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MAY 27, 2022

Will 2022 surpass 2020 and 2021 in number of billion-dollar extreme weather events or hurricane-associated costs? These probabilities go along with studies that have found that areas of the Gulf are more likely to see not only increased landfall frequency but also more sequences of storms with short recovery times in between.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

However, following high gas prices in the winter of 2022-23, the CPUC permitted Southern California Gas Co. Notably, SCG has actually reversed course on its projections for gas demand between the 2022 and 2024 California Gas Reports, projecting in 2022 that gas demand in SoCal would decrease at an annual rate of 1.5

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JANUARY 10, 2023

In 2022, the nation experienced 18 disasters with costs exceeding a billion dollars each, and together these disasters caused at least 474 deaths. Together these disasters cost at least $165 billion, making 2022 the third most costly year on record.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7239 ) Explosion/Fire On December 25, 2022, the Revolution Cryogenic Plant suffered a major explosion and a fire that burned for hours and caused an uncontrolled release of ethane and other gases for nine and a half hours, according to the company. Read more here. It blew and shook the whole house,” said Kasey Duran. “A

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The post The Stream, October 19, 2022: California City Approaches Water Supply Peril in Next Two Months appeared first on Circle of Blue. PFAS Pollution : Scientists say PFAS contamination should be presumed at over 57,000 sites. Water Supply : Amid historic drought, California approves $140 million desalination plant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 6, 2025

And less than two years after the failures of Uri, Winter Storm Elliott hit in December 2022, prompting MISO to declare yet another second-tier grid emergency. This level of emergency is declared when grid operators no longer have the required level of reservesessentially, extra generating capacity to serve as a buffer.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 26, 2025

And there is another issue: we’ve previously looked at ERA5 surface heat flux trend, as shown here from my article in Oceanography 2024 : Figure 3 Sea surface temperature trend (left) and surface heat flux trend (right) 1940-2022 from the ERA5 reanalysis data also used in Terhaar et al. Menary et al. 2020 , Robson et al.

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MARCH 19, 2025

In Germany, only four glaciers remain, following the disappearance of the Southern Schneeferner glacier in September 2022. As a result, glaciers worldwide continue to lose mass (see Figure 2). Soon, there will be no glaciers left in Germany at all. 2 Glacier Mass Loss in Different World Regions. Source: World Glacier Monitoring Service.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

2024 also saw many fruits of federal policy, notably the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act , including tax credits for households, businesses, and renewable energy project owners. It also means, per the Solar Energy Industries Association, that at full capacity, U.S.

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MAY 1, 2024

billion gallons in 2022 alone. In a new report , the Union of Concerned Scientists exposes the staggering amount of pollution that Tyson discharged into waterways between 2018 and 2022: more than 371.7 Tyson Foods, the largest meat and poultry producer in the United States, churns out billions of animal products each year.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Assemblymember Friedman who has been an environmental health and safety champion during her tenure in the legislature also authored a similar bill in the previous session (2021-2022) banning PFAS from cosmetic products, AB 2771 cosponsored by the Breast Cancer Prevention Partners.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The 2022 danger season brought disruption and death in the form of extreme heat, floods and fire weather, not to mention hurricanes. Hurricanes in 2022. For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms.

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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 10, 2024

The chart above shows the oils and fats used to make biodiesel and renewable diesel in 2022. Among other links, in 2022 Chevron purchased the largest biodiesel producer in the US, the Renewable Energy Group, and Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66 are converting oil refineries to produce renewable diesel. percent in 2022.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Between 2012 and 2022, at least 1,910 people advocating for environmental protection were killed worldwide, a new report finds. Read more on E360 →

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MARCH 16, 2023

2022) courtesy of Ben Santer. As with the earlier CMIP6 comparisons, I’ll plot the observational time series against both the full ensemble and the ensemble screened by the transient climate response (TCR) as we recommended in Hausfather et al (2022) , and plot the time series and trend histogram. 26-29, 2022. are matched.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Severe heat killed upwards of 70,000 people in Europe in the summer of 2022, according to a new study. Read more on E360 →

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It was never hard to find hate and disinformation online, but it’s been much harder to avoid on X (formerly known as Twitter) since Elon Musk bought the platform in July of 2022. Researcher Abbie Richards found that “between December 2021 and July 2022, there were an average 30,000 climate denial tweets per week.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

2022 – is also clear (the difference between the pink and grey bands). Why is this only showing summer data, for 12 US states (I think Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin) and for the odd time period of 1973-2022? 26-29, 2022. Casas, G.A.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 10, 2023

SolarReviews’ 2022 report shows many in the renewable sector feel growth will continue as products like storage and EV charging also increase.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

from 2022–2030. The global green packaging market size had a revenue holding of $229.46 billion in 2021. It is expected to reach $409.2 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 7.5% 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

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. percent of the 2022 generation, and small solar 1.4 It supplied 10.5

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

September 20, 2022 . Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms 0 Comments / September 8, 2022 Billions spent on strategies to limit nutrient pollution that don’t work. Keith Schneider 2022-09-15 07:33:41 2022-09-15 13:11:46 In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Supreme Court soon picked up on this language, and the concept was written into the law when Congress amended NEPA in 2022. Circuit said a rule of reason applies, allowing the agency to focus on reasonable alternatives. Sierra Club v. Ruckelshaus (1972).

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JANUARY 6, 2023

A version of t his article was published by The New York Times on December 27, 2022. Arizona’s Future Water Shock 0 Comments / March 28, 2022 Smaller cities. Keith Schneider 2022-03-14 15:06:33 2022-12-08 22:28:24 At Peak of Its Wealth and Influence, Arizona’s Desert Civilization Confronts A Reckoning Over Water.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 11, 2023

billion in 2022 — the same goal for 2023. Samsung Heavy Industries is on a roll, having netted roughly $12 billion in sales in 2021 and $9.4 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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To address this challenge and identify solutions, Berkeley Laws Center for Law, Energy and the Environment ( CLEE ) and ClimateWorks Foundation founded in 2022 the Global Forum for Sustainable Batteries , a worldwide network of nonprofit leaders, experts, and advocates committed to transportation electrification and mining justice.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Moreover, in amending NEPA in 2022, Congress didn’t impose any requirement of geographical or temporal proximity; instead, it only required that effects be “reasonably foreseeable.” A temporal limitation would mean that an agency would have to ignore serious cancer risks, because many cancers often do not appear until decades after exposure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2024

But instead of providing a detailed assessment of what went wrong, they primarily highlighted the absence of rolling blackouts and the incremental improvements that have been made since the dangerous grid failures of storms Elliott in 2022 and Uri in 2021. Gerri and Heather were two separate but overlapping storm systems.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

The California Air Resources Boards (CARB) 2022 Scoping Plan the states roadmap for climate strategiescalls for per-capita VMT reductions of 30 percent below 2019 levels by 2045 (equivalent to slashing the average persons VMT from 24.6 miles per day ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The world’s biggest fossil fuel companies recently released their 2022 earnings reports, revealing record-breaking profits last year; just five companies–ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, and TotalEnergies–reported a total of nearly $200 billion in profits. billion, respectively, during 2022. billion and $35.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

It’s déjà vu all over again in 2023, with BP rolling back its climate pledges after record-breaking 2022 profits since Russia’s unjust war on Ukraine. The House Oversight Committee investigation came to the same conclusion as the 2022 study: Accusations of greenwashing appear well-founded. You can take action here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Yet the seasonal shifts that typically occur in September 2022 were punctuated by several significant melt events on the Greenland ice sheet. Surface ice melt Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) on September 5, 2022 (Video by B. Ice calving from the Eqi Glacier (Eqip Sermia) in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) on September 3, 2022 (video by B.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

We suggested this screening in our recent Nature commentary ( Hausfather et al, 2022. Note that group means depend on model selection, and I’m using the 58 models we used in Hausfather et al (2022), compared to Scafetta’s 38. 26-29, 2022. and 5.1ºC respectively, compared to 2.2, Hausfather, K. Marvel, G.A.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts [PaEN] -- 2022 Conference: Presentations Now Available From 2022 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference In Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 19, 2024

(See chart below) Source: California Fair Plan Property Insurance A report from Milliman shows that: Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation grew by +277% between 2017 and 2022, resulting in $423 billion of in-force Total Insured Value (TIV) at the end of 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The year 2022 saw more missile tests from North Korea than at any time in its history. This includes the development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which North Korea successfully test-fired in November 2022. But in early 2022, signs of renovation were observed.

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