels that companies are planning to produce is more than double the amount of oil, gas and coal that can be accommodated while keeping global temperature increase under 1.5 In economics, a bubble is when the price of an asset vastly exceeds its value.

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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 Individual Records & Summaries Click here for details of Bayer's violations.

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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 Bayer must pay $1.25 million to a man who sued the company alleging he developed cancer from exposure to its Roundup weedkiller, a jury in St.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Total Penalties $29,196,927,856 (May 9, 2021) Number of Records 283 Books Adventure in Oil: The Story of British Petroleum by Henry Longhurst (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1959). Steffy (McGraw-Hill, 2011). Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit by Loren C.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Individual Records & Summaries Click here for details of Bayer's violations.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

95) and that the IPCC states in the 2023 AR6 Synthesis Report that “[d]eep, rapid, and sustained GHG emissions reductions, reaching net zero CO2 emissions and including strong emissions reductions of other GHGs, in particular CH4, are necessary to limit warming to 1.5°C 2023 Synthesis Report, p. 68)” (para 210).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

This reflects concerns raised by many stakeholders, myself included, at LCFS workshops since December 2021 (I submitted technical feedback on this topic six times over the last two years, and coauthored a paper on the subject ). Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Standards for 2023–2025 and Other Changes. Section 10.4.2,

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 14, 2023

In an opinion filed July 19, and ordered published on August 9, 2023, the Fourth District Court of Appeal (Div. City of San Diego (2023) Cal.App.5th City of Los Angeles (2011) 201 Cal.App.4th 5th (“ McCann II ”). 4th 455, 479.)

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

Award Winners -- Meaningful Watershed Education Experience School Of Excellence - Millville Jr/Sr High School Agriculture Department (Columbia County): The Millville Jr/Sr High School Agriculture Department MWEE experience took place during the 2022-2023 school year and continues to occur this school year.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Guest Post by Marybeth Arcodia , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 2011): 150-157. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University If we could predict a flooding, drought, or heatwave event one month in advance, how many lives could be spared with more time to prepare? Ebert-Uphoff, I.,

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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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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. The other threats include transportation issues leading to social health disparities, escalating costs of medicines necessary to treat chronic diseases. Click Here for a copy of the Plan.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Because of this backlog, FERC promulgated Order 2023 – RM22-14-000 to speed up this process. In Maine, it is.

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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. Despite his careful stewardship of Ecoinvent, in 2021 Frischknecht quietly resigned from the body he founded decades earlier.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] It went into effect in January 2023 and will be phased in over the next five years.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The Borello’s continuous complaints to DEP, county and local officials and to the Office of Attorney General resulted in the Attorney General starting an investigation of the CNX Pigging Station in January 2019 that resulted in successfully bringing criminal charges against CNX for the station’s operations that were resolved in December 2021.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Guest Post by Huma Tariq , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 2] UNEP, Food Waste Index Report 2021. Who knows, the ancient myths from distant lands might hold a grain of truth. References: [1] J. Gustavsson, C. Cederberg, and U. Sonesson, Global Food Losses and Food Waste. 3] M. de Moel, M.

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