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Registration Open! 2023 Pennsylvania Botany Symposium Oct. 20-21 In State College

PA Environment Daily

Registration is now open for the 2023 Pennsylvania Botany Symposium to be held October 20-21 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center in State College. Pennsylvania Botany is Pennsylvania’s first botanical symposium, established in 2012. Posted: September 12, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Climate Reality vs. Public Perception: Will Toxic Haze and the 2023 Danger Season Make a Difference?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. A 2021 analysis of more than 88,000 studies since 2012 now finds 99.9 A Philadelphia Inquirer column carried the headline, “America sleepwalks through a climate crisis.

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Summer 2023 Is a Wrap: It Showed Us the Inequities of Keeping Cool in Killer Heat

Union of Concerned Scientists

This week, summer 2023 comes to a close on our calendars but will be remembered for its record-shattering extremes, notably, heat—until, that is, the next record-shattering summer supplants it, quite possibly in 2024. Heat Associated Deaths in Maricopa County, 2023, by Living Situation.

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France Extends Due Date for R-Nano Declarations to May 31, 2023

Nanotech

2012-232, companies that manufacture, import, and/or distribute a “substance with nanoparticle status” in an amount of at least 100 grams per year must submit an annual report with substance identity, quantity, and use information. An extension of the closing date of the declaration, to May 31, 2023 , is granted to all the actors.

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America’s Leading Environmental Court

Legal Planet

In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change. The PUC was under no obligation to evaluate an energy project conceived of in 2012 the same way in 2022. The second 2023 case, Honolulu v. It deserves more. Environmental rights. The first case, In re Hawaii Electric Co. Lawsuits against oil companies.

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The Stream, May 3, 2023: Native Hawai’i Farmers Advocate For Land Back While Restoring Historic Water Systems

Circle of Blue

Led by Native farmers, activists, and nonprofit organizations on Maui, the question of who truly owns the water in Hawai’i was taken, after a decade of legal speed bumps, to the Hawai’i Supreme Court in 2012, which ruled two years later that the state had failed to give proper consideration to the rights of Native Hawai’ians.

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PennFuture Blog: Mapping Climate Change By Viewing USDA's New Plant Hardiness Zones Map

PA Environment Daily

The 2023 map is based on the average lowest annual winter temperature for the 30-year period from 1991 to 2020 and incorporates data from more than 13,412 weather stations nationwide. Compared to earlier versions of the map, the 2023 map shows that many hardiness zones have shifted significantly over time.