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‘Legacy’ Forests. ‘Restoration’ Logging. The New Jargon of Conservation Is Awash in Ambiguity. And Politics

Inside Climate News

By Nathan Gilles, Columbia Insight In 2019, conservation activist and longtime Washington state resident Stephen Kropp did something he’d never done before: he explored a forest managed as state trust land by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.

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The Top-Ten Lower Court Decisions on Environmental Law

Legal Planet

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Corey (2019). Atomic Energy Commission (1971). Decided only a year after NEPA went into effect, this D,C. Circuit opinion gave real teeth to the requirement of issuing an environmental impact statement. Morton (1972). In this case involving offshore drilling, the D.C. Circuits decision.

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U.S. Power Sector Sees Biggest One-Year Drop in Emissions in More Than Two Decades

Yale E360

power sector emissions dropped 10 percent between 2019 and 2020, owing to greater energy efficiency, less reliance on coal, and the coronavirus pandemic suppressing demand for electricity, according to a new report. Read more on E360 ?.

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Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay: PA Riparian Forest Buffer Project Plants Its 1,000th Acre Of Forest Buffer!

PA Environment Daily

This work started in the spring of 2018 with grant funding from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) as the Alliance sought to offer flexible, comprehensive reforestation support that would help fill gaps in existing programs.

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California Adopts Nation-Leading Legislation to Cut Plastic Pollution

Legal Planet

In adopting this law, California joins a handful of other states with extended producer responsibility laws on the books, which brings me back to the history: A substantially different version of this bill failed in an end-of-session vote in 2019.

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Local Officials Tour Burkholder's Country Market Solar Energy Project In Spring Mills, Centre County

PA Environment Daily

In 2019, Burkholders Country Market worked with SunDirected to install a 581 kW solar carport system with over 1,200 panels. Harnessing more energy from the sun would mean cleaner air, a more stable climate, less strain on natural resources, and an energy source we can depend on to be virtually pollution-free for as long as we can imagine.

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Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.20.24

PA Environment Daily

“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. Contact: Lucas Hershey, luchershey@pa.gov.