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Renewed call to protect Philly’s waterways

Academy of Natural Sciences

It would eventually be learned that yellow fever is not caused by dirty water, but in the early 1800s, a sense of a diseased city with undrinkable water spurred the local government to develop the nation’s first public water system.

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How to Save the World, Part 2

Academy of Natural Sciences

But city plans aren’t usually the key to advancing sustainability, according to Alexis Schulman, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences who has been studying the specific factors that put local governments on a path to success. Schulman observed such a scenario at the Philadelphia Water Department in the late ’90s.

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House Committee Hears Benefits Of Forested Stream Buffers-- Increasing Property Values, Water Quality Improvements, Reduced Impacts From Flooding; Builders, Republican Chair Worried About A ‘Taking’ Of Property

PA Environment Daily

Rowland Wall , Executive Director of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research , Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, said-- “For over 70 years, the Patrick Center has studied and worked to manage the impacts of human activities on aquatic systems, with special attention to nonpoint source pollution from stormwater.”

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

In addition, the agency expects to propose an updated rule governing the venting and flaring of methane pollution from onshore oil and gas leases in October but did not estimate when it would finish work on that regulation. 20 executive order that called for a review of energy and environment-related rules across the federal government.

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