PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Baka explained the study is based on 28,500 water sampling results submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection as part of pre-shale gas well development by shale gas operators since about 2011. When [shale] oil and gas companies drill, they are going to be liable if they contaminate somebody's drinking water.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The case holds that the City’s water allocations to the City’s agricultural lessees were authorized under its existing 2010 leases and thus did not constitute a new project subject to CEQA review before they could be lawfully implemented. acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Peter Petokas , from Lycoming College Clean Water Institute , found habitats of the rare Eastern Hellbender salamander are being significantly impacted by sediment plumes from natural gas pipeline crossing and shale gas drilling-related water withdrawal construction projects. Read more here. “And

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The CLCPA will require siting and developing a very large number of major renewable energy projects at an unprecedented pace throughout New York State. So far, ORES has met all statutory deadlines and, for six out of seven of the approved projects , ORES issued its final decisions in “around six months,” well within the one-year deadline.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

In a published opinion filed December 6, 2022, the Third District Court of Appeal reversed in part and affirmed in part the trial court’s judgment denying writ petitions in consolidated actions challenging the EIR for a major state government project affecting the Historic State Capitol Building and Annex in Sacramento. Save Our Capitol!

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Completely, siloing knowledge into closed, hyper-specialized categories often means that disciplines end up communicating poorly to each other. There’s one estimate that says that 80% of the carbon emissions between 1850 and 2011 (more than one and a half centuries) were caused by rich countries who made up 14% of the global population.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

A project’s incremental contribution may be cumulatively considerable even if it appears relatively small compared to statewide, national or global emissions. The agency’s analysis should consider a timeframe that is appropriate for the project. Energy Impacts and Efficiency. New section 15064.3

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

The relative windfall will assist with capital improvements even as utilities and state agencies must contend with rising project costs and staffing limitations due to inflation and labor shortages. . million low-interest loan from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to finance the project. The city received a $9.8

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Ninth Circuit Reinstated Listing of Bearded Seal as Threatened Based on Climate Change Projections. Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). United States v.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The dimensions of global urban expansion: Estimates and projections for all countries, 2000–2050. Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). Generic methodologies applicable to multiple land-use categories. Natural Capital Project. Interim report to USDA under Contract# GS-23F-8182H 53 (2011). Works Cited Angel, S.,

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., The map was produced by Corona Environmental Consulting based on a data-collection project funded by the Water Quality Research Foundation. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself. Nebraska agriculture is a behemoth. Coulter has a particularly keen interest.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 3, 2021

Since this blog’s beginning in September 2011, it has produced a total of 347 CEQA-related posts (not counting this one), demonstrating there is generally no shortage of subject matter, even with my self-imposed limitation excluding unpublished decisions. (Of So what does it all mean?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As a principal investigator for NASA on the Apollo project, and as a lead scientist in the US Geological Survey, his research and discoveries in minerology created billions of dollars’ worth of industry in the US and beyond. percent in 2011 to 0.6 percent in 2011 to 0.6 percent of the US population. percent in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

She has been recognized for her work as a researcher and science writer with the Rachel Carson Leadership Award, the American Ethical Union’s Elliot-Black Award, and the 2011 Heinz Award. It also offers a review of trends in research findings. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5] In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6] While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

felt that India, among others, was probably in this category. Look at the food crisis last year,” said former World Bank engineer John Briscoe in a 2011 interview. In the “concept of triage,” they wrote, “those in the third groups are those who will die regardless of treatment. The Paddocks [the authors of the 1967 book Famine 1975!

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. Federal Court Upheld Environmental Review for Forest Thinning Project. 20-cv-3060 (D.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The report estimates that “[t]he lifetime effects of these investments are projected to save 28 million MMBtu of fossil fuel energy and 9 million MWh of electricity, avoiding the release of 5.3 The report breaks down these investments into four categories. million short tons [4.8 million metric tons] of carbon pollution.”. [35].

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

million civil penalty and to implement procedures and educational and outreach projects to resolve alleged violations of TSCA Title IV, the EPA Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule, and corresponding state and tribal regulations (the RRP Rules).[[N:United Home Depot) to pay a $20.75 N:United States v. 22, 2021).]] 14560 (Mar.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Circuit did not address arguments regarding the adequacy of FERC’s environmental review of the project, including FERC’s treatment of climate change, because the court found that the individual petitioner who asserted National Environmental Policy Act claims did not have standing. Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment v. June 21, 2021).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

On July 21, the Environmental Health Project and HealthFirstPA held an educational webinar entitled-- Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It. He created the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in 2011.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

EPA’s entry in the agenda projects December for a final rule; NHTSA’s entry does not list a date for finalization. It changed long-time agency policy to allow major sources of pollution to reclassify as area sources, a category with fewer regulatory requirements, once their emissions fell below a certain threshold. 140 ) from Sens.

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