Pollution killed 9 million people worldwide in 2019 alone
New Scientist
MAY 17, 2022
Pollution accounted for one in six deaths three years ago, a figure that is unchanged since the last analysis in 2015
Back to the Future: Waters of United States Reverts to Pre-2015 Definition
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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It’s Time to Repeal the Clean Power Plan
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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Solar Energy’s Latest Record Breaker: 5 Takeaways
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 25, 2022
That’s 19 percent more than in 2020, which itself had been a record breaker, and 77 percent more than in 2019. percent of US electricity generation, more than four times its 2015 share. Other notable movements of late: Virginia leapt from 19 th in 2019 to 4 th in 2020 and 2021, installing 11 times as much last year as in 2019.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Again Finds Listing of Joshua Trees Not Warranted
Endangered Species Law
MARCH 13, 2023
The 12-month finding was made to comply with a September 20, 2021 court-ordered remand of the Service’s previous “not warranted” finding in August 2019. In September 2015, WildEarth Guardians submitted a petition to list the Joshua trees as threatened and, if applicable, designate critical habitat for the species.
October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.
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Un año récord para la energía solar: las 5 claves
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 31, 2022
Eso superó en un 19% al año 2020, un año que a su vez batió un récord, y superó en un 77% al año 2019. De hecho, la energía solar representó un 3,9% de la generación de electricidad en los Estados Unidos, más de cuatro veces su participación en el 2015. La energía solar es popular en todo el país. Debemos mantener el impulso.
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South Korea and Climate Change
Legal Planet
JUNE 16, 2022
Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. The EIA reports that: “Fossil fuel sources accounted for about 69% of South Korea’s electricity generation in 2019, and the share of nuclear power accounted for 25%. Actual generation is tilted a bit more toward fossil fuels and nuclear.
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Reducing Gun Violence: What Role for the CDC?
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 8, 2022
Let’s think about that unconscionable prohibition, which only began to be lifted in 2019. For gun violence, however, there is federal data going back only to 2015 with sporadic information from earlier years. And virtually no federal funding for research into gun violence was available for many years prior to 2019.
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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. 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. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables.
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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
JANUARY 10, 2022
On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] Read more here.]
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As Soon as Possible
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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China overtakes the US in terms of research quality, finds study
Physics World
MARCH 22, 2022
The quality of China’s scientific research output exceeded that of the US in 2019. That is according to a new analysis by researchers in the US, which also found that China had already overtaken the European Union in terms of research quality by 2015. .
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USGS: PA Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network Finds 64% Of Wells Exceed Radon Standard, 36% Manganese, 32% Iron
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
A new USGS study , in cooperation with the Department of Environmental Protection, explains 2015-2019 results from the Pennsylvania Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network of 28 wells across the Commonwealth. USGS and the Department of Environmental Protection established a state-wide Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network in 2015.
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PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The four wells that are part of this announcement were list as abandoned by DEP since April 14, 2015.] This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 14, 2015 - report not available, but noting ‘no adverse event or action reported.] operates 110 conventional wells.] [The No violations were issued. [A
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Which Front Runner Would Be Better for the Environment?
Legal Planet
JANUARY 31, 2022
In a 2019 case, Judge Jackson held that environmental groups couldn’t challenge the border wall under various laws because Congress had stripped the courts of jurisdiction. Judge Kruger joined the California Supreme Court in 2015. is a frequent venue for environmental litigation, so she’s decided a fair number of cases. 3d 214 (D.S.C.
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Walkable Neighborhoods and Public Transit are Part Of the Clean Energy Transition
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
In 2019, 70 percent of Seattle residents lived within walking distance of a bus or train service running at least every ten minutes—up from 25 percent in 2015. State and federal policy supported these local initiatives. Overall transit ridership fell during the pandemic and remains impacted by the pivot to remote work.
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Criticizing WOTUS Is Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
Law and Environment
JUNE 10, 2021
Whatever one’s political persuasions, it would be fair to say that that was precisely the objective of the Obama administration in 2015 and the Trump administration in 2019. What makes the current administration think that what they promulgate will be any more “durable” than those prior efforts?
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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window. How has Paxton responded?
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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Photo: Pool/Getty Images) The history of that lie bears retelling. ExxonMobil wants to be seen as a good corporate citizen.
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30 Years of U.S. Climate Policy
Legal Planet
JANUARY 12, 2023
2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S. 2019 Trump EPA revokes California’s waiver for regulating CO2 from new cars. EPA, striking one part of an EPA permitting program covering carbon emissions from new pollution source, but upholding most of the program. Clean Power Plan issued, then stayed by Supreme Court.
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Climate Litigation and UN Climate Talks: An Important Symbiosis
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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Forced conservation measures made Californians more ‘water-wise’: study
Environmental News Bits
MAY 2, 2023
Although water usage crept up somewhat when 2015-2016 cuts ended, consumption in 2019 was still lower than … Continue reading Forced conservation measures made Californians more ‘water-wise’: study
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Trump’s War on Environmental Protection: A Chronology
Legal Planet
MAY 30, 2024
EPA moves to delay implementation of 2015 air quality standards limiting smog. Also, Trump issues executive order eliminating previous estimates of the social cost of carbon, the harm done by one ton of CO2 emissions. Trump proposes cutting EPA funding by 30%. Trump begins process of withdrawing from Paris Agreement. October.
Former MDPI CEO Dr. Franck Vazquez joins Frontiers
Frontiers
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Dr. Vazquez served as the chief scientific officer of MDPI from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2019 to 2021, and as the chief executive officer from 2016 to 2019. Image: Dr. Franck Vazquez, Frontiers’ head of partnerships.
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Ohio Ratepayers Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Money-Losing Coal Plants
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The plants’ operating costs have been consistently higher than the average PJM market price of energy and capacity, and this difference accumulated to a loss of more than $900 million between 2015-2019 (see Table 4 here ). Ohioans were forced to subsidize some of these costs through various surcharges on their utility bills.
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Mining giants told to pay $9.7bn over Brazil dam disaster
Corp Watch
JANUARY 31, 2024
Mining giants told to pay $9.7bn over Brazil dam disaster BBC PaulaR Wed, 01/31/2024 - 13:57 Saturday, January 27, 2024 Read more Peter Hoskins A federal judge in Brazil has ordered mining giants BHP, Vale and their Samarco iron ore joint venture to pay 47.6bn reais ($9.67bn) in damages over a deadly dam burst in 2015. Corporation Vale S.A.
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The Deadly $125-Billion ICBM Boondoggle
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Subsequent defense secretaries Chuck Hagel, who served from 2015 to 2017, and Gen. James Mattis, who served from 2017 to 2019, also questioned the need for siloed ICBMs, but backpedaled when pressured during their respective Senate confirmation hearings.
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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
million cut beginning in FY 2010-11; -- FY 2014-15 budget for the State System of Higher Education zeroes out funding again for the PA Center for Environmental Education ($368,000) and McKeever Environmental Center ($213,000); -- FY 2014-15 budget cuts $500,000 for Delaware River Basin Commission; -- FY 2015-16 transfer of $31.9
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2021 – Open Science Is Saving Lives
Frontiers
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Annually, cancer kills 10 million people; only 28% of research published between 2015 and 2019 is openly accessible. Figures for climate research show that of the approximately 160K papers published between 2015 and 2019, just 29% were accessible to researchers, industry, and members of the public.
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Another dot on the graph
Real Climate
JANUARY 15, 2022
Depending on the product, 2021 was either the 5th, 6th or 7th warmest year, but in all cases, it is part of the string of warm years (since 2015) that have all been more than 1ºC warmer than the late 19th C. Fig 13, from Lenssen et al (2019). 6307-6326, 2019. Controversy is so 2000 and late. Hansen, M.J. Ruedy, and D.
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Local Government Associations File Brief to the Supreme Court in Support of EPA’s Clean Air Act Authority
Law Columbia
JANUARY 25, 2022
In 2015, the EPA published the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which established mechanisms for reducing power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions that included shifting power generation toward lower- and non-emitting energy sources. In January 2021, the D.C.
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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?
Real Climate
APRIL 2, 2021
1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). 2015 ) are not clearly supported. 2019 ; Kossin et al. 1987-2007, 2019. The light blue shading denotes the range between the minimum and maximum number of storms observed by each day. Klotzbach et al.
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The Stream, June 24, 2021: Excess Animal Waste Pollutes Water In Northern Ireland
Circle of Blue
JUNE 24, 2021
In 2019, 212 environmental activists were killed, according to data from the advocacy organization Global Witness. The Global Witness data found that 40 percent of all victims in 2019 were Indigenous, and more than a third of attacks from 2015 to 2019 targeted Indigenous peoples.
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Space engineer takes over as head of the MIT Media Lab
Physics World
JULY 7, 2021
She has served as the principal investigator on four space missions as well as being NASA’s first female deputy administrator from 2015 to 2017. Epstein was convicted of other sex-related crimes more recently and died in his jail cell in August 2019.
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Water-mediated intercalation mechanisms in transition metal oxides
Physics World
JULY 28, 2021
From 2013–2015, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, US. Her research group was recognized with a 2019 Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry, 2019 DOE Early Career Award, and 2017 NSF CAREER Award.
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What’s Up With Water – June 28, 2021
Circle of Blue
JUNE 28, 2021
In 2019, over 200 environmental activists were killed, according to data from the advocacy group Global Witness. The Global Witness data found that 40 percent of all victims in 2019 were Indigenous, and more than a third of the attacks between 2015 and 2019 targeted Indigenous peoples. ———.
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An abnormally dry subject: drought
HumanNature
APRIL 14, 2022
Alarmingly, a drought in 2012 cost the agricultural industry $30 billion (Rippey 2015). For example, the Palmer Drought Severity Index (Dai 2019) uses past history of a region to determine what categories drought falls into. Last modified 12 Dec 2019. This leads us to our next question: How do we even define drought? Rippey, BR.
The First French Climate Litigation Ruling - Commune de Grande Synthe
Energy and Climate Law
DECEMBER 8, 2020
For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.
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Rising Cost of Water in Michigan Leads to Affordability Problems
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 2, 2021
House Bill 5093 , introduced in 2015, would have required water and sewer utilities to report annually on water rates, average monthly bills, and the number of water shutoffs by ZIP code and census tract. percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 It did not pass out of committee. percent two years earlier.
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Labor and the Environment
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
According to a 2019 study , “the US green economy is estimated to represent $1.3 million workers; both of which have grown by over 20% between 2012/13 and 2015/16.” There is no doubt, however, that green jobs are now a significant part of the economy. trillion in annual sales revenue and to employ nearly 9.5
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Migration and the Nobel prize: more than one quarter of physics laureates are immigrants
Physics World
OCTOBER 1, 2021
It is no surprise, therefore, that many Nobel laureates are immigrants, as illustrated in these three infographics that we first produced in 2015 and have since updated. It was a different story in 2019, with Canada-born James Peebles living in the US and Switzerland-born Didier Queloz living in the UK.
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How molecular catalysts mediate the electrochemical generation of fuels
Physics World
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Her research has garnered numerous awards including the 2019 Harry B Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator; the 2017 J Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students; 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship; and 2015 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. She joined UNC in 2012.
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We have the tools to design climate-adapted forests. Should we intervene?
HumanNature
APRIL 28, 2022
For species that are long-lived and have short dispersal distances, natural selection may be too slow to keep pace with rapid climate change (Renwick & Rocca, 2015). 2019; Pedlar et al., 2015; Rehfeldt et al., link] Dumroese, R. Williams, M. Stanturf, J. A., & Clair, J. New Forests , 46 (5–6), 947–964. link] Muller, J.
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