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Federal Water Tap, April 24: Pennsylvania’s Pollution Failures Targeted in Proposed Chesapeake Bay Settlement

Circle of Blue

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 Undertake annual assessments of Pennsylvania’s pollution-reduction progress. The National Interagency Fire Center publishes a three-month wildfire outlook.

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More Money Out the Door! Farm Bill and IRA Funding Available Through Conservation Innovation Grants

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FY 2023 CIG Classic Priorities Each year, NRCS identifies priority categories within CIG that can advance new or emerging high priority natural resource issues. Managing Agricultural Lands to Improve Local Water Quality : Traditional agricultural land management might not consider risks to receiving water bodies.

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Flooding soon in a basement near you: the impacts of weakening wetland protection in Ontario

Enviromental Defense

Specifically, I went looking for information about how many wetlands are at risk now that the rules for protecting a wetland as “Provincially Significant” under OWES have fundamentally changed. Local and regional authorities predict most wetlands are at risk. What follows is a summary of my findings.

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Moving beyond climate ‘silver bullets’ in agriculture

HumanNature

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. Guest Post By Shelby McClelland , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Eventually, this approach to global food production will fail us all.

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What’s Up With Water – February 8, 2022

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But the penalty for contaminated water is paid by the people who drink it, and who must bear stricter and more costly standards in order to protect the public health. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself. The risk of disease would likely decrease. Now there are new worries.

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

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Farms collectively are the largest source of nitrate pollution in rivers and groundwater, and the penalty for contaminated water — meaning stricter and more costly standards in order to protect public health — is paid by the people who drink it. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself.

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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

While ENSO is static, occurring in one place due to the causes that create those conditions, MJO moves across a geographical area - eastwards along the tropics, bringing higher levels of cloud, increased precipitation and therefore the risk of rainfall. Sponsored Content. What Climatology Is Not. Early 20 th Century. The 1960s and 1970s.