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

AUGUST 5, 2025

Good News Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to recent forecasts from the International Energy Agency , which I’ve mentioned here before. scorching more than 114,000 acres as of this weekend.

Fossil Fuels

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

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

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

Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

Accompanied by artists’ impressions of volcanic landscapes or storms raging above shimmering oceans, such work makes distant planets feel somehow more real. One is transmission spectroscopy, which looks at the spectrum of starlight that has passed through an exoplanet’s atmosphere. Transmission spectroscopy is limited too.

Atmosphere

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. A Few Notable Vetoes.

2021

ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. Other report highlights include the cascading impacts of warming on Arctic ecosystems: The Arctic is experiencing high rates of ocean acidification, with implications for marine food chains. Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.

2021

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.”

Regulations

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

ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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

OCTOBER 25, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. EPA – Draft FY 2022-2026 Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan. NOAA – Notice of Matching Fund Opportunity for Ocean and Coastal Mapping and Request for Partnership Proposals. NOAA – Solicitation for New Members: Ocean Exploration Advisory Board. 5, 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

ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

billion in FY 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

ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Bill increases authorized funding for the National Science Foundation to $29 billion by FY 2026. This bill creates a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases NSF’s overall authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. In this issue: Senate Passes U.S. Scientist Elected to Congress.

2021

ESA

MAY 6, 2021

Climate change is reshaping our lands and our oceans and our coasts. We cannot confront climate change without doing a far better job to protect our forests, our oceans, our wetlands and our grasslands,” Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate adviser, said during the call. The full House passed Rep.

2021

ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This bill which would create a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increase NSF’s overall authorized funding level to around $28 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee Meeting (June 14).

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2025

On January 10, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released their annual analysis finding that 2024 was the hottest year on record globally and that global average temperatures likely surpassed an increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Still, under the Trump administration, Treasury may start those rulemaking processes relatively quickly and get at least a few rules amended by sometime in 2026. Project 2025 also proposes eliminating the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which hosts the National Hurricane Center , among other offices.

Government