PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Pennsylvania Sea Grant is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and through federal, state, and local funding. For additional details or questions, contact Amber Stilwell, Pennsylvania Sea Grant’s Lake Erie Coastal Outreach Specialist at ars26@psu.edu.

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APRIL 10, 2025

This follows a decade of record-breaking temperatures, with the World Meteorological Organization concluding that the past ten years 2025-2024 are the ten warmest years on record. It is also necessary to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (a process known as carbon dioxide removal or CDR). for human consumption).

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APRIL 8, 2025

On March 4, 2025, the Supreme Court handed down an important ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. mCDR refers to ocean-based processes or techniques designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it for long periods of time in the ocean. Environmental Protection Agency. How is mCDR affected?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2024

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are responsible for weather forecasts and severe storm warnings, information we likely take for granted. After the movie ends: the real-life work of disaster recovery There are lots of efforts for disaster recovery and relief that take place after a storm.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRMP) receives an annual grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

The production was made possible through funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Deadline for pre-proposals is Friday, February 14, 2025. The videos are available online via the programs website , and YouTube Channel. Since 2012, Pennsylvania Sea Grant has invested over $5.7

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Breezometer

AUGUST 16, 2021

The EPA estimates that lowering maximum ground-level ozone standards in the USA from 75 to 70 ppb by 2025 will decrease annual health costs by $2.9-$5.9 In June 2020, a massive Sahara dust plume dubbed ‘Godzilla’ even traveled across the Atlantic ocean and reached the USA. billion, thanks in part to a reduced impact on children.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Under this agreement, governments have committed to conserving at least 30% of land and of ocean globally, respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and recognizing contributions of Indigenous and traditional territories towards this goal. Canada must also take this ambition and leadership to international ocean fora.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

Products that bear the label “carbon neutral” are supposed to be produced with no added emissions to the atmosphere. The National Forests Foundation advertises that for every $2 donation, they’ll plant two trees that will remove or offset 1 metric ton of CO2e from the atmosphere for the life of those trees. But can you trust it?

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 7, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) has now released its early season algae bloom forecast for Lake Erie and predicts a bloom that will be smaller than last year’s, but also slightly more severe. NOAA is predicting this year’s bloom, on a scale of 1-10 will be less than 4.5 but it could be as bad as 6.5.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

billion over the next five years to support the development of four regional direct air capture (DAC) hubs, designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and permanently store or utilize it in long-life products (e.g., In the US, the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) authorized the Department of Energy to spend $3.5

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2022

Earlier this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasted a “mild” bloom but that was only due to dryer spring weather conditions. This is largely due to runoff from farms when it rains. Heavy rainfall events increase the amount of phosphorus running off into the lake. . out of 10.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the EU’s Copernicus climate service show that the 2024 January-August period is the hottest ever by far, putting this year well on track to be the warmest ever on record. see Articles 4.2 of the Paris Agreement ).

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Guest Post by Ana Mara Prez-Hincapi , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. billion adjusted for 2025 Consumer price index 1 ). Here, flooding isnt just a threat, its part of the natural cycle, one that now coexists with increasingly intense hurricane seasons driven by a warming atmosphere and ocean.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Pennsylvania Sea Grant is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and through federal, state, and local funding. The Pennsylvania Lake Erie Environmental Forum is made possible with funding through the Department of Environmental Protection, U.S Resource Link: -- Gov.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

In the basic physics of climate change, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, resulting in heavier downpours, a core ingredient of these events. From Nepals Kathmandu to the United Arab Emiratess (UAE) Dubai and Brazils Rio Grande do Sul and the Southern Appalachians in the US, the past 12 months have been marked by devastating floods.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the last decade, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. It committed the two states and the Canadian province to reduce the amount of phosphorus flowing into western Lake Erie 20 percent by 2020 and 40 percent by 2025. Two Michigan governors of different parties embraced the goals. .

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 17, 2024

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its 2024 algae forecast for the lake – and it isn’t good news. Canada and Ontario have committed to reducing the amount of phosphorus entering the lake by 40 per cent by 2025. On June 27, t he U.S. What needs to be done to save Lake Erie?

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2024

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) annual Lake Erie harmful algal bloom (HAB) forecast shows not enough is being done to save the lake. These governments committed to reducing nutrient pollution entering the western basin of Lake Erie by 40 per cent by 2025 – that’s next year.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The finance, a pledge of £8.75bn of public finance from 12 countries including the UK between 2021 – 2025, will support activities in developing countries, including restoring degraded land, tackling wildfires and supporting the rights of indigenous communities. It will complement £5.3 billion of newly-mobilised private sector funding.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2022

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced its 2022 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast. To date, the province has not provided any updates on the progress being made towards reducing phosphorus loading into the Lake by the target date of 2025. . But Lake Erie is in trouble…and has been for a while.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2024

The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” is a dangerous and detailed guide to undermining our democracy and a broadside attack on our health and well-being, not to mention our economic prosperity. The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded.’

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 30, 2022

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced its 2022 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast. There is no implementation plan in place for how the government is going to meet its commitment to reduce phosphorus levels by 40 per cent by 2025.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 29, 2023

Canada and Ontario have committed to reducing the amount of phosphorus entering the lake by 40 per cent by 2025. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced its 2023 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast. The presence of microcystin can also threaten drinking water and be fatal to animals.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 29, 2023

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced its 2023 Lake Erie algae bloom forecast. Canada and Ontario have committed to reducing the amount of phosphorus entering the lake by 40 per cent by 2025. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Dead zones can decimate fisheries and kill other forms of aquatic life.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A dangerous blueprint and an alternative vision Project 2025, the radical blueprint for a future administration from the Heritage Foundation and the 100+ organizations on the project advisory board, began garnering more public attention after Taraji P.

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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. atmospheric CO2 levels. the Investment and Production Tax Credits (ITC PTC) for, in part, OSW, but projects must begin construction by January 1, 2025. .

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. It’s long past time to stop relegating the climate problem to a narrowly conceived field of “environmental law.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For more on other harmful aspects of Project 2025, see this blog. The Heritage Foundation’s blueprint—Project 2025—to dramatically alter the US Environmental Protection Agency should concern you. Project 2025 takes aim at all those protections. Project 2025 takes aim at grants, as well. It does me.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Whenever there are combustion processes, of which there are many in our industrial society (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One such agency is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides the scientific bedrock of data needed to protect our health, homes, and livelihoods from climate change and other environmental threats. In this post I will focus on Project 2025’s ill-advised designs for NOAA.

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

All agencies will fully implement updated policies, including ending the optional 12-month embargo, no later than December 31, 2025. OSTP expects all agencies to have updated public access policies fully implemented by the end of 2025. This includes $50 million for climate research grants. Comments must be received by Sept. ET on Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

This year, were bracing for whats expected to be an active season made doubly dangerous by the Trump Administrations cuts to agencies like the National Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)the parent agency of the National Weather Service (NWS) and the NHC.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

The planned cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to news reports , are not the equivalent of trimming but of sawing a whole tree down to the ground. The carbon dioxide data on Mauna Loa constitute the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

On the ground, firefighters are using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites for wildfire monitoring in real time. Today, those duties are carried out by the National Weather Service (NWS), housed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the far-rights playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated. NOAA watches the oceans and coasts for you Do you like seafood? Are you taking a commercial flight today?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is one of the foremost federal science agencies whose foundational work has wide implications and immense value for peoples daily lives and for our economy. It also monitors ocean conditions crucial for maritime traffic and fisheries and helps with marine conservation efforts.

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