PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

ERSI has not actively disposed of C&D waste onsite since 2007. Additional site improvements would include creation of a new storm water management basin and reconstruction of portions of the site access road. No increase to the permit area, volume to be accepted, or waste types is proposed.

Waste

ESA

JUNE 23, 2025

Since 2007, ESA has been bringing GSPA awardees to Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Alison Robey Sitting in a cafeteria in the House of Representatives chatting with my congresswoman’s legislative aide about purple martin conservation was not on my bingo card for 2025. ESA’s Katherine S.

2025

HumanNature

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Endangered mutualisms: the conservation of plant-pollinator interactions. A meta-analysis of projected global food demand and population at risk of hunger for the period 20102050. Nature Food, 2(7), 494-501. Vaissire, B. Steffan-Dewenter, I., Cunningham, S. Kremen, C., & Tscharntke, T. Roubik, D. Kearns, C. Inouye, D. W., & Waser, N.

2002

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Harpole turned the podium over to Dr. Joe Lyou, who served from 2007 to 2019 as the Governors appointee to the SCAQMD Governing Board and now leads the Coalition for Clean Air. Lyou thanked former SCAQMD board member and current L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahnwho sent a staffer to the event to speak on her behalf, as did Rep.

2015

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

The administration eliminated USAID, which brought to a close the extensive international conservation programs that protected endangered species, battled poaching and illegal fishing, and provided millions of people clean water and safe sanitation.

Earth Day

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Pursuant to the text of Clean Air Act Section 202 , along with a 2007 case entitled Massachusetts v. Essentially, President Trump is asking DOE to roll back existing appliance efficiency standards set under the Energy Policy & Conservation Act.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

EPA, brought by a group of conservative/red states who challenge EPA’s approval of California’s request to adopt air pollution emission limits for motor vehicles more stringent than those issued by EPA. On Monday, the Court denied review in a separate but related case, Ohio v.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

UC Berkeleys Center for Law, Energy, & Environment (CLEE) is sponsoring a series of papers evaluating aspects of Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation publication, entitled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, which is being followed to a significant degree as a blueprint for the Trump Administration.

2025

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

UC Berkeleys Center for Law, Energy, & Environment (CLEE) is sponsoring a series of papers evaluating aspects of Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation publication, entitled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, which is being followed to a significant degree as a blueprint for the Trump Administration.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Drilled in 2007. Wise held 4 permits. 1 Abandoned Shale Gas Well Apex Energy (PA) LLC - Violations: Abandoned Shale Gas Well March 6, 2025 inspection of the Marian Laskowski 6 shale gas well in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned and not plugged. No emergency plan on site. Violations issued. DEP inspection report.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Laws Covered Laws covered by the order-- Department of Energy-- Atomic Energy Act of 1954; National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987; Energy Policy Act of 1992; Energy Policy Act of 2005; and Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The President said zero-based regulation uses the bureaucracy against itself.

Regulations

Legal Planet

JULY 30, 2025

EPA , decided in 2007, had two important findings. Conservative justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were not on the Court at the time. Second, repealing the endangerment finding allows EPA to avoid replacing all the Biden Administration climate rules that were issued under the Clean Air Act after it rescinds them. Massachusetts v.

Clean Air Act

Scientific American

JULY 10, 2025

In 2007 and 2009, researchers described shards of protein from 68-million-year-old and 80-million-year-old dinosaur fossils, respectively, but many scientists doubt the claims. How far is contentious. A 2017 effort to redo the 2009 work was more convincing, says Enrico Cappellini, a biochemist at the University of Copenhagen.

2009

Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. ICS is not conservation in the household sense of simply using less. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

2007

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues.

2030

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2024

The Western PA Conservancy will host a July 31 webinar on School Grounds Greening - Helping Children Learn In And From Nature starting at Noon. More information is available on programs, initiatives and special events at the Western PA Conservancy website. Click Here to watch a video about the program.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Gila River Indian Community pulls out of a water conservation agreement due to little progress on basin-wide water cuts. An Arizona agricultural coalition proposes the federal government pay farmers to conserve water. GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY PULLS OUT OF CONSERVATION AGREEMENT.

2022

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 13, 2021

And that is a conservative estimate, they warn. The new math — changes in supply, changes in deliveries — will be on the table starting this fall, when representatives of the basin states begin renegotiating interim agreements that have governed and aligned the operation of Mead and Powell since 2007.

2007

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

On June 7, the overwhelmingly confirmed Cindy Adams Dunn to serve as the Secretary of Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Secretary Dunn has spent her career in conservation and public service, previously serving as DCNR Secretary under Gov.

Natural Resources

A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Central American nation has won praise for its conservation efforts, including in reforestation, and continues to attract international finance to support its initiatives. The Central American nation has secured more than US$135 million in finance for nature in recent years, another leaf in its conservation success story.

Deforestation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Voters in three Pennsylvania townships in the fall 2024 election voted to enact open space taxes and borrow money to conserve open space. Heidelberg Township in Lehigh County successfully passed an earned income tax increase with a 57% approval after its 2007 attempt failed. The past two were passed in 1998 for $7.5

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2024

will receive the WeConservePA 2024 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award at the Pennsylvania Land Conservation Conference at the Thursday night dinner on April 4. He has engaged in countless behind-the scenes, ad hoc task groups and conversations addressing the threats and opportunities for conservation. Schiffman, Esq.,

Conservation

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We can explore the issues and pitfalls of this using the ‘simple model’ of the greenhouse effect we explored back in 2007. The basic equations are: Surface: Atmosphere: Planet: which just reflect the energy conservation at each level, with is the solar input, is the albedo and is the LW absorption.

Radiation

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The overall direction is to speed up approvals and reduce costs for those who want to undertake activities that will harm Ontario’s most vulnerable plants and animals,” said Dr. Anne Bell, Director of Conservation and Education at Ontario Nature.

Government

Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 10, 2022

How time flies… I started this blog in January of 2007 as I was seeking work in climate and energy after graduating from my MSc in international management at Audencia. The Great Recession of 2007-2008 made it hard to get just any job and I had to capitalize on my marketing experiences to find employment.

2007

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2022

The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy celebrates its 90th year of protecting land, water and wildlife in Western Pennsylvania this year with a special March 31 webinar with Tom Saunders, President & CEO starting at Noon. More information is available on programs, initiatives and special events at the Western PA Conservancy website.

Conservation

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Healthy predator populations are part of a well-balanced reef: a 2007 study used cages to keep large fish and invertebrates off parts of the Florida Keys reefs. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. See more wonderful ocean animals! Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763.

Ocean

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A frequent contributor to National Geographic, Stefan Lovgren often writes about freshwater conservation issues. Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder.

2012

Circle of Blue

JUNE 3, 2021

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts.

2021

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2022

On January 14, the Sand County Foundation, American Farmland Trust, The Heinz Endowments, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and the Department of Agriculture announced Brubaker Farms is the 2021 recipient of the Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award. Applications were reviewed by an independent panel of agricultural and conservation leaders.

Conservation

Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to the generosity of Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University has recently acquired, and successfully conserved, an important piece of exploration history – the flag that was created for and used on the Peary Auxiliary Expedition to Greenland in 1894. Peary (1856-1920), a U.S.

Conservation

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. The post Arctic Sea Ice Reaches its 2021 Minimum appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. This past summer was relatively cool and stormy, which limited the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic.

2021

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This year, the youth conservation program, Wildlife Leadership Academy awarded five teens their Ralph Abele Excellence in Outreach Award which includes a $500 college scholarship. The Academy has been giving these awards since their inception in 2007. Read more here about Ralph Abele.] Nominations are now being accepted online.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2022

Fourth-generation owners Roger and Darlene Zeigafuse recently made the decision to keep the property a permanent feature of the local landscape by granting a conservation easement to Heritage Conservancy , Upper Mt. For more information on land conservation and how you can get involved, visit the Heritage Conservancy website.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

On December 20, 2023, Ontario’s Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP) proposed more changes that will weaken the Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA). It’s pretty clear that the motivation behind these changes is to speed up the approvals for harmful development projects.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On November 7, the Wildlife Leadership Academy recognized five teen conservation leaders with the Ralph Abele Excellence in Outreach Award which includes a total of $2,500 in college scholarships. The Academy has been giving these awards since their inception in 2007.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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

2010