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Guest Essay: When People Have To Choose Health Or Jobs, Everyone Loses - The View From Rachel Carson’s Homestead In Allegheny County

PA Environment Daily

million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere. He teaches chemistry and environmental science and is an adjunct professor at Duquesne University. A spring without voices A couple of days later, the Sisters of St. The plant will use ethane to make 1.6 It is permitted to emit 2.2 It’s accepted.”

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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MAGA vs NOAA, Executive Orders, and Growing IRA Support

Legal Planet

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

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