PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 National- $3.58

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2024

-- WGAL: UGI Gas Utilities Checking Gas Lines As Precaution After East Coast Earthquake: If You Smell Gas, Evacuate Immediately Grants -- ReImagine Appalachia Applauds EPA’s $500 Million Grant To Appalachian Community Capital To Stimulate Green Energy Investments In Low-Income Rural Communities Affected By Fossil Fuel Industry’s Decline [PaEN] Upcoming (..)

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2022

20 Via Zoom, Offer Sensor Rentals -- Citizen Science Parasite Hunters Needed: Penn State Researcher Asking Deer Hunters For Help In Biting Flies Research Effort - By Penn State News [PaEN] -- PUC Joins 8th Annual ‘Imagine A Day Without Water’ To Raise Water Awareness -- Warren Times: Night Sky Program Offered Oct. 22-23 -- Penn State Oct.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Since 2004, ARRI has reforested thousands of acres of reclaimed coal mined land throughout Appalachia to restore the areas to their natural appearance while gaining the many benefits the newly planted trees seedlings will provide, such as removing carbon dioxide from the air and helping to conserve water resources.

2001

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Of PA [Natural Gas Prices Tripled] -- DCNR Blog: DCNR Building A Network Of Rural Electric Vehicle Charging Stations In State Parks, Forests -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Begins Accepting Applications For $62 Million In Federal EV Charging Station Funding March 27 -- UnionProgress.com: West Mifflin, Allegheny County Stays Current With EV (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere. A spring without voices A couple of days later, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden hosted an Earth Day celebration in the parking lot and lawn in front of their 80-acre grounds, which sit beside the Ohio River where it curves south. It’s accepted.”

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. Shy’s study provided a shining example of the threat posed by industrial pollution that galvanized public attention in the late 1960s and led to the first Earth Day in April 1970.

2013

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2024

Withdraws Request To EPA To Be Considered In Compliance With Federal Air Quality Standards -- Rep.

Earth Day

Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is a major carbon sink.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2024

Of State Webpage -- DEP Awards $2.9

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

in Somerset County -- WHYY: My Climate Story: Philly Students Take Science From Abstract To Personal -- Reading Eagle: Berks Nature Nonprofit Has Evolved Over Its 50-Year History -- MCall: C.F.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2022

It’s Worth $1 Billion -- Post-Gazette - Laura Legere: Offices Adapt As COVID Highlights Hazards Of Poor Indoor Air Quality -- Erie Times: Solar Panels Eyed For Erie’s Central Firehouse, Could Save More Than $7,000 A Year In Energy Costs -- PA Capital-Star: Carbon Dioxide Emissions In Pennsylvania -- Courier Times: After Long Battle, Stone Meadows Farm (..)

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2022

EIA: Ban On New Natural Gas Pipelines Would Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Natural Gas Combustion 4.4% Casey: Announces $2.1 Lower In 2050 PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- City & State PA: Sen.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In a blistering dissent over the 2022 decision to curtail the powers of the EPA on regulating power plant carbon dioxide emissions that fuel global warming, she said: “Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. The current court is silent on that.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Envirothon Team Partners With Izaak Walton League To Plant Trees For Earth Day; Wins Greene County Envirothon -- Honesdale H.S. Team Wins Pike/Wayne County Envirothon, Represents Wayne County; Wallenpaupack H.S.

Conservation

ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

This strategy follows a Biden administration Executive Order, released on Earth Day 2022, that directs federal agencies to develop guidance to better account for nature and its benefits in federal decision-making. White House CEQ – Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) Non-Federal Lands Permitting Task Force.

2022

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I distinctly remember the rotten egg smell of sulfur dioxide hanging over the Flats whenever we went downtown. It is mainly methane, which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat for the first 20 years after it is released. That makes the fertilizer industry a double threat to the climate.

Clean Water Act

ESA

APRIL 25, 2022

In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network to hold panel discussion about community engagement. Federal Register opportunities. White House Announces First National Nature Assessment. National Nature Assessment.

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