Environment Next

AUGUST 31, 2021

The 2020 rulemaking replaced a 2015 rule defining “waters of the United States” more broadly under the Clean Water Act. The court left open for further briefing and argument whether the 2019 regulatory action repealing the 2015 rule is valid. In 2015, the U.S. Stay tuned!

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New Scientist

MAY 18, 2021

Devastating wildfires that swept the central Amazon in 2015 caused a loss of around 27 per cent of vegetation in the region over the next three years

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Higher temperatures in European cities have been linked to one-third of premature deaths during the summer of 2015. The study, published in The Lancet, shows that increasing tree cover in urban areas could decrease this number by as much as 30%.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

authors noticed this in 2015 (Soon et al., 2015) but rather than fix it they now chose to report just the (wrong) calculations that supported their conclusions. 409-452, 2015. If your conclusions depend on the order in which you enter numbers into a computer, maybe you should check your methods. Some Connolly et al.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Countries need to double their energy-efficiency gains to achieve the emissions reductions required to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a new report finds

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Even without the Clean Power Plan, carbon emissions from power generators fell about 15% from the 2015 level. Between 2015 and 2019, the amount of electricity generated from coal dropped by a third.

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Vorys Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

EPA’s website indicating the that Agencies have halted implementation of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule and are reverting back to the pre-2015 regulatory regime for interpreting the meaning of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) subject to federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. EPA-Army Corps joint statement here.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). And also, let’s be clear, this mysteriously justified temperature series has been created explicitly to demonstrate a connection to the HS93 solar reconstruction – that was the case in the Soon et al (2015) paper, the Connolloy et al (2021) paper and now in this new Soon et al paper.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial level that the 2015 Paris climate agreement is striving to avoid. By Bob Berwyn September’s stunning rise of the average global temperature is all but certain to make 2023 the warmest year on record, and 2024 is likely to be even hotter, edging close to the “red line” of 1.5

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New Scientist

AUGUST 12, 2022

More than a million large-nose antelopes now roam the Kazakhstan steppe, a big rebound from the 130,000 animals left after a fatal bacterial disease killed half of the population

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 21, 2023

L&G and NTR have worked together since 2015 when L&G became a cornerstone investor in NTR's first two funds. The post LGIM & NTR Secure Major Financial Commitments from Investors for Clean Power Fund appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Beginning in 2015, journalists began to uncover mounting evidence of Defendants’ campaign of deception,” the complaint says. “In And the answer was a lot, a long time ago. The timeline is laid out in California’s complaint , filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

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NRDC

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Highlights of India’s actions on climate change since the 2015 Paris Agreement and what to expect at COP28 in Dubai

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This is double the target that world leaders agreed to in 2015, when the Paris Agreement deal was struck and subsequently implemented. It is increasingly likely that COP28 will be remembered as the summit that effectively kills the target that world leaders celebrated in 2015 in Paris. degrees C ( Anders, I don`t understand this.`

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2022

2015) , and this is also applies to Kininmonth’s calculations. 699-703, 2015. In contrast to Kininmonth simple estimates, both feedback effects and clouds are captured much better with global climate models that also use the same physics as in MODTRAN (Huang et al., Nuccitelli, S. Lewandowsky, K. Hayhoe, H.O. van Dorland, and J.

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Yale E360

JULY 13, 2021

Just 25 cities globally are responsible for 52 percent of urban greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study that highlights the role that cities must play in reaching the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Yet as the biggest climate negotiations since the Paris Agreement in 2015 began today in Scotland, the British hosts were making strikingly downbeat assessments of its chances of achieving further progress on taming climate change. Some start with modest ambition and achieve major success. Read more on E360 ?.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Since 2015, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources green energy and sustainability projects have resulted in the installation of 19 solar arrays; the addition of 33 plug in EV and hybrid vehicles; public EV charging stations at 33 state park and forest locations; and energy efficiency measures that will save more than $30 million over (..)

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Nucro's greenhouse gas emissions from steel mills are 25%-%33 of the global average, and it has committed to an additional 35% combined reduction in steel mill scopes 1 scope 2 greenhouse gas intensity by 2030 using the 2015 baseline. That is 77% less than the global average.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

ppm in 2015. Ozone Pollution (Smog) Ozone standards are measured in parts per million (ppm) in the air. The annual standard started in 1971 at 0.08 ppm, went up to 0.12 ppm in 1979, then back to 0.8 ppm in 1997,075 ppm in 2008, and 0.07 Comparability is a problem with the first years. The 1971 standard is based on total photochemicals.

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The Applied Ecologist

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Since 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology has welcomed a small group of mentees with minimum editorial experience each year. Are you less than five years post-PhD, live in or are from the Global South, and looking to gain hands-on experience with an editorial board? Why not apply for the 2024 mentoring scheme with Journal of Applied Ecology!

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Yale E360

JANUARY 7, 2022

Last year, deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region, one of the largest savannas in the world, reached its highest level since 2015, according to newly released data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Some 1,175 gigawatts of new coal projects have been cancelled since 2015, an amount greater than the current coal capacity of China, according to a new report from climate think tank E3G. Read more on E360 ?.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In the 27 states where the ninth attempt wasn’t enjoined, EPA and the Corps are going to apply the “pre-2015 regulatory regime” to determine the reach of the Clean Water Act. What does EPA mean when it refers to the “pre-2015 regulatory regime? I haven’t seen an EPA and Corps answer to that question.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As I prepare to attend the UN’s 28 th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28 ), I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between the UN climate talks and litigation, especially in light of the stark reality that parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement are falling short on key milestones leading up to the next month’s meeting.

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NRDC

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Highlights of India’s actions on climate change since the 2015 Paris Agreement and what to expect at COP28 in Dubai

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Energy & the Law

MAY 24, 2023

In 2015, Apache failed to drill 20,000 feet in the North Block of the lease. The question for the Court: Did the North Block expire on December 31, 2015, or January 1, 2016? In 2014, Apache bought lessee Gunn’s remaining interest of the leases and its PSA rights.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

From 2010 to 2015, Texas experienced its second-worst drought in the state’s history. Miller plant in northern Texas getting taken offline for almost a year, until enough rain replenished the supplying reservoir in 2015. The drought led to three gas-fired steam units totaling 403 megawatts (MW) at the R.W.

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Energy & the Law

AUGUST 18, 2021

They did nothing to prosecute the suit until 2015, at which time they alleged that Meng continued to interfere over the preceding 15 years. Each had an unplugged well that had not been operated since 2015. On the lease were three separate 40-acre units, Nos. 2, 4 and 7. Repudiation.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Despite Americans’ increased dependence on cell phones and other technology, the amount of electronic waste generated in the United States has shrunk 10 percent since 2015. The decline is due to the phasing out of bulky products, such as large cathode-ray tube televisions and computer monitors, according to a new study. Read more on E360 ?.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 1, 2022

February 2015: Contents of production tanks removed but tank bottoms containing sand, oil, and saltwater residue remain, leaving a noticeable area of stained soil. Here, the landowners agreed that no activity on the land could have caused contamination after February 2015, so the injury occurred then at the latest.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 15, 2021

The clean energy sector in the United States lost 429,000 jobs last year due to the economic impacts of Covid-19, with the industry hitting its lowest number of workers since 2015, according to a new analysis of federal unemployment filings.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

In the 2015 report , water crises were ranked as the risk having the most impact. The rankings should not be a surprise. Respondents to the World Economic Forum survey that informs the risk report have consistently affirmed the importance of water and the environment. The World Economic Forum has company in this regard.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

Many of these challenges rely on the California Fourth District Court of Appeal’s narrow interpretation of Proposition 218 in its 2015 Capistrano Taxpayers Association v. However, tiered water rates throughout the state have been and continue to be challenged under Proposition 218 , a California constitutional amendment passed in 1996.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

In fact at the peak of the 2015-16 El Niño event, global anomalies for individual months already exceeded 1.5?. In fact, all the main 1.5ºC scenario literature available at the time of the Paris Agreement in 2015, for example the UNEP Emission Gap report (2015) or the UNFCCC Synthesis Reports in 2015 used such a scenario classification.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 17, 2023

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are targets for global development that were adopted in 2015. All countries have agreed to work towards achieving them by 2030.

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