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Sen. Bartolotta, Sen. Yaw Announce Bill To Withhold Gas Drilling Impact Fees To Municipalities That Set More Protective Standards On Natural Gas Development Than State Law, And While There Is a Legal Challenge To Local Restrictions

PA Environment Daily

History Of Preventing Local Regulation Of Oil/Gas The Bartolotta/Yaw announcement forgets to mention Act 13 of 2012 setting up the impact fee also originally included a provision preempting any local regulation of drilling operations. Click Here for the complete announcement. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy Articles/NewsClips - 6.26.25

PA Environment Daily

Contact: Ian Irvin, Executive Director, iirvin@pa.gov or (717) 787-8171 -- Senate Confirms Jessica Shirley To Lead The Department Of Environmental Protection; Committee Questions On Environmental Justice, RESET Energy Board [PaEN] -- PA Resources Council Receives 2025 Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence For Hard-To-Recycling Collection Events (..)

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Is There Really a Fiduciary Duty to Destroy the Climate?

Law Columbia

27] A large hole in Friedmans Maximization Model is his assumption that business and its profit calculations are separable from the political system that is supposed to adopt laws to control pollution and other externalities. As Paul Hawken wrote more than 30 years ago: There is no polite way to say business is destroying the world. [39]

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Greenland’s Ice Sheet Collapse Could Be Closer Than We Think

Scientific American

Climate change is exposing land formerly covered by ice, heightening political tensions on the island nation—and in the waters surrounding it as sea ice also disappears. One day in 2012 she was on the ice—and it rained. In her four decades of working on this ice sheet, Dahl-Jensen has seen changes happen in real time.

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Nuclear Energy’s Unsettled Revival

Circle of Blue

reactors that have closed since 2012. Reactors produce radioactive waste that requires permanent disposal, but political opposition in Nevada has prevented the U.S. Forty years later, in 2019, the end of the Three Mile Island story seemed perfectly apparent when Unit 1 also was shut down, joining the fleet of 12 U.S. and globally.

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Analysis: Climate advocate Mark Carney wins Canada’s 2025 Liberal leadership, becomes prime minister

A Greener Life

Mark Carney speaking at the World Economic Forum in 2012. Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England and the United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, has become the next Prime Minister of Canada.

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Trump’s 6 Worst Attacks on FEMA in the First 100 Days

Union of Concerned Scientists

4: Establishing a political “Review Council “ On January 24, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a FEMA Review Council to provide the president recommendations on how to improve FEMA and give states more of a role in disaster response.