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WeConservePA Honors Cynthia Carrow With 2025 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award

PA Environment Daily

In her current role as vice president, government and community relations, she has oversight of all public policy matters and strategic government affairs. In 2006, Ms. Over the five decades she has committed to WPC, she has held several leadership positions. For three years, Ms. Carrow served as Board Chair.

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What’s Really Inside the Final Budget Reconciliation Bill: A Breakdown of Food and Agriculture Provisions

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Since the establishment of reconciliation, federal programs within the jurisdiction of the Congressional Agriculture Committees have been consistently targeted for cuts – through budget reconciliation, cuts to farm bill programs were made in 1982, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, and 2006.

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Examining the House Agriculture Committee’s Reconciliation Bill

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Since the establishment of reconciliation, federal programs within the jurisdiction of the Congressional Agriculture Committees have been consistently targeted for cuts – through budget reconciliation, cuts to farm bill programs were made in 1982, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, and 2006.

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

PA Environment Daily

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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Debt-for nature-swaps – one fix for two crises?

HumanNature

The problem of high debt burdens is that they imply high debt servicing costs: countries have to use a significant amount of their government budget to pay back the debt principal and interest payments. Developing countries spend more on debt service payments than on climate adaptation in 2023 (as % of total government spending).

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

PA Environment Daily

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

A critical but difficult step in this process is for a government employee or independent valuator to determine the return on investment (ROI) to the public under various land use scenarios. 2006) is to associate different carbon storage potentials with different land-use types (Figure 2). Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011).