Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the fastest-growing occupation from 2019 to 2029 is expected to be wind turbine service technicians, with a growth rate of 61%. The post What are the Fastest Growing Sustainability Professions? appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced the federal government has settled its final federal Clean Air Act (CAA) claim against Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing, LLC pertaining to the June 21, 2019 fire and explosion at its former South Philadelphia refinery. NewsClip: -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: EPA Reaches $4.2

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. Electric power related emissions went down about 40% from 2009 to 2019. Total direct transportation emissions in 2019 were about the same as those a decade earlier. What’s the Overall Verdict?

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the nearer term, it wants to reduce its emissions by 56% by 2030, using 2019 as a baseline. H&M's goal is to be carbon positive by 2040. Meanwhile, it aims to make all of its clothing using recycled components by 2030. It says it is 65% of the way there now. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2022

A recent analysis from UCS studied how gas plants operated in regional wholesale electricity markets in the Midwest in 2019. This analysis looked at each week in 2019 at when power providers were operating gas plants in the regional markets MISO and SPP (covering 20 states across the central United States).

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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. Campaign signs from South Africa’s 2019 elections patch up a damaged home in one of Durban’s many informal settlements. The destruction was concentrated in the slums. It’s probably our greatest strength.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. By 2019, the largest growth in absolute emissions occurred in carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and industry. As one example, according to an analysis by Client Earth , in 2019 Chevron’s disclosed emissions amounted to 697 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January 2019, Brazil has approved 57 pieces of legislation that weaken environmental laws, from relaxing forest protections to declassifying the toxicity of dozens of pesticides, according to a new analysis published in the journal Biological Conservation.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Comparison of Hansen et al (1981) projections to GISTEMP observations (to 2019) (credit Geert Jan van Oldenborgh). He also provided us with annual updates for the comparison between a 1981 climate projection to subsequent observations. He let us know earlier this year that this was likely the last update. Moge hij rusten in vrede.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Covid-19 emerged in 2019, but some questions are still unanswered as to its origins

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

During the large fire years of 2018-2020, Fresno experienced 51 high particle pollution days , up from 34 days for the period of 2017-2019. . Despite long-term air quality issues and intensifying wildfire seasons, Cal/OSHA did not update regulations to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke until 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also acknowledged that it has a role to play in identifying alternatives to EtO for sterilizing medical equipment.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Perhaps the closest to a climate anthem is the 2019 Fatboy Slim mash-up of Greta Thunberg’s U.N. Take “ Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince ” from her 2019 Lover album for example. There’s a history of environmentalism in American music, from Joni Mitchell and Neil Young to newer artists like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. climate speech.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

2019 1.18 ± 0.15 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 2018 1.05 ± 0.14 2020 1.21 ± 0.14 2021 1.16 ± 0.14 2022 1.23 ± 0.14 2023 1.22 ± 0.14 1.37 ± 0.03 * 2024 1.38 ± 0.14 TBD * Estimated from Jan-Nov data.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 15, 2022

Fig 13, from Lenssen et al (2019). 6307-6326, 2019. Uncertainties arise in the raw data directly, in any homogenizations that are performed, in the data interpolation, in corrections for non-climatic effects etc. The results across the products are comparable, though they differ, particularly in the earlier parts of the record.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. Lithium-ion batteries from consumer electronics head to the shredder in a recycling facility. Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle. The US government is also committed to bolstering domestic recycling. Source: NREL/Flickr.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the nearer term, it wants to reduce its emissions by 56% by 2030, using 2019 as a baseline. H&M's goal is to be carbon positive by 2040. Meanwhile, it aims to make all of its clothing using recycled components by 2030. It says it is 65% of the way there now. .

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. The EIA reports that: “Fossil fuel sources accounted for about 69% of South Korea’s electricity generation in 2019, and the share of nuclear power accounted for 25%. Actual generation is tilted a bit more toward fossil fuels and nuclear.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency. The plan contained a big call call to reduce vehicle usage: “By 2030 it outlines a goal of making sure that the majority of Londoners live within walking distance to their daily needs and that they reduce the number of in-town automobile trips by 30 to 50 per cent from 2019.”

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Yale E360

MARCH 18, 2022

Smoke from bushfires that spread across Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 destroyed high-altitude ozone in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a study that offers new insight into the threat posed by wildfires. Read more on E360 ?.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is an historic effort though it falls short of the broader ‘ Green New Deal ‘ goals that were proposed in 2019, and doesn’t include all of the elements that were in the proposed 2021 reconcilliation package (the American Jobs Plan in “ Build Back Better “) that ultimately floundered.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 Teodoro, who co-authored the 2019 national water affordability study, has offered alternatives to the percent-of-income metric. percent two years earlier. Disposable income was defined as the money remaining after taxes, housing, health care, food, and home energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2024

Clearly, there is not a clear pathway for Genera to advance the transition towards renewables that is critically needed in the Puerto Rican grid and is also mandated by the 2019 Energy Public Policy Law. Currently, Puerto Rico has 14 billion dollars ($14,000,000,000) in federal funds to rebuild the electrical grid.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Smaller vehicles and big fleets are leading the charge Where just a handful of zero-emission trucks and buses were deployed annually in the US just a few years ago (around 600 total in 2019), over 27,500 zero-emission MHDVs were deployed in 2023. While this represents a small fraction of the national MHDV sales (around 2.5

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

In adopting this law, California joins a handful of other states with extended producer responsibility laws on the books, which brings me back to the history: A substantially different version of this bill failed in an end-of-session vote in 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 in 2019 because it was bad for consumers, bad for the economy, and bad for the environment. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). 2019 ; Kossin et al. 1987-2007, 2019. The light blue shading denotes the range between the minimum and maximum number of storms observed by each day. Walsh, and L. Emanuel, and A. 447-458, 2013. 390-393, 2017.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In 2019, the team announced that Chevron was renewing the deal and would continue as the “presenting sponsor of the Chevron STEMZONE at Levi’s Stadium and the 49ers STEM Leadership Institute” (STEM being Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

The employer-reported data on illness cases more than quadrupled to 544,600 cases, up from 127,200 cases in 2019, an increase driven by a nearly 4,000 percent increase in reported respiratory illness cases in 2020. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , private industry employers reported 2.7

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 24, 2022

The study also found that in 2019, customers without a water meter, paid an average of $500 more per year for water than metered customers. A study released by two urban planning nonprofits found that majority-Black neighborhoods in Chicago hold ten times as much water debt as majority-white areas in the city.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2022

In 2019, after being the first Native American woman to run for Rapid City mayor, she founded the HeSapa Voter Initiative (HSVI), a civic engagement effort for urban Indians in South Dakota. In August 2019, she was appointed to the South Dakota Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights for a four-year term.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Judging from a 2019 report , the drivers of lake level variability are still not well understood. That record lasted just one year: In May 2019, 8.25 It said that “natural fluctuations” would continue, but didn’t apparently consider whether the size or speed of those fluctuations would be impacted. inches of rain fell.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Between 2015 and 2019, the amount of electricity generated from coal dropped by a third. The reason why the plan has no further practical relevance is a rapid shift in the mix of sources for generating electricity. Coal is the worst culprit from the perspective of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The plants’ operating costs have been consistently higher than the average PJM market price of energy and capacity, and this difference accumulated to a loss of more than $900 million between 2015-2019 (see Table 4 here ). Ohioans were forced to subsidize some of these costs through various surcharges on their utility bills.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

One of the most recent serious floods was In November 2019, when almost 90% of the city was inundated, damaging more than 80 ecclesiastical buildings including the bell tower of San Dorato in Murano and mosaic floor of the 7th century church of Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello. Aerial view of Venice and the entrance to its lagoon.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2023

In 2019, we put together a list of every professor teaching an energy law class and everyone who had written an academic article about energy in the previous few years. In other words, people who have expertise in energy law (and also in relevant areas of environmental law, such as environmental impact statements).

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