Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

“In the last century, research on urban systems dynamics has improved our understanding, leading to data-driven tools for effective urban management, including predictive analytics and simulation models but despite these advances, achieving sustainability goals remains a challenge for cities,” Sharma said.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 10, 2022

I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on ocean justice at Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW). This year’s CHOW convening was especially important as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of a powerful package of legislative changes that improved how we protect our ocean, coasts and lakes.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ocean Conservancy’s Ocean Justice team is proud to announce the first Ocean Justice Community Grants cohort. Climate change and ocean injustice present dual crises that disproportionately impact marginalized coastal and ocean communities. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, I am reflecting on everything we’ve accomplished together on behalf of our ocean throughout the last 12 months. It’s been an incredibly busy year here at Ocean Conservancy, to say the least. Most of all, I so appreciate all the ocean advocates who stood alongside us to make these wins possible. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A human rights-based approach to cultural heritage protection is an essential cornerstone for climate justice and just resilience, but it often seems completely missing from the climate policy equation. The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2023, in the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), held the state’s first offshore wind auction, auctioning off five leases in Central and Northern California. [1] In total, the Strategic Plan addresses impacts on and strategies for three groups: fishermen, environmental justice and underserved communities, and tribal nation members.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Queen Quet is the recipient of the Order of the Palmetto in 2021 and more than 300 awards of environmental justice; she is the embodiment of a lifetime of achievement of being a steward of the land and sea. Inequalities accelerate ocean harm, strain people’s relationships to the ocean and undercut innovation.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But plastics present a much broader threat to our ocean, climate and marginalized coastal communities. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. This current legislation provides an opportunity for government leaders, and all of us, to have their backs in advancing their fights.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As US climate litigation grows and people around the world simultaneously prepare for the upcoming UN climate negotiations in Egypt, it is critical to examine the role that obstruction has played in the global policy arena and explore how science can help to advance discussions of accountability and justice. SS: Shortly into my Ph.D.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

Occasionally, a piece of trash floats downstream, slowly advancing toward the Pacific. Eventually it ends up in the Pacific Ocean. Some of it will end up in the Pacific Ocean. Roberto cracks open a wild-caught oyster from the Pacific Ocean. Roberto’s shadow covers a painting depicting the Pacific Ocean.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. There is also a filter that can be used to highlight programs that refer to environmental justice considerations.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By Anya Blaney Ocean scientist and TNC in Washington trustee Marco Hatch creates opportunities for under-resourced students to pursue higher education while revitalizing ancestral clam gardens. His connection to the ocean and marine ecology began in early life. Words hold value.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 3, 2023

Water bills introduced in Congress relate to infrastructure funding, Snake River dams, environmental justice, evapotranspiration data, and tribal water rights settlements. The Rundown Federal agency wants to understand household water debt. Congress disapproves of the Biden administration’s WOTUS rule. The bill was first introduced in 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For nearly three decades, the United Nations—the world’s preeminent multi-lateral institution working to advance peace, dignity, and equality for a healthy planet—has been bringing together almost every country around the globe for an annual climate summit. Science + community knowledge] x policy + law = climate wins.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 29, 2021

Although both the Jobs Plan and the Families Plan are critical components of building back better, I want to take a deeper look into why the American Jobs Plan is inexplicably linked to our ocean and climate—and why accounting for this link is vital to the plan’s success. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2022

By doing this, my hope is that the NCARS legislation will ensure resources are benefiting and advancing the adaptive capacity of frontline communities that are getting hurt first and worst, and have the least amount of resources to prepare and respond to climate impacts. Improve equity. What UCS is doing.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Ocean-going ships transport nearly three-quarters of the world’s cargo, but heavy-duty road vehicles contribute to the majority- 65% of emissions from freight. With the increasing demand for goods and the expansion of global trade, freight transportation has experienced a significant surge.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 1, 2022

And one of the highlights of my legal career in the California Department of Justice was the privilege of representing the Coastal Commission in state and federal courts for over a quarter century. For the past 50 years I’ve similarly advocated for robust implementation and enforcement of the Coastal Act.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This investment into American infrastructure is a huge achievement for our ocean and represents a significant opportunity for the United States to begin to invest in solutions to mitigate and make our communities more resilient to climate change. But the IIJA will lay important groundwork and benefit our ocean and coastal communities.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

On the other hand, one tangible breakthrough carbon reduction and environmental justice success has been the culmination of campaigns at the state and local level to protect communities from the harmful impacts of oil and gas wells with a setback. AB 2238 creates the nation’s first extreme heat advance warning and ranking system.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today. Source: Supran et al.,

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

International UN General Assembly requests an advisory ruling from the International Court of Justice to clarify the legal obligations of countries to address climate change. House Science Committee : The full Committee voted to advance seven bipartisan bills to the full House March 29. The bills include Rep. A bill ( H.R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

For example, the WGII report states that: Climate change has caused substantial damages, and increasingly irreversible losses, in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal and open ocean marine ecosystems (high confidence). AR6 highlights adaptation solutions which are effective, feasible, and conform to principles of justice.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 18, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. She set the gold standard for our state, our country and our ocean by leading the effort to fight for robust funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). billion in NOAA funding during the madness of the Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations process.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Our ocean faces a diverse range of threats, and it takes a diverse community of advocates to protect it. Ocean Conservancy is committed to being open, inclusive, fair and representative of all the people who love and rely on the ocean. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update. and abroad.

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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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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The purpose of this committee is to advance efforts related to open science across federal agencies and the committee is co-chaired by representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services, NASA and the National Science Foundation. NOAA: Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo named Steve Thur as the next director of NOAA Research.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

The bill funds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research at $776 million, a 20 percent increase. The bill includes $60 billion for environmental justice, $3 billion for climate justice block grants and $27 billion for a new federal green bank. The bill passed with wide, bipartisan support.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land Act (H.R. Improved satellite capabilities will benefit climate adaptation and mitigation, healthy oceans and resilient coastal communities. Prabhakar is an applied physicist who previously led the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The initiative focuses on addressing the interconnected climate and biodiversity crises, advancing environmental justice and equitable access to nature, and strengthening the economy. An interagency working group, co-led by the Interior Department’s U.S.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

In this issue: House Science Committee Advances NSF for the Future Act. House Science Committee Advances NSF for the Future Act. The House Science Committee advanced the NSF for the Future Act ( H.R. Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2021

Read more here. She helped found the Environmental Policy Center (EPC) in 1972. She served on the boards of the League of Conservation Voters, the Clean Water Fund, Scenic America, the Environmental Policy Institute and the National Clean Air Coalition, while holding posts with the National Parks Conservation Association and Friends of the Earth.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Table of Contents The Physical Science Focus on Solutions Strong Environmental Justice Discussions Regional Chapters Northern Great Plains Northeast Southeast Caribbean Midwest Southern Great Plains Northwest Southwest Alaska Hawai’i and the U.S.-Affiliated The ocean trends affect the species composition of the seas.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 21, 2022

Department of Justice's Procurement Collusion Strike Force and four types of business activities in government contracting that pose antitrust risk. Dep't of Justice, Former Security Services Executives Plead Guilty to Rigging Bids for Department of Defense Security Contracts (Oct. In October 2021, we discussed the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Read more here. -- Woman of the Watershed: Elissa Garofalo, Carbon County: Executive Director for the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Board of Directors member of the Alliance of National Heritage Areas. Read more here. She helped found the Environmental Policy Center (EPC) in 1972.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Executive Branch President Biden signed environmental justice Executive Order. Courts Climate lawsuit filed by Hawai’i teens advances in state courts. Eastern Time (ET) on June 2, 2023.

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