Circle of Blue

JULY 30, 2021

DoD understood the health risks posed by toxic PFAS for decades but failed to act to protect service members.” – Scott Faber, senior vice president for government affairs at the Environmental Working Group. “This report should alarm our service members and their families. An internal audit of the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 16, 2021

An analysis from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources found permafrost is thawing where an elevated section of pipeline is secured, causing several braces holding up the pipeline to tilt and bend. If the pipeline were to break, oil could seep into the state’s groundwater resources.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2023

Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the last natural resources cases on its docket this Term: Arizona v. Remarkably, however, and despite the fact that the federal government negotiated two important 19th century treaties with the Navajo Nation, the U.S. Navajo Nation Reservation (credit: KNAU) Today the U.S. Navajo Nation.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – September 27, 2021. Even though Walton sowed his 2021 crops of corn and soybean during the driest spring planting conditions state meteorologists ever recorded in Michigan, his fall harvest looks to be strong, maybe one of the best in years. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. We’re still there.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Despite evidence it could contaminate drinking water, the New South Wales government is reversing a decision to block a mine expansion project. The New South Wales government has overturned a decision to block a mine expansion despite evidence the project could irreversibly damage drinking water supplies. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On November 1, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) State Conservationist Denise Coleman announced that Pennsylvania is currently taking applications for natural disaster recovery efforts in Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Chester, Huntingdon. Posted: November 1, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

Leaders of tribes who depend on the Colorado River say the century-old agreement on managing a resource vital to 40 million people across the West is a major factor fueling these and other water inequalities. . government marginalizing native voices. . So far, the tribes only have promises that they’ll be included.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 16, 2025

While the government has made the right noises about protecting these wetlands , it has been accused of not backing up its words with action. A natural resource under threat According to the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), wetlands cover 3% of Zimbabwe s area, while the country has seven Wetlands of International Importance.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The issue boils down to the fact that the government is not collecting enough money to pay for cleanup. . According to oversight documents, during 2021 Illinois’ Department of Natural Resources spent an average of $17,000 per acre cleaning up sites abandoned prior to 1977.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. The end of the 2021-2022 Legislative Session saw notable legislation on climate, heat, clean energy, water, and land use become law.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2022

By Andy Yenta, Extension Renewable Natural Resources Educator The PA Chapter of the Association of Natural Resources Extension Professionals has selected Ross Snook of Montgomery County as its Natural Resources Education Champion for 2021. Click Here to sign up for your own copy.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While about one out of every 10 households experienced food insecurity in 2021, many more were unable to support their own health by purchasing sustainable and nutritious foods. This name highlights racism as the root cause of these issues, including historic disinvestment and exclusion by government and businesses.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

The January 24 meeting of DCNR’s Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council will feature a discussion of the newly released Growing Outdoor Recreation for Pennsylvania Report conclusions and recommendations. Join The Meeting The meeting will be held from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

A report from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources found that nearby drinking water wells were not affected by a 2019 leak of hydraulic fracturing waste in Washington County. The post The Stream, August 12, 2021: Major Rivers in India Are Rising To Dangerous Levels appeared first on Circle of Blue. ON THE RADAR.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2023

By conserving and stewarding our Commonwealth's natural resources, DCNR is vital to Pennsylvania's booming outdoor recreation industry. million in 2021 but is still higher than the average of the three pre-COVID years. According to the U.S. million acres of state forests. In 2022, an estimated 37.9

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Michigan Constitution, ratified in 1963, states that “ the natural resources of the state are hereby declared to be of paramount public concern in the interest of the health, safety and general welfare of the people. The statute outlaws conduct that is “likely to pollute, impair, or destroy” natural resources and the environment.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

Bloody Run Creek, tucked into the hills of Clayton County and barely a yard wide where it starts, is one of 34 streams designated by the state Department of Natural Resources as an “outstanding” Iowa water way. He owns a cabin close by across the Mississippi River in Wisconsin.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 11, 2024

The Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program (ICARP) in the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) administers several grant programs, including – the Regional Resilience Planning and Implementation Grant Program (RRGP) and the Adaptation Planning Grant Program (APGP), both established in the 2021-2022 State Budget.

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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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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2023

The easement is then purchased or donated to a land trust or government agency, which is responsible for enforcing its stipulations. The conservancy was founded in 2021 with the goal of using easements to protect the shrinking Ogallala Aquifer. A landowner’s water is valued through an appraisal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The shortage resulted from the accelerated shutdowns of polluting resources such as coal-fired power plants and a higher forecast for energy needs. In the MISO region, how much energy resources get paid for their commitment to produce electricity has seen big swings. If supplies do not meet the reliability target the price is high.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 14, 2022

Instead it begins with this: A brief on how adept engineering for dams and aqueducts, government subsidy, technological development for pumps and water recycling, surpassing marketing, and an advantageous assemblage of natural resources – sun, warmth, blue sky, and open spaces – produced one of the greatest desert civilizations in human history. .

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Law Columbia

JUNE 11, 2024

Previous editions of the report were published in September 2021 , March 2022 , and May 2023. This edition also includes maps and data visualizations that were prepared by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Blue Raster LLC. There has been significant litigation against offshore wind projects.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. On August 4, 2021, the Montana First Judicial District Court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss in Held v. Not so in the United States. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v.

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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Photo credit: Government of British Columbia Yes, taking action to mitigate and adapt to climate change requires spending now. The cost of BC’s 2021 season of climate disasters, which included the heat dome, rampant wildfires, widespread flooding and dangerous landslides, was estimated to have cost more than $17 billion.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

With the federal government now projecting that Lake Mead will drop precipitously in the next two years — perhaps to levels not seen since the Great Depression, when the country’s largest reservoir was first filled — that emergency has arrived. million acres. In total, Met has nearly 1.3 So we’re going to tap into that.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

For well #3- a violation was continued from April 19, 2021 for failing to submit a well integrity report. Original violations issued November 18, 2021. DEP issued the original violations for failure to restore the well pad and the water impoundment on July 14, 2017. DEP inspection report. No violations were issued for leaking gas.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 13, 2022

Current Sign-In Opportunities Keep Washington Evergreen is in the Natural Resources Committees of both chambers. The Lorraine Loomis Act for Salmon Recovery is in the House Natural Resources Committee. When the Legislature went virtual for last year’s 2021 session, lawmakers and advocates alike had to make adjustments.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Kelly House, Bridge Michigan, – October 20, 2021. So when state leaders this week advised Benton Harbor residents to drink only bottled water — a stark escalation of the government response three years into Benton Harbor’s lead-in-water crisis — Patton was unimpressed. Bridge photo by Kelly House). Why not earlier?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Any call for more studies should not preclude swift and meaningful action on the part of our government. And I certainly believe that this is not an either/or circumstance that we can do both, but it does require that government be far more involved than we have been in the past, and that includes funding for regulators.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

OTTAWA | Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People — With Canada’s 2021 federal election just five weeks away, a coalition of 34 Canada’s leading environmental organizations are calling on everyone in Canada to vote on September 20 — and when they do, vote for a green and just recovery from COVID-19.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Guest Post By Anna Clare Monlezun , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. 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.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

million from the state Department of Natural Resources. and Canadian mayors and government officials that work to protect waterways.” The new law, called 2023 Wisconsin Act 5, will allow the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to provide additional funding to farmers who apply.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Congresswoman Kim Schrier, MD, an original sponsor of the bipartisan National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021 , visited Cascadia TREX this week to see good fire in action. The state Department of Natural Resources has a blueprint to get us to the scale needed. Learn more about this year's TREX. Banner photo: Nikolaj Lasbo / TNC.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 26, 2021

If Summer 2021 has made anything clear, its that we can no longer deny the truth: Climate change is a present day threat, not a distant probability. The government just announced consultations, a piece of legislation, and an advisory body – these are all good ideas. This is the motivation behind the idea of a just transition.

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