PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 19, 2024
The Schuylkill River Restoration Fund provides grants to government agencies and nonprofit organizations for projects that improve the quality of water in the watershed. Since being established in 2006, the fund has distributed more than $4.6 The deadline is February 15.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 5, 2024
The IPCC is a collaborative panel consisting of 195 member governments. Representatives of these member governments convene in Plenary Sessions, like the one we just attended. Each country sends delegations that can include both government officials and scientific experts, collectively forming the Panel.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 21, 2024
For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
But other localities, such as Austin, TX , and Miami-Dade County, FL —have been barred by their state governments from enacting local protections. In California, there’s evidence that rates of heat-related injuries in the workplace have declined—but not to zero—since the state’s heat-protection standards went into effect in 2006.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades. In 2006, the EPA began a voluntary program in which the leading PFAS manufacturers in the United States agreed to stop manufacturing PFOA, one of the most concerning forms of PFAS. But companies had a leisurely decade to meet commitments.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 26, 2022
In an attempt to alleviate decades worth of environmental harms, the Finnish government has begun efforts to restore parts of the country’s forests and waterways, the Guardian reports. In 2006, the Court defined a wetland as any body of water which has a “significant nexus” to a waterway. 139 CONCEALED DEATHS.
A Greener Life
JULY 5, 2024
To combat sand erosion around the road, sand-fixing trees were planted and 109 wells were dug between 2003 and 2006, at a cost of CNY 220 million (about USD 40 million). The Tarim Desert Highway was completed in 1995 to transport oil from mines in the desert’s hinterland. Two years ago, PV panels replaced diesel to power these wells.
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