PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2024

Both the Upper and Lower French Creek Water Trail maps will be updated and reprinted to show access locations and amenities along the 78-mile Water Trail. The maps were last updated in 2019 and since then, at least three new access points have been added or improved, and a low-head dam has been removed on one of the navigable tributaries.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Though rivers meander and melting glaciers birth new lakes annually, the world’s major drainages have largely been mapped. Scientists are exploring satellite-based measurements of plant productivity as a way to anticipate quick-forming “flash” droughts. We need to get SWOT data to a place where people really trust it,” Pavelsky said.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2022

Drought Monitor map. Every Thursday morning, the National Drought Mitigation Center releases a map called the US Drought Monitor, which tracks the latest data on dry conditions throughout the country. It’s a white map of the United States covered in some configuration of orange, yellow, and red – each color denoting how dry an area is.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We will need to reorient our mental maps of the world: in thirty years, one in four human beings will live in sub-Saharan Africa. Improvements in governance can also help on things like ensuring that available water gets to the places and people who need it the most. This population growth is all but inevitable.

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Breezometer

APRIL 11, 2022

Increasing concerns about air pollution in Paris led city officials in the historic French capital to pursue a major endeavor: to transform Paris’s heavily polluted Place de la Nation square and reclaim the air quality in and around the historic landmark. Mapping Pollution With Sensor Networks.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 19, 2022

New climate risk modelling firms such as First Street Foundation a nd Jupiter are mapping the risks of flooding and fire risk that every land parcel may face over the next decades. As different workers choose their own best “climate niche”, this will improve their mental and physical health and raise their workplace productivity.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The initiative will prepare Upper Appalachia - western Pennsylvania, northeast Ohio and West Virginia - to meet increasing regional and national demand in both the residential and commercial sectors for the products and materials needed to construct, renovate, maintain and operate healthy, energy-efficient, resilient buildings and infrastructure.

Technology 77

Technology Technology Renewable Energy 2021 77

Frontiers

JUNE 27, 2023

This report, and the sessions taking place over the next few days, will improve our awareness of ten technologies that promise to breakthrough, thus leading to important new products and services to the benefit of us all. We publish groundbreaking discoveries by the world’s top experts.

Technology 105

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 16, 2022

On a map that might grace the walls of a high school classroom, the watersheds of the American West are distinct geographical features, hemmed in by foreboding plateaus and towering mountain ridges. Diversions take place only when flows in the three tributaries exceed minimum requirements that change each month.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

“but they suspect there was a mist of production fluid emitted.” Production wastewater was flowing from the well at the rate of 1,260 to 2,100 gallons an hour into storage tanks on the well pad. There are 4 combustible gas meters set up ~15 feet away from the well that vented, and 5 more placed at a farther radius from it.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There are five good reasons: power, place, people, policy, and price. The US offshore wind map. NREL) Place Offshore wind has the distinct advantage, for many of us as consumers, of being close to where a lot of electricity demand is. Power Offshore wind is powerful, including when we need it most. Power everywhere.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Scientists writing in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change have mapped the forests of five vulnerable mountain areas in Italy and modelled the future of these fragile ecosystems. “If Using this data, they developed maps of land suitability for future trees out to 2050.

Climate Change 98

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Physics World

MAY 26, 2021

Even if only a few molecules are involved, the final configuration will depend on a huge number of parameters – including, in principle, all the possible locations each electron in each atom can occupy as the reaction takes place. This means that all the energy must instead go into rotational and translational motion (recoil energy).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

In order to guide the prioritization of communities to receive Justice40 investments, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently released its first version of an online web mapping tool called the Climate & Environmental Justice Screening Tool ( CEJST ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2022

For anyone hoping to see a strategic plan for achieving nutrition security, the new USDA report may read less like a road map and more like a review of recent policy and program changes. Nevertheless, these changes, many of which were part of the COVID-19 pandemic response, were significant.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2023

Bike shops have made their mark on places from Philadelphia to Erie. Hope Cyclery, Cambria County Hope Cyclery hit the map in downtown Johnstown in 1976. This bike shop seeks to represent the diversity within the cycling community through human connection and quality products.

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Frontiers

JUNE 26, 2023

Mine Orlu of the steering committee for the Forum report stated: “Engineering microbiomes using designer phages represents a groundbreaking approach to improving human well-being and agricultural productivity. Designer phages have shown potential in treating microbiome-associated diseases and enhancing agricultural productivity.

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Technology Technology 2023 95

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2023

Wild Things Park A $20 fee will cover the cost of disposing of up to 10 gallons/50 pounds of aerosol cans, automotive fluids, chemistry sets, electronic cigarettes, gasoline and kerosene, household cleaners, mercury thermometers, paint products, pesticides/garden chemicals, photo chemicals and pool chemicals.

Recycling 98

Recycling Waste 2023 Environmental Protection 98

Nanotech

JUNE 9, 2023

The main aim is to determine whether EU-wide enforcement action should be put in place to address the low level of information updates in dossiers for substances in nanoforms. Under the Cosmetic Products Regulation (CPR), a targeted revision of the regulation is taking place and is planned to address nanomaterials.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

DEP only required the submission of so-called “Quick Sheets” which contained critical information for first responders, contacts, maps of the facilities and other information. Moving forward, the PPC documents will be posted online by DEP at PA Oil and Gas Mapping website upon receipt.

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Natural Gas Regulations 2023 2024 110

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

DEP has not outright prohibited road dumping of conventional oil and gas wastewater, however, no operator has yet to meet the beneficial use provisions of DEP’s Residual Waste Regulations to use their waste in place of commercial products and the practice is illegal. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

The map below is from recent research that explores the network of companies already recycling and repurposing batteries – these include recycling companies such as Redwood Materials , Li-Cycle , and Ascend Elements. After this second-life use, the batteries are then ready to be recycled. What’s valuable in a vehicle battery?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Ohio River Valley Institute will host a December 12 webinar on Mapping A Clean Energy Transition for Southwestern Pennsylvania starting at 2:00 p.m. The Clean Energy Pathway for Southwestern Pennsylvania: -- Cuts CO2 emissions in the power sector by 92% by 2035 and 97% by 2050, placing the region on track to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There are no mandatory water use restrictions in place under a drought watch, but residents are strongly encouraged to voluntarily conserve water. Lycoming County -- SWN Production Company (Bodines), Lycoming Creek, Lewis Twp., Lycoming County -- SWN Production Company (Ralston), Lycoming Creek, McIntyre Twp., Read more here.

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Conservation Environmental Protection 2020 Electricity 98

Physics World

APRIL 20, 2021

Researchers at the laboratory Physics for Medicine Paris have performed the first microscopic mapping of the vascular network in the human brain. We are collaborating with Iconeus , a spinoff company of our lab, to develop a commercial product using transcranial ULM technology.”.

Technology 98

Technology Technology 98

Enviromental Defense

MAY 19, 2021

This threatens the home of some of the most productive spawning reaches in the West Credit River. Town of Erin Council’s sewage effluent will place Brook Trout at imminent risk of demise. Map of the proposed Town of Erin Wastewater Treatment Plant that would deposit its effluent in the West Credit River.

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Natural Resources 2019 Conservation Climate Change 122

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 6, 2023

The interview took place in Japanese and was facilitated by Ms. At that time, they explain their experiences by showing various materials such as maps and photos, but they also use pictures of scenes that have not been preserved in words or photographs, so that their testimonies can be more easily understood by the audience.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 1, 2022

Source control means, in essence, removing 6PPD-quinone from tires, so it cannot even get to the water in the first place. But the compound is so deeply embedded in the production cycle of a ubiquitous product that extracting it could take years, even decades.

Conservation 135

Conservation Ocean Environmental Protection Waste 135

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

He said on a tour of the area on May 1 with DCNR Bureau of Forestry and DEP Oil and Gas Program staff, a map they were shown of the proposed Pad L development clearly had the proposed shale gas well pad in a presently undisturbed area of the Tioga State Forest. Nessmuk in Tioga State Forest. But the pads are massive. Read more here.

Natural Gas 119

Natural Gas Natural Resources 2010 2017 119

Brag

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the Biomanufacturing Strategy, as commercial use of new technologies expands, if the United States fails to invest in its domestic manufacturing capabilities, market forces could drive manufacturing overseas, often at the expense of the national economy and potentially creating vulnerabilities in the DOD supply of these products.

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Biotechnology Technology Technology 2023 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Fossil fuel companies wanted to make sure that regulation of their products, and as a result the heat-trapping emissions that come from producing and using fossil fuels, were kept out of international agreements. Sea level rise will continue for the foreseeable future and have greater impact in some places than in others.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2022

To keep mosquitoes from entering a home, make sure window and door screens are in place and are in good condition. Bti is a natural product that kills mosquito larvae, but is safe for people, pets, aquatic life and plants. Map: Counties with mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile Virus.)

Environmental Protection 97

Environmental Protection 2022 2018 Recycling 97

Circle of Blue

MARCH 10, 2022

A map of Enbridge pipelines around the Great Lakes area. There does not appear to be an existing pipeline capacity to accommodate a shift to relying on other refineries to replace its lost production at the Toledo refineries.”. The Great Lakes region is frequently touted as one of the most climate-resilient places in the U.S.,

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Frontiers

JUNE 26, 2023

Credit: Frontiers “Wearable” sensors for plants To feed the world’s population in 2050, food production must increase by 70%, according to the U.N. Although challenges remain, wearable plant sensors may revolutionize crop production and management. Food and Agriculture Organization.

Technology 52

Technology Technology 2023 Waste 52

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

The “death map” tells the story of decades of sickness in the small northwest New Mexico communities of Murray Acres and Broadview Acres. Neighbors built the map a decade ago after watching relatives and friends fall ill and die. Neighbors built the map a decade ago after watching relatives and friends fall ill and die.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

When cost is mentioned, most people would think of the dollar value associated with a certain product or service. Interstates Map (Stumpf, 2022) Highways, bus networks, airports, and other modes of transportation are projects that usually impact hundreds of thousands or millions of people for tens of years.

Deforestation 52

Deforestation 2024 2023 2018 52

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It went on to recommend a series of additional restrictions on road “spreading” to prevent those impacts, however, none of these restrictions are being implemented today by DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management under its Co-Product Determination process that allows the road dumping of drilling wastewater. Read more here.

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