A Greener Life

APRIL 17, 2024

The data presents clear evidence about the warming trend. The EU`s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced that each of the last 10 months ranked as the world’s hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous years. This is according to the EU’s climate change monitoring service.

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Rainforest Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The SVI ranks counties on 16 social factors, including unemployment, race and ethnicity, and disability, and further groups them into four related themes (see the CDC SVI graphic below). Each county receives a ranking for each Census variable and for each of the four themes as well as an overall ranking.

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Coastal Erosion 2023 Climate Change 2020 182

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2022

On Earth Day last week, Twitter banned “misleading” climate change ads , reversing its previous practice which blocked UCS and other organizations from advertising about the risks of climate change, but put the fossil fuel industry under no such restriction. Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok received the lowest rankings.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

Ranks Pittsburgh Area Among Nation’s Most Polluted -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Harrisburg, Lancaster Get F Grades For Air Pollution In American Lung Assn. has been skewering data for years to advance a radical agenda under the guise of just caring about the kids.' -- American Lung Assn.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

All the caveats that Leiter has indicated about the utility of looking at cite counts apply here. I also differ from Leiter in including scholars who are currently in government service in my totals. I used the same basic methodology as Leiter, and these are citations from 2016-2020, inclusive. Faculty First Name. Faculty Last Name.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Yet even with this growth, Pennsylvania ranks middle-of-the-pack compared to other states in the nation, ranking 15th in the growth of rooftop solar over the last decade. Rooftop solar had the technical potential to meet about 45 percent of U.S. electricity sales in 2022, but instead only generated about 1.5

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Solar Power Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Electricity 71

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On this theory, China seems to have a clear duty to pay: it emits about 28% of world carbon, so it should be paying a hefty fee to other countries to compensate them for the harm its current emissions will cause them now and in the future. China has 18% of global GDP, of which about 60% is consumed domestically.

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Climate Change Carbon Emissions Atmosphere Politics 246

Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For more information about rabbit care, visit rabbit.org. If the pet food industry, which mainly feeds dogs and cats, were a country, it would rank as the 60th-highest greenhouse gas emitter, equivalent to the … Continue reading Why you should consider bunnies as your next pet Read the full story from the Washington Post.

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Greenhouse 40

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

Find Pennsylvania’s ranking dates as well as other program information on the Pennsylvania NRCS Easement Programs webpage or contact your local USDA Service Center. To learn more about other technical and financial assistance available through NRCS conservation programs, visit Get Started with NRCS.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 8, 2022

By Liza Gross As climate change fuels more severe wildfires that burn through larger swaths of forestland and homes each year , firefighters are facing increasingly unpredictable, catastrophic blazes, leading many to speak out about suicide among their ranks, an occupational hazard they once kept to themselves.

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Climate Change 98

E2 Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Greenberg Traurig elevated its Environmental Practice national ranking by one band. Barsh , “each of whom contributes to all of these rankings.” The editors also ranked the firm’s Environmental Practice in Colorado, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. Barsh Florida Environment Christopher L. Bell Texas Environment S e an W.

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2023 Natural Resources Law Renewable Energy 52

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Home to about 65 million people across four countries, the lower Mekong is also prized for its diversity of aquatic species. In recent years I’ve been writing about global freshwater issues, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia’s Mekong River. Boats ply the waters of the Mekong River Delta, near Can Tho, Vietnam.

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Ocean Conservation Sustainable Development 2018 363

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Princeton Review ranked the college second in the nation on its list of “ Top 50 Green Colleges ” and named the institution to its annual “Green Honor Roll.” Visit Dickinson College’s Sustainability webpage to learn more about their initiatives. to reach carbon neutrality.

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2023 110

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

By late 2021, after a decade of conservatives control of the executive branch, Australia was ranked last of sixty countries in terms of climate policy, below countries such as Saudia Arabia and Kazakhstan. About a year ago, Australia had a change of government, with the Labor Party taking control.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 26, 2022

EPA appears to be sanguine about how the listing will play out in the real world. If EPA thinks that it can manage the issue through the hazard ranking system process, what happens when it starts to score sites using the same data that yielded a health advisory for PFOA of 4.0 parts per quadrillion.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Perdue poultry farmers have been vocal at annual farmer council meetings, being transparent about their needs and barriers to conservation work. Lancaster County alone ranks 4th (out of 3,079 counties nationwide) in poultry production. In comparison, Pennsylvania dairy milk production ranks 10th in the nation.

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Conservation 2017 Natural Resources Environmental Protection 92

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 1, 2024

NSAC thanks Chairwoman Stabenow, Ranking Member Boozman (R-AR), Chairman Thompson (R-PA-15), and Ranking Member Scott (D-GA-13) for their tireless work toward a 2024 Farm Bill reauthorization, and is eager to continue working together for a truly bipartisan farm bill,” Lavender added. Veering from that path is a recipe for inaction.

Conservation 75

Conservation 2024 Climate Change Natural Resources 75

Washington Nature

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To address these challenges, decision-makers must weigh the different inputs and outcomes related to stormwater solutions to make informed decisions about implementing greening measures like tree plantings, rain gardens, and other green stormwater infrastructure. How did their rankings compare with other experts?

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Conservation 2019 Climate Change Government 52

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 13, 2022

Tell us about your recent work. Young adults are prouder of their identity; they want to let other people know about the type of person they are, and stickers are an easy way to achieve this goal. At the same time, stickers can spark discussion about important topics. All the chosen species have a rank of S1, S2 or S3.

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Environmental Science Conservation Climate Change Politics 52

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There were some big wins, including a bill to create the nation’s first heat wave ranking system. An examination of mortality data from this period shows that thousands more people died on extremely hot days, estimating that extreme heat caused about 3,900 deaths. Heat Legislation. AB 2238 ( Rivas & E.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Congratulations on winning the 2022 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics for your work on perovskite semiconductors. We were initially talking about a 3–4% energy conversion efficiency of these compounds, then I achieved around 10%. Now we have received the Rank Prize together. One of the early challenges was how to stabilize it.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2024

This priority ranking must include the cause of the impairment and take into account both the severity of the pollution and the uses to be made of the waterbodies. Visit DEP’s PRP/TMDL Plan Requirements webpage to learn more about this program. How Clean Is Your Stream?

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2024 Environmental Protection Conservation 2023 68

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 24, 2022

“We remain seriously concerned about access to safe water for 50,000 people throughout the country,” said spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric in a briefing on Friday. The World Risk Index ranks Tonga the third most vulnerable to natural hazards out of 181 countries. Though calamitous, the event was not entirely unexpected.

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Ocean Government 2022 264

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a lot of discussion of how the private sector is supporting renewable energy, but it’s almost all about power consumers like Apple and Walmart. But what about the companies who are selling the power? Full information about the power mixes and carbon reduction goals of these ten utilities is given at the end of this post.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Shen , a transportation program policy analyst, to talk about the program’s new equitable mobility work. EN: Tell us a bit about the Clean Transportation Program’s plans to promote equitable mobility in Massachusetts. The Boston-Cambridge metro area is already ranked among the top 10 best public transportation systems in the country.

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Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide Electricity Law 246

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Together they operate about 95% of Canada’s tar sands production. They tell the public they support vague and distant climate action like net-zero by 2050, but at the same time lobby against an effective regulation to cap emissions from their industry and internally strategize about how to feed climate denial and doubt.

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Fossil Fuels Natural Resources Climate Change Government 121

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

The Central Valley produces about 25% of our nation’s food , despite occupying just 1% of nationwide farmland. Bakersfield, Fresno, and Visalia are consistently ranked as cities with the worst particulate and ozone pollution , according to the American Lung Association.

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Climate Change Ozone Air Pollution Particle Pollution 292

Frontiers

MARCH 31, 2023

Among bibliometric databases, including Web of Science , Frontiers’ titles are ranked among the strongest in their categories by any measure. ENDS About Frontiers   Frontiers is the 3rd most-cited and 6th largest research publisher. Indeed, right now, we are the 6th largest and the 3rd most cited publisher in the world.

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Technology Technology 101

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Canada will now join the ranks of leading jurisdictions such as the European Union, California, Quebec and British Columbia, in phasing out the sale of new gasoline cars at the pace required by global net zero objectives. This is a crucial policy that will help put Canada on the path to net zero emissions.

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Electricity Regulations 2026 Climate Change 96

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 12, 2023

The full letter submitted to Representative Andy Harris (R-MD 1) and Representative Sanford Bishop Jr. (D-GA-2),

Conservation 96

Conservation Climate Change Natural Resources 2023 96

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 8, 2023

When it comes to financing clean energy, our banks rank in the bottom third globally but they lead in oil and gas investments. CAFA would fix this. Our financial markets need to cut emissions and address climate risks, and voluntary commitments to “net-zero” from individual groups will never be sufficient.

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Law Clean Energy Government 2022 58

Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Building on the work of Chuck Manski, a good research project (armed with a time-machine) would take the research back to each year before February 2020 to ask different people around the world about their perception and degree of worry about infectious disease risk as a major global challenge.

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Climate Change 2016 Government 2020 113

E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

About Greenberg Traurig’s Environmental Practice : Greenberg Traurig’s Environmental Practice represents clients with issues under the environmental and natural resource laws that affect their businesses. Greenberg Traurig received a first-tier ranking in the “Environmental Law” and “Litigation — Environmental” categories in the U.S.

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Law Renewable Energy Environmental Responsibility Natural Resources 52

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2022

PNDI provides the most current, reliable and objective scientific information about ecological resources in this Commonwealth and it is used to help inform environmental decisions in this Commonwealth. To make classification decisions, the Department uses data referred to as ''State ranks.''

Conservation 52

Conservation Natural Resources Regulations 2022 52

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2023

ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE ( environmentaldefence.ca ): Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities. –

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Regulations Climate Change 2023 Electricity 56

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As price rises drive people to look for ways to save energy , there is suddenly a wealth of well-presented information about energy use in the home. It shows how much it costs to use them, ranked according to how long you will use them. As I regularly tell people in workshops on home energy, heating is the killer.

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Government 98

Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CCS does nothing about methane leakage or the emissions that result from burning fossil fuels; therefore ignoring 90 per cent of the problem. T he Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ranks CCS as the most expensive and least effective option to reduce carbon emissions. The few that do tend to vastly underperform.

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