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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept. 10-12 In State College [PaEN] Public Participation -- PA Environmental Educators Urge Action In Response To New Federal Directives Impacting Environmental Education; Take National Survey Gathering Insights From Educators [PaEN] -- PA, NY To Host Feb.

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PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: Paul O. Swartz - From Photojournalist To Susquehanna River Basin Commission

PA Environment Daily

Following his service with DER, Paul worked as a Field Representative for the Joint Air & Water Pollution Control Conservation Committee (JLCC) for the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1981/1982. (In He went on to serve as the SRBCs Executive Director from 1992-2013. In 1969 Ralph W.

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

PA Environment Daily

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Clean Power Plan: The Legal Battle Continues

The Energy Law

Petitioners include thirty States, State agencies, and local government entities and more than one hundred private companies, cooperatives, and industry trade groups. EPA also cannot require electricity generation to be shifted from coal-burning units to units that use other energy sources as a pollution control technology.

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Incentivizing Ecosystem Services: Agroecology as a Solution to Agricultural Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

Vermont Law

To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. MARY JANE ANGELO AND JAMES F.

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The Good Neighbor Provision on Steroids: Third Circuit Ruling Resurrects Clean Air Act Section 126(b)

The Energy Law

In the recent ruling, the Third Circuit held that it was reasonable for EPA to interpret Section 126(b) to be an “independent mechanism for enforcing interstate pollution control,” thereby giving EPA authority to directly regulate a specific source in an upwind state. July 12, 2013) (pdf). See GenOn REMA, LLC v. at 29 (3d Cir.

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CNX CEO Tells DEP’s Citizens Council Their Monitoring Shows ‘No Material Impact’ To Air Or Water Quality From Natural Gas Development; Citizens Said CNX Lacks Scientific Rigor, Offers Misleading Greenwash

PA Environment Daily

Public policy based on self-reported data from a fracked gas company would undermine the integrity of Pennsylvanias environmental governance and endanger public health. We ask that you stand with communities, scientists, and public health expertsnot polluters. 27 Released 1.1