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The Evolving Legal Landscape for Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

But, in 2013, the parties to the LP adopted an amendment that is intended to be. The amendment requires parties to the LP to prohibit “the placement of matter into the sea” in connection with listed marine geoengineering activities “unless the listing provides that the activity. Only ocean fertilization has been listed so far.

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‘A Tsunami of Human Waste’: Half of South Africa’s Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing, Says Report

Circle of Blue

The number of critical treatment works listed in the last report – from 2013 – was 248. The average Green Drop score across all provinces in 2013 was 61%. The report notes, “The effluent quality must comply to 90% [in total] with the authorised limits for the respective categories.”. Photo © Steve Kretzmann / CCIJ.

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Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard Being Revised

Greenbuilding Law

The Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 will sunset in late 2021, eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013. There is no doubt that the uninitiated have been confused that a CREC is a subset of a REC, but the examples are problematic in that they stray into the category of HRECs, which are not RECs.

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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years

PA Environment Daily

The number of conventional violations is the largest on record-- at least since 2013. There was the same sort of “uniformity” among reporting how waste was disposed in other disposal categories as well. In contrast, DEP found 1,096 violations at unconventional (shale gas) wells during 2021. barrels or 0.41

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Greenbuilding Law

Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 sunset eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013 and the new E1527-21 was as of last week published and now available for use, but. On November 1, ASTM International revised its Phase l Environmental Site Assessment standard. It is a non-scope matter.

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The End Is Not Near, But If An 'Insect Apocalypse' Ever Happens, How Would We Know?

Science Blogs

The Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, once found throughout grasslands in the Pacific Northwest, was listed as endangered in 2013. Categories. Many scientists are currently analyzing the roles that climate change , land use , chemical pesticides and other factors have played in reported declines in many insect species.

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New Abandoned Wells: DEP Records Show Abandoning Oil & Gas Wells Without Plugging Them Is Pervasive In Conventional Drilling Industry; Who Is Protecting Taxpayers?

PA Environment Daily

Click Here the list of 256 conventional oil and gas companies issued NOVs. We don't want to see those go into the abandoned category and make the situation worse [sic]. D&I Silica was sold to Hi-Crush Partners in 2013 for $125 million. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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