PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2022

On January 26, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn highlighted the agency‘s 2022 priorities at the first Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council meeting of the year. Read more here.] Clean Water “A key element people need in life is clean water.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2023

16 [PaEN] -- DailyLocal.com: Growing Greener Funding Will Improve Local Waters In West Chester Area -- The Progress: Clearfield Conservation District Plans 6 Projects, Cover Crop Incentive Program With Growing Greener Grant Funding -- TribLive: PA Tree Seedling Sale Underway By Game Commission -- Erie News Now: Penn State Extension To Host Feb.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

In Minnesota , stricter penalties for water overuse are signed into state law. “We Permit holders are required to report their annual water use to the state Department of Natural Resources. The program’s funding comes via the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which was signed into law in November 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2021

May 18, 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of the Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution. The ERA states in part that “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. There is much more to Ralph’s story!

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 12, DEP, DCNR and many guests dedicated the Law Library Conference Room in the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg to Franklin Kury, the legislative author of Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment to the state Constitution. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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Acoel

AUGUST 16, 2021

Posted on August 16, 2021 by John Dernbach. Article I, Section 27 provides: 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. On July 21, 2021, the state’s Supreme Court reaffirmed and extended its 2017 holding.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The funding is made possible by a new program in the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and can support projects that construct wildlife crossings over and below busy roads, add fencing, acquire tracking and mapping tools, and more. Click Here for the complete announcement. Posted: December 6, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2023

Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the last natural resources cases on its docket this Term: Arizona v. In 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Navajo Nation , unanimously concluding that the Nation was within its rights to pursue its breach-of-trust claims against the federal government.

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Acoel

AUGUST 2, 2021

Posted on August 2, 2021 by Kevin R. Early in my career, I was involved in a natural resource damages case seeking to establish the monetary value of an impacted drinking water aquifer. An environmental economist took the stand for the defense and began to describe why the resource had little economic value.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

million to improve wildlife habitat, enhance resilience to changing climatic conditions, and engage communities throughout the Delaware River watershed in conservation activities. These grants were awarded through the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund (DWCF), funded by the U.S. Funding includes more than $4.5 A total of $14.9

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 10, 2022

Conservancy forester Kyle Smith takes measurements in the old-growth forest at TNC’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve in southwest Washington. Several of our priorities this year seek to stem the loss of irreplaceable natural and working lands and ensure our state is empowered to plan more thoughtfully for the years to come.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Dernbach, Commonwealth Law School, Widener University This article first appeared on John C. The General Assembly responded by allocating much of that money to pay for day-to-day expenses at the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). Justice Thomas Saylor did not participate.)

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Endangered Species Law

JUNE 9, 2021

On June 7, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) agreed with the Department of Justice and declined to hear a case brought by the Kansas Natural Resource Coalition (Coalition) challenging the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2021

we hold that the income generated from the revenue streams at issue must be returned to the corpus as a matter of trust law.” Related Article: -- PA Supreme Court Again Declares Transfers From DCNR Oil & Gas Fund Unconstitutional Under Environmental Rights Amendment [Posted: August 3, 2021] PA Environment Digest Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2022

Take Action: -- Take Action To Protect PA’s Parks & Forests ] NewsClips: -- PA Cap-Star: DCNR Says $638 Million Budget Ask Will Add Staff, Address Aging Infrastructure -- The Center Square: PA Parks A Major Source Of Revenue For Recreation And Natural Gas Resource Links - DCNR: -- DCNR Budget Testimony: Critical Investments Needed To Reduce $1.4

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Nature Conservancy in Washington will be a part of that bustle and working to keep people and nature at the forefront of policy and budget decision-making. workforce development An area where the Nature Conservancy in Washington will be expanding our focus is around opportunities for workforce development.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Congresswoman Kim Schrier, MD, an original sponsor of the bipartisan National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021 , visited Cascadia TREX this week to see good fire in action. It was an incredible experience to join firefighters and The Nature Conservancy yesterday for their prescribed burn,” said Rep. It’s one thing to see photos.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

PaEN] Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 18, 2024

In August, 2021, I blogged on Legal Planet about a piece in Science I had co-authored arguing for an end to prohibiting “nonuse” rights to bid on public land use. By way of quick background, our public resource laws were written with an explicit bias in favor of extractive activities. Such rules, however, are outdated today.

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Washington Nature

JULY 10, 2023

By Anya Blaney Cody Desautel, Executive Director of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservations, brings vast experience as a leader, land steward, and forestry professional to The Nature Conservancy in Washington's board of directors, preserving the heritage of the state's forests for seven generations in the future.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

Wells Environmental Clinic at UCLA School of Law is representing Los Angeles Waterkeeper on matters related to the subject of this post. The Superior Court sided with the boards and upheld the 2012 permit, and NRDC and LAW appealed. See Natural Resources Defense Council v. State Water Resources Control Board , No.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2022

An October 13 inspection by the Department of Environmental Protection again found multiple violations of the state Clean Streams Law and Solid Waste Management Act at the PA General Energy Shawnee water withdrawal and natural gas pipeline construction site on the Loyalsock Creek in Gamble Township, Lycoming County. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

That uncertainty is one reason some states are hesitant to include tribes in river negotiations, said Becky Mitchell, the director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. State laws prevent some tribes from taking water from the river if they can’t prove how much is theirs. (Jeremy Wade Shockley for CPR News).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

DCNR’s Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council met last September to hear an overview of the proposed changes to the standards. Ridge through an Executive Order in 1996 and then in law by Act 71 of 2008. Read more here. Funding for the Center was eliminated in 2011.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

OTTAWA | Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People — With Canada’s 2021 federal election just five weeks away, a coalition of 34 Canada’s leading environmental organizations are calling on everyone in Canada to vote on September 20 — and when they do, vote for a green and just recovery from COVID-19.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

At the September 8, 2021 meeting the State Board of Education charged the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) with reconvening the Steering and Content Committees to revisit the proposed standards to address the over 1,000 public comments and bring their suggested revisions back to the Board of Education. “In Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental, conservation, wildlife and many other groups have opposed this legislation. For any existing litigation, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources would be substituted for the private entity trying to claim the public easement. Posted: September 30, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

because they are not complying with the state’s electronics recycling law. ( PA Bulletin, page 6008 ) -- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Formal Notice Of Special Fall Round Of Community Conservation Partnership Grants. PA Bulletin, page 6009 ). Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2021

Since the founding of our Commonwealth, 'Penn's Woods,' our forests have been critical natural resources that we must continue to preserve, maintain and grow," said Gov. 9 Annual Forestry Symposium; Invasive Plant Workshops; Role Of Climate Change On Forest Trees; Much More [Posted: August 24, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2021

5 [PaEN] -- Southwestern PA Commission Water Resource Center, Partners Host Dec. 20 Webinar: Conserve Energy & Reduce Costs With Duquesne Light Company's Business Solutions Rebate Program. Posted: December 5, 2021] PA Environment Digest . -- Citizen Science: Join Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count Dec. 14 to Jan.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The ERA is part of Pennsylvania’s declaration of rights and reads: The people have a right to clean air [and] 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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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. Argentina : Asociación Civil por la Justicia Ambiental v.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

As John Dernbach wrote in a recent blog for ACOEL, on July 21, 2021 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that this amendment required all state revenues from oil and gas leases to go to conserve and maintain public natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Now we have an important new decision from Montana.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 11, 2022

With the support of funding from Washington’s new climate emissions reduction law, the Climate Commitment Act , and recent robust federal infrastructure and relief funding, Sen. We will expand on the following in 2023: The Nature Conservancy's Ellsworth Creek Preserve near Naselle, Washington. Marko Liias and Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

The year the violations were issued are noted as are the well pad names-- Apex Energy (2021) -- PF Eisaman 3 - Hempfield Twp., McKean County EQT Prod (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021) -- ASHBAUGH 1H - Ashland Twp., McKean County EQT Prod (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021) -- ASHBAUGH 1H - Ashland Twp., Read more here.

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