Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

in the United States last year, the largest non-pandemic influenced fall since 2016, despite a projected 2.4% economic growth for the country in 2023, according to a preliminary estimate Rhodium Group released Wednesday. Greenhouse gas emissions declined 1.9%

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

May 16, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. 2023 Wisconsin Act 5 Is Signed Into Law A new law which incentivizes sustainable farming practices was signed into law last week by Wisconsin Gov.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

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A Greener Life

JULY 5, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Data from the US National Centre for Environmental Protection has concluded, that Monday the 3rd of July 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. degrees C, the average global temperature set a new record surpassing the previous record set in August 2016 of 16.92 Measuring 17.01

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

By Jodi Sulpizio, Master Watershed Steward Coordinator, York County The Penn State Master Watershed Stewards in York County proudly recognize Betsy Leppo from the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and Gifford Pinchot State Park as their 2023 Outstanding Partners. Click Here to sign up for your own copy (bottom of page).

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Hutton On July 12, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule establishing the applicable volumes and percentage standards for 2023 through 2025 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel (BBD), advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel. Bergeson and Carla N. Advanced biofuel 5.94 Renewable fuel 20.94

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. The weekly reports posted during 2023 are below. That’s 25% more than in 2021. 28 to Nov.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 18, 2023

Mourners hold a vigil outside the Organization of American States for Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in Honduras on March 3, 2016 for opposing a dam project. The post The Stream, January 18, 2023: The Killing of Two Water Defenders in Honduras Prompts Calls for Justice appeared first on Circle of Blue. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2016 SB 32. 2023 SB 253. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2015 SB350. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. 2018 SB100. 2022 AB 1279.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9% more than in 2015. Read more here. Just one conventional operator-- John B.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Voting began on November 30 for the 2023 Pennsylvania “River of the Year,” and the Endless Mountain Heritage Region and the Susquehanna Greenways Partnership are asking the public to cast votes for the Susquehanna River North Branch. In 2023, the North Branch is poised to continue providing recreational advantages to the region.”

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Hutton On July 19, 2023, the U.S. According to EPA, the amendments are “intended to align the regulatory text with the amendments to TSCA’s new chemicals review provisions contained in the [2016] Frank R. Comments are due August 8, 2023. Bergeson and Carla N.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Twenty-one school, business and community projects were honored with the 2023 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. Posted: May 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest Collectively, the award-winning projects engaged hundreds of partners and achieved the following results: -- Grew and donated nearly 10,000 lbs.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2016, local courts found Halet guilty of stealing documents. In 2023, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Halet was a whistleblower rather than a criminal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Exploring this new dataset ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips have made headlines in recent years for the enormous profits they are raking in—more than $100 billion in 2023 alone. The year 2023 was the hottest year on record (so far!); I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fifth international conference on regional climate ( ICRC 2023 ), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s ( WCRP ) coordinated downscaling experiment ( CORDEX ), has just completed. It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel.

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Real Climate

JULY 8, 2023

Maine which provides a nice front end to the NOAA NCEP CFS forecast system and reanalysis and shows absolute daily temperatures in early July clearly exceeding the highest pre-existing temperatures from August 2016. This is of course increasing the odds for 2023 to be a record year (I would estimate about 50% at this point).

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Brag

MAY 30, 2023

Hutton On May 26, 2023, the U.S. According to EPA, the amendments are “intended to align the regulatory text with the amendments to TSCA’s new chemicals review provisions contained in the [2016] Frank R. Comments are due July 25, 2023. Bergeson and Carla N.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Q: So, what happened with global temperatures in 2023? Measured by this longer-term trend, the most recent IPCC report, released in March 2023, projected that we would pass 1.5 Remember, 2023 was a shocker. C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.) For instance, the trends from 2016 to 2022 are -0.12±0.37ºC/dec Assuming something like 2016 (a +0.11ºC effect), that implies you might see the excedence some 5 years earlier – say 2027 to 2037 (depending a little on the time-series you are following).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) of 2023 was re-introduced in Congress today. Between 2016 and 2020, only 25 cents of every $1,000 going to government research have been used for sustainable nutrition science projects, and although the USDA recently supported more projects in this area, additional funding is needed.

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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

Guest Post by Emilia Ravetta , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University The 2023 was the warmest year on record of history (World Meteorological Organization 2023). 2023 “Raw Materials and Society in Latin America”. Schlosberg, D.,

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

So it’s most satisfying to end 2023 with some good news regarding water in the Golden State. And since the five-year window Congress created in its 2016 water legislation has now expired, Westlands will presumably be permanently foreclosed from securing CVP water supplies in perpetuity. Download as PDF

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

Braymer was appointed Chief Counsel to the Department of Environmental Protection effective December, 2023. He succeeds Carolina DGiorgio who served as Chief Counsel from March to December 2023 and was named vice president for Governmental and External Affairs at PECO this month.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Note: In 2023, DEP issued at least 512 notices of violation to 95 conventional oil and gas well operators for new or continuing well abandonment without plugging them. This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 21, 2016 - report not available.] [The Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2023

On March 9, the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced the award of FY 2023 of $135 million in Abandoned Mine Land Revitalization (AMLER) grants to states. Established in 2016, the AMLER program funds projects that return legacy coal mining sites to productive uses through economic and community development. 

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

April 8 PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) The water quality impairments addressed by this document were caused by excessive siltation from: agriculture, grazing in riparian zones, and urban runoff/storm sewers sources. Click Here for a copy of the proposed TMDL. Comments are due by May 8. Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for more information.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

DC Ambler Properties failed to comply with the 2014 COA and a subsequent stipulation agreement in 2016, and was ordered by the Commonwealth Court to resolve the company’s outstanding obligations. The agreement became effective on September 13, 2023 and DC Ambler Properties’ payment of stipulated penalties was satisfied on September 15, 2023.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Adani protest: hundreds rally against proposed $1bn loan to mining company The Guardian PaulaR Thu, 11/16/2023 - 18:41 Monday, December 5, 2016 Read more Calla Wahlquist Melbourne protest precedes Malcolm Turnbull’s meeting with Gautam Adani during Australian Indian Leadership Dialogue Calla Wahlquist @callapilla

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Microsoft, Boeing Among Corporations With Billions Stashed in Offshore Tax Havens The Stranger PaulaR Thu, 09/21/2023 - 21:22 Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Read more Ansel Herz

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

Multiple relentless heat waves occurred in 2023 , with much of the globe experiencing 20 more “heatwave days” than in the previous three decades. C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. The annual-average temperature was 1.48 C above the pre-industrial average, just shy of the 1.5

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

7 people died in an accident in Adani power plant on April 20th The Hindu PaulaR Thu, 11/16/2023 - 19:40 Thursday, April 28, 2016 Read more Mahesh Langa Seven people died in a major accident in Adani group's coal fired power plant in Mundra in Kutch district of Gujarat.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2023

This 4-day bioblitz takes place around the world from April 28 through May 1, 2023 and Asbury Woods in Erie is pleased to lead the way for the Greater Erie area. The City Nature Challenge was started in 2016 by the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and has grown into a global event.

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Corp Watch

JULY 24, 2023

Windham courthouse security privatization raises concerns VT Digger PaulaR Mon, 07/24/2023 - 13:00 Wednesday, September 7, 2016 Read more Mike Faher [B]RATTLEBORO – A private contractor has taken control of all security functions at Windham County’s courthouses.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lockheed’s top government affairs official not registered as lobbyist Politico PaulaR Mon, 09/18/2023 - 19:46 Sunday, July 3, 2016 Read more Austin Wright & Jeremy Herb The top government affairs official at Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, holds a unique distinction among his main rivals at firms like Boeing, General Dynamics (..)

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