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.
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.
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Circle of Blue
MAY 31, 2023
In Senegal , water-saving farming methods are producing higher rice yields while improving soil health. Supreme Court narrowed Clean Water Act protections for wetlands that aren’t directly connected to “lakes, oceans, streams, and rivers.” “The The attempt succeeded. from polluters and development.
Law Columbia
MAY 7, 2021
Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. United States v.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
CLF’s allegations included that the landfill’s coastal location “makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts, including sea level rise and damaging storm surge, creating a significant risk of erosion and of pollution from the Landfill washing into the surrounding rivers and coastal wetlands.” California v. Bernhardt , No.
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.
ESA
MAY 17, 2021
Senate Commerce Committee: The Committee voted to advance the Bolstering Long-term Understanding and Exploration of the Great Lakes, Oceans, Bays and Estuaries (BLUE GLOBE) Act ( S. The Committee also approved the American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act ( S. 140 ), which is sponsored by Sens.
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