Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The report found that flows through the Colorado River basin decreased by nearly 20 percent between 2000 and 2018, but Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico are still overusing their share of the river’s waters. The report found that overall, increased demand for food has put pressure on the world’s water, land, and soil resources.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To the contrary, LADWP has a sorry, 120-year history of treating the rural people and natural resources of the Eastern Sierra as a population to be exploited and an ecosystem to ravage. But it’s not.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

In Pennsylvania, the record rainfall of 2018 took a huge toll on farms across the Commonwealth and caused millions of dollars in infrastructure damages to towns and cities downstream. How can farms help mitigate floods and protect communities downstream? Hint: it starts in our soil!)

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

SB1259 hoses (can’t think of a dignified term) royalty owners by amending Natural Resources Code §91.402 to deny a common-law cause of action for breach of contract against a payor who withholds payments for a title dispute. This change applies only to QC’s recorded after the effective date of Septmber 1, 2021. Loser: Royalty owners.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Fish & Boat and Game Commissions; 1:00 p.m. of Agriculture.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Photo credit: Mark Anson On August 31, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced the availability of $65 million for the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. The 2018 Farm Bill mandates $25 million per year for on-farm trials.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The initial stage of the project began in 2018 before facing delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic and easement issues. Jamie Barton (R-Schuylkill), and other federal and local officials shared remarks about the importance of this bridge to the trail and to the economies of both Berks and Schuylkill Counties. Interested in visiting?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A1H (2018) -- Chief Oil & Gas LLC (now Chesapeake Appalachia LLC) - Asylum Twp. Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A2H (2018) -- Chief Oil & Gas LLC (now Chesapeake Appalachia LLC) - Asylum Twp. Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A4H (2018) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Albany Twp. Ridgebury Twp.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Water samples from Benton Harbor homes since 2018 consistently revealed elevated levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin that damages the brain and nervous system and is particularly dangerous to young children. By the time Benton Harbor tested its water in 2018, there were other echoes of the disaster that unfolded in Flint. Last year, 3.8

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

(NJ-7), Congressman Matt Cartwright (PA-8) , and Congressman Marc Molinaro (NY-19), highlighting the importance of investing in our critical natural resource, the Delaware River Watershed. Since 2018, the Delaware River Basin Restoration Program has provided $55.1 million in funding to 195 projects, which generated $79.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. The House Committee on Natural Resources even released draft text of the legislation for public comment, providing the opportunity for the public to submit line-by-line comments.

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (originally planned for Long Beach, California) Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, was recognized for his commitment to using science in creating nature-based solutions for building water and climate resilience across California. degrees Celsius. degrees Celsius.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Illinois keeps about $8,000 per acre in bonding, according to 2018 data published by Climate Home News, and Indiana and Kentucky had only about $4,000 per acre. . Coal mine reclamation has become a flashpoint in the partisan divide over fossil fuel use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 originally bailed out—reported in a 2018 bankruptcy filing that it lost $12 million annually due to its stake in OVEC, and Ohio legislative analysts discovered that Ohio utilities paid $94 million over market prices for OVEC’s electricity in 2018. She is now the Midwest campaign manager at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

including planned burns in the Roslyn Urban Forest, on Nature Conservancy-managed lands, and on additional private lands in parthership with local landowners. Smoke rises from a prescribed fire during the 2018 Cascadia TREX outside the town of Roslyn (pictured in the background). © John Marshall. © John Marshall. © John Marshall.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We’ve been saying for the last nine months people of Carbon County love their natural resources,” Kunkle said. He said the grassroots campaign crisscrossed the county and conducted a media campaign. But the referendum still needs the approval of county Commissioners Rocky Ahner, Chris Lukasevich and Wayne E.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

The study finds that total carbon emissions from the tar sands alone are more than the total reported across all industries for 2018. The study names Syncrude, Suncor, and Canadian Natural Resources as the three highest emitters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2022

Because the last farm bill was passed in 2018, it is due for an update in 2023. Though the 2018 farm bill reauthorized AFRI to be funded at $700 million a year, the program received just $445 million through 2022 appropriations legislation. Legislatively speaking, that is right around the corner.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

The EPA Office of the Inspector General says that the agency still needs to address two recommended actions from a 2018 audit. Also on May 25, a Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee will discuss legislation related to water infrastructure and drought. Studies and Reports. Reviewing Lessons from Flint.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 30, 2022

Louisiana’s compulsory pooling scheme seeks to balance the interests of individual landowners and oil and gas operators to promote responsible development of natural resources. Author Ethan Wood. This first letter did not contain an explicit reference to 30:103.1, This letter also did not include a specific reference to 30:103.1

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

of) our public natural resources’, which entails complying with all the legal/ fiduciary requirements of a trustee. In closing, we quote the 1971 Constitutional Amendment, “People have the right to clean air, pure water and to the preservation of the natural, scenic and esthetic values of the environment.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

The program pays farmers and livestock and poultry producers – $500 million in 2018 alone, and more in the years before and since – to voluntarily change practices to limit discharges of polluting nitrogen and phosphorus.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Mary Nichols speaks at an Emmett Institute symposium in 2018. The story also notes the administration is looking to set new emissions standards for medium and heavy-duty trucks, based on California’s first-of-its-kind rule requiring diesel truck manufacturers to transition to electric trucks starting in 2024. Photo credit: Todd Cheney.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Click Here to watch online. -- DEP Imposed $2.2

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2022

RCPP is a partner-driven program that leverages collective resources to find solutions to address natural resource challenges on agricultural land. RCPP is public-private partnership at its best,” said Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Pennsylvania State Conservationist Denise Coleman.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 15, 2023

Comments on the proposal are being accepted through June 12 via www.regulations.gov using docket number NOAA–NMFS–2018–0052. snowpack with this interactive map from the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Studies and Reports Snowpack Monitor Track the melting of the western U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Alliance has been developing agriculture supply chain programs since 2018, leveraging approximately $16 million in public and private funding to assist over 150 farmers. As a key partner and funder in this work, EPA understands the need to support corporate initiatives like these.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Creek was also named by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as the 2018 Pennsylvania River of the Year and called a “timeless treasure.” Loyalsock EV Stream The Loyalsock is classified by DEP as an Exceptional Value stream whose water quality must be protected by law, with no degradation. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The existing use of ATVs on the State Forest degrades the State Forest public natural resources. “By The Bureau does not need to have another “pilot program” to study the impacts of ATV use. “The Click Here for a copy of the expert report. On July 15, 2021, DCNR only conditionally approved the State Forest Environmental Review. [

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations. 2014, Lein 2018, Zabala, Sandbrook et al. 2018, Rost 2021).

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The IRA both expands the 2018 Farm Bill and provides an inspiration for the (hoped-for) 2024 Farm Bill. Just over four years ago, when Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill there was not a single mention of climate throughout the hundreds of pages of the law. Thus, thanks to IRA funding, fewer farmer applicants will be turned away.

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