Inside Climate News

MARCH 25, 2025

By Lauren Dalban Wetlands and ephemeral streams provide a wide variety of benefits to people and wildlife, from flood protection for local communities, to preventing pollutants from entering the water supply, to breeding grounds for endangered bird species.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

But when there are really heavy rain events, like atmospheric rivers , these systems often overflow untreated wastewater (raw sewage) mixed with stormwater into surrounding waterways, streets, sidewalks, businesses and even homes. San Francisco City and County v. miles into the Pacific Ocean near Ocean Beach.

Clean Water Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

It is also necessary to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (a process known as carbon dioxide removal or CDR). This, in turn, enables the ocean to absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These laws are administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE).

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It is, after all, a necessary component of point-source carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) systems that seek to prevent carbon dioxide produced by power plants and other industrial facilities entering the atmosphere (i.e., by capturing it before release and storing it underground). Or at least that’s the theory. groundwater contamination).

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency. In a 5-4 decision, the Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to issue pollutant discharge permits. On March 4, 2025, the Supreme Court handed down an important ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. How is mCDR affected?

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

CDR refers to deliberate human activities that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and durably store it in geologic, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs or in long-lived products. OAE attempts to artificially increase the oceans carbon sink, i.e., its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

On November 13, the Department of Environmental Protection awarded Coastal Zone Grants totaling more than $288,000 to seven projects in the state’s Northwest region. The grants, which are aimed at protecting and restoring the Lake Erie Coastal Zone, will be used toward projects that will benefit this critical habitat and ecosystem.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

Environmental Protection Agencys region 5, which covers most of the Great Lakes states. Hyperscale data centers that use evaporative water cooling systems see more than half the water used disappear into the atmosphere as it is heated. In 2024, the Joyce Foundation examined groundwater governance in the U.S.

Cooling

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

think that climate change will harm the poor or people in developing countries, less than half think it will affect themselves or people in their community.  These perceptions contradict findings from the Environmental Protection Agency , that while there will be differential effects across regions and populations in the U.S.,

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency Mid-Atlantic Region announced the approval of the Department of Environmental Protection’s request to make Liberty-Clairton a designated maintenance area. can originate directly from sources or form secondarily through atmospheric chemical reactions involving precursor pollutants.

2012

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Whereas CDR aims to mitigate climate change by removing and durably store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, solar radiation management techniques seek to lessen the impacts of climate change by reflecting solar radiation into outer space.) Solar radiation management is distinct from CDR.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As the climate crisis advances unchecked, the work of federal agencies dedicated to protecting our health and the places where we work, play, worship, produce food, energy, and shop has become critical and are now at great peril. In this post I will focus on Project 2025’s ill-advised designs for NOAA.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

On November 15, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the award of $402,021 to support 10 local projects to protect and restore the Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone. A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

An investigation by the Office of Attorney General revealed that a gas well owned and operated by Equitrans at the Rager Mountain Storage Field in Cambria County leaked natural gas into the atmosphere for 14 days. From 2009 to this year, the Department of Environmental Protection was involved in penalty settlements totaling over $129.7

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

are formed indirectly in the atmosphere from other toxic pollutants also emitted from tailpipes. Internal combustion vehicles are largely to blame, since PM 2.5 is emitted directly from the tailpipes of gasoline and diesel vehicles, while ozone and even more PM 2.5 But beyond this primary formation of PM 2.5 , even more PM 2.5

Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Some were temporally or geographically bound, such as the Green Run , an intentional release of an estimated 8,000 curies of iodine-131 into the atmosphere on December 2-3, 1949. Releases and cover-ups There were several documented releases of radioactive materials into the environment during Hanford operations.

Radiation

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 2, 2025

Some positions you may have heard of include the Under Secretary for Nuclear Security for the Department of Energy; the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense; Administrators for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Transportation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, (..)

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

PA Trout Unlimited; PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Diversity - Equity - Inclusion (DEI) -- David Hess Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

After the dumping incidents on dirt and paved roads around her home and throughout the region, Lawson provided photos and reports on the dumping to the Department of Environmental Protection to document the problems. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The largest and most important agency is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA is responsible for research of the ocean and weather, conservation of the ocean, management of fisheries, and the protection of marine endangered species. merchant marine and shipping industry.

Ocean

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 11, 2024

One such strategy, ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), involves adding alkaline substances to seawater so as to increase its ability to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and mitigate ocean acidification. This, in theory, allows for a greater influx of atmospheric CO2 into the ocean.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

These weather stations not only strengthen Pennsylvania’s capacity to respond to severe weather but also provide unique educational opportunities for K–12 students to engage with real-time data in their own backyards,” said Penn State University’s Head of the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Dr. Paul Markowski.

Atmosphere

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

The Paris Climate Agreement seemed well-positioned to join the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (halting atomic explosions above ground that contaminated the atmosphere) and the 1987 Montreal Protocol (ending use of chemicals that damaged the ozone layer) as one of the three most significant environmental treaties ever negotiated.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

On June 12, 2025, the Department of Environmental Protection and Coterra Energy Inc. DEP recommended the well owners put vents on the wells to vent the natural gas to the atmosphere. Most impacted wells also had high levels of manganese and aluminum, which are tell-tale indicators of contamination from oil and gas development.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

The agencies and institutions that sustained Americas program of environmental protection are being pulled into the government-wide purge of people and policies viewed as a threat to Trumps authoritarian impulses, and what his aides call the woke and weaponized bureaucracy. Humpback whales returned to the North Atlantic.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2025

15, 16. -- DEP published notice in the July 5 PA Bulletin on these Technical Guidance Documents-- -- Final Rescission: Hazardous Material and Hazardous Atmosphere Safety Policy. 7, 21, Sept. Description: Exposure to hazardous liquids, solids or gases can present many life and health threatening situations for those who work in or near them.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Because of these findings, oil and gas produced waters fail to meet the EPA's [US Environmental Protection Agencys] criteria for beneficial reuse of industrial waste. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] Click Here for a copy of Dr. Burgos testimony.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency et al. 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. This blatant attempt to do an end-run around scientific evidence deserves to fail.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

Thus not unlike salmon leaping through whitewater, the country too leapt forward, steadily evolving its values to better protect the Earth, its creatures, and future generations. It was illegal to destroy or significantly alter habitat if the damage led to injury or death of a protected species. ” Before 2024, experts at the U.S

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

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2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

Since the start of the Trump administration, these Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy programs have come under repeated attack, including multiple attempts by the administration to freeze, and subsequently rescind or cancel, projects without any evidence that recipients have violated project terms.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2025

DEP said it “expects Shell to calculate the amount of these emissions, if any, and report its findings to DEP.”

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

Shapiro recently highlighted his administration's accomplishments in his first two years in office, including on environmental protection, accountability, climate change, clean energy, public lands and recreation issues. Move At Speed Of Business -- Secured $16.9

Clean Energy

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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2013

Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

In just the past three months, Trump has: Laid off thousands of employees, including scientists and researchers, across the EPA , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the HHS , and all other federal agencies. Deleted or revised essential data and critical information from federal websites.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Personally, I find this definition more fluid in climate journalism specifically because it is accepted by most newsrooms that beat reporters believe fiercely in environmental protections and the need for solutions without crossing over into being a policy advocate.

Fossil Fuels