Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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. Farmworkers pick strawberries at Lewis Taylor Farms in Fort Valley, GA, on May 7, 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

“We are grateful for our volunteers and partners across the state whose dedication, commitment and exceptional contributions helped advance our mission and strengthen community improvement efforts statewide in 2023”, said Shannon Reiter, President of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful. Each one is deserving of recognition.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right To Know request shows DEP took enforcement action against 14 conventional oil and gas well operators that resulted in collecting $422,365 in penalties and bond forfeitures in 2023. Read more here. Read more here (2017-2021). Read more here (2022).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

To date in 2023, the United States has already suffered nine climate and weather disasters resulting in at least a billion dollars of damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was about most plans for climate security in the New York City area being unrealized. Part of that is that humans in the U.S.

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Nanotech

MARCH 3, 2023

The March 2023 issue of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) eNews includes an item announcing publication of an article entitled “ Results of the 2019 Survey of Engineered Nanomaterial Occupational Health and Safety Practices ” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today kicks off the 2023 state legislative session for our elected state leaders. As 2023 is the first year in which the state will be collecting revenue from the Climate Commitment Act, the stakes for these budget decisions are especially high. © Breanna Oakley/TNC Photo Contest 2019. © Courtney Baxter/TNC.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 13, 2023

June 13, 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. The post Fresh, June 13, 2023: Bid to Fund Invasive Carp Barrier Falls Short in Minnesota’s State Legislature appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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ESA

JANUARY 26, 2024

By Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald (Editor-in-Chief, Earth Stewardship ) ESA Executive Director Catherine O’Riordan and Earth Stewardship Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald man the ESA booth at the British Ecological Society’s 2023 Annual Meeting. The British Ecological Society’s 2023 Annual Meeting was held in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

Until 2023. 2019 1.18 ± 0.15 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?

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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. This Project link has more information on the study.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2023

In 2019, when Indonesia was last inundated with widespread fires, the country experienced economic losses of $5.2 The post The Stream, June 6, 2023: Evacuations and Flooding in Southern Ukraine After Blast Hits Dam appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

On October 18, the Department of Transportation and Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful announced 33 high school student members of the 2023-2024 cohort of Young Ambassadors of Pennsylvania. The 2023 Pick Up Pennsylvania Initiative will be held until November 30. 21-26 [PaEN] [Posted: October 18, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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ESA

MAY 19, 2023

In April 2023, 15 ESA members and graduate students in ecology participated in the first in-person Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA) event since 2019. In this post, Sarah Rothman (University of Maryland) reflects on her experience participating in the program.

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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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SPR Law

OCTOBER 31, 2023

On October 30, 2023, the New York Supreme Court, New York County dismissed a significant legal challenge to New York City’s building emissions law, Local Law 97 of 2019. The decision provides clarity to the NYC real estate community that Local Law 97 is valid, enforceable, and constitutional.

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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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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Background The Blueprint aims to reduce domestic aviation emissions [i] from airport operations by 20% from 2019 levels (404ktCO2) in 2030 and achieve net zero domestic and international aviation emissions by 2050.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Applicant) in 2019. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2023 All Rights Reserved. Later Alibaba assigned the application to Advanced New Technologies Co., This newsletter is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Applicant) in 2019. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2023 All Rights Reserved. Later Alibaba assigned the application to Advanced New Technologies Co., This newsletter is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

Back in 2019, at the last face-to-face Assembly, the Swiss proposed a resolution to assess the science and possible governance of ‘climate altering techniques’ aka geoengineering. Wider involvement The most striking development compared to 2019 was that this time around many more countries got involved.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 18, 2023

TNC staff and trustees, from left to right: Kathleen Hebert, Maud Daudon, Emily Heber, Skippy Shaw, Mike Schaefer, Governor Inslee, Mike Stevens, Lilianna Ayalla, David Mendoza © Hannah Fitinich This year’s lobby day was especially energized by being back on the capitol campus in person for the first time since 2019.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 26, 2024

Pennsylvania joined RGGI pursuant to a 2019 executive order and a subsequent rulemaking promulgated by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) and Environmental Quality Board (“EQB”). 1, 2023, declaring the RGGI rulemaking void. The Commonwealth Court issued an Order on Nov.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In 2023, more than 5,000 new deep-sea species were discovered in a large area between Hawaii and Mexico in the Pacific. Jumping size brackets, in 2019 a new species called Sato’s beaked whales was identified in the North Pacific , and in 2021, the 40-foot-long Rice’s whale was formally recognized in the Gulf of Mexico.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

The inspection report noted some bags of material contaminated by spills and releases have been removed, but the site appeared “unchanged” since the last inspection in June, 2023. Inspection Timeline DEP did a total of six other follow-up inspections at the site since July of 2018-- -- March, 2019: No cleanup progress.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In 2023, the U.S. 2023, November 15). 2023, November 17). 2023, October 31). 2023, October 31). Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2023). link] , DOI: 10.25921/stkw-7w73 [5] USGCRP, 2023: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Satellite image of Hurricane Otis on Oct. News and World Report.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

2019 Violations The environmental compliance record of Equitrans Midstreams is not encouraging. As of December 13, 2023, Equitrans has not completed the cleanup of groundwater contaminated when the company was trying to plug the well venting the natural gas. On September 12, 2023, Equitrans began plugging the well.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables. Renewables are 42% of electricity. Carbon emissions are 707 billion tons, a 30% cut below 1990 emissions.

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Renewable + Law

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On June 23, 2023, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill (HB) 3179 , which changes the definition of energy facilities subject to mandatory Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC) jurisdiction. Signed by Oregon’s Governor on July 18, 2023, HB 3179 will go into effect January 1, 2024.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 28, 2022

The so-called 24-month study — tentatively scheduled for August 15 — determines how much water Mead and Powell will release in 2023. The tiers were updated in 2019 in the DCP. Short for drought contingency plan, the DCP was approved by the basin states and the federal government in 2019. What’s that, you ask?

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Tesla trial begins over whether ‘experimental’ autopilot caused driver’s death The Guardian PaulaR Thu, 10/19/2023 - 14:18 Thursday, September 28, 2023 Read more Lawsuit claims company knowingly sold defective car that led to Micah Lee’s 2019 death while Tesla blames ‘classic human error’ Reuters Fri 29 Sep 2023 03.04

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Law and Environment

APRIL 24, 2023

On April 13, 2023, the Commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted to approve a proposal that will accelerate the commercialization of fusion energy in the United States. In 2019, section 103(a)(4) of the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) required the NRC to issue fusion regulations by 2027.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights Mongabay PaulaR Fri, 12/01/2023 - 13:30 Monday, November 27, 2023 Read more Thais Borges & Sue Branford Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), Brazil’s largest bauxite producer, launched a new mining project in the Amazon region in 2019 but failed to notify and consult four impacted traditional riverine (..)

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Migrant Workers Sue Jacobs For Alleged Abuse in Qatar World Cup Projects Engineering News-Record PaulaR Fri, 10/20/2023 - 14:47 Friday, October 13, 2023 Read more James Leggate Al Janoub Stadium, one of the eight 2022 FIFA World Cup venues, is seen under construction in 2019 in Doha, Qatar.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

On May 17, 2023, a DEP followup inspection at a Tatonka Oil Co. DEP inspection report ] On February 8, 2019, a DEP inspection report noted Commonwealth Court had issued an order to Tatonka Oil Co. Photos: top- Nancy 13 circa 2018, Nancy 13 2023; bottom- James R. DEP eFACTS records show Tatonka Oil Co.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

On February 16, 2023, Senators John Kennedy, Ted Cruz, Shelley Moore Capito, and Kevin Cramer filed Senate Bill (SB) 438, which is the reintroduction of the Natural Gas Export Expansion Act. Bill 1497 on March 9, 2023. The bill aims to amend the Natural Gas Act to provide for expanded natural gas exports in the United States.

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SPR Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

On September 12, 2023, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued proposed regulations to implement Local Law 97 of 2019 (LL97). LL97 requires most large buildings in NYC to meet increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits starting in 2024.

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