Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

Two major wildfires threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 2000 and 2011. Just like the current fires in Texas, the 2011 Las Conchas fire in New Mexico was, at the time, the state’s largest fire on record at 156,000 acres. The lab conducts research to maintain the US nuclear stockpile among other missions.

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

Last year, Jim Hansen and colleagues published a long paper that included a figure suggesting that they expected that global temperature trends from 2011 to increase above the recent linear trends. As with most punditry, there is less here than it might seem. 24 from Hansen et al (2023).

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2011 and 2021, there were 436 work-related deaths attributed to environmental heat exposure. The post Recent Federal and State Heat Safety Proposals appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Endangered Species Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In 2011, a population was discovered which inhabits a 5.6 The freshwater snail exists only in the Cahaba River in central Alabama and subsists on algae growing on the riverbed. The oblong rocksnail was declared extinct in 2000 after several decades without a confirmed specimen observation and multiple river surveys.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 21, 2023

This report is an updated analysis of previous Critical Materials Strategy (CMS) reports published by the DOE in 2010, 2011, and 2019 based on national and global priorities, technology advancement, and technology adoption trends. Download the report.

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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. Drought has left millions in the region facing food insecurity—and conditions are expected to get worse.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

January 13, 2011: the RRC rescinds its no-harm letter. + February 17, 2011: TCEQ issues an order approving the application. April 2, 2011: TCEQ reissues the order. November 2010: After hearing on remand, ALJ recommends the application be denied. 20 days: The rescission takes effect. The litigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019.

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Fossil Fuels 2011 Climate Change Nuclear Power 202

Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2011, EPA had estimated that the compliance cost would work out to $9.6 For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation. EPA confronted some of these issues recently in its reevaluation of a regulation limiting mercury emissions from coal power plants. (You

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2012

By Megan Spencer In our December 20, 2011 E-Newsletter , we reported on the status of: (1) EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule; and (2) the EPA Inspector General’s report, “EPA Must Improve Oversight of State Enforcement.”

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Nanotech

MARCH 28, 2023

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) will hold a public meeting May 31-June 1, 2023 , to discuss the revision of the 2011 National Nanotechnology Initiative Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy (EHS Research Strategy). More information on NNI’s EHS Research Strategy is available in our October 21, 2011, blog item.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

She served as Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association (2006-2011) and as Director of the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University where she holds an appointment as Senior Scholar and Adjunct Faculty.(2011-present). 2011-present).

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Nanotech

JANUARY 11, 2024

The rule is a statutory requirement under the fiscal year (FY) 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that requires all manufacturers (including importers) of PFAS and PFAS-containing articles in any year since 2011 to report information related to chemical identity, uses, The post EPA Will Hold Webinar on PFAS Reporting Requirements on January 25, (..)

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Nanotech

MAY 25, 2023

OSTP seeks responses to the following questions: What are the research accomplishments in the following six core research areas identified in the 2011 NNI EHS Strategy? The ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of nanotechnology are considered across the core research areas of the 2011 strategy.

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2011 Air Pollution Technology Technology 59

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.

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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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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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Nanotech

APRIL 6, 2023

OSTP seeks responses to the following questions: What are the research accomplishments in the following six core research areas identified in the 2011 NNI EHS Strategy? The ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of nanotechnology are considered across the core research areas of the 2011 strategy.

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2011 Air Pollution Technology Technology 59

Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

From 2011 to 2015 he arranged to hire companies owned by his close friend Robertson to perform post-frac drillout operations. A “fiduciary duty” apples to a person who occupies a position of particular confidence towards another and requires a higher standard of behavior than in just about any other relationship.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Harry B Gray and Dr Jay R Winkler at the California Institute of Technology, completing her PhD in 2011. From 2011–2012, Prof. As an NSF graduate research fellow, she carried out research with Prof. Dempsey was an NSF ACC postdoctoral fellow with Daniel R Gamelin at the University of Washington. She joined UNC in 2012.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Over the span of three years, from 2011 to 2014, I watched the trees on my parkway die from the top down, leaves crumbling, leaving gray, stark branches on the crown. Read the full story in Q Magazine. I had seen videos of deforestation in the Amazon and other major forests, but this was happening… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Since 2011, there have been five extreme winter storms that threatened the reliability of the grid, and the issues that ensued in all five of those storms were very similar. The grid failures were mostly caused by power plants getting knocked offline amid the storms’ frigid cold temperatures.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Austin first adopted the goal, which envisions diverting 90% of trash from landfills by 2040, in its comprehensive plan in 2011. Austin, Texas, adopted a new plan this month to renew efforts to help the city achieve its goal of zero waste by 2040.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lockheed Martin to Pay $2 Million to Resolve Allegations Resulting from Fraudulent Submission of Government Contract US Department of Justice PaulaR Mon, 09/18/2023 - 19:48 Monday, January 24, 2011 Read more Case Involved National Center for Critical Information Processing and Storage at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 18, 2022

In previous iterations of our report When Women Lead (in 2003 and 2011), we analyzed the voting records of federal legislators going back to 1983 using League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Environmental Scorecard data. Read the full story from Rachel’s Network.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2021

The department’s inspector general (IG) said in a report issued last week that in 2011, Defense officials issued an alert saying… Read more → A report from an internal watchdog says that a lack of action from the Defense Department may have led to people being exposed to “preventable” risks from toxic chemicals.

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Wall Street Journal PaulaR Mon, 08/28/2023 - 12:50 Monday, May 23, 2011 Read more Mike Ramsey 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.

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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 →

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Corp Watch

APRIL 18, 2023

Söldner bei Computerspiel-Release: "Die Jungs sind super drauf" TAZ PaulaR Tue, 04/18/2023 - 19:26 Monday, October 31, 2011 Read more Bei einer PR-Veranstaltung des First-Person-Shooters "Battlefield 3" erklärten die Kämpfer einer umstrittenen deutschen Söldnerfirma echte Kriegstaktiken.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. 410 (2011). I will leave to others a discussion of “major question doctrine” and other aspects of the West Virginia case. I want to focus on the disingenuous way the Supreme Court deals with a previous ruling, and its implications for states. Now, in West Virginia v. Connecticut , 564 U. Post, at 20.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 30, 2023

There is a lot more food waste than you might think: A 2011 report for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) stated that approximately one-third, or around 1.3 Read the full story at Glam. billion tonnes, of food production worldwide ends up as waste.

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Upcycling Waste 2011 40

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 1, 2023

utility-scale battery storage market has existed in earnest since 2011 led by one dominant battery chemistry choice: lithium. Read the full story at Solar Power World. Although still very much in its infancy, the U.S. According to data through 2021 from the U.S.

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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. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply. Eight states generate more than 25 percent of their electricity from wind. Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country.

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A Greener Life

MAY 4, 2023

degrees C set in 2011 in the eastern city of Elche. The Iberian peninsula has broken temperature records for April as they swelter in an early-season heatwave which has exacerbated a long drought in some regions. The city of Cordoba in southern Spain recorded 38.8 degrees C at its airport on the 27th of April.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The rule takes effect quickly and states that “Any entities, including small entities, that have manufactured (including imported) PFAS in any year since 2011 will have 18 months following the effective date of this rule to report PFAS data to EPA.” It requires reporting of information back to January 1, 2011.

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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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