PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million Penalty From EQT For Drilling-Related Pollution In Tioga County [October 2014] -- DEP Fines National Fuel Gas Midstream $250,000 For Pipeline Construction Violations in Lycoming [September 2014] -- DEP Fines Range Resources $4.15 Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This blog post takes a closer look at REAPs investments from 2014 to 2025, highlighting their critical role in making long-lasting impacts on rural communities, and what stands to be lost if the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) continues to withhold payments on signed contracts. billion of rural development invested in rural communities.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. When adjusting for the emissions since AR5 and SR1.5, AR6 remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5C Leitzell, E.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2025

In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), a law that establishes a statewide framework for advancing the long-term availability of the states groundwater resources. A map of DWR’s designation of the state’s groundwater basins as high and medium priority under SGMA.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Recent research shows that 97% of tailings spills between 2014-2023 went uninspected, despite AER claims of routine inspections. The AER has consistently failed to fulfill its mandate to ensure safe, environmentally responsible energy development.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue. September 20, 2022

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Gas plants failed at a scale that jeopardized grid reliability for large regions of the United States during severe winter storms in 2011 , 2014 , 2018 , 2021 , and 2022. Unfortunately, this isn’t a rare problem. And earlier this year, gas plants failed at an alarming rate during Winter Storms Heather and Gerri.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

The NPDES permit for the Oceanside facility, expired in 2014 but had been administratively reissued ever since. Combined sewer overflows (CSOs), as a discharge of pollutants, are thus subject to NPDES permitting and must comply with the EPAs CSO Control Policy and relevant water quality standards.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers. Could a state groundwater regulation law passed in 2014 prevent farmers who are cut off from surface water from pumping so much groundwater that household wells go dry? California is not yet to that level of emergency.

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A 2014 California law intended to protect the state's depleted aquifers is going into effect, requiring farms not to pump groundwater faster than it can be replenished. The policy is pushing growers to find new ways to refill the state's depleted aquifers, NPR reports. Read more on E360 ?.

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Physics World

JUNE 24, 2021

Catalogued as C/2014 UN271, the wandering visitor was found in archival data captured by the DES project, which investigates the cosmological mystery of dark energy by photographing distant galaxies. “The C/2014 UN271 seems to have come from a region some 10,000–20000 times farther from the Sun than Earth. Long period comets.

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Legal Planet

MAY 31, 2021

General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. It was not only the youth of Europe who were mown down by that senseless conflict. Soils in many places remain contaminated by heavy metals to this very day.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 21, 2024

But in 2014, following years of severe and protracted California drought, and both agricultural and urban water users compensating for depleted surface water flows by pumping groundwater in unprecedented amounts, a fragile political consensus emerged among California legislators, water districts and environmentalists.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

up until 2014, and scenarios thereafter (SSP2-4.5 These model simulations have only just been finished, and even though they only used observed boundary conditions (such as GHGs, aerosols, volcanoes and solar activity etc.) in this figure), it is far too soon to say whether their projections have been validated or not.

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Real Climate

MARCH 16, 2023

Since this is a somewhat differently designed ensemble, I’ll plot that similarly (45 simulations), and note too that these are global means, again, for the corrected-TMT product (for the historical and SSP2-45 scenarios after 2014).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

For wind, that would be two and a half times as much electricity as it produced in the United States in 2014, and would increase its generation to 11 percent of the US supply. For solar, the decade will have brought it from well below one percent of US electricity supply in 2014 to 7.5 percent in 2024 (again, with rooftop solar).

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways.

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

These simulations used historical GHG concentrations and aerosol emissions to 2014, and a mid-range scenario (SSP2-4.5) These projections are the basis of our updated comparisons of CMIP6 models to observations , and specifically this graph: CMIP6 simulations and the GISTEMP observations. The screening uses the likely range of 1.8

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

trillion in economic activity, according to one 2014 study. Met has been responsible for nearly all withdrawals, taking out a combined 485,000 acre-feet in 2013, 2014, and 2015 when California was clutched by a severe drought and water deliveries from the State Water Project bottomed out in 2014 at 5 percent of contracted amounts.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

And it would apply the two-thirds vote retroactively to projects approved since 2014. It would require a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to approve such projects in the future.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. PJM stakeholders voted on this policy to penalize energy suppliers who merely claim to be reliable and to use that money to reward the suppliers that actually exceed their expected performance.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It is not as though people have not tried – we discussed this here in 2014, where we made a plea for better graphs of the global temperature. All of which adds to the uncertainty. Now, 10 years later, we finally have something.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

All of the shale gas wells found in violation were drilled in the earlier days of shale gas development-- 2010 to 2014 In all of 2024, DEP issued 47 violations for abandoned shale gas wells and 20 in 2024. Well drilled in 2014. Response requested by March 25. [ DEP Inspection report.

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Legal Planet

JULY 4, 2021

In 2014, owners reached a complicated agreement with a land trust with the aim of ultimately converting it into a state park. .” This is a noteworthy early appearance of the idea of that we hold nature in trust for the public, not for private gain. In 1998, the bridge was designated as a National Historic Landmark.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s remarkable that California’s landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), enacted in 2014, does not require groundwater monitoring data to be collected and reported for the state’s chronically over-drafted groundwater basins.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

The USDA’s climate hubs , which were first launched in 2014, represent a unique collaborative effort across the agency to connect climate-related federal research and programming with farmers and agriculture workers in the field. And that’s where the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) climate hubs play a critical role.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

Another point relates to the pace of global change and of our ability to adapt: Compared with its prior report in 2014, the 2022 report concludes that “levels of risk for all Reasons for Concern (RFC) are assessed to become high to very high at lower global warming levels” than previous expected. The pace of change.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

On May 4, 2014, the Departments contractor submitted the final report which completed the remedial response activities. Comments on the proposed delisting are due 30 days from the notice. Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for instructions on reviewing the file related to the site, submitting comments and more background. (

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Adams settled with most of the defendants by a settlement agreement in 2014 but continued to seek damages from the Grafers. The Grefers were not released by the 2014 settlement agreement. The Grafers owned the land where, pursuant to a lease, the pipes and other equipment were cleaned. Your musical interlude

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Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

Only the jump from 2014 to 2015 (coincidentally (?) Indeed, even as late as October, with only two months to go, the estimates for the annual mean still did not encompass the eventual annual number. In the GISTEMP product, the record was easily broken, and by a record amount.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 14, 2024

In 2014, the Air Force completed an Analysis of Alternatives to the Sentinel program, which included the possibility of extending the life of the current fleet of US ICBMs rather than replacing them entirely. Part of the root-cause analysis required by the Nunn-McCurdy Act is an evaluation of “reasonable alternatives to the program.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Latshaw 9 conventional well was first issued a permit as a waste injection well by DEP on June 10, 2014 and by the US Environmental Protection Agency on June 28, 2016. LLC for abandoning an oil and gas wastewater injection well in Cranberry Township, Venango County.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress. On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. A decade ago, Australia had a climate tax. In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 22, 2025

org, a climate advocacy group, found that from 1996 to 2014 Enbridge pipelines in the U.S. And its owned by a Canada-based company, Enbridge Inc., that has amassed a truly worrisome record of unsafe operations. One summary of the companys litany of ruptures and leaks by 350.org, history.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

In 2014, he said he was skeptical of climate science. She also favors defunding high speed rail and using the money for border security instead. Ose formerly represented a suburban Sacramento district in Congress. Ose’s lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters was 12%.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2021

As a result, in 2014, the Canadian company Enbridge moved that a new, larger Line 3 be built, a proposition that immediately disregarded indigenous land rights and Anishinaabe culture. One of the lines, Line 3, has “extensive corrosion” and would require 7,000 digs to repair, according to its replacement project director.

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