Yale E360

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Global coal demand hit a record high in 2023, but with the renewables buildout continuing apace in China, coal is headed for a decline over the next two years, according to a new analysis. Read more on E360 →

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2023 327

Yale E360

DECEMBER 6, 2023

November was the sixth month in a row of record-warm weather, according to a new analysis that finds 2023 will almost inevitably end as the hottest year ever recorded. Read more on E360 →

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2023 331

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Solar US solar looks set to come very close to almost match, or even surpass, the record it set in 2023 for new installations. That surge was led by large-scale solar, which data/analytics firm Wood Mackenzie projects will have grown even more in 2024 than in 2023, which itself was already a huge increase over the prior years total.

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Clean Energy 2024 Wind Power Renewable Energy 276

Nature

JUNE 3, 2025

Nature, Published online: 04 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08903-5 Atmospheric reanalyses combined with ocean observations and model simulations show that the extreme 2023 North Atlantic heatwave was primarily driven by anomalously weak winds leading to strongly shoaling mixed layers, with a smaller contribution from clearer skies.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Not The First Action On February 2, 2023 and February 17, 2024 , these same groups filed two notices of intent to sue the Shell Petrochemical Plant, again over air pollution violations. Click Here for a copy of the letter. On May 11, 2024 , they filed the lawsuit in federal court.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides 2023 Clean Air Act 117

Yale E360

JANUARY 12, 2024

As the planet warms and extinctions mount, researchers are racing to catalog the vast array of life on Earth before species disappear. This year, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, recorded 89 new species of plant and fungi across the globe, from the rocky edges of Antarctica to a dormant volcano in Indonesia. Read more on E360 →

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2023 316

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Readers here will know that the climate science community has had a hard time giving quantitative explanations for what’s happened in climate over the Nature 2023 ?”>last Others have recently argued for a separate set of new institutions to run operational climate services ( Jakob et al, 2023 ; Stevens, 2024 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2025

Governor Mills called for accelerating Maine’s clean electricity standard to 100% by 2040 in her 2023 State of the Budget Address when the state was facing extremely high fossil fuel prices following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. She signed the bill into law on June 20, 2025.

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Electricity Clean Energy Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels 245

Circle of Blue

MAY 7, 2025

That equals a decrease of 800,000 acre-feet, or roughly two-fifths of the Colorado River water used by Arizona in 2023. A wet winter in 2023 temporarily pulled the basin out of its tailspin, while up to $4 billion in federal funding for water conservation eased the path to using less. Luck and money intervened to relieve the pressure.

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2026 2022 2023 Government 251

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

One of the hackers who carried out this scheme, Aviram Azari, an Israeli private detective, was arrested in 2019 and pleaded guilty in US district court in 2023 to three counts: conspiracy to commit computer hacking, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The hacking, occurring between 2015 and 2018, targeted at least 128 individuals.

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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. According to their report: In 2023, insurers covered $80billion of the $114billion of losses attributable to natural disasters, meaning that 30percent of those losses were not insured.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Regulations 2024 255

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A 2023 study by the US National Academies on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism , tasked to look at the likelihood and consequences of different nuclear war scenarios, found the information about the consequences incomplete. This lack of understanding is not limited to the public.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A 2023 UN report estimates that the adaptation finance gap is about $ 194-366 billion per year. WMO’s latest GHG Bulletin —which shows that heat-trapping emissions surged to record levels in 2023, with the atmospheric concentrations of CO 2 reaching 420ppm, a level never previously experienced by humans. to 2.8 °C C this century.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Renewable Energy Climate Change 248

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Second, any effects to be analyzed must be reasonably foreseeable – this is in the text of the 2023 NEPA amendments, which basically codified past practice. This first point was made years ago in a Supreme Court case (Metropolitan Edison Co. People Against Nuclear Energy) and should be taken as axiomatic.

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Carbon Dioxide Air Pollution Law Regulations 246

Yale E360

MAY 29, 2025

During a severe heat wave in 2023, scientists scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea captured clownfish to measure their bodies. Between February and August, they calculated the length of 134 of these iconic, orange and white fish once a month, taking a total of six measurements for each fish.

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2023 183

Real Climate

JANUARY 16, 2024

Annual updates to the model-observation comparisons for 2023 are now complete. In almost every case, the addition of the 2023 numbers was in line with the long term expectation from the models. This success might seem confusing given the ongoing puzzlement about why 2023 was so astonishingly warm compared to recent years.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

The totals from 2023 are three times higher , with about 250,000 acres treated with prescribed burns. More broadly, the state treated over one million acres of land for fire risk in 2023, an increase of 25% in terms of total treatment acreage from 2021. And most of that increase came from state agencies increasing their activity.

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Since early 2023, the world has seen a steep rise in temperatures that scientists are struggling to explain. E360 contributor Elizabeth Kolbert talked with Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s top climate scientist, about possible causes of the warming and why experts cannot account for the heat. Read more on E360 →

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Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

As the climate monitoring groups add an additional dot to their graphs this week, there is some disquiet among people paying attention about just how extraordinary 2023 really was. also a year in which El Niño developed over the year) was comparable (both 2023 and 2015 broke the previous record by more than 0.15ºC). 2023 ; Roach et al.,

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Ocean 2023 2015 2016 363

Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

Until 2023. 2023 1.22 ± 0.14 The RMS forecast error (not including 2023), is 0.07ºC, compared to 0.10ºC for persistence or smoothed trends. Does it go back to being predictable based on ENSO (in which case 2024 is expected to just be a little warmer than 2023), or does the positive anomaly persist? 2017 1.06 ± 0.13

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This year will conclude as the hottest on record, with warming reaching new highs in the final months of 2023. Unprecedented heat helped fuel another year of extreme weather. Read more on E360 →

2023 357

2023 357

Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The world is set to install a third more solar capacity this year than it did in 2023, surpassing forecasts by both industry experts and independent analysts. Read more on E360 →

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2023 315

Yale E360

JANUARY 8, 2024

Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon was down 50 percent, year on year, in 2023, according to government figures. Read more on E360 →

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Deforestation 2023 Government 333

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon is down 70 percent, year on year, through the first nine months of 2023, the government estimates. Read more on E360 →

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Deforestation 2023 Government 333

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 25, 2025

In 2023, it increased to 4.4% (176 TWh) of the total U.S. data centers consumed 66 billion liters of water directly at their facilities (also known as direct water) in 2023. In 2018, data centers were using 1.9% (76 TWh) of total United States electricity consumed. electricity consumption and projections to 2028 fall within 6.7%

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Air Pollution Cooling Electricity Technology 216

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

We’ve compiled all the insights about oil and gas lobbying in 2023 in a new report Big Oil’s Big Year: A Summary of Big Oil’s 2023 Federal Lobbying. I’m glad you asked! Visit the webpage to learn more.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 2, 2024

percent, year on year, in 2023. Pipeline deliveries of Russian natural gas to Europe were down 55.6 Read more on E360 →

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Natural Gas 2023 307

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Data through the end of September 2023 shows that the EV fraction of US car sales is continuing to rise. EV sales in the US for the third quarter of 2023 exceeded 300,000 for the first time and EV sales in 2023 have increased nearly 50 percent compared to the same time last year. Are EV sales actually slowing?

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Electricity Air Pollution Climate Change 2023 363

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

I wrote a post on the IPCC’s summary for policymakers (SPM) on this in 2023, but without much effect. It strikes me that we still have a bad habit of speaking in a code language with confusing phrases and terminology that is only familiar for those already familiar with climate science and who already are persuaded.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Smaller vehicles and big fleets are leading the charge Where just a handful of zero-emission trucks and buses were deployed annually in the US just a few years ago (around 600 total in 2019), over 27,500 zero-emission MHDVs were deployed in 2023. percent in 2023) , the growth is impressive.

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Electricity Nitrogen Oxides 2023 2024 328

Circle of Blue

JUNE 23, 2025

Power generation in 2023 was roughly half the output of 2000, the last year that Lake Mead was effectively full. Hoover Dam, at the center of the photo, forms Lake Mead, which is currently just 31 percent full. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue Hoover is already hobbled by low water.

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2027 Electricity Nuclear Power 2026 291

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

During those inspections, DEP identified 35,237 violations, and resolved 32,699 of them, including some from 2023. DEP issued 7,296 violations to conventional oil and gas well owners, far exceeding the 6,860 violations issued in 2023, 5,416 violations issued in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 [ Read more here ]. Read more here.

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2024 2023 Regulations Natural Resources 107

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

From June 2023 to August 2024, the world saw 15 months in a row of record-breaking heat, a stretch so extreme that it confounded scientists. A new animation from NASA shows the severity of warming. Read more on E360 →

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2024 2023 271

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Yet in 2023, China accounted for about 60% of the world’s new renewables and electric vehicles. Investment in infrastructure and manufacturing capacity grew by 6-7% in 2023. The amount of new solar capacity in 2023 was double 2022’s, and new wind capacity was up 66%. million exports in 2023. auto sector.”

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Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 2009 277

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts From Natural Gas Development [November 2023] -- Part I - Environmental Impacts: State Dept.

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Ozone Natural Gas 2025 2023 112

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2023, the Ninth Circuit Court denied the Citys petition for permit review holding that the EPA is authorized to impose any limitations to ensure safe water quality standards are met. It also shows the same lack of deference to federal and state scientists and agencies as last summers Chevron case , which another colleague, Dr.

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Clean Water Act Ocean Sea Level Pollution Control 239

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

In a 2023 report outlining Chevron’s position on lobbying and engagement with trade associations, Vice President for Corporate Affairs Albert Williams says the company lobbies “ethically, constructively and in a nonpartisan manner.” million in 2023 and $1.2 California lobbying records show Chevron gave CEI $5.8

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