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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. Carrow participates in a wide variety of conservation and environmental programs and activities in Pennsylvania. In 2006, Ms. For three years, Ms.

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MP committee fails to establish timelines for action on toxic chemicals

Enviromental Defense

The government introduced the bill first in the Senate, where it passed last Spring. For example, PBDE neurotoxic flame retardants used in consumer products were assessed as toxic in 2006 but the draft regulations restricting PBDEs in products were only published last year, a delay of 16 years.

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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. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Supreme Court Curtails Federal Wetlands Protections; Developers Still Must Consider State and Local Wetlands Laws

Law and Environment

Environmental Protection Agency , which significantly narrowed the Clean Water Act’s (“CWA”) test for determining whether wetlands are protected “waters of the United States” and the federal permitting requirements for development projects in covered wetlands areas. United States , 547 U.S.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Solutions Act). See, e.g. , Rice v.

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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 mid-year budget freeze cuts additional resources for environmental programs: Agriculture: $2.6 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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EPA Publishes WOTUS Update Following Sackett Decision

Ohio Environmental Law

On August 29, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA).