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Recycling Program, Managing Electronics Waste On DEP Citizens Advisory Committee Agenda For Oct. 18

PA Environment Daily

DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on October 18 to take a deeper dive into Pennsylvania’s Municipal Recycling Program and talk about better ways to manage electronics waste. She reported the overall amount of waste generated in Pennsylvania has increased 8.3 Municipal waste generated in Pennsylvania has increased 10.1

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DEP/PROP: Study Shows Growth in K-12 Students' Recycling Knowledge; 1988 Recycling Law Updates Needed

PA Environment Daily

The summary report also details ways to increase awareness and how schools respond to waste with other methods, like composting. PRC and PennEnvironment called on Act 101 to be modernized to address the Commonwealth’s growing waste problem, improve public health, clean up the environment and create jobs for Pennsylvanians.

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DEP Publishes Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy Changing Permit Review Process; Opens Comment Period Setting 9 Public Hearings

PA Environment Daily

DEP published a second notice formally rescinding the previous 2004 Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy. Erie Center for Arts and Technology, Lawrence Community Room, 650 East Avenue, Erie, Erie County ; -- October 18: In-Person, 6 p.m.—7:30 Read more here.

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Book review : Regeneration by Paul Hawken

Edouard Stenger

This volume has become one of my favorites among the many I have read on climate and sustainability issues since I started back to 2004 (check the list there ). No, current technologies and future inventions will be needed and welcomed. Eventually, CO2 levels in the atmosphere would return to 350 ppm.

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Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards

PA Environment Daily

The package does nothing to invest in proven and inexpensive clean energy technologies, nor is it a comprehensive economic strategy for the state. The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Meanwhile, these giveaways are a polluter’s dream come true.

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Concrete on a roll: changing engineering projects worldwide

Environment Blog

However, new technologies and processes are being developed that greatly reduce its environmental cost. Geosynthetic Cementitious Composite Mats (GCCMs) were developed by two university students, Peter Brewin and William Crawford in 2004. Concrete Canvas Ltd was formed in 2005 to develop and commercialise this technology.

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Dutch court orders halt to export of F-35 jet parts to Israel

Corp Watch

parts/technology in the Turkish drones used by Azerbaijan to kill Armenian civilians in Artsakh, Armenian National Committee of America report. million to settle a securities fraud class-action lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors about the prospects for its information technology division, according to court papers.