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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 cut in FY 2010-11; -- FY 2012-13 budget for the State System of Higher Education zeroes out funding again for the PA Center for Environmental Education ($368,000) and McKeever Environmental Center ($213,000); -- FY 2013-14 budget continues the $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2 million; DCNR: $1.5

2010 117
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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Six kids in town besides Jacob were diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s He was 19 when he died.

2011 340
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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $241,580,318 (July 7, 2023) Number of Records 118 Books Agrifood Atlas: Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation & Friends of the Earth Europe (2017) Citizen Coke by Bartow J. References: Did Coca-Cola Ever Contain Cocaine?

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