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How is Ocean Warming Impacting the Shipping Industry?

Ocean Conservancy

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. So, we’re seeing the ocean heat up, lose oxygen and get bigger.

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

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. Clean Energy. Ecological Conservation.

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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

Biomass (or bioenergy) is one of the latest energy sources jumping on the renewable-fuelled bandwagon, yet the most controversial one. In the UK, the energy produced from biomass currently accounts for ca. the 25% of the total renewable energy share. Ocean energy. So, is burning trees renewable? Hydropower.

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U.S. DOE Announces $3.5 Billion to Accelerate Direct Air Capture Commercialization

Law and Environment

Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced a $3.5 The DAC Hubs program is one of four new programs announced by the Biden-Harris administration aimed at building “a commercially viable, just, and responsible carbon dioxide removal industry,” in the U.S. with funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. States and Cities Challenged Rule Preempting State Regulation of Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emissions. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration , No.

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Policy News: September 12, 2022

ESA

John Podesta, a former climate adviser in the Obama White House and a White House chief of staff during the Clinton administration, will join the Biden administration as the senior adviser for clean energy innovation and implementation. NASEM: The Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate released a review of the U.S.

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