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In Celebration Of The Many Contributions Of John Dawes To Protecting And Restoring PA’s Environment, Foundations Create The R. John Dawes Clean Water Fund

PA Environment Daily

FPW is a grantmaking foundation that invests in local efforts to protect healthy streams, clean up pollution, and restore degraded wildlife habitat. In November 2023, conservation and environmental protection leader Deborah Nardone was appointed as the Executive Director of the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

While pre-earthquake regulations, such as land and water use and pollution controls were still not effective, Haiti still had some legal framework through the Ministry of the Environment. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management.

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Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule and Its Impact on Ohio

Ohio Environmental Law

The Clean Water Act prohibits the discharge of pollutants into “navigable waters” without a permit authorizing the discharge. Following the 2006 decision by the U.S. F) defines “isolated wetlands” as “a wetland that is not subject to regulation under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act” (i.e., federally protected).

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ESA Policy News: May 30, 2023

ESA

The Sacketts are represented by the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation and backed by business and agricultural groups. The justices agreed that their specific wetlands should not be subject to Clean Water Act regulation, and that the court’s prior test, stemming from the 2006 case Rapanos v. BLM – Conservation and Landscape Health.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. The Corporation for National and Community Service receives $6.9 billion for national service programs to carry out projects related to climate resilience and mitigation. United States.

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