PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

So far in 2025, DEP issued 39 violations to 10 shale gas drilling companies for abandoning and not plugging their well, most drilled in the early days of shale gas development in Pennsylvania-- 2009 to 2013. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2024

Technical expertise is provided by the following partners: Department of Agriculture, PA 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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

“We are immensely proud of these students' accomplishments and wish them all the best as they kick start their careers and take the lessons learned about conservation and natural resources from the Envirothon with them throughout their lives," Seftas added. Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

My first encounter with Justice Hobbs was at a small lunch-and-learn discussion he held with Berkeley Law students in 2009, shortly after I started the JD program. I attended on a whim. I had never met a judge before, and hadn’t really considered the idea of a clerkship. He struck me as kind and funny (yet earnest), creative, and curious.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2023

Throughout the week-long competition, students demonstrated their knowledge on soils and land use, aquatic ecology, forestry and wildlife management through written tests and interactive stations featuring New Brunswick’s natural resources. Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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 million; DCNR: $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2023

On January 25, the North Branch of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania has been selected by a public vote as the 2023 Pennsylvania River of the Year , Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn and Janet Sweeney of the PA Organization for Waterways and Rivers (POWR).

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

In Maryland’s Somerset County, an area facing both high rates of sea level rise and land subsidence, 2 percent of farmland was lost to salt between 2009 and 2017 , totaling over 1400 acres. .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

The South Mountain Partnership Mini-Grant Program was developed in 2009 and is administered by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Financial support is provided by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources through the [Growing Greener] Environmental Stewardship Fund. The deadline for applications is May 26.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 28, 2024

USDA Photo by Preston Keres Champions of managed grazing are celebrating USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) call for applications for the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI).

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations. 2009) (Fig. 2009, Armatas, Venn et al. Tuler (2009).

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 2, 2024

The federal government first promised to end these subsidies back in 2009. But the job isn’t done The rules released last year only apply to tax measures or spending that comes directly from government departments, like Natural Resources Canada or Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.

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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

Annual review of environment and resources, 34, 405-430. Energy transition is a complex and non-linear process with multiple questions and interdependent factors. In Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies (pp. What is environmental sociology? Environmental Sociology, 1(3), 139-142. Pellow, D., & Roberts, J. Environmental justice.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2024

On July 26, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced the designation of a new Wild Plant Sanctuary on private property in York County. Magnolia Groves Wild Plant Sanctuary becomes the nineteenth private tract to be accepted into the Department’s Wild Plant Sanctuary Program.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Although Mr. Raleigh passed away before he could conserve his land, his niece honored his wishes after she inherited the property and donated the land to the Conservancy in 2009. In accordance with the donor’s wishes, the Conservancy then sold the property, protected with a conservation easement, to a conservation-minded buyer, Ms.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

A report from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources found that nearby drinking water wells were not affected by a 2019 leak of hydraulic fracturing waste in Washington County. Now an activist, she campaigns for Indigenous rights – and the water to sustain them. Bureau of Reclamation nearly $7.5

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The mission of the Wildlife Leadership Academy is to engage and empower high school age youth to become Conservation Ambassadors to ensure a sustained wildlife, fisheries, and natural resources legacy for future generations. Prior to being the director, she was the Program and Outreach Coordinator, hired in 2009.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The first Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas dates to the mid-late 1980s and the 2nd was completed in 2009. Key supporters of the Atlas include the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology which provided a small grant in 2023 and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources which is providing point count teams key access in state parks.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

From 2009 through March 2024, the average retail price of electricity leapt by $3.21 per kilowatt hour in Pennsylvania as the state’s share of natural gas increased by 16%. Contributes To Rising Electricity Bills Fracking development may also be contributing to Pennsylvanians’ rising electricity bills.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2022

On August 1, the 2022 National Conservation Foundation-Envirothon , an international environmental and natural resources education competition for high school students, announced Pennsylvania's Penncrest High School Team from Delaware County placed 10th in the international competition. Forty teams from across the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2021

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. Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Penn State Extension.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Take action: Tweet at the Minister of Natural Resources Canada, Jonathan Wilkinson, to tell him not to buy CAPP’s greenwashing and take urgent action on climate change by limiting emissions from Canada’s biggest source of pollution – the fossil fuel industry. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2024

The Marcellus may not be a suitable cap rock Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources says it has been researching CCS for the past two decades, but the three reports it always cites were written 15 years ago shortly after the fracking boom began. Some current estimates are closer to six times higher.

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Law Columbia

MAY 23, 2022

Before law school, he served as a special assistant to the President and Executive Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council. in History, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction in the major, from Yale College in 2009. Matthew received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2015 and a B.A.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2022

So why after 300 million years of sedimentation build up are these fault lines now so active that “[e]arthquakes in West Texas increased from a grand total of 19 in 2009 to more than 1,600 in 2017. ? ” Interestingly, the Natural Resources Defense Council also stated that, “of the approximately one million U.S.

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Science & Climate

MARCH 16, 2021

For the PNAS study, researchers in 2009 began intensive efforts to eradicate the European green crab from Stinson Beach’s Seadrift Lagoon. The study is also a precautionary tale for natural resource managers: “Don’t try to get them all, or it could come back to bite you,” Grosholz said. Courtesy Edwin Grosholz/UC Davis).

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (originally planned for Long Beach, California) Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, was recognized for his commitment to using science in creating nature-based solutions for building water and climate resilience across California. degrees Celsius. degrees Celsius.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2009

According to the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Petrohawk had the top producing well in the state for the month of December with roughly 713.4 With numbers like those it is no surprise that some companies are placing in excess of 50% of their 2009 budget into the shale play. million cubic feet of production.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

by Elisabeth Lorio Baer Interior Secretary Ken Salazar informed Congress on September 17, 2009 that he would kill a controversial program, currently in effect, that allows energy companies to pay the government royalties for drilling on public lands in actual oil and gas in lieu of cash.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Fayette County : Drilled in 2009, Well abandoned, not plugged [original violation April 5, 2023 ]; failure to have emergency response plan on site, gas leak, failed to get a well transfer permit for sale to Big Dog Energy, LLC in 2023, other violations. Well was drilled in 2009. Well was drilled in 2009.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2020

The denials are accompanied by an order from BSEE to decommission the pipelines by removal, with reference to Notice to Lessees (“NTL”) 2009-G04 and/or “significant sediment resource areas” (“SSRA”) in the vicinity of the pipeline. Through MMP, and pursuant to the authority granted by 43 U.S.C.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Together, these developments will undoubtedly lead to more litigation and a higher cost of doing business on the Outer Continental Shelf. The number of civil penalty cases has risen gradually since 2009, with a sharp increase over 2013-2015. The civil penalty dollar amount has also grown significantly. million in civil penalties.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

1) However, natural disasters are not the only thing exasperated by Climate Change. 2) However, wars over natural resources are not the only forms of conflict that will be fueled by Climate Change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that Climate Change could contribute to human conflicts. (2)

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The VGP requires Lakers built after January 1, 2009, or “New Lakers,” to meet its numeric ballast water discharge standard. The SNPR explains that the “EPA does not expect that this option would result in a change to the compliance costs estimated in the Regulatory Impact Analysis accompanying the proposed rule.”

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2021

That decision stemmed from the Commonwealth shuffling over $380 million in oil and gas monies to the General Fund in 2009 and 2010. The court first ruled in 2017 that transferring royalties from gas leases on state forest land for purposes other than conservation was unconstitutional.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Climate change causes sea-level rise, natural resource scarcity, and natural disasters. First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. The drought was ongoing between 2006-2009 . These external pressures pose a considerable threat, particularly to developing nations.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The chart below depicts Haynesville shale dry natural gas production averages from January 2009 to August 2018 in billion cubic feet per day. The first began in early 2009 with average daily Haynesville production surpassing 1 billion cubic feet per day for the first time in June of that year.

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