Academy of Natural Sciences

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It’s that time of year to celebrate winter, gather with family, friends and loved ones and think about all the good you’ll do in the new year. Whether you’re celebrating Kwanzaa or Hannukah, bringing in the new year or simply adorning the family table, consider using sustainable candles.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

There is one single thing you can give up that will help address climate change: voter apathy. Most Americans have real questions and concerns about climate change that should be engaged with on a day like today. Americans are most interested in learning about solutions to the climate crisis.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday. Climate change could hike the cost of maintaining Ontario ’s transportation infrastructure by over $1.5 Climate Change Could Cost Ontario Over $1 Billion Every Year. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 31, 2023

More than 10,500 people, virtually or in person, attended the first water conference convened by the UN in 46 years. The line to pick up security badges on the opening morning wrapped around Manhattan’s East 45th Street and down 2nd Avenue. Climate change negotiations take place under a UN framework called a convention.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents. million and Chevron’s $39.47

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

TODAY 6:00: DEP Priority Climate Action Plan Outreach Session. 7 -- TribLive: Rain Fails To Ease Concerns Over Falling Water Level At Beaver Run Reservoir In Westmoreland -- TribLive: 10-Year-Old Allegheny Twp. East Vincent Township Building, 262 Ridge Road, Spring City, Chester County. Click Here to watch online. 551 Ravensburg Blvd.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 18, 2022

The US Supreme Court’s recent decision dramatically limiting EPA’s ability to curb carbon emissions is bad news for our fight against climate change. With a legislative session that’s about to wrap up, getting the bill into law will require diplomacy and ambition. Where things stand. It doesn’t have to be perfect.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Read the full story at Inside Climate News. As world leaders and diplomats wrap up the climate negotiations in Scotland in the coming days they will be confronted by new data showing that global carbon dioxide emissions are expected to rise sharply this year, possibly tying the all-time high reached before the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The response from Premier Smith and her government was yet another step in their effort to battle against desperately needed climate policies in Canada. Photo by Alberta Newsroom via Flickr Creative Commons Climate change continues to devastate lives in Canada. Why is this report being kept under wraps? Premier Smith.

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Cresforum

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Conservative Climate Foundation (CCF) hosted a panel entitled, “Rewarding Environmental Performance in Trade” on Friday December 9, 2023, in the Green Zone at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai (COP28). and was moderated by CEO of Climate Leadership Council Greg Bertelsen. earlier this year.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 21, 2021

A man wearing a red ball cap is the first to speak up. How many people have died of lead poisoning in Chicago in the past 100 years?” Since applications for the program opened in March, city staffers have knocked on doors, put up fliers, hosted block meetings, and more. Last year, Chicago’s mayor Lori Lightfoot announced an $8.5

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 18, 2023

The rest ends up in landfills, incinerators or directly in the natural environment. ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE ( environmentaldefence.ca ): Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities. –

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2023

climate envoy John Kerry just wrapped up three days of talks with top Chinese officials in Beijing and doesn’t have a lot to show for it: There was no joint agreement or grand bargain. Nor did they show willingness to separate the urgent issue of climate change from the broader tensions clouding the US-China relationship.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Shapiro, Legislature Wrapping Up Remarkably Unproductive Year; What Happened? -- Spotlight PA: We Tracked Shapiro’s 11 Biggest Campaign Promises Thru His First Year, See How He Did -- KDKA: Shapiro Calls His First Year A Success Despite Some Disappointments -- Inquirer: Gov. Shapiro -- Erie Times: Gov.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nearly two years after filing an outrageous lawsuit against the federal government, Big Plastic is getting its day in court. The companies behind the lawsuit will produce more than 4 million tonnes of polyethylene in Canada this year from oil and gas extracted in Alberta’s oil sands, North American natural gas wells and fracking.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

23 Farm Succession Workshop. . -- Feature: Meet Your New Year’s Resolution On The Susquehanna Greenway - By Susquehanna Greenway Partnership [PaEN] -- Dec. 8 Hearing On RACT 3 Air Quality Permit For Magnesita Refractories Facility In York County [PaEN] -- DEP Posted 56 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Dec. National- $3.12

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Academy of Natural Sciences

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If you find you’re spending more time at home than usual, it’s a great opportunity to consider reevaluating that stuff you’ve accumulated over the years. Extracting raw materials to make a new product creates pollution, uses energy and produces emissions that contribute to climate change. Donate what you don’t want.

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Recycling Waste Climate Change 98

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

World leaders, government officials and representatives from the private sector and civil society gathered in New York September 16 to 22 for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Week and New York Climate Week. Never miss an update Enter your email and never miss an update Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 30, 2023

1 Pittsburgh Requires Recycling To Be In Blue Bins, Not Blue Plastic Bags -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Set To Record 2nd Least Snowy Year Since 1880 -- Dec. 1 Pittsburgh Requires Recycling To Be In Blue Bins, Not Blue Plastic Bags -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Set To Record 2nd Least Snowy Year Since 1880 -- Dec. National- $3.11 National- $3.11

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2021

2021 was a year dominated by environmental news. With this rebound came the increase in carbon emissions and effects of climate change. As if to underscore the need for urgent action, climate change disasters raged across Canada with record-setting heat, fires and floods. 2022 is the year this is supposed to happen.

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2022 Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Climate Change 119

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Touts Regional Potential Economic Gains From LNG Natural Gas Plant In Chester, Delaware County -- PUC Safety Division Continues Investigation Into Deadly House Explosion In Plum Borough, Allegheny County [PaEN] -- WTAE: PA Physicians For Social Responsibility To Bring Natural Gas Imaging Camera To Plum Boro To Check For Leaks Thursday -- TribLive: (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

“President Biden has stood up to polluters and put forward a strong, commonsense proposal that would significantly cut methane pollution from oil and gas well sites across Pennsylvania and the U.S.,” Methane is a potent greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide for the first twenty years that it remains in the atmosphere.

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Natural Gas Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Ozone 95

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

For years, indigenous leaders have spoken out against the Line 3 pipeline, saying it will endanger waterways and wild rice lakes they hold sacred. But this is the summer when extreme heat, epic drought, and severe water scarcity — the products of climate change — converged to produce a water emergency in the West and upper Great Plains.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Law Government 290

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In the midst of a record-breaking heat wave , the California State Legislature wrapped up a legislative session that considered numerous bills on heat mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency. This post is co-authored by Jasmine Robinson, Advanced Clinic Student, UCLA California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic. AB 2076 (L.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2024

The 2024 session of the Washington State Legislature has wrapped up, and at The Nature Conservancy in Washington we are celebrating new investments in the transition to a clean energy economy and a climate-resilient future for all Washingtonians. This is dedicated funding for nature-based solutions to the climate crisis.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 18, 2023

Each year, we bring them together for meetings with lawmakers to discuss TNC priorities and further our advocacy efforts. On March 15th, Trustees met with Governor Inslee, 16 lawmakers from both chambers and both sides of the aisle, and wrapped the day up at a reception with Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 9, 2023

Momentous Opportunity for Climate Investments in Olympia. Speak up for nature this session Learn what it means to “Sign in Pro” — one of the quickest, easiest ways to show your support for a bill moving through the Legislature. PLAN FOR A CLIMATE SMART FUTURE. © Courtney Baxter/TNC. © Courtney Baxter/TNC. Advocate with the EPC.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. They can grow to be up to more than 200 feet in length. Researchers are studying whether carbon dioxide removal by macroalgae can be increased to help address climate change. Love ocean content?

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 13, 2021

The same plastic that becomes the take-out packaging and single-use items that clog up our landfills, natural areas and oceans. In an outrageous display of greed and intimidation, Big Plastic is using its deep pockets to lawyer up and protect their bottom line for pollution. So who is Big Plastic? Dow Chemical.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Negotiations at the 28 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai, UAE, wrapped up early last week. Despite the fact that countries are already suffering losses due to climate change, the road to a Loss and Damage Fund has been relatively long.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The fall sitting of the Ontario Legislature has wrapped. and New Brunswick rolled out EV incentives in the past year. Sales Q2 2020 to Q2 2021 went up more than in Ontario – in New Brunswick it went up 277 per cent and in P.E.I. it went up 320 per cent. Climate Change and Emissions Reductions.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

It means that vulnerable systems are even more at risk in a changing climate. Water conservation is a constant negotiation for Summer, a 58-year-old Oak Park resident. The 112 communities who receive water from the Great Lakes Water Authority are eligible, if they sign up, for the Water Rate Assistance Program, or WRAP. .

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 31, 2024

Unobstructed connections generate a habitat rich in biodiversity, while supporting climate resilience. The edges are, “really sensitive places to pick up change, from a scientific perspective. Her data shows this preserve is a “sentinel for climate change in nursery habitats and for so many marine organisms.”

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Washington Nature

MAY 2, 2023

As I complete my last term as a trustee on the WA chapter’s board—and reflect on more than 40 years of board service for a wide variety of non-profits—I’ve been asked to share my thoughts on what it means to be a volunteer leader. There is plenty we all can learn from the work of LGBTQ leaders over the past 40 years. 

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Conservation 52

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

World leaders, government officials and representatives from the private sector and civil society gathered in New York September 16 to 22 for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Week and New York Climate Week. Never miss an update Enter your email and never miss an update Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. JCG: Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. What’s that mean for nations and communities today? I’m J.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

On September 5, 2023, DEP issued a notice of violation to the operator for abandoning the well without plugging it and the operator tried to plug it, but a camera inserted into the well found natural gas was still bubbling up through the well indicating it had failed. A follow up inspection will be conducted once repairs have been made.”

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