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 Are Data Centers a Threat to the Great Lakes?

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Data Centers Map has been tracking data centers offering colocation, cloud services, and select crypto miners and hyperscale operators (like Amazon and Microsoft), since 2007. They dont cover government or enterprise data centers. In 2024, the Joyce Foundation examined groundwater governance in the U.S.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 8 to 14 -- 9 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Emergency Access To Gas Storage Area Well Blocked; Now 32 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells This Year

PA Environment Daily

Drilled in 2007. 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 29 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Wise held 4 permits. No emergency plan on site. Violations issued. Response requested by March 26. DEP inspection report. Apex holds 98 permits.

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The Colorado River Basin’s Daunting New Math

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Next week the federal government, for the first time, will likely declare a Tier 1 shortage on the lower Colorado River, opening a new chapter in the beleaguered river’s history and illustrating its vulnerability in a region that is drying because of the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

The ExxonMobil report shows the company continues to expand oil and gas exploration, bragging that refinery output is at its highest level since 2007 and that plastics production increased by an estimated 10% since the last report, thanks in part to a new recycling plant in Texas.

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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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Ontario Election Issues Guide: Endangered Species, Conservation Authorities, Aggregates & Water Pollution

Enviromental Defense

The Ford government weakened the Endangered Species Act , and politicized appointments to the expert scientific committees advising on species-at-risk. The Ford government also introduced unscientific “pay to slay” schemes allowing developers to destroy irreplaceable protected habitats in exchange for a fee.

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Reducing Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greenbuilding Law

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Air conditioning and refrigeration.