PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Whether it’s Earth Day or any other day, we all have a role to play in keeping our environment cleaner, greener, and safer.” Most of the trash that pollutes rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans comes from sources on land. Plastic trash, in particular, threatens human health, aquatic ecosystems, and the economy.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 29, 2024

We have all seen that throw-away plastics clog and poison our oceans, rivers and cities. Oh and we got the law changed too, and after decades we have a new and better Canadian Environmental Protection Act. That is hope made tangible through fewer toxic chemicals in our world.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2023

She wrote three popular books about the oceans, won the National Book Award and developed a storytelling style that added to the punch of her last, and greatest, book. A teach-in held by Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, blossomed into Earth Day [April 22]. Brinkley is a presidential historian.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

CJ, a Junior from Swarthmore, Delaware County, will celebrate Earth Day on April 22 by leading a walk throughout Little Crum Creek Park while discussing aquatic macroinvertebrates and water quality. One such event is an educational “Park Walk” coordinated by Young Ambassador, CJ Chen.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Yet, researchers don’t have complete explanations for all the events we are seeing with rising ocean temperatures, rapidly melting ice caps, and extraordinary temperatures. The release of the third major assessment of the planetary boundaries shows that progress is being made in understanding each planetary boundary with greater precision.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 12, 2024

April 22nd is Earth Day and this year’s theme is Planet vs. Plastic. This year’s Earth Day theme couldn’t come at a better time, because April 22nd also the day countries from around the world will gather in Ottawa to start the fourth round of negotiations to develop an international treaty on plastic pollution.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 22, 2021

On April 22, Earth Day, the Washington State House will vote on the Climate Commitment Act ( SB 5126 ). There is no better way for the Washington Legislature to honor Earth Day than by passing the Climate Commitment Act. Pass the Climate Commitment Act on Earth Day! It is not perfect.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. Blue carbon is carbon captured by ocean and coastal ecosystems.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

Accompanied by artists’ impressions of volcanic landscapes or storms raging above shimmering oceans, such work makes distant planets feel somehow more real. But entire oceans, continents, atmospheres and even biological signatures will still be boiled down to just a few blurry pixels. Transmission spectroscopy is limited too.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But, despite his personal beliefs, Nixon was pressured by the times to respond to burgeoning ecological concerns ignited by Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring , and the 20 million people protesting for the planet in the first Earth Day in 1970.

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $500 million for climate and weather research and forecasting. This strategy follows a Biden administration Executive Order, released on Earth Day 2022, that directs federal agencies to develop guidance to better account for nature and its benefits in federal decision-making.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Earth Day is a perfect day to register to vote and to make sure people in your life are registered—and fully aware of what’s at stake in Election 2024. The first Earth Day in 1970 saw teach-ins, walkouts, and demonstrations grab the participation of 20 million Americans—about 10 percent of the total U.S.

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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.

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ESA

APRIL 25, 2022

In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. The Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies is releasing a new report, “Cross-Cutting Theme for U.S. Contributions to the UN Ocean Decade,” today, April 25. Federal Register opportunities. National Nature Assessment.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

Blog post: Accounting for Nature on Earth Day 2022. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee Public Meeting (May 11-13). NOAA NMFS – Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Ecosystem and Ocean Planning Committee Meeting (May 10). Forest Service – Dixie Resource Advisory Committee Meeting (May 26).

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