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Ask a Scientist: What Value Do Wetlands Provide?

Union of Concerned Scientists

She holds a PhD in environmental health engineering from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was a policy fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and has also worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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DEP Proposes Listing Nockamixon TCE Contamination Site In Nockamixon Twp., Bucks County On The PA Priority List Of Hazardous Sites

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 18 PA Bulletin proposing to add the Nockamixon TCE HSCA Site in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County to the Pennsylvania Priority List of Hazardous Sites under the state Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act. ( Site area groundwater, on and within approximately 1.4

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What’s Up With Water—September 13, 2022

Circle of Blue

In 2009, wealthy countries promised to deliver $100 billion annually to poorer countries. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General are on the ground in Jackson, conducting interviews. Debate will also center on how to pay for those adaptations. But actual funding has fallen short of that goal.

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As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan

Circle of Blue

In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. They irrigate 570,000 acres, or roughly 100,000 acres more than in 2009, according to state figures. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009.

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Erie’s North East High School Team Places 8th In International NCF Envirothon Competition, Out Of 50 Teams!

PA Environment Daily

Technical expertise is provided by the following partners: Department of Agriculture, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Game Commission, Fish and Boat Commission, Department of Education, and the U.S.D.A. Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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DEP Sets Virtual Regional State Water Plan Update Hearings For March 11

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection is inviting public comment on Regional Water Resource components to the proposed update to the State Water Plan in six virtual regional public hearings. This is the ninth round of meetings and hearings on the State Water Plan Update. Posted: February 25, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Envirothon Names Greg Bonsall New Executive Director

PA Environment Daily

Pennsylvania has won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Now more than 15,000 high school students across the state compete in 67 county Envirothons. Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Penn State Extension.

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