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Climate Action for Earth Day

Legal Planet

Earth Day is a perfect day to register to vote and to make sure people in your life are registered—and fully aware of what’s at stake in Election 2024. The first Earth Day in 1970 saw teach-ins, walkouts, and demonstrations grab the participation of 20 million Americans—about 10 percent of the total U.S.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

But a study published in the December 2022 issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health calculated that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7 A 2022 study found that gas stoves leak methane, and more than three-quarters of the emissions occurred when the stoves were off.

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74 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Million In Grants For Electric Vehicles, Clean Fuel Transportation Projects [PaEN] -- PennDOT, DEP Support Petition On Issuing A PUC Policy Statement On Electric Utility Rate Design For Electric Vehicle Charging [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT In Rare-Earth Mineral Partnership That Would Build Refining Plant In Appalachia -- Dept.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Posted: April 17, 2022] Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

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Guest Essay: When People Have To Choose Health Or Jobs, Everyone Loses - The View From Rachel Carson’s Homestead In Allegheny County

PA Environment Daily

By Kiley Bense This guest essay first appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 15, 2022 -- If you stand in the sloping yard of the Rachel Carson Homestead and look down toward the Allegheny River, you can see the smokestacks of the Cheswick Generating Station. It is slated to open sometime in 2022. It’s accepted.”

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DEP Announces Award Of $632,897 In Environmental Education Grants To Support 63 Projects Across The State

PA Environment Daily

Grants were awarded to schools, institutions, conservation districts, and environmental and community organizations. These grants help provide the foundation for environmental education for people of all ages,” said DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell. Posted: April 21, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Arielle V. King's Trail Notes

Vermont Law

King's Trail Notes Edited by Kai Hardy, Michelle Amidzich, and Andrea Salazar March 30, 2022 "I really believe that every single person has a role to play in fighting climate change and improving the state of our world." Looking back, I did not think about environmental justice—I didn’t even know that term until college.

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