HumanNature

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Guest Post by Sabari Kumar , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 2011): 1239-1249. 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

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Oil City is expecting to have both projects completed by August 31, 2024. On November 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it approved funding for two Oil City recreation projects from penalties collected for Air Pollution Act violations at the Webco Oil City Plant in Venango County.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2024

On January 3, 2024 DEP did a routine inspection of the Guardian B shale gas well pad operated by Roulette Oil and Gas LLC in Hebron Township, Potter County and continued a violation for “Failure to plug the well upon abandoning it” for well 6H. The inspection report noted, “This gas well is currently listed as Abandoned.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The PUC’s amendments to Chapter 59 of Title 52 of Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Code do not apply to pipelines covered under Act 127 of 2011, the Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2024

According to public records, the regulatory scheme has not been used in over a decade -- with the last petition approved in 2011. Posted: January 22, 2024] PA Environment Digest The DEP has 30 days to determine if the petition is merited. Visit DEP’s Areas Unsuitable for Mining webpage to learn more about this program.

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

ESA has honored past award recipients for policy work that included: wildlife conservation green urban renewal initiatives stream, river & lake restoration ESA’s 2024 Annual Meeting will take place in Long Beach, California. What are specific activities that this individual has accomplished informed by ecological science?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

Hawk Mountain will provide oversight for Amber who will partner with birdwatchers and ornithologists in every county across the state to survey bird species’ status and distribution from 2024 through 2028. In Puerto Rico, she also led field crews surveying birds for a large collaborative research project.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Production capacity grew by 400 percent between 2019 and 2022 and based on announced and planned projects, it could double again by the end of 2024. Two thirds of the capacity planned for 2023 and 2024 is in California, especially two projects in the San Francisco Bay area, the Marathon Martinez and Phillips 66 Rodeo refineries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

With high-fire-risk months still ahead of us , 2024 has seen significant wildfire damage already. A complete and prolonged cutoff of external power would lead to a disastrous meltdown similar to that of the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Yes, Bayer Promoted Heroin for Children -- Here Are The Ads That Prove It Jim Edwards | Business Insider | November 17, 2011 It's not news that Bayer, the venerable German drug company, made its first fortunes in the late 1890s when it commercialized both aspirin and heroin as cough, cold and pain remedies.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon agrees to $1 million fine over 2011 Yellowstone River oil spill Reuters | June 5, 2019 Exxon Mobil Corp has agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty to settle U.S. charges involving a 2011 pipeline rupture that spilled oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana. Environmental Impacts Three Exxon refineries top the list of U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Donovan Neese, the district superintendent since 2011, said retail power customers span the breadth of the county’s agribusiness: cold storage facilities for fruits and vegetables, dairies, cotton gins, and feed mills. The latest model scenarios show a 10 percent chance that Lake Powell drops below 3,490 feet by April 2024.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance Euronews PaulaR Fri, 03/08/2024 - 16:18 Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Read more Eleanor Butler The German pharmaceutical group sees annual sales drop as its CEO admits the firm has four challenges that "urgently must be addressed". billion, down 6% compared to 2022.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

Insurers are having to pay out more, and they pass increasing costs onto customers – the average Albertan home insurance rates rose by 140 per cent between 2011 and 2021 , with inflation only 17 per cent during the same period. For homeowners, rising insurance costs represent a significant impact to the cost of living.

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MAY 25, 2021

The new Act, which was immediately effective as an “urgency” statute, essentially modifies and reenacts former 2011 legislation that was repealed by its own terms on January 1, 2021. To qualify for CEQA streamlining benefits under the new Act, the Governor must certify a project as a leadership project before January 1, 2024. (§ 21181.).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Yes, Bayer Promoted Heroin for Children -- Here Are The Ads That Prove It Jim Edwards | Business Insider | November 17, 2011 It's not news that Bayer, the venerable German drug company, made its first fortunes in the late 1890s when it commercialized both aspirin and heroin as cough, cold and pain remedies.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In an important published opinion filed February 16, 2024, the Fourth District Court of Appeal (Div. In an important published opinion filed February 16, 2024, the Fourth District Court of Appeal (Div. 2024) Cal.App.5th. Hilltop Group, Inc., County of San Diego, et al.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S. If the Governor fail to do that, the California Legislature should take up and enact legislation in its 2024 session to ban fracking. And therein lies a threefold environmental crisis: First, “monster fracking” requires massive amounts of often-scarce water.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

In fact, up until 1993, most construction and demolition (C&D) waste was mixed in with municipal waste and not sorted (Kumar, 2011). Retrieved January 7, 2024, from [link] Kumar, S. In June 2023, I earned my LEED Green Associate accreditation and am preparing for the WELL exam in 2024. Applied Sciences, 11(3), Article 3.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Guest Post by Huma Tariq , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University Growing up in an indigenous mountain community in Pakistan, there was an unspoken rule at our dinner table: leaving a single morsel of food behind was simply not an option.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

In its most recent report , the IEA predicts that China will continue to dominate solar energy production, delivering over 50 percent of solar PV projects globally by 2024. This trajectory is especially concerning given that China already commands most solar panel production.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Guest Post by Alex Siggers , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University “We could learn from digging down, but no one ever seems to be digging.” Berdugo, M., Eldridge, D. Eisenhauer, N., Nature 610 : 693–698. Geisseler, D.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

The main chemical of concern is perchlorate, which the agency said in 2011 it would regulate in drinking water. Tom Carper (D-DE), the chair of the Committee on Environment and Public Works and a water advocate, says he will not run for reelection in 2024. Environmental Protection Agency awarded Texas Tech University a $2.5

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JANUARY 8, 2024

2011) 202 Cal.App.4th State Lands Com. 4th 549, 561 (“ Citizens ”), a decision analyzed in this blog’s 2/9/12 post. Finding Citizens to be controlling authority dispositive of Appellants’ baseline arguments, the Court stated: “The baseline is the environmental setting under the current contract conditions.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

As an illustrative example, the Finnish Posiva is now building a final repository for which it got a political permit (Decision-in-Principle) in 2001, and it is aimed to be operational in 2024. The time from political permit to a working facility was 23 years.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A £60m upgrade to JET was completed in 2011 that involved replacing the carbon tiles from the inner reactor wall with beryllium and tungsten – to test the materials that ITER will use. This includes plasma-physics research, systems testing and materials investigations. ITER will begin deuterium-tritium experiments in December 2035.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

Obituary & Celebration Of Life A visitation for Brett will be held on Thursday, January 4, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. A Celebration of Life will take place on Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. Posted: January 2, 2024] PA Environment Digest to 7:00 p.m. in Ludwick Funeral Homes and Cremation Care, Inc.,

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

A report from the University of Michigan and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center examined SRF distributions by state between 2011 and 2020. If the Legislature acts on the bills this year, Green said that 2024 would be the earliest in which the new rules could be applied to SRF funding.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The Pickering nuclear plant is scheduled to retire in 2024 (or later, depending on how long past its retirement date Ontario wants to push the aging plant!), Remember the gas plants in Mississauga and Oakville that were abruptly axed before the 2011 election, causing a massive scandal?

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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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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. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Mike Ramsey | The Wall Street Journal | May 23, 2011 Volkswagen AG on Tuesday will celebrate the opening of a new Tennessee auto plant that gives the German auto maker much lower U.S. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S. labor costs than not only its Detroit rivals but its Japanese competitors on American soil.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Workers at VW subsidiary Cariad protest against job cuts IG Metall PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 16:40 Friday, November 10, 2023 Read more Over 200 employees of VW's CARIAD software division protested last Tuesday against threatened job cuts. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

China: Volkswagen under fire after audit finds no evidence of Uyghur forced labor Radio Free Asia PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 16:42 Thursday, December 7, 2023 Read more Jilil Kashgary Experts cast doubt on results, saying leaked files show that Uyghur detainees were sent to the Xinjiang factory. By Jilil Kashgary for RFA Uyghur 2023.12.07

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW Escapes Multiple Fines In EU Over Emissions Scandal Law 360 PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 17:26 Thursday, September 14, 2023 Read more Matthew Perlman Europe's top court ruled Wednesday that Volkswagen should not have to pay a €5 million ($5.3 VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S.

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