Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In political terms, this seems like a lost opportunity to showcase the government’s achievements; it’s also a disservice to those in the policy community who are tracking implementation. 12) Department of Agriculture Another part of the government that has actually done a good job on reporting is, surprisingly, the U.S. Opening Oct.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But the fact that they can pass as part of a bipartisan spending law is a sign of how climate change is slowly becoming normalized as a political consideration. One significant provision relates to agriculture. These agriculture measures, which have the support of the farm lobby, are significant for two reasons.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2023

elect Josh Shapiro announced he will nominate Rich Negrin to be Secretary of DEP and retain Cindy Dunn as DCNR Secretary and Russell Redding as Agriculture Secretary. Cindy Dunn Cindy Dunn has served in the position of Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources since the beginning of the Wolf Administration in 2015.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

This political rollercoaster ride was also unfolding across last year’s Danger Season , stressing the urgency of the need to act big, and act now. The same partisan politics that delayed the IRA’s passage also carved some flaws into the bill. This is the largest farm conservation investment since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Myers Family Farm In Centre County Receives 2023 PA Leopold Conservation Award [PaEN] -- PA Dept. PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts 9-Part Woods In Your Backyard Webinar Series Starting Jan. 17 [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Feb. 19 & Feb.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This is a guest blog written by Bonnie Littley The Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve – locally known as DRAP – is the Crown Jewel of the Greenbelt. A quick history : 1972: Agricultural lands in Pickering and Markham were expropriated by the Province not long after the federal government’s expropriation of nearby lands in north Pickering.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. NSAC will reserve final assessment until the full legislative text becomes available.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stripping federal protections from countless wetlands and leaving these critical ecosystems exposed to devastating pollution and other damage from agriculture and other industries. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

28: Get To Know Elk State Forest , Noon -- WeConservePA Now Accepting Applications For Grants For Resource Management Planning For Forest Land In Conservation Easements In Chesapeake Bay Watershed [PaEN] -- Natural Areas Association: Feb. Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

22 Virtual DEP Update On MS4 Stormwater Program, NPDES Water Quality Permitting [PaEN] -- Manada Conservancy Hosts Feb. 22 Virtual DEP Update On MS4 Stormwater Program, NPDES Water Quality Permitting [PaEN] -- Manada Conservancy Hosts Feb. Westmoreland County? PaEN] -- DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

House Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee meets to consider House Resolution 400 (Matzie-D-Beaver) designating the week of June 17-23 Pollinator Week in Pennsylvania ( sponsor summary ). Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. April 30-- NEW.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

Among those is the growing risk that the chaos up-ends agriculture on a large scale —affecting markets for oil seeds, wheat, and other cereal grains, as well as fertilizers derived from natural gas, with effects that ripple across the world. This is not to say that Russian and Ukrainian agricultural exports are insignificant.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- January 17-- Inauguration Day For Gov.-Elect Elect Shapiro, Lt. Gov-Elect Davis -- Governor’s Transition -- Post-Gazette: Josh Shapiro Is About To Become PA Governor, This Could Be His First Big Test -- Gov.-Elect

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

The letter cited seven key issues that the bill should address, among them the climate crisis, food insecurity, worker protections, food safety, and systemic racism at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). How is the new farm bill shaping up to address the agriculture sector’s pollution problem?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Agriculture has historically been left out of the conversation at COP. That changed this year with the Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action , which was signed by 134 world leaders. This agreement emphasizes the imperative to adapt agricultural practices to a warming world.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Of Environmental Professionals Now Accepting Applications For College Scholarship Program [PaEN] -- MCall: Can Dogs Be Used To Combat Spotted Lanternfly?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I am a professional agroecologist trained in ecosystem processes with experience in sustainable agriculture. Over many years, as Big Agriculture in the state got bigger and bigger, such unbridled pumping led to a race to the bottom for too many aquifers, and drought and climate change only intensified the need to pump.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2023

And the agriculture industry, which uses an outsize amount of California’s water and has literally changed the state’s landscape, needs to change and adapt, fast. Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states. It is true that California’s surface water sources have greatly benefitted from this wet winter.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

Of Agriculture Now Accepting Applications For Agricultural Conservation Research Grants -- Dept. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. in Somerset County -- DEP Venting Abandoned Conventional Gas Well In Ross Twp. Electric, 23.2% Electric, 23.2%

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In order to address the ecological consequences of the legal waivers, Congress authorized programs and investments to convince farmers to voluntarily adopt conservation practices that idle farmland, plant cover crops and buffer strips, protect nutrient-absorbing wetlands, and reduce runoff. Department of Agriculture spent $5.3

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 8, 2024

In Washington, DC, the political party that governs the House, Senate, and White House is rightly portrayed as a major contributor to policy outcomes. But politics alone is far from the only determinant. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) mandatory farm and nutrition assistance programs.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Travel east in the Mediterranean and Tunisia is cutting urban water service at night to conserve supplies amid a harsh, multi-year drought. In that region, government authorities mandated a 40 percent reduction in water for agriculture, a 15 percent decrease for industries, and a 20 liter cut in the average daily supply per resident.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. to -25.7%) ] -- PUC: Proposed Settlement With PPL To Resolve Widespread Consumer Billing Issues, $1 Million Penalty -- MCall: PPL To Pay Fines, Forgive Costs Totaling $17.2

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2023

Casey, Fetterman -- DEP Awards $7.8 Million In Federal Funding To Support Local Mine Reclamation, Mine Drainage Treatment Projects; Next Round Of Applications Due Aug. Geological Survey Pennsylvania Water Science Center Spring Newsletter Now Available [PaEN] -- In Memoriam: John P.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

4 to 12 - 9 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Cleanup Continues; Pipeline Land Slips [PaEN] -- PJM Interconnection: Winter Weather Forces Natural Gas Pipeline Fuel Restrictions, ‘Conservative Operations’ Declared To Assure Electric Grid Reliability Through Jan.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 20, 2022

In particular, Environmental Defence has asked all of the major political parties to commit to: . Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC) Response: . That will allow us to permanently protect precious prime agricultural land, currently being lost to sprawl, highways and gravel mining, and smartly expand the Greenbelt.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2024

TUESDAY 3:30: Virtual/In-Person : Penn State College Of Agricultural Sciences Town Hall Discussion On State Of Pennsylvania Agriculture. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Read more here. PA Farm Show Building, Susquehanna Room, 2300 N. Cameron St.,

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

What Is Agricultural Use? not going to environmental uses), agriculture uses a whopping 80%. So it makes little sense to call on urban users to conserve, so the story goes, until ag goes first. And it obscures the issue by dismissing it as an “agricultural” use. But just think about this a moment.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Over Last Year [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: 73-Acre Proposed Solar Farm To Produce Electricity In Scranton -- PA Solar Center Hosts Entertaining Dec. 9 Online PA Healthy School Summit - Recharging For A New Era In Environmental Health. 9 Online PA Healthy School Summit - Recharging For A New Era In Environmental Health.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Vermont is recovering from catastrophic floods, as is New Hampshire, also on the heels of a weather-related agricultural wipeout. In 2011 I invited Reagan-era economist Art Laffer to speak to a hall filled exclusively with New Hampshire Republicans, both leaders and rank and file conservatives. As I write this, 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

Click Here to watch live. -- WEDNESDAY: House Budget Hearing - Agriculture 1:00 p.m. Watch live. -- March 28: Senate Budget Hearing - Agriculture 1:00 p.m. Who’s Responsible For Cleaning It Up? -- The Nature Conservancy Receives $4.25 Million In Combined Investments For Appalachians. -- The Nature Conservancy Receives $4.25

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this fence, and others just like it, could be the main barrier to the success of the largest transboundary conservation area in the world. KAZA encompasses over 500,000 square kilometers of both protected and unprotected land in an attempt to preserve resources and wildlife migration routes that ignore political borders.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- 4,258 Stories In 2023 - Environmental & Conservation Leadership, Significant Events In PA [PaEN] -- DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Discuss The PFOA/PFOS ‘Forever Chemical’ Drinking Water Standard, Hydrogen Hubs In PA At Jan.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Through Bill 229, passed in late October, 202 0, Ontario empowered a single partisan cabinet minister to force through dangerous development applications, even where Conservation Authorities have concluded they could cause flooding or landslides. On restoring the role of Conservation Authorities in protecting watersheds and natural systems.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- 2022 Priorities Gov. Capitol -- AP: Trial Set For State College Man Charged With Assaulting Capitol Police Officer Who Died In Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

of Agriculture -- DCNR Blog: Red In The Winter Woods -- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Erie Tributaries Saw Big Steelhead This Fall, Winter Packs Plenty Of Promise -- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: PA Anglers Anxious For Colder Weather for Ice Fishing, But Will It Arrive In 2024? Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

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