PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Radiation Testing DEP did not test anywhere on the Latkanich property for radiation or radon gas, in spite of multiple requests, according to Johnson. Radiation testing was never part of the testing that the Department performs on the site, even though we had asked repeatedly for radiation testing. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A study released in May 2022 by Penn State found radiation levels of conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater disposed of by uncontrolled spreading on roads contained levels of radioactivity exceeding industrial radiation discharge standards. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Another co-factor, radiation from wireless communications can affect navigation during migration. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, an independent scientific panel that advises government, officially recommended monarchs be protected as endangered in 2016. Tim Gray, Executive Director, Environmental Defence.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Caption: The Salar de Atacama salt works in Chile in 2016. Against the backdrop of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Salar de Atacama Mine radiates with a futuristic blue light—its cerulean pools glow like tessellated computer screens, a stark contrast to the muted landscape that surrounds them. Photo © NASA Johnson /Flickr Creative Commons.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This knowledge can help with solar radiation management in marine ecosystems, including the Great Barrier Reef. One of the worst mass bleaching events occurred in 2016 and 2017 on the Great Barrier Reef, causing bleaching on 91% of the system’s reefs. Over the past two decades, coral reefs have declined at unprecedented rates.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Smoke-driven changes in radiation have real world consequences beyond making for good film fodder and beautiful sunsets. For one, plants rely on solar radiation to grow, and the U.S. agricultural regions lie in the path of wildfire smoke, we need to understand how radiation changes impact different types of crops.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In 2016, he was nominated professor at the VUB and became chief of medical physics at the UZ Brussel (UZB). Join the audience. Thierry Gevaert graduated as medical physicist at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and defended his PhD “Clinical implementation of frameless radiosurgery” in 2012.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

See for instance Benestad (2016). The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing. 679-688, 2016. References R.E.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

DEP prohibited the road dumping of shale gas drilling wastewater in 2016 regulations. The Journal article noted some previous studies of radiation on unpaved roads found little radiation, but this study suggests the reason was the radium was washed off the roadbeds during rain events. Read more here. Read more here.

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Frontiers

JULY 20, 2021

This could help put measures in place that limit damage to technology and energy grids on Earth from the electromagnetic radiation. Palmerio and collaborators looked at four stealth CMEs that occurred between 2008 and 2016. The novel imaging techniques applied to remote sensing data of the coronal mass ejection on 08 Oct 2016.

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Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

These funnels are rooted deeper in the Sun, in the star’s light-radiating photosphere, and they extend far into interplanetary space. After training the neural network, the team used it to study 1700 EUV and magnetic field images of the Sun, taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory between November 2010 and December 2016.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2021

DEP has conducted several investigations into potential radiological contamination associated with unconventional oil and gas waste, including a large-scale investigatory study of Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (TENORM) in 2016, as well as testing of leachate from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill (WSL).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

The decay chain of radium involves the release of radiation. Exposure to radiation has been linked to causing various types of cancers , such as lymphomas, leukemia, and bone cancer. The presence of radium-226 and radium-228 is of great concern for individuals’ health.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2022

From 2016 to 2021, DEP approved 752 plans for the permanent disposal of drill cuttings at oil and gas well drilling sites through the decades-old practice of “dusting”-- forcefully blowing drill cuttings on the ground around their drilling sites, according to DEP’s response to a Right To Know request.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

She is a climate scientist on detail from EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she is leading the fifth National Climate Assessment at the U.S. Allison has expertise in assessing climate impacts and risks, particularly on health and economic damages, and led the 2016 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The DEP banned road spreading of unconventional waste in 2016. Recommendations The report makes five recommendations for closing the loophole and fixing the deficiencies in the oil and gas waste reporting system-- -- Ban road spreading – The DEP banned road spreading of waste from unconventional wells in 2016.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

So if somebody happened to have driven through a pool of this radiated de-icing stuff, you necessarily didn't have to have driven through this, it's now on your car. PA DEP banned the road spreading of unconventional shale gas wastewater in regulations adopted in 2016. Kids put everything in their mouth. It's too cold in your garage.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

This is an issue that has been identified internally, it's actually even broader than just the radiation concerns [with waste], there's a broader waste management concern here, even for non-radioactive plugging waste.” “I I think there are methods that were used in the past that didn't, may not quite work now.

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Physics World

MAY 18, 2022

But if primordial black holes (PBHs) did form as early as one second after the Big Bang, during the “radiation dominated” era, things would be different. As Hawking had first realized, black holes evaporate over time, via Hawking radiation. Black holes formed much later, only after the first ancient stars had died.

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Physics World

JULY 1, 2021

The OncoRay researchers work closely on algorithm development and validation with their colleagues at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg – the two institutes together form the National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO) – while industrial support comes from the Cancer Therapy Business Line at Siemens Healthineers.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The correlation had been shown in a paper by an author outside the conventional scientific community, so, for good measure, Simpson added that a non-expert could not properly appreciate how atmospheric circulation affects the absorption of radiation.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2022

Through a Right To Know request, PA Environment Digest reviewed 12 randomly selected alternative on-site waste disposal plans submitted by conventional oil and gas operators from the 721 conventional operator plans DEP approved between 2016 to 2021. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the UN specialized body for aviation, earned international praise in October 2016 for striking a deal to cap emissions from international passenger and cargo flights at 2020 levels, but a new Sabin Center Working Paper argues that ICAO must improve its transparency to truly “take-off.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Regulation PA DEP banned the road spreading of unconventional shale gas wastewater in regulations adopted in 2016. See Photos Here - Read more here. See Photos Here - Read more here.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. April 19, 2016. Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? link] Jacobson, Mark Z. March 26, 2014.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

in September 2016. Crop damage radiates inward gradually from the edges of a field, where the salt hits first. Photo: © Dr. Raghupathy Karthikeyan / Clemson University. Chalmers first began to worry seriously about salt when Hurricane Matthew struck the southeastern U.S.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s why gas-powered cars need complex and expensive radiator systems with their associated belts, pipes, and heat exchangers. As of 2016, wind provided 8 percent of US electric generation. A significant portion of the energy from gasoline is converted to unwanted heat. You’ll feel the loss of energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2022

He has also served as a leader at World Jamborees in Chile and Thailand, and he received the District Award of Merit in 2004 and the Silver Beaver Award in 2016. In early 2020 he was diagnosed with stage four non-Hodgkin lymphoma and underwent multiple chemotherapy and radiation treatments before undergoing Car-T immunotherapy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Updates To Conventional Drilling Regulations Still Pending Since 2016, when an update to conventional oil and gas drilling regulations were killed by the General Assembly and Gov. The weekly reports posted during 2023 are below. Wolf, DEP has been trying to get a new package of updates out for formal public comment.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Now however, the updates to the historical warming , the use of four datasets instead of one, and of course, the series of record breaking years subsequently (2014, 2015, 2016/2020), the issue of variability in decadal trends is no longer so salient. 1981) which can be seen here. The radiative forcing bar chart now converted to temperature.

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Physics World

JULY 5, 2021

In 2016, he completed his PhD at the University of Geneva , Switzerland, followed by almost four years as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in California. Before taking up his CityU post, Denver Li spent much of the previous decade broadening his research experience in Europe and the US.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

DEP outlawed road dumping of drilling wastewater from unconventional shale gas wells in regulations adopted in 2016. Read more here. Both conventional and unconventional wastewater come from essentially the same place and have similar chemical makeups. million gallons from 2018 to 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Updates To Conventional Drilling Regulations Still Pending Since 2016, when an update to conventional oil and gas drilling regulations were killed by the General Assembly and Gov. The weekly reports posted during 2023 are below. Wolf, DEP has been trying to get a new package of updates out for formal public comment.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2022

DEP outlawed road dumping of drilling wastewater from unconventional shale gas wells in regulations adopted in 2016. Read more here. Both conventional and unconventional wastewater come from essentially the same place and have similar chemical makeups. million gallons from 2018 to 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

DEP outlawed road dumping of drilling wastewater from unconventional shale gas wells in regulations adopted in 2016. Read more here. Both conventional and unconventional wastewater come from essentially the same place and have similar chemical makeups. million gallons from 2018 to 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 15, 2023

From a few minutes of an interview with the filmmaker, I can see that spectators of his movie will safely assume that the characters have all the possible means to escape to minimize their exposure to radiation. Such a space was never offered to people at ground level in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on those critical days.

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Physics World

JANUARY 28, 2022

Ultrahigh-dose-rate FLASH radiotherapy – whether using electron, proton or photon treatment beams – is shaping up as the “next big thing” in radiation oncology research. Another advantage of the Medscint detectors is their compact footprint (0.5 mm long, 0.5 mm diameter), which makes them ideal for small-field and multipoint dosimetry.

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