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DEP Awards $288,000 In Grants To Support Local Projects In Lake Erie Coastal Zone

PA Environment Daily

On November 13, the Department of Environmental Protection awarded Coastal Zone Grants totaling more than $288,000 to seven projects in the state’s Northwest region. The grants, which are aimed at protecting and restoring the Lake Erie Coastal Zone, will be used toward projects that will benefit this critical habitat and ecosystem.

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WeConservePA Honors Cynthia Carrow With 2025 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award

PA Environment Daily

She steered the relocation of WPCs headquarters, not once but twice, most recently to Washingtons Landing in Pittsburgh in 2007. Carrow participates in a wide variety of conservation and environmental programs and activities in Pennsylvania.

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The Profound Climate Implications of Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision

Union of Concerned Scientists

Environmental Protection Agency. While this authority—itself rooted in a prior Supreme Court decision , the 2007 Massachusetts v. This term, alongside a number of cases with the potential for seismic implications, the Supreme Court also took up West Virginia v.

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Ontario Government Proposes to Further Gut Endangered Species Rules for Developers

Enviromental Defense

MECP claims that these changes will improve implementation of the legislation, however, this is only true if you think better implementation of species protection legislation involves making it weaker. Once again, the government is unraveling environmental protections to serve the interests of developers.

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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EPA watchdog calls for improved enforcement presence after decade-long decline

Environmental News Bits

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General identified a decline in enforcement activity within the agency from fiscal 2007 through fiscal 2018 in a report released Thursday. Read the full story in The Hill.

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Guest Essay: Commonwealth Budget Should Fully Fund Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

Regrettably, this annual budget has shortchanged the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for many years. Environmental Protection Agency issued a “Finding of Failure” to DEP’s Air Quality Program for not submitting a required plan to reduce VOC emissions from oil and gas operations.