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Frani's interest in water and the environment started when she was a Girl Scout in Southern California. Someone’s father, who was less enthusiastic about cookie sales and sewing and more driven to make outdoorswomen of the young ladies, led the troop to acquire a reverence for the natural world, which she holds to this day.

5 days ago · Trump Seems to Be Dismantling NOAA, Following the Blueprint of Project 2025. The Trump administration appears to be dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, which includes the National Weather Service that warns Americans about severe events like flooding, heatwaves, hurricanes, and excessive winds and dryness, which can lead to wildfires.

Sep 27, 2024 · Opponents have argued there’s a potential risk of toxicity in young children, and a court decision last week may boost their case. As the Associated Press reports, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water, citing uncertainty about whether high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of ...

Jan 28, 2024 · Pushing the pause button on new liquefied gas terminals was seen as a major win for environmentalists, activists, and scientists, who had been urging the government not to approve a planned LNG port in Louisiana that is budgeted to cost $10 billion. The action will delay more than ten fossil fuel projects until after the November 2024 election.. Natural gas is predominantly made up of methane ...

But the main oil-producing nations, such as Saudi Arabia and others in OPEC, strongly opposed language that phases out coal, oil, and natural gas, favoring instead a less hardline commitment to phase them down.China and Russia, among others, were reportedly urging the members to focus only on reducing climate pollution without any mention of fossil fuels.

Dec 15, 2024 · Democratic members of Congress urged the administration to assure that climate funds were paid out. The Hill reports that in a memo which became public, the White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients, said the administration has awarded 98 percent of the funds it could legally spend and that President Biden directed his administration to obligate as much money as possible by the end of his term.

Nov 24, 2024 · The floaters rise and fall with the waves and drive pistons that compress fluid into an accumulator. That fluid is then released and turns a motor, which spins a generator that produces electricity. According to the company, the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that wave energy could …

Jul 7, 2024 · About two weeks ago, the State of Hawaiʻi was about to go to trial defending against claims brought by children and teens who said that there had not been progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and that their rights to a clean …

The cacti that grew in the Florida Keys have fallen victim to climate change in what researchers from the Florida Museum of Natural History and Miami’s Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden are calling the “first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the U.S.” The eponymous cacti were only first discovered in an isolated mangrove forest on Key Largo in 1992, when there ...