PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The agency will be engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to continue to identify collaborative solutions to the PFAS challenge, including two national webinars that will be held on October 26 and November 2. EPA’s Strategic Roadmap is a critical step forward in addressing PFAS pollution. Click Here for the complete announcement.

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HumanNature

JUNE 16, 2021

Food is where we propose CSU focuses their reduction efforts since it is the source of 45% of the University’s footprint (Figure 2). 2020 nitrogen footprint by category. SIMAP, 2021 — About the Nitrogen Footprint Project The Nitrogen Footprint Project is an endeavor to track the nitrogen use of CSU’s campus.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 5, 2023

Grant funding will be awarded to three categories of applicants: Category 1 – Minority serving academic institutions (e.g., 1890 and 1994 Land Grant Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions) Category 2 – Non-profit, community-based organizations, and Indian Tribes Category 3 – Academic institutions and organizations (e.g.,

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The key changes DOE is proposing to make to its categorical exclusions are as follows: Solar PV Projects : DOE’s current NEPA regulations include a categorical exclusion ( Exclusion B5.16 ) for certain categories of solar PV projects.

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Ohio Environmental Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Types of Consumer Laws Regulating PFAS Generally, the states that have adopted consumer product regulations have enacted laws that fall in to the following major categories: Banning “Intentionally Added” PFAS in Consumer Products. Reporting or Notification Requirements for Products that Contain PFAS.

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HumanNature

MARCH 30, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology The foodie’s dilemma There is no debate about it: I am a foodie through and through. In fact, global agriculture produces 44% of anthropogenic (or human-caused) CH 4 emissions and 81% of N 2 O emissions. Credit: Amy Swan.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Dark green (Category 1 Protection) represents existing Provincially Significant Wetlands. Dark green (Category 1 Protection) represents existing Provincially Significant Wetlands and habitat for endangered and threatened species. It would also expose existing Provincially Significant Wetlands (PSWs) to re-evaluation in isolation.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

buy-and-dry) will drive the remainder 2. 2006) is to associate different carbon storage potentials with different land-use types (Figure 2). Figure 2: The South Platte River Basin of Colorado. Ecological Economics 69 , 2060–2068 (2010). Generic methodologies applicable to multiple land-use categories. Farley, J. &

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Johan Lotter and his parents moved into numbers 2 and 2A Johann Street in Standerton 15 years ago, planning to spend the rest of their lives there. This investigation was produced in collaboration with the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism and OpenUp , with the support of OSF-SA. By Steve Kretzmann.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

Settlements Set Timeline and Scope for Part 2 of Asbestos Risk Evaluation. Settlements Set Timeline and Scope for Part 2 of Asbestos Risk Evaluation. EPA currently anticipates issuing a draft scope document for Part 2 by December 31, 2021. Table of Contents. » Litigation. N:Asbestos Disease Awareness Org. Regan, No.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge section to hold webinar with Office of Science and Technology Policy staff. ESA: The Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section is hosting a webinar series to facilitate a virtual space to welcome and hear from Indigenous voices who work to help sustain and nurture TEK within their communities.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

White House establishes Interagency Working Group on Indigenous Ecological Knowledge. Several 1-2 hour training and prep sessions will occur in late January and February 2022 over Zoom. White House: The Biden administration established an Interagency Working Group on Indigenous Ecological Knowledge. Senate confirms Charles F.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

FY 2023 CIG Classic Priorities Each year, NRCS identifies priority categories within CIG that can advance new or emerging high priority natural resource issues. Awards and Eligibility Awards for national projects can range between $250,000 and $2 million and they can range from one to three years in duration.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

This bill responds to an executive order from President Trump to create a “schedule F” category for federal employees, who would be easier to fire. The scientific community opposed this executive order, over concerns that this category could be used fire scientists whose results contradict the preferences of political employees.

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JULY 6, 2022

The overall Report Card covers 18 infrastructure categories including drinking water, hazardous waste, solid waste, wastewater, stormwater, and energy. The highest score among the categories previously listed was a C+ for solid waste, demonstrating the intersectionality between infrastructure and environmental impacts. 4332(2)(C).

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MARCH 28, 2022

Rio Verde Foothills, where Nabity, Simpson and at least 500 other homeowners rely on the depot for their drinking water, falls into that category. It is a flashing red warning that Arizona’s growth-centered economic determinism is crashing hard into severe ecological constraints. . Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Stephen Woroniecki – a PhD Researcher in Climate Change Adaptation from Lund University in Sweden – discusses how this approach could address the ecological crisis with Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner George Monbiot. They bring together our two crucial tasks: preventing climate breakdown and preventing ecological breakdown.

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Environmental Science

JULY 29, 2018

Regardless of niche, zoologists examine many areas of animal life, covering such varied areas as animal anatomy, ecology , fetal development, their evolution (and common ancestors with similar animals in the same family or order and those related), distribution and habits, diet, and place in the food chain.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

In 1972, an NGO called the Club of Rome published “The Limits to Growth,” a report concluding that the planet was on the brink of ecological collapse, which The New York Times covered on its front page. felt that India, among others, was probably in this category. Top academic institutions helped make Malthusian ideas mainstream.

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JULY 22, 2018

Climatologists today are almost universally directing their efforts towards understanding, explaining and attempting to do something about global warming, but as you will see in the list below, that is not the science's only puzzle to solve nor the limits of its interest (2). Natural Variables That Influence Our Climate. Oscillations.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – February 2, 2022. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself. Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children? The harrowing trail of toxic nutrients in farm country water. Photography and videography by J. Carl Ganter. AURORA, Neb.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Former ISAC members Laura Meyerson, James Carlton, Daniel Simberloff and David Lodge published an editorial in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment explaining the importance of federal leadership in invasive species policy and decrying the cuts to NISC. Paula Harrison (UK) from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; Prof.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Climate justice is a category of environmental justice and recognizes that climate change impacts are not distributed or experienced equally, and as such, can exacerbate inequitable social conditions within and between countries. For example, in 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by hurricane Irma and Maria.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For deserts, evapotranspiration ratio exceeds average annual rainfall by anything from 2:1 to 33:1. Deserts will differ depending on their climate and location and their overall aridity can influence many things, not least of all the ecology, food chain, plant and animal types.

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APRIL 5, 2021

2 trillion plan includes $50 billion to create a new technology directorate for NSF. President Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure plan. See ESA’s Legislative Tracker for more updates on legislation relevant to the ecological community. In this issue: . Federal Register opportunities. Executive Branch.

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JUNE 14, 2021

It changed long-time agency policy to allow major sources of pollution to reclassify as area sources, a category with fewer regulatory requirements, once their emissions fell below a certain threshold. Stansbury’s undergraduate degree is in human ecology and natural science and her master’s degree is in developmental sociology.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

in ecology from the University of Michigan, is the author of a trilogy of award-winning books on environmental health and from 2003-2021 served as the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. It also offers a review of trends in research findings. Steingraber’s presentation.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

These two proclamations effectively carved up the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the Bears Ears National Monument and replaced them with three smaller ones, dramatically reducing the environmental protections for nearly 2 million acres of federal lands in central and southern Utah.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Evaluation of the chemical composition of the material; and 2. An evaluation of the routes of exposure to humans and ecological receptors shall be identified. mg/l (wastewater) - 2 mg/l (WMGR123 Standard). mg/l (wastewater) - 2 mg/l (WMGR123 Standard). DEP regulations at 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8 McComb Oil Inc.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). 2:16 -cr-00167 (W.D. 2:16 -cv-00335 (E.D. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. United States v. Avista Corp.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 6, 2007

The guidance observes that “[w]here there is no majority opinion in a Supreme Court case, controlling legal principles may be derived from those principles espoused by five or more justices.” Guidance at 2. separated from the tributary by uplands or a berm, dike, or other similar feature).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When paying producers for their conservation activities, NRCS groups specific activities into three categories: conservation practices, enhancements, and bundles: Conservation Practices are the basic conservation activities that have long been supported by the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and other cost-share programs.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

June 2, 2021). Forest Service , 2:13-cv-00934 (E.D. 2:21-cv-00778 (W.D. 2:20-cv-03579 (D.S.C. Connecticut v. Exxon Mobil Corp. , 3:20-cv-01555 (D. District Court Stayed Briefing of Motion to Remand in Annapolis’s Climate Case. After the Supreme Court’s decision in BP p.l.c. Conservation Congress v. May 17, 2021).

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

2:21-cv-00778 (W.D. The Washington Court of Appeals held that the Pollution Control Hearing Board erred when it approved the Washington Department of Ecology’s general permits for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Washington Department of Ecology , No. 2:18-cv-00758 (W.D. Louisiana v. Biden , No.

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