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NEW POLL: Ontarians Want Deposit-Return System for Non-alcoholic Drink Containers, with Easy and Accessible Return-to-Retail

Enviromental Defense

Ontario’s current recycling system only collects 43 per cent of beverage containers, but a deposit system could capture 90 per cent, keeping billions of containers out of the environment. But nearly a year has passed, and the province has yet to confirm its plan to deal with this source of plastic waste and pervasive litter.

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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. . ENDANGERED SPECIES.

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

Circle of Blue

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Those trends, in turn, also are prompting innovations in community design and installation of expensive infrastructure to use less fresh water and recycle more wastewater. Keith Schneider.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.14.23

PA Environment Daily

Mike Armanini (R-Clearfield) [ Already Started With Federal Grants ] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: PA State Geologists Are Building Digital Map Of Deep Layers For Carbon Dioxide Storage -- Group Against Smog & Pollution: Mystery Plumes From US Steel’s Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Prompts GASP To Demand Answers, Accountability -- Scranton Times: (..)

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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48 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Here are 48 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). The Regulation sets a deadline on the operation of final disposal facilities for radioactive waste.