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Water Determines Great Lakes Region’s Economic Future

Circle of Blue

Some think the landmark Great Lakes Compact, signed in 2008 to prevent water from being siphoned out of the basin, requires strengthening to close loopholes. A month from now? is damaging for business. It’s not helpful, Rikkers said. Laws and policies could also use a refresh. Tires bobbed in lakes, rivers caught fire.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

In 1968 one of the most iconic moments of the modern environmental movement occurred when the crew of the Apollo 8 spacecraft took the first photograph of the Earth from space. In 1970 the world’s first Earth Day was held in the US, but we had to wait until 1990 before the movement went global. This has since changed many times.

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to formally recognize and implement the Rights of Nature, which Ecuadorians refer to as the Rights of Pachamama (Mother Earth). By Tiffany Challe*. Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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Bay Journal: Shale Gas Drilling, Development Yields Both Fears, Funding For Pennsylvania Public Lands

PA Environment Daily

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In 2008, former Pennsylvania Gov. The agency hopes for future gas leases that could double the amount of game land leased since 2008. NewsClips: -- Responsible Decarbonization Alliance: Happy Earth Day! Ed Rendell opened 2.2 The Pennsylvania Game Commission, which controls another 1.4

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 4.5.22

PA Environment Daily

True Energy Independence Means Renewables [We’re Not Independent If Foreign Markets, Despots Set The Prices We Pay For Energy ] -- Financial Times: ExxonMobil Flags Highest Quarterly Profit Since The Boom Year Of 2008 When Russia Invaded Georgia [Anyone See A Pattern?

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

Envirothon Team Partners With Izaak Walton League To Plant Trees For Earth Day; Wins Greene County Envirothon -- Honesdale H.S. Team Wins Pike/Wayne County Envirothon, Represents Wayne County; Wallenpaupack H.S.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Also see SOMO's 2008 report. Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). James 350 New Orleans Major Investigations & Lawsuits Milieudefensie's lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria Milieudefensie | September 25, 2020 Milieudefensie, together with four Nigerian farmers, sued Shell in 2008.