A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The combination of offshore wind turbines, floating solar panels and green hydrogen are some of the hybrid clean energy technologies currently under development off the Dutch coast. . The low-lying European country is using its expertise in water engineering to build up its next wave of clean energy infrastructure.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Tell Congress that inaction is unacceptable and urge them to support these three critical measures in order to safeguard everyone who relies on a healthy ocean—and that is every single one of us, whether we live on the beach or hours from the shore. . Enter Your Email.loading.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. as a national policy leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 21, 2023

Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory are studying extracting critical materials from water, including the ocean and aquifers, for use in the clean energy supply chain.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Higher ocean and air temperatures manifest in storms, heat, precipitation, drought and wildfires that can be more intense, more frequent, and/or longer lasting. Source: [link] Average ocean temperatures have also been at record levels since May of 2023. the clean energy transition and a modernized grid) and adaptation (e.g.,

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 3, 2025

I recently represented Ocean Conservancy at the National Working Waterfronts Network Conference in San Diego. As an engineer, former mariner and ocean conservationist I know that decarbonizing our ports requires cross-sector partnerships. Now is the time to turn conversations into action.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 31, 2022

Ocean Conservancy applauds this decision. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Calling a halt to proposed new offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet was a vital step in ongoing efforts to meet our climate goals, protect coastal communities and economies and safeguard our ocean and coasts.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years; the ocean has absorbed the majority of this excess heat. Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean. So, the plastics that escape to our ocean are like a slow motion oil spill that is happening every day, all around the world. This spill is a pervasive threat to ocean life and coastal communities.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 7, 2023

See more wonderful ocean animals! Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. These krill feed on algae that grows on ice and the surface of the ocean. The post 10 Fascinating Animals Found in Antarctica appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The ocean bed has a diverse landscape with plenty of challenges, but dealing with a single entity—the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)—for federally controlled waters does have advantages over the potential patchwork of landowners for land-based transmission.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Ocean temperatures are at record highs in the Atlantic, including along the coast of Florida , triggering marine heatwaves and causing harm to marine species and ecosystems. We largely have the technologies needed for a rapid, sharp shift away from fossil fuels to clean energy, but this is not just about technological shifts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, at this critical moment for the climate and our ocean, there were literally more press credentials distributed than at any previous COP conference. Climate change is here and is bringing with it impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and dwindling sea ice. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Cresforum

MARCH 13, 2024

Jen Kiggans, a Conservative Climate Caucus Vice Chair, CRES Clean Energy Champion and Vice Chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee. To read about a recent win in this industry, check out this blog on Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project HERE.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Concerns about the feasibility of some energy transition targets have intensified, driven in no small part by resistance from fossil fuel industries and growing public scepticism in many regions, where populists have framed ambitious environmental promises as unrealistic or out of touch with voters’ concerns.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2022

To secure her vote for a major Democratic Party priority — a $369 billion climate, spending, and tax reform bill that will be the largest federal investment in clean energy programs — Arizona Sen. The salinity of the Salton Sea now is almost twice as high as that of the ocean. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 23, 2023

As people around the world grapple with climate change, scientists and engineers are exploring new and exciting ocean-based solutions to generate renewable energy. Tidal energy is emerging as another clean energy source alongside offshore wind farms and wave energy technology. What is tidal energy?

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The ocean’s critical role in climate change—both as a victim and an essential part of the solution—has received more attention, as is its due, in the past several years. One issue extremely important to Ocean Conservancy is the advocacy of ocean justice and equity, too long ignored, in developing ocean policy.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

By ICN Staff In 2023, clean energy progress and the horrors of a radically warming climate fought almost to a draw. The push and pull of progress and catastrophe made 2023 one of the most discordant—and consequential—years for the world’s climate.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 13, 2022

Today, January 12, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that on February 23, 2022 it will hold a wind energy lease auction for six areas in the New York Bight (NY Bight), the coastal area between Long Island and the New Jersey coast. Figure 1, Final Wind Energy Lease Areas.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Imagine the sun slowly rising over the vast metropolis of Los Angeles, a city that stretches from the ocean to the mountains. As Angelenos wake up for the day, they turn on lights powered by 100% clean electricity.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2022

In the first half of 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has moved swiftly toward the first offshore wind lease sales in California , currently anticipated to occur in the fall. BOEM has identified a total of five proposed leases across two areas — the Humboldt Wind Energy Area (WEA) and the Morro Bay WEA.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 11, 2023

New research finds deep-sea mining operations could conflict with the tuna fishery and cause populations to crash as the species moves to escape ocean warming.

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Law and Environment

JULY 27, 2023

state to pursue a competitive solicitation of offshore wind energy. Governor Mills said in a press release announcing her approval of the legislation: Offshore wind, done responsibly, offers Maine the opportunity to secure abundant clean energy, stable energy prices, good-paying jobs, and a healthier environment for future generations.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 23, 2022

Here at Ocean Conservancy, we know the ocean provides powerful solutions to the climate crisis. Offshore wind energy is a growing source of renewable energy in Europe and East Asia, and it is taking off along U.S. But there is another renewable energy source just over the horizon—wave energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

California’s offshore wind (OSW) industry is transitioning from planning to implementation in a statewide effort to deliver 2-5 GW clean energy by 2030. In support of this goal, the California Energy Commission (CEC) released a draft of its Assembly Bill 525 Offshore Wind Strategic Plan (the Plan).

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2022

On December 13, Nuveen Green Capital and the Philadelphia Energy Authority announced the closing of $30.08 million in Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing for a Freezpak cold storage facility at 2201 E. Allegheny Avenue in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Electricity from waves and tides is generated when devices in the water harness the kinetic energy of the ocean. The technologies to capture wave and tidal energy may provide practical clean energy options for small remote island and rural coastal communities and potentially large urban cities down the road.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 9, 2023

The ocean is increasingly viewed as a potential source for these minerals, but a new study published today in Frontiers in Marine Science by Ocean Conservancy and our colleagues highlights a range of concerns that must be addressed before we rush to mine the deep sea. When we crunched the data, a minefield of concerns emerged.

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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.), The issue is about what the transition to clean fuels and manufacturing looks like and how long it will take.

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Clean Energy - Ensure access to affordable and reliable modern energy sources for all nations. Enhance international and promote investment in energy-efficient infrastructure and clean energy technology. Reverse land degradation, stop biodiversity loss.

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