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??PA American Water Now Accepting Entries To Protect Our Watershed Student Art Contest

PA Environment Daily

The deadline for entries is Earth Day April 22. Year after year, we are amazed by their passion for protecting our natural resources, and we are thrilled to know that they are the future stewards of our water resources.” Questions should be directed to: pa.communityrelations@amwater.com.

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.17.23

PA Environment Daily

FRIDAY Noon: PA Solar Center Hosts Webinar Update On PA Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, Community Solar Legislation + Review 2021-22 AEPS Compliance Report. Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S.

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In Memoriam: Walt Pomeroy, Environmental, Wildlife & Wilderness Advocate

PA Environment Daily

While attending Albion College in Michigan, he helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970 and appeared on a CBS-TV prime-time special hosted by Walter Cronkite that was called Earth Day: A Question of Survival. Student concern and action did not stop on Earth Day. It was a life well lived.”

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DCNR Highlights Benefits Of Trees In Communities; TreeVitalize, TreePennsylvania, Keystone Tree Fund Can Help

PA Environment Daily

On April 8, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn visited Carlisle, Cumberland County, to help plant trees and highlight the many benefits they provide to communities. Planting a tree is a simple act with a big impact,” Dunn said at the police station where the trees are being planted.

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

Law Columbia

Most recently, in February 2021, the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit and the Minganie Regional County Municipality recognized the Canadian Magpie River’s legal rights of personhood through the adoption of twin resolutions — one resolution by the Innu and another resolution by the municipality. The case is pending a decision. Pakistan : G.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Address Impact Of Operations In Niger Delta Before Selling SPDC – CSOs Tell Shell

Corp Watch

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33