Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2025
The year 2023 was by far the warmest in Earths recorded history, and perhaps in the past 100,000 years , shattering the previous record set in 2016 by 0.27C (0.49F). According to recent data from NOAAs National Center for Environmental Information, 2024 is likely to be even warmer than 2023. But why were 2023 and 2024 so warm?
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 31, 2024
On October 23, 2024, the Clean Air Council and the Environment Integrity Project filed a notice of intent to sue the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for emitting particulate matter (PM 2.5) and nitrogen oxides in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, the state Air Pollution Control Act and the plant's permit. "As
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Resources Links - Revolution Cryogenic Plant: -- Observer-Reporter: Explosion, Fire At Energy Transfer’s Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Plant Burned For Nearly 11 Hours On Christmas Day In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5
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 ).
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.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 27, 2025
Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. Affected residents have been living on hauled water.
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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