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.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Across the GTA, Liberal support would fall from 20 per cent to 11 per cent if the government decides to let Highway 413 proceed without an independent federal impact assessment. There are 29 federally listed species at risk of extinction along the 413 highway corridor, and at least 24 navigable waterways.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

The case was filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean that is especially vulnerable to human-caused climate change. July 23, 2025 is a historic day for international law, for climate change, and for humanity,” UCLA Law Professor Anna Spain Bradley told me. Hearings took place last December.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

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. A new Sabin Center report explores the laws governing seaweed cultivation and sinking for CDR in Alaska. o C above pre-industrial levels.

Carbon Dioxide

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This blog was written by Michele Conrad, advisor to Ocean Conservancy on achieving priority fish conservation and ecosystem goals on the West Coast. As a former state ocean policy manager, Michele represented the State of Washington on the Pacific Fishery Management Council for 15 years before starting her own consultancy.

Ocean

Nature

JUNE 4, 2025

Advertisement View all journals Search Log in Explore content About the journal Publish with us Subscribe Sign up for alerts RSS feed nature news article NEWS 05 June 2025 Thousands of endangered trees preserved for centuries inside Chinese temples Survey uncovers the rich biodiversity protected at sacred sites. link] (2025).

Conservation

Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

In its offshore wind leasing process in California, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) deployed bidding credits to support workforce training, among other measures. State legislation pertinent to Pier Wind includes AB 3 (Zbur, 2023), AB 2235 (Lowenthal, 2024), and if passed, SB 787 (McNerney, 2025).)

Ocean

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. 12 (In-Person), Dec.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

On June 11, the Public Utility Commission released the 2025 Summer Readiness Overviews submitted by the Commonwealth’s major electric distribution companies and the regional electric grid operator, PJM Interconnection, LLC.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities. Phillip Meintzer, Conservation Specialist | Alberta Wilderness Association (403) 283-2025, pmeintzer@abwild.ca

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In the past year, weve seen significant victories that inspire hope, like the Swiss KlimaSeniorinnen case, which called for an improved government climate action plan; Held v. Its a familiar frustration: will 2025 finally be the year these cases move forward? Montana , where young plaintiffs won the first U.S.

2025

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.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

President Trump and unelected individuals designated by him are taking aim at scientists and illegally taking over infrastructure responsible for creating and issuing weather conditions and alertsthe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Is having extreme weather information critical?

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

ITLOS published its advisory opinion in May 2024, and the IACtHR opinion is expected later in 2025. The request happened in parallel to similar advisory opinion processes before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR).

Climate Change

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Partly to address water concerns, China is now putting a data center in the wettest place there is: the ocean. Hailanyun places the first phase of its underwater data center into the ocean off the coast of Hainan in December 2022. Read more: What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?

Wind Power

ESA

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The IFAW noted that mentions of animals are largely absent from countries’ NDCs and suggests language (Including describing targets for how wildlife-nature interactions will contribute to climate/emission/drawdown goals) to get them in there for the 2025 updates. COP16 session on October 25, 2024, presenting findings from Schmitz et al.

Climate Change

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

The decision, issued on May 29, 2025, stemmed from a lawsuit filed by a landowner in 2024 who claimed that Swampbuster was both an unconstitutional violation of the Commerce Clause and served as an unconstitutional taking of private land. Iowa, May 29, 2025) was initially filed by a landowner in Iowa on April 16, 2024. 5 U.S.C. §

2013

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. How will this affect people in the United States, including those who support efforts to cut government spending?

Ocean

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.

2010

Law Columbia

JUNE 30, 2025

This 2025 edition further identifies 498 contested projects in 49 states, an increase of 32% over last year’s edition. In December 2024, Cape May County finally dropped a lawsuit against Ocean Wind 1 , which had been canceled for financial reasons in 2023.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2025

On February 27, 2025, over 1,000 employees at the National Weather Service (NWS) were illegally fired by the Trump Administration under the premise of making the government more efficient, even though the agency was already severely understaffed.

Atmosphere

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2025

government, Mr. Serpa said. One huge impetus for Project 2025 is to smash the federal government’s capacity for recovery after Donald Trump leaves office — if he ever does before his death. The goal is to protect scientific data against threats from the U.S. But many undoubtedly are not.

2025

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2025

It is a Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. It is operated by The Norwegian government, the Crop Trust , and the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen). A brief history of Svalbard Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen, has been part of the Kingdom of Norway since 1925.

Climate Change

Nature

JUNE 2, 2025

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Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has tracked extreme weather and climate-related disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and floods. The SEC rule was targeted for elimination by a major oil and gas industry trade association.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

AUGUST 11, 2025

Now several companies are turning to an unexpected source for a solution: the bottom of the ocean. “It’s extremely important for many ocean processes such as the carbon cycle and nutrient cycling,” Paytan says. © 2025 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, A DIVISION OF SPRINGER NATURE AMERICA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Technology

Yale E360

JUNE 26, 2025

Close / ← → Search Search Yale Environment 360 Published at the Yale School of the Environment Explore Search About E360 E360 Digest June 26, 2025 Planned EV Battery Plant Threatens Uncontacted Tribe in Indonesia A Hongana Manyawa man. “This is a chance for the Prabowo government to show that it has learned from those failures.”

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Here are 183 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug.

Conservation

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Skip to main content Scientific American June 17, 2025 18 min read What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals about Its Fragile Future The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. The mission was to collect sediment cores from the ocean floor. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Sea Level

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” which is weirdly what Zeldin says he’s doing, is not a way to govern. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, lead counsel for Vanuatu.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 5, 2025

Specifically, on January 20, 2025, Trump issued a presidential memorandum titled Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Governments Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects. GW of wind, 1.5 GW of gen-tie, and 0.2 GW of geothermal. Empire Wind.

Renewable Energy

Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2025

The rule had been challenged by the city of San Francisco, whose permit to discharge sewage from its combined sewer system into the Pacific Ocean included general limits and non-specific conditions meant to protect the oceans water quality. The post The Stream, March 6, 2025: Clean Water Act Weakened Again by U.S.

Clean Water Act

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 27, 2025

Statement by Ashley Wallis, Associate Director, on the NOAA’s 2025 Lake Erie HAB (Harmful Algal Bloom) Forecast Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – After years of thick, green slime, Lake Erie is showing small signs of recovery.

2015

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Chesapeake B-WET is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Office, which the administration also would defund. The federal government must invest more in environmental education, not eliminate it.

2014

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.

2025

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.

2025

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

The new law includes several provisions typically associated with the Farm Bill, the omnibus spending bill that governs various agricultural and food programs in the United States. The report available here , although written a month before the OBBBA’s final passage, provides an overview of conservation funding changes made in the bill.

2013