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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.2.24

PA Environment Daily

Billion In Revenue Up For Discussion In House -- The Center Square: Education Spending Trends Deliver Mixed Results In PA -- PA Capital-Star: PA Lawmakers Consider How To Measure Success Of Taxpayer-Funded Universities -- Dept.

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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

Circle of Blue

It’s now being raised as a political issue. to issue new rules that limit discharges of CAFO wastes into waters. The petition asserts that because every CAFO discharges polluting wastes EPA has the authority and duty to require them to operate under wastewater permits. As a legal issue. As a legislative issue.”.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 5.8.24

PA Environment Daily

. -- Two Months: Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Surround The Home Of A Senate Witness Who Opposes The Illegal Practice [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Editorial: When A Current Conventional Oil & Gas Operator Buys Wells They Assume All The Liabilities, While Not Passing Costs Of Plugging To Taxpayers; State Could Pay Some (..)

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Climate Election 2024: “Drill, Baby, Drill” but Then What?

Legal Planet

The 2008-era slogan is shorthand for the Trump campaign’s energy policy, but we know much more about current conservative thinking on the subject thanks to Project 2025 , the 920-page transition plan for the next administration by policy strategists from the Heritage Foundation. In other words, politics has become the policy.

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No Word on Climate from Presidential Candidates Stumping in New Hampshire Amid Record Global Heat

Union of Concerned Scientists

Candidates did not use climate change as a defining issue in the 2008 presidential general election because there was no daylight between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama with respect to climate science, a sense of urgency, and policy solutions! Contrary to what some may think, engaging candidates is not a waste of time.

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Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.1.23

PA Environment Daily

Senate next voting day October 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, Nov. 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule House next voting day October 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 30, 31, Nov.

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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now

PA Environment Daily

And no one should be surprised when workers and residents who are exposed to fracking’s toxic chemicals and radioactive waste start getting sick with a variety of sometimes common, sometimes weird, and sometimes, often debilitating and deadly illnesses. Doctors, nurses, and other health professionals aren't surprised.