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Guest Post: Pass the Climate Commitment Act on Earth Day

Washington Nature

On April 22, Earth Day, the Washington State House will vote on the Climate Commitment Act ( SB 5126 ). There is no better way for the Washington Legislature to honor Earth Day than by passing the Climate Commitment Act. Pass the Climate Commitment Act on Earth Day! It is not perfect.

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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

But, despite his personal beliefs, Nixon was pressured by the times to respond to burgeoning ecological concerns ignited by Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring , and the 20 million people protesting for the planet in the first Earth Day in 1970.

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Appeals court upholds Ontario town’s convictions for damaging piping plover habitat

Enviromental Defense

Ontario Court of Appeals decision upholds vital habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Ecojustice, acting on behalf of Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature, intervened in the case. Toronto, Ont./ No such exceptions were sought by the Town in this case.

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Trail Mix Blog: Rachel Carson, A Pennsylvanian Sparked An Awakening

PA Environment Daily

By the end of the decade as oil gushed from a drilling platform off Santa Barbara, California and the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire, Americans were ready to act. A teach-in held by Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, blossomed into Earth Day [April 22]. Brinkley is a presidential historian.

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network to hold panel discussion about community engagement. Federal Register opportunities. White House Announces First National Nature Assessment. National Nature Assessment.

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Policy News: May 9, 2022

ESA

Blog post: Accounting for Nature on Earth Day 2022. In December 2020, USFWS made a determination that listing the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act is “warranted but precluded.”. Most notably, the USFWS agrees to issue either a warranted or not warranted finding for the monarch butterfly by Sept.

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