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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts Newsletter for 2024-12-12 ( 4 items )  
Conservation Law Foundation: Vermont Releases Draft Plan to Improve Clean Water Enforcement (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 11 -- The Conservation Law Foundation issued the following news release: * * * More needs to be done to ensure safe, clean water for Vermont * * * (Montpelier, VT) - Vermont's Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) released a draft plan to stop industrial farm pollution and improve clean water permitting and enforcement. While the plan is a first step, it is lacking and will not adequately protect Vermont's waters, including Lake Champlain, from the excess phosphorus t more PR

Marine Biological Laboratory: New Publications - November 2024 (10)
WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Marine Biological Laboratory, an affiliate of the University of Chicago, issued the following publications for November 2024: * * * Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In November 2024, 11 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold. Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here (https://www.mbl.edu/research/scientific-publications). November more PR

Union of Concerned Scientists: DOJ Urges SCOTUS to Reject Fossil Fuel Industry Challenges in Climate Deception Cases (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release: WASHINGTON (December 11, 2024)--The U.S. Department of Justice, through Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, submitted two significant briefs yesterday urging the Supreme Court to reject petitions in Sunoco et al. v. Honolulu and Alabama et al. v. California et al. The petitions both seek to block state and local lawsuits centered on holding fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of more PR

Woodwell Climate Research Center: NOAA's 2024 Arctic Report Card Says Tundra is Now Net Source of Carbon to the Atmosphere (10)
FALMOUTH, Massachusetts, Dec. 11 (TNSres) -- Woodwell Climate Research Center, formerly the Woods Hole Research Center, issued the following update on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * Holistic pan-Arctic carbon assessment reviews the climate drivers impacting carbon storage and emissions across the Arctic region, including thawing permafrost and wildfires * * * A chapter of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) 2024 Arctic Report Card, published today, presents a new, comprehensiv more PR