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House Environmental Committee Holds Hearing On Bill To Protect Stream Buffers Oct. 2

PA Environment Daily

The legislation would also authorize municipalities to adopt regulations applicable to riparian buffers and would provide additional powers and duties to the Department of Environmental Protection for the enforcement of related regulations. Click Here to watch live online.

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Fast Facts About Plastics Pollution

Academy of Natural Sciences

Today the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and its partners, the Philadelphia Water Department and BOMA Philadelphia, announced the Plastic-free Philly initiative to encourage people to stop buying single-use plastic water bottles and instead drink tap water and use reusable plastic water bottles.

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The global conversation about solar geoengineering just changed at the UN Environment Assembly. Here’s how.

Legal Planet

Implicit in this position was a sense of primacy of the natural sciences – and knowledge about biophysical climatic effects – over the social and political sciences. At any rate, avoiding steps towards regulation would leave them free to develop norms and policy on SRM as they see fit.

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PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Host Oct. 24 Webinar - Science Meets Community Engagement: The Delaware River Watershed Initiative

PA Environment Daily

Roland Wall , leader of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Science’s work on the DRWI and one of the original planners of the project, will outline how the DRWI has progressed and grown. In the past 24 years, Wall has worked in a variety of positions for the Academy of Natural Sciences.

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Through the Sands of Time: Giant Clams as Paleoclimate Timekeepers

Academy of Natural Sciences

The ocean’s critical role in regulating the Earth’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere helps to slow the impacts of global warming on Earth, but as CO2 dissolves in seawater, it reacts with water to form carbonic acid making the oceans more acidic. Giant clam ( T. She approached Michael E.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 5.4.23

PA Environment Daily

.] -- House Committee Moves First PA Bill Setting New Rail Safety Requirements In Response To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment [PaEN] -- TribLive: PA House Committee Approves Bill Tightening Railroad Regulations After Norfolk Southern Train Derailment -- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com-Robert Swift: PA House Panel Approves First Rail Safety Bill After (..)

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Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 9.19.21

PA Environment Daily

Laughlin Lead New (Old) Style Republicans From Bellwether Erie County -- TribLive: Westmoreland, Allegheny COVID Cases Reach Totals Not Seen Since January -- MCall: Parents Sending Children To School Full Time, Despite Concerns About COVID, Masking -- ScrantonT Editorial: School Boards Shouldn’t Compromise On Safety -- Gov.