Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

In the 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C in 2018, but they represent a significant update since AR5 in 2013. Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). 2018) A new scenario resource for integrated 1.5 °C

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right to Know request shows DEP took major enforcement actions against 26 shale gas drilling and pipeline companies in 2023, including imposing $2,290,849 in penalties for violations going back to 2018.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A new study amplifies the horror of an excellent series about the doomed Franklin expedition. The Terror is a worthy tribute to the lost sailors, says Bethan Ackerley

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 11, 2023

Mastercard’s announcement to remove first-use PVC plastic is one step towards environmental sustainability, and extends the initiative created in 2018. As of 2023, over 330 card issuers across 80 countries work to transition to recycled or other sustainable materials.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 11, 2021

billion in 2018. “We As of 2018, sixteen countries have water stress levels at or above 100 percent, meaning that more water is being withdrawn from rivers, lakes, and aquifers than is renewable annually. By 2050, more than 5 billion people are expected to have inadequate access to water at least one month per year, up from 3.6

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

Some of those have been statutory, including changes to Californias Forest Practices Act through SB 901 in 2018. There are lots of reasons for those increases, but one of them has been a concerted effort by the state to reduce legal and regulatory barriers to fire risk reduction.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 1, 2023

When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, exporters in wealthy countries targeted other developing nations. Faced with an unending stream of unrecyclable waste, Indonesia has tightened its regulations and has begun to make progress in stemming the plastics flow. Read more on E360 →

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Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 2018, Maersk set its sights on becoming carbon neutral by 2040. To that end, it has ordered 13 new ocean-going ships using only carbon-neutral fuels. The post Maersk’s Mission to Decarbonize the Maritime Industry Remains a Challenge?? appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Farm Bill Reauthorization As of posting, we anticipate that Congress will finish 2024 with yet another extension of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). In September, we published a new report: Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

That is in spite of the discovery in 2018 of “rogue” use of chlorofluorocarbons, probably from factories in China. Even in this day and age, release of the 2018 report and the resulting attention brought to the issue was apparently sufficiently embarrassing to the Chinese government to cause it to crack down on the use of CFCs.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Nationally, the number of cases in 2018, when adjusted for age differences, was about 5.5 There were 9,933 Legionnaires’ cases reported to the CDC in 2018, the last year for which complete data has been compiled. times higher than the baseline period. Seasonal peaks are becoming more distinct, the study found. Was it home plumbing?

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2018, the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C 2 is even referred to as a single temperature goal (Rajamani and Werksman, 2018) by other Articles (Art. 20160458, 2018. warming limit in the early 2030s. warming stated in its summary for policy makers that the world was likely to cross the 1.5? There is also a figure ( Figure SR1.5

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Yale E360

MAY 17, 2022

The 2018 to 2020 European drought was the worst in more than two centuries, driven in part by uncommonly high temperatures that exacerbated dry conditions across large parts of the continent, new research finds. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

MARCH 8, 2022

In the wake of 2016's Hurricane Matthew and 2018's Hurricane Florence, North Carolina emergency rooms saw a spike in visits for diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea, with the largest uptick among older Black and Native American patients, according to a new study. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

As we detailed in a pair of 2018 reports , the SWRCB has implemented curtailments only rarely, in certain watersheds, during certain major statewide droughts, using different approaches each time. The State has rarely implemented curtailments. Our new report finds improvements during the recent drought.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

It was a bitter cold day on January 5, 2018, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had no choice. On the afternoon of Friday, January 5, 2018, he signed a “Declaration of Emergency” ” to waive the driving-time limits and allow the critical fuel deliveries to the oil plants to proceed.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For any government that’s serious about ending Ontario’s housing shortage, job one will be cleaning up the counterproductive and impropriety-prone pro-sprawl policies and approvals that have been issued since 2018.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 13, 2021

First Nations groups in Australia plead the federal government to distribute $40 million promised to them in 2018 for to buy water. First Nations groups in Australia are calling on the federal government to deliver the $40 million promised in 2018 to buy water supplies. state of Georgia. 40 MILLION .

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Sea surface temperature trend 1993 – 2018, from European Atlas of the Seas. 2018) Observed fingerprint of a weakening Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation, Nature 556: 191-196. Let’s compare two possibilities by a back-of-envelope calculation. (1) The latter is often suggested. 44: 1919-1927. 2. Caesar, L.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California ha experimentado un aumento significativo en la extensión de los incendios forestales en las últimas décadas, con un aumento de cinco veces en el área quemada anualmente de 1972 a 2018. Casi todo el aumento en el área de incendios forestales en verano de 1972 a 2018 se debió al aumento del VPD.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California has experienced a significant increase in the extent of forest fires in recent decades, with a fivefold increase in annual burned area from 1972 to 2018. Nearly all the increase in summer forest-fire area from 1972 to 2018 was due to increased VPD.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This condition was originally discovered by DEP on October 4, 2018 and the operator has been trying to correct the problem since then. SPLP estimates around five days for the cleanup.” “DEP DEP inspectors will check the site daily during the cleanup and someone from DEP was out there this morning to check the cleanup,” said Shader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Gas plants failed at a scale that jeopardized grid reliability for large regions of the United States during severe winter storms in 2011 , 2014 , 2018 , 2021 , and 2022. Unfortunately, this isn’t a rare problem. And earlier this year, gas plants failed at an alarming rate during Winter Storms Heather and Gerri.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent in 2018. percent in 2018. The rising cost of water and sewer service is a problem across Michigan, but especially for high-poverty communities. The number of Michigan households paying more than 5 percent of income on water and sewer services grew from 1.6 percent of households in 1980 to 6.7 percent of households in 1980 to 6.7

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 20, 2022

They had the example of what happened in Cape Town in 2018 as a warning of what was to come.”. “How are people supposed to live on just 50 liters of water per day?” Barnes, a professor at Stellenbosch University, told the Irish Times. The national government has taken over in a last-minute bid to avert disaster.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 originally bailed out—reported in a 2018 bankruptcy filing that it lost $12 million annually due to its stake in OVEC, and Ohio legislative analysts discovered that Ohio utilities paid $94 million over market prices for OVEC’s electricity in 2018. In addition, FirstEnergy—owner of the two uneconomic nuclear power plants H.B.

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New Scientist

JULY 1, 2024

More than 1300 square kilometres of cropland worldwide was covered by solar panels in 2018, an area that could be producing 4 quadrillion calories per year

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The largest prime number is now 16 million digits longer than the previous record found in 2018, thanks to an amateur hunter and his large collection of high-power graphics cards

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

The last public records, from 2018, show the purse at $20 billion short. . The World Food Program estimates that nearly $80 million is needed to provide essential food for southern Madagascar during the next farming off-season.

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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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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

During the most recent period analyzed, 2006-2018, it’s been rising at a rate of 3.7 Since 1901 sea level has risen by 20 cm, a rise unprecedented in at least 3,000 years (disclosure: I co-authored some of the research behind the latter conclusion). Source: IPCC AR6 Fig. Since 1900 the rise has greatly accelerated.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Beginning with the start of FY2024 on October 1, funding for the federal government will – absent a continuing resolution (CR) – expire, as will the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, better known as the 2018 Farm Bill. As of posting, the USDA’s updated contingency plan for October 2023 has not yet been finalized.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 9, 2025

Earthquakes that occurred near an oil extraction site in Surrey, UK, in 2018 and 2019 had been put down to coincidence, but a new analysis with an updated look at the geology of the area suggests the seismic events may indeed have been linked to drilling

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

By October 1, Congress will need to fund the government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 and determine how to extend ( again ) the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). In Search of a Farm Bill In November 2023, the five-year 2018 Farm Bill was extended for nearly a full year, through September 30, 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

In 2018, Casey championed provisions in the Farm Bill to increase funding for the RCPP, expand dairy margin coverage, protect crop coverage, strengthen the community safety net, and make conservation programs more accessible. I will always fight to protect Pennsylvania’s environment and uplift our farming communities.” 6 Hearing, Dec.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The population of snow crabs in the Bering Sea has crashed since 2018, probably due to starvation as a result of a marine heatwave

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