PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. Click Here for a copy of the 2024 Climate Action Plan Update. Click Here for the 2024 limate Impacts Assessment Report. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. Saltwater is poised to intrude and render five more wells unusable by 2024, said the Hilton Head Public Service District. Hilton Head is fast becoming a prominent test case of rising sea levels and intense coastal storms heralded by climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Notably, San Franciscos separate Bayside facility has also been operating under an expired NDPES permit, incurring Clean Water Act violations, and reason clean water advocates threatened to sue in 2024.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, sea-level rise, and worsening wildfires are among the risks stretching State and local resources and driving demand for adaptation funding. However, the 2024 State budget eliminated funding for both programs as part of the State’s plan to address budget deficits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The report, initially scoped in 2024 and planned for completion by 2027, aims to provide technical guidance on measuring, reporting, and verifying emissions removals from CDR technologies. However, disagreements over the inclusion of marine CDR prevented consensus, meaning the outline will be revisited at the next plenary.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

2024) ( direct link ) has just appeared in Science. Prior efforts had been purely data based (with varying levels of corrections for non-climatic effects) and perhaps some effort to estimate global means differently depending on whether the data was from the paleo-tropics or higher latitudes. The resulting paper Judd et al.,

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2024

After much anticipation and deliberation, the California legislature approved a $10 billion climate bond measure just before the summer recess began on July 3, 2024. billion to combat sea level rise. California voters will now have the opportunity to approve or reject the bond measure on the November ballot.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The report, initially scoped in 2024 and planned for completion by 2027, aims to provide technical guidance on measuring, reporting, and verifying emissions removals from CDR technologies. However, disagreements over the inclusion of marine CDR prevented consensus, meaning the outline will be revisited at the next plenary.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 8, 2025

All of Seldovia draws its water from a single reservoir, which sits within city limits no more than 200 feet above sea level. And while coho escapement is not monitored, their 2024 commercial harvest estimate of 24,750 was 86 percent below the recent 20-year average. And then it started to dawn on us, Cameron says.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Addressing these issues will be at the forefront for various government entities in 2024. Climate Change and Ongoing Regulations – Climate change issues, such as rising sea levels, continue to affect developers and commercial property owners in Florida.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

By identifying “hot spots” where disasters are more likely to occur in the coming years, communities will be better able to develop strong hazard resilience plans, which can reduce the impacts of flooding, wildfires, droughts, and rising sea levels in Washington state. Stillaguamish Valley flooding near Stanwood, November 2015.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

UCLA Emmett Institute executive director Cara Horowitz recently wrote here about the Dodgers’ long relationship with 76 and asked why in 2024, is LA’s most famous team elevating a Big Oil brand atop their scoreboards? Sadly, there’s nothing forward-thinking about an oil and gas sponsorship.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Similarly, Clemson University received funding to develop salt-tolerant rice cultivars for organic farms affected by rising sea levels. However, the 2024 Farm Bill falls short in addressing the funding needs for organic agriculture research. Several OREI plant breeding projects train farmers in organic seed production.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

The DRBC has also developed a complex computer model to evaluate sea level rise scenarios and plan for systemic impacts within the basin. In 2022 and 2024, DRBC worked with the Pa. In 2021, DRBC held its first Climate Change Forum. Emergency Management Agency to advance hazard mitigation and reduce flood losses.

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. On one hand, numerous adverse effects of climate change manifest in the ocean, such as ocean acidification, temperature changes, and rising sea levels.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Guest Post by Mohamed Abdelhafez , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University The Challenge of Sea Level Rise Imagine your favorite beach town slowly disappearing beneath encroaching waves. Source: NOAA. Zervas, and S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

The RMI compact was renewed in 2003, and now all three Compacts are up for renewal: the Compacts with Micronesia and the Marshall Islands will expire Oct 2023, and Palau’s will expire in 2024. In the past, the United States has denied any further responsibility for ongoing harms related to over a decade of nuclear testing.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2009, scientists discovered a link between black cod recruitment (which refers to the new young fish that enter the population each year) and sea level. West Coast, adopted annual catch limits for black cod (sablefish) for West Coast fisheries for 2025 and 2026 that are more than double the limits for 2023 and 2024.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 22, 2024

Robertson, M., Qian, J., & Qiang, Z. Polymer Sorbent Design for the Direct Air Capture of CO2. ACS Applied Polymer Materials.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 28, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen With its highest elevation at 170 metres above sea level, Denmark is one of the lowest-lying countries in Europe, and so the Scandinavian country is especially vulnerable to climate impacts such as sea level rises. The 2024 report of Home Moving House Indicator says that 19.3% Photo credit: Home.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Unprecedented flooding in Barbados and Brazil in May 2024 displaced thousands, while floods in Pakistan in 2022 displaced approximately 8 million people. 2024), underscores the limitations of U.S. In 2014, a family from Tuvalu sought refugee status in New Zealand because rising sea levels threatened their home.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

WMO Secretary-General Peterri Taalas laid the facts bare, stating: “Greenhouse gas levels are record high. Sea level rise is record high. Antarctic sea ice record low.” degrees C ceiling because, for that to happen, the level of warming would need to be sustained for longer.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

Additionally, sea levels around Malaysia are projected to rise by a maximum of 3 to 10 mm by 2030 and 11 to 21 mm by 2050. The subsequent 2023-2024 El Nio event proved even deadlier, with 5 fatalities out of 127 reported cases of heat-related illnesses. and 6.1%, with net revenue falling by MYR 442.42 (~USD 99.52) per ha.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2025

ITLOS released its opinion on May 21, 2024 , while the IACtHR is expected to issue its opinion in the second half of 2025, and the ICJ towards the end of 2025 or the beginning of 2026. It forms part of an unprecedented quartet of parallel requests before international courts (ICJ, ITLOS, IACtHR, AfCHPR, see here ).

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A Greener Life

MARCH 24, 2024

This week, the UN body, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that every major global climate record was broken last year and warned that 2024 could be even worse with the highest concern being ocean heat and shrinking sea ice. degrees C above pre-industrial levels. .”

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advisory opinion on April 21, 2024 in response to a request submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). ITLOS recognized that these questions “necessarily have scientific aspects” which it had to consider (para.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Resource Links: -- Free Middle School Watershed Science Curriculum Maximizes Learning Outcomes -- Stroud Presents New Research To World’s Largest Group Of Earth & Space Scientists -- Don’t Look To Rivers For Help When Sea-Level Rise Threatens Coastal Wetlands ( Photo: Amanda Garzio-Hadzick and Heather Titanich.)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2023

1, 2023 [ Senate Resolution 136 ] House passed a resolution extending it one year to June 12, 2024, Republicans opposed. Of Environmental Professionals 2023 Annual Conference Sept. 20-22 In State College [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Sept.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a Māori leader with an interest in customary land, Smith argued that the defendants’ actions would harm him through impacts related to rising sea levels, loss of sites of cultural and spiritual significance, damage to fisheries, and adverse health impacts. The Supreme Court’s 7 February 2024 decision is a preliminary one.

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Capaccio

JULY 25, 2023

Beginning in January 2024, companies can start applying these standards, and the first reports adhering to them will be available to investors in 2025. Physical risks can be either acute, such as floods or storms, or chronic, like rising sea levels.

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2024

Introduction ‘Historic’ and ‘unprecedented’ are two adjectives that could easily apply to the advisory opinion rendered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on May 21, 2024. Of course, these adjectives have also been used to describe many other recent judgments delivered on the topic of climate change.

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Capaccio

APRIL 22, 2024

On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a set of disclosure rules that require some public companies to include climate-related information in their annual financial reports.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A discussion about whether to list Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” will be on the agenda for the 2024 meeting of the committee. Sea level rise and worsening storms are wreaking havoc. Venice is dying because of climate and tourism Venice is a city in crisis. Mark’s Basilica, Venice.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

The Advisory Opinion handed down by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on 21 May 2024 is truly remarkable. Under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ), States must now take all necessary measures to prevent, reduce and control GHG emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

Many low-income nations are already reeling from the impacts of climate-related extreme weather like floods and droughts , as well as slow-onset disasters like sea level rise. billion annually in climate finance by 2024. A process that centers the voices of climate-vulnerable countries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

For example: FEMA has the Safeguarding Tomorrow Revolving Loan Fund Program , which provides $150 million for Fiscal Year 2024 to help state and local governments finance water, wastewater, infrastructure, disaster recovery, community and small business development projects.

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