Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2022

If you ever read the ingredient list on your pet’s favorite food, you may come across ambiguous terms such as ‘fish’, ‘ocean fish’, or ‘white bait’. New high-resolution map shows fires caused one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019. DNA barcoding identifies endangered shark species secretly added to pet food.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires. That also means they play the largest role in climate-related environmental changes.

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Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Greenhouse Sea Level 290

Acoel

JUNE 6, 2023

Upon appeal, SCOTUS held: The CWA’s use of “waters” in §1362(7) refers only to “geographic[al] features that are described in ordinary parlance as ‘streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes’ ” and to adjacent wetlands that are “indistinguishable” from those bodies of water due to a continuous surface connection. 159 (2001).

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Clean Water Act 2001 Ocean 2006 105

Washington Nature

JUNE 1, 2023

TNC has owned and managed nearly 4,000 acres of estuarine habitat at the Port Susan Bay Preserve since 2001 and continually works with partners throughout the basin to advance salmon recovery, migratory bird, and floodplain projects that benefit people and nature.

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2001 Atmosphere Ocean Law 98

Law of the Lands

MARCH 23, 2021

It reaches across the Atlantic Ocean to the United Kingdom and, in fact, back through history to the 13th Century. Flash forward to 2001, when a group of 28 new “rebel barons” sent a petition to Queen Elizabeth II asking that she withhold Royal Assent to any legislation that would ratify the European Union’s 2000 Treaty of Nice.

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2001 Law Ocean Government 52

The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Those limits were last increased in 2018 to $137,659,500 by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. [12] 438, 446 (2001). [14] 2001) (paragraph numbers omitted from quote) 11] The Coast Guard is not responsible for adjusting OPA limits for offshore facilities (other than deepwater ports). Lewis & Clark Marine, Inc. ,

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2023 Oil Pollution Act 2001 Law 98

ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Matt Cartwright (D-PA) will be ranking member of the House Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee, which funds the National Science Foundation, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies. The rule reinstates protections created by the Forest Service’s 2001 Roadless Rule. Meanwhile, Rep.

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2023 Natural Resources 2022 Ocean 75

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

of DEP’s regulations in 2001 never contemplated a situation where a commercial product being compared to a waste may have chemical, naturally occurring radiation (TENORM) and other characteristics that harm the environment and public health. Conventional oil and gas wastewater is frequently called “ancient ocean water” by the industry.

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Radiation Waste Regulations Ocean 94

HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Net atmospheric warming is problematic for a number of reasons – it leads to crop and vegetation stress which threatens our food security, it causes more intense dry seasons which lead to bigger wildfires that cause severe economic and environmental damage, and it leads to rising oceans levels which threaten existing infrastructure.

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Atmosphere Carbon Emissions 2020 2012 52

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

of environmental laws and regulations that might apply to the construction of the wall in the San Diego Sector, which spans from the Pacific Ocean to one mile east of border monument 251, approximately 15 miles. Since 2001, the waiver provision has been enacted five times, to exclude action from environmental statutes.

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Law 2017 Endangered Species Act Clean Water Act 52

ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the nomination of Jainey Bavishi to be the assistant secretary of oceans and atmosphere at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the second-most senior position at NOAA. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) voted with the Committees Democrats to support the nomination.

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2021 2022 Clean Air Act Clean Water Act 96

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Global Treaty Needed to Halt Deep Sea Mining, Greenpeace Investigation Concludes Carly Nairn | EcoWatch | December 9, 2020 The investigation, Deep Trouble: The murky world of the deep sea mining industry, decries the increasing use of the ocean floor by large corporations, such as U.S.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. It’s long past time to stop relegating the climate problem to a narrowly conceived field of “environmental law.”

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Regulations Law 2023 Climate Change 98

ESA

JULY 26, 2021

This includes a 39% increase for climate research and a 29% increase for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. This bill is also included in the Oceans Based Climate Solutions Act ( H.R. NOAA receives $6.46 billion, a nearly 20% increase over FY 2021 levels. Huffman is a senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee.

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2021 Clean Water Act Climate Change Natural Resources 59

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Dilution of salts in our oceans can affect the ecological balance of that ocean.

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