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3 Pennsylvania Schools Achieve Green Ribbon Schools Recognition From U.S. Dept. of Education

PA Environment Daily

In 2013, it piloted a stormwater management project on the campus, planting over 600 trees and thousands of native plants, creating a woodland path, establishing a pollinator meadow, constructing a trail that links these elements together, and filling these spaces with environmental education signage.

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New Columbia Resource Tracks the President’s Climate Action Plan

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On June 25, 2013, President Obama delivered a major speech on the topic of climate change. The agenda, detailed in The President’s Climate Action Plan , relies almost entirely upon executive powers; Congress is not even mentioned in the text. These facilities account for around 40% of all carbon pollution in the United States.

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Power through the Adirondack Park

Circle of Blue

Securing state and federal permits, in 2013 and 2014, CHPE generated thousands of comments to the New York Public Service Commission and a promise of a $117 million trust fund to support environmental restoration. Solar as of 2020 represented less than 1 percent of electricity produced in New York. Kathy Hochul.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

The Sahara, which is the world’s largest hot desert, grew 10% bigger between 1920 and 2013. The Great Green Wall project seedlings and a solar-powered borehole are under construction at a 10-hectare orchard in the Kirikasama area of Jigawa. of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

17 [PaEN] -- ScrantonT: Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Receives Great Greenway/Trail Designation -- SunburyDI: Friends Group Formed For R.B. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D. Environmental Council of Sacramento v. C076888 (Cal.

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