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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.

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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 ...

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 …

Nov 10, 2024 · As Bloomberg Law reports, in its first term, the Trump administration moved to reduce regulations based on the Clean Water Act and made it difficult to oppose construction projects that affected wetlands and waterways.It seems likely that Trump would seek to undo water protections put in place by Biden, such as the new Lead and Copper Rule Improvements regulation, finalized last month that ...

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.

Apr 14, 2024 · Last week, for the first time ever, the EPA finalized rules requiring the removal of certain PFAS chemicals from drinking water. PFAS chemicals have been used since the 1940s to make, among many items, non-stick cookware, firefighting foams, waterproof clothing and fabric. PFAS compounds can get into food from biosolid fertilizers produced by water treatment facilities that are used on ...

Nov 5, 2023 · Two sobering reports on global warming were released last week, warning that the planet is heating up faster than previously forecast. One report is about our “carbon budget”—the amount of carbon we can burn and still have a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, which was the goal of the Paris Agreement set in 2015.