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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
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DEP Inspection Finds Two Repsol Oil & Gas Shale Gas Wells Venting Natural Gas To Atmosphere, Defective Well Casing/Cementing In Susquehanna County; Violations Continue From May 2017
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 5, 2023
The inspection reports note these violations at this location for these two wells have continued since they were first discovered on May 23, 2017. The DEP inspection found defective well casing and cementing the operator failed to report to the agency and failed to correct within 30 days.
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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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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reaffirms and Extends Landmark 2017 Public Trust Decision
Acoel
AUGUST 16, 2021
As discussed in an earlier blog , it was not until 2017 that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court used Section 27 to hold a statute unconstitutional. On July 21, 2021, the state’s Supreme Court reaffirmed and extended its 2017 holding. A once-obscure area of environmental law is gaining in importance.
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How energy storage made headlines in 2017
Edouard Stenger
JANUARY 16, 2018
2017 will remain for me the year energy storage broke ground. But wind works at a maximum 35% of the time for onshore and perhaps 45% for offshore wind. Solar PV is even lower, with 20 to 30% capacity factor. So, backup solutions are being sought. Here is a summary of news that got my interest in the past few months.
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Keynote Address: 2017 VJEL Symposium
Vermont Law
MARCH 13, 2019
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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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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Promising Conservation Results in the 2022 Agricultural Census
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
million acres with cover crops (a 17% increase) in 2022 than in 2017 and a 50% increase in acres with cover crops from 2012. Additionally, it is significant that the number of farms reporting use of cover crops is steady from 2017 and a 15% increase from 2012, despite the overall decline in the number of farms during this time period.
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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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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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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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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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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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What’s new in blockchain, AI and IoT: April 14-20, 2017
Green Bang
APRIL 21, 2017
They include a preview release of SQL Server 2017, which Microsoft described as the first relational database management system with built-in AI. ” IDC: Cognitive, AI spending expected to hit $12.5B billion this year , a 59.3 percent increase over 2016 figures. Other new products featuring AI capabilities include Microsoft R Server 9.1
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What’s new in blockchain, AI and IoT: April 14-20, 2017
Green Bang
APRIL 21, 2017
They include a preview release of SQL Server 2017, which Microsoft described as the first relational database management system with built-in AI. ” IDC: Cognitive, AI spending expected to hit $12.5B billion this year , a 59.3 percent increase over 2016 figures. Other new products featuring AI capabilities include Microsoft R Server 9.1
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Force Majeure Clause Fails to Protect Oil and Gas Lessee From Mistakenly-Scheduled Deadline
The Energy Law Blog
MAY 5, 2023
In compliance with that obligation, MRC created a drilling schedule listing June 2, 2017 as the spud date of a new well based on its belief that the deadline to spud that well was June 19, 2017. The actual deadline, however, was May 21, 2017.
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New Abandoned Wells: 60 Conventional Oil & Gas Companies Issued 10 NOVs Or More For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In One Year
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
This is a list of companies issued ten or move NOVs for abandoning conventional oil and gas wells without plugging them in any one year-- Advanced Petro Corp (2016) Aiello Bros Oil & Gas (2016; 2017) Allegheny Enterprises (2018) ARG Resources (2018) Bobcat Well & Pipeline (2017) Boyd G. 2016; 2017) IA Const Corp (2020) John H.
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Fish and Wildlife Service to Consider Restoring Manatee’s Endangered Status
Inside Climate News
OCTOBER 11, 2023
The manatee was downlisted in 2017 from endangered to threatened, over the objections of scientists, environmentalists and citizens. Nearly 2,000 manatees died in Florida in 2021 and 2022 as water pollution killed the seagrass they feed on. By Amy Green ORLANDO, Fla.—The
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What’s new in blockchain, AI and IoT: May 19 – 25, 2017
Green Bang
MAY 25, 2017
During its recent 2017 spring session, NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly released a draft committee report titled, “The Internet of Things: Promises and Perlis of a Disruptive Technology.” . “From the perspectives of human beings, he stretched a little bit and I was surprised.”
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What’s new in blockchain, AI and IoT: May 19 – 25, 2017
Green Bang
MAY 25, 2017
During its recent 2017 spring session, NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly released a draft committee report titled, “The Internet of Things: Promises and Perlis of a Disruptive Technology.” . “From the perspectives of human beings, he stretched a little bit and I was surprised.”
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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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In a Changing Climate, What Does a “Normal” Year of Wildfires Look Like?
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 2, 2023
Notable 21 st century wildfires Since 2017, many western states have experienced record-breaking wildfires. And California’s eight largest wildfires on record have all occurred since 2017. In Colorado, for example, the state’s three largest wildfires on record all occurred in 2020.
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DEP Invites Comments On 2 Proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Agreements On Gryphin Coatings, Inc. Site In Philadelphia
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
The settlement agreement with 5627-41 Hegerman Street, LLC is to resolve certain enforcement claims regarding Hegerman’s failure to comply with a 2017 COA requiring the company to remediate the former Gryphin Coatings, Inc. In 2021, Hegerman sold the Site to Dooling, LLC which has agreed to complete the cleanup of the Site.
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Wind Industry Activity Strongly Correlated With Whale Deaths, New Study Finds
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 18, 2024
These are specifically the Atlantic humpback whale UME in 2017, the North Atlantic right whale (NARW) UME in 2017, and the Atlantic minke whale UME in 2018. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
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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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EPA Faces Treated Seeds Lawsuit
National Law Center
JULY 6, 2023
In 2017, several environmental groups petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to close what the groups described as a “loophole” that. The post EPA Faces Treated Seeds Lawsuit appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
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More States Adopt Building Energy Codes in India
NRDC
APRIL 12, 2023
In a boost for energy efficient buildings, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan adopted the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017 last month. Building energy codes are effective tools to ensure energy efficiency in the construction and operation of buildings.
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What’s new in blockchain, AI and IoT: June 2 – 8, 2017
Green Bang
JUNE 8, 2017
Following are highlights from the past week’s news developments in blockchain, artificial intelligence and Internet-of-Things technologies: MoneyConf draws 1,800-plus blockchain, fintech attendees .
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What’s new in blockchain, AI and IoT: May 5 – 11, 2017
Green Bang
MAY 11, 2017
Following are highlights from the past week’s news developments in blockchain, artificial intelligence and Internet-of-Things technologies: PokitDok to use Sawtooth blockchain to record healthcare transactions. co-founder and CTO of PokitDok.
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More States Adopt Building Energy Codes in India
NRDC
APRIL 11, 2023
In a boost for energy efficient buildings, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan adopted the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017 last month. Building energy codes are effective tools to ensure energy efficiency in the construction and operation of buildings.
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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor
Enviromental Defense
JANUARY 26, 2024
President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry.
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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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Reclaimed Abandoned Coal Mine Land In Clinton County Dedicated In Memory Of Joe Schueck, DEP Hydrologist With PA's Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 10, 2024
He has authored, A History of Trout Unlimited and the Environmental Movement: 1959 – 2000, (2003), and compiled and edited The Letort: A Limestone Legacy, (2015), The Fires of Penn’s Woods (2017) Waters of the Valley: 50 Years of the Cumberland Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited (2018) and A Fly Angler’s Glossary (2023).)
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Landowners Vanquished by the Discovery Rule
Energy & the Law
JUNE 1, 2022
June 2017: Tests indicate the property is contaminated from oil and gas operations. October 2017: Landowners sue Americo for negligence and other claims for failure to take the “requisite steps to prevent leaks or pollution to the property once the wells became inactive.”.
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Monkeypox DNA hints virus has been spreading in people for years
New Scientist
JUNE 6, 2022
Genome sequencing confirms that monkeypox cases outside Africa are all related and suggests the virus responsible may have been circulating in people since 2017
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