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MAY 7, 2025

Hydrological conditions are starting to mirror the frightful years between 2020 and 2022, when meagre runoff sent the reservoirs into a deep plunge to record lows. The snowpack was nearly average in late March. But much less of that water is reaching rivers and reservoirs. That sparked panic among federal water managers in the summer of 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 US Census data are now available and accessible–and there are an exciting variety of tools for science and democracy advocates to use this data to demand fair and unbiased districting.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 20, 2023

experienced a record 25 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters — three more than the previous record, set in 2020. In 2023, the U.S. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2022

At President Biden’s first State of the Union address, he can tout a historic promise he kept from the campaign trail in 2020: his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. Standing on the shoulders of the likes of Constance Baker Motley and many others, she […].

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the ILO's Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2022, the number of renewable energy jobs increased by around 700,000 globally between 2020 and 2021. The post Green Energy Jobs Rapidly Expanding appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

MS: The US has made huge strides in deploying battery energy storage over the past few years, going from having almost no battery storage installations in 2020 to skyrocketing all the way up to 20 GW by July 2024. Have there been recent advances?

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Yale E360

APRIL 19, 2022

electricity generation using natural gas likely hit its peak in 2020, according to a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Finance (IEEFA), which finds that cheaper wind and solar are edging gas off the power grid. In the U.S., Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This ongoing PUCO proceeding is specific to the costs of operating the two coal plants in 2020. These pre-2020 subsidies were approved by the PUCO as hedges, so that customers would get a credit when market electricity prices exceeded OVEC’s costs. The post-2020 subsidies tell a very similar story. million loss.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

One reasonable option is to follow the work of Tokarska et al (2020) and others, and restrict the comparison to those models that have a transient climate response (TCR) that is consistent with observations. Orbe et al, 2020 ). 7591-7617, 2020. This suggests that comparisons to the observations should be weighted in some way.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2022

That was not the case in 2020, when the number of named storms (30) ended up being much higher than predictions. Here are some in our minds right now: Will this season exhaust the list of 21 names from the World Meteorological Organization, like 2020 and 2021 did? Can we expect more seasons like 2020 and 2021?

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 13, 2023

In 2020, Walmart set the goal to achieve zero emissions across their global operations by 2040. Not only is Walmart developing a coast-to-coast EV charging network, but they have also made changes to their product supply chains. The post Walmart Plans to Grow Electric Vehicle Charging Network appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Even so, in 2020, we saw the highest rate of voter turnout—66%—in a national election for more than a century. AAS : You and your team analyzed data from the 2020 presidential election from eleven counties in seven battleground states that are likely to be significant in the upcoming election.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 14, 2022

When DHL first set its GoGreen target in 2007-2008, the goal was to become 30% more efficient by 2020. But it blew past that threshold in 2016, prompting the company to set even more ambitious targets — to reduce all transport-related emissions to zero by 2050. . The post DHL Is Investing $7.5

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The system enhancement is part of a 2020 acquisition of Enviance. The post Cority Upgrades Waste Management Platform Enhancing Reporting, Tracking Abilities appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

My personal assessment of the likely range would be more closely based on Sherwood et al (2020) and so is a little narrower (as discussed here ) – but it will need a deeper dive into the main report to see why the ranges differ and that isn’t the main point here. eaaz9549, 2020. Tokarska, M.B. Sippel, E.M. Fischer, C.J.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between 1995 and 2020, BMW reduced its CO2 emissions by 53%. Also, in 2020, all the electricity it purchased to run its plants worldwide came from renewables. The aim is to cut its CO2 levels by 40% by 2030 and to be carbon neutral by 2050.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Temperatures during the most recent decade (2011–2020) exceed those of the most recent multi-century warm period, around 6500 years ago13 [0.2°C to 1.20] °C from 1850–1900 to 2011–2020, and the last decade was more likely than not warmer than any multi-centennial period after the Last Interglacial, roughly 125,000 years ago.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 11, 2022

In 2020, the notoriously industry-friendly Texas Commission on Environmental […].

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Real Climate

JANUARY 15, 2022

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. Hansen, "Antarctic Glacial Melt as a Driver of Recent Southern Ocean Climate Trends", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. Zelinka, T.A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 20, 2025

As you may expect, the places that ran more transit also had faster improvements to the ridership since 2020. Nationally, since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, there have been on average over 1 billion more transit trips every year.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The 2020 CEQ regulations did contain language that presumptively limited the geographic scope of the impact statement, so Congress would have had no trouble writing such limits into law if it had wished to do so.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 7, 2023

Here are my key takeaways: A dramatic increase in student voting Data from Democracy Counts 2020 , Tufts University’s national National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement report on student participation in the 2020 U.S. The national student voting rate increased by 14% between just 2016 and 2020.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His lifetime average was pulled up by scores of 7% in 2019, 10% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. As I’ve noted in posts about some other candidates for the Speaker post, however, the 2021 scores in particular included votes that were not directly environmental, like voting to accept the results of the 2020 election (which applied in Emmer’s case).

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Real Climate

JANUARY 26, 2025

2020 , Robson et al. Of the 24 CMIP6 models, a full 23 underestimate the sea surface cooling in the ‘cold blob’ And most of the CMIP6 models even show a strengthening of the AMOC in the historic period, which past studies have shown to be linked to strong aerosol forcing in many of these models (e.g. Menary et al.

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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. 2020 1.21 ± 0.14 that started with La Niña. 2017 1.06 ± 0.13 2018 1.05 ± 0.14 2019 1.18 ± 0.15 2021 1.16 ± 0.14 2022 1.23 ± 0.14 2023 1.22 ± 0.14

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

According to our r e c e n t analysis , that acreage in 2020 was nearly twice the size of the state of New Jersey. In 2018, Tyson talked a good game about farmland sustainability, pledging in its annual sustainability report to improve environmental practices on 2 million farm acres by 2020.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In 2020, the global SaaS market was valued at $120.77 billion and is expected to reach $462.94 billion by 2028. The post Global SaaS Market Expected to Reach $462.94 Billion by 2028 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the ILO's Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2022, the number of renewable energy jobs increased by around 700,000 globally between 2020 and 2021. The post Green Energy Jobs Rapidly Expanding appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2024

According to his research, homeowners in the US saw their annual insurance premiums increase by an average of 33% or $500 between 2020 and 2023. Benjamin Keys, who has done important work in highlighting the role of climate risks in driving increases in insurance premiums.

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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 (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020-21): [link] (pdf). (thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2025

In 2020, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) reduced the limit on the amount of sulfur in ships fuel oil, which then led to a reduction in sulphur dioxide and particulate matter emissions which form aerosols in the atmosphere.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In 2020, the global SaaS market was valued at $120.77 billion and is expected to reach $462.94 billion by 2028. The post Global SaaS Market Expected to Reach $462.94 Billion by 2028 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 21, 2022

And the market is buying in: electrically-powered trucks made up 87% of the KION Group's sales in 2020. Kion has been pursuing e-trucks. Kion expects this rise to 90% in 2027. . The post Kion Group Says Sustainability Is at the Heart Of Its Manufacturing Processes appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Real Climate

JUNE 25, 2022

2020) (in Box 1) to suggest that rainfall biases in response to El Niño have ‘remained largely unchained over two decades’ However, Fieldler et al. 2020) , where the correlations related to ENSO and PDO have markedly improved in the latest round of models. 3653-3680, 2020. 7591-7617, 2020. Van Roekel, .F.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For more information: In July 2020, former Environment Minister Wilkinson designated the expansion project for federal impact assessment. Thermal coal is devastating to human health, the environment and the climate. It has no place in the 21st century.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. It achieved that goal in 2017. 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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