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Environmental Budget Cuts in NC: 2008-2018

Smith Enviorment

On December 5, the Environmental Integrity Project (a national nonprofit organization) issued a report on state funding for environmental protection programs. The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. 2008 Funding.

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EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations

PA Environment Daily

On November 21, the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Justice and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced two settlements with oil and gas operators in Pennsylvania involving operations in Butler, Lawrence and Mercer Counties. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc.

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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Environmental Protection Agency. This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s They are neighbors to the ag industry.

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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 million; DCNR: $1.5

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 6

PA Environment Daily

Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 6 PA Bulletin announcing it has disapproved an Act 2 Land Recycling Risk Assessment December 21 on remediation of soil and groundwater contamination at the American Refining Group, Inc.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

Corp Watch

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

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