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. PEMA estimated that in 2018 alone $101.5 In 2021 alone, the U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables.

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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

Similar extreme cold weather caused grid emergencies in 2011, 2014, 2018, and again in 2022. It Happened Before The FERC-NERC review of electric system outages in cold weather follows several others that also surprised grid operators as well as the general public.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 30, 2023

City of Malibu (2011) 193 Cal.App.4th Here, two events collectively rendered SBN’s challenges to the 2018 SEIR’s analysis of impacts from student enrollment increases moot. In an opinion filed April 27, and certified for partial publication on May 19, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. Citing Santa Monica Baykeeper v.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

Chevron drilled two shale gas wells on the Latkanich property approximately 500 feet from the familys water supply starting in 2011. As evidence of these diagnoses and conditions, the Latkanichs provided toxicology reports and a copy of his sons May 1, 2018 medical report. The wells were plugged in 2020.

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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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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. filed in 2024 and 2018, respectively. in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Sendai Power Station ). Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Fortunately, Manabe recently wrote a retrospective on his early work in response to receiving the Crafoord prize in 2018. Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). 9335-9350, 2018. Gnanadesikan et al.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

The Sunday after Thanksgiving is usually quiet, but for those who live along Route 9 in New Castle, Delaware, it’s hard to forget the harrowing events that unfolded in November 2018. In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Over the period of 2018-2020, the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay fell 3.5% In years of intense rainfall—like 2018 and 2019—heavy river flows brought more pollution into the Bay. USGS said that “high river flows in 2018 and 2019 have caused another short-term decline in the health of the Bay.” Read more here.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

CES-E was designed to maintain the state’s existing clean energy supply from nuclear and large hydroelectric generators with a nameplate capacity greater than 30 megawatts and whose commercial operations started prior to 2011. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023.

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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. We don’t have direct measurements over such a long time (only since 2004 from the RAPID project ), but various indirect indications. Here a quote from Liu et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

In November 2018, the Camp Fire in northern California was sparked by a nearly 100-year old transmission line owned by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), which negligently failed to properly maintain it. Once grid power is cut off, the plants must resort to onsite sources of backup power, such as diesel generators.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

8 166175 (2011). [3] 52 56105618 (2018). [8] 359 760764 (2018). Thundiyil, J. & Stolbach, A. Clearing the Air: A Review of the Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Human Health. Journal of Medical Toxicology vol. The Lancet Planetary Health vol. 8 e146e155 (2024). [4] 4] Tessum, C. 8] McDonald, B. Science vol.

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Physics World

AUGUST 27, 2021

Dr Meng is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society; Editor in Chief of MRS Energy & Sustainability ; and co-founder of Unigrid LLC.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Published in the journal Global Environmental Change , this research combined information from 22,508 ICC beach and land cleanups across 116 countries from 2011-2017 with 7,290 PADI AWARE underwater cleanups across 118 countries from 2011-2018. Ocean Conservancy has worked closely with CSIRO scientists Drs. Never miss an update.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Her postdoc at ETH Zürich was followed by a position as Researcher at the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2011), and Visiting and Senior Scientist at MIT (2011–12). She has published more than 110 papers, holds 19 patents, and is a frequent speaker and panel member of the World Economic Forum.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Smoke from California’s 2018 Camp Fire contained high levels of lead and metals from burning buildings. A decade ago, a review of nearly 12,000 studies conducted between 1991 and 2011 found that 97.2 percent of them agreed that humans were causing global warming.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One group of researchers found that from 2011 to 2018 there were “11,452 lobbying contacts with government officials. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) lobbied the federal government a whopping 118 times between January and July of this year, according to The Hill Times.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

2018 , Petersen et al., 2020 , Haque, 2018 , Vijn et al., 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2018 , Petersen et al., Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al., 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al., 2013 , IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Chapter 6 , González et al.,

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AUGUST 2, 2022

From 2009 to 2018, City’s water deliveries under the leases varied from 5.4 acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). In 2018, the City submitted a new form of proposed lease to the lessees that provided only for “dry” leases. acre feet per acre. The trial court ruled in favor of the County.

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Physics World

MAY 28, 2021

His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2012), Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), MRS Medal (2018), and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019).

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). Mendel continued to photograph and document flood zones around the world, visiting?Haiti He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2011 ) -- Blackhill Energy LLC - 16-Inch Steel Gas Pipeline: DEP issued a Chapter 105 permit for a pipeline project Mill Creek, Pisgah Creek, Sugar Creek located in Springfield, Troy, West Burlington and Branville Townships, Bradford County. . Received Feb. 10, Issued Feb. PA Bulletin, page.2008 Bradford County. (

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million in across-the-board cuts to help fill gaps caused by reduced federal Medicaid appropriations-- $2.4 million; DCNR: $1.5

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Fuller Acres’ water has consistently tested at around 15 parts per trillion since 2018, when the state began requiring water companies to monitor for the chemical. Around 2011, a salesperson for water filters tested his tap water and informed him it was contaminated. “We His oldest daughter also got cancer, at age 11, he said.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

County of Fresno (2018) 6 Cal.8 County of San Diego (2018) 27 Cal.App.5 8 th 502, why it was not feasible to correlate the level of the project’s air emissions to specific human health impacts from the project. Department of Fish & Wildlife (2015) 62 Cal. 5 th 892 (“ Golden Door ”) (analyzed in my 10/8/18 post here ).

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Physics World

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In 2011, with the telescope’s budget spiralling, the US House of Representatives moved to cancel it entirely , only for the troubled project to receive an eleventh-hour reprieve after scientists, the public and the media rallied to save it.

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Physics World

MAY 2, 2021

Antihelium-4 was created for the first time in 2011, in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. At the time, scientists stated that if antihelium-4 were detected coming from space, then it would definitely have to come from the fusion process inside an antistar.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In 2011, it was Tropical Storm Lee , in 2017, it was Tropical Depression Harvey , in 2018 it was micro-storms causing flooding in communities all over the state and again just this week.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2023

"Initial findings from the joint inquiry into the storm, presented by staff at FERC's June 15 monthly open meeting, echo those from inquiries into the root causes of deadly Texas blackouts in February 2021 and similar but less severe cold weather events in 2011, 2014 and 2018." "The

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2011, Provenza, Pringle et al. 2014, Lein 2018, Zabala, Sandbrook et al. 2018, Rost 2021). 2014, Lein 2018). Derner (2011). George; Lopez-Hoffman, Laura (2018). Mukherjee (2018). 2002, Brunson and Huntsinger 2008, Briske, Sayre et al. 2013, Roche, Schohr et al. 2009, Armatas, Venn et al. Briske, D.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 12, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Colorado State University Recent sustainable agriculture guidelines are encouraging farmers to be able to grow more food, on less land, with less resources, and with a net zero (or even positive) impact on the environment (USDA-NIFA, 2018). 2011; Sofo et al.,

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