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. Payne (2019) Beverly A. 2020) Berta & David W.

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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. Because she’s been on the Court of Appeals for such a short time, her environmental rulings have all been on the trial bench. United States, 329 F. 3d 214 (D.S.C.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

December 27, 2019. The 2019 amendment extends special treatment with respect to capacity need to certain small hydroelectric projects (those with total capacity less than or equal to 5 MW). S 381 continues a series of legislative acts necessary to comply with the 2016 N.C. Supreme Court decision in McCrory v.

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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). 2016 ), a reduction of Saharan dust concentration since the 1970s ( Evan et al. 2016 ), could increase again in concentration. 2016 ), in addition to a long-term decline ( Caesar et al. 2013 ; Sobel et al.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

That percentage was actually the same for wildfires between 2016-2020 in California – a high-risk wildfire state. When PG&E proceeded with a 2-million-customer public safety power shutoff event in 2019, Robert Mardis Sr. In 2019, a fire in Maui came within 150 feet of an oil-fired power plant.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. It has also gone from being a military dictatorship to a robust democracy.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The rule required states to submit initial compliance plans in 2016, with final implementation plans in 2018. Between 2015 and 2019, the amount of electricity generated from coal dropped by a third. When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030.

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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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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

The last coal plant in Scotland closed in 2016. In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency. This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc., and is separate from their 2020 goal which centered just on electricity. There is an interim target of 75% reduction of 1990 levels by 2030. Northern Ireland. Other UK Cities.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2019) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Civil Penalty - $26,725 - Mor42 well site - Washington County, East Finley Twp. Industrial Waste Discharge, Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2019) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Civil Penalty - $15,263 - Mor29 Gathering Pipeline - Greene County, Morris Twp.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The parties amended the MSA in January and July 2016, adding Gulfport Buckeye (now Gulfport Appalachia) as a party in the July amendment. In December 2019, Gulfport Energy sued Stingray in Delaware state court for breach of contract. The MSA was amended for the third time in 2018 to extend the term until the end of 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The FDA, which is part of HHS, regulates approved methods for medical device sterilization and initiated a process to identify alternative sterilization methods in 2019. To be clear: EPA is not proposing that these facilities cease operations or suddenly banning the use of EtO. And these regulations are not a surprise to the industry.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2019, Westlands filed a “validation” action in Fresno County Superior Court seeking judicial approval of its proposed CVP water delivery contract with the Bureau of Reclamation. But that financial obligation has never been satisfied either.)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

The 2016 Water Quality assessment found 19,900 miles of streams did not meet water quality standards. The last Water Quality Report in 2020 identified 25,468 miles of streams for one or more uses-- aquatic life, recreation, fish consumption and water supply. Read more here. ] Read more here.] Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Nevertheless, Jeff Landry—Louisiana’s AG since January 2016—seems more interested in defending the fossil fuel industry than his constituents. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window. Between 1990 and 2016, the sea level off its 2,876-mile coast rose 6 inches , at least partly because the land is sinking.

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Big Tobacco’s Big Profits #ActOnTobacco Action on Smoking and Health | April 14, 2019 Today marks the start of a campaign by ASH and our partners, highlighting how Big Tobacco’s big profits continue to be built on a lethal trade and shady dealings.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

Little did I know how prescient I was, because later on Friday, Judge Brian Morris – the same judge who invalidated the RMPs – went farther and reinstated the moratorium on leasing of public lands for coal mining that had been implemented by then-Secretary Jewell in 2016. . Once more, Judge Morris found DOI’s NEPA analysis inadequate.

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

A pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, he took on leadership roles and organized workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019).

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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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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 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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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

A pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, he took on leadership roles and organized workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 21, 2016 - report not available.] [The This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 21, 2016 - report not available.] DEP previously performed an emergency mitigation project in 2019 to address stray soil gas in the area.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In Australia , many of the same areas that endured brutal bushfires in 2019 and 2020 are now drowning in record-setting rainfall. Australia smoldered during the epic “Black Summer” bush fires of 2019 and 2020. Traffic from fishing, cargo, and military ships has increased by 58% between 2016 and 2019.

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Environmental Progress

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

and foreign government support for domestic censorship and disinformation, 2016 - 2022 Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government November 30, 2023 Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Plaskett, and members of the Subcommittee thank you for inviting my testimony.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

The 2021 record beat the previous record set in July 2016, which was tied with 2019 and 2020. . of a degree C higher than the 2016 record. In July this year, the combined land and ocean surface temperature across the world was 0.93 degrees C above the 20th-century average of 15.8

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Frontiers

MAY 18, 2022

Researchers investigated the effects of high air temperature and drought on the breeding success of southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert between 2008 and 2019. The results showed that breeding output collapsed during the monitoring period (2008-2019) due to the increased maximum air temperature. Population collapse.

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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.]

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two hubs and digital attendence through zoom, was a change from previous ICRCs held in ICTP (2011) , Brussels (2013) , Stockholm (2016) , and Beijing (2019). 31-45, 2016. BENESTAD, H.V. STORCH, and J.H. Schumacher, J. Fischer, and S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued 12 unconventional shale gas drillers notices of violation for abandoning gas wells without plugging them at 35 wells pads (each with multiple wells) in 17 counties between 2016 and 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. Read more here. Jordan 6 - Hempfield Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On October 6, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has assessed and collected a $147,250 civil penalty from Rice Drilling B LLC for erosion and sedimentation violations that were documented in 2019 and 2020 at Rice’s Mac well site in Whitely Township, Greene County.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

One of the two permits was issued as a result of Clean Air Council’s successful April 29, 2016 appeal of an earlier version of the permit. Energy Transfer had appealed Plan Approval 23-0119E as revised after the 2019 Board decision (at EHB Docket No. 2021-030-L ) and Plan Approval 23-0119J (at EHB Docket No 2021-031-L ).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Bodies In Seats Casey Newton | The Verge | June 19, 2019 The stress of the job weighed on Utley, according to his former co-workers, who, like all Facebook contractors at the Tampa site, must sign a 14-page nondisclosure agreement. SEC 2016) Facebook Inc Subsidiaries (via U.S. Facebook Inc Subsidiaries (via U.S.

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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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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2022

Hurricane Matthew in early October, 2016. A recent study found that communities of color in North Carolina faced higher risk of gastrointestinal illnesses after Hurricanes Matthew and Florence in 2016 and 2018. Photo © Ryan Johnson/North Charleston on Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers.

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