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Fresh, April 4, 2023: Canadian Government Pledges Increased Funding for Great Lakes

Circle of Blue

Following meetings between President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau, Canada’s government pledges increased spending on the Great Lakes. Jurisdiction of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) territory of Akwesasne is shared three ways — a council elected by the Canadian government, a council elected by the U.S. Find all the work here.

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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. It urges: Federal, state and local governments, and the private sector, to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to net zero or below.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

Shy’s study provided a shining example of the threat posed by industrial pollution that galvanized public attention in the late 1960s and led to the first Earth Day in April 1970. Federal Agencies Fail to Protect the Public The federal government has been aware of gas stove pollution issues for decades.

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Attorney General Henry Files Charges Against Shell Falcon Pipeline For Failure To Report Drilling Issues That Caused Industrial Waste, Potential for Water Pollution

PA Environment Daily

[In October 2022, DEP assessed a $670,000 against Shell Pipeline Company, LP and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLL for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here.]

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Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 4.24.22

PA Environment Daily

What’s Your Community Doing? PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- PennLive: PA Republican Cong.

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. By Tiffany Challe*. Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. What countries have declared rights of nature? Climate litigation using the rights of nature.