Yale E360

JUNE 11, 2021

Demand for conventional vehicles fell in 2018 and 2019 before dropping sharply in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. 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.

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Yale E360

MARCH 18, 2022

Smoke from bushfires that spread across Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 destroyed high-altitude ozone in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a study that offers new insight into the threat posed by wildfires. Read more on E360 ?.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

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. In Section 12.19, the budget bill prevents DEQ from covering farms under the new general permits until 2020. fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) including GenX.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

This pattern was important for recent record or near-record years like 2016 or 2020 which started with El Niño, as well as below-trend years like 2017, 2021 etc. 2019 1.18 ± 0.15 2020 1.21 ± 0.14 that started with La Niña. 2017 1.06 ± 0.13 2018 1.05 ± 0.14 2021 1.16 ± 0.14 2022 1.23 ± 0.14 2023 1.22 ± 0.14

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Inside Climate News

MAY 10, 2023

New research implicates emissions from the 2019-2020 Australian fires in the emergence of a three-year super La Niña that fueled droughts in Africa and hurricanes in the Atlantic.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January 2019, Brazil has approved 57 pieces of legislation that weaken environmental laws, from relaxing forest protections to declassifying the toxicity of dozens of pesticides, according to a new analysis published in the journal Biological Conservation. Read more on E360 ?.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2021

million pounds of nitrogen reductions in 2020, accounting for nearly half of the 10 million pounds attributed to the entire watershed, according to Bay Program computer models. The nitrogen reduction credited to Pennsylvania for 2020 was more than the state had accomplished in the entire previous decade, according to model estimates.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nancy Kline (2017) Chautauqua Energy (2017) CNX Gas (2016) Cobra Resources 2019; 2021) D & M Energy (2019; 2020) Dannic Energy Corp (2016; 021) Deitz Gas & Oil (2017) Dev Well, Inc (2017) Diversified Oil & Gas (2017; 2018; 2019) Diversified Prod (2018; 2020; 2021) Donald D.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

ADV Amendments The annual amendment for ADV Parts 1A (and 1B for state-registered advisers) and the Brochure (ADV Part 2A) is due March 30, 2020 (for firms with year-end fiscal years). These priorities generally follow the SEC’s 2019 examination priorities. There is no annual amendment required for the Brochure Supplement (Part 2B).

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Yale E360

JULY 23, 2021

power sector emissions dropped 10 percent between 2019 and 2020, owing to greater energy efficiency, less reliance on coal, and the coronavirus pandemic suppressing demand for electricity, according to a new report.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Arnold & Porter’s Capital Markets team proudly helped its corporate and sovereign clients close a volume of deals totaling nearly $40 billion in 2020. The aggregate deal value of Capital Markets transactions completed during 2020 was a 50% increase in deal value over 2019. 2020 Deal Highlights.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Total annual production was 7,520 billion cubic feet in 2023; 7,441 billion cubic feet in 2022; 7,563 billion cubic feet in 2021; 7,077 billion cubic feet in 2020; and 6,816 billion cubic feet in 2019. The number of new wells drilled-- 421 in 2023-- was the fewest drilled in year in the last decade.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

According to the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), a worker died every 111 minutes from a work-related injury in 2020. And the 2020 BLS fatality statistics numbers don’t include the thousands of workers who died that year from COVID-19 acquired on the job. In the United States alone!

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

EIA also forecasts a slight increase in carbon dioxide emissions from energy sources in 2022, but still short of 2019 levels. gigawatts of new wind in 2020, 17 gigawatts of new wind in 2021 and 6.9 gigawatts of new solar in 2020, 15.7 gigawatts of new wind in 2020, 17 gigawatts of new wind in 2021 and 6.9

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

December 27, 2019. The bill creates a task force to report back to the legislature in February 2020 on rules to replace those amended in 2018. 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).

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. gigatons CO2e in 2019 and 1.89

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. In 2020, they just missed this goal, at 97.4% and is separate from their 2020 goal which centered just on electricity. In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency. This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc., Other UK Cities.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Generated Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. They’ve reached this interim goal in 2020, with a 52% reduction of GHG emissions from 2007 levels. (4) Energy Mix (2019): [link]. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020-21): [link] (pdf). 1) NextEra Energy.

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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.] barrels or 0.41

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Scientific American

MARCH 10, 2023

Smoke from the catastrophic 2019–2020 fires in Australia unleashed ozone-eating chlorine molecules into the stratosphere

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Real Climate

JANUARY 15, 2022

Fig 13, from Lenssen et al (2019). 6307-6326, 2019. There is a candidate for this, which is the impact of anomalous freshwater from Antarctica (see for instance, Rye et al., We should probably try and sort this out at some point… Ensembles of uncertainty. Nonetheless, there are still improvements that can be made. Zelinka, T.A.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 24, 2022

The study also found that in 2019, customers without a water meter, paid an average of $500 more per year for water than metered customers. In 2020, Circle of Blue researched a dozen large cities and found 1.5 Chicago residents without meters are concentrated in the city’s majority-Black and majority-Latino neighborhoods.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. By 2019, the largest growth in absolute emissions occurred in carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and industry. As one example, according to an analysis by Client Earth , in 2019 Chevron’s disclosed emissions amounted to 697 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2022

COVID shutdowns limited the spread of influenza in 2019–2020. Several factors could mean this season will be more severe. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

February 2019 senate hearing. Going into 2020, anticipated federal regulation will significantly affect the nation’s response to the Emerald Ash Borer and aquatic invasives in ballast water. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates the response cost to EAB infestation from 2009 to 2019 at . As of October 1, 2019, a.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 in 2019 because it was bad for consumers, bad for the economy, and bad for the environment. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B. Ohio regulators need to act.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2022

COVID shutdowns limited the spread of influenza in 2019–2020. Several factors could mean this season will be more severe. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Judging from a 2019 report , the drivers of lake level variability are still not well understood. In 2020, the lake level hit a record high, after having hit a record low in 2013. That record lasted just one year: In May 2019, 8.25 Then in May 2020, another record, 9.51 inches of rain fell. inches soaked the city.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 2020 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis, which shows that environmental releases of TRI chemicals by facilities covered by the program declined by 10% between 2019 and 2020. More than… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

This was particularly pronounced during the wildfire seasons of 2020 and 2021, when 4 of the 5 largest wildfires in California’s history burned. During the large fire years of 2018-2020, Fresno experienced 51 high particle pollution days , up from 34 days for the period of 2017-2019. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

One of the most recent serious floods was In November 2019, when almost 90% of the city was inundated, damaging more than 80 ecclesiastical buildings including the bell tower of San Dorato in Murano and mosaic floor of the 7th century church of Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello. Aerial view of Venice and the entrance to its lagoon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country. This group pressed the EPA to support the adoption of a far less protective standard based on the TCEQ’s analysis.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns EthicalConsumer calls for boycott of Amazon over company's tax avoidance Ethical Consumer | January 29, 2021 In 2020, Amazon announced that its key UK business paid just £14.46 million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%.

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