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York County Partners With USGS On Water Quality Monitoring To Document Nutrient, Sediment Pollution Going Into Local Streams, Chesapeake Bay

PA Environment Daily

On April 22, as the nation celebrates Earth Day, York County officials announced the countys water pollutant levels are significantly lower than initially reported by the state, according to data from the countys 10-year Water Quality Monitoring initiative the first of its kind in the state and the nation.

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Keep PA Beautiful Litter Hawk Youth Award Program Now Open! Fun, Prizes & Litter Awareness For Grades K To 6

PA Environment Daily

Winners will be announced in April in time for Earth Day celebrations. Kids can participate individually or as part of a lesson initiated by schools, home-schools, scout troops, 4-H clubs, environmental clubs or other organized groups. The deadline to participate is January 31. First runner-up will receive a $25 gift card.

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Attorney General Henry Files Charges Against Shell Falcon Pipeline For Failure To Report Drilling Issues That Caused Industrial Waste, Potential for Water Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019 and brings ethane feedstock from natural gas to the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County. [In Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019.

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

Law Columbia

The goal of conferring rights to nature is to secure the highest level of environmental protection under which an ecosystem can thrive and whose rights are not violated. In 2019, the city of Toledo, Ohio adopted the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, a municipal law that gave the lake rights of its own. The case is pending a decision.

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Appeals court upholds Ontario town’s convictions for damaging piping plover habitat

Enviromental Defense

The groups say the court’s decision preserves the integrity of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and sets a precedent that municipalities must protect critical habitat of vulnerable species, or face consequences. That section of the Act makes it an offence to damage or destroy an endangered or threatened species’ habitat.

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

A Greener Life

She was appointed by the outgoing government of Sebastián Piñera as a coordinator of the scientific advisory committee for COP25, which was originally due to be hosted in Chile in 2019. In January of this year alone, 160 GWh were “lost”, more than the total registered in all of 2019.

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Keep PA Beautiful Litter Hawk Youth Award Program Now Open! Fun, Prizes & Litter Awareness For Grades K To 6

PA Environment Daily

Winners will be announced in April in time for Earth Day celebrations. Kids can participate individually or as part of a lesson initiated by schools, home-schools, scout troops, 4-H clubs, environmental clubs or other organized groups. The deadline to participate is January 31. First runner-up will receive $25 gift card.