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It’s Ontario’s Annual “Blame You for Plastic Pollution Day”! (A.K.A. the “Ontario Day of Action on Litter”)

Enviromental Defense

The vast majority of all those plastic bottles ends up in landfills and incinerators, where they contribute to ground, water and air pollution. Only a very small amount ends up as the litter we’re then asked to pick up on greenwashed days of action like today. . Plastic beverage containers litter a river bank.

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

PA Environment Daily

While attending Albion College in Michigan, he helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970 and appeared on a CBS-TV prime-time special hosted by Walter Cronkite that was called Earth Day: A Question of Survival. CBS reported, and not all its foundries had installed air pollution control equipment.

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.22.23 - Earth Day!

PA Environment Daily

Million In Funding For Clean Water Infrastructure To Protect Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware River Basin -- Brodhead Watershed Assn. Million In Funding For Clean Water Infrastructure To Protect Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware River Basin -- Brodhead Watershed Assn.

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105 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

StreamWatch Volunteer Training May 20 In Monroe County [PaEN] -- CBF: Proposed Settlement Of Lawsuit Against EPA For Failing To Hold Pennsylvania Accountable For Meeting Chesapeake Bay Water Pollution Reduction Goals Focuses On Actions In 7 PA Counties [PaEN] -- New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, (..)

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

The 4 big ones are the 1972 Clean Water Act , the 1970 Clean Air Act , the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act , and 2 hazardous waste laws having the acronyms CERCLA and RCRA, which I will explain later. Through this law, water pollution is managed by controlling wastewater discharges. Each law has thousands of regulations. Clean Water Act.

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66 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Leib, Pittsburgh -- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan -- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI] -- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Get $1.5

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88 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Details Plan To Draw Clean Energy Facilities Into Oil, Coal Communities -- PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Mercury, Air Toxics Safeguards For Coal-Fired Power Plants [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Title V Air Quality Permit For Monessen Coke (Coal) Plant, Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Moms Clean (..)