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Dr. Marco Hatch: Merging Ocean Science and Community-Driven Environmental Restoration

Washington Nature

By Anya Blaney Ocean scientist and TNC in Washington trustee Marco Hatch creates opportunities for under-resourced students to pursue higher education while revitalizing ancestral clam gardens. His connection to the ocean and marine ecology began in early life. I am driven by envisioning healthy communities within those ecosystems.

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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

Circle of Blue

Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite’s science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. California regulators police water use with an open-source program from OpenET. SWOT mission aims to fill global gaps in key water data.

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The Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Environment, Law, and History

H-Environment recently published a review by Samm Newton of Teresa Sabol Spezio's Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (U. Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969. Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Her argument is broken into three sections.

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Climate Action for Earth Day

Legal Planet

One is the recent EPA announcement of their finalized National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (NPDWR) which establishes Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) of 6 PFAS (often called “forever chemicals”). Sabrina Ashjian: T here are lots of legislative and regulatory actions happening which provide hope.

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Should there be a ‘non-use’ agreement on solar geoengineering?

Legal Planet

They argue for defunding or tightly regulating all solar geoengineering research – drawing analogies with chemical weapons research, for example. And such a normalization of research – from my reading of the social science literature – risks enabling further climate procrastination.

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ESA Policy News: April 3, 2023

ESA

Call for Nominations for 2023 ESA Regional Policy Award Do you know someone who has made positive efforts toward environmental sustainability in Portland, Oregon? Congress Senate votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule, Biden is expected to veto the measure. Four Democratic Senators, Sens. Another bill ( H.R.

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ESA Policy News: March 6, 2023

ESA

Call for Nominations for 2023 ESA Regional Policy Award ESA seeks nominations for its annual Regional Policy Award to recognize a local or regional policymaker who has integrated environmental science and policy in initiatives that foster more sustainable communities. States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction.

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