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drought working group. Two EPA regional offices botched their oversight duties for
Clean Water Act permits, the agency’s internal watchdog found. USGS scientists find a long-term reduction in salt levels in the
Upper Colorado River basin but less progress and even increasing levels in the last two decades. The EPA will kick off public listening sessions this week for the
Lead and Copper Rule. And lastly, NOAA is updating its
climate ‘normals,’ shifting the baseline for average precipitation and temperature.
“We don’t have any intention of going back to the original Obama Waters of the U.S. verbatim and we don’t necessarily agree with everything that was in the Trump administration’s version as well. We’ve learned lessons from both, we’ve seen complexities in both and we’ve determined that both rules did not necessarily listen to the will of the people.” Michael Regan, the EPA administrator, testifying before the House Appropriations Commi
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New, and more recent, 30-year averages turn up the burner on a long-simmering topic.
By Bob Henson | Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Is today a warmer-than-average day? That seemingly basic question has become fraught in the era of the Anthropocene, as greenhouse gases emitted during a century-plus of fossil fuel use have been warming most everything on our planet.
The most common U.S. yardstick for determining whether a given day is unusually warm or cool – NOAA’s 30-year database of “climate normals” – is now being updated. Over the past decade, the averages for the U.S. and many other nations have been based on data from 1981-2010. Now these averages are being revised across the world to reflect the just-ended period of 1991-2020.