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PA Environmental Council Recognizes DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn With Lifetime Achievement Award

PA Environment Daily

On April 6, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council announced Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, will receive PEC’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award. She served on the PEC Board of Directors from 1999 to 2001. Tickets and more information are available online.

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Western PA Conservancy Watershed Conservation Program Receives U.S. Forest Service Award For Decades-Long Work To Improve Water Quality In The Allegheny National Forest

PA Environment Daily

Since 2001, the Conservancy’s Watershed Conservation Program has provided technical assistance to local landowners, watershed groups and the community on water quality issues. It is a landscape-level partnership that involves more entities than we could ever acknowledge.” Click Here to see more photos accompanying this article.

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2023 Begins With Increased (or Unlimited) Liability for Vessel Owners

The Energy Law Blog

6] The last CPI adjustment occurred in 2019. On September 2, 2019, a fire broke out aboard the dive boat CONCEPTION while it was anchored off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, California. 438, 446 (2001). [14] 2001) (paragraph numbers omitted from quote) 4] OPA liability is capped, however, subject to certain exceptions. [5]

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The Ongoing Tension over Stormwater Discharges in Los Angeles

Legal Planet

The MS4 permit currently in effect was issued in 2012 and re-adopted the receiving water limitations—or the maximum amount of a pollutant that may be added to a specified water body—from the earlier permit established in 2001. See Natural Resources Defense Council v. State Water Resources Control Board , No.

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ESA Policy News: February 6, 2023

ESA

In this issue: Congressional Leadership Releases Committee Rosters House Science Committee, House Natural Resources and other committees fill out leadership rosters and add freshmen members for the 118th Congress. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) announced the committee leadership.

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Brazil: Volkswagen will pay more than R$10 million in labor lawsuits

Corp Watch

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike.

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VW owners affected by "Dieselgate" in Switzerland will not receive compensation

Corp Watch

South Africa: VW workers still seeking compensation after 20 years Anna Majavuxx | Mail & Guardian | November 18, 2019 Hundreds of Eastern Cape auto workers are still fighting for compensation almost 20 years after Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) fired them for holding an unprotected strike.

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