Circle of Blue

MAY 18, 2022

In Context: Desalination Has a Waste Problem. Australia Elections: Recent disasters like floods and wildfires are putting climate-conscious political candidates in the spotlight as Australia gears up for Election Day on Saturday. The moratorium, that initially took place in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was lifted in June of 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2023

Kingsley # 6H -- Failure To Report A Release That Caused Or Threatens To Cause Pollution -- Failure To Prevent Substances From Reaching Waters of Commonwealth -- Operated A Residual Waste Processing Or Disposal Facility Without A Permit -- Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC - Wilmot Twp. Aleppo Twp. Aleppo Twp. Aleppo Twp. 2 Hearing On A 4.5

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

8, 2021) – Today, Canada’s leading environmental organizations released responses from all federal parties to a Federal Party Survey on Environmental Platforms. Survey questions address the climate, nature, toxics and waste crises harming Canada, as well as issues around Indigenous rights.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2021

Editor’s Note: Due to my recovery from heart surgery, I’m posting a limited number of environment and energy articles each day-- David Hess Senate returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 27, 28, 29 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events CourierT: PA Budget Earmarks $1.6

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

At RePlanet Nederland, we are delighted that the European Commission has proposed, on December 31, 2021, to include nuclear energy in the sustainable finance taxonomy. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Louisiana applied for Class VI primacy on September 17, 2021, having already managed the other five UIC well classes (industrial and municipal waste disposal wells, oil and gas related injection wells, solution mining wells, shallow hazardous and radioactive waste injection wells, and wells that inject non-hazardous fluids).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2021

2021 Virtual Watershed Congress In Southeast PA [PaEN] -- DEP: Issues Air Pollution Warning For Friday, August 13 In Southeastern PA Counties -- DEP: Notice Of Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2021

9 In Southeastern PA Counties -- Fox43: Hundreds Of PA Schools Finding High Levels Of Lead In Their Drinking Water -- Pocono Record: Pocono Environmental Education Center Holds PEEC Day -- CourierT: The Lenape Tribe Was Swindled Out Of Its Land In Pennsylvania, Years Of Conflict Followed PA Politics -- ErieT: Gov.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 4, 2022

Growing more than 100 crops, these counties are among the richest farming regions in the country, each generating more than $1 billion in sales in 2021. The steady flow of the Colorado is the fuel that powers the ag machine. The threat that the spigot will be turned off has brought the irrigation districts to the table. Secured by a U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Yaw: SB 465 Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program A Win-Win For PA’s Farmers And Local Water Quality [If passed and funded] -- ReadingE: Blue Marsh Lake Algae Blooms Unlikely To Be Sole Cause Of Philadelphia-Area Water Complaints -- Register Today For Aug. 23 - Learn About How To Protect Your Land With A Conservation Easement Webinar.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2023

On December 29, the 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report issued by DEP in December shows conventional oil and gas operators received a record 610 notices of violation for abandoning wells without plugging them and unconventional shale gas operators received 27 NOVs. Read more here. 21 [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2023

2 Virtual Community Meeting For Zelienople Residents On Health Risks Of Ethylene Oxide [PaEN] -- Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay Commission Report Explores Producer Responsibility Laws To Reduce Plastics Waste, Promote Recycling [The Commission Is Chaired By PA Sen. 21 [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb. 2 Hearing On A 4.5

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2021

16, 17, 18 & 19 [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly Collective Flights In Late Summer Not Dangerous To Public -- Penn State Researchers: Find Surprising Gaps in Ecological Genetic Data That Holds Back Global Conservation Efforts -- MCall: Cicadas Aren’t Killing Trees In Lehigh Valley -- Aug. GW Of 317.6

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2023

Billion Cost Of Plugging Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - By Barb Jarmoska, Keep It Wild PA [ Abandoned Oil, Gas Wells Can Cost PA Taxpayers $1.8 1, 8 Master Watershed Steward Program Webinars -- EPA To Host Feb. 1, 8 Master Watershed Steward Program Webinars -- EPA To Host Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2021

Joseph Simons On Fly Fishing, Conservation And Educating Others Thru His Video Series -- Pocono Record: New Pocono Heritage Land Trust Preserve Offers Hiking, Fishing Opportunities -- Game Commission: Hunters Should Be Aware Of Enhanced Chronic Wasting Disease Protections -- TribLive: Artists To Chalk Portraits Of Passengers, Crew Of Flight 93 As Part (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2023

Related Article: -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Has No Exclusion Zones For Water Withdrawals From Any Streams, Including EV Or HQ Streams Subject To Water Quality Antidegradation Rules [10.17.22] PA DEP Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Clean Water Act requires a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for any release of waste to surface waters. Section 14 of Senate Bill 582 d irects DEQ and the EMC to replace the current general permit (in effect since December 1, 2021) with the previous version of NCG530000.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Unfortunately, pipeline constraints due in no small part to misguided political opposition from activists have precluded neighboring states from reaping the benefits of this critical infrastructure development, despite regulated utilities in New Jersey noting to their public service commission that they may not have enough gas to meet winter demand.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Flooding on the banks of Rio Negro in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil, 2021. As a scholar of political science, this provokes compelling questions about current relationships across states, their governments, and who offers protection. Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C., Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The emergence of a new variant of the coronavirus has put a constellation of researchers – virologists, immunologists and epidemiologists chief among them – in the hot seat as political leaders and public health experts seek answers to questions about how transmissible it is and whether it erodes pre-existing immunity. Fluids 6 , 110511).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2021

By Gail McCormick, Penn State News A new luminescent sensor can detect terbium, a valuable rare earth element, from complex environmental samples like acid mine waste. However, there are a variety of chemical, environmental and political challenges to obtaining terbium and other rare earth elements from the environment.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In the summer of 2021, a twin-engine special research aircraft took off from State College, PA. For the 2021 aerial probe, Carbon Mapper targeted areas of generally high methane levels that the organization had previously located using readings from space satellites operated by the European Space Agency.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 28, 2022

From their respective disciplines, they’re converting industrial food waste into plastic, building electric vehicle batteries with domestic materials and helping vulnerable citizens adapt to extreme weather, to name a few. Each project is exciting in its potential and gives us hope for the future, because the No.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The concept is that the development of knowledge, be it scientific or any other kind, cannot be completely separated from its social, historical or political context. 2021 Little, Brown £20hb 336pp. This poisoned the rivers and surrounding lands and caused international uproar.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2023

PA DEP Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 14 to 20 [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 21 [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb. 2 Hearing On A 4.5 2 Hearing On A 4.5 2 Hearing On A 4.5 2 Hearing On A 4.5

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Zhengzhou, a city of 13 million, saw almost as much rainfall over three days in July 2021 as it does in an average year. In 2021, a survey of over 10,000 young people in ten countries was conducted by universities and research institutes, including Bath and Stanford universities. Photo credit: Aly Song / Alamy.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Maine passed a constitutional amendment in 2021, called the “Right to Food” amendment, to address the high amount of food insecurity and users of state and federal food assistance programs that are vulnerable to political shifts, funding, and increasing disruptions to food systems caused by climate change. In Maine, it is.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What’s Up With Water – November 15, 2021 – This week’s episode cover’s a hunger crisis in Afghanistan and a project in New Jersey’s largest city to remove lead service lines. To make matters worse, gutters and drains throughout the city have become clogged with waste, making flooding even more common. In Case You Missed It: .

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

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. Seven workers were killed in a 1988 explosion at the refinery.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2021

By Tom Batroney, PE This guest essay was originally published on Public Source August 3, 2021 -- After record-setting rainfall and flash floods in recent years, the need for action across the Pittsburgh region is clear. Water is our lifeblood, and all forms of water – potable, storm and waste – should be valued.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. By Lester Graham, Michigan Radio — July 6, 2021. All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. That’s something political leaders have not been willing to do.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

In Iowa, a Tale of Politics, Power, and Contaminated Water Lawmakers silence Chris Jones, a prominent University of Iowa water quality researcher. The political pressure came with a personal connection: Sen. Within days of the push from the lawmakers, university administrators shut down Jones’ blog and he resigned.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company first attracted global attention when it was caught dumping 3,000 tons of toxic mercury-laden waste in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, that originated at a PVC plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It manufactures plastics, and is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). billion complex in St. billion complex in St.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2023

Environmental justice issues first received widespread attention in 1982 when protests erupted over the construction of a new waste disposal facility in a black community in North Carolina. In the interim, the term environmental racism was coined by the Rev. It’s unclear, however, whether Clinton’s order had much practical effect.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

Less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled. In a welcome reprieve from news coming out of the Supreme Court , here’s an uplifting story from the Golden State: On Thursday, Governor Newsom signed SB 54, a comprehensive piece of legislation aimed at significantly reducing single-use waste.

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