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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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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Over the next few years, the area surrounding the plant allegedly began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as groundwater was contaminated and toxic waste released.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

It won’t only affect global warming regulations: Parties currently engaged in legal battles have now cited the major questions doctrine in cases addressing abortion access, LGBTQ+ discrimination, nuclear waste storage, workers’ rights and overtime pay, and more.

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1,900th Post: Climate Change As A Wicked Problem

Edouard Stenger

Both solar PV and wind are now cost competitive with fossil fuels. I am confident that switching from fossil fuels to renewables (and efficiency , as I learned during my Master’s thesis in 2006) can be done relatively fast in wealthy nations (ten to fifteen years) and by mid-century in developing ones.

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

Circle of Blue

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. So does fossil fuel combustion. In countries without proper waste disposal, untreated sewage is a factor. The process introduces salts into the waste stream, which are detrimental for downstream waters.

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Nuclear Energy and Drought: A Recipe for Disaster

Vermont Law

Can it serve as a bridge to moving away from fossil fuels? It is widely known that there have been problems with nuclear energy and waste, and the energy costs of mining uranium in terms of overall emissions. Summary: Nuclear energy is one of the most debated subjects in the environmental policy and legal world. By Allen Smith.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013. Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy.