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Trump’s Earth Day Purge

Circle of Blue

I was a very young cat, just turned 14 years old, when 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Our exploits were documented by New York Times reporter Joseph Lelyveld in the second-to-last paragraph of a page one story on Earth Day in the next mornings paper.

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Day After Earth Day, the Climate Pope, and the 89%

Legal Planet

They made it through Earth Day one of two insufferable seasons of cliche, inane PR pitches clogging their inboxes. I usually feel meh about Earth Day because a hyperfocus on a single day feels superficial and performative. But this Earth Day hit different. The 2-week UN Climate Conference each fall.)

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Restarting Ruptured Santa Barbara Oil Pipeline Tests California’s Regulators

Circle of Blue

Catching unauthorized work to restart a corroded pipeline that spilled over 100,000 gallons of crude oil onto the Pacific coastline in 2015, poisoning ecosystems and killing wildlife. million-gallon disaster which shook the nation and inspired the first Earth Day in 1970. Their purpose? Their worst fears were soon realized.

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54th Earth Day: A Wake Up Call to the Planet on the Important Role of Lawyers and Bar Associations in Addressing the Earth’s Most Pressing Environmental Challenges

Acoel

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Amy Edwards As we celebrate the 54 th anniversary of Earth Day, it is hard to imagine where we will be 54 years from now. In the meantime, the coalition is also hosting regular webinars on the 2015 Paris Agreement and climate-related issues. Will we have restored biological diversity?

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

In 1968 one of the most iconic moments of the modern environmental movement occurred when the crew of the Apollo 8 spacecraft took the first photograph of the Earth from space. In 1970 the world’s first Earth Day was held in the US, but we had to wait until 1990 before the movement went global.

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PA Resources Council: 5 Large-Scale Public Events Have Committed To 'Zero Waste' In Pittsburgh Region

PA Environment Daily

Together our efforts have paid off, and since 2015, the Pittsburgh Marathon has been considered a ‘zero waste’ event with 90 percent or more of waste diverted from the landfill. Some of Pittsburgh’s largest and most well-known events this spring, summer and fall will share a common theme: zero waste.

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Seeing the Earth through alien eyes: an extraterrestrial view of our planet

Physics World

But to ensure their exoplanetary biosignature techniques work, they first want to test them out on the Earth, which is the only world we know of that does contain life. Luckily, in 2015, Jiang had an idea. million kilometres from Earth. a Taken in August 2015, this image is typical of what DSCOVR can see.