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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.

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

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5

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Appeals court upholds Ontario town’s convictions for damaging piping plover habitat

Enviromental Defense

After a nearly 30-year absence, they returned to Ontario in 2007, including to Sauble Beach. In the court’s decision, Justice Pardu wrote, “The Act should be given a generous interpretation in light of its remedial nature and its objective of environmental protection”.

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Ontario Election Issues Guide: Endangered Species, Conservation Authorities, Aggregates & Water Pollution

Enviromental Defense

We’ll bring more lands under the Greenbelt’s protection in close collaboration with local and Indigenous communities and farmers and strengthen the powers of Ontario’s Conservation Authorities to provide them with the tools and resources they need to prevent flooding and protect our natural resources.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

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A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Van Wagner has spent 38 years in Lenawee County promoting environmentally sensitive nutrient management and cultivation practices. . Six months later the U.S. did just that.

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Governor’s Invasive Species Council Shares Results Of First Statewide Invasive Impacts Survey, Announces Pilot Management Program

PA Environment Daily

“A biodiverse native ecosystem provides the natural resources that are essential to our lives, from agricultural food production to outdoor recreation and fishery, timber, and other industries,” said Department of Environmental Protection Acting Secretary Rich Negrin.

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DEP House Budget Hearing: Democrat Rep. Vitali Raises Concerns About Whether DEP Has The Resources To Fulfill Its Mission When Workloads Have Increased Dramatically

PA Environment Daily

Vitali, who serves as Majority Chair of the House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee, said this-- I'm going to direct my comments to Secretary Shirley. In 2007, the Water Program had 778 filled positions. Once every 30 years. Last September, you were down to 650 positions. [

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