Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Ahead of Memorial Day, the unofficial kick-off of summer, we are back with an annual warning that gets more pointed each year: it is now Danger Season 2024, and everyone needs to be ready. The first few months of 2024 have seen the continued march of record global heat conditions. Because the hits are coming, and they’re going to hurt.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Big Oil had 695 lobby meetings with the federal government between January and September 2024. TAKE ACTION TO STOP BIG OIL FROM POLLUTING OUR CLIMATE The post Big Oil’s steady lobbying in 2024: Suncor tops the lobbyist list from July-September appeared first on Environmental Defence. times per working day!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 2, 2024

According to the plaintiffs, Washington County disenfranchised nearly 260 voters in the 2024 primary elections. Unlike many other states , Pennsylvania doesn’t have a statewide ballot-curing policy, so counties have the authority to decide if they permit voters to fix errors on their absentee ballots.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Notably, SCG has actually reversed course on its projections for gas demand between the 2022 and 2024 California Gas Reports, projecting in 2022 that gas demand in SoCal would decrease at an annual rate of 1.5 percent between 2024 and 2040, despite a significant expansion in building decarbonization policies between 2022 and 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

Search Compliance Actions in PA Environment Digest for more information on compliance actions taken by DEP in 2024 and prior years. DEP issued 850 violations for conventional well abandonment through December 20 in 2024. The most frequent violation continues to be abandoning and not plugging conventional wells. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2024

On December 18, the PA Resources Council announced the student and adult winners of the 2024 Gene Capaldi Lens On Litter Photo Contest. PRC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of our volunteer judging panel and sponsors of Lens on Litter 2024 Carolyn Capaldi , Robert & Mary Capaldi , Sheetz, Inc. Keep PA Beautiful and Wegmans

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The NSAC staff retreat in West Virginia Theres no such thing as a quiet year when it comes to federal food and farm policy, and 2024 proved to be no exception! Farm Bill Reauthorization As of posting, we anticipate that Congress will finish 2024 with yet another extension of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

In 2024, RECA champions in Congress reaffirmed their commitment to communities to do whatever it took to pass RECA legislation, including passing it as a stand-alone bill, or working to attach it to any piece of legislation that was moving in Congress. So what has happened since December 2023? 3853) passes the Senate on a bipartisan vote.

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Real Climate

MARCH 20, 2025

There is always something of course – the weather is variable – but for 2023 and 2024 the residuals were higher than for any other year in decades. We find that ENSO had a negligible impact in 2023, but was a substantial contributor in 2024. More sophisticated modeling might well be able to reduce the uncertainty there.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. Click Here for a copy of the 2024 Climate Action Plan Update. Click Here for the 2024 limate Impacts Assessment Report. Read more here.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2025

Fjords and mountains in Northern Norway The Arctic Councils Arctic Monitoring and assessment Programme ( AMAP ) recently released a Summary for PolicyMakers Arctic Climate Change Update 2024. It is one of several stock taking exercises on the regional and global states of Earth’s climate. So why bother with several similar assessments?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

NewsClip: -- Republican Herald: Bill Reichart Presented Mayfly Award For His Longtime Work Promoting Clean Water [ PDF of Article ] [Posted: November 4, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2025

Pennsylvania's Margaret Mead In 2024, the Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Program grew to 911 dedicated community volunteers in 42 counties who logged 44,233 volunteer hours across the state. Thank you to the Master Watershed Stewards for all the good they've done in 2024! Do You Want To Be A Watershed Steward?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In 2024, the average cost to plug wells under the initial Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Grant was just over $105,000. So far in 2024, 26 violations were issued or continued to 10 shale gas well owners [ Diversified Prod LLC ; Big Dog Energy LLC follow-up; Big Dog Energy LLC ; EQT Production Co.; Read more here.

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Real Climate

MARCH 12, 2025

American Meteorological Society Policy Program Study, September 2024. The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts, SSRN Journal, December 2024. Communicating Forecast Uncertainty (CoFU) 2: Replication and Extension of a Survey of the US Publics Sources, Perceptions, Uses, and Values for Weather Information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Implementing strategies that result in better EV efficiency, right-sized range, and reduced VMT will result in savings of 1.5 million metric tons of newly mined lithium from 2025 to 2050. This estimate includes lithium demand for passenger vehicles and transit and assumes all sales are electrified by 2035. Dunn et al., Dunn et al.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As 2024 winds down, with its parade of climate-and extreme weather-fueled disasters , people across the nation are feeling the sharp pinch of rising insurance premiums and dropped policies. Data from Swiss Re shows that, globally, insured losses will exceed $135 billion in 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 20, 2025

While New York (102% of 2019 levels) and Washington DC (96%) have largely returned to pre-pandemic service levels in 2024, in states like Colorado (80%), Michigan (85%), and Pennsylvania (88%) transit agencies have cut service and are far from returning to normal. Put simply, buses and trains come less frequently than they used to.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

That’s because countries previously agreed under the Paris Agreement that, by the end of 2024, they would decide on the new quantum of climate finance for lower-income countries, building on the previous target of $100 billion/year. Here’s what’s on the agenda at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and why it matters.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

ITLOS published its advisory opinion in May 2024, and the IACtHR opinion is expected later in 2025. The Court received 91 written statements and 62 written comments on those statements, and 96 States and 11 international organizations presented oral statements at public hearings in the Hague in December 2024.

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New Scientist

MAY 27, 2025

2024 was the first single year to surpass the 1.5C global warming threshold now scientists predict that a year above 2Cis possible in the near future

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New Scientist

MAY 14, 2025

After record temperatures in 2024, climate scientists had expected this year to be cooler, but instead the planet seems to be heading for a second year above the 1.5C climate goal

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In a recent paper (Benestad et al, 2024) we provide an even clearer picture than before of extreme temperature and precipitation having become more frequent and widespread since 1950. Such extremes have a devastating impact on both nature and society. Lussana, and A.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

2024 was a year that might as well have been a decade. Heres what happened, as documented by Inside Climate News reporters.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 26, 2025

And there is another issue: we’ve previously looked at ERA5 surface heat flux trend, as shown here from my article in Oceanography 2024 : Figure 3 Sea surface temperature trend (left) and surface heat flux trend (right) 1940-2022 from the ERA5 reanalysis data also used in Terhaar et al. Source: Oceanography 2024.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A survey I conducted of 2024 sponsorships across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, and WNBA revealed more than 60 sponsorship deals with high-polluting companies. A lot of that goes on in American sports. The “ Foul Ball ” survey was published by the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment in September.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Taking into consideration all the bills presented throughout the year, the overall veto rate for the 2024 session was 16% out of 1,200 total bills per CalMatters. The 2024 veto rate is on par with previous years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

This was after the hacking investigation became public [Matthews, Strasburg, and Hope 2024]). In subsequent media reports, ExxonMobil has said it has not been involved in or aware of any hacking activities, while DCI Group has said: We direct all our employees and consultants to comply with the law (Satter and Bing 2024).

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 31, 2024

From floods in Brazil to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, extreme weather exacted a devastating toll in 2024. Read more on E360

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

The fund would be established based upon this study, requiring the responsible polluters to contribute based on their market share of emissions between 1990-2024. The legislation passed in May 2024, and Governor Phil Scott allowed it to go into effect without his signature.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the October 26, 2024 PA Bulletin extending the three Air Quality Permits needed for the temporary operation of the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County until a full Title V Air Quality Permit can be put in place. (

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The original violations for abandonment were issued on August 16, 2024 and the well owner failed to permanently plug the wells and stop the gas leaks. DEP’s inspection reports [ example ] requested the well owner to again submit a plan by November 10, 2024 on how the wells will be brought into compliance. Read more here.

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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) On May 11, 2024 , they filed the lawsuit in federal court. Click Here for a copy of the letter.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The IFO projects another $100 million drop in revenue in calendar year 2024 fee revenue from 2022 to $170 million. As of October 18, DEP received 408 shale gas permit applications in the first 42 weeks of 2024. million-- a nearly $100 million decrease from $178.9 Read more here. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here!

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With climate change and an incipient El Niño driving up temperatures, 2024 is likely to eclipse 2023 as the hottest year ever, meteorologists project. Read more on E360 →

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Violation: Abandoning Well (2023) November 5, 2024 routine inspection of J.A. Violation: Abandoning Well (2023) November 5, 2024 routine inspection of J.A. Speers - Violation: Abandoning Well November 4, 2024 routine inspection of Stephen L. Response requested by November 8, 2024. Owner holds 38 conventional well permits.

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