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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.6.24

PA Environment Daily

Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 Aftershock Follows -- MCall: How Common Are Earthquakes In Eastern PA, Why Was The NJ Quake Felt So Far Away?

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

Shy’s study provided a shining example of the threat posed by industrial pollution that galvanized public attention in the late 1960s and led to the first Earth Day in April 1970. The EPA finally introduced a much-delayed 1-hour exposure limit for outdoor NO2 in 2010, but there is still no comparable standard for indoor exposure.

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

Law Columbia

The goal of conferring rights to nature is to secure the highest level of environmental protection under which an ecosystem can thrive and whose rights are not violated. By Tiffany Challe*. Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. In the United States, several cities have asked for an ecosystem to bear legal rights.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Address Impact Of Operations In Niger Delta Before Selling SPDC – CSOs Tell Shell

Corp Watch

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say

Corp Watch

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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

PA Environment Daily

By 2010, two years after Rendell opened the gates for fracking on state land, 35 leases were in place for about 139,000 of those acres. We need to protect our unleased public lands from this rush because they are the most significant tracts of undisturbed forest remaining in the state,” he said in 2010.