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Desperate Tampering Industry Trying to Pass RPM Act to Continue Polluting

Union of Concerned Scientists

A couple years ago , I detailed how an industry designed to increase and sell devices tampering with pollution controls was trying to use the extremely small slice of its business targeted at racing as a Trojan horse to hinder EPA enforcement and let loose a bevy of tampering devices on the American public.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Federal Courts Need to Allow the EPA to Clear the Air

Vermont Law

SIP Call, the EPA distributed allowances to power plants and other large industrial polluters on the basis of cost of pollution control. The EPA then assumed that each polluter in the NO. At the end of every year, each polluter had to have enough allowances to cover its ozone season (May-September) NO. Michigan v.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002) For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast (1993). The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004).

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Summer Lee Questions EPA Administrator Over Cancer Rates In Braddock [Video] -- WHYY: How To Prepare For Power Outages If Your Health Depends On Home Medical Devices -- University Of Maryland Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card Shows The Same (Watershed) Or Improving (Bay) Water Quality [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Report Card Gives Chesapeake (..)

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152 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Yaw: State’s Efforts Are ‘Positively Transforming’ Chesapeake Bay Watershed -- Discover NEPA: Keep NE PA’s Rivers & Streams Clean With PA Environmental Council -- TribLive: Franklin Regional Science Teacher Joins Research On Lake Erie -- Patch.com: New Hope-Solebury Students Awarded Aquetong Watershed Scholarships In Bucks County -- PA Assn.

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In Memoriam: Former Sen. Mary Jo White, Republican Chair Of The Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee

PA Environment Daily

She also served on the Wild Resource Conservation Fund, the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee, the Environmental Quality Board, and the PA Commission on Sentencing. For the 2001-2002 Legislative Session, Sen.

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