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Chesapeake Bay Foundation: As 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Deadline Looms, Officials Propose Next Phase

PA Environment Daily

The 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement included this commitment and additional Bay restoration goals. Alison Prost, Vice President for Environmental Protection and Restoration, issued the following statement : “This is a defining moment for the nearly 19 million people who live in the Bay watershed.

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PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp., Indiana County

PA Environment Daily

On May 10, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund announced PA General Energy, LLC notified the Department of Environmental Protection that it intends to plug its proposed toxic frack-waste injection well in Grant Township after this Memorial Day. The community’s concerns have been vindicated.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. Prior to her involvement in environmental advocacy, Ms.

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Rich Kruger: The Nightmare on Oil Street

Enviromental Defense

He then rose through the ranks at Exxon during the time when the company was successfully suppressing and denying climate science and spending big on climate denial and political obstruction. The following is a list of leaks and spills that occurred at Imperial facilities during his tenure as CEO there: 2014 — Sarnia, ON: 3.5-hour

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

Law Columbia

Indeed, the plaintiff cites a series of regressions in Brazil’s environmental protection system during the Bolsonaro administration, many of which are also the object of specific climate litigation cases. In 2014, leaders made a similar pledge in the New York Declaration on Forests that yielded few results. In PSB et al.

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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. In 2010, following years of missed deadlines, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jumped into the morass by exercising its power under the Clean Water Act. in Environmental Law. Researchers at the.

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The Toledo Water Ban: More Money, More Chemicals, More Problems

Vermont Law

Summary: The city of Toledo, Ohio issued a water ban on August 2–3, 2014 after a local treatment plant found unsafe levels of microcystin, a type of harmful algal bloom known to cause health defects and even death when ingested. On August 2, 2014, the city of Toledo, Ohio issued a ban on water that left about 500,000 residents without.

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