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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

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.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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The Supreme Court Has Unleashed a New Tool to Hamstring Federal Agencies. Congress Must Act.

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, President Trump stacked the federal judiciary with judges who are far more conservative than those appointed by any other past president , and he appointed three of the current nine Supreme Court justices.

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Smoke in Our Eyes: National Park Grandeur Degraded by Global Warming

Union of Concerned Scientists

It was an apocalyptic encore of the worst-ever 2006 season that saw 9.9 Hope through the haze That question can easily be extended to ask, in what world is it okay to allow our crowning jewels of nature and landscapes to be depleted by our extraction of fossil fuels? million acres burned.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

In reality I debunk the unscientific claim that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction,” and make the case that our conservation concern should be focused on protecting and expanding habitat and the number of wild animals. Between 1996 and 2006, United Nations family planning spending declined 50 percent.

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What Are The Tallest Trees In The World?

Earthava

Discovered in 2006, Hyperion reaches 115.85 Carbon dioxide, a common pollutant from burning fossil fuels such as gas and oil, is used by plants during photosynthesis. They grow in the Danum Valley Conservation area, located in the Sabah forests. When settlers arrived in the late 1700’s the exploitation of the area began.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. For the first time, the pact calls for a “phase down” the use of coal and fossil fuel subsidies. billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. The Corporation for National and Community Service receives $6.9

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