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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. 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 4.23.22

PA Environment Daily

Wolf, First Lady Recognize PA’s Environmental Investments During Earth Day Celebration -- Gov. Other States/National/International -- AP: Crews Tackle Growing Wildfires: ‘A Very Chaotic Situation’ PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Post-Gazette: Witnesses Ask Senate Panel To Let 1.1 From DEP -- Gov.

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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. End of excerpt.]

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

Chile’s president-elect Gabriel Boric speaks in Santiago, the day after his election victory in December 2021. Although politics is a new world for her, she has been involved in a number of different capacities for some time. Photo credit: ZUMA Press / Alamy.

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Coalition of environmental groups calls for a federal ban on thermal coal exports on Earth Day

Enviromental Defense

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People- A coalition of environmental, health, and social justice groups are calling on Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault to ban the export of thermal coal from Canadian ports by 2023 and to release a roadmap of this ban on Earth Day.

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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