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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

AB 2101 expands carbon sequestration projects to include whole orchard recycling (onsite grinding or chipping of whole trees during orchard removal for use in topsoil). Lawmakers have accordingly sought ways to conserve water, particularly in urban areas. Ecological Conservation.

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In Memoriam: Walt Pomeroy, Environmental, Wildlife & Wilderness Advocate

PA Environment Daily

An excerpt from a Blog Post By Dave Dempsey , author of the book Michigan’s Rise As A Conservation Leader captures that experience-- In contrast to protests on other campuses that Cronkite called sometimes “frivolous,” the Albion activities Pomeroy organized included the cleanup of a vacant lot to create a small urban park. End of excerpt.]

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Conservation : The preservation or restoration of a natural environment for the social, ecological, or even economical benefit. For example, a program of river conservation will increase biodiversity while making the surrounding environment and people who live there healthier. Indoor air is anything contained with a building.

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Pollution: not “an unavoidable consequence” of development

Science Blogs

Laced throughout the report explicit and implicit is a message that governments, foundations, medical societies, and research institutions pay too little attention to the impact of pollution on health. The authors call out political actors, international development and health organizations for ignoring pollution in their agendas.

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Solutions to Climate Change-Fueled Droughts in the Western US

Union of Concerned Scientists

Along with rising temperatures, drought makes vegetation and forests drier and increases the risk of fires that generate air pollution. To take advantage of the services that ecosystems provide we must conserve and restore forests, wetlands, soils, floodplains, and coastal ecosystems, as well as create green spaces in urban areas.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 3

PA Environment Daily

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Sunoco Inc. PA Bulletin, page 519 ) -- Lewis Run Natural Gas Plant LLC - Lewis Run Gas Plant: DEP invites comments on renewal of Minor Air Quality Permit for the facility in Bradford Twp., Read more here. Philadelphia. ( PA Bulletin, page 541 ) -- Sunoco Inc. Susquehanna County. ( Warren County. (

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48 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

-- UnionProgress.com: Environmental Groups Give Beaver County Shell Petrochemical Plant ‘F’ Grade For First 100 Days In Operation -- Beaver County Times: Shell Petrochemical Plant Hit With Air Violations; Activists Call For Operations Halt -- PennLive Guest Essay: Air Pollution Is Killing Us, We’ve Got To Act Now To Stop It - By Carolyn Heckman, Evangelical (..)