Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 14, 2022

But it blew past that threshold in 2016, prompting the company to set even more ambitious targets — to reduce all transport-related emissions to zero by 2050. . When DHL first set its GoGreen target in 2007-2008, the goal was to become 30% more efficient by 2020. The post DHL Is Investing $7.5

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 3, 2023

billion gallons annually since 2016. . American Water Works is committed to sustainability by reducing its CO2 releases and saving water. The company says that, on average, the conservation and efficiency measures have enabled residential customers to save 3.4 The post American Water Is Reducing CO2 Levels and Saving Water.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2016

President Obama signed the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act or the SAFE PIPES Act into law on June 22, 2016. Importantly, the SAFE PIPES Act mandates the PHMSA provide a report to Congress within eighteen months studying the risks and safety recommendations for existing hazardous liquid pipelines.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 3, 2023

billion gallons annually since 2016. . American Water Works is committed to sustainability by reducing its CO2 releases and saving water. The company says that, on average, the conservation and efficiency measures have enabled residential customers to save 3.4 The post American Water Is Reducing CO2 Levels and Saving Water.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

On September 2, 2016, the Texas Supreme Court agreed to review three oil and gas cases involving issues pertinent to the industry and land and mineral owners. Red Deer has been set for oral argument on November 10, 2016. Laddex has been set for oral argument on October 11, 2016. BP America Production Company v. Laddex, Ltd.

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New Scientist

MAY 22, 2024

million children in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD at some point, about 1 million more kids than had been diagnosed as of 2016 New survey data estimates that 7.1

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 5, 2016

On April 14, 2016, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ISDA ) announced the 2016 ISDA Credit Support Annex for Variation Margin for use with New York law transactions (the 2016 CSA ). Parties to the 2016 CSA are able to negotiate collateral terms for variation margin in accordance with rules issued by U.S.

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Yale E360

JULY 11, 2022

In the first half of this year, deforestation claimed roughly 1,500 square miles of the Amazon rainforest, an area five times the size of New York City and the greatest loss since at least 2016, according to the Brazilian Space Agency. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Westlake Corporation today announced its target to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO2 equivalent emissions per ton of production 20% by 2030 from a 2016 baseline. The post How Westlake Plans to Achieve 20% Emissions Reduction by 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 14, 2022

But it blew past that threshold in 2016, prompting the company to set even more ambitious targets — to reduce all transport-related emissions to zero by 2050. . When DHL first set its GoGreen target in 2007-2008, the goal was to become 30% more efficient by 2020. The post DHL Is Investing $7.5

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 24, 2023

The NJTPA has been providing grants to local governments to improve safety on the roads since 2016. However, this is the largest safety-oriented grant ever awarded by the NJTPA. The post Essex County Awarded $46M by NJTPA to Improve Transportation Infrastructure appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global average air temperature smashed the September average by half a degree Celsius, leading to predictions that 2023 will surpass 2016 as the hottest year ever recorded

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New Scientist

JANUARY 24, 2024

Photographer Matjaz Krivic has been charting the effects of lithium mining on locals in the world's largest salt flat in Bolivia since 2016

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Energy & the Law

MAY 24, 2023

The question for the Court: Did the North Block expire on December 31, 2015, or January 1, 2016? The day the North Block expired determined whether Apache breached the contract by failing to offer the lease back to Sellers or had until the end of 2016 to drill the 20,000 feet. Thus, the North Block expired on January 1, 2016.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Feedback investigates research into US voters (and their handedness) between 1964 and 2016, and discovers that conclusions of some sort have been drawn

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Yale E360

MARCH 8, 2022

In the wake of 2016's Hurricane Matthew and 2018's Hurricane Florence, North Carolina emergency rooms saw a spike in visits for diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea, with the largest uptick among older Black and Native American patients, according to a new study. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

MARCH 25, 2022

Mass beachings have grown more frequent with rising temperatures, afflicting the reef in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, and again this year. The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing its sixth mass bleaching event, as unusually warm waters stress corals, authorities say. Read more on E360 ?.

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Real Climate

JULY 8, 2023

Maine which provides a nice front end to the NOAA NCEP CFS forecast system and reanalysis and shows absolute daily temperatures in early July clearly exceeding the highest pre-existing temperatures from August 2016. It’s an arresting graphic, and follows in from the record high ocean surface temperatures that were being reported a month ago.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.) For instance, the trends from 2016 to 2022 are -0.12±0.37ºC/dec Assuming something like 2016 (a +0.11ºC effect), that implies you might see the excedence some 5 years earlier – say 2027 to 2037 (depending a little on the time-series you are following).

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Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

Of course, the records being set in the UAH TLT record blows the ‘climate has been cooling since 2016’ trope that they used through to about last summer, leaving them no plausible data refuge. Efforts to update and improve the freshwater estimates will be undertaken this spring (register for the workshop here! ).

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Yale E360

JUNE 24, 2022

A Honduran court has sentenced former power company president Roberto David Castillo to 22 years and six months in prison for his role in the 2016 assassination of environmental activist Berta Cáceres. Read more on E360 ?.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Conventional oil and gas companies were issued over 4,270 notices of violation for abandoning oil and gas wells without plugging them in 2016 through 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. 2016; 2017) IA Const Corp (2020) John H. & Eugene A.

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New Scientist

MARCH 2, 2023

A 9-metre-long corridor in the 4500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza that was discovered in 2016 has now been mapped, and researchers have used a tiny camera to peer inside

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is easier to deal with the balance at the top of the atmosphere or use a simplified description that includes convection and radiation as discussed here previously on RealClimate and presented in Benestad (2016). 679-688, 2016. Focusing on the tropics easily gives too high values ​​for water vapour if applied to the whole planet.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2016, local courts found Halet guilty of stealing documents. Tax auditor Raphaël Halet leaked over 28,000 documents outlining schemes created by the Luxembourg offices of global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to help companies like Apple, Heinz and Pepsi avoid paying taxes.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2016 SB 32. 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. 2015 SB350. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. 2018 SB100. Required zero carbon emissions from power grid by 2045.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 28, 2023

In 2016, Torch assigned its interest to PBEX. The next year, Torch conveyed that interest to Dorchester Minerals L.P.’s s predecessor. Not long after, Torch signed a division order acknowledging that its interest was 0 percent. Dorchester informed Torch that it no longer had an interest in the lease. Torch filed suit.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 10, 2024

Our climate has changed (EPA, 2016). Download the thesis. We are living in an era that necessitates adaptation and resilience. The Earth is warming. Our planet is also rapidly urbanizing. It is predicted that 68% of people will live in cities by 2050.

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Nanotech

JULY 9, 2024

This hybrid conference marked the eighth Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Annual Conference, reflecting on the accomplishments and challenges since the implementation of the 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Lautenberg Act) and where TSCA stands today.

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MAY 19, 2023

These new standards rely on the findings of a 2016 risk assessment by EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program, which determined that long-term exposure to EtO can increase your risk of developing cancer. In fact, the 2016 IRIS risk assessment found that EtO was up to 60 times more toxic than previously understood.

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Nanotech

APRIL 23, 2024

Background As amended in 2016, the Agricultural Marketing Act requires USDA to establish a national mandatory standard for disclosing any food The post AMS Publishes RFI on Electronic and Digital Link Disclosures under the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 11, 2023

By Kiley Bense In 2016, disturbing footage captured on a sunny beach in Argentina went viral. After decades of conservation efforts to protect whales, two recent books shed light on why they’re still threatened—and how we might change that.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Conventional oil and gas companies were issued over 4,270 notices of violation for abandoning oil and gas wells without plugging them in 2016 through 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. Weaver (2019) Betz Oil (2016) Betz Oil (2021) Beverly A. & Nancy (2016) Boyd G.Eugene A. & Robert T.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 28, 2021

We only had a skin-deep look at Jupiter before the Juno spacecraft began orbiting the planet in 2016 and the measurements the NASA mission has taken reveal unexpected information about its deep interior

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

M-2016-2543193. Act 12 of 2016 Signed into law as Act 12 of 2016 (Act 12), Section 1329 addresses the sale of water and wastewater systems owned by municipal corporations or authorities by providing a process for the sale of public water and wastewater assets at fair market rates. M-2016-2543193.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. “It And in the American Southwest, she has taken up a new refrain: that “we can’t have land back without water back.”. “In

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