Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

Back in 2013/2014, the differences between the surface indices (HadCRUT3, NOAA v3 and GISTEMP v3) contributed to the initial confusion related to the ‘pause’, which was seemingly evident in HadCRUT3, but not so much in the other records (see this discussion from 2015). b) An ENSO-corrected version of the GISTEMP record.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Founded in 2013, the mission of EPA’s Trash Free Waters Program is to prevent that trash from getting into waterways and to remove what is already in the environment. Most of the trash that pollutes rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans comes from sources on land.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. DEP requested a written report by February 24, 2024 on how Equitrans will bring the wells into compliance.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey. New York City passed a bill requiring their 30,000 city vehicles (the world’s largest municipal fleet) to fully switch to zero-emission by mid-2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

These fees and programs were established with legislation in 2007 and then were extended until 2024 with the passage of Assembly Bill 8 in 2013 (hence the name, “AB 8 fees”).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Issued on: 09/01/2024 - 17:26 2 min Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In the U.S. Total settles U.S.

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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

Guest Post by Emilia Ravetta , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University The 2023 was the warmest year on record of history (World Meteorological Organization 2023). Environmental Sociology, 1(3), 139-142. Pellow, D., & Roberts, J. Environmental justice.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa Common Dreams PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:46 Friday, January 12, 2024 Read more Brett Wilkins "As Africans, we need to show TotalEnergies the red card," said one climate campaigner. BRETT WILKINS Jan 12, 2024 4 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Guest Post by Mohamed Abdelhafez , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Emanuel, “Downscaling CMIP5 climate models shows increased tropical cyclone activity over the 21st century,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 2013. [6] 7] J.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. First issued by the EIB (European Investment Bank) in 2007 in Sweden, green bonds have grown from $11 billion USD in 2013 to $1 Trillion USD in December 2020 globally.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

By providing public transit operating funding, encouraging housing density near public transit, setting zero-emission bus procurement requirements and providing incentives for cities to speed up public transit service with dedicated bus lanes, Canada can cut polluting carbon emissions by 65 million tonnes from 2024 to 2035.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Monsanto: A Corporate Profile (Food & Water Europe, April 2013) Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and our Genetically Modified Future by Jason Louv (Ultraculture Press, 2013).

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In that post, we described the significant changes in the 2021 version from the 2013 version. c) Until February 13, 2024, the procedures of ASTM International Standard E1527-13 entitled “Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process.”. Be assured this is a big deal.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance Euronews PaulaR Fri, 03/08/2024 - 16:18 Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Read more Eleanor Butler The German pharmaceutical group sees annual sales drop as its CEO admits the firm has four challenges that "urgently must be addressed". billion, down 6% compared to 2022.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The latter pair skidded logs at the Foundation for Sustainable Forest's Loving The Land Through Working Forests Conference in 2013, which was attended by famed author, environmental activist and farmer, Wendell Berry. Wendell was surprised I was working a mule with a horse," muses Ray.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

Renewables are indeed on an exponential, as “By 2024, renewable energy capacity is expected to be twice that of the total cumulative installed capacity in 2019. I googled “peak coal ” and the Wikipedia page informed me that global consumption for that black dirty and nasty stuff peaked in 2013. Yup, ten years ago.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Lake Mead would be at 1,010 feet and on its way to an elevation below 1,000 feet by the summer of 2024. Texas sued in 2013, alleging that groundwater and surface water extraction in New Mexico is depleting water rightfully owed to Texas, thus violating the Rio Grande Compact. New Mexico Hearing.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 2023 alone, she removed over 1,000 bags of litter from the streets of Allentown, and that’s not including her cleanups in Bethlehem, Whitehall, and other Lehigh Valley areas. -- Kelly McDowell, nominated by Keep Chester County Beautiful: Kelly McDowell began picking up litter in 2013 along a long stretch of Route 1 in southern Chester County.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

While the first commercial offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Maine is not expected until 2024, Maine can already boast two notable offshore wind records: for being home to the nation’s first grid-connected offshore wind turbine and the nation’s first floating offshore wind turbine.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Monsanto: A Corporate Profile (Food & Water Europe, April 2013) Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and our Genetically Modified Future by Jason Louv (Ultraculture Press, 2013).

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Physics World

MAY 25, 2021

Following over a decade of research, in 2013 MAST underwent a major £55m overhaul – dubbed MAST-U – that involved the device being completely stripped and rebuilt. Work on the £220m design is set to be complete by 2024 with the aim to build STEP by 2040.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The VIDA, enacted in December 2018, will standardize incidental discharge permits and regulations, replacing the 2013 Vessel General Permit (“VGP”) that commercial vessels are currently required to follow. In September 2023, the parties entered into a Consent Decree that requires the EPA to take final action by September 23, 2024.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Established in 2013 by Birds Canada , the Motus Wildlife Tracking System combines highly miniaturized transmitters, some weighing as little as 1/200th of an ounce, with more than 13,000 automated receiver stations around the world.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Read more here (2023) So far in 2024, DEP has issued 121 violations to conventional operators for well abandonment without plugging-- after just two months into the new year. E&S BMP Failure (2013 violations) [ DEP inspection report ] -- Consent Assessment - $1,855 - Catalano WN1563 - Jefferson County, McCalmont Twp. -

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Physics World

MAY 2, 2022

When complete in 2024, the upgrade to the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) – dubbed BEPCII-U – will triple the current collision rate and extend the maximum collision energy to 5.6?GeV. noa, who has been working at the BEPC since 1993 and served as BES’s co-spokesperson between 1999 and 2013. . Future outlook .

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Physics World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In 2013 – as head of strategy at the ministry – I visited the University of Technology in Delft to hear about their plans to start a quantum institute. A dedicated campus for this “quantum ecosystem” – called the House of Quantum – will be operational from 2024. What is the Netherlands doing in quantum networks?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The trend dates to a 2013 Edison Electric Institute report highlighting the disruptive challenges of distributed resources and recommending that utilities impose higher fixed charges. This is meant to decrease the complexity of the initial proceeding to ensure compliance with the statutory deadline of summer 2024.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé: Stop draining water from Pakistani communities and ensure that villages have access to safe drinking water Ekō (formerly SumOfUs) | 2013 Nestlé’s aggressive water grab is already descending like a plague on parts of Pakistan.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

On January 10, 2024, the Pennsylvania PUC and other Defendants filed a notice of appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where the case is currently pending. For instance, in its 2013 report on Policies for a Modern and Reliable U.S. in the form of maintaining the status quo imbalance of access to low-priced electricity.”

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta SOMO PaulaR Fri, 03/01/2024 - 15:21 Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Read more Audrey Gaughran Shell cannot be allowed to divest from the onshore oil industry in the Niger Delta before it takes responsibility for its toxic legacy of pollution and the safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In an important published opinion filed February 16, 2024, the Fourth District Court of Appeal (Div. In an important published opinion filed February 16, 2024, the Fourth District Court of Appeal (Div. 2024) Cal.App.5th. City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th Hilltop Group, Inc., County of San Diego, et al.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States by Kendall Beaton (1957).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say Follow the Money PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 16:59 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Matthew Green, Merel de Buck & Birte Schohaus Latest Shell-files show that the company reflected on climate change caused by fossil products as early as the 1970s.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States by Kendall Beaton (1957).

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