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EPA National Water Program publishes 2012 Highlights of Progress: Responses to Climate Change

Posted Fri, 2013/04/05 - 3:28pm by RCAP

EPA has released a 2012 Highlights of Progress report, which provides a summary of the major climate change-related accomplishments of EPA's national and regional water programs in 2012. This is the fourth climate change progress report for the National Water Program and the first progress report organized around the five long-term programmatic vision areas described in the National Water Program 2012 Strategy: Response to Climate Change, which are:

Join EPA on Twitter on April 8 to discuss climate change

Posted Fri, 2013/04/05 - 3:11pm by RCAP

During Earth Month, EPA will focus on climate change during a series of environmental Twitter chats. On Monday, April 8 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, the Twitter chat will focus on the impacts of climate change on water. EPA will also be discussing how EPA's programs focus on adaptation and mitigation by the water sector. To participate, follow twitter.com/EPAlive and use the hashtag #EPAchat.

More information on EPA's Earth Day activities

CBS News: Summer 2012: Glimpse of climate change effects?

Posted Fri, 2012/07/06 - 10:33am by RCAP

A July 3 posting to the CBS News website, originally from the Associated Press, begins:

"(AP) WASHINGTON - If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.

Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho.