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Four Months into Danger Season, Here’s the Tally of Extreme Heat, Floods, Fire Weather Events

Union of Concerned Scientists

Danger season in the United States is the time of year between roughly May and October when a number of climate-related hazards, including heatwaves, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes, tend to occur—at times simultaneously or back-to-back. What has Danger Season brought so far this year? Extreme Heat.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Photo by Liu Xin/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images) By C. Last August, in an amalgamation of ‘The Green New Deal’ meets ‘Build Back Better’, President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act gifted the renewables industry with billions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded subsidies.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

The new SPM covers 41 pages, and one could debate whether that can be called a ‘summary’. Another clue indicating a shortcoming is if you look at the atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations over time to see how much impact the IPCC reports have had on the real policy-makers in the world (Figure below). And who is supposed to read it?

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The Year in Water, 2022

Circle of Blue

The Year in Water, 2022. A third consecutive year of the La Niña weather pattern was a calamity for the Horn of Africa, where parts of Somalia are on the verge of famine for the second time this century. Each year delivers tales of the largest, driest, and worst. Each year delivers tales of the largest, driest, and worst.

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Vice Chair Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council Asks DEP To Report On University Of Pittsburgh Study That Found At Least 800,000 Tons Of Oil & Gas Production Waste Sent To Landfills Was Unaccounted For In One Year

PA Environment Daily

Researchers, using DEP data, found an average 30 percent discrepancy between the waste numbers reported by the oil and gas industry and the waste received by landfills. The study was originally released in July 2023 and reported by Marcellus Drilling News and The Allegheny Front at that time. Read more here.] Read more here.

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Senators Santarsiero, Comitta To Introduce Bill Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Shale Natural Gas Drilling Sites From 500 To 2,500 Feet, Based On Latest Science

PA Environment Daily

Data suggest that those who lived closer to greater intensity of unconventional natural gas development activities had the highest risk. For perspective, the incidence of lymphoma is, on average, 0.0012% in US children under 20 years of age. Click Here for a copy of the co-sponsor memo announcing the legislation. Read more here.

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State Dept. Of Health Apologizes For Not Listening To Communities Suffering Health Impacts From Shale Gas Development; New Health Study Results ‘Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’

PA Environment Daily

To another speaker, Rodack said, “Again, [I] appreciate the pain and the suffering of the community in the last several years of having to deal with this, and feeling like your voice wasn't heard. “I The studies found no link to childhood leukemia or rarer Ewing’s tumors that were found in one school district in Washington County.