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Green Building may be our Best Hope to Repair the Planet

Greenbuilding Law

That substantive list is substantially the same as the original version of TRACI released by EPA in August 2002. The TRACI compilation of environmental effects was the basis of the US Green Building Council’s LEED green building rating program.

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Louisiana’s Sabine River Authority Not Entitled To Sovereign Immunity

The Energy Law

The Fifth Circuit agreed with the lower court that state statutes and case law characterize SRA-L as an arm of the state; but caveated that the factor was restricted and “given the inconsistent descriptions in the same statutes and the lack of a more-definite characterization in either statute or case law.” [7] Hawkins , 381 F.3d

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Second District Confirms Parking Is (Still) Not A CEQA Impact, Reverses Judgment That Found EIR For San Gabriel Mountains Wilderness Recreation And Preservation Project Deficient For Not Sufficiently Analyzing “Impact” Of Reducing Recreational Parking

CEQA Developments

City & County of San Francisco (2002) 102 Cal.App.4th Based on the nature of the wilderness area improvement project before it, the Court held “the parking reduction here may have an adverse social impact for those who must recreate elsewhere, but it will prevent further adverse physical impacts on the environment.”.

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Your Help Needed To Restore PA Environment, Ecology And Agriculture K-12 Education Standards

PA Environment Daily

Since 2002 Pennsylvania students and teachers have benefitted from having local stream and water quality investigations supported by the environment and ecology standards. Action Needed Now. Pauletta, PA Student Member, Chesapeake Bay Foundation Board Of Trustees [Posted: June 7, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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House Hearing Today: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells

PA Environment Daily

It is a financial problem, an environmental problem and the waste of a natural resource. Landowners invite operators onto their land to extract a natural resource that is valuable to the operator and the landowner in a relationship that can last 60 years or more.

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Though plants and seed were historically interpreted to be products of nature and thus, not patentable per existing patent law, the American Association of Nurserymen successfully lobbied the federal government to pass the Plant Patent Act of 1930.

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Keep PA Beautiful Reports 42% Reduction Of Cigarette Litter In Participating State Parks

PA Environment Daily

Armed with a $20,000 Keep America Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) grant, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful collaborated with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in 2020 to reduce the number of cigarette butts carelessly left behind, by a combined total of 42 percent in participating state parks.