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Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: Volunteers Make Jennings Environmental Ed Center Improving The Prairie Day A Success!

PA Environment Daily

Improving The Prairie On Saturday, January 20, 2024, DCNR's Jennings Environmental Education Center [nearly Slippery Rock in Butler County] held the 23rd annual Prairie Improvement Day. These species, and many others, are shade intolerant and depend on full sun for growth and regulating body temperatures.

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PA American Water Charitable Foundation Awards $267,000 In Water And Environment Grants To 15 Nonprofit Groups

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On May 2, the American Water Charitable Foundation , a 501(c)(3) organization established by American Water , the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the U.S.,

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

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In his career with FPW, he supervised small grants totaling $14 million to environmental and watershed associations throughout the state. He retired in January 2024. Today, he is a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

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Delayed Formaldehyde Critique by Science Advisers Set to Begin – Bloomberg. EPA says state agencies’ regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents – Nola.com. Clean Water Act at 50: environmental gains, challenges unmet – Associated Press. ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug. eastern time on Nov.

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ESA Policy News: March 20, 2023

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Call for Nominations for 2023 ESA Regional Policy Award ESA seeks nominations for its annual Regional Policy Award to recognize a local or regional policymaker who has integrated environmental science and policy in initiatives that foster more sustainable communities. billion for NSF in FY 2024. This number is less than the $15.7

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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. Ann Carlson: Anything by Octavia Butler , including “Parable of the Sower” a dystopian novel published in 1993 but set in 2024 California. population at the time.

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Policy News: October 10, 2022

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The significant nexus test determines that the Clean Water Act applies if wetlands have a “significant nexus” to regulated waters. Moore is a distinguished research professor in the department of entomology at the University of Georgia and the associate deal for research in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

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