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Prepare for Another Dangerous Hurricane Season Predicted for 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists

Still, both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 24, and the Colorado State University (CSU) forecast , released on April 7, predict a season with above-normal activity— for the seventh consecutive year. Will this season exhaust the list of 21 names? Of course, we have questions!

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Atlantic Hurricane Season 2023: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly—and More

Union of Concerned Scientists

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 25, calls for similar numbers: 12 to 17 total named storms, of which 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, with 1 to 4 being major. 2022 fortunately kept to the lower end of the forecast range with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes, and two major hurricanes.

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NHDES Updates to Env-A 1400 Rule: Regulated Toxic Air Pollutants

Capaccio

The rule sets ambient air limits (AALs) on listed RTAPs that are emitted into the atmosphere. The listed chemicals have the potential to cause damage to human health and the environment. . Applicable facilities will need to show compliance within 90 days of the revision to the list (by May 3, 2022). . link] . .

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It’s Time for EPA to Regulate Chemicals by Class

Union of Concerned Scientists

As I progressed in my education, I became fascinated with how some chemicals behave similarly when they interact in the environment, such as organic chemicals in salt marshes or mercury in the atmosphere. Some chemical compounds have the same atoms, but because they are arranged somewhat differently, they can have different properties.

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Drought, The Everything Disaster

Circle of Blue

Nearly 89 percent of nine western states are in some form of drought, and more than a quarter of the region is considered in exceptional drought, the worst category in the U.S. Hydropower, farm production, shipping on inland waterways, commercial river rafting, nuclear plants that need water to cool their equipment — the list is long.

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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years

PA Environment Daily

Plugging wells to stop the vertical flow of fluids and gas is critical to preventing ground and surface water contamination and the release of climate-changing methane gas into the atmosphere. There was the same sort of “uniformity” among reporting how waste was disposed in other disposal categories as well. Read more here.]

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars

Physics World

Payne-Gaposchkin’s great insight was to appreciate that spectra from excited or ionized atoms – such as would occur in the hot outer atmosphere of a star – differed from those of neutral atoms of the same species. Compositional conundrums.