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Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Lancaster Gets Early Earth Day Gift: 100 Trees Planted At Dar Corporation Property

PA Environment Daily

Lancaster received an early Earth Day gift of 100 new trees during the weekend. CBF launched the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership in 2018 with a goal of planting 10 million trees for Pennsylvania to help meet the state’s Clean Water Blueprint. Dr. Zeshan Ismat of Lancaster City, and Dart Corporation employees.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.30.23

PA Environment Daily

Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant [No Specifics Yet] -- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That? -- NextPittsburgh: DEP Awards $3.7

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2018, a group of young plaintiffs filed a special constitutional claim called tutela alleging that their fundamental rights to a healthy environment, life, health, food, and water were threatened by climate change and the government’s failure to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. Colombia : Future Generations v.

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Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Plans To Plant 500,000 More Trees Across PA During 2023

PA Environment Daily

Since it launched 2018, the partnership, coordinated by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, has grown to nearly 300 partners. Earth Day and Arbor Day observances in April are also prime times for tree plantings throughout the Commonwealth.

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Join the PA Parks & Forests Foundation And #GetMovingPA! Share Your Experiences On Social Media

PA Environment Daily

Grab your camera, phone, or video camera and celebrate this year’s special outdoor occasions including Earth Day, Rothrock Week, I Love My State Parks Week, State Parks and Forests Week, National Trails Day, and Healthy Lands Week by capturing these events with video. With 121 state parks, 2.2

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66 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Of Health Establishes Community-Based Health Resource Network To Provide Long-Term Assistance To Residents Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment [PaEN] -- TribLive Editorial: Norfolk Southern Lawsuits Are Necessary Enforcement Of Railroad’s Promises -- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S.

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

For Marcelo Mena, himself a former Minister for the Environment (2017–2018), “water scarcity must be tackled through inter-sectoral coordination. Meanwhile Boric pledged during his campaign to adhere to the agreement and send it to Congress for ratification ahead of this year’s Earth Day, on 22 April.