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. Another highlight of the conference was seeing the eWolf.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One such agency is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides the scientific bedrock of data needed to protect our health, homes, and livelihoods from climate change and other environmental threats. From coastal erosion to pollution, NOS’s science helps states and communities manage these resources sustainably.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

It works for progress on methane pollution, clean electricity, clean transportation, forests, fisheries and oceans, healthy communities, fuels and feedstocks, agriculture, water, food, carbon markets and other critical environmental challenges.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Project Cirrus,” a joint project of the US military and General Electric researchers, tried to disrupt and weaken one 1947 hurricane by seeding its eyewall clouds to increase rainout and destabilize its structure. There were also a couple of projects that did try to control hurricanes – but failed.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

In its offshore wind leasing process in California, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) deployed bidding credits to support workforce training, among other measures.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

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Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

As a result, the natural gas that had been stored within the Rager Mountain Storage Field escaped out of the well and into the atmosphere, extending across southern Pennsylvania, as well as portions of Maryland, Delaware, and over the Atlantic Ocean. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 2, 2025

My colleagues have raised concerns already about President-elect Trumps picks to lead the EPA , the Department of Housing and Urban Development , and the Department of Justice , and why the new NOAA administrator must understand and advocate for science.

Radiation

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Partly to address water concerns, China is now putting a data center in the wettest place there is: the ocean. These facilities consume vast amounts of electricity and water because their servers work nonstop and in close proximity—and they generate waste heat as a by-product, which can damage equipment and destroy data.

Wind Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

For example, warmer air and oceans are contributing to more intense hurricanes , with record-breaking amounts of rain and rapidly intensifying windspeeds. And unlike fossil fuels, electricity generated by wind and solar does not use water or produce any emissions or wastes that can contaminate the air, land, or waterways.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the far-rights playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated. NOAA watches the oceans and coasts for you Do you like seafood? Are you taking a commercial flight today?

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

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Conservation

Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

The climate infrastructure types assessed include: Electric vehicle charging infrastructure: The charging stations that fuel electric vehicles (EVs). Offshore wind infrastructure: Offshore wind turbines and supporting systems that generate electricity through oceanic wind power transmitted to the electrical grid.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2025

While a heat dome prevents mixing between the surface and upper parts of the atmosphere, winds closer to the surface will continue to bring significant amounts of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean into the central and eastern parts of the country, leading to high humidity. But what about the ocean-fed humidity?

Cooling

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Michael Wara at Stanford has some good advice for PPIC pollsters, because we already know people are willing to pay more for their electricity if it is clean. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, lead counsel for Vanuatu.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 5, 2025

For the first time ever, the United States received more electricity in an 11-month period from wind and solar than from coal. While fossil fuels still generated approximately 58% of electricity nationwide, wind and solar generated at least 33% of electricity in ten states. Empire Wind.

Renewable Energy

Scientific American

AUGUST 11, 2025

Now several companies are turning to an unexpected source for a solution: the bottom of the ocean. Hilal’s research group, for example, is developing electrically conductive reverse osmosis membranes that keep themselves clean by repelling salt ions and impurities. Improvements in technology will also help.

Technology

Circle of Blue

MAY 15, 2025

Canada would also be hurt financially because its ships, as well as ocean-going international ships, depend on the Sault Ste. To complicate things, theres a hydro power plant that provides electricity for about 20% of the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. States as far away as California would be affected.

2009

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Like many ocean creatures, the Little Mermaid is now threatened by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. Captain Renewable can take a shaft of sunlight or a summer breeze and turn them into electricity to zap enemies. These inactive oil and gas wells are an ominous source of invisible pollution. Standard Zombie costume.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

This short-term calculus poses a dire threat to numerous UCS priorities, from clean energy, to electric vehicles, to sustainable agriculture, to climate resilience, to reducing the threat posed by nuclear weapons. One of the best ways to reduce transportation pollution is by switching to electric.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

The administration has fired staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , imperiling our security and economy. The Boring Companys “electric skate” was estimated to cost $20-25 per ride. Central to these efforts is attacking federal science and expertise. There were two big problems with this.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

API’s first policy proposal is repealing rules designed to support the shift to electric vehicles that the oil and gas industry has fought for decades. While API says the rule would limit public choice, it would actually increase choice by giving buyers an adequate electric vehicle inventory to meet rising demand. Pump up gas.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

AUGUST 1, 2025

These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels – rising out in the ocean like a middle finger to CO2.” These offshore wind farms aren’t just producing fossil-free electricity; they also create a habitat for sea life to grow. For example, seaweed is a food that can help regenerate the marine environment.

Wind Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

Shipping containers that arrive on large ocean vessels, like these seen at the Port of Oakland, are most often unloaded by diesel equipment, moved around shipping yards by diesel trucks, and make their way to warehouses and distribution hubs on diesel semi-trucksISRs can influence the electrification of these processes.

Ground-Level Ozone

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

The administration has fired staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , imperiling our security and economy. The Boring Companys “electric skate” was estimated to cost $20-25 per ride. Central to these efforts is attacking federal science and expertise. There were two big problems with this.

Politics

Circle of Blue

APRIL 1, 2025

The first: gaining access to critical minerals, even those for batteries to power the electric vehicles that Trump purportedly dislikes. and the Danish territory have the opportunity to capture and monetize the torrent of clean fresh water pouring off Greenland and into the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Both the U.S.

Ocean

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

The cancellation would also purportedly end[] taxpayer handouts to electric vehicle and battery makers. The proposal would also cut $209 million from NOAA’s satellite programs and cancel contracts for climate measurement instruments.

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

company landed an all-electric aircraft carrying passengers at New York’s John F. A new record: The number of electric vehicle chargers continues to increase. More than 30 million Californians across the state could see their electric bills go up to pay for the devastating Eaton fire, Melody Peterson reports for the LA Times.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2025

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Natural Gas

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

It’s Just Energy Transition Investment Plan, published in 2022, had listed six priorities: electricity, green hydrogen, new energy vehicles, transitional justice, skills and capacity building, and municipal energy transitions. billion pledged so far on the electricity sector, as this would empower work in all other fields.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Staff from the energy programs office of DEP will discuss Climate Pollution Reduction grants (available through DEP) [ All federal funding is at risk due to the Presidents new executive orders on climate, energy], and electricity generation and distribution in the Erie area. Resource Link: -- Gov.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2025

I guess well pay for more electricity and ventilation, they say. Solar electricity? Unless we stop them. They said they were drafty, your partner relays as they board up the empty frames with plywood. But how will we have any light? How will we get fresh air? You ask, how is this good for us? But they dont hear you over the hammering.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

Pulling the plug on climate and clean energy progress The Trump administration wants to eliminate completely NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. Without data from satellites and ocean buoys, those forecasts become guesswork. Science can and must be used to mitigate its impacts and keep people safe and our planet healthy.

Climate Change

New Scientist

JULY 30, 2025

Their resilience and beauty left me in awe,” says Mengran Du at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Sanya. “Blood-red tentacles unfurling like delicate flowers in the trench, a stunning defiance of the harsh, crushing darkness.”

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management-- Outer Continental Shelf Act of 1953; and Energy Policy Act of 2005. Office of Surface Mining & Reclamation-- Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 and any amendments thereto. Outer Continental Shelf Act of 1953 and any amendments thereto.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2025

Congress just approved legislation to kill the country’s federal investment in wind, solar, battery, and electrical vehicle development, which not only puts Americans in harm’s way of climate change-influenced storms, and air and water pollution, but essentially cedes leadership in two of the century’s largest new industries to the Chinese.

Endangered Species Act