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Comments Submitted On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Potter County By Save Our Streams PA Show Principals Have Been Involved In Abandoning 8 Previous Injection Wells

PA Environment Daily

"Officers of Roulette Oil & Gas Co, LLC have operated wells in Pennsylvania under the business names of the following 4 companies according to records on file with Department of Environmental Resources (DER), Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Pennsylvania Department of State-- 1.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

Circle of Blue

The federal agencies responsible for more than 200 hatchery programs — including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. That hatchery, one of 23 facilities overseen by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, opened in 2013. Most hatcheries, however, aren’t even aiming to meet the council’s recovery goals.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Not far away, Tim Stutzman, another conservation-minded farmer, feeds cattle and farms 2,800 acres in Morenci. In the last decade, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

House Bill 991 responds modifying the definition of “forest mitigation banking” to be the intentional restoration, creation, or qualified conservation of forests undertaken expressly for the purpose of providing credits for afforestation or reforestation requirements with enhanced environmental benefits from future activities.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

In reality I debunk the unscientific claim that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction,” and make the case that our conservation concern should be focused on protecting and expanding habitat and the number of wild animals. Gleick defends Holdren and the Ehrlichs as part of his broader defense of Malthusianism.

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Climate Attribution and the Willow Project: Federal Obligations to Evaluate the Effects of Fossil Fuel Leasing on Endangered Species

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at the level of an individual animal) contradicts both the conservation purpose of the ESA and the plain meaning of what qualifies as a “reasonably certain” effect. It is almost certainly true that emissions from the Willow project will contribute to the loss of sea ice that polar bears and seals depend upon for their survival.