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Earth Day 2025: Embracing renewable energy for our planet

A Greener Life

By Shadia Haq Earth Day 2025 focuses on the theme Our Power, Our Planet and urges a global shift to renewable energy. Photo Credit: Cup of Couple Earth Day timeline: key milestones Year Milestone 1970 First Earth Day held in the United States, with 20 million participants. What is Earth Day 2025 about?

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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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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.20.24

PA Environment Daily

Magnitude Earthquake Confirmed In Berks County -- MCall: 2.4 National- $3.67 Magnitude Earthquake Confirmed In Berks County -- MCall: 2.4 National- $3.67 Magnitude Earthquake Confirmed In Berks County -- MCall: 2.4 National- $3.67

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WVIA: Bernie McGurl, Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. - A Life Dedicated To The River's Flow

PA Environment Daily

Related Articles - Bernie McGurl: -- PA Environmental Professionals Honor Bernie McGurl [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Honors Bernie McGurl With Williams Jeanes Award For Environmental Excellence [PaEN] -- DCNR Celebrates Lackawanna River As PA’s 2020 River Of The Year [PaEN] -- Op-Ed: 50th Earth Day: Time To Consider Wiser Course - We (..)

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NASA probe captures optical images of Venus’ surface

Physics World

During a flyby on 11 July 2020, a team led by Brian Wood of the US Naval Research Laboratory used the probe’s Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) to image Venus’ “nightside”. Because Venus takes 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation, weather conditions on its nightside are markedly different from those on the side receiving sunlight.

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.17.23

PA Environment Daily

Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S. Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S.

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

Law Columbia

In 2020, a federal judge ruled that the Lake Erie Bill of Rights is “invalid in its entirety” based on the premise that the law itself was “unconstitutionally vague” and exceeded municipal powers. By Tiffany Challe*. Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. Climate litigation using the rights of nature. Province of Entre Ríos, et al.