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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

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A Curious Catalyst for Creativity in Social-Ecological Research

HumanNature

I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations. 2002, Brunson and Huntsinger 2008, Briske, Sayre et al. Lane (2002).

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

While environmental security remains a hotly contested idea, it is nonetheless an increasingly popular conceptual framing used by global actors who are concerned with stemming the dangerous ramifications of environmental change (Floyd and Matthew 2013). European Journal of International Relations 19(2): 235–255. Dabelko (eds.). Hardt, J.N.,

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The Art of Affect: Creative Expression as Personal Resistance and Resilience

HumanNature

Candidate in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University How does creativity, imagination, or emotion relate to our resilience and resistance during crises and disasters? 2020; Fletcher & Sarker, 2013; Bec et al., 680; Massumi, 2002; Ngai, 2007). 2007; Wied et al., Reeves, K.

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Environmental Groups File Suit to Compel EPA to Review and Revise Oil and Gas Waste Regulations

The Energy Law Blog

The suit relies on RCRA Sections 2002(b) and 4002(b) (42 U.S.C. §§ 6912(b) and 6942(b)), which require EPA to review and, as necessary, revise RCRA regulations and guidelines for state solid waste management plans at least every three years. See Appalachian Voices v. McCarthy , 989 F. 2d 30, 53-56 (D.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States by Kendall Beaton (1957).

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Second District Confirms Parking Is (Still) Not A CEQA Impact, Reverses Judgment That Found EIR For San Gabriel Mountains Wilderness Recreation And Preservation Project Deficient For Not Sufficiently Analyzing “Impact” Of Reducing Recreational Parking

CEQA Developments

City & County of San Francisco (2002) 102 Cal.App.4th My June 25, 2013 blog post on that case ( “Is “Parking” Really A CEQA Impact? Nor has plaintiff proffered evidence of any secondary adverse environmental effects of reduced parking, such as on traffic or air quality at the project site.’. San Diego Unified School Dist.

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