Carbon Emissions Clean Water Act Ocean 
Acoel
AUGUST 14, 2023
Take for instance: the burning Cuyahoga River that led to the Clean Water Act; the disastrous air pollution incident in Donora, PA that led to the passage of the Clean Air Act; the discovery of Love Canal that lead to the passage of Superfund; and most tragically, the chemical gas release in Bhopal, India that lead to the passage of EPCRA.
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. Dilution of salts in our oceans can affect the ecological balance of that ocean.
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ESA
DECEMBER 20, 2021
6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. White House: President Biden issued an executive order setting a course for the federal government to become carbon neutral by 2050. But Is It Burning Less Carbon? – Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet. It's a natural resource and an economic one; many problems blight our oceans today, not least of all overfishing and the dumping of waste. It is also believed that the spread of tree canopy has accelerated the warming already being triggered by carbon emissions (35).
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
In August 2017, NYSDEC conditionally denied the developer’s joint application for state law stream disturbance and freshwater wetlands permits, as well as for a water quality certificate pursuant to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, asserting that a recent D.C. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2023
Only 23 percent of the world’s large rivers (more than 620 miles in length) flow uninterrupted into the ocean. Invisible from above, groundwater is a critical source of drinking water, providing the base flow for rivers and, as the study said, “directly sustain[ing] wetlands and terrestrial vegetation.”
ESA
AUGUST 1, 2022
The bill funds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research at $776 million, a 20 percent increase. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that they have reached an agreement on a domestic policy bill, now named the Inflation Reduction Act. Executive Branch. 13, 2022).
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