Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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National Law Center

AUGUST 11, 2022

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. . The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: August 11, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR), or the range of technologies and processes for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans, promises to be a major part of US and global climate strategy in the coming decades. Recent governmental actions have created significant financial incentives for the rapidly growing CDR sector.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. Other report highlights include the cascading impacts of warming on Arctic ecosystems: The Arctic is experiencing high rates of ocean acidification, with implications for marine food chains. Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In the January arguments, he bemoaned an atmosphere where “automatically whatever the agency says, wins.” For all of his private ill will, he created the EPA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and signed the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lists a mere 535 deaths directly from wildfires over the last 45 years in its list of “Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters.” Among the cities with the highest projected temperature increases are Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Muskegon, Minnesota.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion. Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Murray Energy Sought Supreme Court Review of Fourth Circuit’s Dismissal of Clean Air Act Jobs Study Case. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Foster , No. 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. decision Sept. 29, 2017; verdict Oct. NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND NOTICES. West Virginia v. 15-1363 (D.C. filed Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v. Meanwhile, the state has suffered 79 tropical or subtropical cyclones since 2000.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

The bill funds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research at $776 million, a 20 percent increase. The full Senate voted to confirm Michael Morgan as the assistant secretary for environmental observation and prediction at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Executive Branch.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In addition, the court rejected the contention that the Clean Air Act or foreign affairs doctrine completely preempted the plaintiffs’ claims and also indicated that federal common law would not provide a basis for complete preemption. Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet as acting administrator of NOAA. filed Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

As NASA explains , over most of the last 800,000 years, until humans started burning fossil fuels, atmospheric CO 2 concentrations basically never went below 180ppm and never went above 280ppm. In the last sixty years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has grown 100 times faster than it did at the close of the last ice age.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) 11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The EPA receive $100 million for air quality and climate research and NASA gets $115 million for climate research. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee Public Meeting (Nov. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the nomination of Jainey Bavishi to be the assistant secretary of oceans and atmosphere at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the second-most senior position at NOAA. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Dec.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Matt Cartwright (D-PA) will be ranking member of the House Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee, which funds the National Science Foundation, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. Meanwhile, Rep.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The EPA receives $100 million for air quality and climate research and NASA gets $115 million for climate research. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee Public Meeting (Nov. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The US Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior and the heads of the US Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Agency for International Development would serve as ex-oficio members of the foundation’s board.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations. ExxonMobil Corp.

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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. Deep breath.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. NOAA – Notice of Matching Fund Opportunity for Ocean and Coastal Mapping and Request for Partnership Proposals.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. Federal Court Rejected NEPA Claims in Challenge to Gulf of Mexico Leases.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced the Save Our Sequoias Act ( H.R.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

The report’s authors conclude that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Top Priorities : Coastal resiliency; healthy oceans investments; modernizing the National Weather Service. Chair : Sen.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Next week, the House is expected to consider another six spending bills, including a bill funding the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. in atmospheric and oceanic science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. All NSB One-Pagers are here: [link].

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Arctic Research Program about the goals and objectives for arctic research recommends that federal arctic research efforts should expand and improve Arctic greenhouse gas monitoring and model how disease risk, prevalence, and distribution for wildlife hosts and parasites are affected by increasing air temperatures. and the European Union.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

Beaudreau is a former Obama administration official who served as director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and chief of staff to former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere reach record high – The Guardian. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee: Request for Nominations.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. Many other states in recent years have decided they would follow Californias standards, as they are allowed to under the Clean Air Act.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s South Florida Clean Coastal Waters Act ( S.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

Climate change is reshaping our lands and our oceans and our coasts. We cannot confront climate change without doing a far better job to protect our forests, our oceans, our wetlands and our grasslands,” Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate adviser, said during the call. Comments must be received on or before May 21, 2021.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. United States v. California , No.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The full House passed the Coastal and Ocean Acidification Stressors and Threats (COAST) Research Act (H.R. 1447 ), which reauthorizes ocean and coastal research monitoring program and creates an Ocean Acidification Advisory Board. billion for NOAA, a $1.4

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Chellie Pingree (D-ME)’s Coastal Communities Acidification Act ( H.R. 676 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to collaborate with state and local governments and Indian Tribes on vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification. Another bill ( H.R.

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