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. Similarly, other agencies have made significant progress towards implementing the IRA programs they administer.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

There are many forms of carbon capture, including nature-based (in trees, soil, wetlands, ocean, regenerative agriculture, etc.), C of warming without removing carbon from the atmosphere – in other words, carbon capture (or, to use less controversial nomenclature: carbon removal) in some form.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Rural Americans are the future of the clean energy economy – policy makers much catch up. Understanding rural attitudes toward the environment and conservation in America. Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions: Duke University. Climate.gov. Environment?:

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The ocean is also experiencing record-breaking temperatures and more frequent marine heatwaves. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Up to this point, the ocean has been our greatest guardian against extreme heat and catastrophic climate changes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the EU’s Copernicus climate service show that the 2024 January-August period is the hottest ever by far, putting this year well on track to be the warmest ever on record. For the next round of NDCs, the U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. The oil and gas industry is not yet sweating the competition from clean energy. Biden signed on Aug.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Some of the highest risks can be found in the candidates’ home states: the ocean off of Florida has hit 98 degrees— hot tub temp s! As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. That’s why the long-waited climate bill that the U.S.

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Washington Nature

JULY 11, 2023

By Anya Blaney A childhood love of sea turtles led Jennifer Lee Clinchy to her life's work protecting the oceans and their inhabitants. © Jennifer Lee Clinchy However, Jennifer’s most transformational chapter unfolded during her tenure at the White House, where she played a pivotal role in shaping international ocean policies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

The unrelenting heat has caused a dizzying number of air and ocean temperature records to be broken in recent weeks. As the climate continues to change due to human activities, oceans have absorbed over 90% of the excess heat. Ocean temperatures off the coast of Florida have reached as high as 97°F in recent days.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

As human activities continue to spew heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, temperatures rise and cause the air to become “thirstier.” This requires accelerating the energy transition to clean and renewable sources in a way that is equitable. For more details, you can read “ On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables.”

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

That rule requires at least 60 million acres of our ocean be made available for offshore oil and gas drilling before any offshore wind leases can be sold. It doesn’t seem to matter that the new oil and gas leases will make the climate crisis worse and harm our ocean. That’s why Ocean Conservancy supports H.R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The case for phasing out of fossil fuels and making a just and equitable transition to clean energy has never been more clear. Contrast that with some of the wider benefits of the clean energy transition, such as phasing out coal generation by 2030, which are realized by everyone including historically disenfranchised groups.

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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. Clean Energy. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 10, 2021

trillion package would fund a wide range of climate, clean energy, natural infrastructure, coastal restoration, forest restoration and resilience priorities. Some highlights that will touch down for people and nature in Washington include: More than $150 billion for climate and clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen approximately 47 percent since 1750, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Strategies for capturing carbon from fossil fuel power plants, to prevent it from entering the atmosphere, have long lingered on the sidelines. from 1990–2019.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

That rule requires at least 60 million acres of our ocean be made available for offshore oil and gas drilling before any offshore wind leases can be sold. It doesn’t seem to matter that the new oil and gas leases will make the climate crisis worse and harm our ocean. That’s why Ocean Conservancy supports H.R.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 28, 2023

There’s been much debate swirling in the news of the federal government’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget process, including the budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2024

Downsize the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research…’ And then it goes on to spread disinformation: ‘OAR is, however, the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism. A transition to a clean energy economy is not just good for the climate, it’s good for our economic prosperity and well-being, as our research shows.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2022

The IEA said that a concerted commitment to clean energy, energy efficient appliances, electric vehicles, energy-efficient construction and retrofits to infrastructure could add a total of 30 million jobs globally by 2030. It said that such a roadmap requires “a singular, unwavering focus.”.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

STILL FIDDLING, AT 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, AS THE WORLD WARMS, FLOODS AND BURNS: OCEANS’ SURVIVAL NEED FASTER SITING AND TRANSMISSION OF OFFSHORE WIND FARM PROJECTS. in 1931: “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind, and tide.”

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 5, 2023

billion, over five years, to develop four regional DAC hubs that will accelerate the demonstration of commercial-scale process, transport, geologic storage, and conversion of CO 2 from the atmosphere. Ineligible CDR technologies include biochar, biomass burial, direct ocean capture, soil carbon sequestration, and afforestation/reforestation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2021 followed the distressing trend of excessive heat, as the sixth hottest year on record (a tie with 2018). Photo is author’s own. Last year brought the dangers of extreme heat to the forefront.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Democrats said the General Assembly has been holding hearings on the RGGI regulations since the concept was first proposed in October of 2019 and Senate Republicans have yet to offer a plan for reducing carbon pollution or a proposal for helping workers and communities caught in the market-driven transition to clean energy.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion. Energy Conservation. Marine Conservation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

It was a sorry exclamation point on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s assessment that 2023 was the Earth’s warmest year on record. Two of the top three states for adding clean energy jobs in 2022 were Texas and West Virginia, according to the US Department of Energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

This short-term calculus poses a dire threat to numerous UCS priorities, from clean energy, to electric vehicles, to sustainable agriculture, to climate resilience, to reducing the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Tax credits supporting the clean energy transition. Grants and loans supporting the clean energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It eliminates or slashes funding for clean energy and energy efficiency efforts throughout the Department of Energy and defunds a national Climate Corps , modeled after the New Deal era Civilian Conservation Corps. It blocks funding for state net zero programs and tighter building energy codes.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Stanford Professor Sued Scientific Journal and Article Authors Who Critiqued His Work. Center for Biological Diversity Filed Lawsuit Seeking Records on Termination of National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee. Center for Biological Diversity v. 1:17 -cv-02031 (D.D.C.,

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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

During President Trumps first term, for example, Congress rejected his proposed deep cuts to environmental programs and clean energy initiatives. The President’s vision is one of American energy dominance but he has characterized climate change as a scam. That said, presidential proposals do shape budget outcomes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

While Wright acknowledges the reality of climate change, he deliberately misrepresents climate data and research to downplay the seriousness of the problem and to undermine proven solutions including transitioning away from fossil fuels and accelerating the transition to clean energy. Leading independent global and U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Accelerating sea level rise, ocean acidification and loss of major ice sheets also continue apace, with profound consequences for the planet. Extreme climate-related disastersincluding heatwaves, storms, droughts, wildfires and floodingare worsening, taking a fearsome toll on people, the economy and ecosystems.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

These dire circumstances have not yet come to pass, but the Trump administration’s extensive and ongoing attacks on science, including further cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) threatened in the Presidents skinny budget , make it a likely scenario during this year’s Danger Season.

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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. 2990 ) to address sexual harassment and assault in the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Courts Climate lawsuit filed by Hawai’i teens advances in state courts.

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