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New high-resolution map shows fires caused one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019

Frontiers

The study shows that one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019 was due to fires, which is higher than previous estimates. We have been producing the global forest loss map and updating it annually since 2013, but we did not attribute drivers of forest loss. Global forest fires 2001-2019 map. Mapping forest loss.

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Action: 2019 Budget

Smith Enviorment

July 9, 2019. The 2019 legislative session got off to a very slow start. of the 2019 budget bill reallocates those funds for a number of projects unrelated to PFAS. The project, restoration of Little Alamance Creek in Burlington, was completed in 2012-2013. fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) including GenX. Section 12.13

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2019, Berkeley, California, became the first city to initiate such a ban, but a federal appeals court in San Francisco overturned a lower court decision in a case brought by the California Restaurant Association, ruling that federal energy efficiency standards preempt the ordinance.

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Reducing Gun Violence: What Role for the CDC?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Let’s think about that unconscionable prohibition, which only began to be lifted in 2019. And virtually no federal funding for research into gun violence was available for many years prior to 2019. The congressional ban on funding research into gun violence was lifted in 2019. Cars vs. guns. A trickle of funds. graphic: cdc.gov.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). But it emphasizes an important point about the relationship between SST and hurricane behavior in general: The hurricane response to SST changes depends on what caused the SST changes ( Emanuel and Sobel 2013 ).

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Energy & Climate CounselFoley Hoag LLP The Battle Over California’s Authority to Set Vehicle Emission Standards Continues

Law and Environment

In 2013, EPA granted California a CAA waiver to regulate vehicle emission GHGs and establish a ZEV program. In September 2019, the Trump administration’s EPA, for the first time ever, attempted to revoke California’s waiver, specifically with respect to its GHG and ZEV program. currently electing to do so. 3291(a).”.

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Water-mediated intercalation mechanisms in transition metal oxides

Physics World

From 2013–2015, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, US. She received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, US, in 2013 and BS at the University of Arizona, US, in 2007, both in Materials Science and Engineering.

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