CA’s Floods Reveal Climate Change Symptoms

Executive Brief • January 12, 2023 “The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) American philosopher and poet who led the transcendentalist movement Ocean Heat Hit Another Record High in 2022, Fueling Extreme Weather The world’s oceans were the warmest on record for the fourth year in row in 2022, a troubling sign of the climate crisis caused by humans pumping heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. CNN Read more... Welcome To the Era of Weather Whiplash California’s floods reveal a likely climate change symptom: Quick shifts between opposing weather conditions. Vox Read more... Amid California's Stormy Weather, It Feels Like El Niño and La Niña Have Switched Roles For Californians, a classic El Niño means big waves, white mountains and lots of rain, just like the phenomenon's opposite, La Niña, has been serving up. NBC News Read more... House Republican Fires Opening Salvo on Energy Permitting A senior House Natural Resources Committee Republican offered an early preview Monday of how the GOP will seek to overhaul the permitting process for energy projects with its new House majority. E&E News Read more... Sitting Too Much is Bad for Your Health, but Offsetting the Impact is Easy, Study Shows Sure, you’ve heard the dangers of sitting all day, but with most jobs there isn’t much you can do about it, right? Not according to a new study, which looked into the impacts of prolonged sitting. CNN Read more... U.S. Interior Department Names Elizabeth Klein to Oversee Offshore Energy The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday named Elizabeth Klein, a lawyer who worked in the Obama and Clinton administrations, to head the bureau that oversees offshore oil, gas and wind development. Reuters Read more... CEQ Issues ‘Interim’ NEPA Climate Guide Without GHG Significance Level The White House has released “interim” guidance for how agencies should assess climate change effects in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews, requiring reviews of projects’ direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions and the use the social cost of carbon (SCC) while declining to set a GHG “significance” threshold to determine the rigor of reviews. Inside EPA's Read more... Heavy Rain is Still Hitting California. A Few Reservoirs Figured Out How to Capture More for Drought Despite several weeks of torrential rain and flooding, California is still facing a severe multi-year drought. That has many people thinking about how to better capture winter floodwaters to last through the dry season. NPR Read more...   2023 NAEM Members-Only Events Member Appreciation Week (Regents, Individual, Corporate & Affiliate Members) January 23 – 27, 2023 Virtual Save the dates for NAEM’s most anticipated week of the year – Member Appreciation Week. This is the week when we thank you for being an NAEM member with members-only programming, raffles, discounts, and more. Register for the week’s events to reserve your spot. LEARN MORE 2023 EHS & Sustainability Events IMPACT23 | Sustainability Impact Series Virtual Next Event: January 25, 2023 Free for NAEM Members/$399 for Non-Members Hear a presentation on the aftereffects of COP27 and benchmark with your peers on critical sustainability issues. IMPACT23 Q1 Discussion Group Topics: Comparing Notes on Climate Goals GHG Data Challenges & Breakthroughs (from Scope 1 to Scope 3) Benchmarking on Efforts to Prepare for ESG Regulations LEARN MORE TECH23 | EHS&S & ESG Tech Week March 14 - March 16, 2023 Tucson, Arizona NAEM's annual Tech conference is the only EHS&S tech event focused exclusively on meeting the challenges of data management, software, and technology solutions. This year’s agenda will broadly address EHS compliance, carbon accounting, GHG data management and corporate ESG reporting. LEARN MORE OPEX23 | EHS Operational Excellence May 17 - May 18, 2023 Virtual Join NAEM at our annual showcase of the leading practices to reduce risk, embed compliance into business culture and reach new levels of EHS operational excellence. LEARN MORE FORUM23 | EHS & Sustainability Management Forum October 24 - October 27, 2023 Cleveland, Ohio NAEM's EHS & Sustainability Management Forum is the must-attend EHS&S conference of the year, drawing EHS&S corporate decision-makers. LEARN MORE EHS&S Job Opportunities Supervisory Civil/Environmental Engineer (Deputy Director) Indian Health Service - Department of Health And Human Services Sacramento, California - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Nashville, Tennessee Apply Now Corporate EHS Manager Vistra Corp. Moss Landing, California Apply Now Director of the Environment Department San Francisco Environment Department San Francisco, California Apply Now Corporate EHS Analyst Luxottica Group McDonough, Georgia Apply Now BU EHS Manager MEI Rigging & Crating Conyers, Georgia - Salisbury, Massachusetts - Hillsboro, Oregon - Sparks, Nevada - Chantilly, Virginia - Houston, Texas Apply Now