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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.28.24

PA Environment Daily

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Contact: Todd Wallace at twallace@pa.gov or by telephone at 717-783-6395. Read more here about agenda. December 12-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Click Here for options to join the meeting remotely. 1 -- WVIA: Heating Bills To Rise 8.7%

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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms

Circle of Blue

That was 200,000 more acres than in 2002, when the USDA began tracking that data. Technology for controlling phosphorus is available. Billions were spent on new technology and equipment to ensure water got much cleaner. . But they’re not politically inclined to do anything about it frankly, because those are their voters.

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California Supreme Court Finds County Ordinance Limiting Oil & Gas Development Preempted by State Law

Legal Planet

But the good news is that this goal can still be achieved through other legal and political strategies. Measure Z by its terms would have barred the drilling of new oil and gas wells in Monterey County and prohibited the use of fracking technology for existing county wells. Measure Z never took effect.

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Book review: The Age of Resilience, by Jeremy Rifkin

A Greener Life

The frequently discussed fear that digital technologies will make millions of workers obsolete? See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. Prizing efficiency above all else, it has been locked in through the economics profession and political systems. He’s also influential.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. In 2002, Scientific American named Dr. Mann one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology, and in 2012, he received the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union. from Villanova University School of Law.

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At Peak of Its Wealth and Influence, Arizona’s Desert Civilization Confronts A Reckoning Over Water

Circle of Blue

Instead it begins with this: A brief on how adept engineering for dams and aqueducts, government subsidy, technological development for pumps and water recycling, surpassing marketing, and an advantageous assemblage of natural resources – sun, warmth, blue sky, and open spaces – produced one of the greatest desert civilizations in human history. .

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 7.11.23

PA Environment Daily

Contact: Max Schultz maxschultz@pa.gov or Glenda Davidson at gldavidson@pa.gov or 717-783-4759. formal notice) Read more here about the agenda [Chapter 105 environmental assessment alternatives analysis] -- PA Eligible To Apply For $76.4 23 [PaEN] -- NextPittsburgh: How Duquesne Light Trains Workers To Fix Power Lines In Pittsburgh -- Gov.