Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2023

Transcript Welcome to “What’s Up With Water” – your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. A new report says that the world’s dams are filling up – but not in a good way. Kris Mayes campaigned on a promise to repeal a land lease that the state made with Fondomonte. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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JULY 17, 2023

DEP Blog: Do You Know What’s Below? 23 News From PA House & Senate The Feds Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events Grants & Awards PA Bulletin Public Notices Stories Invited - About PA Environment Digest Supporting Member PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers; PA Outdoor Writers Assn.;

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

on Friday, with no news alert, press statement or announcement, ExxonMobil for the first time revealed who received its lobbying money and how much. A shareholder resolution filed by United Steelworkers last year compelled ExxonMobil to disclose lobbying activities and expenditures as well as its oversight process for lobbying decisions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Although methane doesn’t linger very long in the atmosphere, increasing methane levels are particularly bad news because it packs a big punch. A report by the World Meteorological Organization, released last month, showed that methane levels in the atmosphere are continuing to climb to new highs, reaching 262 percent of preindustrial levels.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2023

7 [PaEN] -- PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network: Over 51,000 Christians Call For Stronger Standards On Fossil Fuel Power Plants [PaEN] -- PA League Of Women Voters, Food & Water Watch Launch Letter-Writing Campaign Opposing Hydrogen Hubs In PA [PaEN] [Posted: August 10, 2023] PA Environment Digest Of Health Awards $2.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

According to PennFuture and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network legal filings, the permits issued to Transco fail to protect the affected Exceptional Value and High Quality streams and wetlands, and do not follow the requirements of the law that potential developers are to be held to a higher standard in these special protection areas.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

The Physicians for Social Responsibility PA are hosting a May 10 Webinar on Imagine A More Natural PA - How We Use Methane Gas, What It's Doing To Us from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Related Articles - Latest Health Impacts: -- Inside Climate News: Gov. What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health? 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Original features of Vale’s tailings dam may have been responsible for failure – study Mining.com PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 17:01 Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Read more Rescuers at Brumadinho following the collapse of the tailings dam at Vale’s Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine. Image by Diego Baravelli, Wikimedia Commons. Corporation Vale S.A.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

It also owns a sprawling network of railroads, ships, and ports used to transport this ore as well as a number of major hydro-electric plants. Founded in 1942 as a state-owned enterprise by the Brazilian government, it was originally named Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD). The Fundão disaster led to an initial R$20 billion ($4.8

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2021

IN RECENT WATER NEWS. Though it was not mentioned in the final agreement, water was a lively discussion topic as well as the subject of position papers and side agreements. Six years later, diplomats and campaigners are preparing for another critical climate conference. As they do so, it’s instructive to review past outcomes.

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Physics World

APRIL 19, 2022

NASA should send a probe to Uranus within the coming decade as well as develop a craft to see if Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus harbours life in its interior ocean. With additional reporting by Michael Banks, news editor of Physics World. Threats from above.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Shapiro's Announcement With CNX Does Not Go Far Enough In Protecting Public Health And The Environment From Natural Gas Development TribLive Editorial: Is Shapiro's Voluntary Agreement With CNX The Right Move For Gas Well Safety? 'We 13 Funding Event Sustainable Pittsburgh: Nov. 13 Funding Event Sustainable Pittsburgh: Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

19 Special Election -- Inquirer Editorial: PA Voters Would Benefit From Open Primary System -- City & State PA: Where PA Politicos Drink And Dine In Harrisburg -- Inquirer Guest Essay: PA Gun Laws Have Devastated My Community, There’s Little I Can Do - Sen. 2023 Pennsylvania Botany Symposium Oct. 2023 Pennsylvania Botany Symposium Oct.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This really inspired me and led me into the work that I am doing now. What do you most enjoy about your job? So in that manner, the council still plays an active role in congressional campaigns. A lot of the role that we serve at the Council for a Livable World is almost ‘watering down’ large, complex issues for policymakers. “We’re

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 29, 2022

Of Interior Awards PA $25 Million In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funding From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law DEP To Hold Oct. Of Interior Awards PA $25 Million In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funding From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law DEP To Hold Oct. Of Agriculture Invests $3.1

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Frontons wasted no time when it came to jumping back into volunteer activities at the start of the new year, even challenging colleagues to join them in doing good with some friendly competition. The association also campaigns to improve services, raise awareness, and promote understanding around mental health.

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Physics World

MARCH 8, 2022

When Weinstock joined the MIT News Office in 2014 she was in awe of the scientist, who had truly achieved legendary status at the university. Millie, as Dresselhaus was known to her students and colleagues, was born to Polish–Jewish immigrants in 1930, and grew up in a rough area of the Bronx, New York City, during the Great Depression.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Loyalsock Creek is also home to the Eastern Hellbender, named the state’s official amphibian and “Pennsylvania Clean Water Ambassador” after a nearly three-year campaign by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation PA High School Student Leadership Council. Read more here. Petokas in the Loyalsock Creek Watershed in 2005. Read more here.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

Without another new layer of consensus on our situation’s significance, and an achievable goal in mind, any real systematic solution will also be handicapped. We’ve all seen the headlines that this type of theory produces; all one needs to do is google “IPCC warning,” and the news feeds will populate with apocalyptic headlines.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Without another new layer of consensus on our situation’s significance, and an achievable goal in mind, any real systematic solution will also be handicapped. We’ve all seen the headlines that this type of theory produces; all one needs to do is google “IPCC warning,” and the news feeds will populate with apocalyptic headlines.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

Some nights I put a pillow over my head so the room is dark enough. Some nights you could read a newspaper in my living room. There's so much light scatter. “I I just don't understand why the whole place has to be so blindingly bright. When it snows, the light scatter is appalling.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. The inner circle has the actual authority to enact new international obligations – or to be more precise, it sometimes has that authority: opportunities to do so come up only every several years, by prior determination. Then things move on.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

labeling Josh Sosland | Food Business News | September 20, 2019 A federal court in California has ruled Nestle USA Inc. Ingredients,” according to Bloomberg News. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

labeling Josh Sosland | Food Business News | September 20, 2019 A federal court in California has ruled Nestle USA Inc. Ingredients,” according to Bloomberg News. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles. 

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

While there, she worked with the Breakthrough Listen project to plan a search campaign of the Earth Transit Zone. I thought, even if it’s tricky, I want to continue,” recalls Sheikh, who ended up doing a PhD on radio techno-signatures and pulsars. 10th PhD in SETI. The team then began looking for other interference in detail.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

So why did its recent departure from a single trade association make news? Smoke screens for oil and gas UCS has documented how ExxonMobil and other major fossil fuel companies hide behind trade associations and front groups to do their lobbying and disinformation dirty work, and EID is a prime example.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

Credible whistleblower tips may serve as an increasing impetus to the opening of investigations by both the SEC and other regulators—and, given the start to FY 2021, the trend is likely to continue (if not strengthen) under the new administration. ” This award was one of the ten largest awards ever paid out by the Commission.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Diagram of Hydraulic Fracturing (Credit: BBC News) Recently, the New York Times published an important and disturbing expose’ titled, “‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. Fracking a single oil or gas well can require 40 million gallons of water or more. And Far Thirstier.”

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Eco Coach

JANUARY 14, 2020

Acquiring new customers? For example, a ‘going paperless’ campaign may result in increased efficiency, easier access to data, enhanced data security, less time wasted looking for files, and much more, across the entire organization. There may be additional questions that come up and that you may want to answer as you go through these.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Allegheny County; Private Gas Well, Propane Found And Secured -- Post-Gazette: 2 Killed In An ‘Absolutely Extreme’ Home Explosion In Crescent Twp., Allegheny County; Private Gas Well, Propane Found And Secured -- Post-Gazette: 2 Killed In An ‘Absolutely Extreme’ Home Explosion In Crescent Twp.,

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 14, 2022

The good news is that the decision is no longer entirely in the provincial government’s hands. The more outcry by the public against the highway, the more likely the Agency will do a full environment assessment. The good news is that municipal governments have the power to remove exclusionary zoning within their own boundaries.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

House holds Regular Session June 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule Senate holds Regular Session June 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY: House Is Scheduled To Debate HB 962 To Prevent Abandonment Of 400 to 600 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Annually. Read More: [link] Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

The Eyes on Shell Project said the Department of Environmental Protection is not doing enough to protect the community, which is also still recovering from last month’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, OH less than 35 miles away “I’m getting hit from both sides,” said Beaver County resident Hilary Flint.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

Community solar is a critical part of a comprehensive energy portfolio, but current law and red tape prevents the state from taking advantage of the many benefits this form of energy can bring,” said Matthew Hargarten, Vice President of Campaigns for the Coalition for Community Solar Access. Peter Schweyer (D-Lehigh). “My

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2021

2021 was a year dominated by environmental news. In Alberta, the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns wrapped up its $3.5 Despite ongoing COVID constraints on the economy, global fossil fuel consumption rebounded after its collapse in 2020. Our top ten predictions for the environment in 2022: 1.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Part I: Start At Home -- TribLive: Hampton Township Nears Stream Cleanup Goal In Allegheny County -- Huntingdon Daily News: Trough Creek Watershed Assn. Could Be Reactivated -- Schuylkill Action Network Oct. 20 Stormwater Operation & Maintenance Workshop, Montgomery County [PaEN] -- Delaware RiverKeeper Aug.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 22, 2022

A new study finds that urbanization is quickly depleting groundwater in the Indian city of Lucknow. Recent attempts by the federal government to fix the Neskantaga water plant have failed, and local officials say they will not lift the advisory until a new water plant is built and is guaranteed to work. More Water News.

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