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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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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.

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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. We have a solar array that powers our own municipal buildings, said Katie Blume, Millheim Borough Council President and the Political & Legislative Director of Conservation PA.

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Mine Cleanup Law Weakened By Coal’s Decline

Circle of Blue

Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. According to oversight documents, during 2021 Illinois’ Department of Natural Resources spent an average of $17,000 per acre cleaning up sites abandoned prior to 1977. A Political Quagmire. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 6, 2022.

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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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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

Circle of Blue

And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. So in 2019, the city of Toledo pulled a hail mary: they made Lake Erie into a legal person and proposed to protect her with “irrevocable rights” to “exist, flourish and naturally evolve,” reads the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, known among its supporters as LEBOR (“LEE-bore”).

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California’s Water Rights System is Inequitable, Inadequate, and Possibly, About to Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

By incentivizing the occupation of land, ownership by force, and exploitation of natural resources, the state and federal governments promoted the violent dispossession and genocide of Native Americans from the land. Of course, Native Americans were not eligible for US citizenship until 60 years later, in 1924.