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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay: PA Riparian Forest Buffer Project Plants Its 1,000th Acre Of Forest Buffer!

PA Environment Daily

Related Articles - Watersheds: -- DEP Awards $288,000 In Grants To Support Local Projects In Lake Erie Coastal Zone [PaEN] -- Three Rivers Waterkeeper Calls For Stronger Environmental Oversight Of U.S. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb. 12 (In-Person), Dec.

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

Legal Planet

Specifically, the justices concluded that Measure Z “contradicts–and thus is preempted by” a nearly century-old system of oil and gas regulation of California’s oil and gas industry administered by state regulators.

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What’s Up With Water – June 21, 2021

Circle of Blue

Between 2002 and 2015, the number of wells nearly doubled but they were able to pump out less and less water. Wells are regulated at the county level, not the state. In research news, a new study is sounding the alarm on groundwater depletion in Iran. The study was published in the journal Nature.

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$402,021 Awarded By DEP To Support Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone Projects

PA Environment Daily

-- Three Rivers Waterkeeper Calls For Stronger Environmental Oversight Of U.S. Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec. 12 [PaEN] -- Stroud Water Research Center: Trusted Partner For Community Scientists; Conserving National Park Streams; Support Clean Water [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 12 (In-Person), Dec.

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Desperate Tampering Industry Trying to Pass RPM Act to Continue Polluting

Union of Concerned Scientists

With a Senate hearing scheduled later this week, Congress is once again taking a look at the RPM Act, which has become SEMA’s last-ditch effort to thwart regulation, so I thought it’d be worth spending some time recapping just what the heck is going on. In fact, EPA finalized a rule way back in 2002 that provided allowance for conversion.

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State Board Of Education Publishes Final Education Standards For Science, Environment, Ecology, Technology & Engineering Grades K-12

PA Environment Daily

The State Board of Education published notice in the July 16 PA Bulletin of final regulations setting education standards for Science, Environment, Ecology, Agriculture, Technology and Engineering Grades K-12 ( PA Bulletin, page 3946 - Preamble, page 3970 - Standards ) This is the first update of these standards since 2002 and they were based on several (..)