Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Illinois Coastal Management Program (CMP) was established in 2012 as part of the National Coastal Zone Management Program, administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Oct 28, 2021 noon-1:00 pmRegister here.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Our ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the heat from human-caused global warming—it’s not surprising that this greatly impacts ocean animals and the communities that depend on them. This is especially pressing for something as economically, ecologically and culturally important as our ocean’s fisheries. Love ocean content?

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Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

by Sara Adams, freelance writer Estuaries—where a river meets the ocean—are some of Washington’s most ecologically and culturally important ecosystems. Aerial view of Port Susan Bay and the surrounding agricultural lands after the 2012 restoration, showing the small and shallow channels that formed across the landscape.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

But now, a side deal in Congress is threatening to sideline the public’s voice in decisions that will directly affect our ocean, our coasts and our communities. Prior to my time as CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I was a litigator defending ocean ecosystems and marine mammals, and NEPA was a critical tool in that defense.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. By Anders Lorenzen. Photo credit: NOAA NCEI. Record-breaker.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

Ocean Conservancy’s Global Ghost Gear Initiative® (GGGI) engages with international leadership as well as grassroots projects around the world to combat ghost gear—abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG). Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 18, 2021

They start their lives in freshwater, migrate to the ocean for most of their lives, and then return to freshwater rivers and streams to spawn and die. Before salmon enter the ocean, they must find clean and cold waters to forage and grow. In 2012, TNC re-connected the land to the tides, forming brackish estuary habitat once again.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. A 2021 analysis of more than 88,000 studies since 2012 now finds 99.9 A Philadelphia Inquirer column carried the headline, “America sleepwalks through a climate crisis.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Wild-caught seafood from our ocean is no exception. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen. Northern shrimp, found in the northeast, are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to a climate vulnerability assessment done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Additionally, ITLOS can also apply rules of reference , referred to as “generally recognized international rules and standards” or “global rules and standards,” which exist in other sources of law incorporated into UNCLOS by reference ( see, e.g., Articles 207-2012 UNCLOS ). These rules are, in effect, binding norms incorporated into UNCLOS.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Although officials say the recovery efforts are moving faster than when Hurricane Isaac hit in 2012, residents say the government’s response has still been slow. Most coastal desalination facilities discharge their waste back into the ocean. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. 20 PERCENT. .

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Funding is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and matching funds from participating investigator institutions. Since 2012, Pennsylvania Sea Grant has invested $4.7 students.

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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot called Measure W a “ world-leading policy,” that can also help reduce pollution flowing into oceans and bays. The program allocates $280 million annually for multi-benefit stormwater projects throughout the county. As a result of Measure W, L.A. Measure W is working.

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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. Water Resour Res 48 , (2012). Geomorphology 139–140 , 460–470 (2012). © 2021 Emily Iskin Art & Design. Sawyer, A.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

The IAA, which came into force in 2019, was an attempt to strengthen Canada’s environmental laws and fix the project review process, which had been gutted in 2012 by the government of the day. We are a charitable organization advocating the conservation of land and the protection of waterways, and oceans to help stop the loss of species.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 24, 2020

The successes and failures of international regulation of ocean waste provide a basis for developing a model for effective regulation of orbital debris. Like earth’s orbits, earth’s oceans are a global common where externalities from marine debris are typically not experienced by the producer of the pollution. 7, 2019). [4].

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Real Climate

APRIL 28, 2022

Take the CMIP6 models that we have written about before ( #NotAllModels , Sensitive but Unclassified , Part II ): the biggest causes of diverging climate projections relates to Southern Ocean cloud feedbacks (Zelinka et al , 2020) , which is unconnected to resolution. 775-779, 2012. Solomon, and A.S.

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Physics World

MARCH 9, 2022

There’s a different twist in Seeking a Friend For the End of the World (2012), another comet-collision disaster movie. The passengers and those they are leaving behind, he wrote, “have more than ever to say to one another, the hour presses, the ocean with its lonely silence waits impatiently behind all the noise”. Processing disaster.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since 2012, it has risen in popularity in ecological and social-ecological research following the noteworthy advancement of the method that allows users to include aspects of model uncertainty in the analysis. Where can additional information about the tool be found? These examples highlight the diversity of potential applications of QNMs.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant. Projections of (a) temperature (constrained), (b) Arctic sea ice area (raw CMIP6), (c) ocean pH (constrained), and sea level (d)to 2100, and (e) to 2300 (constrained). Figure SPM 8. to 0.14] °C per decade)5. 1, SPM AR5.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It is important to note the distinction between groundwater desalination and seawater desalination, the latter containing much higher concentrations of salt, which leads to heavy construction costs, significant ocean and coastal ecosystem impacts, and higher energy and water prices. Seawater desalination development in U.S. co-location.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

STILL FIDDLING, AT 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, AS THE WORLD WARMS, FLOODS AND BURNS: OCEANS’ SURVIVAL NEED FASTER SITING AND TRANSMISSION OF OFFSHORE WIND FARM PROJECTS. Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . By Jeff Thaler, Esq. . ?. . Indeed, at a Sept. rojects to reduce fossil fuel consumption. analysis.

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Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A senior hurricane researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , Eric Blake has studied atmospheric changes for two decades, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and Colorado State University, respectively. Eric Blake.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2014

Background In 2010, in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Department of Interior renamed the Minerals Management Service (MMS) the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE). Hastings raised concerns about the IRU’s makeup, pointing to (1) BOEMRE’s 2010 request for $5.8

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

This effluent then travels approximately a half mile, through groundwater, to the Pacific Ocean. In 2012, environmental groups brought a Clean Water Act citizen suit against Maui, claiming that Maui was “discharging a pollutant to navigable waters” without the permit required by the Clean Water Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2022

But beginning with some storms in 2012, it’s become frustrating. A puffin brings its chicks a large oval butterfish and a long sand lance–clear signs of the struggle of seabirds in the Gulf of Maine, which has some of the fastest-warming ocean water on earth. Now they’re all gone. Terns often brought insects. Photo by Derrick Z.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 11, 2015

Near the end of 2012, California fell into an unusual dry spell. This restriction allows 660,000 acre-feet of freshwater to flow directly into the ocean each year. Efficient movement of water has allowed cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego to boom even though they naturally receive little freshwater.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The Violation In March 2012, BSEE conducted an inspection of ATP’s floating production platform facility, known as the ATP Innovator, while it was moored to the sea floor about 45 nautical miles offshore of southeastern Louisiana (about 125 miles south of New Orleans) and engaged in the production of oil and natural gas. 955 F.Supp.2d

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 4, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It took 7,000 volunteers and hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up a spill of a similar magnitude in Hong Kong in 2012 —and that didn’t have the complication of added chemical toxicity. Each year, roughly 139,000 metric tons of plastic pellets enter our ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 13, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. UNEA was created in 2012 to foster and create a system of international environmental governance. As an organization committed to protecting the environment, caring for our ocean and fighting climate change, we will remain committed as the process continues.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Walking along a breezy Florida beach is a wonderful feeling, the soft sand and gentle ocean waves enjoyed by locals and tourists alike. During Ocean Conservancy’s annual International Coastal Cleanup in 2021, over 78,000 cigarette butts were removed from coastal areas in Florida alone, with over 1.2 This is a major win for our beaches.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The court rejected the argument that claims against the original and 2012 versions of the LCFS were moot, noting that these earlier versions affected how credits were calculated under the 2015 version. at its theme park in Jackson Township in Ocean County. State of New Jersey v North Beach 1003, LLC , Nos. A-3393-15T4 et al.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2015

Junk can be found everywhere—from the bellies of animals and the tissues of our own bodies to the world’s vast oceans. . The first step toward keeping trash from entering the ocean is to reduce the amount created on land and repurpose what we chuck into trash bins. invented by Cesar Harada—could one day scour the ocean for trash.

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Physics World

AUGUST 7, 2021

That was a question that Daniel Bonn, a physicist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands , set out to explore with his colleagues in 2012. Capillary condensation under ambient humidities creates pressures of around 1000 bars – more than found at the bottom of Earth’s deepest oceans. The sands of time.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Kings County approved 1,238 new agricultural well permits between the start of the last drought in 2012 and 2021, according to county records. The sprawling Semitropic Water Storage District in Kern County wants Kings River flood water that it says current rights holders are letting flow to the ocean in heavy precipitation years.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 29, 2023

Last week, TNC Washington, the Stillaguamish Tribe and the Tulalip Tribes hosted Dr. Richard Spinrad, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator, for a tour of TNC’s Port Susan Bay Preserve and the Stillaguamish Tribe’s zis a ba II site. © Hannah Letinich/TNC TNC Aquatic & Estuarine Ecologist, Dr. .

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