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Why Soil Health Is So Important to the Agriculture Resilience Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

to integrate food and farm policy in a way that addresses climate change and helps farmers reduce their carbon emissions. Agriculture needs to be a part of the climate solution, given that it is responsible for about 11 percent of heat-trapping carbon emissions in the United States.

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94 New Articles - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69

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The Path to a Low-Carbon Future

Environmental News Bits

Reducing waste and conserving scarce natural resources are key goals of the movement to a circular economy. The majority of the world’s carbon emissions are associated with extraction of resources and production of goods, but circular economy measures are rarely included in policies aimed at meeting emissions reduction targets.

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Ontario Auditor General’s Environment Audits Reveal a Government That’s Abandoned Its Obligation to Protect the Environment

Enviromental Defense

If the government of Ontario hoped that abolishing the Environment Commissioner, and transferring the position’s responsibilities to the Auditor General would free it from accountability on climate change, wilderness conservation, pollution and species at risk protection, it must surely be disappointed. . HAZARDOUS SPILLS.

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Environmentalism and the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

If you’re an anti-regulatory conservative, you’d probably flip these designations. This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. UARG involved a regulation that required industry to cut carbon emissions for new facilities.

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September 5 PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

Of Agriculture Awards Research Grants For Soil Health, Farm Conservation, Regenerative Farming, Spotted Lanternfly Mitigation September 2 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation Clean Air Council Now Accepting Applications For Feet First Philly Mini Grants; Sept. Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Decline In Energy Use; $4.6

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Renewables to become first global electricity source by 2025

Edouard Stenger

While I am really happy renewables have gone from the fringe to the mainstream in the past two decades, I am still pretty concerned and angry that energy efficiency, conservation and sobriety are not being pushed more by governments and organizations. The IEA has long been an advocate for doing more with less.

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