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Ocean Justice Requires Climate Action for All

Ocean Conservancy

For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 Ocean Conservancy’s Justice40 interim report dives into research conducted in Florida at the nexus of failing water infrastructure, climate risk, and federal infrastructure investments in disadvantaged communities. Check out our new Justice40 interim report to learn more.

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Executive Actions to Ensure Safe and Responsible Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Research in the United States

Law Columbia

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., Those activities could raise a host of legal issues. and the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.

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NNI and EPA Will Hold Webinar on SBIR/STTR Funding Opportunities for Water Nanotechnologies

Nanotech

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will co-host a webinar on August 25, 2022 , on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding opportunities for water nanotechnologies. The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) and the U.S.

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GAO urges EPA, NOAA to do more about harmful algal blooms

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Smart Cities Dive.

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Five Things to Know About Drought in the American West

Circle of Blue

A thirsty atmosphere evaporates or sublimates its share. With increasing temperatures, “we’re seeing places that do have drought, the intensification is more rapid,” says Roger Pulwarty, a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 3) Cutbacks Are Inevitable.

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New Inflation Reduction Act Tracker Launched by the Sabin Center and EDF

Law Columbia

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA.