PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is noteworthy not because it contains anything new (it doesn’t), but because despite clearly violating the established standards of good scientific practice, it was published by a government agency. This warming was predicted not only by independent university and government scientists, but also by scientists from the oil company Exxon.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When they converge on Glasgow this fall to rekindle pivotal global climate negotiations that were dampened during the pandemic, diplomats and government ministers will confront a world much changed since their last convention. We’re trying to think of this as a development priority as opposed to a nature conservation priority.”.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

The 2023 updates were the result of a yearlong review process by an advisory committee composed of regional governments, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions. The population in the Potomac River watershed has increased by 13% since 2010.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past several years – and especially in the past few months – Premier Doug Ford’s government has made sweeping changes to environmental protection and land use planning rules across Ontario. . Changes in wetland cover for counties and municipalities are described in the Southern Ontario Wetland Conversion Analysis report (2010).

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

Vulnerability is higher in high-poverty areas, in countries with poor government, and in farming and fishing communities that are more exposed to climate change. Between 2010 and 2020, the death rate from floods, storms, and droughts in high vulnerability areas was 15 times higher than in low vulnerability areas.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That’s when Gates’ 100C paid $171 million for 14,500 acres of land (10,500 acres of it irrigated farmland) from the Boston-based John Hancock Life Insurance Company, which had paid $75 million for the parcel in 2010. In Washington—and elsewhere—there are rules governing the sale of water. It’s not only land acquisitions.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Conservation easements can facilitate a transition of cropland to salt marsh, providing numerous ecosystem services and up to 90% of the market value for farms. Such programs, funded by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and different state agencies, pay farmers as much as $4,000 an acre to stop farming their land.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Polls have repeatedly shown 90 percent or more of voters want more funding for critical environmental and conservation programs. They also made these cuts and raids on funds set aside for environmental restoration in the face of overwhelming voter support. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

While pledging to ramp up such oversight, the EPA is also working closely with the county conservation district, Farm Bureau and others to encourage farmers to adopt runoff control measures on their land. “We Really, the key we have to unlock is widespread adoption of conservation practices on small– and medium-size farms,” Ortiz said.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It According to the study, deforestation related to industrial mining peaked in Indonesia between 2010 and 2014. One of the main reasons is the massive coal mining permits, including in forest areas.”

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2021

The court first ruled in 2017 that transferring royalties from gas leases on state forest land for purposes other than conservation was unconstitutional. That decision stemmed from the Commonwealth shuffling over $380 million in oil and gas monies to the General Fund in 2009 and 2010.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Polls have repeatedly shown 90 percent or more of voters want more funding for critical environmental and conservation programs. On September 20, the Senate and House come back into voting session with only a few handfuls of voting days left until the end of 2021. The question is-- how will they spend their limited time in Harrisburg?

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Vermont Law

MARCH 10, 2014

In 2010, after nearly three decades of failed efforts to restore the Bay individually, the surrounding Bay states began collaborating with the Environmental Protection Agency. Effective land conservation strategies in the Bay watershed states can fill this gap by preventing the conversion of natural areas into developed land.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. In 2010, the City Council of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania unanimously passed an ordinance recognizing the Rights of Nature as part of a ban on shale gas drilling and fracking.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 11, 2022

The bill establishes a target of conserving by 2040 a million acres of working forests and reforesting another million acres, especially in burn-scarred areas and urban communities with disproportionately low tree cover. million acres have burned in wildfires since 2010. On top of that, more than 4.5

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2010

In early 2010, the Louisiana Office of Conservation published in the Louisiana Register a Notice of Intent to amend Statewide Order 29-B, the regulation governing the storage, treatment, and disposal of exploration and production waste at oilfield sites. on April 12, 2010. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Energy Policy & Conservation Act (EPCA), which sets nationwide energy conservation standards for many common appliances and preempts state and local standards, preempts Berkeley’s 2019 ban on natural gas connections to newly-constructed buildings. Constitution, and delegated in some way by most states to local governments.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2021

Now more than ever, it is critical that we are good stewards of our forests and the natural resources within them,” said Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn. The Forest Action Plan builds on the sustainability meters developed in the 2010 plan and notes changes in the past 10 years.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. Michael Greenstone, a University of Chicago economist, first calculated it in 2010. What is the social cost of carbon? If the SCC is low, new laws might not be worth the effort.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

To quote Brancalion & Holl (2020), “Well-planned tree planting projects can be a valuable intervention to address some of the most critical challenges of our time, such as mitigating climate change, conserving biodiversity and providing food, wood and income to small landowners.” Guidance for successful tree planting initiatives.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 20, 2024

Nonetheless, during the public meeting where the final rule was released, the conservative Commissioners questioned why the rule was not re-proposed in light of changes between the proposed and final versions. The SEC has issued hundreds of these since its inception in 1933. Issuing guidance does not require a formal rulemaking process.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables. On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4%

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2022

When the EPA and the states agreed on a new Bay cleanup plan in 2010, it was thought the dam’s reservoir would not be filled until after 2025, when all pollution actions needed to restore Chesapeake water quality are supposed to be in place.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 6, 2014

However, good governance of natural resources demands public participation. Open pit mining during the 1980s and, more recently, the 2010 government-proposed construction of a gas duct—‘Vía Verde’—threatened life in some of the most important forests on the Island.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2022

During a farm visit to discuss Pennsylvania’s new plan, Karl Brown, executive secretary of the State Conservation Commission, acknowledged “there’s no question that Pennsylvania, and particularly the ag sector, has to accelerate our efforts.” “We will not hesitate to use those backstop measures if the amended WIP is insufficient.”

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2015

In 2010, the Antrim shale became the U.S.’s The Collingwood/Utica shale is a much deeper formation than the Antrim shale, and in 2010, 5.5 FLOW reaches out to local governments helping provide them with legal strategies to protect their communities from the environmental harms of fracking. Fracking has been employed in Michigan.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 8, 2024

Planning and Conservation League, et al v. North Coast Rivers Alliance, et al (“NCRA”) and Planning and Conservation League, et al (“PCL”) filed separate actions challenging the project under CEQA and other laws, in which some contractors intervened. 2010) 48 Cal.4th Department of Water Resources, et al, etc. 2023) Cal.App.5th

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Other successes include better soil health management practices as a result of federal spending and restoration of native perennial cover as in programs like the Audubon Great Plains Conservation Forage Program. Droughts are a particular challenge, as in Kansas where there were droughts in 56 of 156 months from 2010 to 2022.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 21, 2016

In 2010, under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“the FWS”) designated 6,477 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the Rana sevosa or the dusky gopher frog. This frog has historically lived in nine counties or parishes across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. Nestle Pakistan caught evading government taxes of Rs38.86

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé u-turn on Ethiopia debt Charlotte Denny | The Guardian | January 24, 2003 Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government. Nestle Pakistan caught evading government taxes of Rs38.86

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is looking to expand the number of farmers who grow perennial crops on river-adjacent land. In 2010, the U.S. We know [installing riparian buffers] is the right thing to do as far as conservation, and environmentally,” Stark adds. Profitable Plantings?

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

That’s because the region’s ongoing groundwater woes are at least two decades in the making, exacerbated in part by the very federal programs meant to conserve water in the area, The Counter has found. Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

California, Arizona, Nevada and the federal government reach agreement to reduce water consumption in the Colorado River basin. Conservation: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( S. Senate committee holds hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This guest post by Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, (IATP), discusses how popular conservation programs should focus on small-scale and sustainable farms, not industrial-scale farms. water resources.

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