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It’s Time for EPA to Regulate Chemicals by Class

Union of Concerned Scientists

Group chemicals into classes Those of us who were college chemistry majors likely remember that there are known themes and tendencies, codified in the periodic table, that inform chemical and physical parameters. Here’s what’s entailed and how it can help. However, counting based on volume tells us nothing about health hazards.

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The definitive CO2/CH4 comparison post

Real Climate

To be clear this is an eminently sensible idea – as it has been for decades (remember the ‘ Methane-to-markets’ initiative from the early 2000s?), but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbon dioxide and methane. Historical comparisons.

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Motivation and Drive are the Secret Ingredients 

Frontiers

With regard to difficulties, there is definitely the ‘working from home’ aspect. We are moving into a transition period where it is not only about publications, CVs and H-indexes, etc. It is about the impact you make on your students, the new ideas you bring to the table and the collaboration you facilitate in your department.

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Scafetta comes back for more

Real Climate

Well, the observational time-series has a number of different things going on: In any 11 year period, there will be a particular realisation of the weather (from daily to season variability to ENSO effects etc.). A new paper from Scafetta and it’s almost as bad as the last one. Observational uncertainty. Why is this wrong?

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Third District Rejects CEQA and Other Challenges to Department of Water Resources’ EIR for Amendments Extending Long-Term State Water Project Supply Contracts Through 2085

CEQA Developments

Its capital costs are financed primarily – following an initial period of bonds issued under the Burns Porter Act – through revenue bonds authorized by DWR pursuant to the Central Valley Project Act. Planning and Conservation League, et al v. Department of Water Resources, et al, etc. 2023) Cal.App.5th

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Third District Affirms CEQA And Attorneys’ Fees Judgments In Favor Of Department Of Water Resources In Monterey Agreement And Amendment Litigation

CEQA Developments

Those contracts include “Table A,” showing maximum amounts of available water depending on conditions; Article 18, which addresses how water shortages will be dealt with; and Article 21, which addresses short-term water surpluses. Department of Water Resources (2021) __ Cal.App.5th Background: Litigation 25 Years in the Making.

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The COP26 climate summit: what scientists hope it will achieve

Physics World

“As great as the COPs have been in terms of getting a big picture statement on the table, only two countries have been formally recognized as being on target. As the COP26 climate summit gets underway in Glasgow, the stakes could not be higher. That trend may lead to a warming of about 2.7 °C C by the end of the century.