We need NOAA now more than ever
Real Climate
MARCH 12, 2025
Findings on changes in the private weather industry, 2017. References: National Weather Service Enterprise Analysis Report.
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Stop the Burn, Save Lives: The case for a community-led zero waste model in Baltimore
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 15, 2021
A study by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in 2017 found air quality in the region was ranked moderate or worse one of every three days, […]. The Baltimore region ranks among the worst in the U.S. for air pollution.
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New Analysis Suggests We Have Already Hit Peak Internal Combustion Engine
Yale E360
JUNE 11, 2021
A new analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) suggests that global sales of gas-powered cars likely peaked in 2017, marking a major milestone in the shift to electric vehicles. Demand for conventional vehicles fell in 2018 and 2019 before dropping sharply in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sun Unleashes Most Powerful Solar Flare Since 2017
Scientific American
DECEMBER 15, 2023
The flare may have been accompanied by a plasma eruption now headed toward Earth
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Climate Change Is Turning California’s Wildfire Season into Wildfire Year
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 24, 2022
Until 2017, winter wildfires in California didn’t burn much area. In 2017, however, a record number of fires burned during the winter months. A cycle of climate impacts throughout the year can compound to create dangerous conditions, like we saw ahead of 2017’s unprecedented winter wildfires (Fig. Winter wildfires.
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The Fires in Los Angeles
Legal Planet
JANUARY 10, 2025
This report (at page 13) notes that in 2017-18, California and the federal government conducted about 80,000 acres of prescribed burns in the state. And there is certainly some truth to this. Ill get into those points in more detail in some posts soon. But its also true that the policy situation has been changing rapidly.
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Puma Is Cutting CO2 and Saving Water Across its Supply Chain
Environment + Energy Leader
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Puma aims to reduce its Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 35% by 2025 from a 2017 baseline. It also plans to cut its Scope 3 emissions tied to its value chain for purchased goods and services by 60% by 2030, achieved primarily by focusing on the transport of goods and cutting down on its air freight by.
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Climate Change May Have Doubled the Number of Houston Homes Flooded by Hurricane Harvey
Yale E360
AUGUST 25, 2022
If not for climate change, 2017's Hurricane Harvey might have flooded half as many homes in the Houston area, a new study finds. Read more on E360 ?.
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What’s Up With Water -January 24, 2022
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 24, 2022
The New York Times reports that a top secret special operations unit in the Defense Department bombed the Tabqa Dam on March 26, 2017. Six months later, in October 2017, Syrian forces regained control of Raqqa. In Syria, a strategically important dam that was supposed to be protected from airstrikes was in fact the target of a U.S.
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Johnson Controls Improves Energy Efficiency, Reducing CO2 and Saving Money
Environment + Energy Leader
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Johnson Controls aims to cut Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 55% and Scope 3 emissions linked to its customers’ use of its products by 16% by 2030 using a 2017 baseline. . The post Johnson Controls Improves Energy Efficiency, Reducing CO2 and Saving Money appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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GM Has Become an ‘Energy Star’ with Efficiency and Circular Programs
Environment + Energy Leader
MAY 13, 2022
It achieved that goal in 2017. In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035.
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What Does Water Want?: A Conversation with Author Erica Gies
Circle of Blue
JUNE 7, 2022
In February 2017, the Mokelumne River broke through a levee and flooded this farm near Walnut Grove, California. Photo © Eric Gies. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 7, 2022. Modern societies have dramatically disrupted the water cycle.
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I Didn’t Lose My Home in the Fires…But Can I Drink the Water?
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 17, 2025
In Northern California, the Tubbs Fires effects on Santa Rosa in 2017 and the Camp Fire, which burned the entire town of Paradise only a year later, were among the first wildfires known to cause widespread drinking water contamination in cities.
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Annual GMSAT predictions and ENSO
Real Climate
JANUARY 5, 2024
This pattern was important for recent record or near-record years like 2016 or 2020 which started with El Niño, as well as below-trend years like 2017, 2021 etc. 2017 1.06 ± 0.13 that started with La Niña. 2018 1.05 ± 0.14 2019 1.18 ± 0.15 2020 1.21 ± 0.14 2021 1.16 ± 0.14 2022 1.23 ± 0.14 2023 1.22 ± 0.14
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FIRO to Avoid Water FOMO: How to Save Every Drop with Smart Reservoir Operations in California
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 8, 2025
For example, in 2017 nearly 200,000 residents had to be evacuated below the Oroville Dam due to fears of collapse after a rain-on-snow event. Oroville spillway damage in 2017. In past years, supercharged snowmelt has led to flooding and dam safety concerns.
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Great Barrier Reef Is Hit by Another Mass Bleaching Event
Yale E360
MARCH 25, 2022
Mass beachings have grown more frequent with rising temperatures, afflicting the reef in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, and again this year. The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing its sixth mass bleaching event, as unusually warm waters stress corals, authorities say. Read more on E360 ?.
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Center For Coalfield Justice, MIT Researchers Host April 17 Public Meeting In Washington County On An Upcoming Seismic Study In Southwestern PA
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 8, 2025
Customers $900,000 So Far; Oil & Gas Waste Plant Fails To Report Wastewater [PaEN - 2025] -- PA State Seismic Network Has Detected Only 1 Fracking-Inducted Seismic Event, So Far [PaEN - 2019] -- DEP Documents Connection Between Fracking, Earthquakes In Lawrence County [PaEN [ 2017] [Posted: April 8, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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Ontario’s So-Called Affordable Energy Act Will Leave Ontarians in the Dark About Energy Decisions and Costs
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 3, 2024
While we appreciate a move towards integrated energy planning (the last Long-term Energy Plan was done in 2017), without transparency, expert oversight, or a commitment to tackling the climate crisis, this plan risks serving narrow interests rather than the needs of Ontarians.
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DEP Reports Shale Gas Operations Sent Over 138,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2022 - Over 911,000 Cubic Feet Since 2017
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 9, 2023
From 2017 to 2022, shale gas operators sent a total of 911,006 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal. That amount is down from the 236,150 cubic feet of TENORM (Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) sent in 2021.
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2022 updates to the temperature records
Real Climate
JANUARY 13, 2023
This isn’t a universally accepted notion – Hawkins et al (2017) for instance, suggest we should use a baseline from the 18th Century – but it is one that easier to operationalise. 1841-1856, 2017. and 1.3ºC warmer (with Berkeley Earth showing the most warming). Thorne, and G.J.
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Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Million Highlight Big Shale Gas, Related Petrochemical Industry Compliance History In Pennsylvania
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 25, 2025
Million For Drilling Violations In Greene, Clearfield Counties [January 2018] -- DEP Assesses CNX Gas Drilling $433,500 For Violations In Greene County [January 2018] -- DEP Issues Cabot Oil & Gas $99,000 Penalty For Numerous Well Site Air Quality Violations In Susquehanna County [December 2017] -- EHB Issues $1.1
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The Ontario government’s attack on the federal Clean Electricity Regulations is hurting Ontarians while slowing down Canada’s climate efforts
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 2, 2024
In 2017, our grid was 96 percent non-emitting. For an analysis of the CER and the flexibilities considered by the government, please review this backgrounder. Ontario is going the wrong way when it comes to clean electricity. Now, due to the provincial government’s increased use of gas plants, it is only 87 percent emissions-free.
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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program?
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
While the operation of the CEFR and supply of highly enriched uranium to the reactor attracted less attention from foreign media, the construction of the two China Fast Reactor (CFR)-600 reactors in Xiapu, China, in 2017 sparked widespread discussion. energy and weapons) capabilities.
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Six Things to Know about Rights of Nature
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 3, 2024
A claims settlement process in the 1970s jump-started discussions that resulted in the Whanganui River Claims Settlement Act 2017. Disputes with the English over management of the river system date from the very first colonial settlements in 1840. The local Māori community plays a central role in the governance scheme that resulted.
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What Have We Learned from Recent Disasters?
Legal Planet
JUNE 7, 2021
By the time Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, FEMA was already dealing with the aftermaths of two other huge storms. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped up to 60 inches of rain on some parts of Houston. Clustering. FEMA workers were exhausted. Equipment and supplies were already deployed elsewhere. An uncertain future.
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HotSpots H2O: ‘We Have Nowhere Left To Go’: Durban’s Affordability Crisis Pushed Development into Flood Zones
Circle of Blue
APRIL 25, 2022
Unlike previous floods in 2017 and 2019, this storm spared no parts of the city, triggering mudslides in areas rich and poor. The rains that began on April 8 marked one of the worst natural disasters in South Africa’s history. The downpour delivered months worth of rain in a 48-hour period, killing over 450 people and displacing 40,000 more.
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Farmland Consolidation, Not Chinese Ownership, Is the Real National Security Threat
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 2, 2023
According to the last Census of Agriculture in 2017, agricultural land is still primarily owned by families and individuals (201.5 According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, Black-owned land had dwindled to about 4.7 Corporate and private land ownership Farmland has always been a lucrative investment for the rich. The remaining 3.1
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The Same Extremists Target Both Muslims and Jews
Scientific American
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Far-right extremists shifted their online hate from Muslims to Jews in 2017, and offline hate followed the same trends
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German Renewable Energy Act (EEG Novelle 2021) - Considerable Changes Proposed
Energy and Climate Law
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
The current EEG stems from 2017 and by that time some fundamental changes were made to the system, as discussed on this blog. Under the new system of the EEG 2017, the state provides certain renewable energy expansion targets for each form of renewable energy in Germany.
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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic
Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 31, 2024
In 2017 he shared his yacht with the interim leader of the Conservative Party, Rona Ambrose, for her vacation around the Caribbean. In 2013 he organized a fundraising dinner at Calgary’s Petroleum Club to help raise political donations to former BC Premier Christy Clark’s re-election campaign.
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Was 'Oumuamua, the First Known Interstellar Object, Less Weird Than We Thought?
Scientific American
MARCH 22, 2023
A new study suggests that ’Oumuamua, the mysterious visitor that whizzed through our solar system in 2017, may have been merely a small comet from another star
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Ocean Warming Doubles Odds for Extreme Atlantic Hurricane Seasons
Inside Climate News
APRIL 13, 2022
New research shows vulnerable communities need to prepare for more years like 2017-2020, with devastating storms like Harvey, Irma, Maria and Laura.
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The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that?
Real Climate
DECEMBER 17, 2022
2017) Atlantic meridional heat transports computed from balancing Earth’s energy locally, Geophys. References. Trenberth, K. & Fasullo, J. 44: 1919-1927. 2. Caesar, L., Rahmstorf, S., Robinson, A., Feulner, G., & Saba, V. 3.
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A CERES of fortunate events…
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Fortunately, there are additional CERES instruments on Suomi-NPP (launched in 2011) and NOAA-20 (launched in 2017) that can be used. Koonin, "Earth's Albedo 1998–2017 as Measured From Earthshine", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. References. Shoumko, S. Shoumko, P. Rodriguez, and S.E. Johnson, T.J. Thorsen, J.M. Lyman, F.G.
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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
That’s also in line with earlier research (Henley and King, 2017) on the high RCP8.5 4256-4262, 2017. warming will be reached or exceeded in the early 2030s in all emissions scenarios considered – except the highest emissions scenario, for which the crossing would occur even earlier. Henley, and A.D. King, "Trajectories toward the 1.5°C
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Will California Take This Small, but Important Step Toward a More Equitable Water Rights System?
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Failure to register conclusively waived and relinquished any right to water. For the last 50-plus years, Washington has been able to make more informed surface water management decisions than California.
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As its Lone Climate Scientist Board Member Departs, ExxonMobil Still Heads in the Wrong Direction
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
You can read their insights from their experiences—including being denied the opportunity to take the floor—and their efforts to engage with Dr. Avery in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. At ExxonMobil’s 2017 AGM—when Dr. Avery was added to the board—a majority of shareholders for the first time approved a climate-related shareholder proposal.
Examining the Latest Agricultural Census Data
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
MARCH 8, 2024
In remarks made on February 13 while releasing the new Census data, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack directed attention to the loss of farmland and farms since the 2017 Census saying: “ What you find is in 2017 there were 2 million farmers, today the survey report shows we have 1.9 million in 2017. billion in 2017.
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How to Address Sea Level Risks in California Real Estate Transactions
Legal Planet
AUGUST 30, 2023
In 2017, over 95,000 National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders submitted claims to FEMA for approximately $8.7 Inadequate disclosure laws have serious consequences, considering the high cost of flood damage recovery. A single inch of flooding may cost up to $25,000.
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DEP Issues Abandoned Well Violation To Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well With Nearly Full Storage Tanks, Expired EPA Permit In Venango County
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Over 2,280,390 gallons of oil and gas wastewater was disposed of at this well between 2017 to 2022, according to five annual reports filed with EPA. The Latshaw 9 conventional well was first issued a permit as a waste injection well by DEP on June 10, 2014 and by the US Environmental Protection Agency on June 28, 2016.
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Rural Drivers vs. Disinformation: Three Facts about Electric Vehicles to Set the Record Straight
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 18, 2024
In 2017, approximately 27 percent of households in areas with less than 2,000 people per square mile had just one car. As an example, according to a 2017 study , a Chevy Bolt has 35 moving and wearing parts, while a comparable car, the VW Golf, has 167. cars per household, many households have just one car.
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 10, 2022
There were 2 violations in 2017; -- Howard Drilling : There was 1 violation in 2015; These companies also reported road spreading their oil and gas well wastewater. Read more here.] .] -- Pennfield Energy: Did not submit any waste reports for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, although DEP did issue 2 notices of violation for 2 wells in 2021.
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The Central California Town That Keeps Sinking
Circle of Blue
MAY 25, 2021
The Cross Creek Levee in Corcoran, CA was rebuilt in 2017 after having sunk seven feet since 1983. And there was the levee that was rebuilt for $10 million in 2017. The levee had sunk from 195 feet when it was built in 1983 to 188 feet in 2017. was built has been slowly. Photo by Ryan Christopher Jones.
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