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PA State Conservation Commission Wins Natural Resource Education Champion Award

PA Environment Daily

The PA Association of Natural Resources Extension Professionals has selected the Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission as their 2024 Natural Resource Education Champion award recipient for their unwavering support and partnership in advancing agricultural and environmental education in the Commonwealth.

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Extension invests in sustainability with growing natural resources, environment, energy team 

Environmental News Bits

To support that cause, Extension recently welcomed four new statewide specialists to its … Continue reading Extension invests in sustainability with growing natural resources, environment, energy team  Helping people navigate those changes is a cornerstone of University of Illinois Extension’s mission.

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LA Fires and the Climate Connection

Legal Planet

The evidence shows that hydroclimate whiplash has already increased due to global warming, and further warming will bring about even larger increases, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources who led the study.

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A Stealth Repeal of NEPA

Legal Planet

The House Natural Resources Committee quotes an estimate that the provision might produce $1 billion in revenue. It looks like House Republicans are going to try and use the reconciliation process to effectively repeal the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Finally, there is some real irony here.

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‘Legacy’ Forests. ‘Restoration’ Logging. The New Jargon of Conservation Is Awash in Ambiguity. And Politics

Inside Climate News

By Nathan Gilles, Columbia Insight In 2019, conservation activist and longtime Washington state resident Stephen Kropp did something he’d never done before: he explored a forest managed as state trust land by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.

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Success! Removing the Klamath Dams

Legal Planet

(Klamath River Dam removal project [credit: Los Angeles Times]) Most of the environmental law and policy matters discussed on Legal Planet–especially over the past few months–have dealt with natural resource crises, environmental rollbacks, hostile political actors and actions in Washington, D.C.,

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Big Oil’s steady lobbying in 2024: Suncor tops the lobbyist list from July-September

Enviromental Defense

Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson had three meetings, one each with LNG Canada, BHP, and the Pathways Alliance. That is the highest number of meetings in a three-month period that a Minister has participated in this year.

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