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Ask a Scientist: What Value Do Wetlands Provide?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Agricultures devastating toll is evident in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Upper Midwest, where it caused 95% of wetland loss between 1997 and 2009. When wetlands are damaged or destroyed, that stored carbon is released into the atmosphere, where it traps heat, warms the planet, and fuels extreme weather, including catastrophic floods.

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Alaska Communities Struggle for Baseline Water Data Amid Climate Uncertainty

Circle of Blue

What had once seemed an impossibility to Cameron, who moved to the coastal community in 2008 from Idaho and began working for the city in 2009, was suddenly her problem to fix: How could you have a drought and water shortages in Alaska? Atmospheric warming, however, will almost certainly affect the waters quality. she wondered.

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Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas From Its Rager Mountain Gas Storage Field In Cambria County

PA Environment Daily

An investigation by the Office of Attorney General revealed that a gas well owned and operated by Equitrans at the Rager Mountain Storage Field in Cambria County leaked natural gas into the atmosphere for 14 days. From 2009 to this year, the Department of Environmental Protection was involved in penalty settlements totaling over $129.7

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep.

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Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., Susquehanna County - Just A Few Miles From Dimock

PA Environment Daily

DEP recommended the well owners put vents on the wells to vent the natural gas to the atmosphere. DEP told the well owners in its letters of determination methane levels could reach explosive concentrations in their homes and there was a threat of asphyxiation, although that is “extremely rare.”

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Vibrio Bacteria in Beach Water Can Make You Seriously Ill

Scientific American

What alarmed us most was clear evidence of a long-term increase in Vibrio abundance throughout the Chesapeake Bay between 2009 and 2022. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science also developed a probability model to estimate the likelihood of finding V.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Among the many attacks in President Trumps Day 1 Executive Order on unleashing American (fossil) energy , is a directive to EPA administrator Zeldin to reevaluate the agencys bedrock 2009 scientific determination of the harms caused by heat-trapping emissions and submit recommendations within 30 days (i.e. this week).