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Clean Air Council Celebrates Joseph Minott's 40 Year Commitment To Leading The Council, And To The Environment

PA Environment Daily

Joe fought tirelessly to raise awareness on urban air pollution in the1980’s by establishing and distributing a daily regional air quality index report that is still used today. And in the early 2000’s when fracking was falsely seen as transitional energy, Joe purposely grew the legal team to oppose natural gas expansion.

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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). While the Governor’s veto message asserted that additional legislative direction was not necessary, communities in the Valley continue to suffer from serious air pollution.

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The Impacts of Explicitly Racist Land Use Practices Persist in California Communities. Is It Time for State Intervention?

Legal Planet

As a corollary, local decision-makers are far less politically accountable to residents living outside of their jurisdiction, allowing these decision-makers to impose negative externalities on neighboring communities.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 12

PA Environment Daily

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Folta Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with production wastewater for the well pad located in Tuscarora Twp., . -- Project Part II: Olympus/Hyperion is proposing 8.4 Read more here. Bradford County. ( Butler County. (

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

PA Environment Daily

CBS reported, and not all its foundries had installed air pollution control equipment. But Pomeroy told reporter Hughes Rudd that he had arranged meetings with the local polluters to promote dialogue. “We Many followed and are now part of the accepted political landscape in Lansing and throughout Michigan.” [End

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China’s would-be parents and their climate concerns

A Greener Life

Climate change is and will increasingly exacerbate air pollution, disease outbreaks, drought, flooding, and the melting of glaciers, among other consequences. Some respondents also worried that climate change could create or worsen social and political crises. Only 15% and 12% ranked “individuals” first and second respectively.

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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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