PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

-- House Bill Would Expand Safety Zones Around Oil/Gas Wells, Infrastructure To Reduce Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts As Recommended By AG Shapiro’s Grand Jury Report [PaEN] -- Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads, Just Like In PA [PaEN] -- New University Of Chicago (..)

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AUGUST 29, 2022

New York Times : [link]. The New York Times. The CHIPs and Science Act authorizes $8.9 Over the long term, OSTP will continue to coordinate with federal agencies to ensure that government public access policies adapt to new technologies and emerging needs.”. More information: OSTP Free Access Memo : [link]. The Brief: [link].

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Similar to the House bill, the Senate bill authorizes the creation of up to six bioenergy research centers and climate and earth modeling research. The House and Senate bills authorize slightly different funding levels for the Office of Science. The House bill authorizes annual budget increases for the Office of Science, reaching $11.1

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2023

Katie Muth (D-Chester), Alison Steele, Environmental Health Project -- PA Wilds Center: Explore PA Wilds Made Products, Services, Branded Goods, Local Shops In 2023 Buyer’s Guide -- Dept. 1, 2023 [ Senate Resolution 136 ] House passed a resolution extending it one year to June 12, 2024, Republicans opposed.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Hescox , President and CEO of The Evangelical Environmental Network. -- Beth Weinberger (MPH, PhD ) EHP’s Director of Research and Policy -- Makenzie White (MPH, LMSW) EHP’s Public Health Manager -- Alison L. And those areas are equity, transparency, authority, and accountability. Introduction Rev. Mitchell C. How Can We Do Better?

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APRIL 25, 2022

Judge rules DNR lacks authority to regulate PFAS – Wisconsin Examiner. A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War – The New York Times. 10th Circuit upholds $23 million estimated cost for ranchers in jumping mouse habitat – Courthouse News Service. International.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Morris (State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry), W. The Department of Energy provisions authorizes up to six bioenergy research centers and research in earth and environment systems science, including new initiatives in coastal zone research and engineered ecosystems.

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MAY 31, 2023

The ruling from the court’s conservative majority vastly narrowing the federal government’s authority over marshes and bogs is a win for industries such as homebuilding and oil and gas, which must seek Clean Water Act permits to damage federally protected wetlands. Those industries have fought for decades to limit the law’s reach.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Global Change Research Program (USCRP) and the authors of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) are hosting a series of virtual public engagement workshops to inform the development of this federal climate report. The feedback received through this public comment period will be used by author teams as they develop their draft chapters.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

866 ) authorizing the US Forest Service to increase reforestation efforts. Calls for Climate Reparations Reach Boiling Point in Glasgow Talks – The New York Times. NSF: The Senate and House are set to negotiate a final NSF authorizing bill. The House also passed its NSF authorizing bill entitled NSF for the Future Act ( H.R.

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MARCH 28, 2022

Most notably, the National Science Foundation (NSF) received a 4% increase, significantly less than proposed in Biden’s FY 2022 budget request and in authorizing House and Senate authorizing bills. Both bills increase authorized funding for the National Science Foundation but differ on the exact amounts. billion for NSF, a $1.6

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

866 ) authorizing the US Forest Service to increase reforestation efforts. 5830 ) which would authorize $9 billion to the State Department for international forest conservation efforts. This bill provides legal authority to federal land management agencies like the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Wolves: Twenty-one U.S.

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APRIL 11, 2022

Carbon dioxide removal — which encompasses methods ranging from natural processes like planting trees to technological solutions like direct air capture — is “unavoidable” to reach net-zero emissions, the authors said. How war has upended life for climate activists in Russia – The New York Times. Innovation and Competition Act ( S.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Joe Manchin (D-WV) is also expected to revive his energy-permitting reform package and attach it to the annual National Defense Authorization Act. 5081 ) to codify the Office of Environmental Justice in the Justice Department and authorize $1.4 Fishing Regulator Rejects Lifting Ban on Female Crab Harvest – The New York Times.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The GOP-majority health committee passed a motion Tuesday to have the Joint Committee on Documents review Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam’s order to determine whether it should be issued as a regulation which take two years to adopt. -- Rep.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Bill increases authorized funding for the National Science Foundation to $29 billion by FY 2026. This bill creates a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases NSF’s overall authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. In this issue: Senate Passes U.S. Scientist Elected to Congress.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

The bill increases authorized funding for the National Science Foundation to $18.9 The bill provides $52 billion for semiconductor research and development and manufacturing and increases authorized funding levels for the National Science Foundation to $18.9 The new direction is authorized to receive $20 billion over five years.

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APRIL 18, 2023

The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Governor Walks Back Push to ‘Weaken’ Climate Law After Uproar – The New York Times Wisconsin DNR releases 3,500 public comments on wolf plan – Associated Press New York City appointed a rat czar. EPA case by early summer 2023.

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JULY 12, 2021

NSF for the Future Act increases authorizing funding for the National Science Foundation to $17.9 Both bills are authorizing legislation that give appropriators permission to provide funding amounts, but the appropriators may choose to decrease yearly funding. In this issue: House Passes NSF and DOE Reauthorization Bills.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

UN General Assembly meets in New York ahead of COP27. 4883 ), which authorizes $55 million over the next eleven years to support the work of federal agencies, including the U.S. The fungal infection was first discovered in New York in 2006 and is now found in most of the tricolored bat’s range, which spans North America.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Bavishi most recently led the New York City Office of Resiliency. This legislation establishes an Interagency Working Group on Coastal Blue Carbon and authorizes $15 million through FY2026 for the working group’s initiatives, including developing a national map of coastal blue carbon ecosystems. 2750 ) in June 2021. More News: As U.S.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Senate passes bill authorizing research in saline lake ecosystems in the Great Basin. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), authorizes U.S. The bill authorizes $5 million for this study each year through Fiscal Year 2027. White-nose syndrome is a deadly fungal infection that was first discovered in New York in 2006. Executive Branch.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

This bill authorizes a Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Assessment and Monitoring Program which would include scientific monitoring and assessments to establish effective management and conservation efforts to preserve Saline Lake habitats within the Great Basin network. The bill authorizes the U.S. Register here.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Bill increases authorized funding for the National Science Foundation to $17.9 Both are authorizing bills that give appropriators permission to provide funding amounts, but the appropriators may chose to decrease yearly funding. In total, the NSF for the Future Act increases authorized funding for NSF to $17.9 Executive Branch.

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JULY 1, 2022

News Coverage of the West Virginia v EPA Decision: US Supreme Court hobbles the EPA’s authority over climate emissions – Nature. Court Decision Leaves Biden With Few Tools to Combat Climate Change – The New York Times. The New York Times. 3 takeaways from the Supreme Court’s big climate ruling – The Washington Post.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Bill would create a technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases authorized funding levels. This bill which would create a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increase NSF’s overall authorized funding level to around $28 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. Executive Branch.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In this scandal, the National Academies of Science found that Lubchenco violated its code of conduct by accepting an article into the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science that relied on outdated data and failing to recuse herself from reviewing the article because of the authors is her brother-in-law. The world could pass 1.5

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AUGUST 16, 2021

The report’s authors conclude that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Wyden himself authored a partisan plan that passed his committee earlier this year that could serve as a starting point for negotiations.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The New York Times. He also contributed to the IPCC reports and served as an author on the reports of the IPCC, for which it shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. How Government Decisions Left Tennessee Exposed to Deadly Flooding – The New York Times. More News: Democrats Want a ‘Climate Corps.’ International.

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