Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Compliance was set to begin in 2022, ramping up toward 2030 emission reduction goals. Even without the Clean Power Plan, carbon emissions from power generators fell about 15% from the 2015 level. None of that has happened.

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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. … Continue reading Funding trends 2022: Climate change mitigation philanthropy.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 20, 2022

Australia’s Kakadu Flood Plains in February 2022. Although total pollution incidents declined, the EA wrote that trends had not improved since 2015 and compliance with permits to discharge wastewater had worsened since 2020. Photo © Miles Nicholls / Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Jane Johnston, Stream Editor.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2023

On March 2, the Independent Fiscal Office issued a report on fourth quarter 2022 natural gas production in Pennsylvania showing a 1.6% decline in production from 2021 and a 5.1% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2021. The IFO reported Lycoming County saw a 12.4% The number of new horizontal wells drilled decreased 11.7%

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Click Here for the 2022 week-by-week list of articles! Conservation Leadership - 2004 to 2022: -- 1,198 New Articles In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA -- 233 Stories: These Conservation Leaders Gave Us Cleaner Water, Land & Air In 2020! Posted: December 28, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2015 SB350. 2022 AB 1279. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. 2016 SB 32. 2018 SB100.

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Physics World

JANUARY 4, 2022

Sounds amazing: How protein structure can lead to music is the cover feature of the January 2022 edition of Physics World. Happy new year to all Physics World readers and welcome to 2022! The post Happy new year: the January 2022 issue of <i>Physics World</i> magazine is now out appeared first on Physics World.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, the HS93 reconstruction was extended by our old friend Nicola Scafetta who (partially) used the discredited connection of SCL to global temperature to justify it ( Scafetta et al, 2022 , even citing the paper with the erroneous arithmetic highlighted by Laut back in 2003. 2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). 11-21, 2022.

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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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Environmental News Bits

MAY 20, 2022

et al (2022). ” The Lancet [link] Abstract: The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world’s largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. Fuller, R., “Pollution and health: a progress update.”

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 20, 2022

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — June 20, 2022. In remarks last week, South Africa’s water minister Senzo Mchunu attributed the deficit to a severe multi-year drought which has afflicted the country since 2015—a weather event made more likely by global climate change. Government dysfunction has multiplied drought risks.

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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. ” Available at SSRN 4198146 (2022). Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 Ryan-Collins.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Under construction since 2015, the 3,400-acre project is spending $350 million for a closed-loop water supply system that collects, treats, and recycles wastewater for over 12,500 residences that are planned, plus commercial and retail spaces. A version of t his article was published by The New York Times on December 27, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

From July 2021 through June 2022, PROP (with funding from DEP) coordinated the study. In September 2022, Ali Tarquino Morris, Director of DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management noted in a presentation to DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council , the trends in waste generation and recycling have been going in the wrong direction. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To address this looming problem, FERC issued a draft rule in April 2022 that would require a much more forward-looking, comprehensive approach to transmission system planning. (UCS) UCS’s findings are consistent with the conclusions of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Transmission Needs Study , which it released last October.

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ESA

JULY 19, 2023

In 2022-2023, SEEDS organized 10 in-person events and 7 virtual meetings reaching more than 300 students and another 857 students in 33 active chapters. In 2022-2023, SEEDS organized 10 in-person events and 7 virtual meetings reaching more than 300 students and another 857 students in 33 active chapters.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

DEP’s 2022 Water Quality Report now shows fully one-third of Pennsylvania’s streams and rivers-- 27,886 miles-- do not meet water quality standards-- up over 2,000 miles from just two years ago. Wolf will give his final state budget address on February 8 kicking off the FY 2022-23 budget season. 8 Budget Address Gov. Read more here.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Guest Post by Leena Vilonen , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. A scientific study measured the severity of drought across the western US from 2000 to 2022 and found that in 2021 almost 80% of the western part of the US experienced exceptional or extreme drought (Williams et al. Frontiers in Microbiology 8.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2022

The USGS PA Water Science Center Spring PA Waters newsletter is now available featuring articles on-- -- Report On PA Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network Results 2015-19 -- Data Analysis - PA Real-Time Water Quality -- Nitrogen in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - A Century of Change - Video Click Here to read the entire newsletter.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Schaffernicht, 2015: Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. 2022), Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise, Nature Clim. Feulner, M.E. Robinson, S. Rutherford, and E.J. Nature Climate Change, 5, 475–480, doi:10.1038/nclimate2554. 5. Box, J.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

PA Bulletin - November 12, 2022 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 41 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the November 12 PA Bulletin - pages 7002 to 7043.

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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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Though these heavily polluting plants are being kept online to ensure reliability, ironically most of them have underperformed or experienced outages at various points during heat waves in 2020, 2021 , and 2022. From 2010 to 2015, Texas experienced its second-worst drought in the state’s history.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

on December 24, 2022 and 10:00 a.m. on December 25, 2022. 20, 2015 during the polar vortex. on December 24, 2022, and 10 a.m. on December 25, 2022, will help ensure adequate power supplies. Over Last Year [Posted: December 24, 2022] PA Environment Digest At 4:00 a.m. is 124,791 MW. Read more here.]

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Note that the short period 2015-2021 is not long enough to have the differences in emissions make a big dent in the concentrations or, subsequently, the climate). We suggested this screening in our recent Nature commentary ( Hausfather et al, 2022. 26-29, 2022. and 5.1ºC respectively, compared to 2.2, Hausfather, K. Marvel, G.A.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 1, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency could for the first time impose regulations on hundreds of coal ash sites nationwide that are not covered by 2015 federal coal ash rules. A settlement between environmental groups and the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The award, which was developed to honor Snavely's numerous contributions to the association dating back to its 2015 founding, will be awarded annually to an individual or group that goes above and beyond in efforts to promote and protect the health and vibrancy of the Susquehanna River, its tributaries and its watershed.?

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2023

Support from a range of industry groups was crucial, including National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), the Water Research Foundation (WRF), the Water Environment Federation (WEF), the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA), and state and regional chapters of the Water Environment Association (WEA).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Electric vehicles are “the most direct and efficient solution to improving the air quality in Vietnam , and in other countries in Southeast Asia,” Nguyen told Vietnam Investment Review in 2022. Indonesia This pier on Indonesia’s Karampuang Island, seen in December 2022, is lighted with electricity from solar power. million people.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

In calendar year 2022, DEP received 731 unconventional shale gas permits. In 2015, the Oil and Gas Program had an authorized complement of 226 positions. DEP did 12,846 inspections of conventional operators and 21,627 inspections of unconventional shale gas operators in 2022. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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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. 2022 fortunately kept to the lower end of the forecast range with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes, and two major hurricanes.

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Environmental Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Wed, 11/02/2022 - 12:48. An EPA administrative law judge ordered a commercial recycling company to pay $16,000 for unlawfully exporting spent lead acid batteries to China and South Korea in 2015. In re Caribbean All Metal Recyclers Corp. hjones@eli.org. 07/25/2017. Case Number. RCRA-02-2016-7103. 47 ELR 47908.

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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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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. Warm regards, Kamila.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2023

Mongabay reports that between 2015 and 2022, more than 200 people have died from drownings, cave-ins, and landslides. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers 2 Number of meters (approximately 6 feet) that the Kakhovka reservoir has dropped since November 2022, NPR reports.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For the first eight months of the year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than the same period in 2022. The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021. It’s the lowest level for the month of August since 2018 and it continues a downward trend. Gray: That’s right.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Bryan Glenn – September 7, 2022. In 2015 the National League of Cities produced a report based on a study involving five cities of various sizes, including Houston and Newark. For equitable access, water utilities need new revenue collection models. Photo by Fran Jacquier on Unsplash. The American Rescue Plan Act was a landmark law.

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