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PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Announce 2024 Award Winners

PA Environment Daily

Acker became fascinated by French Creek as a nontraditional adult student at Allegheny College where she graduated with honors with a BS in Environmental Science. This work has contributed to over 25 peer-reviewed articles and over 50 conference presentations on the topic since 2011.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

Except in this case, it appears she helped tie the department’s hands: According to the Daily Montanan , Nowakowski herself drafted the original 2011 MEPA limitation for a state senator. Like the testimony of Georgianna Fischer , a competitive cross country skier and environmental science college major.

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A Curious Catalyst for Creativity in Social-Ecological Research

HumanNature

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. 2011, Provenza, Pringle et al. Derner (2011). 2013, Roche, Schohr et al. Briske, D.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. The program, which launched in 2011, is a 25-year effort to install stormwater runoff-absorbing green infrastructure and improve traditional infrastructure, easing the burden on our combined sewer system and reducing combined sewer overflows.

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James Michener’s Chesapeake Bay Was A+

Vermont Law

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. The Bay’s grade is a “C,” unchanged since 2012 when the 2011 “D+” was upgraded to a “C.” Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. In 2011, Maryland legislators passed the Fertilizer Use Act.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.7.23

PA Environment Daily

DOE Releases National Clean Hydrogen strategy And Roadmap To Build A Clean Energy Future, Accelerate Manufacturing Boom PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- AP: PA House Passes Bill To Require Electronically Filed Campaign Finance Reports -- Gov.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

A critical but difficult step in this process is for a government employee or independent valuator to determine the return on investment (ROI) to the public under various land use scenarios. Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). Environmental Science & Policy 13 , 785–792 (2010). Works Cited Angel, S., Blei, A. &