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April 29 Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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In Memoriam: Walt Pomeroy, Environmental, Wildlife & Wilderness Advocate

PA Environment Daily

While attending Albion College in Michigan, he helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970 and appeared on a CBS-TV prime-time special hosted by Walter Cronkite that was called Earth Day: A Question of Survival. CBS reported, and not all its foundries had installed air pollution control equipment.

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Bay Journal: Shale Gas Drilling, Development Yields Both Fears, Funding For Pennsylvania Public Lands

PA Environment Daily

The debate over benefits and drawbacks won’t end soon, especially as a new state bill aims to lift a moratorium on additional leases in forests managed by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. NewsClips: -- Responsible Decarbonization Alliance: Happy Earth Day! The welcome mat is still out.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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Address Impact Of Operations In Niger Delta Before Selling SPDC – CSOs Tell Shell

Corp Watch

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say

Corp Watch

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.