Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. In 2018, Russia agreed to supply fuel for the CFR-600 for seven years. These provisions against military use are also present in a 2018 contract for Russia to provide fuel for the CFR-600 reactors. U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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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

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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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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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

DEPs April 14, 2025 inspection report said the impoundment was only used for about 9 months, until May 12, 2018 when it was last used as a source of water for fracking shale gas wells on the Glacial well pad. DEP inspection report. -- January 19, 2018 , no violations. It was completed by August 2017, according to DEP eFACTs records.

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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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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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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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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

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

Beginning in 2018, the Hawai‛i PUC initiated a process to tie energy rates to customer benefits and emission reductions rather than solely to utility capital investments.

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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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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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CEQA Developments

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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CEQA Developments

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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DEP cited sediment pollution violations at one of them in 2015 and again in 2018. In 2018, it was named DCNR’s Pennsylvania River of the Year and called a “timeless treasure.” In the Loyalsock, 600 million gallons of water were withdrawn and not returned by the natural gas industry between 2008 and 2018, records show.

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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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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 16, 2021

Under AB 900, the Governor was required to certify that a proposed “environmental leadership project” met the statute’s environmental and other qualifying criteria to get the “streamlined litigation” benefits (i.e., applicable” and not in conflict with those statutes’ language.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. Today the Flood Management Program combines the efforts of more than 15 City agencies as well as state and federal partners, and it is led by the City’s Floodplain Manager who was hired in 2018. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Backgrounds After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were temporarily shutdown due to safety concerns. In 2018, a group of 40 citizens filed a civil complaint and a group of 12 citizens filed an administrative complaint with support from an environmental NGO Kiko Network. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Some argue that environmental degradation is best understood as a threat to human security (Barnett and Adger 2007), and others focus on the inextricable ties between human well-being and the health of ecological systems to which we belong (McDonald 2018). Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Dabelko (eds.).

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2021

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. of all undergraduate students in 2018, but only 1.7%

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). World urbanization prospects: The 2018 revision, online edition. Department of Economic and Social Affairs PD New York, NY, 2018). Interim report to USDA under Contract# GS-23F-8182H 53 (2011). PLoS ONE 13 , e0192822 (2018). Colorado Water Conservation Board. Houghton, R.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In August 2018, dry natural gas production from the Haynesville shale averaged 6.774 billion cubic feet per day, which is the highest daily Haynesville production average since September 2012 when production averaged 6.962 billion cubic feet per day. August 2018 was not an anomaly. El Paso E & P Co. , El Paso E & P Co. ,

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Law of the Lands

MAY 30, 2018

A Superior Court case heard in April, 2018 involved rural neighbours and the unauthorized removal of trees. The trees had been removed by T in February, 2011. Neighbour O sold trees on his property to the owner of a local sawmill, T. The Court rejected the limitation period defence.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2021

. -- Sourcing Cocoa Responsibly: At the heart of making the best chocolate in the world is sourcing the best cocoa grown around the globe – and Hershey continues to prioritize responsible cocoa sourcing to bring its iconic products to market sustainably.

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