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68 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 Of Environmental Professionals Now Accepting Applications For College Scholarship Program [PaEN] -- MCall: Can Dogs Be Used To Combat Spotted Lanternfly?

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Wildfires, Floods & Heat Waves: Brought to You By Big Oil

Enviromental Defense

In British Columbia, millions of residents and commercial customers were asked to conserve precious drinking water. Greenhouse gas emissions are causing the climate crisis. And over 75 per cent of greenhouse gas pollution comes from producing and burning fossil fuels. What’s missing is political leadership.

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Environmental Law Again Front-and-Center at California Supreme Court

Legal Planet

That statute authorizes the state’s oil and gas supervisor–rebranded in recent years as the Department of Conservation’s more benign-sounding Geologic Energy Management Division–to permit drilling of new oil and gas wells and to use fracking technology in the operation of existing wells.

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Advancing Ocean Climate Action at COP27

Ocean Conservancy

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, as Dr. Sarah Cooley , Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate science, emphasized when addressing a COP27 session. degrees Celsius. While not new, this remains a critically important commitment.

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What’s Up With Water – October 18, 2022

Circle of Blue

The cholera outbreak in Syria may have been intensified by social and political circumstances. The report is from the conservation group World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, and it takes the pulse of nearly 32,000 species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. One complicating factor is water.

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PennFuture Names Former DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell President & CEO

PA Environment Daily

Most recently, he was Secretary of DEP, where he was responsible for environmental and energy policy for the Commonwealth. In addition, he ran the State Energy Office and was charged with coordination of renewable energy and energy efficiency issues.

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Montana “Youth Citizens” Win Landmark Climate Change Case Against State Government

Legal Planet

That organization represents young people around the nation whose future–and present–is severely compromised by the country’s continued dependence on a carbon-based economy whose greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically changing our environment. The first legal challenge mounted by Our Children’s Trust was Juliana v.