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Cumulative Impacts: Why Environmental Protections Need to Take Them into Account

Union of Concerned Scientists

When I began working as a state government scientist in Minnesota, I was motivated to advance environmental protections that prevent against pollutants from crossing from one environmental medium to another, such as from the air to water. To understand cumulative impacts, we can use the analogy of a doctor’s appointment.

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EPA And Lincoln University Expand Partnership To Include Department Of Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency and Lincoln University announced they re-signed their 2018 Memorandum of Understanding to enhance research, teaching, outreach, career development and stewardship in environmental sciences. The 2023 agreement was expanded to include the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection).

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The Stream, June 14, 2023: Momentum Builds in Manitoba For Environmental Protections

Circle of Blue

Newcrest Cadia Hill Gold Mine : The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority will begin testing water in communities near the Newcrest Cadia Hill gold mine, after “reports of heavy metals being found in people’s bloodstream and drinking water,” the Guardian reports.

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Environmental Protection Does Not Kill Jobs

Scientific American

The argument that we have to choose between saving nature and strengthening the economy is a false dichotomy

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Interns Wanted: Department Of Environmental Protection, Conservation & Natural Resources, Agriculture - Deadline Feb. 16

PA Environment Daily

The deadline to apply for internships with state agencies like the Departments of Environmental Protection, Conservation and Natural Resources, Agriculture and Health is February 16. The positions can be searched by agency, location, salary and job type.

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Tension between public health and environmental protection

Environment, Law, and History

The latest issue of the Journal of Environmental Law has an interesting piece by Ben Pontin, "The Constitutive Tension Between Public Health and Environmental Protection—An Historical Perspective" Pontin writes (footnotes omitted): According to David Hughes, the author of an early formative textbook, environmental law has ‘public health (..)

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Senate passes first major update to Canadian Environmental Protection Act in two decades

Enviromental Defense

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Last night, the Senate approved Bill S-5, the long-awaited legislation to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). The bill, which was introduced in the Senate, has yet to pass in the House of Commons. But Bill S-5 is not yet law.