Yale E360

AUGUST 5, 2021

The third-place winner of the 2021 Yale Environment 360 Video Contest vividly depicts how, as the Venezuelan state collapses, the nation’s corrupt leaders are controlling — and profiting from — a flood of illegal mining in what was once one of South America’s wildest regions. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 12, 2021

Ulwandle Lushile: Meeting the Tides,” the second-place winner in the 2021 Yale Environment 360 Video Contest, shows how Sokhulu women persevered and are again harvesting mussels sustainably. In apartheid South Africa, the Sokhulu practice of gathering mussels was outlawed. Read more on E360 ?.

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Nanotech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a report entitled Independent Audit of the EPAs Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 (Restated) Toxic Substances Control Act Service Fee Fund Financial Statements. On February 26, 2027, the U.S. Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), as amended by the Frank R.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the ILO's Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2022, the number of renewable energy jobs increased by around 700,000 globally between 2020 and 2021. The post Green Energy Jobs Rapidly Expanding appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 6, 2025

During storm Uri in 2021, solar power outperformed neighboring ERCOTs expectations, and research shows that had more solar capacity been built, rolling blackouts would have been significantly reduced.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2022

These forecasts are very similar to the 2021 ones from NOAA and CSU , which reflected well the observed activity that year (21 named storms). Here are some in our minds right now: Will this season exhaust the list of 21 names from the World Meteorological Organization, like 2020 and 2021 did? Of course, we have questions!

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 4, 2022

billion in 2021. The global green packaging market size had a revenue holding of $229.46 It is expected to reach $409.2 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 7.5% from 2022–2030. The post Global Green Packaging Market to Reach $409B by 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

During the Texas energy market’s chaos in 2021, news organizations and industry players gave only brief attention to the worst-case scenario: an uncontrolled Texas electric grid blackout that could have lasted weeks or longer to get the lights back on. What Happened in Texas? It cited ERCOT 700 times.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 17, 2025

Associations between per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and county-level cancer incidence between 2016 and 2021 and incident cancer burden attributable to PFAS in drinking water in the United States. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

McKesson Europe aims to be carbon neutral by 2030, while McKesson Corporation set in 2021 a science-based target initiative to keep temperature increases in check and aligned with the Paris climate agreement.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

2021) also reported on a two decade estimate of Earthshine measurements which appear to confirm a small decrease in albedo (and decrease in reflected short wave (SW) radiation). 2021) show that the trends in the EEI derived from CERES match what you get from the changes in ocean heat content. 1297, 2021. Similarly, Loeb et al.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 2, 2023

Allegiant Travel Company has released its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report that details the company's efforts to reduce its climate impact and enhance the communities where employees live and work. The post Allegiant Teams with Schneider Electric to Tackle ESG Goals appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 11, 2023

Samsung Heavy Industries is on a roll, having netted roughly $12 billion in sales in 2021 and $9.4 billion in 2022 — the same goal for 2023. Asia and Europe are thirsty for the liquefied natural gas its ships carry, mainly because their domestic manufacturers are paying high prices for natural gas.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In 2021, Evoqua Water Technologies' total company-wide water reuse exceeded 55% — and the company is focused on mitigating climate and water risk. The post Evoqua Water Technologies Mitigates Climate And Water Risk Using Smart Tech appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021—the second year of a statewide drought—the SWRCB had to wait for the Governor to declare a drought emergency for a particular watershed before it undertook a months-long process to develop and implement emergency curtailment regulations for that watershed. This is not just a theoretical problem.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2021, the market for disposable cups was estimated to be worth $14.82 billion, and by 2028, it is anticipated to be worth $22.08 billion, a CAGR of 5.7%. 2022–2028), according to a recent report. The post Global Disposable Cups Market to Hit Sales of $22.08 Billion appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

According to her press release at the time of bill introduction, “A 2021 study found that children who lived less than a mile away from an airport had 21% higher lead levels in their blood compared to children who lived farther away.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Tier 1 shortage was triggered because the water level in Mead is projected to be 1,065 feet above sea level at the end of 2021 — 10 feet lower than the shortage threshold. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 17, 2021. Mead and Powell, the basin’s largest reservoirs, are the lowest they have been since they were first filled.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The US solar industry was valued at $33 billion in 2021, employed more than 230,000 people, and continued to grow in power capacity at an average rate of 33 percent per year. Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

More broadly, the state treated over one million acres of land for fire risk in 2023, an increase of 25% in terms of total treatment acreage from 2021. The totals from 2023 are three times higher , with about 250,000 acres treated with prescribed burns. And most of that increase came from state agencies increasing their activity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

Figure 1: Future annual CO 2 emissions in the five illustrative scenarios Source: Sixth Assessment Report of IPCC Working Group I, 2021 By combining radiative forcing (the climate side, represented by the numbers at the end of each scenario name e.g. 1.9

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Yale E360

AUGUST 24, 2023

In 2021, the South African government committed to shutting down the country’s captive-lion breeding industry, which provided animals for canned hunts. Among the sticking points slowing progress is what should happen to the thousands of lions that remain on private ranches. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2023

According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), 10% of households in the United States were not sure where their next meal was going to come from in 2021. The numbers I am able to cite now, in May 2023, were published in September 2022, citing research from December 2021. Of course, a lot has happened since December 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This assessment wasn’t ExxonMobil’s idea, but was compelled by a successful shareholder resolution that was part of a 2021 investor revolt against the industry’s climate inaction that ultimately displaced several members of ExxonMobil’s Board of Directors. ExxonMobil’s withdrawal from IPAA is certainly a positive development.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

According to a 2021 report by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the clean energy industry is projected to create 27,000 new jobs and add $4.8 The transition to clean energy is also expected to bring economic benefits to the state. billion to the state's economy by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to the 2021 report of Elsevier’s parent company, RELX, roughly 2.5 million articles were submitted for review to Elsevier last year, and the company published more than 600,000 articles in 2021 alone.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 30, 2025

In southeastern Pennsylvania, Hurricane Ida in 2021 was a preview of a flood-prone future. A report recommends construction projects and other fixes to save lives and property.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Wind power generation will continue to rise, including in the near term as a result of one of the US wind industry’s best years ever in 2021. Eight states generate more than 25 percent of their electricity from wind.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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Real Climate

MARCH 19, 2025

A 2021 attribution study published in the respected journal Nature Geoscience has already conclusively demonstrated this connection; however, RWE appears to continue challenging these findings. km over the past 140 years and the thawing of permafrost above the city of Huaraz in Peru.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

Since April 2021, travel has returned to pre-pandemic levels and has kept increasing, though with a different flavor—increasing truck traffic, less commute trips but more non-work trips, and unfortunate declines in transit ridership. FHWA, 2021 ). Total VMT has steadily increased and bounced back to pre-pandemic levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

A study from Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), an update of a 2021 collaboration ( here , here ) with Evolved Energy Research (EER), shows that we can meet US climate goals and have a fossil-free economy by mid-century, including the petroleum-guzzling transportation sector. percent in 2021 to about 16 percent in 2050.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We pointed out in March that Scafetta had totally neglected observational uncertainty in calculating the observed change in temperature (2011-2021 compared to 1980-1990). Note that the short period 2015-2021 is not long enough to have the differences in emissions make a big dent in the concentrations or, subsequently, the climate).

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 18, 2021. We now think that a devastating drought is likely to happen again , in 2021/2022,” Funk wrote. Drought, which used to occur once or twice in a decade, now happens every two or three years in the region. Scientists say the pattern is yet another effect of global climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Researcher Abbie Richards found that “between December 2021 and July 2022, there were an average 30,000 climate denial tweets per week. Graph showing Tweets featuring climate denial terms, by volume and average engagement by week, from December 1, 2021 through February, 2023.

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Vorys Law

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Like the current 2021 MSGP, the 2026 MSGP would only apply in DC, MA, NH, NM, and certain other jurisdictions; however, states often look to the Federal MSGP when revising their own industrial stormwater permits. On Friday, Dec. The MSGP is a general permit that regulates stormwater discharges from various industrial facilities.

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