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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 8

PA Environment Daily

2006 ) -- EQT Corporation - Gregor Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with production wastewater (chloride, aluminum, barium, boron, iron, lithium, manganese, selenium, vanadium, strontium zinc) to meet Statewide Health Standards at the pad located in Marianna Borough, Washington County. (

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Cattle and Climate Change: Putting Sustainability in Perspective

HumanNature

Beginning with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) release of the report Livestocks Long Shadow in 2006, the totality of the contribution of cattle to livelihoods, food security, and ecosystem services has been questioned when contrasted with their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental equilibrium.

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Vibrio Bacteria in Beach Water Can Make You Seriously Ill

Scientific American

vm/Getty Images Our team and colleagues at the University of Maryland School of Public Health have found that in Maryland, the annual rate of vibriosis cases between 2013 and 2019 was roughly 40 percent higher than that in the period from 2006 to 2012. Now the bacteria population stays high well into the winter months.

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Trump’s 6 Worst Attacks on FEMA in the First 100 Days

Union of Concerned Scientists

Congress enacted the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 to ensure future administrators have demonstrated emergency management and homeland security knowledge and background, and a minimum of five years of executive leadership and management experience in the public or private sector.

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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

And since 2006, it has been even faster: as high as 4.2 This loss of land ice has been the dominant contributor to sea level rise since 2006. Flooding from Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge in the New York City metropolitan area in 2012 affected 71,000 more people than it would have without human-caused sea level rise.

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Losing Justice Hobbs, Western Water Expert and Valued Mentor

Legal Planet

In 2006, Berkeley Law Professor Joe Sax —widely recognized as one of the founders of the field of Environmental Law—introduced Justice Hobbs as, “beyond dispute, one of the most knowledgeable and most accomplished experts on water law anywhere in the United States.” Long-term connections with Berkeley Law. He got his JD here in 1971.

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Hydrogen’s big shot: where we are and where we are going

Physics World

A pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, he took on leadership roles and organized workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019).