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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. Prior to her involvement in environmental advocacy, Ms.

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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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Judicial Update: Limits To Environmental Hearing Board Authority To 'Cure' DEP Permit Actions

PA Environment Daily

DEP and PA Waste LLC,[3] PA Waste submitted an application to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP or Department) for a new solid waste landfill, to be located in Boggs Township, Clearfield County. DEP, 2002 EHB 461; Smedley v. DEP, 2014 EHB 957 [3] EHB Docket No. In Clearfield County v. 1] Pequea Twp.

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At the Limits of the Law: The Challenge of Invasives in 2020

Vermont Law

The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a terrestrial invertebrate native to East Asia, was first discovered in the United States in 2002. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate new national ballast water treatment standards to address the threat of invasives by December 2020. An End to the Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine?

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Elk River Spill Aftermath: Do We Need New Regulations and From Whom?

Vermont Law

On January 9, 2014, a chemical tank at Freedom Industries in Charleston, West Virginia, leaked into the Elk River. In 2002, the Department of Health and Human Resources labeled Chemical Valley as having a “high” susceptibility to contamination. By Ashley Welsch. First, the area was practically a ticking time bomb. Additionally, a.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Shell Oil Loses Arctic Drilling Lawsuit Anastasia Pantsios | EcoWatch | November 13, 2014 In early October it was announced that the Greenpeace Campaign to get Danish toy company LEGO to sever its nearly 50-year partnership with the oil giant was successful.

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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

It found a 2014 consultant study estimating average summer weekend vehicle use at 273 vehicles per survey day failed to support the project’s proposed 270 spaces because the surveys occurred in afternoon rather than peak demand morning hours. City & County of San Francisco (2002) 102 Cal.App.4th

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