Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Blanding’s Turtle Threatened Blanding’s turtles rely on wetlands and other shallow water bodies for survival. Sixty per cent of wetlands in the southern portion of Blanding’s turtle range have been lost due to commercial development. The final recovery strategy is still incomplete.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

They sequester carbon, clean the air, provide habitat, grow resources, offer countless opportunities for recreation, bestow beauty, filter water we drink, and help prevent streams and rivers from flooding. As development increases, natural ecosystems like forests, meadows, and wetlands disappear, resulting in more flash flooding.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Permitted waste disposal facilities (such as landfills) have a groundwater “compliance boundary” that (for most facilities) extends 250 feet from the waste disposal area. b3) already prevented stormwater permitting agencies from requiring new stormwater controls for existing developed areas included in a redevelopment project.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Sustainable Life Society he recruited members to participate in several environmentally focused on the ground projects including invasive species removal and native tree and shrub plantings along the Lackawanna River Heritage Trai l and the Lackawanna River and its tributaries.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Environmental Benefits Collectively, the award-winning projects engaged hundreds of partners and resulted in: -- Buffers/Wetlands: Creation of 8.5 Phase 3, the final part of the project, entailed restoration of a 1,200-foot reach of stream on the Marquardt Farm. million kilowatt hours of electricity from solar energy.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2022

PA Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grants -- Watershed Alliance of York - $1,000,000, Match $1,096,000: Coordinating Partnerships to Increase Watershed Forestry Best Management Practices.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Raised in Milwaukee, a quaint city on the western shore of Lake Michigan, I’ve always had an intimate connection to water. My favorite childhood memories include navigating beaches, trails and streams along the lake, traversing rock walls to find the best views, and occasionally, taking a dip in its chilly waters.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 8, 2023

A fishing community along the Sesan River in northeastern Cambodia. The construction of a giant dam has flooded large parts of the surrounding area. The Mekong River in Cambodia, after decades of detrimental damming, logging, and unsustainable fishing, may be poised for resurgence. “The The Mekong is not dead.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

As we will explain in the next section, it covers many areas, all with the same purpose already described here. Biomass : The sum total of vegetation in a given ecological area. For example, a program of river conservation will increase biodiversity while making the surrounding environment and people who live there healthier.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. In 1974, when he was 27 years old, Wilfred Swiecki invited his Maltese-born fiancée to join him at the family cottage on Platte Lake in Benzie County. . – By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

TOLEDO — Just as Great Lakes scientists anticipated, the first blue-green swirls of a mammoth toxic algae bloom surfaced in mid-July in the nearshore waters of Lake Erie, between Monroe, Michigan, and this Ohio port city of 275,000. Together they were established to clear Lake Erie and other waterways of harmful algal blooms.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2024

Million In 28 Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Water Quality Improvement Projects In 20 Counties [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA To Spend Nearly $200 Million On Lead Pipe Replacement, Water Upgrades [Mostly Federal Funds] -- DEP Awards Susquehanna River Basin Commission $68.2

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Big Picture To properly analyze any energy plan, you have to look at the big picture and beyond the economic benefits-- what health and environmental impacts does energy development require, how have energy companies complied with environmental and other requirements, what infrastructure needs to be constructed in much more. [See Ketyer, M.D.,

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

This includes $395 million for the Ecosystems Mission Area, a $87.8 The budget also includes $87 million for marine sanctuaries and protected areas, contributing to the Biden administration’s goal to protect 30% of U.S. Nominees should be from the Portland area and likely to accept the award in person at the Society’s Opening Plenary.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Tigris River leaves a green wake in its course through Iraq. Drought, dams, and waterway diversions are overwhelming a recovering region of marshes, lakes, and river basins in southern Iraq. “The Endangered fish including steelhead trout and salmon live in the region’s estuaries, streams, rivers, and lakes.

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ESA

MAY 31, 2023

Congress House Natural Resources Committee passes Save Our Sequoias Act and legislation to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. States Colorado River states reach water rights agreement. Executive Branch White House to hold open science listening sessions. The 5-4 ruling in Sackett v.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Casey On Leadership: Our Problems Have Taught Us That We Cannot Continue The Mindless Practices Of The Past -- Gov. Dick Thornburgh On Leadership: People Living In The Chesapeake Bay States Should Not Have To Wait Another 30-Plus Years For Clean Water -- Gov.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

This includes $307 million for the Ecosystems Mission Area, a 10.5% The EPA’s Geographic Programs budget, which funds the restoration of nationally significant bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay, is increased to $681.7 NSF’s Research and Related Activities account, which funds most NSF grants, receives $7.8

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. It changed long-time agency policy to allow major sources of pollution to reclassify as area sources, a category with fewer regulatory requirements, once their emissions fell below a certain threshold. Executive Branch.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

Biden’s plan calls for protecting and restoring nature-based infrastructure including forests and wetlands. The plan requests that Congress fund wildfire protection and coastal resilience projects, support climate-smart agriculture and major land and water restoration projects like those in the Everglades and the Great Lakes.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

ESA has honored past award recipients for policy work that included: wildlife conservation green urban renewal initiatives stream, river, lake restoration ESA’s 2023 Annual Meeting will take place in Portland, Oregon. The wood stork is the only species of stork that breeds in the United States. NASEM: Next Monday, Feb.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

ESA has honored past award recipients for policy work that included: wildlife conservation green urban renewal initiatives stream, river, lake restoration ESA’s 2023 Annual Meeting will take place in Portland, Oregon. The Texas national monument covers 7,000 acres of the Castner Range in El Paso.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

2534 ) to create a Civilian Climate Corps, expand agricultural conservation programs, plant millions of trees and to expand wetland conservation. The live stream will be available on this Senate hearing page. The White House invited 40 world leaders to the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22 and 23 that will be live streamed.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

1374 ) directs NSF to fund STEM education research focused on rural areas and efforts to increase rural students’ participation in STEM. Senate Commerce Committee: The Committee voted to advance the Bolstering Long-term Understanding and Exploration of the Great Lakes, Oceans, Bays and Estuaries (BLUE GLOBE) Act ( S. Executive Branch.

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