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Nature needs defenders in today’s Ontario

Enviromental Defense

Endangered species are the rarest and most vulnerable plants and animals.By the time a species is designated under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), it’s because its very existence in Ontario has been determined to be hanging by a thread. Photo by James Diedrick via Flickr Creative Commons.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

9 Meeting [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Feb. 13 Hearing On Hazardous Sites Cleanup Plan For Newberry Twp. -- Post-Gazette: PA Getting Millions In Federal Grants To Cut Methane Emissions, Cap Leaking Conventional Oil & Gas Wells -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.

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88 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

-- PA Resources Council Hosts Backyard Composting Workshop March 23 In Delaware County [PaEN] -- Group Against Smog & Pollution: PA Regulators Struggle To Implement Federal Clean Air Act Requirements For Regional Power Plants -- Scranton Times: Tunkhannock Area Schools Going All Out For Solar Energy Generation; Will Have Largest Solar Facility (..)

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

‘It Simply Should Not Happen, Period’ [PaEN] -- Stars and Stripes Guest Essay: Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Export Facilities Right Move For National Security - Rivals Like China Are Using US LNG To Build Influence - By Steve Anderson, US Army Brigadier General - Retired [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: A Rescue Plan For American Energy And (..)

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Policy News: February 28, 2022

ESA

The Chesapeake Bay Science, Education and Ecosystem Enhancement Act ( H.R. John Sarbanes (D-MD), reauthorizes the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office through 2025. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) reauthorizes the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act of 1990. 3540 ), from Rep. A bill ( H.R. 5973 ) from Rep. This bill reauthorizes the U.S.

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

The administration also released plans to approve 48 renewable energy projects on public lands by the end of fiscal year 2025 and double renewable energy production on public lands by 2023. With the resumption of lease sales, the Interior Department increases the royalties paid for oil and gas from 12.5%

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it designated the northern long-eared bat as “threatened” rather than “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act. Northern Plains Resource Council v.

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