Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

There are significant political movements aligned around rejecting researching and discussing these interventions, let alone doing them. Modeling and predicting the climate is a lot more feasible than doing the same for the weather. Second, no one is doing anything like these proposed interventions now. Download as PDF

Climate Change

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

However, political shifts and implementation challenges have slowed that momentum. Longstanding investments in existing supply chains can become obsolete as political winds shift. Blue acceleration: the mounting competition for ocean resources As the world grows increasingly volatile, resilience must transcend its status as a buzzword.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Our own actions have ultimately caused the demise and destruction of homelands, from islands in the Pacific Ocean to Florida. that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Cruz Galicia v.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

AUGUST 8, 2025

The unprecedented haul is intensifying concerns over increasing strain from industrial fishing and climate change on marine life in the Southern Ocean, especially whales and penguins. The early closure is fueling urgent calls to protect the Southern Ocean’s fragile marine ecosystems from mounting industrial fishing and climate change.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2025

Against this background, on May 2, 2025, Ocean Conservancy and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law hosted a workshop at Columbia Law School on offshore oil and gas decommissioning in the United States. Financial instability in the oil and gas sector, coupled with industry bankruptcies, has exposed significant flaws in current regulations.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Courts are emerging as critical players in climate action, especially as a lack of political will and obstruction by fossil fuel interests continue to impede bold outcomes and accountability in international processes like the COP negotiations. in the absence of federal leadership.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

DEP Issues Violation To Highlands Sporting Clays For Lead Contamination Of Blue Hole Creek In Somerset County -- TribLive: DEP: Lead In Laurel Hill Creek Linked To Shooting Range In Somerset County -- Courier Times: DEP Told Trumbauersville To Find The Source Of Polluted Ditch Water, But Have They?

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

They also underscored the importance of the right to self-determination as a peremptory norm of international law, considering that climate change deprives people of their traditional territories, cultures, political systems, and means of self-governance. Several domestic cases brought by Indigenous groups make similar claims.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

Previous UCS studies have already linked their emissions to increases in global average temperature , ocean acidification , and area burned by wildfires. This study adds yet another example of how emissions from these entities are driving climate impacts globally.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Oil and gas companies are particularly vulnerable to physical risks to infrastructure located in extreme weather zones like coastlines or oceans; transition risks related to falling demand for their products; and liability risk. Trumps rollbacks reflect more of this cynical, short-term thinking.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It’s perhaps not surprising then that Congress has provided the majority of DRF funding through the often last minute, politically fraught supplemental appropriations.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JULY 25, 2025

He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the far-rights playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated. NOAA watches the oceans and coasts for you Do you like seafood? Are you taking a commercial flight today?

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

On the ground, firefighters are using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites for wildfire monitoring in real time. Today, those duties are carried out by the National Weather Service (NWS), housed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce.

2010

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

Economics will trump politics here, so long as demand growth remains robust and supply chains and project costs are not too adversely affected by tariffs, inflation and regulatory uncertainty. In California, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced winners of five offshore wind leases in 2022, with the potential to power over 1.5

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2025

It is a Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. A brief history of Svalbard Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen, has been part of the Kingdom of Norway since 1925.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2025

Overfishing, the unsustainable practice of taking too many fish out of the ocean so that there are too few left to replace themselves, results in the total collapse of fisheries, and economic devastation for surrounding fishing communities. Here are ten lesser-known responsibilities of NOAA scientists.

Ocean

Circle of Blue

MAY 13, 2025

Zebra mussels and quagga mussels made their way to the Great Lakes by hitching a ride in the ballasts of ocean-going freighters entering the lakes. More than 100 other invasive species were transported via ocean-going vessels until the U.S. We have political systems that are notoriously fractured right now.

Natural Resources

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has tracked extreme weather and climate-related disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and floods. The fossil fuel industry has employed aggressive tactics to rebuff these advances for accountability and cash in on political favors.

Fossil Fuels

Inside Climate News

APRIL 11, 2025

By Bob Berwyn Political storm clouds darkened the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration again this week as the weather and climate agency fired more than 1,000 workers for the second time within five weeks.The first mass firings started in mid-February and were deemed illegal by a federal court in California on March 13.

Ocean

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2025

Defending its future, and restoring and maintaining its health must be a top priority for governments of all political stripes across all borders. We need to hear from all political parties that they will stand firm in protecting Canadas water heritage. The Trump Administrations threat to freshwater in Canada cannot be underestimated.

Government

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., Approximately 5,500,000,000,000 tons.

Sea Level

Inside Climate News

MARCH 6, 2025

March 7 demonstrations across the U.S. and Europe will protest cuts to research, staffing and funding, and push for a continued federal focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2025

While a heat dome prevents mixing between the surface and upper parts of the atmosphere, winds closer to the surface will continue to bring significant amounts of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean into the central and eastern parts of the country, leading to high humidity. But what about the ocean-fed humidity?

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For more on the legal and political twists and turns in the history of the Endangerment Finding, please check out this blogpost: Endangered Science: Why Global Warming Emissions Are Covered by the Clean Air Act.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. “As a matter of law, states must set their highest possible ambition due to the urgency of the crisis.” She organized a major 2024 conference that explored the ICJ proceedings with Prof.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Now we can’t do anything about it and of course greenhouse gases are pollutants that are emitted from the tailpipe of cars that are warming up our planet, our oceans, fueling these 1-in-100-year hurricanes that were seeing twice a year, come in and unleash devastation loss of life and billions of dollars in 5 different states back to back.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JANUARY 14, 2025

Greenland election: political earthquake puts the environment in focus But, in private, his views might be different. Additionally, the Arctic Ocean was, until very recently, almost permanently frozen. Many people are concerned about the warming of the Arctic for various reasons.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

The administration has fired staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , imperiling our security and economy. Infrastructure projects in California and New York are coming in for politically-motivated attacks. Explaining those doubts helped turn political and public opinion against the plan.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It recommends repealing a Bureau of Land Management rule that would put conservation on equal footing with drilling and ranching as a legal use of public lands, in addition to adding more leasing opportunities from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s offshore leasing program. with more than 600 members.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

With ocean surface temperatures more than 2 degrees Celsius above normal in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, Helene was able to rapidly intensify to a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall in Florida. This is not just ordinary politics and run-of-the-mill disagreements on policy details.

Fossil Fuels

Yale E360

JULY 15, 2025

Our World in Data Prior research had linked the drop in sulfates to a rise in ocean warming in the Pacific. Geothermal May Advance, Despite Political Headwinds Food & Agriculture In War Zones, a Race to Save Key Seeds Needed to Feed the World Climate Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?

Air Pollution

Inside Climate News

MARCH 24, 2025

The embattled agency continues to disseminate crucial updates in a hostile political environment, while scientists warn that cutting climate intelligence is folly at a time of escalating climate extremes.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

Shipping containers that arrive on large ocean vessels, like these seen at the Port of Oakland, are most often unloaded by diesel equipment, moved around shipping yards by diesel trucks, and make their way to warehouses and distribution hubs on diesel semi-trucksISRs can influence the electrification of these processes.

Ground-Level Ozone

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Many activities involve multiple agencies, and that’s true for activities with support across the political spectrum. The Empire Wind project supplying renewable energy to New York City required approvals from the Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA Fisheries, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

The administration has fired staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , imperiling our security and economy. Infrastructure projects in California and New York are coming in for politically-motivated attacks. Explaining those doubts helped turn political and public opinion against the plan.

Politics

Inside Climate News

MAY 7, 2025

Cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now degrading the datasets used to monitor the most rapidly warming parts of the planet. More such moves are coming, NOAA has warned.

Climate Change