Physics World
MAY 4, 2022
“If I look at the next 50 years, next hundred years maybe, nobody will be able to set up a telescope that’s powerful enough to resolve surface features,” says Jonathan Jiang , an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses Earth as a laboratory to model exoplanets. New eyes on alien worlds.
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).
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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.
ESA
MAY 9, 2022
Blog post: Accounting for Nature on Earth Day 2022. OSTP : The National Academies of Science will host a discussion with Acting Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Alondra Nelson about equitable community participation in federally funded research Thursday, May 12. The late Paul G.
ESA
APRIL 25, 2022
In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. Multiorganization Letter in support of appropriations for EPA Science and Technology and Science to Achieve Results program (identical letters sent to both the House and Senate ) (April 4, 2022). Federal Register opportunities.
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