Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 120 million people in the nation—one of every three—lives with unhealthy levels of particle and ozone pollution. A 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v.
A Greener Life
JUNE 24, 2022
In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ESA
APRIL 25, 2022
In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. This assessment, similar to the National Climate Assessment, will provide a comprehensive report on the state of the nation’s lands, waters and wildlife and the specific benefits that they provide. Federal Register opportunities.
ESA
MAY 9, 2022
Blog post: Accounting for Nature on Earth Day 2022. ESA is accepting expression of interest from members to receive an ESA “observer status” badge to attend the Conference of Parties (COP) 27 Climate Change Conference, which will take place from Nov. Apply for a Badge to Attend COP27 as an Observer via ESA.
Environmental Science
JULY 30, 2018
Congress toyed with water pollution control since 1948, but 2 years after Earth Day it passed the first comprehensive federal law, ever, to control water pollution, the 1972 Clean Water Act. There remain some problem areas; for example Boston tends to be a non-attainment area for ozone in the summer. Clean Water Act.
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