Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Before the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, the world was on track for a catastrophic four degrees of warming. The ultimate goal of COP is to reach global agreements and commitments to combat climate change, like the famous Paris Agreement, which was adopted at COP21 in 2015. What comes out of COP?

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Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

As the climate monitoring groups add an additional dot to their graphs this week, there is some disquiet among people paying attention about just how extraordinary 2023 really was. Only the jump from 2014 to 2015 (coincidentally (?) In the GISTEMP product, the record was easily broken, and by a record amount.

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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. s wrong dashed-blue line is flat since about 1940 but they reported that this solar dataset supports 58 % of warming being due to the Sun. 409-452, 2015.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Visit DCNR’s Sustainable Practices webpage to learn more about green and sustainable initiatives. Colonel Denning State Park has 273 acres of woodland and a 3.5-acre The park serves as a gateway to the 96,000-acre Tuscarora State Forest, which surrounds the park.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. John is optimistic about our future; "The share of the world population in extreme poverty is plummeting. Asked that way, you can see that "lower carbon emissions" is about #100 on the list, even admitting the 5-10% of GDP thumb-on-the-scale estimates.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They knew—and they knew what to do about it to make sure we didn’t do anything meaningful about it.” Beginning in 2015, journalists began to uncover mounting evidence of Defendants’ campaign of deception,” the complaint says. “In This list is not comprehensive; I’ve said nothing about podcasts, but you get the idea.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

They sought to hold Portugal and 32 other countries accountable for not meeting the emissions reduction targets set under the 2015 Paris climate accord. These cases are not just about legal principles; they address crucial issues about the future of our planet and the need to safeguard human rights in the face of climate change.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

By Phil McKenna Acts of sabotage in September against the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines that run from Russia to Germany beneath the Baltic Sea released more than twice as much methane as the 2015-2016 Aliso Canyon gas storage leak in California, yet will have little impact on the climate, according to a study released Friday.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This raises a red flag about the structural integrity of both this pipeline and other offshore oil infrastructure off America’s coasts. Californians have experienced far too many oil spills, from the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969 and the Cusco Buson spill in 2007 to the Refugio oil spill in 2015 and now the Huntington spill today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

These data go hand-in-hand with critical disinformation and obstruction research that lays out the coordinated disinformation campaign by fossil fuel producers to deceive the public about the risks of their products, and delay meaningful action on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But despite the more favorable economics of solar and wind compared to gas, that figure is only a little more than half of gas’s share of about 40 percent. When CAISO declared “Stage 3” emergencies and started these blackout processes on the 14th, gas plants made up about 79% of the offline capacity. energy system.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Well, back in 1993 (before the more comprehensive critiques had been published), Hoyt and Schatten put together a long-term estimate of solar activity that relied on the SCL, based on the idea from FCL91 and scaled to a finding about cycling and non-cycling stars that turned out to be wrong too (Wright, 2004). 2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

AUGUST 19, 2021

Over the decades, Amazon has assembled a huge database about each of its customers. Such data (and knowing where each of us lives) allows it to make educated predictions about what goods we will want to buy at its retail stores. 1 (2015): 258-296. Amazon will stock their stores with such products. Read this paper.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

To learn more about the history of this dataset, ways researchers have used a previous version of it, and applications for new research and climate litigation, check out this blog post written by my colleague Carly Phillips. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.

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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. The shortages would leave 107 suburbs and townships without tap water. .

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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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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A “fiduciary duty” apples to a person who occupies a position of particular confidence towards another and requires a higher standard of behavior than in just about any other relationship. From 2011 to 2015 he arranged to hire companies owned by his close friend Robertson to perform post-frac drillout operations.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Currently, despite its relatively small population of about fifty million, it’s the world’s twelfth largest economy — about the same size as Russia’s economy. 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%.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 3, 2024

This is one of the remaining components of the 2015 Produce Safety Rule and has been much anticipated by agricultural and public health communities. For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition press@sustainableagriculture.net Tel.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I’d love to hear from readers about these issues. 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. Download as PDF

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

But this seemingly simple calculation turns out to be riddled with uncertainties, particularly when you’re talking about regulating the energy industry. One came up with a $2 billion figure (about a. Another expert estimate was about one-eighth the original projected cost.

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Inhabitant

JANUARY 27, 2023

In order to avoid the risks brought about by climate change, we must control greenhouse gases (GHGs) from being released into the atmosphere and boost the means of sequestering them. This figure was chosen in the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world's first holistic climate-related treaty.

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2023

2012: Intuition about innovation Our first effort on innovation began at the inception of the ReNUWIt program, with an article arguing that there is an innovation deficit in the urban water sector. 2016: Survey as blunt instrument We dove deeper into the perceptions wastewater managers in California hold about innovation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2024

In 2015, the Conservancy established the scholarship in memory of Vanessa Joy Van Gorder. A recent graduate from West Chester University with a degree in education, Vanessa was passionate about the outdoors and loved exploring the lakes, rivers, and forests of the Upper Delaware River Region with her friends and family.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Most of that evaporates though, and what ends up in the ocean of this, according to a recent study by Jason Box (5), is around 100 Gt/year, about 30% of which in form of ice and 70% in form of meltwater. Schaffernicht, 2015: Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. or other estimates).

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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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Physics World

JUNE 9, 2022

If we want more people to become interested in physics, sending out the wrong signals about the discipline on social media is the surest way to fail. She also talks about the IOP’s Limit Less campaign, which aims “to support young people to change the world and fulfil their potential by doing physics”.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

23 to 29 - Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Wastewater Releases; Conventional Wells Venting Gas [PaEN] -- TribLive: Peoples Gas Seeks State Approval For 21.4%

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2021

But from 2015-2020, the average was 16 per year. Houston also had so-called 500-year floods in 2015 and 2016. We’ve recently learned about the need to have a public health system that’s strong enough to respond to abnormal threats, not just the everyday ones. Escalating impacts. Interestingly, nearly half of them were in Texas.)

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The breakthrough happened in 2015, at the landmark conference in Paris. If it was one of those game changers, I probably would have had something to say about it,” Dean Muruven, WWF’s global policy manager for fresh water, told Circle of Blue. degrees. “If In the national climate space, the emphasis is on national,” Timboe explained.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The LIGO detectors were the first ever to detect a gravitational-wave signal – from the merger of two black holes – back in 2015. Cardiff University physicists and LIGO–Virgo members Katherine Dooley , Stephen Fairhurst and Fabio Antonini are on hand to talk about the latest haul of observations and what we can expect in the future.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There’s much on the agenda at this year’s summit, including negotiations on what measures countries are willing to take to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement—a commitment they made at COP21 back in 2015. My UCS colleagues and I are here because global climate policy must be informed by and aligned with the latest science.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

degrees C target that world leaders agreed upon in the Paris Agreement of 2015. Swiss glaciers lost about 10% of their remaining volume for the past two years. In Canada wildfires burned over a record area, equating to about 5% of woodlands in the world’s second-largest country measured on landmass. degrees C of breaching the 1.5

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Physics World

APRIL 20, 2022

Harassing behaviour is pervasive in astronomy, with about a third experiencing discrimination at college or at work. The report is based on a longitudinal survey about harassment and discrimination experienced by early-career astronomers that began in 2003.

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