Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

I hope we can collectively reckon with another terrifyingly awesome atmospheric event: the hottest year. And yet there’s no mention of the obvious source of fear, terror, and dread in 2024 when it comes to planet earth. Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Pennsylvania Sea Grant College Program is pleased to announce its 2024-26 Research Request for Proposals (RFP). Funding is provided by the National Sea Grant College Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and matching funds from participating investigator institutions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2024

The well was also venting gas to the atmosphere through a wooden plug in the wellhead that produced a hazard to public health and safety. DEP’s inspection report included violations for these failures and requested the owner to submit a written report by May 23, 2024 on how the well will be brought into compliance.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. 2 Temperature change during AMOC collapse (during model – not calendar!

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 27, 2024

” Atmosphere, 15(2). Guo, S., & Li, Y. “High Gravity-Enhanced Direct Air Capture: A Leap Forward in CO2 Adsorption Technology.” link] Abstract Given the global pressure of climate change and ecological equilibrium, there is an urgent need to develop effective carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They are sending CO2 right back into the atmosphere far more than trees in cooler, wetter conditions.” Through the process of photosynthesis, trees remove CO2 from the atmosphere to produce new growth. Yet, under stressful conditions, trees release CO2 back to the atmosphere, a process called photorespiration.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Copernicus Climate Change Service added, that in 2023 the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to the highest level ever recorded at 419 PPM.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Guest Post by Sam Leuthold , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a shift in the general popularity of agricultural soils. So why the hype around agricultural soils?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Read more here. -- On February 7, 2024, the Environmental Hearing Board issued an opinion and order granting part of an Apex Energy (PA) LLC motion to dismiss parts of a Protect PT appeal of the renewal of shale gas well permits at the Drakulic well pad in Penn Township, Westmoreland County. EHB Docket 2023074. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The week-long scientific exploration of Lake Erie will take place July 7-13, 2024, providing educators with a hands-on opportunity to explore microplastics, phytoplankton, benthic organisms, sediment, and other Lake Erie-specific topics alongside scientists and researchers working on these important issues. Click Here for all the details.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

DEP’s inspection reports [Gray 2 - Example] requested the owner of the wells to submit a written plan by April 17, 2024 on how the wells will be brought into compliance. The well owner said the wells would be plugged in 2024. On March 28, 2024 , DEP inspected two conventional wells owned by Rejiss Assoc.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2024

Related Article: -- HEI Energy, Penn State Study Uses 28,500 Water Sample Results To Help Identify Oil & Gas Industry Groundwater Pollution [PaEN] [Posted: January 16, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities by burning fossil fuels and contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. The captured CO2 is then stored deep underground in geologic formations or used to make other products.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The increasing greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are warming the global temperature, shifting precipitation patterns, raising global sea levels, melting glaciers, and more [5]. As the global popu lation and price of assets continue to grow, the chances of extreme weather causing fatalities, injuries, and economic damage increase.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

In 2023 the combined activities of fossil fuel production and usage emitted more than 120 million metric tons (mmt) of methane into the atmosphere, which is a slight rise compared with 2022 the report from IEA explained.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 4, 2024

“We can’t think of a better way to honor Dr. Behrend’s gift to the community than by celebrating 2024 as The Year of Trees. During 2024 it is our pleasure to expand that support and partnership to present The Year of Trees.” Posted: January 4, 2024] PA Environment Digest Click Here for a video introduction of The Year Of Trees.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Globally the heating of the world seems to have no end in sight as April 2024 becomes the warmest April ever recorded since records began. It sets an additional new unwelcome record and trend with the past 11 months being the warmest of those months ever recorded.

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

Sagnik Dey , Dilip Ganguly and colleagues at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology–Delhi calculate that the successful implementation of India’s National Clean Air Programme would allow the country to generate an extra 6-16 TWh of solar electricity every year.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. A new process could lock carbon dioxide below the ocean floor, allowing valuable time to reduce the atmospheric greenhouse gases driving climate change. Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. DEP requested a written report by February 24, 2024 on how Equitrans will bring the wells into compliance.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Equitrans provided emission estimates that indicated approximately 1.037 billion cubic feet of natural gas was released into the atmosphere, violating Pennsylvania’s Air Pollution Control Act. The impact of methane is over 25 times greater than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Three comparative maps of snow water equivalent (SWE) across California on April 1 in 2015, 2023, and 2024, based on data from the National Snow Analysis by the Office of Water Prediction. The solid blue line depicts the current year (2023-2024), showing a very close to average snow water content. feet—over 200% above the average!

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2024

Violations were issued and DEP’s inspection report requested a written report by January 20, 2024 on how the well will be brought into compliance. Violations were issued and DEP’s inspection report requested a written report by January 20, 2024 on how the well will be brought into compliance. On January 4, 2024 , DEP inspected the W.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2023

A recent New York Times article quotes from the report that “locations in New Mexico where radionuclide deposition reached levels on par with Nevada” from atmospheric nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site. The House must pass their version of this bill now, which is integral before RECA sunsets in 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A negative CI score would suggest an almost magical climate solution that pulls several carbon dioxide molecules from the atmosphere for each one that comes from the tailpipe of a truck running on dairy biomethane. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. g /MJ and a carbon intensity of 36.4 Pavlenko, Y.H.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Three new guides are now available from WeConservePA addressing carbon issues in conservation easements-- -- Addressing Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in Conservation Easements : The reality of climate change brought on by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere presents challenges to conservation practitioners.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRMP) receives an annual grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2024

During complaint investigations and regular and after-hours odor patrols, from November 2022 through February 2024, there were at least 70 occasions where representatives of the Department detected landfill gas and/or leachate odors offsite and were able to attribute them to Keystone. Posted: April 1, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers working in the field of attribution science have been able to state with clarity that last year’s fires and droughts, the Alberta floods of 2013, BC’s atmospheric rivers, and the heat waves that have killed hundreds of people in the BC’s Lower Mainland, have all been intensified and magnified by human-caused climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

This spring, Environmental Defence Canada submitted a motion to Enbridge shareholders for their 2024 Annual General Meeting on May 8th. This spring, Environmental Defence Canada submitted a motion to Enbridge shareholders for their 2024 Annual General Meeting on May 8th. Can you help us fight back against the climate villains?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

C hotter than January – and because January 2024 was also exceptionally hot, their 12-month running average went above 1.5 C when that 12-month average rolled over from being January through December 2023, to being February 2023 through January 2024. Because the Earth warmed a lot through 2023 – December was 0.5

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

So far in 2024, the PA Environment Digest’s weekly review of DEP’s Oil and Gas Inspection reports and photos shows DEP has issued 443 violations for conventional oil and gas well abandonment (as of April 26) and one shale gas well abandonment. Read more here. Read more here. These violations cover 34,455 individual wells.

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Physics World

MARCH 2, 2022

A close analysis of data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has revealed that electromagnetic “whistler waves” – so named because early radio operators mistook these eerie, descending sounds for a person whistling – are unexpectedly absent from certain regions of the Sun’s upper atmosphere. In 2024, it will fly to within 6.08

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Funding is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and matching funds from participating investigator institutions. Next Request For Proposals The next request for research proposals will be released Thursday, January 5, 2023, for research projects beginning in 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

Planting native trees and shrubs is an act of hope, faith, and healing will contribute to sequestration of the excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere that is changing our global weather. 1 [PaEN] [Posted: January 12, 2024] PA Environment Digest The deadline for ordering is January 20. 19 & Feb. 16; Snowmobile/ATV Grants Feb.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2021

The IOC has committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2024, and by 45 per cent by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement. The IOC said that the Olympic Forest will be compensating for more than 100 per cent of their residual emissions and will help the organisation become “climate positive” by 2024.

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