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We’re Heard This Before: ‘We’re Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs’ - A Brief Review Of Pennsylvania’s Conservation History

PA Environment Daily

Second Pair Of Photos ] -- We've Heard This Before: "We're Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs" - Until Mountains Of Coal Waste, Ravaged Landscapes Killed Our Streams, Then We Said No. Million Tons Of Waste, Pollution [PaEN] -- 1996 - Gov.

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Care for Endangered Seabirds Continues Amid a 51-Year Legacy of Optimism

Union of Concerned Scientists

Other threats are tied to human sloppiness: Gulls went beyond recovery to crowding out other birds on Maine islands, boosted by banquets of coastal landfills and fishing waste. Bald eagles and peregrine falcons are flourishing again after the 1972 banning of the pesticide DDT. Just ask Steve.’”

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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms

Circle of Blue

The law also set minimal requirements for storing and spreading manure and animal wastes from large livestock and poultry operations. . Those livestock farms, known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, spread untreated animal wastes on 1.75 That was 200,000 more acres than in 2002, when the USDA began tracking that data.

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Tracing sources of diffuse PFAS pollution: PFAS contamination in soil near a municipal waste-to-energy plant

Environmental News Bits

“Tracing sources of diffuse PFAS pollution: PFAS contamination in soil near a Municipal Waste-to-Energy plant.” Dijkstra, J., Brunschwiler, N., and Griffioen, J.

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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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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

In other words, the debate about the role of the sun is old, and the explanation about the importance of sunspots has not stood the test of time, something I have described in the textbook ‘ Solar Activity and Earth’s Climate ‘ from 2002. We have to spend time and resources to review them and explain why they are wrong.

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Environmental Groups File Suit to Compel EPA to Review and Revise Oil and Gas Waste Regulations

The Energy Law

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes.