Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2022

Will 2022 surpass 2020 and 2021 in number of billion-dollar extreme weather events or hurricane-associated costs? These probabilities go along with studies that have found that areas of the Gulf are more likely to see not only increased landfall frequency but also more sequences of storms with short recovery times in between.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

However, following high gas prices in the winter of 2022-23, the CPUC permitted Southern California Gas Co. Notably, SCG has actually reversed course on its projections for gas demand between the 2022 and 2024 California Gas Reports, projecting in 2022 that gas demand in SoCal would decrease at an annual rate of 1.5

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The post The CO 2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update) first appeared on RealClimate. Zelinka, "An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence", Reviews of Geophysics , vol.

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Yale E360

JULY 11, 2022

In the first half of this year, deforestation claimed roughly 1,500 square miles of the Amazon rainforest, an area five times the size of New York City and the greatest loss since at least 2016, according to the Brazilian Space Agency. Read more on E360 ?.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7239 ) Explosion/Fire On December 25, 2022, the Revolution Cryogenic Plant suffered a major explosion and a fire that burned for hours and caused an uncontrolled release of ethane and other gases for nine and a half hours, according to the company. Read more here. It blew and shook the whole house,” said Kasey Duran. “A

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2025

On January 28, the Department of Environmental Protection said compliance with a 2022 state Air Quality regulation to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas facilities was put on hold for the conventional oil and gas industry as a result of an agreement to stay a legal challenge to the regulations in Commonwealth Court. Read more here.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 26, 2025

And there is another issue: we’ve previously looked at ERA5 surface heat flux trend, as shown here from my article in Oceanography 2024 : Figure 3 Sea surface temperature trend (left) and surface heat flux trend (right) 1940-2022 from the ERA5 reanalysis data also used in Terhaar et al. Menary et al. 2020 , Robson et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

2024 also saw many fruits of federal policy, notably the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act , including tax credits for households, businesses, and renewable energy project owners. It also means, per the Solar Energy Industries Association, that at full capacity, U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

In 2022, after literally decades of debate and negotiations, an historic agreement was forged among numerous actors–a major hydroelectric energy company, environmental activists, commercial fishers, several Native American tribes and the Governors of California and Oregon.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Between 2012 and 2022, at least 1,910 people advocating for environmental protection were killed worldwide, a new report finds. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Severe heat killed upwards of 70,000 people in Europe in the summer of 2022, according to a new study. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2024

billion gallons in 2022 alone. In a new report , the Union of Concerned Scientists exposes the staggering amount of pollution that Tyson discharged into waterways between 2018 and 2022: more than 371.7 Tyson Foods, the largest meat and poultry producer in the United States, churns out billions of animal products each year.

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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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Real Climate

MARCH 16, 2023

2022) courtesy of Ben Santer. As with the earlier CMIP6 comparisons, I’ll plot the observational time series against both the full ensemble and the ensemble screened by the transient climate response (TCR) as we recommended in Hausfather et al (2022) , and plot the time series and trend histogram. 26-29, 2022. are matched.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

September 22, 2022 . That’s because phosphorus applications on farmland have increased since the early years of the century, according to a comprehensive 2022 evaluation by the U.S. In March 2022 CEAP released its latest national assessment. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 28, 2024

2022 – is also clear (the difference between the pink and grey bands). Why is this only showing summer data, for 12 US states (I think Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin) and for the odd time period of 1973-2022? 26-29, 2022. Casas, G.A.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 10, 2023

SolarReviews’ 2022 report shows many in the renewable sector feel growth will continue as products like storage and EV charging also increase.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 4, 2022

from 2022–2030. The global green packaging market size had a revenue holding of $229.46 billion in 2021. It is expected to reach $409.2 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 7.5% The post Global Green Packaging Market to Reach $409B by 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. percent of the 2022 generation, and small solar 1.4 It supplied 10.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 29, 2024

There have been recently updated studies published of the radiological fallout impacts of atmospheric nuclear detonations and of ground bursts , and the US National Academies is currently conducting an Independent Study on Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War to try to improve our understanding of the risks and effects of nuclear winter, (..)

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

September 20, 2022 . Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms 0 Comments / September 8, 2022 Billions spent on strategies to limit nutrient pollution that don’t work. Keith Schneider 2022-09-15 07:33:41 2022-09-15 13:11:46 In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 11, 2023

billion in 2022 — the same goal for 2023. Samsung Heavy Industries is on a roll, having netted roughly $12 billion in sales in 2021 and $9.4 Asia and Europe are thirsty for the liquefied natural gas its ships carry, mainly because their domestic manufacturers are paying high prices for natural gas.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To address this challenge and identify solutions, Berkeley Laws Center for Law, Energy and the Environment ( CLEE ) and ClimateWorks Foundation founded in 2022 the Global Forum for Sustainable Batteries , a worldwide network of nonprofit leaders, experts, and advocates committed to transportation electrification and mining justice.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Supreme Court soon picked up on this language, and the concept was written into the law when Congress amended NEPA in 2022. Circuit said a rule of reason applies, allowing the agency to focus on reasonable alternatives. Sierra Club v. Ruckelshaus (1972).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Moreover, in amending NEPA in 2022, Congress didn’t impose any requirement of geographical or temporal proximity; instead, it only required that effects be “reasonably foreseeable.” A temporal limitation would mean that an agency would have to ignore serious cancer risks, because many cancers often do not appear until decades after exposure.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – November 3, 2022. The data is current through June 30, 2022. Unless granted a 90-day extension, states had until September 30, 2022, to spend the funds. Through June 30, 2022, state data show that 31 households received assistance. New program encounters many hurdles. Gloucester did so.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 30, 2024

For the first time, in 2022, Scottish renewables generated more power than the country used, new government figures show. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2024

But instead of providing a detailed assessment of what went wrong, they primarily highlighted the absence of rolling blackouts and the incremental improvements that have been made since the dangerous grid failures of storms Elliott in 2022 and Uri in 2021. Gerri and Heather were two separate but overlapping storm systems.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We suggested this screening in our recent Nature commentary ( Hausfather et al, 2022. Note that group means depend on model selection, and I’m using the 58 models we used in Hausfather et al (2022), compared to Scafetta’s 38. 26-29, 2022. and 5.1ºC respectively, compared to 2.2, Hausfather, K. Marvel, G.A.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts [PaEN] -- 2022 Conference: Presentations Now Available From 2022 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference In Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

On April 22, 2022, the Latkanichs filed a complaint with DEP requesting an investigation of their water supply saying it was impacted by oil and gas operations, including PFAS forever chemicals. Chevron drilled two shale gas wells on the Latkanich property approximately 500 feet from the familys water supply starting in 2011.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

The California Air Resources Boards (CARB) 2022 Scoping Plan the states roadmap for climate strategiescalls for per-capita VMT reductions of 30 percent below 2019 levels by 2045 (equivalent to slashing the average persons VMT from 24.6 miles per day ).

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Yale E360

MARCH 4, 2025

A single storm in 2022 dumped enough snow on Greenland to replace 8 percent of ice lost that year. With warming, the Arctic is seeing stronger atmospheric rivers, which could deliver enough snow to slow the loss of ice, according to a new study. Read more on E360

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Yet the seasonal shifts that typically occur in September 2022 were punctuated by several significant melt events on the Greenland ice sheet. Surface ice melt Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) on September 5, 2022 (Video by B. Ice calving from the Eqi Glacier (Eqip Sermia) in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) on September 3, 2022 (video by B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 19, 2024

(See chart below) Source: California Fair Plan Property Insurance A report from Milliman shows that: Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation grew by +277% between 2017 and 2022, resulting in $423 billion of in-force Total Insured Value (TIV) at the end of 2022.

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SPR Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

These regulations implement amendments that the New York State Legislature enacted in 2022 to Article 24 of the Environmental Conservation Law (ECL)the States Freshwater Wetlands Act… The post NYSDEC Issues Final Revised Freshwater Wetlands Regulations appeared first on Sive Paget & Riesel PC.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

Our analysis suggests that appropriately applied bounded flexibility —such as using regulatory discretion to tailor permits to reflect the particular risks, benefits, and information needs of the technology at issue—may be key for enabling socially and environmentally beneficial innovation. municipal wastewater sector. PLOS Water 1(8): e0000031.

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