Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

On May 2 nd , the White House released what is generally referred to as a skinny budget request outlining priorities for discretionary spending for fiscal year 2026. A full federal budget proposal is expected later this month.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

In addition to all the harms that have already happened, now President Trumps skinny budget for fiscal year 2026 proposes cutting EPA funding by a massive 54.5%, or $4.2 The work of the OAR is being threatened through a drastic reorganization plan, which seeks to eliminate its Atmospheric Protection Program and disrupt other parts.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

-- PA Energy Politics -- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.07 Ohio- $2.92 At Oil/Gas Industry Conference As Presidents Tariff Policy Rattled Markets -- The Derrick: FrenchCreek Twp.,

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commercial and recreational fisheries provide 1.7 In its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget, it wants to slash Fish and Wildlife Service funding by 32%, from $1.68 They all spend a portion of their lives in wetlands. million jobs. billion down to $1.14

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2025

Amid the trees, soil in the paddocks would retain moisture during droughts, while capturing and storing climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In the forest, browsing off the ground means healthier goats and less veterinary and medicine expenses. Click Here for video comments by Amanda Lee-Milton, Adams County farmer.

Conservation

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

For fiscal year 2028, a state can choose to use its payment error rate from 2025 or 2026; however, for fiscal year 2029 and beyond, the payment error rate for the third fiscal year preceding the fiscal year being calculated will be used. For example, in fiscal year 2029, the payment error rate of 2026 will be used.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

The Trump administration’s 2026 budget proposal, which calls for disproportionately large cuts to federal science and research funding, could take the engine out of commission for the foreseeable future.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

On May 2, the President proposed a fiscal year 2026 budget that would devastate the federal governments ability to lead efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers and streams, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. billion in fiscal year 2026. The Trump Administrations fiscal year 2026 budget would eliminate $1.3

2026

Physics World

JULY 22, 2025

They are Steven Koonin, a physicist at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, along with atmospheric scientist John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Alabama meteorologist Roy Spencer.

Atmosphere

Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2025

billion in funding for CPB for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 — money already allocated. The oil and gas industry needlessly flaring has pumped an extra 389 million tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere last year, a World Bank report has found, in an “enormous waste” of fuel that heats the planet by about as much as the country of France.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2025

DEP found CNX responsible for failing to use casing with sufficient strength or other safety measures to prevent blowouts, failing to maintain well integrity, and venting gas into the atmosphere. 7.8.25] -- PJM Interconnection Opens Next Electric Capacity Auction Bidding Window Of July 9 to 15 For 2026-27 Electric Delivery; Hold Your Breath!

2025

Physics World

JUNE 25, 2025

Encouraging young female scientists today means accounting for the weight of cultural expectations, social atmosphere and gender-based tendencies. Hopefully at the next WOPI meeting to be held in India in 2026, students will be much more confident in asking questions. (Courtesy: Prof. That moment stayed with me.

2024

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

The production was made possible through funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Research Grants The timing of the launch aligns with Pennsylvania Sea Grants recent announcement of research funding available for 2026-2028 and the request for research proposals.

2028

A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2021

The IOC announced in March 2020 that all Olympic Games will be required to be climate positive from 2030 onwards – removing more carbon from the atmosphere than they emit. In 2026 Senegal will be the host of the Youth Olympic Games as it will take place in the country’s capital, Dakar.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

In fact, the impact assessment supporting the Commission’s proposed 2040 target suggests that the EU may need to remove up to 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere annually by 2040, and significantly more to achieve net-negative emissions after 2050.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

If the hydrogen is generated using renewable electricity (known as green hydrogen) and the carbon dioxide is captured from the atmosphere, models have shown it to have zero, or very close to zero, carbon emissions. It is made by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

Carbon Dioxide

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Recent findings from the World Meteorological Organization predict a 50:50 chance at least one year between 2022 and 2026 will exceed 1.5°C

Climate Change

Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

“If I look at the next 50 years, next hundred years maybe, nobody will be able to set up a telescope that’s powerful enough to resolve surface features,” says Jonathan Jiang , an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses Earth as a laboratory to model exoplanets.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

California recently extended , for the second time, the operations of three gas plants to 2026. Leaks in gas pipelines and wells also release methane into the atmosphere, a much more potent heat-trapping emission than CO 2.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

gigawatts of capacity from gas plants are planned to go online from 2023 to 2026. Gas plants release heat trapping emissions that go into the atmosphere and contribute to the climate crisis, and this affects us all. Source: Energy Information Agency Despite the economics increasingly favoring renewables, an additional 21.8

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

MARCH 15, 2022

A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which can be released in the intense rain ‘bombs’ that hit eastern Australia. Construction is scheduled to be completed in 2026. At least 18 people died and tens of thousands were forced from their homes.

2022

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Two new laws address this issue on different fronts.

2021

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles also noted that the severity of the two-decade-long dry stretch is due, in large part, to the release of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. According to the act, funds must be committed to a project by December 31, 2024 and spent by December 31, 2026.

2022

Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

But good snowpack and atmospheric rivers restoring reservoirs in the West helped seal this short-term deal, which extends through 2026. A separate negotiation about water-sharing rules after 2026 is also taking place. Water reduction proposals put forward by the Biden administration could have resulted in a lawsuit.

2023

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

Scope 3 Emissions SB 253 would direct CARB to develop standards for GHG emissions reporting by January 1, 2025, with covered entities then required to begin annual reports following these standards in 2026 (for scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions) and in 2027 (for scope 3 emissions). [21]

Regulations

ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

After the release of the Arctic Report Card, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published the Arctic Research Plan for 2022-2026. The number of earned doctorates awarded is increased in the geosciences, atmospheric sciences and ocean sciences from 862 degrees in 2010 to 1,243 degrees in 2020.

2021

Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Senate Bill 716 / House Bill 391 prohibit, with very limited exception, a person from knowingly and intentionally releasing, or causing to be released, a balloon into the atmosphere or organizing or participating in a “mass balloon release,” as defined. The Act terminates June 30, 2026. Neonicotinoids.

Law

Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

Methane is a much more potent warming agent than carbon dioxide, trapping 87 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere in the first twenty years after it is released (on a pound-for-pound basis). The methane emissions charge will start at $900 per metric ton of methane emitted in 2024 and increase to $1,200 in 2025 and $1,500 in 2026.

Carbon Dioxide

ESA

JULY 12, 2021

billion by 2026. The bills reauthorize the Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation through 2026. billion in FY 2026. billion by FY 2026. Innovation and Competition Act increases authorized NSF funding to $29 billion by FY 2026. billion by 2026. billion by 2026.

2021

Circle of Blue

JUNE 13, 2025

An analysis of the president’s fiscal year 2026 budget by Healing Our Waters , a coalition of environmental, conservation, recreation, and community organizations, identified the extent of damage the president is promoting. The president proposes a nearly 40 percent cut for the U.S. Geological Survey, 32 percent cut for the U.S.

Law

ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 EPA – Draft FY 2022-2026 Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework includes some funding for environmental initiatives: The Army Corps of Engineers receives $7 billion for flood mitigation projects. 15, 2021.

2021

Physics World

APRIL 24, 2025

If its budget request for 2026 is approved by Congress, funding for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate would be almost halved from $7.3bn to $3.9bn. Two missions to Venus – the DAVINCI atmosphere probe and the VERITAS surface-mapping project – as well as the Mars Sample Return mission would lose their funding too.

Ocean

ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

House Science Committee: The committee held a hearing to discuss the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee’s Arctic Research Plan for 2022-2026 and gaps in current arctic research and needed improvements to scientific infrastructure. NASEM: The Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate released a review of the U.S.

2022

ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Its coal consumption is only planned to begin to drop after 2026. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check. The EU, the U.S. and the U.K.

2022

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 1260 ), which would create a new NSF Technology and Innovation Directorate and increase the NSF authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. 2026 ), sponsored by Rep. billion for coastal mapping, resilience and related projects.

2021

ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. EPA – Draft FY 2022-2026 Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan. Senate Appropriators allocate $1.848 billion for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, a 14.3% The National Park Service receives $3.463 billion, a 9.3% NOAA receives $6.276 billion, a 15.6% 15, 2021.

2021

ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 billion to spend through fiscal year (FY) 2026 on weather, ocean and climate research and forecasting while the Environmental Protection Agency receives $264 million for climate change research and development. NSF also receives $3.43

2021