PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2023

The PA Association of Environmental Professionals is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Karl Mason and Walter Lyon Awards. For more information on programs, initiatives, workshops and other special events, visit the PA Association of Environmental Professionals website. The deadline for submissions is August 31.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2023

The federal, provincial and territorial governments have identified many of the items in the proposed six categories as problematic because they (1) regularly end up in the environment, (2) are harmful to habitats and species, and/or (3) cause significant challenges in end of life management.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2024

Birders are invited to join the Blitz by forming a team, raising funds, and competing in either the “cumulative count” or “big day” categories to document birds during nesting season. This is in addition to our traditional “Big Day Count” category. The land was historically strip mined, and later used as a golf course.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

That also means they play the largest role in climate-related environmental changes. The standard includes 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions, such as transportation and distribution of products, employee travel, and use of commercial products.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB has justified its decision to issue lucrative credits to industrial dairies that construct anaerobic digester systems to capture dairy methane––despite years of pushback from environmental justice communities––through a basic anchoring premise: there is no alternative.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The soaring demand for batteries relies heavily on the extraction and refinement of critical minerals, processes that have far-reaching environmental and social impacts. The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing rapidly, but with this growth comes public pressure to ensure supply chains for EV batteries are sustainable.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

These programs have the promise to radically transform carbon management and transportation in America. For example, the clean fuel production credit requires the IRS to assign carbon intensity values to various fuel categories, transforming the tax collection agency into a pseudo-environmental regulator.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

There are many challenges that can arise when managing a pond; this webinar will discuss five steps you can take as an earthen pond owner to help manage and minimize these challenges. Nutrient Retention On Pasture Lands Managing pastures for nutrient and soil retention is in the best interest of producers and the environment.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Symposium is an annual event to give students the opportunity to showcase their environmental projects, research, service projects, internships and artwork. For each category a winner and honorable mention were selected by a team of judges. This year was the 15th year that Westminster College has hosted the event.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

With increasing emphasis on environmental education in schools, we are seeing more students take an active role in watershed preservation and protection,” said Laura Martin, senior director of government and external affairs for Pennsylvania American Water.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Biden administration has made it a priority to target environmental justice issues as part of the administration’s broader economic agenda. A small but potentially mighty component of the Act focuses on strengthening environmental justice. Allocated $32.5 Allocated $32.5 Allocated $1.10

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As a former federal program manager , I know that doing all this through competitive grants will require technical savvy and tremendous community capacity to organize and attract the funds communities deserve. The IRA will provide $369 billion in grants, loans, and tax credits for the energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

On March 13, Kurt Klapkowski, Acting Deputy for Oil and Gas Management, told the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board , DEP expects to submit a letter of intent as early as this week to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to apply for primary to regulate underground injection wells.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2022

The bill outlines three spending categories for the drought-response funds. On the morning of August 4, Patrick Dent, the Central Arizona Project’s assistant general manager for water policy, briefed his board, updating the water supply agency’s caretakers about basin-wide discussions to reduce Colorado River water use.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 3, 2021

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT JUSTICE SUPPORT, TORONTO ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE, CITIZENS’ NETWORK ON WASTE MANAGEMENT, WASTE WATCH OTTAWA AND CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION. Emily Alfred, Toronto Environmental Alliance, emily@torontoenvironment.org. Toronto, Ont. – 30 – . .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the April 15 PA Bulletin -- -- The Department of Agriculture published notice in the April 15 PA Bulletin it is now accepting applications for Agriculture Research Grants on a variety of research areas. DEP ID:  250-4000-004 -- Final Guidance: Waste Management Program Enforcement Actions.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

As Anthony Turton from the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State states, this represents “a tsunami of human waste inundating our rivers and dams, without respite, for more than a decade.”. The Green Drop report itself shows a significant failure in wastewater treatment quality over almost a decade.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 24, 2023

And lastly, the EPA establishes that water and wastewater are eligible categories for billions in federal funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. “We Forest Service released a web-based tool that displays data sets related to watershed health, carbon storage, biodiversity, management practices, and other topics.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With advice and input from local experts, Berks Nature identified 25 environmental indicators across five categories: Water, Energy, Air, Waste, and Land. Berks Nature launched the first State of the Environment report in 2008 with the philosophy of “what gets measured, gets done.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2023

-- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- 48 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students And Adults [PaEN] -- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week [PaEN] -- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: In PA, (..)

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Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2023

Photo courtesy Brent Anderson / South Florida Water Management District via Flickr Creative Commons YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Public hiking paths have opened along the Han River, a biodiverse estuary which flows through the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. The latest, Cyclone Mocha, made landfall early this week in Myanmar.

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed two air quality Indexes for communicating air quality to the public, the U.S Both indexes use color-coded categories, and each category is identified by a simple informative descriptor. Both the US AQI & Nowcast are divided into six categories.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The funding opportunities listed below are broken down into three categories: Research and Education Local Food (including urban and rural-focused programs) and Nutrition Climate, Conservation, and Energy The Requests for Applications (RFA) in this post are organized by category and then by application date, from earliest deadline to furthest out.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 6, 2022

For instance, the UK based environmental, social and governance equity funds (ESG) which in recent years have grown in prominence have seen a record 1.5billion of investments. When investors have cash to add, they add it to ESG, and any impulse to sell is felt by other categories.”

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Brag

DECEMBER 28, 2022

EPA states that it will review applications by product categories. In spring 2023 , EPA will announce the order in which product categories will be assessed. Bergeson and Carla N. EPA will use the responses to determine the applicant's eligibility and scope of assessment.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Farms and cities are bracing for mandatory conservation orders and environmental groups are scrambling to protect fish and birds. One of four broad spending categories authorized by the act are water infrastructure improvements like those needed by Iberia Parish. Lift stations and treatment plant equipment are also due for an upgrade.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

Last year, hundreds of community members, regulatory agencies, and advocates ( including UCS ) weighed in on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed standards to strengthen the Risk Management Program (RMP). One such incident was a fire and release of toxic gas at the BioLab chemical facility in Westlake, Louisiana.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Arnold & Porter was named to the Financial Times list of "Top 20 Most Innovative Law Firms in North America" in the "Practice of Law" category. The ranking highlights firms that excel in areas of legal practice, business and operational management, inclusion, and environmental, social and governance issues.

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Brag

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on November 2, 2022, that it launched a new process to expand the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) program’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing (Recommendations). Bergeson and Carla N.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 9 PA Bulletin inviting comments on the draft NPDES General Permit for Discharges of Stormwater Associated with Construction Activities (PAG-02). Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for a summary of additional changes and instructions on how to submit comments.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Delaware County Sustainability and Resilience Manager, and Keep Delco Beautiful affiliate coordinator, Rebecca Yurkovich had this to say about the partnership, “The Delaware County Office of Sustainability is thrilled to join the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful affiliate network.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 23, 2023

The new categories include urban/small properties less than one-quarter acre and large or institutional properties greater than 15 acres. The large property certification is designed for anyone who manages a property greater than fifteen acres in size. What does a certified property look like? How can you certify your property?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2023

As part of this action, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed updates to Circular A-4 , a bedrock guidance document, which will greatly improve how federal agencies account for the benefits and costs of their actions and therefore better serve the public interest.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 25, 2022

The firm has expertise in all real property matters, including full-service litigation and dispute resolution services, transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, construction, management, title insurance, environmental law, and redevelopment and land use. CEQA Guidelines, §§ 15124, 15126, 15126.4, 8/24/22 Order, emph.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

These results highlight the need to revise and redesign this supposedly sustainable plastic waste management system. Global plastic pollution remains one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. They are largely unregulated and claims around their environmental benefits are often exaggerated. . Revising the system.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

IRA dollars function as a supplemental pool of funding for four conservation programs: the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), and the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP.) Appendix Table 1.

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Brag

MARCH 24, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted the justification for its fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriation estimates for the Committee on Appropriations (Congressional Justification (CJ)). EPA certifies and allows use of the Safer Choice label on products containing ingredients that meet stringent health and environmental criteria.

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