Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the aftermath of major power outages, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the interest in microgrids increased significantly as a way to provide critical infrastructure and services with reliable and resilient power during emergencies.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2024

3d,f,h showing a shift towards more cold extremes in the northern mid-latitudes (20-50ºN) from the mid-1990s to 2012. It is clear that the data drop out impacts the 1995-2012 trend, turning a slight positive trend into a large (and spurious) downward trend in line with the results shown by Cohen et al.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the aftermath of major power outages, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the interest in microgrids increased significantly as a way to provide critical infrastructure and services with reliable and resilient power during emergencies.

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2005 2012 Renewable Energy 246

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

In 2012, the Mandarin Oriental set out to make a lasting impact — sustainability-wise. The company has been striving to reduce its environmental footprint by setting bold energy, emissions, waste, and water targets. Its goal has been to reduce its overall footprint by 20–25% across these targets.

Waste 289

Waste 2012 Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 289

Yale E360

APRIL 14, 2023

Since 2012, more than half of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon occurred on private lands, according to a new study highlighting the impact of Brazil's landowner-friendly policies. Read more on E360 →

Deforestation 165

Deforestation 2012 165

New Scientist

APRIL 9, 2024

He proposed the particle that gives other particles mass – now named the Higgs boson and discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94.

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2012 145

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 15, 2022

Flames tower above the trees in the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado. The third most destructive fires in state history, it burned nearly 350 homes (Airman Magazine, Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0).

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2012 Climate Change 230

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Emissions from electricity generation (and for using EVs) have dropped dramatically The first UCS analysis of the emissions from EV driving in 2012 showed promise for EVs, but the emissions for some parts of the country were equal to the efficient non-hybrid gasoline cars of the time.

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Electricity Fossil Fuels 2012 Climate Change 332

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

In 2012, the Mandarin Oriental set out to make a lasting impact — sustainability-wise. The company has been striving to reduce its environmental footprint by setting bold energy, emissions, waste, and water targets. Its goal has been to reduce its overall footprint by 20–25% across these targets.

Waste 246

Waste 2012 Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 246

New Scientist

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A study estimating humpback whale numbers in the North Pacific Ocean from crowdsourced photos reveals a sharp decline from 2012 to 2021 after decades of slow population growth

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2012 Ocean 2021 143

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

million acres with cover crops (a 17% increase) in 2022 than in 2017 and a 50% increase in acres with cover crops from 2012. Additionally, it is significant that the number of farms reporting use of cover crops is steady from 2017 and a 15% increase from 2012, despite the overall decline in the number of farms during this time period.

Conservation 96

Conservation 2022 2012 2017 96

Yale E360

MAY 21, 2021

A new study estimates that roughly $8 billion of the $63 billion in damages caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 can be attributed to sea level rise of just four inches caused by global warming. Read more on E360 ?.

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Sea Level 2012 172

New Scientist

APRIL 10, 2024

Since 2012, Mary Jo Hoffman has taken one snap a day of the natural objects around her. She explains what lies behind two of them - and what the "art of noticing" has brought to her life

2012 109

2012 109

New Scientist

AUGUST 16, 2023

The genome of Ötzi, the 5300-year-old mummified man found in the Alps, was first published in 2012, but a more accurate readout has changed the story of where his ancestors came from

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2012 98

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM), updating this valuable tool for gardeners and researchers for the first time since 2012.

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2012 Natural Resources 98

The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2012

2012-N06 (2012), [hereinafter NTL 2012-N06]. NTL 2012 N-06, 3. NTL 2012 N-06, 5. NTL 2012-N06, at 28 (emphasis added). By Sarah Y. Dicharry and Robert E. 30 CFR 254.23. Also, 30 CFR 254.23(g) 30 CFR 254.23(g)(2). For instance, 30 CFR 254.26

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2012 Oil Pollution Act Regulations Technology 40

New Scientist

APRIL 4, 2023

Since 2012, Australia has detained hundreds of children seeking asylum, often for years. Now a review has revealed the lasting physical and mental health impacts of this policy

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2012 101

Physics World

JULY 4, 2022

Finally, on the morning of 4 July 2012, the suspense was ended. In the July episode of the Physics World Stories podcast, Andrew Glester revisits that historic day in 2012. Everyone knew something big was coming. He’s joined by two guests who were there at the particle physics lab in Geneva to live through that memorable day.

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2012 119

Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

The 2012 MS4 Permit in a Nutshell. The MS4 permit currently in effect was issued in 2012 and re-adopted the receiving water limitations—or the maximum amount of a pollutant that may be added to a specified water body—from the earlier permit established in 2001. Taking the 2012 MS4 Permit to Court. The Proposed 2021 MS4 Permit.

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2012 Law Natural Resources 2018 130

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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2012 Government 59

Enviromental Defense

JULY 15, 2024

In 2012, the previous government gutted Canada’s federal environmental assessment rules. In the end, the IAA did not fully restore the protections lost in the 2012 rollbacks. This left communities with a flawed decision-making process that put the environment and the public at risk. However, we did secure some important wins.

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Government 2012 Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 86

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The technology didn’t advance as quickly as regulators had expected in 1990, although the mandate may have sparked GM’s pathbreaking EV1 car. CARB moved toward hybrids as a way of reducing emissions. Brown issues executive order requiring 1.5 million ZEVs in use by 2025. This target was met four years early. 1% of new car sales are ZEVs.

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Electricity 2030 2025 2003 130

New Scientist

JULY 11, 2023

Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki's Inter-universal Teichmüller theory has attracted controversy since it was published in 2012, with no one able to agree whether it is true. Now, a $1 million prize is being launched to settle the matter

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2012 97

Endangered Species Law

JUNE 28, 2024

The species’ listing follows a 2012 petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity to list 53 amphibians and reptiles, including the alligator snapping turtle ( Macrochelys temminckii ), which, due.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

The bill, HB 590 , extends a prior substantive change in the law that was affected by the 2012 amendments to La. As was the case in 2012, this proposed amendment would also extend this direct payment requirement to any overriding royalty interests burdening the nonparticipating owner’s lease.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

ke-Ágnes Horvát from Northwestern University in the US, the study examined the gender of scientists who had at least one research article shared online in 2012 according to Altmetric , which tracks mentions of journal papers across social media, news sites, blogs and other sites. difference between article mentions and publication trends.

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2012 115

New Scientist

AUGUST 3, 2021

A time crystal is a unique phase of matter that flips between two states with no energy input necessary – first proposed in 2012, this type of matter has now been created inside a quantum computer built by Google

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2012 107

Inside Climate News

JULY 27, 2021

judge has ruled that the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute cannot be held responsible for an outside blogger’s 2012 online attack on a prominent climate scientist. By Marianne Lavelle A Washington, D.C.

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2012 Climate Scientist Conservation Climate Change 120

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 24, 2024

Pore pressure diffusion generated by carbon dioxide injected underground at a carbon storage site in the Illinois Basin is the likely cause of hundreds of microearthquakes that took place at the site between 2011 and 2012, according to a new analysis.

Carbon Dioxide 40

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In fact, between 2012 and 2023, about half the country, including much of Pennsylvania, has shifted a half-zone warmer. For example, the 2012 map, based on data from 1976 to 2005, places nearly all of Lancaster County in Zone 6b, with an average extreme minimum winter temperature between -5 °F and 0 °F.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Since 2012, this threshold had been set at 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood; children at or above… Read more → Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its blood lead reference value – the level at which children ages 1-5 are considered to have high exposure to lead.

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2012 98

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The PUC was under no obligation to evaluate an energy project conceived of in 2012 the same way in 2022. And speaking of the urgency of the climate crisis the court said, ”The reality is that yesterday’s good enough has become today’s unacceptable. Indeed, doing so would have betrayed its constitutional duty.” Lawsuits against oil companies.

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Clean Air Act Climate Change Law Fossil Fuels 247

Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

2012) described the issues as ‘mysterious’, but efforts to better correct the record for non-climatic effects soon bore fruit, and the ‘mystery’ became history ( Maycock et al., 692-697, 2012. Thompson et al. Thompson, D.J. Seidel, W.J. Long, and R. Maycock, W.J. Randel, A.K. Steiner, A.Y. Karpechko, J.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 18, 2024

The PUC is responsible for implementing the collection and distribution of an unconventional gas well fee (also called an Impact Fee), established by the Unconventional Gas Well Impact Fee Act and signed into law as Act 13 of 2012. Visit the PUC’s Act 13 webpage for more information. Posted: June 18, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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2023 Natural Gas 2011 2012 117

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

NewsClip: -- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: PA’s Shale Gas Industry Used 160 Million Pounds Of Fracking Chemicals From 2012 to 2022, New Report Says [Posted: October 24, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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2012 Natural Gas Regulations 2023 92

Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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

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Nanotech

MAY 30, 2024

agencies and international trading partners while enhancing the effectiveness of the standard. The post OSHA HCS Amendments Primarily Align with GHS Rev 7 appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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