Clean Water Act Ocean Sea Level 
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 26, 2025
Honestly, I was kind of nervous about water quality. Whats the point of a beach adventure if you cant even go into the ocean? In 2022, ninety of Texas beaches tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria (poop!), EPA Supreme Court decision undermining the Clean Water Act and eroding the EPA’s ability to enforce it.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 6, 2025
In Jakarta, sinking due to groundwater withdrawals and urban growth, lies Lake Pluit, which is below sea level. The EPA held the city broadly responsible for the oceans water quality standards while San Francisco could use the ocean as a dumping ground, it would violate the permit should water quality worsen.
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Circle of Blue
MARCH 13, 2025
Water circulation in the Atlantic Ocean has slowed to its weakest recorded level, and global warming is the likely cause thats according to a new study in the journal Nature. It could also raise sea levels along the United States East Coast. The Northern U.S. The pumping project had been promoted for years by U.S.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 7, 2025
trillion in flood mitigation value alone , a value that has grown more critical with sea level rise and increased frequency and intensity of storms and wildfires. The marshes further clean the water for recreational fishing. Congress overwhelmingly voted for the Clean Water Act in 1972, and George H.W.
Ocean Conservancy
DECEMBER 5, 2022
When we think about plastic pollution, we often think about where plastic products—from water bottles to microplastics—end up. But plastics present a much broader threat to our ocean, climate and marginalized coastal communities. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. It prohibits the discharge of polluting chemicals into US waters unless a special permit is granted.
Ocean Conservancy
JANUARY 18, 2023
As a person immersed in this interior, “fresh coast” worldview, I hadn’t spent much time considering how our practices might affect the ocean thousands of miles away. Love ocean content? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. In short, all water is connected. Enter your email and never miss an update.
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