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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It reveals that during the 2018 Farm Bill, 36,799 new CSP contracts were signed, enrolling 49 million new acres, although the renewal rate for expiring contracts plummeted from nearly 60% to just 20%. The report highlights the critical role of CSP as the nation’s largest conservation program, with 69 million cumulative acres enrolled.

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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 “We As of 2018, sixteen countries have water stress levels at or above 100 percent, meaning that more water is being withdrawn from rivers, lakes, and aquifers than is renewable annually.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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Ruling In November 2018, the municipality of Grande Synthe, a coastal city in northern France, and its mayor requested from the President of the Republic and the government to take any necessary measures to reduce GHG emissions and meet the Paris Agreement’s commitments.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The German Federal Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the way in which compensation under the Atomic Energy Amendment Act of 10 July 2018 has been organized infringes the German constitution. The legislator opted for a mix of options 2 and 3 and launched the Atomic Energy Act Amendment of 10 July 2018.

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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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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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Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

2018 1.05 ± 0.14 Thus the true prediction (made around Jan 1), is slightly more uncertain than the retrodiction (which knows the actual DJF ENSO value). As mentioned above, this technique has historically been quite skillful: Year Prediction (ºC above 1880-1899, 95% CI) Outcome 2016 1.16 ± 0.13 2017 1.06 ± 0.13 2019 1.18 ± 0.15 2020 1.21 ± 0.14

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. The initial core loading of fuel, likely containing around 30% U-235 or less, was supplied by TVEL in 2022.

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Circle of Blue

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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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The rule required states to submit initial compliance plans in 2016, with final implementation plans in 2018. When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. Compliance was set to begin in 2022, ramping up toward 2030 emission reduction goals. None of that has happened.

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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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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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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Fortunately, Manabe recently wrote a retrospective on his early work in response to receiving the Crafoord prize in 2018. 2018 ), but I think it’s fair to say that few modelers think it’s a useful tool anymore. In his 2018 retrospective, Manabe doesn’t discuss the issue at all. 9335-9350, 2018.

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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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2023

Just think how far we have come in the last five years: five years ago was January 2018. The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office) is one really significant resource—something we didn’t have back in 2018! The good news is that we have more resources to move quickly and intentionally than we have ever had before.

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