Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2023

Led by Native farmers, activists, and nonprofit organizations on Maui, the question of who truly owns the water in Hawai’i was taken, after a decade of legal speed bumps, to the Hawai’i Supreme Court in 2012, which ruled two years later that the state had failed to give proper consideration to the rights of Native Hawai’ians.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change. The PUC was under no obligation to evaluate an energy project conceived of in 2012 the same way in 2022. The second 2023 case, Honolulu v. It deserves more. Environmental rights. The first case, In re Hawaii Electric Co. Lawsuits against oil companies.

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Real Climate

MAY 31, 2023

2012) who demonstrated that one model with slight differences in the atmospheric initial conditions can give widely different decadal regional outlooks due to pronounced chaotic variability. 2023) used common EOFs applied to CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations to show that CMIP6 is a statistically significant improvement compared to CMIP5.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The 2023 map is based on the average lowest annual winter temperature for the 30-year period from 1991 to 2020 and incorporates data from more than 13,412 weather stations nationwide. Compared to earlier versions of the map, the 2023 map shows that many hardiness zones have shifted significantly over time.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,310 notices of violation in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29 Workload Report. Abandoning Wells Without Plugging DEP issued 10 unconventional shale gas operators 20 notices of violation at 11 well pads during 2023 for abandoning wells without plugging them. .:

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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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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fifth international conference on regional climate ( ICRC 2023 ), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s ( WCRP ) coordinated downscaling experiment ( CORDEX ), has just completed. It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

On Friday, March 31, 2023, Representative Larry Bagley of Louisiana’s District 7 proposed amendments to Louisiana Revised Statutes § 30:10. The bill, HB 590 , extends a prior substantive change in the law that was affected by the 2012 amendments to La. The 2023 Regular Session begins on April 10th. Perhaps time will tell.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 8, 2024

Note: For consistency across CBO projections, throughout this post all referenced May 2023 CBO projections are calculated based on the ten-year window from FY2024 – FY2033. trillion from the previous projection in May 2023. In 2012, CBO projected $113.5 This increase represents an additional cost of $22.65

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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., 2023 ) and also in the “Climate Drivers” animation. 692-697, 2012. Thompson et al. link] D.W.J. Thompson, D.J.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As far back as 2012, he recommended doing away with the ICBMs, taking US nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, and reducing the number of deployed US nuclear warheads—estimated at the time at 2,150 —to 900. I’d be happy to put that mission on the submarines.” Cartwright, meanwhile, has spoken out numerous times on the topic.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

According to Statista, emergency firefighting costs have increased exponentially over the last ten years in California, from $140 million in 2012 to more than $1 billion in 2021 and 2022. Wildfire suppression expenditures in California from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2022, in million U.S. Source: Statista 2023.

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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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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Labourer dies in mishap at Adani Power plant DNA India PaulaR Thu, 11/16/2023 - 19:37 Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Read more A contractual labourer was killed and two others critically injured in a mishap at Adani Power Maharashtra Ltd's plant at Tirora, police said.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

2012) , as well as heat transport from lower latitudes. A take-home message from a talk by Gabriele Messori, Ehlke Hepworth, and Marcello Vichi at the European Meteorological Society’s 2023 annual meeting in Bratislava was that high-latitude cyclones in the Southern Ocean can reach and shape the Antarctic sea-ice. S1-S516, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

DC Ambler purchased the property in 2005 and imported a large quantity of regulated and non-regulated fill material in 2012. DEP published a Notice of the Proposed Settlement with DC Ambler Properties on July 8, 2023 in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, and in the Ambler Gazette on July 9, 2023.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lockheed Martin's Creative Lobbying The American Prospect PaulaR Mon, 09/18/2023 - 19:47 Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Read more Paul Waldman When the Supreme Court handed down the Citizens United decision, many people predicted that big corporations would start buying elections, now that they were allowed to spend as much money as they wanted on campaigns. (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2024

Since August 8, 2023, Roulette Oil and Gas LLC has failed to resolve abandoned well violations involving the Guardian B shale gas well pad in Hebron Township, Potter County , even after DEP met with the operator-- Jim Reynolds-- twice on the site, according to DEP inspection reports.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Heffron (2023) “Energy justice – the triumvirate of tenets revisited and revised.” ” Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law DOI: 10.1080/02646811.2023.2256593 Abstract: It has been over a decade since the article that kickstarted energy justice research was published in 2012.

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Corp Watch

MAY 12, 2023

Prosegur despide a 327 huelguistas en Paraguay Equipos y Talento PaulaR Fri, 05/12/2023 - 18:16 Monday, August 27, 2012 Read more Los sindicatos están trabajando a nivel internacional para condenar a la compañía

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- TribLive: DEP Declares TODAY Code Orange Air Quality Alert For Liberty/Clairton, Allegheny County = -- FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

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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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Corp Watch

MAY 26, 2023

Slovaks protest graft ahead of March polls Reuters PaulaR Fri, 05/26/2023 - 19:07 Friday, February 3, 2012 Read more BRATISLAVA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Thousands of angry Slovaks marched through the capital Bratislava and five major towns on Friday in protest at a major corruption scandal which has rattled the outgoing centre-right cabinet and boosted populist (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

According to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), Ameren’s distribution grid expenditures nearly doubled between 2012 and 2020, jumping from $456 million to $857 million. The ICC will review the plans and issue a decision by end of 2023. Over the same period, ComEd grid investments went from $1.3 billion to $2.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The documents the Journal obtained show that in 2012, ExxonMobil sought to gather information about and exert influence over the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). For more about Tillerson’s real track record on climate change, see two HuffPost columns by my colleague Elliott Negin here and here.)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2023

30 Abandoned Conventional Wells On October 18 and 19, 2023 , DEP inspected 30 conventional wells operated by John B. DEP said these were followup inspections as a result of a citizen complaint confirming notices of violation issued on June 30, 2023 for abandoning wells. DEP inspection report + photos - Friggle 16, as an example.]

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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. Read more here. Impoundments have since been removed.)

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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.” Manipulating the soil microbiome to increase soil health and plant fertility.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Job losses have accelerated since 2012 with the development of low-cost fracking for natural gas. DOE has estimated that EPA’s 2012 mercury regulations accounted for the closure of some 40,000 Megawatts of coal capacity in 2015-2016 due to the high costs of controlling mercury and other toxic pollutants in older and smaller plants.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

There is a recording of the IPCC Press Conference – Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report for those who are interested in watching an awkward release of the report. 2012) to understand why such small samples give non-robust and insufficient information for making regional future projections. 775-779, 2012.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the first half of 2023, the combined share of renewable diesel and biodiesel rose to 59 percent of total diesel fuel use in California. The share of renewable diesel and biodiesel blending into diesel fuel sold in California has grown rapidly and in the first half of 2023 it reached 59 percent. farmdoc daily, March 29, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Denying Right To Document In a recently filed September 21, 2023 inspection report , DEP said-- “Repsol restricted the Department’s ability to document the condition of the damaged casing during an inspection conducted on 9/21/2023.” Compliance Report Due Oct. The natural gas release was one of the largest in the world in 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

Related Articles: -- House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities [PaEN] [Posted: June 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2024

In comparison, in the United States in 2023, lung and bronchus cancer cases represented 12-13% of all new cancer cases and 21% of all cancer deaths. One study from 1912 looked at autopsy reports from hospitals in the United States and Western Europe. of cancer cases.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On December 4, the Delaware River Basin Commission released a new report-- A Comprehensive Assessment of the Delaware River Basin’s Water Audit Program (2012-2021) -- providing a detailed look at ten years of Water Audit Program data. This analysis is the first of its kind in the country.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

on December 19, 2023, the MSL Oil & Gas Corp well tender reported a fire in crude oil storage tanks at the Dutter 235 conventional oil well in Wetmore Township, McKean County. At 5:50 a.m. The fire occurred at three 5,880 tanks containing crude oil and a subsurface production wastewater tank.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Of Agriculture Protects Another 2,553 Acres Of Farmland; 13,663 Acres Protected In 2023 Western PA Conservancy Protects 460 Acres In McKean County To Create New Nature Reserve ClearWater Conservancy Protects 35 Acre Ecological Gem In Little Sugar Valley Centre County Feature: Meet Your New Year’s Resolution On The Susquehanna Greenway Dec.

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