Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In August 2020, California experienced an extreme heat wave that prompted electricity demand to soar to a level that exceeded available supply, leading to the first rolling blackouts of this kind since the state’s energy crisis in the early 2000s. The rolling blackouts took place two nights in a row on August 14 and August 15, 2020.

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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.] -- Vista OPR Inc.:

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Three comparative maps of snow water equivalent (SWE) across California on April 1 in 2015, 2023, and 2024, based on data from the National Snow Analysis by the Office of Water Prediction. 2015 was the first year in which measurements going back to 1942 didn’t register any snow on April 1. billion in 2020.

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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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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On Friday, EPA announced that it was reconsidering its 2020 decision to leave the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone unchanged. The notice does not identify any specific perceived flaws in the 2020 decision. The reconsideration will be based on the existing record. The tone of the notice does seem to be full of portent.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 12, 2021

In 2015 and 2020, the ACS GCI surveyed ACS members in higher education to evaluate the status of green and sustainable chemistry topics in the chemistry curriculum. Some of the key findings in 2020 were: The most common… Read more →

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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. Controversy is so 2000 and late. Many of the issues that exercised the blogosphere a decade ago have been put to rest. Zelinka, T.A.

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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 We can look first at the scope of coverage: Last year, mentions of “climate change” and “global warming” in global media were up 38% over 2020, making it the year with the second-highest climate coverage overall.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. ” Energy Policy 140 (2020): 111428. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 Egli, Florian.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. agreed with the citizens that “the severity and scope of the climate problem make it necessary for the Dutch government to reduce the Dutch greenhouse gas emissions at a much higher rate, imposing a 25% reduction by 2020.” Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical: The Environmental Reader’s Digest Version.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 23, 2023

From 2015-2020, massive booms in solar power and high speed rail reconstructed landscapes across California’s San Joaquin Valley. Download the thesis. Globally rare alliances of construction unions with environmental justice and immigrant movements won breakthroughs in regional politics.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In a widely read report in 2015 that ECCSCM conducted with the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club, Taylor revealed for the first time that nearly 700 million gallons of liquid manure was spread annually in the western Lake Erie basin. In 2020, according to state figures, 85.3 million from EQIP in 2020, and $4.1

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The previous warmest January was recorded three years ago, January 2020, showing that extreme weather events and temperature records are being broken on a more and more frequent basis. During the 2015 UN climate summit, COP19, held in Paris – the world’s nations agreed to set a target to keep temperatures from rising above 1.5

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Going into 2020, anticipated federal regulation will significantly affect the nation’s response to the Emerald Ash Borer and aquatic invasives in ballast water. 25, 2019, with a final rule likely to be published in 2020. 2015 ruling. Thus, there is reason to be hopeful in 2020. An End to the Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

Another good fact is that 2023, like 2022, did not have a named storm form before the official season start, unlike the 7 straight years from 2015 to 2021. 2020 went well above the forecast, with a record 30 named storms, 14 of which turned into hurricanes, seven becoming major hurricanes.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

An electricity plan published in December 2020 calls for a 2030 power of mix of one-third coal, with the remainder divided roughly equally between nuclear, liquid natural gas, and renewables. Since 2015, South Korea has had an emissions trading system that covers the power sector and industrial sources.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2023

2020: Survey as scalpel The EPA Office of Science and Technology and the National Science Foundation ReNUWIt program funded our group to focus on the relationship between regulation and innovation. Figure 1: Perceptions of barriers to innovation from a survey of wastewater utility managers in California (Kiparsky et al.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the survey was sent to 2,713 schools with 199 responding. In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, 81.4% percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons in 2015 to 8.59 million tons in 2015 to 3.22 percent between 2015 to 2021-- 21.4 Of the schools surveyed, 86.6% Also, 43.5%

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Take the Arctic Circle, a region that contributes around 10% of global black carbon emissions but whose emissions are responsible for 30% of the warming effects in the region (Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Program 2015). June 25, 2020.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This is our third annual report on funding trends in climate change mitigation philanthropy and covers seven years offunding data from 2015 to 2021. In last year’s report, we estimated that of $750 billion in total philanthropic giving worldwide in 2020, roughly $6 billion to$10 billion was dedicated to climate change mitigation.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

When most people weren’t still aware of COVID in January 2020, Chinese scientists had already openly shared the genetic sequence of coronavirus, instantly triggering a race for vaccines worldwide. Annually, cancer kills 10 million people; only 28% of research published between 2015 and 2019 is openly accessible.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Fault lines had surfaced back in 2020 when over a billion dollars worth of unpaid water bills had accumulated in several large U.S. In 2015 the National League of Cities produced a report based on a study involving five cities of various sizes, including Houston and Newark.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. The transition to 100-percent renewables is possible.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Physics World

MAY 17, 2021

His work on quantum teleportation was selected by Physics World as “Breakthrough of the Year 2015”. He is the Chair of Quantum 2020 and has served as an editorial board member in international journals such as Quantum Science and Technology , PhotoniX , Advanced Photonics , Advanced Quantum Technology , Science Bulletin and iScience.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

According to Earthjustice, there are at least 48 unregulated coal ash legacy impoundments and inactive landfills in Pennsylvania that were originally exempt from the 2015 EPA coal ash rule. Read more here. This proposed rule incorporates the information collected in that effort.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

Kahn, 2015. " & Yanguas, Maria Lucia, 2020. " My 2020 LSE Lecture explores this theme. Rhode, 2012. Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century ," American Economic Review , American Economic Association, vol. 102(3), pages 238-244, May. Kahn Matthew E., Kahn & Gary C.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

When most people weren’t aware of COVID in January 2020, Chinese scientists had already openly shared the genetic sequence of coronavirus, triggering a race for vaccines worldwide. Annually, cancer kills 10 million people; only 28% of research published between 2015 and 2019 is openly accessible.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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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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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Details were published yesterday in a 26-page long Communication (European Commission Communication `Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition Investing in a climate-neutral future for the benefit of our people´ (Communication) COM (2020) 562 final ). Spending money will be a key component.

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