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DEP Blog: Abandoned Coal Mine Reforestation Initiatives Healing The Land

PA Environment Daily

Utilizing a technique known as the Forestry Reclamation Approach (FRA), ARRI works on three categories of surface coal mine lands: post-1977 active surface coal mining operations, pre-1977 abandoned coal mine lands projects, and legacy coal sites.

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Fred Tutman, the Only Black Riverkeeper in the United States, Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Mainstream Environmental Movement

Vermont Law

In 2004, Tutman founded the Patuxent Riverkeeper , a non-profit organization that aims to “conserve, protect and replenish Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway.” Tutman’s entry into the Waterkeeper realm happened almost by chance: while at an environmental meeting in 2003 , he met a riverkeeper called Fred Kelly.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Conservation Groups Asked to Intervene in Oil and Gas Trade Association’s Suit to Compel Quarterly Federal Mineral Lease Sales.

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Fourth District Addresses Numerous Significant CEQA Issues In Action Challenging City of San Diego’s Utility Undergrounding Projects

CEQA Developments

3d 605 do not apply to decisions that do not deprive adjacent property owners of significant property interests, and which have only a de minimus effect on land, and CEQA notices for environmental determinations – such as the notice of exemption determination by a nonelected official at issue here – fall into that category. 4th 1209, 1223.)

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

ESA

Conservation: The House Natural Resources Committee approved the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. billion annually to state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies for conservation and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. The House Rules Committee will consider these amendments during a hearing tomorrow, Feb.

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