Environmental News Bits

MAY 18, 2022

In previous iterations of our report When Women Lead (in 2003 and 2011), we analyzed the voting records of federal legislators going back to 1983 using League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Environmental Scorecard data. Read the full story from Rachel’s Network.

2021

Physics World

APRIL 21, 2021

Luk opted for Daya Bay and in late 2003 contacted IHEP for potential collaboration. Daya Bay began taking data on 24 December 2011 , when only six of the eight detectors were in place. Daya Bay remains the largest collaboration between China and the US in basic research and has benefited scientists from both sides. Surprising findings.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Baka explained the study is based on 28,500 water sampling results submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection as part of pre-shale gas well development by shale gas operators since about 2011. Unconventional shale gas well drilling started in 2003 in Pennsylvania, resulting in 14,294 wells drilled. [In

2003

Water Research & Technology

MARCH 9, 2021

She received her MS (2011) and PhD (2015) in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. in Chemical Engineering (2003) from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Niveen Ismail is currently an assistant professor in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, an all-women’s liberal arts college.

2003

Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

As Catherine Malina wrote in a Georgetown International Environmental Law Review article in 2011, however, green-roof zoning laws could be effective and cost-efficient options to mitigate heat pollution from urban microclimates known as. In fact, EPA estimates that “a city with 1 million people or more can be 1.8–5.4°F

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

While agricultural burning declined between 2003 and 2011, reducing particulate pollution by more than 50%, California’s record-breaking drought has led to a tripling of the amount of waste burned , with some fearing further escalation of burning as drought persists.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

The Biden administration’s Office of Management and Budget is proposing to update rule-writing guidelines that were last updated in 2003. The main chemical of concern is perchlorate, which the agency said in 2011 it would regulate in drinking water. Environmental Protection Agency awarded Texas Tech University a $2.5

2003

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopts first low-emission vehicle regulation , which would have required that 10% of new vehicle sales be zero-emission vehicles (including plug-in hybrids) by 2003. The goal was to eliminate conventional pollutants, not greenhouse gases.

Electricity

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5] 8] The hardening required of nuclear plants first in response to 9/11 and then in response to the loss of Fukushima Daiichi in 2011 has further ensured their contribution to reliability, resiliency, and affordability. [9]

Electricity

Environmental Progress

JULY 6, 2020

In 2011, the British scientific journal Nature published an article titled “Species-Area Relationships Always Overestimate Extinction Rates from Habitat Loss.” Two authors, Daniel Swain and Hausfather, admit my claim, “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003,” is accurate, but somehow misleading.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

in ecology from the University of Michigan, is the author of a trilogy of award-winning books on environmental health and from 2003-2021 served as the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Sandra Steingraber , Senior Scientist with the Science & Environmental Health Network , holds a Ph.D.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

2011) ; Regehr et al. 2003) (finding that NOAA’s defined “action area” was unreasonably narrow because it excluded areas where project impacts were “perhaps less direct but no less certain to occur”). Less sea ice also means that bears must swim longer distances, which poses a drowning risk to young cubs. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3

Fossil Fuels

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th The widening was approved as a policy matter in 2003 when County approved the MVCP, the EIR for which stated that there would be a separate environmental study in the future if and when Caltrans moved forward with the project. Citing Clover Valley Foundation v.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The shale gas industry and the build out of new natural gas infrastructure started in Pennsylvania in 2003. From 2011 to 2016, DEP’s Air Quality Program only required oil and gas operators to maintain records of how frequently they conducted pigging operations.

Natural Gas

Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

2003) (noting that § 230 “is concerned with providing special immunity for individuals who would otherwise be publishers or speakers, because of Congress’s concern with assuring a free market in ideas and information on the Internet.”). Carafano v. Metrosplash.com, Inc., 1123 (9th Cir. CDA 230(f)(2); see also Batzel v. Smith, 333 F.3d

2003

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Gleick claims they did not claim fossil fuels were scarce in the 1970s, and points to a book published in 2003 where Holdren said, “What environmentalists mainly say on this topic is not that we are running out of energy, but that we are running out of environment…” But I make this exact point in Apocalypse Never.

Fossil Fuels

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 25, 2017

408 (2003), which noted that the ratio must be reasonable and should generally not exceed 9 to 1 in order to satisfy due process. [6] 2011-609 (La. Baker , 554 U.S. 471 (2008) limited the ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages in maritime cases at 1:1. Campbell , 538 U.S. 8] Warren , No. 2016-C-1647 at p.

Law

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In doing so, it failed to monitor and detect suspicious activity by a customer depositing £365 million between November 2011 and October 2016. The customer, Fowler Oldfield - a wholesale jewellers in Bradford that was liquidated in 2016 - allegedly paid in over 70% of the five-year total in cash.

2007

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

Orts, “Climate Contracts,” 29 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 197 (2011) (making the case that business needs to play a more active role in climate solutions at all levels). [10] 42] Aaron Cantu, “Oil and Gas Lobbying Threatens California’s Game-Changing Climate Bills,” Capital & Main , June 26, 2023. [43]

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

across the US from 2011 to 2020. That concern is bolstered by a new study by Australian researchers who found that the number of extreme wildfires has doubled since 2003, with the last seven years including six of the most extreme. A new study by researchers at UCLA found that the fine particulate matter (known as PM2.5)

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Books, 2003). Faith, Hope and $5,000: The Story of Monsanto—The Trials and Triumphs of the First 75 Years by Dan J. Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

2019

Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Books, 2003). Faith, Hope and $5,000: The Story of Monsanto—The Trials and Triumphs of the First 75 Years by Dan J. Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

2019

Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Books, 2003). Faith, Hope and $5,000: The Story of Monsanto—The Trials and Triumphs of the First 75 Years by Dan J. Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

2019

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Books, 2003). Faith, Hope and $5,000: The Story of Monsanto—The Trials and Triumphs of the First 75 Years by Dan J. Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

2019

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Books, 2003). Faith, Hope and $5,000: The Story of Monsanto—The Trials and Triumphs of the First 75 Years by Dan J. Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

2019

Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 27, 2021

Kahn, 2003. " Costa & Matthew E. The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods ," American Economic Review , American Economic Association, vol. 93(2), pages 227-232, May. At the same time that demand is rising, progressive and educated areas such as California have limited the supply of housing. Kahn, Matthew E.,

Politics

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Last year the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the authority of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to restrict large livestock farms to protect the state’s water, a rebuke to a 2011 state law that limited the DNR’s authority to regulate CAFOs. Milking parlor in Lenawee County.

Clean Water Act

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It was also forced to pay out US$25 million in 2003 for illegally exporting U.S. USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. Residents in St.

Technology

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It was also forced to pay out US$25 million in 2003 for illegally exporting U.S. USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. Residents in St.

Technology

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. million radar contract. Residents in St.

Technology

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. million radar contract. Residents in St.

Technology

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. million radar contract. Residents in St.

Technology

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. million radar contract. Residents in St.

Technology

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. million radar contract. Residents in St.

Technology

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. million radar contract. Residents in St.

Technology

Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 USA: Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems The Nuclear Resister | October 3, 2011 dozen activists gathered outside of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona at 7 a.m. In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. million radar contract. Residents in St.

Technology