Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 8, 2025
Happy Water Week ! Have you ever seen the Sierra Nevada of California from the San Joaquin Valley in the early spring on a clear day? When the Sierra has snow and the air quality allows us to see it from here, that view is second to none. Every year at this time when I look at the Sierra from the Valley, I know if I see little snow, it means its a dry year.
Legal Planet
APRIL 8, 2025
A stream of data about methanea potent greenhouse gasis now constantly being beamed down from space. New methane satellites provide a powerful data capability for governments who want to demonstrate leadership in climate policy. To equip policymakers with necessary information on satellite methane data, UC Berkeley Laws Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE), the UCLA Law Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment are releasing a guide for policymakers, Hunting Methane Usi
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Legal Planet
APRIL 1, 2025
Climate educators from SEWA explaining solar power for salt gathering (L) and skylights that cool the interior of a house (R). Photos by Jim Salzman I spent last week in New Delhi, participating in the conference, India 2047: Building a Climate-Resilient Future. Academics, civil society, and government officials were divided into groups focusing on science, health, labor, and the built environment.
Circle of Blue
APRIL 8, 2025
This story was originally published by the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. Homes and a fisher on the Kenai River. Photo: Christian Thorsberg Seldovia, Alaska a quintessential sleepy fishing town on the southern edge of the Kenai Peninsula starts to wake up around late May. By then, the first salmon are running. Water taxis come and go. Fishing charters fill.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Inside Climate News
APRIL 3, 2025
Sea-level rise threatens coastal communities even if global emissions drop. By Jon Hurdle Some 62,000 people and 56,000 homes on and near the New Jersey Shore will see at least one annual flood because of sea-level rise by 2050, even if the world makes sweeping cuts to carbon emissions now, according to a new online tool released Wednesday by Climate Central, a New Jersey-based research and advocacy nonprofit.
Yale E360
APRIL 1, 2025
A new study finds warming could inflict far more damage to the global economy than previously assumed.
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PA Environment Daily
APRIL 2, 2025
On March 27, the Environmental Hearing Board issued an Opinion and Order denying a motion by EQT Chapp, LLC, supported by DEP , to exclude evidence related to medical conditions and toxicology reports in connection with a landowners appeal of DEPs determination that the agency could not conclude his water supply was adversely impacted by oil and gas operations.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
APRIL 1, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Laura Zaks, Associate Director of Communications and Development Tel: 347.563.6408 Email: press@sustainableagriculture.net Release: New bill introduced in the US House and Senate proposes bipartisan solution to the farmland access crisis Washington, DC, April 1, 2025 Today, the bipartisan New Producer Economic Security Act was introduced in the U.S.
Yale E360
APRIL 2, 2025
As interest in nuclear power rises, startups are pursuing plans to recycle spent fuel and reuse its untapped energy to power reactors. Advocates tout new recycling methods as a breakthrough, but many experts warn it will extract plutonium that could be used for nuclear weapons.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 3, 2025
Gas-fired power plants are the largest source of heat-trapping carbon pollution from the US power sector. They also bring with them a host of other problems for people and communities. A flurry of new gas power plant proposals threatens to exacerbate these problems. Some gas plant developers and their backers are talk ing up the prospect of burning hydrogen in the plants as a way to address carbon pollution and keep the plants from becoming irrelevant as we make the necessary transition to a low
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 2, 2025
Statement by Karen Wirsig, Senior Program Manager, Plastics Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat It is appalling that the latest report from the U.S. government on trade barriers points the finger at the Canadian governments action on plastic pollution. The entry on plastics reads like talking points from the plastics and petrochemical industry that has long opposed action on plastic pollution in the U.S. and els
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 1, 2025
Keep Pennsylvania Beautifuls popular Open Your Eyes to Litter series of five educational activity books was created over 20 years ago. Over one million copies of the original series were distributed to schools throughout Pennsylvania. To account for the changing environment, new environmental education standards and new types of litter, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful is working with illustrator and concept artist, Brady Mock, and Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR
Inside Climate News
APRIL 3, 2025
Intense weather left farmers with small harvests in 2024and warnings about soil resilience. By Anika Jane Beamer Last summer, Brice Acton watched drought devour the fields of his small family farm in southern Ohio. It took just a matter of days. First, the corn stalks in sandy soils dried out. Within two weeks, plants in the clay soil at the upper end of his property were parched.
Yale E360
APRIL 2, 2025
A sea lion sickened by toxic algae attacked a teenage girl in Long Beach, California, on Sunday, the latest episode of erratic behavior from affected animals.
Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.
Law Columbia
APRIL 8, 2025
On March 4, 2025, the Supreme Court handed down an important ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency. In a 5-4 decision, the Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to issue pollutant discharge permits. The case involved a wastewater treatment facility that discharged treated water into San Francisco Bay under a CWA permit issued by EPA.
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 3, 2025
Recent findings from Ontarios Integrity Commissioner are a timely reminder of why we need to place clear guardrails in this years legally mandated review of the Greenbelt Plan. Without strict terms of reference that forbid removal of current Greenbelt land or weakening of its current protections, Ontarians have reason to worry the review process will be little more than a new way to enable the same kinds of land-swaps that were the subject of the scathing Auditor Generals report and which remain
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 4, 2025
The April 4 Take Five Fridays With Pam is now available from the PA Parks and Forests Foundation featuring articles on-- -- Sign Of Spring: Falls Trail At Ricketts Glen State Park open again! -- State Park Gift Cards Are Back ! -- Forests For All Strategic Plan Released -- Photo Contest Winners Now Displayed In Capitol Building In Harrisburg Until April 28 Click Here to read the entire Take Five.
Inside Climate News
APRIL 5, 2025
Some researchers are proposing a naturally sourced solution to the issue of coastal erosion, which they say will keep sediment moving and cost less. By Lily Carey Illinois boasts 63 miles of coastline along Lake Michigans southwestern shore, nearly all of which is fortified by metal breakwaters, concrete seawalls and even swaths of land built out into the lake.
Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital
As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.
Yale E360
APRIL 4, 2025
Researchers have developed an AI model that can predict with 90 percent accuracy when and where lightning will ignite wildfires.
Law Columbia
APRIL 8, 2025
On April 8, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled Protecting American Energy from State Overreach , which directs the U.S. attorney general to work with department and agency heads to identify all State and local laws, regulations, causes of action, policies, and practices (collectively, State laws) burdening the identification, development, siting, production, or use of domestic energy resources that are or may be unconstitutional, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenf
Scientific American
APRIL 8, 2025
After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 8, 2025
The Center for Coalfield Justice and researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will host an April 17 public meeting on an upcoming seismic study in Southwestern PA to be held at the American Legion Post 175 at 168 Park Avenue in Washington, Washington County from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For over a decade, many residents living in our region have experienced vibrations inside their homes at an increasing rate.
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New Scientist
APRIL 7, 2025
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species
Nanotech
APRIL 8, 2025
On April 3, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced changes on how the data matrix form (EPA Form 8570-35) is submitted to EPA, stating this change is an improvement to simplify the process for how companies submit data to EPA as part of a pesticide registration package. EPA states these improvements also will make EPAs processing of this information more efficient.
Yale E360
APRIL 7, 2025
Akinwumi Adesina, outgoing president of the African Development Bank, is warning that foreign firms are underpaying for carbon credits from African forests.
Scientific American
APRIL 4, 2025
Our conscious awareness may be governed by a structure deep in the brain
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 5, 2025
From March 29 to April 4, DEPs Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 699 inspection entries. Follow these links to spreadsheets showing the violations and inspections occurring between March 29 to April 4-- Click Here for violations issued. Click Here for inspection entries. Enforcement Actions Taken Last Week So far this year, DEP took these actions as of March 28 -- -- NOVs Issued In Last Week: 100 conventional, 28 unconventional -- Year To Date - NOVs Issued: 1,20
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 1, 2025
Tanya Dapkey, the Macroinvertebrates Section Lead of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research, stands on the edges of the Delaware River. Trees rustle in the breeze, the water laps on mossy rocks. Holding a small clear vial of water, her collected sample, Dapkey is using a novel scientific technique aimed at detecting particles of living organisms eDNA.
New Scientist
APRIL 3, 2025
The artificial sweetener sucralose increases brain activity in regions involved in appetite, suggesting it makes people hungrier
The Applied Ecologist
APRIL 8, 2025
Shortlisted for the Georgina Mace Prize 2024 Sarah Kingsbury shares insights into her team’s study investigating anew integrated management approachto better assess the effects and risks of aquatic invasive species on Atlantic salmon. About the Research Overview Our idea was to develop an integrated management plan to inform aquatic invasive species and Atlantic salmon management in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Scientific American
APRIL 4, 2025
According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 4, 2025
The following notices were published in the April 5 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- The US Environmental Protection published notice it will hold a May 6 virtual hearing [if requested] on a proposed underground oil and gas wastewater injection well for enhanced recovery of oil and gas owned by Sandstone Development, LLC in Cyclone, Lafayette Township, McKean County.
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