Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 22, 2024

A well-publicized example of this recurring tragedy occurred in 2008, when 1,600 ducks perished after mistaking a Syncrude tailings pond for a safe resting spot. The Alberta Energy Regulator, the government agency in charge of managing the development of energy resources, ordered a study to check the effectiveness of bird deterrent systems.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past several years – and especially in the past few months – Premier Doug Ford’s government has made sweeping changes to environmental protection and land use planning rules across Ontario. . Image Source: Ontario’s wetland conservation strategy (archived). Image courtesy of Conservation Ontario.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

These species are the most vulnerable and require species-specific conservation efforts to survive. Policies that had been put in place to protect species at risk have since been whittled down, most notably by the current provincial government, as a way to prioritize development. Many populations in Ontario are small and disconnected.

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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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These components are also being assessed and used in regulatory decision-making by some government agencies at the local, state, or federal level. For example, compliance demonstrations for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are based on multi-source analyses. But we cannot stop there.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations. 2002, Brunson and Huntsinger 2008, Briske, Sayre et al. 2018, Rost 2021).

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The task force was created in 2008 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and nine other governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. The task force is a coalition of 38 states and provinces working to protect tropical forests, reduce emissions from deforestation, and promote rural development that maintains forests.

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Frontiers

JULY 12, 2021

Karanth, the Chief Conservation Scientist and Chief Executive at the Centre for Wildlife Studies in Bangalore, India. I run the Centre for Wildlife Studies, which is a 37-year-old Indian conservation NGO. I took over as Chief Conservation Scientist and Chief Executive about two and a half years ago. Not at all.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2023

This mammoth piece of legislation covers everything from conservation to nutrition to crop insurance. Voice for Farm Workers Act : Established in the 2008 farm bill, the farmworker coordinator position within the USDA serves as a dedicated liaison between the department and farmworkers.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Colombia decided that the Atrato River in Colombia’s northwest Department of Chocó is a recognized rights-holding subject, with specific rights to protection, conservation, maintenance, and restoration. Understanding this case will help further appreciate what could develop in Colorado.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. The Supreme Court declared that the Colombia Amazon accordingly was entitled to protection, conservation, maintenance and restoration. Province of Entre Ríos, et al.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 25, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. According to a 2019 government report , “In the last decade, the number of vessels operating in waters north of the Bering Strait around the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas has increased by 128% and is now 2.3 times larger than the number of ships passing through the region in 2008.”

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Court’s embrace of the ill-defined “ major questions doctrine ” as the rationale for refusing to give any deference to EPA’s admittedly “plausible” interpretation of section 111 d of the Clean Air Act has raised the specter of the Court’s conservative majority taking a sharp axe to any number of environmental regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Small, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA John Pascavage has been doing conservation work on his little piece of Centre County, Pennsylvania, since he bought it and took the land out of farming. In 2008, EPA designated the entire watershed as impaired. I'm a fisherman by heart," Pascavage says.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2021

Cities -- CourierT Guest Essay: Empower Local Government To Develop Environmental Solutions Helpful Resources: Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: July 23, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

DWR’s efforts in this regard took place from 2001 to 2006, involving “five federal agencies, five state agencies, seven local government entities, five Native American tribes, four local water agencies, and 13 nongovernmental organizations,” with three years of hearings and two years of negotiations. See Marin Mun. Water Dist.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the. In fact, British Columbia’s foray into carbon taxes in 2008 has been so successful that.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The DEP Energy Programs Office began developing state climate action plans about 10 years ago, as required by the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008. Because climate action is a team effort across state government, check other state agencies, too. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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Washington Nature

JULY 11, 2023

A Prosecuting Enforcement Attorney for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA), Jennifer grew up viewing sea turtles as magical symbols of longevity, survival, and adaptation, and they came to represent her dedication and lifelong commitment to environmental conservation. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

China: Melamine Scandal DW | September 22, 2008 As the milk scandal widens, Swiss food giant Nestle said it was "confident" that its products in China were safe. Nestle Pakistan caught evading government taxes of Rs38.86 Who's to blame? Media reports had suggested its products were laced with a chemical that killed four babies.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

China: Melamine Scandal DW | September 22, 2008 As the milk scandal widens, Swiss food giant Nestle said it was "confident" that its products in China were safe. Nestle Pakistan caught evading government taxes of Rs38.86 Who's to blame? Media reports had suggested its products were laced with a chemical that killed four babies.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

What is Conservation? We define conservation as a broad approach to preserving what is already there and the due care and attention to protecting it for the future (1). Resource conservation is the active ways in which we seek to limit the use of resources to reduce the strain put on supply. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 17, 2021

action, and discussing general legal principles governing CEQA review under the Commission’s certified regulatory program, the Court examined in detail the Commission’s procedures for de novo review of CDP applications. 2008) 169 Cal.App.4th See, e.g., Banning Ranch Conservancy v. Code Regs., § 13096; McAllister v. 2017) 2 Cal.5th

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

per MMBtu, unless lease royalties were renegotiated with the Secretary , imposes Conservation of Resources Fee on nonproducing lease acreage of $3.75 per MMBtu, unless lease royalties were renegotiated with the Secretary , imposes Conservation of Resources Fee on nonproducing lease acreage of $3.75

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

Watershed Conservation Authority (2021) Cal.App.5th. Defendant Watershed Conservation Authority, a joint powers agency of the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers Mountain Conservancy and the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, is the lead agency for CEQA purposes. 2008) 43 Cal.4th Relevant Project Background.

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CEQA Developments

JULY 10, 2023

In 2008, the City began a lengthy process to update the area’s Community Plan. Citing Sierra Club v.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 19, 2023

Family farms are searching for creative ways to sustain themselves amidst these changes, all while coexisting with and conserving the nearby tropical rainforests — for which farmers receive a small amount of compensation from the government. Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor Recent WaterNews from Circle of Blue U.S.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 23, 2023

Currently, the United States spends approximately $300 million annually on conservation. The competition to receive conservation funding can be fierce. The use of charismatic species for conservation funding is widespread. This is true in conservation as well.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

From 2008 to 2018, the industry reported taking 595,172,958 gallons from our Loyalsock, which in many places is no more than knee deep from shore to shore. Currently, there are four permitted water withdrawals on the creek, granted to the fracked gas industry by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC).

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 4, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. In the weeks and months after the storms, the Gulf state governments went to work dispersing federal disaster relief funds. These trailers became traveling billboards with brightly colored messages that highlighted the failures of FEMA and the government. Never miss an update.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Amidst final-hour congressional negotiations to fend off a government shutdown, several policy “riders” have emerged as sticking points in reaching a deal on agriculture spending in particular. Congress directed USDA to modernize the P&SA in recognition of this unprecedented market consolidation in the 2008 Farm Bill.

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Legal Planet

MAY 26, 2022

There is continuing conservative support for climate action. The British government is firmly in the grip of the Conservative Party. And yet, the UK remains firmly committed to climate action, in a way that would be unthinkable for American conservatives. Not so much here, of course, but in the UK. Download as PDF.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2022

There has been $130 million invested into projects like these in partnership with local governments, other state agencies and private companies and these investments are paying dividends for the communities and environment of Pennsylvania.” Photo: Solar energy installation on West Virginia reclaimed mine - The Nature Conservancy.)

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2024

(credit: PBI Actuarial Consultants) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation ( HB 1645 ) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008.

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