Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Gas plants failed at a scale that jeopardized grid reliability for large regions of the United States during severe winter storms in 2011 , 2014 , 2018 , 2021 , and 2022. Unfortunately, this isn’t a rare problem. And earlier this year, gas plants failed at an alarming rate during Winter Storms Heather and Gerri.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply. Eight states generate more than 25 percent of their electricity from wind. Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

In 2011, DEP initiated an interim response action resulting in the installation and maintenance of 42 carbon filtration systems coupled with institutional controls. Soil sampling conducted on the Property has revealed two areas of soil contamination.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million Natural Gas Royalty Restitution From Chesapeake Energy For PA Property Owners [March 2021] -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leaks For Potential Environmental Crimes In Bucks County [Convicted Of Other Criminal Charges, Penalized Over $48.1

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

counties have experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021, with some having as many as 12 disasters during that time. Pennsylvania From 2011 to 2021 Pennsylvania had 9 climate disaster declarations with six counties having fire or more disasters. In 2021 alone, the U.S.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 11, 2024

Natural gas plant failures were the main factor behind electricity shortfalls and outages during major winter storms in the US since 2011 – that risk remains as the US faces more extreme cold weather

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2021

A bloom of Noctiluca scintillans, a single-celled algae, was seen off of Florida’s Panhandle in February 2011. First global review of marine harmful algal blooms identifies regional trends linked to the rise of fish and shellfish farming. Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons user FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

Last year, Jim Hansen and colleagues published a long paper that included a figure suggesting that they expected that global temperature trends from 2011 to increase above the recent linear trends. As with most punditry, there is less here than it might seem. 24 from Hansen et al (2023).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Inactive status expired on February 7, 2019. DEP inspection report ] -- Springfield Twp.: Inactive status expired on April 22, 2019. Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We pointed out in March that Scafetta had totally neglected observational uncertainty in calculating the observed change in temperature (2011-2021 compared to 1980-1990). Observational uncertainty. Now he has included it, but has made a massive error so that it is roughly a factor of ten too small (though this is progress of a sort!).

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 1, 2025

Google hasjust announcedthat its ending software updates for the first-generation Nest Learning Thermostat, released in 2011, and the second-gen model that came a year later. Read the full story at The Verge. This decision also affects the European Nest Learning Thermostat from 2014.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

January 13, 2011: the RRC rescinds its no-harm letter. + February 17, 2011: TCEQ issues an order approving the application. April 2, 2011: TCEQ reissues the order. November 2010: After hearing on remand, ALJ recommends the application be denied. 20 days: The rescission takes effect. The litigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2022

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court did just that, adopting a plan that they assessed had the “ least changes ” from the existing (2011) maps, while adjusting for malapportionment in order to make districts roughly equal in population.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

For example, in July 2022, Tulsa, OK saw 20 days with maximum temperatures above 100°F, and the next higher number of such days, 26, occurred in 2011.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) It’s well known (among readers here, I assume), that ENSO influences the interannual variability of the climate system and the annual mean temperatures. El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.) impart a slight cooling. GISTEMP anomalies (w.r.t.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The other subspecies, the Ozark hellbender, occurs in Missouri and Arkansas and was listed as an endangered species in 2011. The eastern hellbender is one of two subspecies of hellbenders in the United States. In 2021, the Missouri distinct population segment of the eastern hellbender was listed as endangered.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But nobody was talking about abandoned wells in 2011. And she acknowledges that many thousands of them will not be plugged for generations, if ever. But someone, she insists, needs to speak up about the problem. Yes, I get very frustrated,” she said. And most people know what an abandoned well is now. It’s not just me.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

In 2011, Tregs Independent Brewing worked with Solar Renewable Energy to install a rooftop solar array large enough to produce 15-20 percent of its annual electricity usage. Plentiful sunshine and generous solar incentives are here. Now more schools, businesses and residents in Pennsylvania just need to take advantage of them.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

AB 2097 (Friedman) builds on work dating back to 2011 (I blogged about then-Assm. It’s finally ending local mandates that all new housing and infill projects must include car storage, even if they’re located within half-mile of transit.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This marks the third time the Delaware River has earned the title, having previously won in 2002 and 2011. Once heavily polluted, to the point where ship hulls darkened from the contamination, the river has since undergone a dramatic recovery and now boasts more National Wild and Scenic designations than any other river.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

million BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute spent lobbying the federal government since 2011, the vast majority was directed at obtaining tax breaks, while almost nothing was spent on carbon pricing legislation, which the companies publicly claim to support.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From 2011 to 2023, U.S. Read the full story at Inside Climate News. electricity consumption was close to flat, despite substantial economic growth.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

She started Freeman Family Farm and Greenhouse as a school and community garden in 2011. . -- Leadership Award: Lisa Freeman, Freeman Family Farm & Greenhouse : Lisa Freeman is a farmer and urban agriculture advocate in Pittsburgh.

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Endangered Species Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In 2011, a population was discovered which inhabits a 5.6 The freshwater snail exists only in the Cahaba River in central Alabama and subsists on algae growing on the riverbed. The oblong rocksnail was declared extinct in 2000 after several decades without a confirmed specimen observation and multiple river surveys.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 21, 2023

This report is an updated analysis of previous Critical Materials Strategy (CMS) reports published by the DOE in 2010, 2011, and 2019 based on national and global priorities, technology advancement, and technology adoption trends. Download the report.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, America generated almost four times as much renewable electricity from the sun and the wind as in 2011, with wind and solar now producing 11% of the nation’s electricity. Download the document. Clean energy is sweeping across America.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

2011; Garzoli et al. 2011), could be related to a bias in the northward freshwater transport in the South Atlantic by the meridional overturning circulation. Here a quote from Liu et al. 1999; Huisman et al. 2010; Hawkins et al. 2011a,b; Bryden et al. These observational studies suggest a potentially bistable AMOC in the real world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 9, 2024

Durante las cinco tormentas invernales más extremas desde el 2011, hubo amplias fallas en las centrales eléctricas de gas, muchas veces acompañadas por apagones de gran escala. Durante la Tormenta Invernal Uri en la parte central de los Estados Unidos en 2021, falló la cuarta parte de la capacidad eléctrica en esa área.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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Real Climate

MARCH 31, 2022

Temperature trends from 1980-1990 to 2011-2021 in ERA5 and the CMIP6 ensemble, plotted against Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity. Applying a statistical test that is guaranteed to reject any specific realization of internal variability if the forced signal is well constrained. The first two points are clearly seen in the following figure.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Read Frank Wolak's 2011 paper. On extreme weather days, the Texas utilities declare a CPP day and the subset of consumers now face much higher power prices and as we know from the law of demand they consume less power.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The African rainfall deficit appears to be widespread: the Cairo Review reports severe droughts that have been experienced across the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and Southern Africa in 2011 and 2020. But the picture is also more complicated, as heavy rains have unleashed massive flooding across South Sudan according to the Red Cross.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

She served as Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association (2006-2011) and as Director of the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University where she holds an appointment as Senior Scholar and Adjunct Faculty.(2011-present). 2011-present).

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Physics World

APRIL 8, 2022

The stunning result was obtained by a painstaking analysis of data taken at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in the US before it closed in 2011. To make absolute predictions, however, physicists needed to know the mass of the Higgs boson, which was not known when Tevatron switched off in 2011. Encouraging measurements.

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