Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Water samples from Benton Harbor homes since 2018 consistently revealed elevated levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin that damages the brain and nervous system and is particularly dangerous to young children. By the time Benton Harbor tested its water in 2018, there were other echoes of the disaster that unfolded in Flint. Last year, 3.8

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 22, 2025

The tribe also is challenging state permits issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for Enbridge to construct a 41-mile bypass across protected forest and wetlands. Meanwhile in Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel is nearing a decision in her six-year-old state lawsuit to halt oil from crossing the Straits.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Rothrock Trail Alliance , a committee of ClearWater Conservancy , has launched construction on new, multi-use, single track natural surface trail in the Rothrock State Forest. RTA works closely with DCNR. Shapiros Budget Includes Energy Plan; Funding To Make-up Deficit In Oil & Gas Program; New State Park, Trail Initiative; Over $6.2

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Illinois keeps about $8,000 per acre in bonding, according to 2018 data published by Climate Home News, and Indiana and Kentucky had only about $4,000 per acre. . Coal mine reclamation has become a flashpoint in the partisan divide over fossil fuel use.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This work started in the spring of 2018 with grant funding from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) as the Alliance sought to offer flexible, comprehensive reforestation support that would help fill gaps in existing programs.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As I wrote in 2018: [W]e are drowning in plastics. The complaint estimates total costs to California from plastic waste to amount to many billions of dollars in natural resource damage, loss of recreation, public health harms, and other costs. It has been clear for a while now that plastic pollution is utterly out of control.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

The program pays farmers and livestock and poultry producers – $500 million in 2018 alone, and more in the years before and since – to voluntarily change practices to limit discharges of polluting nitrogen and phosphorus.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

As evidence of these diagnoses and conditions, the Latkanichs provided toxicology reports and a copy of his sons May 1, 2018 medical report. EQT Motion To Dismiss From the EHB Opinion: By its motion [in limine], EQT seeks to preclude the admission of any evidence of medical conditions, physical reactions, and/or toxicology results.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Beginning with the start of FY2024 on October 1, funding for the federal government will – absent a continuing resolution (CR) – expire, as will the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, better known as the 2018 Farm Bill. As of posting, the USDA’s updated contingency plan for October 2023 has not yet been finalized.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. filed in 2024 and 2018, respectively. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% Sendai Power Station ). Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2025

Theres no guarantee of success, said Ed Eisch, assistant fisheries chief for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. In a 2018 resolution, the Michigan United Conservation Clubs expressed concerns that the grayling reintroduction effort could divert attention from other conservation issues.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Photo credit: USDA EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 9, 2024, NSAC released Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill , a comprehensive analysis of the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) over the course of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). What is the Conservation Stewardship Program?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Learn more and get involved at: [link] The post Comment: NSAC Responds to Government Funding Deal appeared first on National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The report found that flows through the Colorado River basin decreased by nearly 20 percent between 2000 and 2018, but Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico are still overusing their share of the river’s waters. The report found that overall, increased demand for food has put pressure on the world’s water, land, and soil resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

The Sunday after Thanksgiving is usually quiet, but for those who live along Route 9 in New Castle, Delaware, it’s hard to forget the harrowing events that unfolded in November 2018. A review of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control enforcement orders shows that these types of events are far too frequent.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

To tackle this topic head-on, UCS, together with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club, commissioned a study of the impacts of truck regulations on employment from Environmental Resources Management (ERM), an independent consultant. Source: ERM 2022 ).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The assessment further identified rising health issues related to natural resource extractions [defined by the Health Department as oil and gas development ] and the health impacts resulting from climate change as two of the top five threats affecting health outcomes of Pennsylvanians.

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

SB1259 hoses (can’t think of a dignified term) royalty owners by amending Natural Resources Code §91.402 to deny a common-law cause of action for breach of contract against a payor who withholds payments for a title dispute. This change applies only to QC’s recorded after the effective date of Septmber 1, 2021. Loser: Royalty owners.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Later that same month, the House Agriculture Committee approved the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 , which has failed to reach the House floor. Learn more and get involved at: [link] The post Release: Stabenow Introduces Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act appeared first on National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Storm surge overwash in Charlestown barrier-strip island due to nor’easter storm in March 2018. Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. Picture credit: Jeeban Panthi. By Hannah Richter, Circle of Blue – August 2, 2022.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I think it’s much cheaper to take water to the people than move people to the water,” Todd Adams, deputy director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, said at the Utah Water Summit in October. Since 2018, the state has spent $3 million from sales tax revenue to secure a pipeline corridor.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

including planned burns in the Roslyn Urban Forest, on Nature Conservancy-managed lands, and on additional private lands in parthership with local landowners. Smoke rises from a prescribed fire during the 2018 Cascadia TREX outside the town of Roslyn (pictured in the background). © John Marshall. © John Marshall. © John Marshall.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A1H (2018) -- Chief Oil & Gas LLC (now Chesapeake Appalachia LLC) - Asylum Twp. Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A2H (2018) -- Chief Oil & Gas LLC (now Chesapeake Appalachia LLC) - Asylum Twp. Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A4H (2018) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Albany Twp. Ridgebury Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

In Pennsylvania, the record rainfall of 2018 took a huge toll on farms across the Commonwealth and caused millions of dollars in infrastructure damages to towns and cities downstream. How can farms help mitigate floods and protect communities downstream? Hint: it starts in our soil!)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Since the establishment of the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production in the 2018 Farm Bill, federal funding has been substantially below its authorized level, limiting the capacity to support this burgeoning sector. Yet, these local efforts are frequently hindered by restrictive policies and inadequate financial backing.”

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 30, 2022

Louisiana’s compulsory pooling scheme seeks to balance the interests of individual landowners and oil and gas operators to promote responsible development of natural resources. Author Ethan Wood. This first letter did not contain an explicit reference to 30:103.1, This letter also did not include a specific reference to 30:103.1

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The initial stage of the project began in 2018 before facing delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic and easement issues. Jamie Barton (R-Schuylkill), and other federal and local officials shared remarks about the importance of this bridge to the trail and to the economies of both Berks and Schuylkill Counties. Interested in visiting?

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HumanNature

MARCH 3, 2025

Through programs like CP-42 (Pollinator Habitat), CRP aims to increase pollinator resources by establishing diverse native plant communities that provide year-round forage for bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects. collecting floral resource and pollinator data from 2017-2023. Ecology letters , 20 (5), 673-689. [2]

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Photo credit: Mark Anson On August 31, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced the availability of $65 million for the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. The 2018 Farm Bill mandates $25 million per year for on-farm trials.

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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. 2014, Lein 2018, Zabala, Sandbrook et al. 2018, Rost 2021).

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The existing use of ATVs on the State Forest degrades the State Forest public natural resources. “By The Bureau does not need to have another “pilot program” to study the impacts of ATV use. “The Click Here for a copy of the expert report. On July 15, 2021, DCNR only conditionally approved the State Forest Environmental Review. [

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Photo credit: NRCS EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 9, 2024, NSAC released Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill , a comprehensive analysis of the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) over the course of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Loyalsock Creek, Pennsylvania’s River of the Year in 2018, is a beautiful mountain stream that travels through Lycoming County on its way to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. From 2008 to 2018, the industry reported taking 595,172,958 gallons from our Loyalsock, which in many places is no more than knee deep from shore to shore.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

For nearly seven years-- since July 18, 2018 when the spills were first discovered-- DEP has been trying to work with Benko to get the multiple spills at the site cleaned up. DEP issued the original violations for failure to restore the well pad and the water impoundment on July 14, 2017. Benko in Economy Borough, Beaver County.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Creek was also named by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as the 2018 Pennsylvania River of the Year and called a “timeless treasure.” Loyalsock EV Stream The Loyalsock is classified by DEP as an Exceptional Value stream whose water quality must be protected by law, with no degradation. Read more here.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 12, 2022

In 1999, the Legislature provided a separate method for the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (“LDNR”) to respond to emergencies, defined as situations requiring “immediate action to prevent substantial or irreparable damage to the environment or a serious threat to life or safety.” 30:80 et seq. Lyon Well #1.

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