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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

Take Action: Tell Canada to Stop Big Oil’s Climate Villains Chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Limited: 1989 – present President of Edco Financial Holdings Ltd: 2003 – 2015 Penn West Petroleum (later Penn West Energy Trust): 1992 – 2005 Founding member at FirstEnergy Capital Corp: 1993 – 2016 Co-founder at Peters & Co. (..)

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Celebrating 30 Years of Environmental Progress As The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

DEP’s work at the Somerset County crash site of Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, stands as a profound example of its emergency response capabilities. billion to date for reclamation efforts. These responses are carried out by DEP's dedicated emergency staff in coordination with local, state, and federal partners.

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PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: William C. Forrey - A Career In State Parks, Recreation Doing It Right, And Protecting The Environment

PA Environment Daily

Bill is widely regarded for his diligence in researching and writing three editions of the “History of State Parks” with the latest edition covering 2016 to 2023 published in 2024. Two previous editions were “History of Pennsylvania’s State Parks: 1893-1983” and “History of Pennsylvania State Parks: 1984 to 2015.” [ Click Here for copies.]

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Railroads Are Running Dirty Diesel Trains Through Communities and No One Is Doing Anything About It

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, a rapid adoption by three major railroads caused the share of Class I railroad revenue from PSR-utilizing firms to increase from less than 7 percent in 2016 to 70 percent by 2019, where it remains today (privately owned BNSF is the only Class I carrier not yet to adopt PSR). emissions by nearly 90 percent.

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Texas Failed to Spend Federal Aid for Flood Disaster Protection

Scientific American

The figure includes the $225 million that Texas gave up over the past 10 years as the government closed a series of partially spent hazard mitigation grants it had awarded the state since 2001. million of a $13 million mitigation grant it got in 2016. million hazard grant it got from FEMA after a wildfire in 2016, records show.

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On the effects of fault alignment on slip stability

Nature

Solid Earth 121 , 1097–1113 (2016). Solid Earth 106 , 11373–11386 (2001). & Fialko, Y. Geodetic constraints on frictional properties and earthquake hazard in the Imperial Valley, Southern California. Article Google Scholar Savage, J. & Lisowski, M. Inferred depth of creep on the Hayward fault, central California.

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Former MDPI CEO Dr. Franck Vazquez joins Frontiers

Frontiers

Dr. Vazquez served as the chief scientific officer of MDPI from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2019 to 2021, and as the chief executive officer from 2016 to 2019. in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2001. Image: Dr. Franck Vazquez, Frontiers’ head of partnerships. The University of Lille awarded Dr. Vazquez a Ph.D.

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