Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2011, EPA had estimated that the compliance cost would work out to $9.6 For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation. EPA confronted some of these issues recently in its reevaluation of a regulation limiting mercury emissions from coal power plants. (You

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

KV: In 2011, when we started our Facebook group, we were just a bunch of people like anyone else that had reconnected with old classmates and childhood friends on Facebook. CF: How did ‘ just a group of neighborhood kids who reconnected on Facebook in 2011’ get the attention of governing bodies to expand testing and cleanup in the St.

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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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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A 2018 government report found that between 1999 and 2011, the number of South African rivers in poor ecological health increased by 500 percent. However, even the South African government’s own data points to a disaster. A number of rivers were considered past the point of revival.

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New Scientist

MARCH 7, 2024

Mass mortality events at salmon farms have been getting more frequent since 2011, sometimes killing millions of fish at once, with causes including heatwaves and poor living conditions

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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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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

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

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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Since 2011, there have been five extreme winter storms that threatened the reliability of the grid, and the issues that ensued in all five of those storms were very similar. The grid failures were mostly caused by power plants getting knocked offline amid the storms’ frigid cold temperatures.

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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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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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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. At a January 31, 2011, appointment the doctor ordered blood tests and chest X-rays, to check for infection. Everything is going according to plan,” Gary wrote in his journal on February 25, 2011.

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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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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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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

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.

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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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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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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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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2011 and 2021, there were 436 work-related deaths attributed to environmental heat exposure. The post Recent Federal and State Heat Safety Proposals appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Wells drilled in 2011. Three generators used to power cryptocurrency mining operations have been removed as well as production equipment. DEP noted the well abandonments violate an August 3, 2023 consent order and agreement between Diversified Production LLC and DEP.

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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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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Over the span of three years, from 2011 to 2014, I watched the trees on my parkway die from the top down, leaves crumbling, leaving gray, stark branches on the crown. Read the full story in Q Magazine. I had seen videos of deforestation in the Amazon and other major forests, but this was happening… Read more →

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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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