Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 24, 2022

Aydali Campa at Inside Climate News recently wrote a three-part series on the neighborhood impact of a Superfund site cleanup effort on Atlanta’s Westside. In Atlanta, work on a new EPA Superfund site leaves Black neighborhoods wary.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2024

million hectares, the term-sheet signing between the State of Acre in Brazil and Emergent for a emissions reduction payment agreement (ERPA), and Indonesian province of West Kalimantan agreement with our homonymous organization the Green Climate Fund (GCF), with support from the German development bank (GiZ).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Carol Hillestad for the Brodhead Watershed Association [PaEN] -- Water At Risk Series: The Brodhead Watershed Association Helps Monroe County Municipalities Protect Clean Water - How About Yours? - PaEN] -- Protecting Clean Water Together: What’s The Big Deal About Water Anyway? -

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Chester County -- Natural Lands: May 20 Field Jam - Music Without Walls Series. Stroud Preserve, West Chester. Imposes Outdoor Burning Ban -- Williamsport Sun: Williamsport, Old Lycoming Twp. 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’d essentially create new salt flats in West Texas and collapse the global salt markets.”. Circle of Blue’s six-part series “Water, Texas” explores the consequences of the mismatch between runaway development and tightening constraints on the supply and quality of fresh water in Texas. Drought in the American West.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For earlier stories in the Tapped Out series, click here. As West Withers Corporations Consolidate Land and Water Rights With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water? Fewer owners. Photo © Diana Robinson / Flickr Creative Commons.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2023

The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management in Washington County will host a free March 8 webinar on renewable natural gas as part of its Energy Lecture Series. The seminar is approved for Continuing Legal Education in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The underused Hwy 407 follows the same east-west route as the proposed 413, which would run just 15 km south of the 407. Hwy 413 will enable massive new sprawl north and west of Brampton that will create gridlock as the highway fills up with cars. Claim: It will save drivers an hour each day False.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In Case You Missed It: As West Withers Corporations Consolidate Land and Water Rights – With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water? IN RECENT WATER NEWS. A Mine Expansion Project in New South Wales Will Move Forward Despite Environmental Impact.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

Organized in 1989, ARIPPA is a nonprofit trade association comprised of independent electric power producers, environmental remediators, and service providers located in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia that use coal refuse as a primary fuel to generate electricity.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 30, 2022

Read the final report in Circle of Blue’s three-part series on Arizona’s water reckoning. Outbreaks aren’t uncommon in the west African nation. The technology will be put to the test as solar energy becomes more popular in desert regions that are prone to dust and sand storms. In Recent Water News. Soaring water prices.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Severe Drought Challenges the American West. Severe Drought Challenges the American West. Brett Walton 2022-06-16 11:28:29 2022-12-08 22:28:32 Drought’s Spillover Effect in the American West Arizona’s Future Water Shock 0 Comments / March 28, 2022 Smaller cities. The series found that ending toxic blooms is eminently achievable.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In Case You Missed It: How a Federal Drought Relief Program Left Southern Oregon Parched—and Contributed to the Ongoing Groundwater Crisis in the West – For two decades, the Bureau of Reclamation incentivized farmers to pump water faster than the resource could recover, despite warnings from its own scientists. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Sponsored by the Academy, the public artwork illustrates clean water and sanitation, the sixth in a series of 17 goals, each to be illustrated by a mural in Philadelphia. Climate change and other factors are bringing those conditions closer to home no matter where you live, be it America’s West or Philadelphia’s heart.” .

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

In the background the observed sea surface temperature (SST) trend since 1993 from the Copernicus satellite service, showing the ‘cold blob’ in the northern Atlantic west of the British Isles discussed below. A compilation of 9 different proxy series for the AMOC evolution. Graph by Ruijian Gou. 2022 (my take: quite well).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management will host a free September 27 webinar on hydropower as part of its Energy Lecture Series. The seminar is approved for Continuing Legal Education in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. The webinar is free and open to the public.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Outlines 10-Year Plan For Parks, Trails, Open Space In Allegheny County -- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center Hosts Earth Day Volunteer Day -- Cameron County Chamber Of Commerce: Sinnemahone Paddle Results Available; Register For Remaining Triple Crown Events -- Natural Lands: May 20 Field Jam - Music Without Walls Series.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

For earlier stories in the Tapped Out series, click here. The closest example of this in practice can be found 30 miles west of Tooleville. Read the full series here. As West Withers Corporations Consolidate Land and Water Rights 0 Comments / December 7, 2021. Who Should Pay to Fix California’s Sunken Canals?

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Coastal fishing traditions that exist along the west coast are at risk to climate change. These communities depend on fishing for their livelihoods and traditional ways of life. How do fishers view vulnerability and the impacts of climate change on fisheries? And what solutions are there to help these communities adapt?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

The Washington & Jefferson College’s Center for Energy Policy and Management in Washington County will host a free webinar Thursday, March 7, on the basics of carbon capture and direct air capture as part of its Energy Lecture Series starting at 11:00 a.m. Click Here to register and for more informatio n.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In Case You Missed It: As West Withers Corporations Consolidate Land and Water Rights – With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water? Catch up on the biggest stories you may have missed this year from Circle of Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

18 [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PUC Commissioners Ask For Permanent Federal Low-Income Water, Wastewater Bill Assistance -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Woods & Water Film Series Jan. 17 [PaEN] -- NRCS-PA: Pennsylvania State Technical Advisory Committee Meeting Jan. 19 & Feb. 19 & Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

VPPs could also save money for customers in the long-term, helping to maintain an adequate supply of power without requiring the construction and maintenance of new and expensive power transmission and distribution infrastructure.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan. Every passing summer yields increasingly urgent evidence of severe water scarcity in the primary crop and livestock-producing states of the West – Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Is the state prepared for more? And falling. .

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

Also, former Superintendent of Midd-West School District and current Education Market Specialist from GreenWorks Development, Rick Musselman , will discuss how Midd-West School District installed the largest solar system (2.54 General Registration is $15 for this webinar; $100 for the 10-webinar series. We want you there!

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2022

On April 20, Pittsburgh-based Wild Excellence Films announced they released their newest documentary “Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West,” an hour-long film to be broadcast on PBS stations in several states this spring, including New Mexico, California, Colorado, Wyoming, and Florida, and have other airings throughout the year.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2022

The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management will host a free March 30 webinar on the push to reduce methane emissions in the natural gas industry as part of its Energy Lecture Series. “ The webinar is approved for Continuing Legal Education in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

-- Agriculture Secretary Highlights New Consumer Labeling Requirements Of Fertilizer Law To Save Money, Protect Environment [PaEN] -- PennLive: Keeping Your Lawn Cleaner, Greener; New Law Limits Fertilizer Use -- Reminder: PennVEST Accepting Chesapeake Bay Watershed Clean Water Procurement Program Proposals Until April 17 [PaEN] -- EPA Regional Administrator (..)

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. The first paper in the series discussed ocean alkalinity enhancement for carbon dioxide removal. By Korey Silverman-Roati and Romany M.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 23, 2022

That paper was part of a series of white papers exploring the legal issues associated with a number of ocean-based CDR strategies, including ocean alkalinity enhancement and artificial upwelling and downwelling. Today, the Sabin Center released a white paper exploring barriers to seaweed permitting for carbon sequestration in California.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Continuing CEPM’s Energy Lecture Series, this hour-long event, sponsored by PNC Bank, will explore agrisolar as an industry, and feature Michael Roth, a Washington & Jefferson College alumnus who serves as the Director of Conservation and Innovation at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Situated west of the capital Doha in al-Kharsaah, the solar farm is one of the biggest in the Middle East. The project is just the latest in a series of solar projects announced by the tiny Gulf State, all going some way towards helping to achieve a target of five gigawatts (GW) of solar energy capacity by 2035.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

Many of these watersheds begin within our borders, but feed into four of the region’s largest waterways, from the Schuylkill River to the north and the Delaware River to the east, to the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay to the west. “It Related Articles: -- PennVEST Invests $194.3 30; Project Coaching [PaEN] -- Mountain Watershed Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Billion In Federal Funding Up For Grabs, PA Environmental Officials Collect Climate Action Plan Suggestions -- Herald-Star: Tenaska Outlines Carbon Capture, Storage Project In Shale Gas Formations In SW PA, Southern Ohio -- PA GreenGov Council, Penn State Sustainability Host 4-Part Sustainability Webinar Series Starting Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2022

The Chester County-based Stroud Water Research Center 2022 Science Seminar Series What's In Our Streams and Rivers: The Good, the Bad, And the Ugly begins February 11 with a webinar on Forever Chemicals (PFAS) In Our Water: Threats and Solutions from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Join Seetha Coleman-Kammula, Ph.D.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Just a few examples of the Natural Lands programs included in the ACCESS Card program are-- -- Home and Garden Tours at Stoneleigh: a natural garden, Villanova, PA -- Music Without Walls outdoor concert series at Stroud Preserve in West Chester, PA, ChesLen Preserve in Coatesville, PA and Binky Lee Preserve in Chester Springs, PA. -- Guided nature (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2023

-- Franklin & Marshall College Students, LandStudies Research Ancient Climate Through Stream Restoration -- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Guest Column: Environmental Stewardship Fund Helps Northcentral Stream Restoration Partnership’s Watershed Restoration Efforts -- Pilot Partnerships For Regional Invasive Species Management Program (..)

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