PA Environment Daily
MAY 17, 2024
Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
Fossil fuel and chemical polluters, business lobbyists and conservative private land interests have fought these laws and the EPA since their inception and they made fresh headway during the Trump administration, which undertook a widespread effort to gut environmental protections and slashed staffing of the EPA back to levels of the 1980s.
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A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
As it was clear from the onset that climate change contributed to the severity of Hurricane Ida it ironically became yet another hurricane showing how vulnerable the US fossil fuel industry is to climate change and how the infrastructure in the country struggles to deal with the impacts of climate change. .
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 5, 2023
It was an apocalyptic encore of the worst-ever 2006 season that saw 9.9 It makes them ripe for disproportional impacts from climate change, relative to the nation in general. It was because of smoke during the 2007 wildfire season in the United States, the second worst at the time for acreage burned. million acres burned.
Environmental Progress
AUGUST 3, 2020
Between 1996 and 2006, United Nations family planning spending declined 50 percent. As it became clear that the growth in the global birth rate had peaked, Malthusian thinkers started to look to climate change as a replacement apocalypse for overpopulation and resource scarcity. Seven years later, the U.N.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 29, 2022
It needs to be an informed decision with equal input from climate scientists and economists. And his opinion was in the next 50 years, fine dust put in the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning could screen out so much of sunlight that the average temperature could drop six degrees and trigger an ice age. So that was in 1971.
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