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PA Resources Council August Schedule For Traveling Glass Recycling Bin In Allegheny County

PA Environment Daily

Click Here to sign up for regular updates, follow PRC on Twitter or Like them on Facebook. to 7:00 p.m., and provides residents with a safe method for recycling glass while eliminating the need to interact with other individuals,” according to Ashley DiGregorio, PRC Recycling Markets and Grants Manager. Click Here for PRC’s Events Calendar.

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Guitarfish Rock–Here’s Why

Ocean Conservancy

Estimated to have been around for more than 100 million years, these animals are truly novel creatures. The shovelnose guitarfish is still relatively large, measuring close to 5.6 As I mentioned before, these guitarfish generally much prefer shallow waters like bays and estuaries in temperate, tropical and subtropical warm waters.

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How Stephen Hawking became the world’s most famous physicist

Physics World

It is true that a lot of myths built up about Hawking over the years, many of which he happily indulged. These personal stories are interspersed with long scientific passages explaining Hawking’s work on the nature of black holes and his attempts to unify the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics.

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State Releases First-Ever Litter Action Plan, Calls For Universal Access To Trash Disposal, Recycling, Extended Producer Responsibility, New Anti-Litter Funding

PA Environment Daily

Demonstrating the cost of litter to communities and the Commonwealth, PennDOT Secretary Yassmin Gramian noted that the agency’s annual $14 million cost to clean up litter makes litter prevention especially important. “We We recognize we need to change behavior, not just clean up the mess,” Gramian said.

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87 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

100,000 Grant To Treat Acid Mine Drainage In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Stroud Water Research Center, Partners Host 7-Part, Online Expanding Meaningful Environmental & Watershed Literacy With Geospatial Tools Workshops Starting Sept.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

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. All in all, this is not much, certainly not much relative to the extremity and urgency of the climate-change threat.

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Long-Duration Energy Storage is Key to Cleaning up the Power Grid

Union of Concerned Scientists

Long-duration energy storage is assumed to have full capacity value since it could discharge for up to a day. As technology providers continue to test their long-duration energy storage systems in different scenarios we’ll likely see some “weeding out” of the technologies that don’t keep up. Yes and no.