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House Republicans Now Want To Take Away All DEP’s Application Fee Revenue To Further De-Fund Environmental Protection Programs

PA Environment Daily

David Zimmerman (R-Lancaster) introduced House Bill 1755 which would take away all Department of Environmental Protection permit application fees collected by the agency and deposit them into the General Fund rather than into the accounts now set up in law to pay for specific environmental protection programs.

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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

Circle of Blue

“It’s been building and building,” said Rob Michaels, an attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), a Chicago-based legal group, who is working to limit CAFO manure discharges in Ohio and Michigan. It’s now being raised as a political issue. As a legal issue. As a legislative issue.”.

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. The common enemy is the oil and gas industry because they deceived the public. Exxon and other companies knew , but deliberately misled us for decades.

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Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study

A Greener Life

The complexity of the calculation, the range of assumptions that need to be made and the modelling used mean the SCC is open to many interpretations, and political gridlock. The US government is still using the 3% discount rate it calculated in 2003 based on older data on real market interest rates, which used to be much higher).

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Locals Aim Their Protest at Weapons Maker Raytheon in Support of Palestine

Corp Watch

It was also forced to pay out US$25 million in 2003 for illegally exporting U.S. USA: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders Raytheon, Air Force to clean up contaminated groundwater at Tucson Airport Superfund Site Environmental Protection Agency | July 13, 2007 The U.S.

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15 people arrested during peaceful 'free Palestine' protest in Louisville

Corp Watch

It was also forced to pay out US$25 million in 2003 for illegally exporting U.S. USA: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders Raytheon, Air Force to clean up contaminated groundwater at Tucson Airport Superfund Site Environmental Protection Agency | July 13, 2007 The U.S.

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

Circle of Blue

trillion American food and fiber production sector that counts powerful allies in marketing, equipment, chemical, energy industries, and politics. . But American farms also are responsible for dire cultural, health, and environmental consequences that have stirred decades of academic research, journalistic investigation, and civic protest.