National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

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2013

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

As the Supreme Court of Brazil (Supremo Tribunal Federal) warned in 2022 (see here ), “there are no human rights on a dead or sick planet.” Because of the wide-ranging impacts of environmental damage, the IACtHR reasoned, protection of the right to a healthy environment is a prerequisite for the enjoyment of all human rights.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

President Trump and unelected individuals designated by him are taking aim at scientists and illegally taking over infrastructure responsible for creating and issuing weather conditions and alertsthe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). And NOAA’s forecasts and storm-tracking ability is getting better.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

These weather stations not only strengthen Pennsylvania’s capacity to respond to severe weather but also provide unique educational opportunities for K–12 students to engage with real-time data in their own backyards,” said Penn State University’s Head of the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Dr. Paul Markowski. The IFLOWS 2.0

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) monthly outlook for October and November looks to follow this trend in which many parts of the US will have above-average temperatures. We have also been weighing in on the OSHA rulemaking process over the years ( 2022 and 2023 ).

Climate Change

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

While the plaintiff argued that a letter issued to it by NRCS in 2022 notifying the plaintiff on how to request review of the 2010 wetlands determination was a final agency action, the court disagreed. According to the court, there is no evidence indicating that the plaintiff had formally requested a review of the wetland determination.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

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2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Already this year, the President has declared 117 disasters, 87 of which have been major disaster declarations (compared with 71 major disaster declarations in 2023, 47 in 2022, 58 in 2021 and 104 in 2020). Unfortunately, disaster costs have been steadily rising.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Although in its early stages, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques – i.e., techniques that remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – have gained traction in recent years as a climate change mitigation strategy. Relevant phrases from NDCs, including these terms, were extracted and analyzed. Australia is another example.

Carbon Dioxide

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

The team, led by atmospheric scientist Ning Zeng of the University of Maryland in the US, found that the wood had only lost 5% of its carbon compared with a freshly cut Eastern red cedar log. When plants decompose or are burnt, they release the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) they had absorbed from the atmosphere. straw) or marine (e.g.

Waste

Scientific American

JULY 14, 2025

Humans can get sick from Vibrio by eating infected seafood such as oysters, unwittingly swallowing a mouthful of ocean water or exposing an open wound to the sea. These ranges are far less salty than open ocean water and are typical of brackish conditions found where rivers meet bays. vulnificus in the Chesapeake Bay.

Ocean

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The GreenDrill site sat on the frozen edge of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, or NEGIS, a massive, moving tongue of ice that drains 12 to 16 percent of the ice sheet into the ocean. The mission was to collect sediment cores from the ocean floor. Upended and laid atop the contiguous U.S., Today we’re at 428 parts per million.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Chesapeake B-WET is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Office, which the administration also would defund. The percentage rebounded nearly to the pre-Covid level of 20 percent.

2014

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

In 2022, Congress passed, and President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”). These programs are primarily implemented through USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (“NRCS”) and exist as an option to help farmers and ranchers address environmental resource concerns on private lands.

2013

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

But they were able to do it thanks to support from an environmental education grant CBF got from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). And Peglow figures she has worked with at least 50 teacherswho together could reach hundreds of studentssince CBF got the grant in 2022.

Environmental Science

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

“The vote marks the first time California is using a streamlined permit process set up by a 2022 state law meant to shorten timelines and circumvent local opposition.” The study, published in Global Change Biology Bioenergy, says these systems can reduce atmospheric methane emissions by roughly 80%. Democrats last week elected Sen.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

According to a 2022 study by researchers at Resources for the Future and Columbia University, wetlands are worth between $1.2 According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commercial and recreational fisheries provide 1.7 trillion and $2.9 They all spend a portion of their lives in wetlands.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 10, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

This meant that for the fiscal year 2022, the average SNAP benefit increased by $36.24 As a result, at that time USDA announced that the cost of market baskets for the reference family was $835.37 –a 21.03% increase compared to previous TFP calculations. per person, per month.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 11, 2025

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2013

National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

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2013

National Law Center

JUNE 12, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

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Law

National Law Center

AUGUST 1, 2025

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2013

National Law Center

JUNE 24, 2025

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2013

National Law Center

JUNE 26, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Among the states that define cottage foods as non-TCS foods, since 2022, at least five have passed amendments allowing the use of pH level testing or other measurements to determine TCS status. Further Delaware , Missouri , and New Hampshire have eliminated such constraints since 2022. However, not all states have followed this trend.

Law

National Law Center

JUNE 4, 2025

While that decision ruled in favor of the farmers, the Arkansas Supreme Court overturned the ruling in 2022. Two high-profile cases involving grain dealer failures — Turner Grain Merchandising, Inc. million in 2014 after delivering rice for export but not receiving payment.

Law

National Law Center

JUNE 17, 2025

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2025

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

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2013

Real Climate

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This has now been completed for 2022. This is related to the commentary we published last year ( Hausfather et al, 2022 ), where we show that this screen is a reasonable match to the IPCC AR6 assessed projections that used emulators constrained by observations. 26-29, 2022. The CMIP3 ensemble continues to astound! Casas, G.A.

2022

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

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Law

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2022

Still, both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 24, and the Colorado State University (CSU) forecast , released on April 7, predict a season with above-normal activity— for the seventh consecutive year. This year broke the streak, and that is a good thing.

2022

Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. Figure adapted from Caesar et al., Nature 2018.

Ocean

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. 2021) show that the trends in the EEI derived from CERES match what you get from the changes in ocean heat content. Satellite-derived trends in EEI compared to estimates from changes in ocean heat (Loeb et al.,

Radiation