Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress ask White House to provide $425 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in 2024 President’s Budget Request. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and Michael Waltz (R-FL) introduced the Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act ( H.R. 20, 2022) ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

More News: China’s Belt and Road infrastructure projects could help or hurt oceans and coasts worldwide – The Conversation. CNSF – FY 2024 Letter to White House OMB and OSTP (Oct. ESC – Letter of Support for the DOE Foundation for FY 2024 (Sept. ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug. Scientific Community.

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JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced the Save Our Sequoias Act ( H.R.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

The report’s authors conclude that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Top Priorities : Coastal resiliency; healthy oceans investments; modernizing the National Weather Service. Allocation : $83 billion.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Next week, the House is expected to consider another six spending bills, including a bill funding the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. in atmospheric and oceanic science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. West Virginia v. EPA decision.

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

NOAA: The House Science Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18, to consider Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK)’s draft legislation to take the National Oceanic Administration out of the Department of Commerce and make NOAA into an independent agency. 8, 2022) CNSF – FY 2024 Letter to White House OMB and OSTP (Oct.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

Environmental groups and two blue states appeals from the October 2020 decision were still pending when the Biden administration BLM adopted a new waste prevention rule in April 2024. In August 2024, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals then dismissed their appeals as moot and vacated the October 2020 decision vacating the 2016 rule.

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ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

NOAA: The House Science Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18, to consider Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK)’s draft legislation to take the National Oceanic Administration out of the Department of Commerce and make NOAA into an independent agency. 8, 2022) CNSF – FY 2024 Letter to White House OMB and OSTP (Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. Many other states in recent years have decided they would follow Californias standards, as they are allowed to under the Clean Air Act.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

This total funding amount is less than the amount proposed in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) authorizing Endless Frontiers Act, from the last Congress, and soon to be reintroduced in the current Congress, that proposes creating a technology directorate within NSF, which would be funded at $34 billion by FY 2024.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Chellie Pingree (D-ME)’s Coastal Communities Acidification Act ( H.R. 676 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to collaborate with state and local governments and Indian Tribes on vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification. 20, 2022) ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Advanced Clean Cars II rule would require 100% EV sales in California by 2035 and strengthen tailpipe emissions standards, resulting in an estimated 1,200 fewer deaths fro m air pollution by 2040. The rule required a waiver because it’s stronger than the federal Clean Air Act, and 13 states have already approved similar standards.

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