Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2025

Advisory opinions interpret international law Unlike a trial or ruling in a specific case, AOs provide a court’s interpretation of binding international law in response to a question from an agency or government. In this instance, the governments of Chile and Colombia requested this AO in early 2023.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 19, 2024

laws governing atmospheric methane removal (AMR) via soil amendments. AMR refers to human interventions to accelerate the conversion of methane in the atmosphere to a form that causes less warming (e.g., Rising human and natural emissions have caused methane concentrations in the atmosphere to grow to 2.5

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Pennsylvania Sea Grant is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and through federal, state, and local funding. For additional details or questions, contact Amber Stilwell, Pennsylvania Sea Grant’s Lake Erie Coastal Outreach Specialist at ars26@psu.edu.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are disappointed to see the Ontario government make unsupported claims about the proposed federal clean electricity regulations. Ontario is going the wrong way when it comes to clean electricity.

Electricity

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 23, 2025

The increased CO 2 , which creates warmer temperatures in the atmosphere, is absorbed by the ocean. Governments, civil society, private sector, general public, all must come together to address the drivers of these problems, restore what we can and assist communities in transitioning to a better future.

Ocean

Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

government science itself faces an uncertain future. NOAA scientists and affiliated researchers have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S.

Government

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 10, 2025

It is also necessary to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (a process known as carbon dioxide removal or CDR). A new Sabin Center report explores the laws governing seaweed cultivation and sinking for CDR in Alaska. This, in turn, enables the ocean to absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. for human consumption).

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Photo credit: Government of British Columbia Yes, taking action to mitigate and adapt to climate change requires spending now. We need big investments in the energy transition from polluting fossil fuels to clean renewable energy. billion.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

They dont cover government or enterprise data centers. In 2024, the Joyce Foundation examined groundwater governance in the U.S. Hyperscale data centers that use evaporative water cooling systems see more than half the water used disappear into the atmosphere as it is heated. Courtesy of Data Center Map.

Cooling

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

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Resource managers have varying control over the intricate blend of factors that affect nutrient delivery to the river such as physical factors (geology, climate, and hydrology), source inputs (atmospheric and land use) and legacy storage of nutrients (dams and groundwater) that remain a challenge toward meeting water quality goals.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One such agency is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides the scientific bedrock of data needed to protect our health, homes, and livelihoods from climate change and other environmental threats. In this post I will focus on Project 2025’s ill-advised designs for NOAA.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 7, 2025

When governments hesitated, scientists led the way for change In the early years of the Cold War, hundreds of nuclear explosions were detonated aboveground or underwater, often on colonized and Indigenous land. The fallout from atmospheric tests created a global health crisisand scientists raised the alarm.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRMP) receives an annual grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities.

2007

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2025

Thats why the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the federal agency best known for collecting … Continue reading Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska even if they dont realize it Theyre also difficult to manage, requiring specialized knowledge and technology.

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRMP) receives an annual grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities.

Conservation

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

Conclusion In the face of recent backtracking on climate commitments by governments (e.g. Yet in light of the profound threats to human and more-than-human life posed by the climate emergency, the IACtHR’s reasoning seems unassailable. Actions that jeopardize the future of life on Earth should be prohibited by law.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2025

Like so many other municipalities and government entities, the Borough has been grossly impacted by the rising price of energy, so it is a relief to take power into our own hands and save big with the help of solar.” “It

Electricity

ESA

JULY 9, 2025

At this luncheon, US a panel of US congressional staff will discuss the ins and outs of navigating the current policy environment in the federal government, identifying opportunities to engage, and providing the inside scoop for working in the current policy atmosphere.

2025

Environmental News Bits

MAY 8, 2025

An anti-government group is making threats against weather equipment that it says is a weather weapon controlled by the military, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned employees.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Community members in Richland, WA, and surrounding towns have beenand likely still areexposed to hazardous contamination from the US governments Hanford nuclear site. Hanford created a segregated company town The US government acquired Richland, Washington, in 1943 for Hanford workers and their families to support the Manhattan Project work.

Radiation

Vermont Law

MARCH 25, 2025

Boosting SOC means drawing carbon out of the atmosphere, leading to the revitalization of soils and microscopic soil life. Further, agroecology recognizes that these communities heavily depend on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity and services for both livelihood and sustenance, requiring community-level governance with stakeholders.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

are formed indirectly in the atmosphere from other toxic pollutants also emitted from tailpipes. States and local governments are required to take steps to attain the standards 5. Making air quality forecasts available to state and local governments and to communities across the country.

Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

President Trump and unelected individuals designated by him are taking aim at scientists and illegally taking over infrastructure responsible for creating and issuing weather conditions and alertsthe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are continuing to cause rapid temperature rise.

Carbon Dioxide

Physics World

JULY 31, 2025

To combat this storage issue, the Japanese government implemented a new policy in 2021 focused on discharging the ALPS-treated water into the ocean using a 1 km long tunnel. The government set a threshold for tritium suspension levels of 700 Bq/L in the discharge outlet vicinity and 30 Bq/L in the ocean.

Ocean

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reforming Oceanic Governance: A Department of Oceans by Joseph Lepak Current federal ocean governance is spread across a myriad of federal agencies in different departments and the time has come to bring them all together. Governing this vast area, four agency mandates prioritize oceans, while other mandates involve oceans.

Ocean

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Having been on the ground in Dubai last year and now in Baku for side talks on advancing methane regulations as part of the UCLA Emmett Institute’s delegation, I can confirm the atmosphere at COP29 was strange. The United States delegation tried to convince attendees with a hardly believable motto: “America is All In.”

Paris Agreement

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

A Greener Life

JANUARY 16, 2025

While the government has made the right noises about protecting these wetlands , it has been accused of not backing up its words with action. Wetlands also capture and store atmospheric carbon dioxide, allowing it to be converted into other carbon compounds and cellulose and thus mitigating global heating.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

At this moment, the last thing federal, state and local governments need is to divert precious resources to debunk baseless conspiracy theories and disinformation. FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) is the federal government’s primary source of funding for disaster response, recovery and preparedness. What is the Disaster Relief Fund?

Climate Change

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

The team, led by atmospheric scientist Ning Zeng of the University of Maryland in the US, found that the wood had only lost 5% of its carbon compared with a freshly cut Eastern red cedar log. When plants decompose or are burnt, they release the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) they had absorbed from the atmosphere.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

On the ground, firefighters are using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites for wildfire monitoring in real time. Today, those duties are carried out by the National Weather Service (NWS), housed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce.

2010

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the far-rights playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated. How will this affect people in the United States, including those who support efforts to cut government spending?

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2025

On February 27, 2025, over 1,000 employees at the National Weather Service (NWS) were illegally fired by the Trump Administration under the premise of making the government more efficient, even though the agency was already severely understaffed. What goes on in the upper atmosphere is reflected by weather conditions at the surface.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Statewide North Central South Percent of normal to date 85% 104% 80% 70% Snowpack as of2/28/2025 SnowTrax – Home While February saw a set of strong atmospheric rivers bring snow to Northern California, Southern California is still well below average for yearly precipitation. Now, more than ever, states must step up.

Politics