Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

I don’t think this will be news to anyone, but kind of a lot has happened over the past five years. But a lot has changed in the past five years. Change #2: Grid reliability challenges are increasing California’s grid has been facing significant grid reliability issues, struggling to meet peak electricity demand the past few years.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

The California Energy Commission (CEC) (the lead state agency on offshore wind), hosted 18 webinars and workshops and agency staff stated at several events that they were planning, or had already started, staff outreach tours to key stakeholder groups.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

When these types of events happen, they are often couched in terms of an event once-every-x-number-of-years. But what exactly is a 50-year, 100-year, or 1,000-year weather event? Stories about remarkable weather events have been retold through the ages. What was rare is becoming more common. to 1% chance in any year ).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Thank you to everyone who attended and made the event a success! Natalie Lamagna [Nonprofit] Stream Restoration Incorporated hired their newest environmental scientist, Natalie Lamagna, who started working for SRI this past August 2023. Click Here to sign up for updates on the celebration. Click Here to read the entire newsletter.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

DCNR’s Conservation and Natural Resources Council is scheduled to meet September 28 to hear updates on three new state parks and new utility-scale solar facility guidance. Click Here for a copy of the report which summarizes all six of CNRAC's meetings, Council actions, and CNRAC Work Group activities over the past year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 16, 2023

I’m not going to beat around the bush: the past few years have not been great for the U.S. Not to mention all the power outages caused by wildfire threats , hurricanes , and other extreme weather events. power grid, particularly when it comes to grid reliability. And, if managed appropriately, EVs can even improve grid reliability.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

But instances of noncompliance have cropped up over the past few years, as have accidents that strained the state’s groundwater reserves — including Enbridge Line 3’s puncturing of aquifers in 2021, or farmers overdrawing water during drought that same year. According to NOAA data, average ice coverage this year was 6.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

million EVs on the road), and while California has been struggling to maintain grid reliability the past few years, increased electricity demand from EV charging load is not one of the problems. EVs can also boost local resilience during outage events, providing a lifeline to backup power if the broader grid goes down.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They shared how both new research findings and events on the ground can together inform how we vote in elections. In the past, other coalitions have formed successful questionnaires for national and state elections. Also, many organizations provide support and funding for such events and initiatives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Understanding snowpack accumulation and its snow water equivalent helps estimate flood risks associated with rapid melting or so-called rain-on-snow events. As we learn from past mistakes, there are efforts to reconvert certain cropland areas to natural flood plains to reduce California’s vulnerability to floods.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

After a summer when almost no one was left untouched by the climate crisis, it’s past time to operationalize a transitional justice process and help communities who are suffering. This past year, the small island nation of Vanuatu took matters into their own hands on the global stage.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Whereas past COPs have typically taken place in centralized, open-concept convention halls where folks could easily trip into interesting events and people as they wandered through, this year each pavilion and meeting hub is given its own separate building or office space, frequently behind closed doors, located across a sprawling campus.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Selected organizations will be identified as partners with Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology in the 2024 event and receive an equal share of the funds raised. It is anticipated that the event will raise close to $20,000, resulting in contributions of more than $6,000 to three organizations. The deadline for applications is March 1.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2023

Past Explorers Club members have included Jacques Cousteau, Carl Sagan, and Sir Edmund Hillary and have carried the club’s flag to the bottom of the Earth’s deepest oceans, to the top of its highest peaks, and on to the Moon. Ganter grew up in Northwest Michigan. ” The post Explorers Club Names J.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

According to the report, most EDCs struggled to meet key reliability performance benchmarks during 2021. The three EDCs that have expended the most capital through their LTIIPs (Duquesne, PECO, and PPL) have been the most consistent in achieving benchmark performance the past three years. million customers impacted by events in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2023

Residents of the Juniata River Watershed are invited to provide input and suggestions via public meetings and a community survey to help inform the Juniata Watershed Management Plan, a project of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy with multiple partners. Altoona, PA 16602 -- May 18 in Friendship Fire Company , 212 4th St.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Shell Polymers Monaca Is Full Of Dangerous Contradictions By Andie Grey, Center Township, February 11, 2024-- Last week, Shell Polymers Monaca hosted a “virtual community meeting” for the first time in nearly a year. However, none of this was disclosed at Shell’s “virtual community meeting.” Our hopes have been built up for years.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Energy’s Past And Its Lessons For Powering A Sustainable And Prosperous Tomorrow. People who deal with fossil fuel and people who deal with climate are not the same and don’t meet. Unless we get those two groups to meet and talk things out, it is going to be very difficult to square the transition,” said Tabler.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Past fires have burned watersheds, depositing into reservoirs debris and ash that interfere with the water-treatment process. But for the past two summers, it has looked more like a floodplain. This included drinking water systems , which in some cases were showing signs of contamination from chemicals released during the fires.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It is often hard to make sense of what happens at the annual climate meetings, and easy to get cynical. It was clearer than in most past meetings that the formal negotiations are not the only place, or even necessarily the most important place, where things happen. As a result, these meetings are usually a disappointment.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

The creek runs around the town, past Yukon Lions Park, which has a ballfield and kayak launch, and ultimately into the Youghiogheny River. Visit the Mountain Watershed Association website for more information on programs, initiatives, upcoming events and how you can be involved.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Past recipients of the Conservation Award in the 1990s included: Governor Robert P. All of these past awards were earmarked by a simple ceremony, not associated with any fundraising event, and for the sole purpose to honor a deserving recipient. Regular Council meetings were used to help coordinate the chapter network.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2023

How does the organization take full advantage and create something sustainable that can meet the current needs of the water resource, the local communities, and be able to adapt to the future needs as well? Visit the POWR Events webpage for upcoming events and recordings of past online events and educational sessions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

Lots of events on the Foundation’s Events webpage and DCNR’s Calendar of Events for activities happening near you. For more information on programs, initiatives, special events and how you can get involved, visit the PA Parks & Forests Foundation website. Click Here to read the entire Take Five.

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ESA

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The 2022 ESA & CSEE Joint Meeting in Montreal was the first in-person annual meeting since 2019, and like we’ve all probably experienced at recent re-convenings, it was truly a week of inspiration, learning, and connection! Posters were set individually rather than in rows and there were wider aisles between tables and booths.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The blue zone at COP27 holds negotiation rooms, along with the official plenary space where political leaders meet and make decisions. At previous COP sessions, environmental and climate justice activists and organizations had little access to the decisionmakers making critical choices that affect the communities they represent.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 13, 2021

Super Bowl weekend was the headline event last winter in Tampa, Florida, where the mood was giddier than usual, given that the hometown Bucs had advanced to the championship. But in the event that they are targeted, the likelihood that they’ll be able to defend themselves is slim. “If By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — July 13, 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

With the frequency and cost of disasters rising, it’s well past time for the U.S. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion. to have a clear, coherent, and coordinated approach to building the climate resilience communities need.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2023

Reinsurance and innovative approaches like catastrophe bonds and parametric insurance can also help expand the reach of insurance and the ability to be quickly responsive to extreme events. Even for major global reinsurers, the rising spate of extreme events worldwide is severely testing their profitability.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2022

Pakistan and India meet for annual water sharing discussions. Past concerns from Pakistani representatives over hydropower production in disputed border areas remained unresolved, according to official records of the meeting. Hurricane Matthew in early October, 2016. Photo © Ryan Johnson/North Charleston on Flickr. 11 PERCENT.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JUNE 18, 2021

I attended many meetings with these scholars. COVID struck just 5 months into my time in Baltimore but before then we held several great events. COVID struck just 5 months into my time in Baltimore but before then we held several great events. Some of our great events included; Here is Rucker Johnson's book talk.

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ESA

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Donors in the room, primarily development banks, indicated that many constraints needed to be overcome to match funding with local communities although it was observed that radical changes have taken place already in the past few decades.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Living along India’s Brahmaputra River, Pegu told Reuters he’s been forced to rebuild his home at least eight times over the past decade due to heavy rain and flooding. After Mising families return after flooding events, they are often unable to reclaim their land because they lack title deeds to prove ownership. Happy New Year!

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The PA Organization for Watersheds and Rivers is hosting a virtual Local Government Engagement Conversation Café on August 31, a peer learning opportunity on meeting the challenges of local government engagement. This event is free to attend, but registration is required to get the Zoom link.

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ESA

DECEMBER 18, 2023

After this task, she sets her focus on scanning the various schedules of negotiations, civil society events, and press conferences. So it is not surprising to find other ecology and global environmental change colleagues attending these morning briefings, or at other RINGO events. Her guidance here is invaluable.

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