Real Climate

MARCH 20, 2025

There is always something of course – the weather is variable – but for 2023 and 2024 the residuals were higher than for any other year in decades. We find that ENSO had a negligible impact in 2023, but was a substantial contributor in 2024. More sophisticated modeling might well be able to reduce the uncertainty there.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The NSAC staff retreat in West Virginia Theres no such thing as a quiet year when it comes to federal food and farm policy, and 2024 proved to be no exception! 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).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

Search Compliance Actions in PA Environment Digest for more information on compliance actions taken by DEP in 2024 and prior years. DEP issued 850 violations for conventional well abandonment through December 20 in 2024. The most frequent violation continues to be abandoning and not plugging conventional wells. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

The 2024 State of the Air report I work every day on topics related to air in my role as a Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, through my volunteer grassroots work, and because I want to be a well-informed resident in the San Joaquin Valley. Failure is not an option because I live here; I cannot just disconnect. This is more than just my job.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2024

On December 18, the PA Resources Council announced the student and adult winners of the 2024 Gene Capaldi Lens On Litter Photo Contest. PRC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of our volunteer judging panel and sponsors of Lens on Litter 2024 Carolyn Capaldi , Robert & Mary Capaldi , Sheetz, Inc. Keep PA Beautiful and Wegmans

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In 2024, the average cost to plug wells under the initial Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Grant was just over $105,000. So far in 2024, 26 violations were issued or continued to 10 shale gas well owners [ Diversified Prod LLC ; Big Dog Energy LLC follow-up; Big Dog Energy LLC ; EQT Production Co.; Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2025

Pennsylvania's Margaret Mead In 2024, the Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Program grew to 911 dedicated community volunteers in 42 counties who logged 44,233 volunteer hours across the state. Thank you to the Master Watershed Stewards for all the good they've done in 2024! Do You Want To Be A Watershed Steward?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2024

Above: Lahaina, Hawai’i after the devastating August 2023 wildfire that killed more than 100 people and destroyed 2,700 homes. Last year, I wrote that fossil fuel companies made billions of dollars in profit during 2022 as people around the world suffered billions of dollars in damage from climate and weather related disasters.

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Real Climate

MARCH 12, 2025

American Meteorological Society Policy Program Study, September 2024. The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts, SSRN Journal, December 2024. Communicating Forecast Uncertainty (CoFU) 2: Replication and Extension of a Survey of the US Publics Sources, Perceptions, Uses, and Values for Weather Information.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2025

The latest DEP Chesapeake Bay Healthy Waters Newsletter highlights 2024 accomplishments, upcoming Watershed Forestry Summit, upcoming grant opportunities, county clean water projects and much more. In 2024, five stream segments were delisted and an additional 12 segments were close to joining them. How Clean Is Your Stream?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

ITLOS published its advisory opinion in May 2024, and the IACtHR opinion is expected later in 2025. The Court received 91 written statements and 62 written comments on those statements, and 96 States and 11 international organizations presented oral statements at public hearings in the Hague in December 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Niger Delta Climate Change Conference 2024 This was just a sliver of what I learned at the Niger Delta Climate Change Conference convened by the Lekeh Development Foundation with a range of local, national, and international partners. C pathway.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2025

On March 6, the PA iMapInvasives Program released the results of a citizen science Invasive Species Scavenger Hunt in 2023 and 2024. Click Here for the 2024 Scavenger Hunt results. The results from these events, including survey findings, distribution maps, and participant feedback, are viewable online.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

On February 21, the Pittsburgh-based Three Rivers Waterkeeper , a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the water quality of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers, announced the release of the 2024 Swim Guide Report. coli contamination.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

2024 was a year that might as well have been a decade. Heres what happened, as documented by Inside Climate News reporters.

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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. Source: Oceanography 2024.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A survey I conducted of 2024 sponsorships across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, and WNBA revealed more than 60 sponsorship deals with high-polluting companies. A lot of that goes on in American sports. The “ Foul Ball ” survey was published by the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment in September.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Taking into consideration all the bills presented throughout the year, the overall veto rate for the 2024 session was 16% out of 1,200 total bills per CalMatters. The 2024 veto rate is on par with previous years.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In a recent paper (Benestad et al, 2024) we provide an even clearer picture than before of extreme temperature and precipitation having become more frequent and widespread since 1950. Such extremes have a devastating impact on both nature and society. Lussana, and A.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 31, 2024

From floods in Brazil to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, extreme weather exacted a devastating toll in 2024. Read more on E360

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Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS) published its advisory opinion in May 2024. The ICJs advisory opinion will likely be the third of the trio of advisory opinions on climate change to be published. The advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is expected in the next few months.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the October 26, 2024 PA Bulletin extending the three Air Quality Permits needed for the temporary operation of the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County until a full Title V Air Quality Permit can be put in place. (

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The original violations for abandonment were issued on August 16, 2024 and the well owner failed to permanently plug the wells and stop the gas leaks. DEP’s inspection reports [ example ] requested the well owner to again submit a plan by November 10, 2024 on how the wells will be brought into compliance. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On October 23, 2024, the Clean Air Council and the Environment Integrity Project filed a notice of intent to sue the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for emitting particulate matter (PM 2.5) On May 11, 2024 , they filed the lawsuit in federal court. Click Here for a copy of the letter.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The IFO projects another $100 million drop in revenue in calendar year 2024 fee revenue from 2022 to $170 million. As of October 18, DEP received 408 shale gas permit applications in the first 42 weeks of 2024. million-- a nearly $100 million decrease from $178.9 Read more here. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

MS: The US has made huge strides in deploying battery energy storage over the past few years, going from having almost no battery storage installations in 2020 to skyrocketing all the way up to 20 GW by July 2024. And California is leading the way, with more than half of that battery storage located in the state.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With climate change and an incipient El Niño driving up temperatures, 2024 is likely to eclipse 2023 as the hottest year ever, meteorologists project. Read more on E360 →

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Real Climate

MARCH 18, 2025

2024 and references therein). There are now several papers documenting that the daily precipitation falls on a diminishing fraction of Earths surface over time, based on satellite data, reanalysis data, and global climate model simulations (Dobler et al., References A. Dobler, R.E. Benestad, C. Lussana, and O. Benestad, K.M. Parding, and A.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Received October 10, Issued October 24, 2024. ( . -- DEP published notice in the November 16 PA Bulletin announcing it had approved a GP-11 Air Quality Permit for the Amazon Data Center in Salem Twp., Luzerne County covering the installation of 14 nonroad engines for no more than 12 months.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In early 2024, the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) at UC Berkeley released evaluations of two state grant programs—the Adaptation Planning Grant Program (APGP) and the Regional Resilience Planning and Implementation Grant Program (RRGP).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

On July 2, 2024 OSHA announced the release of the Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings rulemaking and on August 30 OSHA officially listed the proposed rule in the Federal Register, requesting public comments by December 30, 2024.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 2024, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, recorded 172 new species of plants and fungi across the globe, from England to Cameroon. Read more on E360

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In June 2024, UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute Europe hosted its first inaugural conference, The Promise of International Law in the Face of Ecological Crises , shortly after the issuance of a highly anticipated advisory opinion from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). L to R: Ms. Monica Feria-Tinta (chair) Ms.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This final PRC household chemical collection of 2024 – presented in partnership with PPG and Pittsburgh Penguins – will take place on Saturday, November 9, from 9:00 a.m. Hazelwood Green marks the ninth event of the 2024 season, which has included chemical collections in Allegheny, Beaver, Cambria, Fayette and Washington counties.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

As one energy news outlet put it, 2024 was a breakout year for the US nuclear power sector at least on paper. More recently, a 2023 bill would have exempted SMRs from the ban on new nuclear power plants, and a 2024 bill would have required a study on the feasibility and benefits of deploying SMRs. economy.

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National Law Center

OCTOBER 10, 2024

On September 25, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its Vulnerable Species Action Plan (“VSAP”), the finalized version of its. The post EPA Releases Vulnerable Species Action Plan appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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