Acoel

AUGUST 16, 2021

As discussed in an earlier blog , it was not until 2017 that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court used Section 27 to hold a statute unconstitutional. On July 21, 2021, the state’s Supreme Court reaffirmed and extended its 2017 holding. A once-obscure area of environmental law is gaining in importance.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

It achieved that goal in 2017. In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2021

A study by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in 2017 found air quality in the region was ranked moderate or worse one of every three days, […]. The Baltimore region ranks among the worst in the U.S. for air pollution.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 24, 2022

The New York Times reports that a top secret special operations unit in the Defense Department bombed the Tabqa Dam on March 26, 2017. Six months later, in October 2017, Syrian forces regained control of Raqqa. In Syria, a strategically important dam that was supposed to be protected from airstrikes was in fact the target of a U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2022

In February 2017, the Mokelumne River broke through a levee and flooded this farm near Walnut Grove, California. Photo © Eric Gies. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 7, 2022. Modern societies have dramatically disrupted the water cycle.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The manatee was downlisted in 2017 from endangered to threatened, over the objections of scientists, environmentalists and citizens. Nearly 2,000 manatees died in Florida in 2021 and 2022 as water pollution killed the seagrass they feed on. By Amy Green ORLANDO, Fla.—The

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Yale E360

AUGUST 25, 2022

If not for climate change, 2017's Hurricane Harvey might have flooded half as many homes in the Houston area, a new study finds. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Notable 21 st century wildfires Since 2017, many western states have experienced record-breaking wildfires. And California’s eight largest wildfires on record have all occurred since 2017. In Colorado, for example, the state’s three largest wildfires on record all occurred in 2020.

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Yale E360

JUNE 11, 2021

A new analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) suggests that global sales of gas-powered cars likely peaked in 2017, marking a major milestone in the shift to electric vehicles. Demand for conventional vehicles fell in 2018 and 2019 before dropping sharply in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

On December 29, DEP issued a report on conventional oil and gas operator compliance saying the most frequent environmental, health and safety violation between 2017 and through 2021 was new oil and gas well abandonments. Martino Unit 2H (2017) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Albany Twp. Christoff 592016 (2017) -- EQT Prod Co.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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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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Vermont Law

MARCH 13, 2019

. Keynote Address: 2017 VJEL Symposium. .

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

2017 will remain for me the year energy storage broke ground. But wind works at a maximum 35% of the time for onshore and perhaps 45% for offshore wind. Solar PV is even lower, with 20 to 30% capacity factor. So, backup solutions are being sought. Here is a summary of news that got my interest in the past few months.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 5, 2023

In compliance with that obligation, MRC created a drilling schedule listing June 2, 2017 as the spud date of a new well based on its belief that the deadline to spud that well was June 19, 2017. The actual deadline, however, was May 21, 2017.

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NRDC

APRIL 12, 2023

In a boost for energy efficient buildings, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan adopted the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017 last month. Building energy codes are effective tools to ensure energy efficiency in the construction and operation of buildings.

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Scientific American

MARCH 22, 2023

A new study suggests that ’Oumuamua, the mysterious visitor that whizzed through our solar system in 2017, may have been merely a small comet from another star

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

This isn’t a universally accepted notion – Hawkins et al (2017) for instance, suggest we should use a baseline from the 18th Century – but it is one that easier to operationalise. 1841-1856, 2017. and 1.3ºC warmer (with Berkeley Earth showing the most warming). Thorne, and G.J.

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National Law Center

JULY 6, 2023

In 2017, several environmental groups petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to close what the groups described as a “loophole” that. The post EPA Faces Treated Seeds Lawsuit appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Brag

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent proposal to overhaul its 2017 risk evaluation ‘framework’ rule. On December 6, 2023, comments by Lynn L. Bergeson and Richard E. Engler, Ph.D. were featured in Chemical Watch’s article on the U.S.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In 2017, a group of colleagues and I wrote a perspective on the use of statistical methods in climate research where we also discussed common EOFs (Benestad et al., 697-703, 2017. I think common EOFs are a clever concept and have used them as a framework for empirical-statistical downscaling since 2001 (Benestad, 2001). Uotila, C.F.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is a list of companies issued ten or move NOVs for abandoning conventional oil and gas wells without plugging them in any one year-- Advanced Petro Corp (2016) Aiello Bros Oil & Gas (2016; 2017) Allegheny Enterprises (2018) ARG Resources (2018) Bobcat Well & Pipeline (2017) Boyd G. 2016; 2017) IA Const Corp (2020) John H.

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Real Climate

APRIL 19, 2022

van der Linden et al (2017) or [2] ). 1600008, 2017. e0175799, 2017. Perhaps more useful is the idea of inoculation against misinformation (e.g. Maibach, "Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change", Global Challenges , vol. Lewandowsky, and U.K.H.

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NRDC

APRIL 11, 2023

In a boost for energy efficient buildings, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan adopted the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017 last month. Building energy codes are effective tools to ensure energy efficiency in the construction and operation of buildings.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 1, 2022

June 2017: Tests indicate the property is contaminated from oil and gas operations. October 2017: Landowners sue Americo for negligence and other claims for failure to take the “requisite steps to prevent leaks or pollution to the property once the wells became inactive.”.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 24, 2023

A rash of storms in Texas in recent years — from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to the deep freeze in 2021 — has put big chunks of the population in danger and left millions without electricity or water for long periods. Read the full story from the University of Texas.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

She was a board member of the pro-oil Fraser Institute from 2017-2020. During her tenure on the board it published numerous reports and op-eds that aimed to cast doubt on the seriousness of climate change.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

By Delaney Dryfoos In San Felipe, a fishing town on the northeast edge of Baja California, the use and transportation of gillnets have been banned by the Mexican government since 2017 as a measure to protect the rare vaquita porpoise.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 23, 2023

By Emma Foehringer Merchant When wildfires spread through parts of Northern California wine country in 2017, they melted electronics, combusted cars and exploded propane tanks. Climate change portends ever more frequent fires, and the smoky haze is “not easy to run from anymore,” notes one of the study’s leaders.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Environmental Leader

JULY 12, 2022

Best Buy set out in 2017 to reduce its carbon emissions in its operations by 60% by 2030 — from a 2009 baseline. It has met that goal. Now it is upping the ante. The post Best Buy Excels at Carbon and Waste Reductions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This expressly includes the Offer to Purchase submitted to the Seller on or about April 10, 2017 …. A merger clause in the PSA said: This Agreement constitutes the sole and only agreement of the parties hereto and supersedes any prior understanding or written or oral agreements between the parties respecting the within subject matter.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Lacastro (2019) Anthony 564 OG (2020) Apex Energy (2020) ARG Resources (2017) ARG Resources (2018) ARG Resources (2019) ARG Resources (2020) ARMAC Resources (2019) Atlas Resources (2016) Auto Forge, Inc. 2017) B & R Resources (2017) B & R Resources (2020) Bacyros Erie (2020) Bard Oil Co. 2017) Dev Well, Inc.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

Tier 3 standards were phased in starting with 2017 cars. The companies agreed to sell national Low Emission Vehicles, with an NOx standard of 0.3pm. The following year, EPA proposed Tier 2 standards, including a 0.07 gpm NOx standard. When fully phased in, they will set a 0.7 fleetwide ceiling of 0.07

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 2, 2023

According to the last Census of Agriculture in 2017, agricultural land is still primarily owned by families and individuals (201.5 According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, Black-owned land had dwindled to about 4.7 Corporate and private land ownership Farmland has always been a lucrative investment for the rich. The remaining 3.1

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2023

Here’s an excerpt: I came to the University of Illinois in January 2017 as a Ph.D. My friend Nathan Alexander, who is a doctoral student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, wrote this essay for the Voices of ACES blog in recognition of Pride month.

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