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Federal Water Tap, February 6: EPA Vetoes Pebble Mine in Alaska

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Environmental Protection Agency finalized new guidelines for fixing failing sewage systems in a timely manner without adding too great a financial burden on low-income communities. Since 2010 it has been forced to reduce nuclear generation because of overheated rivers and replace substation equipment due to flooding.

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Call for Nominations: ESA Regional Policy Award

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2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (originally planned for Long Beach, California) Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, was recognized for his commitment to using science in creating nature-based solutions for building water and climate resilience across California. degrees Celsius. degrees Celsius.

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As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan

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Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Will there be enough water for Michigan’s thriving farm sector, and for every other use of a natural resource growing scarcer across much of the rest of the nation? Is the state prepared for more? Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.6.24

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" The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0

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Federal Water Tap, September 26: If Necessary, Interior Will Hold Back More Water in Lake Powell Next Year

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One of Nashville’s two treatment plants, he recalled, was knocked out in a 2010 flood. Interior is also studying structural modifications that would allow for the release water from Powell when the reservoir is low, a move that environmental groups in the basin have called for. Environmental Justice at the EPA. By the Numbers.

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The Science Says: Spreading Conventional Drilling Wastewater On Dirt & Gravel Roads Can Harm Aquatic Life, Poses Health Risks To Humans - And It Damages The Roads

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.] Read more here. Read more here. Jennifer S.