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Fourth District Holds Addendum To 2010 Program EIR For Irvine Business Complex Vision Plan Violated CEQA Because Conclusion That Large Infill Project’s GHG Emissions Would Be Less Than Significant Lacked Substantial Evidence And Project Was Not Exempt

CEQA Developments

3) affirmed a judgment setting aside an addendum to a 2010 program EIR (PEIR) and accompanying approvals for a 275,000-square foot office complex on a 4.95-acre and (2) did substantial evidence show the project’s GHG emissions are within the scope of the 2010 PEIR? IBC Business Owners for Sensible Development v.

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New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Union of Concerned Scientists

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8

PA Environment Daily

PA Bulletin, page 2010 ) -- MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources, LLC -Timberlake Compressor Station Flaring Equipment: DEP issued Air Quality Plan Approval for a “de minimis” air emission increase related to natural gas flaring equipment in Buffalo Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2010 ) -- National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. Tioga County. (

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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

I have been involved in the estimation of carbon budgets since the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report in the early 2010s. And since the first IPCC estimates published in 2013, we have learned a lot and have gotten much better at estimating remaining carbon budgets. IPCC reported carbon budgets for the first time in 2013.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million cut from the DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2010-11 budget; -- $180 million diverted from the DCNR Oil and Gas Fund to General Fund in proposed FY 2010-11 budget; -- $5.5 million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million from DEP, $1.5

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi, PetroChina and Kogas): 2013 – 2021 Shell Canada Ltd.: 20102013 Shell Oil Company Inc.: Shell Canada Products Ltd.: 2021 – present LNG Canada Development Inc. (a

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BP projects have helped fund Azerbaijan military aggression, say campaigners

Corp Watch

Historical Refernces Britain’s first North Sea oil rig collapses Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo News | December 24, 2013 December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (October 1999).

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