Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To dig into how the country got here, it’s helpful to split up the contributing factors into the three main “gas value chain” categories: the production of gas via drilling (“upstream”), the transportation of gas via pipelines (“midstream”), and the facilities that receive the gas, such as gas-fired power plants (“downstream”).

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ESA

JULY 6, 2021

This metric provides a ratio of citations received by publications in a journal in a given year to the total number of citable items in the prior two years. “In The 2021 JCR release shows these data highlights: ESA journals had 9,356 citations in 2020 from papers published in 2018 and 2019 that contributed to impact factors.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

TOC has been billed as a double-win : it encourages new housing to be located near public transit—a boon for climate, local air pollution, and traffic—and it creates more “affordable housing.”. There’s a lot of talk about affordable housing in the world of public policy, and it is occasionally combined with environmental programs.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2024

Discharges would need to be treated by an approved series of at least two BMPs. -- Site Inspections —The Department is proposing to require that site inspections be conducted only by qualified personnel. Three options would be available to demonstrate that a person is qualified.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. As of 2019, the transportation sector was the largest sector source of GHG emissions in the state, accounting for more than 50% of statewide GHG emissions. [3] By Joshua T.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

In a 2019 scenario exercise examining governance responses to four scenarios of unauthorized SAI deployment, the scenario of a widely distributed grassroots effort using weather balloons was the only one the expert participants rejected as pure political symbolism, unable to achieve a meaningful climate impact. Download as PDF.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 15, 2022

On June 15, the Department of Transportation launched a survey for the public to share feedback on the goals, infrastructure-prioritization, and program-administration components of the Draft Pennsylvania State Plan for access to National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program funds.

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Capaccio

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Administrative Council on Toxics Use Reduction has voted to amend regulation 301 CMR 41: Toxic or Hazardous Substance List (TURA List) to add the Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Not Otherwise Listed (PFAS NOL) category. . The PFAS NOL category includes those PFAS that contain a perfluoroalkyl moiety with three or more carbons (e.g.,

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

However, Commerce notes that most cryptographic libraries and modules themselves will likely not be impacted by this change because the mass market note (Note 3 to Category 5, Part 2 or the "Cryptography Note") specifically excludes items whose primary function is "information security.". Conclusion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. But does the public similarly recognize climate impacts on their lives, particularly on their household water supplies? Data: NOAA 2023. It has also shaped my career choice.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The agency also stated it is working with commercial sterilizers to curb their emissions and would soon propose a new rule for sterilizer emissions to better protect public health. Before joining UCS last year, she worked at the Center for Progressive Reform and the Center for Science and Public Interest.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Otis unexpectedly rapidly intensified from a weak tropical storm into a Category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours right before making landfall in Acapulco, Mexico. ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In September of this year, Governor Hochul announced a framework to do just that, setting 10 gigawatts (GWs) of deployed distributed solar by 2030 as the goal, enough to power 700,000 New York homes – even more than the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s (CLCPA) six-GW deployment requirement. Community Adder. Next Steps.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

This becomes clear when we examine EV shares of new 2019 vehicle registrations by metropolitan area. Charging, range and cost are top concerns for respondents who weren’t already planning to get an EV Charging logistics The survey indicates that public charging is at the top of people’s minds in both rural and urban areas.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2022

This year's program, hosted by PennFuture , will recognize women who live and/or work in Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties Awards will be presented in these categories-- -- Woman of the Watershed –honors an individual who has made a positive impact on water quality in her watershed.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gray: Well, I come from a previous job where I have strong confidence in the rigor of offset credits generated under the California compliance market , which has undergone multiple rounds of amendments that were adopted following intense public process and been upheld by California courts.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

These quotes were obtained from various reports, public statements and media interviews published online. Dark green (Category 1 Protection) represents existing Provincially Significant Wetlands. Dark green (Category 1 Protection) represents existing Provincially Significant Wetlands and habitat for endangered and threatened species.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 21, 2022

Dep't of Justice, Concrete Contractor Pleads Guilty to Rigging Bids for Public Contracts in Minnesota (Sept. 28, 2021), [link]. ]] Clarence Olson, now awaiting sentencing, pled guilty to rigging bids on public concrete repair and construction contracts. June 11, 2019), [link]. ]]. 17, 2019), [link]. ]]. N: 48 C.F.R.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

The rules were changed again in 2019, in an agreement called the Drought Contingency Plan, or DCP, that welcomed certain tribal nations into the fold. Within the four categories of ICS, there are limits on the ICS each water user can create, the amount they can take out in a year, and the total amount stored.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As for all FYM publications, each of the five articles has been written for young people aged 8 to 15 and has been reviewed by kids themselves to ensure they are understandable, fun, and engaging. . Michel Mayor , awarded The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019.?Did resource in order to motivate young?people

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2024

This photo shows the inside of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, eastern France, on February 7, 2019. Generations are best understood as an endless, seamless chain rather than strictly separated categories. The principle of intergenerational equity underscores this understanding of human life as an endless cycle.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

The DEIR was circulated September 9, 2019. City and County of San Francisco (2019) 33 Cal.App.5th Per the Court, DGS’s selection of the CMAR delivery method “does not drive CEQA” and does not cure the flaw of preempting meaningful public review of and comment on the Annex’s design and resulting impacts. 5th 321, 332.)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

Through complex analysis, an estimated monetary value is determined for each category based on quality, quantity, and type of protected open space in each county. The Laurel Highlands region completed a similar report in 2019 that focuses on the value of clean water for the 6000 miles of streams and waterways that flow through the area.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

4] The Third Circuit found that Louisiana’s expropriation scheme which gives private owners and operators of pipelines authority to expropriate private property for the public good was not unconstitutional, as the system does not give private parties “unfettered discretion that violates due process.” [5] Corps of Engineers , 2019-565 (La.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

January 30, 2019. Rising sea levels and more frequent flood events could factor into planning the location of future roads and other public infrastructure as well as design standards for private development. That is a public safety as well as a water pollution problem. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley).

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The case provides guidance to practitioners on when and how CEQA applies to public contracts, and also regarding the appropriate contents of the administrative record in CEQA litigation challenging staff level actions implementing existing leases. Entitlement and litigation attorneys should accordingly both find it a useful case to review.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

Department of Water Resources (2019) 39 Cal.App.5th But on December 11, 2019, SCOCA again granted the Counties’ petition for review. Fiscal Impacts: No Evidence of Impacts to the Actual Environment The Counties also argued that there would be fiscal impacts to Butte County from increased demand for public services.

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Science Blogs

APRIL 29, 2019

Underscoring this theme, in April 2019 two scholars published a review that synthesized over 70 reports of insect decline from around the world, and predicted mass insect extinctions within a human lifetime. Mon, 04/29/2019 - 10:19. Categories. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Third Circuit found that Louisiana’s expropriation scheme which gives private owners and operators of pipelines authority to expropriate private property for the public good was not unconstitutional, as the system does not give private parties “unfettered discretion that violates due process.” [5] Corps of Engineers , 2019-565 (La.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Read more here ] A total of 29 companies were later identified in a separate review as spreading their wastewater on roads in 2018, 2019 and 2020, according to a review of DEP’s Oil & Gas Waste database by the Better Path Coalition. Evaluation of the threat to public health; and 4. Enervest OPR LLC, G&G Gas, Inc.,

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In 2019, New York State enacted a landmark climate law called the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). However, at the time the CLCPA was enacted, the process for siting major renewable energy facilities, then governed by Article 10 of the Public Service Law, was too slow for the state to meet its goals. Background.

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Acoel

AUGUST 25, 2022

In fact, water shortages exist all across the fourteen Western public lands states. Negotiations over potential water cutbacks, should the river’s inflows continue to diminish and create shortage conditions, have long been scheduled for 2026. United States, 426 U.S. 128, 141 (1976). [3] 3] Washington v. 658, 667 (1979). [4] 4] Baley v.

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Montrose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

IRVINE, CA (September 4, 2020) —Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), a business research publication which provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry*, has honored Montrose Environmental Group (Montrose) with an award for Business Achievement in Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019. “In

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. The types of important questions that fall within this category do not include requests to the ICJ for advisory opinions. By Michael B.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. The court found that “there was no proof offered at trial that established material misrepresentations or omissions contained in any of ExxonMobil’s public disclosures that satisfy the applicable legal standard.” July 1, 2019).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

” Although the concept of holding patients harmless from unanticipated out-of-network medical bills became a national policy priority with bipartisan interest in 2019, it took nearly two years for comprehensive surprise billing reform legislation to get across the finish line. 133, §§ 101–118 (2020).]]

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That time period includes unusually high crop losses in the Midwest due to drought in 2012 and flooding in 2019. But the penalty for contaminated water is paid by the people who drink it, and who must bear stricter and more costly standards in order to protect the public health.

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