Law Columbia

JULY 18, 2025

64), including rising temperatures, ocean warming (para. Wildfires, Air Pollution, and Maternal Health The climate crisis also increases the frequency and intensity of wildfires , exposing pregnant people to polluted air, direct physical injury, mental health impacts, and disrupted medical services and healthcare infrastructure.

Climate Change

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

These include direct air capture (DAC) and ocean alkalinity enhancement, which involves tweaking the chemistry of oceans so that they absorb more CO 2. Direct air carbon capture and storage – Chemical process by which CO 2 is captured from the ambient air, with subsequent geological storage. straw) or marine (e.g.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 5, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew the air pollution permit it had issued for the 2.6-GW On April 16, the Interior Secretary directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to impose a stop-work order on the 810-MW Empire Wind 1 Project. On March 14, the U.S. Empire Wind.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

Defending Clean Transportation Our outdated, fossil fuelcentered transportation system is the biggest contributor to global warming emissions and a major source of health-harming air pollution with inequitable impacts across the country. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Advanced Clean Cars II rule would require 100% EV sales in California by 2035 and strengthen tailpipe emissions standards, resulting in an estimated 1,200 fewer deaths fro m air pollution by 2040. The rule required a waiver because it’s stronger than the federal Clean Air Act, and 13 states have already approved similar standards.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

One strategy, called Indirect Source Rules or ISRs, is a promising solution to reduce pollution around freight hubs and resulting negative health impacts to nearby communities and the planet. The increase in loading docks is of particular importance when looking at the air and climate pollution impacts from warehouses.

Ground-Level Ozone

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

Law

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

These included Biden climate-change regulations, but also protections against air pollution that are important to public health and water pollution limits for coal plants. Another agency, NOAA studies ocean and atmospheric systems, providing crucial information about climate change.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. Instead of being placed on a pedestal for this central role, NOAA is as much a bullseye for polluters and plunderers as the EPA.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 1, 2025

Fifteen years ago this month, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded approximately 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana, taking the lives of 11 oil workers and causing the release of an estimated 210 million gallons of oil into the ocean. President Trump signed both bills into law in mid-March.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

The Clean Air Task Force legal director told Reuters that the proposals “are bad for public health and bad for climate, all to prop up some of the highest polluting power plants in the nation.” ” EPA’s logic rests on the definition of “significant” as in emissions that “contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.”

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2025

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency that researches and reports on timely weather patterns, climate science, and oceanic activity, told its employees to review any existing grants that help fund external climate research for impermissible terms like climate science, environmental quality, and pollution.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 7, 2025

Source: AirNow The Air Quality Index (AQI), EPA’s tool for reporting air quality, combines monitoring of five major air pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act, including the particle pollution found in wildfire smoke. When combined with summer heat and ground level ozone, conditions can worsen further.

Ground-Level Ozone

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

In the marine carbon dioxide removal space, in April, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a permit for an ocean alkalinity enhancement research project in federal waters off the coast of Massachusetts. Firings also impacted marine carbon dioxide removal experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

What started two decades ago as a mostly domestic industrial policy to help shore up energy security and alleviate severe air pollution is now also an export strategy, Wang said, noting that BYD recently surpassed Tesla to become the largest EV manufacturer in the world. Teslas are a dime a dozen in California, of course.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As another year comes to a close, I am reflecting on the incredible progress Ocean Conservancy has made in 2023 towards a healthy, resilient ocean future. For better or worse, this is the nature of ocean conservation work—sometimes we hit roadblocks, but it’s a reminder of why this work is so critically important.

Ocean

Breezometer

APRIL 12, 2022

But a major threat still remains – NYC air pollution. Let’s discuss why reclaiming New York’s renowned landmark doesn’t mean Central Park is always safe due to poor Manhattan air quality and local environmental hazards. Car Pollution: How Does Traffic Contribute to Air Pollution? Not Necessarily.

Air Pollution

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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Ocean

Breezometer

AUGUST 16, 2021

Southern parts of Europe, closer to arid African regions, frequently experience worsening air pollution during the summer seasons. In June 2020, a massive Sahara dust plume dubbed ‘Godzilla’ even traveled across the Atlantic ocean and reached the USA. This study also found PM10 levels rose by 248% and PM2.5

Air Pollution

Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2024

The spectrum of colors viewed by the PACE satellite can identify different phytoplankton species in the ocean and a variety of aerosols in the atmosphere, helping researchers identify threats to the health of people and the planet.

Ocean

Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Tribunal acted both boldly and conservatively by interpreting UNCLOS as an independent source of international legally binding obligations to address climate change and ocean acidification. The standard of due diligence under article 192 is … stringent given the high risks of serious and irreversible harm to the marine environment” (para.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Generating renewable energy from offshore wind and decarbonizing the shipping industry can provide large ocean-based climate-mitigation opportunities in the United States and globally, and these are essential elements of a clean energy future. Climate change poses the single biggest threat to our ocean and to the future of the planet.

Clean Energy

Inside Climate News

JULY 17, 2023

When large ships use scrubbers to meet international air pollution limits, the treated fuel exhaust gets dumped into the sea along with other contaminants. Researchers say the discharges are packed with metals and organic compounds that threaten marine environments.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Students who are interested in conservation biology may often be interested in other issues like air pollution; they may also seek jobs that address sustainability as a broad topic. Human societies and technologies, ecological systems, and atmospheric and oceanic systems are tightly interconnected.

Rainforest

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

CO 2 emissions embed themselves in the atmosphere/biosphere/upper-ocean carbon cycle and have very long-term impacts (under natural conditions, some 15% of the CO 2 perturbation will still be in the atmosphere thousands of years from now). In contrast, methane has a perturbation time-scale of about 12 years.

Carbon Dioxide

Greenbuilding Law

JULY 4, 2021

Congress has legislated the treatment of air quality data influenced by exceptional events, which includes fireworks. that have resulted in displays being cancelled) for embers that fall into the ocean, under some Clean Water Act theory, but apparently that overreaching idea has not be replicated elsewhere.

Air Pollution

Breezometer

OCTOBER 19, 2021

La Palma’s first volcanic eruption of the past 50 years , which began on September 19th with no predicted end date in sight, has released massive amounts of molten lava and initiated the evacuation of over 7000 residents as liquid magma flowed through the island and towards the ocean. Impact on Local Air Quality. sulfur dioxide).

Air Pollution

Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in the ocean are transported from seawater to air when waves hit the beach and that phenomenon represents a significant source of air pollution, a new study from Stockholm University has found. Read the full story in The Guardian.

Air Pollution

Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It’s also slower than the average cargo ship, another shift away from the ”just in time” mentality that leaves ships idling outside of Los Angeles or Long Beach harbor, spewing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

Wind Power

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] Lastly, the report recommends that state and federal agencies examine opportunities for greater tribal access to and stewardship of the ocean (see Vol.

Ocean

Inside Climate News

APRIL 23, 2023

The fires sent acrid smoke billowing into the sky, its footprint wafting over the state and extending for 500 miles into the Pacific Ocean. By Emma Foehringer Merchant When wildfires spread through parts of Northern California wine country in 2017, they melted electronics, combusted cars and exploded propane tanks.

2017

Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

There are many human-made sources of emissions, and on-road motor vehicles, such as cars, are a huge driving factor in air pollution. And according to the American Lung Association, toxic and hazardous air pollutants are suspected to cause cancer, birth defects and impaired lung function, as well as many other negative health effects.

Ground-Level Ozone

Breezometer

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Hailing from “the realm” of air pollution awareness and health, BreezoMeter’s US Head of Growth and weather industry vet Paul Walsh will be joining the event on October 25th (US). Ecosystem Management - Take urgent action to reduce natural habitat degradation and promote sustainable use of seas, oceans, and terrestrial ecosystems.

Air Pollution

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

Fish farming is one way suppliers to keep up with the demand without overfishing the oceans. Note: Nearly one-third of food produced in the world goes to waste, contributing to land, water and air pollution. Note: Billions of people around the world rely on seafood as a main protein, and overfishing is a serious problem.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

Smoke spewed into the air from factories an ocean away can become acid rain pouring into our fields and waterways. Earthquakes can occur elsewhere but still touch our lives by disrupting supply chains and businesses here. Hurricanes never actually form in the U.S., but they wreak a great deal of havoc when they visit.

Particle Pollution

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The changes to the world's oceans include warming, more frequent marine heatwaves, ocean acidification, and reduced oxygen levels. Sea levels will continue to rise throughout the 21st century, contributing to more frequent and severe coastal flooding in low-lying areas along coasts around the world.

Climate Change