Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

During the most recent period analyzed, 2006-2018, it’s been rising at a rate of 3.7 However, on the level of basic physical reasoning, it is of course a no-brainer that warming will cause land-ice to melt (and melt faster as it gets hotter) and ocean waters to expand, so sea-level rise is the inevitable result. Source: IPCC AR6 Fig.

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MAY 31, 2023

715 (2006), which interpreted covered “waters” in the CWA to include “only those relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water forming geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes.” United States , 547 U.S. Internal quotation marks and bracket omitted.)

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In 2006, she was awarded a PhD in Ocean and Earth Science from the University of Southampton before becoming a postdoctoral researcher in Marine Science at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

In Case You Missed It: HotSpots H2O: As Dust Settles in Tonga After Volcanic Eruption, Drinking Water Now the ‘Biggest Life-Saving Issue’ – Ocean water and volcanic ash have contaminated the drinking water of tens of thousands of people in the Pacific Island nation. In Recent Water News.

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Acoel

JUNE 6, 2023

715 (2006) case many years ago. 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.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2006, Atlantic salmon were reintroduced.). Early last year, the National Contaminants Advisory Group of Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced special funding for researchers to study the impact of 6PPD-quinone and other tire by-products on Canadian salmon, trout and whitefish.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

and European Clean Air Acts and Amendments of the 1970s ( Mann and Emanuel 2006 ; Dunstone et al. Bennartz, "The Role of Aerosols in the Evolution of Tropical North Atlantic Ocean Temperature Anomalies", Science , vol. Yeager, "Comment on "The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation without a role for ocean circulation"", Science , vol.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Since 2006, the Paddling Film Festival World Tour has been showcasing the very best of paddling films, screening in more than 120 cities around the world. You'll be inspired to explore rivers, lakes, and oceans, push extremes, embrace the paddling lifestyle, and appreciate the wild places.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This is the first time the EPA has set biofuels targets under the program that began in 2006. Its rivers do not flow to the ocean. Biofuels are touted as a domestic fuel source, but corn-based biofuels are also linked to water depletion in the High Plains, water pollution, and degradation of prairie. Jackson Water Crisis.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. Rind, "How natural and anthropogenic influences alter global and regional surface temperatures: 1889 to 2006", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. 8370-8377, 1997. Lean, and D.H. 32, 2005.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. Last year, the United States suffered an unprecedented number of climate change-related billion-dollar disasters, including record heat waves, drought, wildfires and floods, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. Spinrad is a professor of oceanography at Oregon State University.

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HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2023

We also know that wood is stored for a period of time in streams, but that an essential function of wood is movement through river systems at varying rates 19,20 to its final destinations of lakes and oceans 21. Hydrol Process 20 , 183–196 (2006). Geomorphology 80 , 295–309 (2006). © 2021 Emily Iskin Art & Design.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Despite these efforts, NMFS estimated in 2019 that there were no more than 368 right whales left in the ocean, with five of those suffering serious injury or death each year because of entanglement in commercial fishing gear. NMFS has implemented regulations to reduce right whale entanglements since the late 1990s.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

The winds pick up Saharan dust, which then travels across the Atlantic Ocean to where it is deposited in the Amazon basin [4]. African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Popendorf, K. Oehlert, A. Gaston, C. Shukman, D. Kaufman, Y.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

That’s a 13 to 20 percent jump from what FDA scientists told us in five previous surveys going back to 2006. More than 60 percent of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists felt the same way about their scientific workforces (61 percent) and senior leadership (63 percent).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2022

While warm ocean waters suggest this year may be slightly warmer than 2021, PJM is expecting demand consistent with last summer. PJM’s all-time one-day highest power use was recorded in the summer of 2006 at 165,563 MW. “Reliability is a primary focus for us.” Last year’s peak demand was approximately 149,000 MW.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network This guest essay first appeared in the York Daily Record on March 11, 2022 -- “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9, NIV) While Putin’s war on Ukraine may rage an ocean away, skyrocketing gas prices have brought it to America’s doorstep.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

109, quoting R v Rimmington [2005] UKHL 63, [2006] 1 AC 459. This problem, sometimes referred to as a “drop in the ocean” problem , is pervasive in climate litigation, and has sometimes (though not always) been fatal. In other words, a public nuisance is something that endangers public interests or public rights.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

It was an apocalyptic encore of the worst-ever 2006 season that saw 9.9 This could melt all glaciers from Glacier National Park, raise sea level enough to inundate half of Everglades National Park, dissolve coral reefs in Virgin Islands National Park through ocean acidification, and damage many other natural and cultural resources.”

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

715 (2006), and embraced ever since in a series of rulemakings and jurisdictional determinations by the EPA and the U.S. In so holding, the majority expressly rejects the “significant nexus” test espoused by Justice Kennedy in his concurring opinion in Rapanos v. United States , 547 U. at (slip op. at 14) (citations omitted). 1344(g).

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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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Ohio Environmental Law

APRIL 23, 2020

The case at hand involved a wastewater treatment plant that discharges polluted water into the ground where it mixes with groundwater, which in turn, flows into a river or the ocean. This would have resulted in a bright line test that a CWA permit is not required unless the point source directly discharges to a river, lake or the ocean.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Improved satellite capabilities will benefit climate adaptation and mitigation, healthy oceans and resilient coastal communities. The fungal infection was first discovered in New York in 2006 and is now found in most of the tricolored bat’s range, which spans North America. 8802 ) requiring the Interior Department and the U.S.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Southern Sudan started experiencing drought as a result of sea level temperature rise in the Indian Ocean. The drought was ongoing between 2006-2009 . Darfur began because of an ecological crisis. that arose from climate change. The conflict in Darfur arose during this drought when there was not enough food and water for all.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The US Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior and the heads of the US Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Agency for International Development would serve as ex-oficio members of the foundation’s board.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. 3692 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop climate impact management plans for marine mammals that are at significant risk due to climate change.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

4) The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) oversees the administration of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). (5) CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCE BOARD [CARB], AB 32 GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS ACT 2006 (2018), ZERO-EMISSION VEHICLE PROGRAM (2021), [link] U.S. Turner, Jr. Should it be called “Natural Gas” or “Methane”?

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ESA

MAY 31, 2023

The justices agreed that their specific wetlands should not be subject to Clean Water Act regulation, and that the court’s prior test, stemming from the 2006 case Rapanos v. NOAA – Request for Public Comment on a Draft Standard Ocean Mapping Protocol. The case centers on a patch of wetlands on an Idaho couple’s property.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 26, 2015

Trash that is lost, littered, blown, or washed into the ocean is an issue of growing environmental concern. Human-generated stuff that ends up in the ocean, termed “marine debris” or “marine trash,” presents a. critical ocean and coastal management challenge. in the ocean, where it. Legal Planet. , Let’s talk trash.

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Supreme Court failed to reach a consensus in the 2006 Rapanos v. Ocean Climate Action Plan. This plan will help guide and coordinate actions by the federal government and civil society to address ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes-based climate mitigation and adaptation solutions. Comments are due by Nov. Comments are due Oct.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 27, 2023

Factual and Procedural Background The case involved the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (“RWQCB”) renewal of wastewater discharge permits for four publicly owned treatment works (“POTWs”) that discharge millions of gallons of treated wastewater into the Los Angeles River and thence into the Pacific Ocean. 2006) 143 Cal.App.4th

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ESA

JULY 12, 2021

Amid competing House and Senate proposals to increase funding levels for the National Science Foundation, the House Appropriations Committee released its fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bill covering NSF, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The bill includes $9.63 billion for NSF, a 13% increase over last fiscal year.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 11, 2021

acre project site includes tide and submerged lands in the Pacific Ocean off Huntington Beach occupied by a “once-through” cooling system used in connection with an upland power generating station. Factual and Procedural Background. The Site and Desalination Plant Project. Concerning CEQA Compliance.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola.

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