Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2022

But as I began to work on climate change, I found it inspiring to look back at the photos from April 1970 and learn about what motivated 20 million people to action—and the impact of public mobilization on policy and practice in the years that followed. Happy Earth Day! I was only four years old when the first Earth Day took place.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. In 2013 he organized a fundraising dinner at Calgary’s Petroleum Club to help raise political donations to former BC Premier Christy Clark’s re-election campaign.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 24, 2023

If we had price information for each individual food item, then we could shop in a more intelligent way, buying only what we need, wasting less, and prioritizing the more affordable items. We cannot afford to waste that water. Imagine our sticker shock when we see the tally. But it is coming.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s Danger Season right now for climate impacts around the United States and the world. While we confront extreme heat, wildfires, and intense storms, crucial work to reduce global warming pollution and mitigate the worst effects of climate change continues. Reform utility political contribution and lobbying regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. October 22-- Agenda Posted. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Visit the Committee webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Lindsay Byron lbyron@pa.gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Imagine cutting waste and energy consumption all in one go! By building components off-site, prefabrication can minimize waste and energy consumption during construction. In glass furnaces and oil refineries, dynamic optimization can prevent wasted energy and lower emissions, making industry leaner and greener.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor. The problem is that a carbon tax seems out of the question politically. It could be designed to avoid regressive impacts on the poor.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. animal stomachs, shale gas formations, piles of food waste).

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. That’s something political leaders have not been willing to do. Ready or not — the Great Lakes as a climate refuge.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 31, 2023

The conference, however, was constrained by an agreement that no political declaration would be made. Climate change negotiations take place under a UN framework called a convention. World Bank researchers presented data showing waste and inefficiency in the sector. Will these initiatives bear fruit? Time will tell.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The expansion of industrial-scale farming in the basin, plus rainstorms made worse by climate change, have caused the blooms to surge in recent years. And special measures to dispose of the toxic waste product costs $220 million, though not all of those costs are strictly related to algae. And political power with it.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2025

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. Shapiro Lost His Home, Tried Suicide, Waste Melting Down -- Gov. April 21-- Cecil Township Zoning Hearing Board 2nd hearing on Range Resources Appalachia, LLC Substantive Validity Challenge to 2,500 foot setback ordinance. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The political movement culminating in the passage of the Clean Water Act was triggered by several environmental disasters in the late 1960’s that shocked Americans and motivated them to take action to clean up the nation’s heavily-polluted waterways. Environmental Protection Agency.).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We at the UCS Center for Science and Democracy work to make sure that government decisions are informed by the best possible science and evidence, free from political interference, and responsive to diverse community voices. Sometimes agencies publish tables including the commenter, the comment, and a response.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. October 22-- Agenda Posted. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Visit the Committee webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Lindsay Byron lbyron@pa.gov. Ohio- $3.03

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It’s all very well and good to condemn ag for wasteful water use, and I do. So it makes little sense to call on urban users to conserve, so the story goes, until ag goes first. If you eat hamburger, you are “using” that water. If you want to use less of it, then you should pay more for your hamburger.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2021

The poll found voters are especially concerned about fracking waste. By 69 percent to 29 percent, they believe that fracking fluids should be subject to the state’s "hazardous waste" safeguards, a clear repudiation of Pennsylvania’s current loophole for the industry.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

22 Webinar On New Guidebook For Municipalities On Large-Scale Solar Development [PaEN] -- MCall: Lehigh Valley Success Presents Climate Change Challenges We Will Meet Head-On - By Lehigh Valley Planning Commission -- Nov. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2025

Billion In Farm Products To China In 2023] New Federal Administration -- AP: Presidents 100 Days: Energy And Environment PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- TribLive/AP: Swing District Republicans Become Hard To Find For Those Angry About Presidents Policies [PA Included] -- Spotlight PA/AP: PA Republican Con.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. JCG: Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. I’m J. Carl Ganter.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Bernice Lee Following the Paris Agreement, corporate enthusiasm for climate action surged, with net-zero commitments and the energy transition taking a central role in both government and business agendas. However, political shifts and implementation challenges have slowed that momentum.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. Lire en français ici. Leer en español aquí. It’s just not the end of the world.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. May climate change is a big deal, or maybe not (in the view of some Justices), but either way, it wasn’t reason to deviate from legal business-as-usual. Massachusetts v.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2023

IPCC Wraps Up Its Most In-Depth Assessment Of Climate Change PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Dept. Of Labor & Industry: February PA Unemployment Rate 4.4%, Up 0.1%

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Natural Gas Climate Change Waste Conservation 108

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Toxic chemicals leaking from old industrial sites and waste dumps across almost all of Michigan had contaminated hundreds of shallow aquifers and made them unfit for any use. Ready or not — the Great Lakes as a climate refuge. The Great Lakes region is frequently touted as one of the most climate-resilient places in the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In addition to this uptick in production, at the same time, we had a big increase in waste production. So actually about 98% of waste production from fracked wells is in the form of produced water. Where does this waste actually go? Are There Disproportionate Exposures From Waste? It has several different outlets.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 17, 2025

Social, political, economic, and supply chain instability. Hosted live from the broadcast studios at the Medill School at Northwestern University, Designing Waters Future brought together more than 150 leaders of major brands, polling firms, global institutions and experts in building systems change movements. Never waste a crisis.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

The devastating war in Ukraine has understandably distracted media and political attention from climate change and related issues. But for those who did manage to absorb the findings of the latest publication from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the news was grim. .

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Deforestation Climate Change Greenhouse Fossil Fuels 98

Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore why targeting methane emissions presents a more advantageous strategy for the United States in its quest to mitigate climate change. In the short term, reducing methane emissions can have an immediate impact on slowing down global warming.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

18 Hearing On Panther Creek Power Application To Burn Waste Tires In Carbon County -- PUC Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To Low-Income Energy Reduction Program Regulations -- DEP Hosts Dec. 7 Outreach Session In Luzerne County On Priority Climate Action Plan Initiatives -- DEP Hosts Dec.

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Natural Gas Climate Change Waste 2024 106

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently released a new rule resulting from a process intended to make companies disclose their climate-related financial risks to investors. Climate disclosure regulations are taking shape in markets around the world, such as the European Union, China, and Singapore.

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Regulations Clean Energy Sea Level Greenhouse 256

Vermont Law

JUNE 8, 2020

These zones created by thoughtless and insensitive “big money” executives create permanent land damage and economic disinvestment due to toxic waste facilities, high-risk chemical plants, oil refineries and coal fired power plants operating in these communities. [4]. Southwestern Waste Management Corp. ,

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee during the unveiling of the report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yet again warned us about the climate impacts hurtling toward us at breakneck speed. Photo credit: IPCC / Mark Speight.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2030 Renewable Energy 98

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

TODAY 7:00: Dickinson College Host Atmospheric Scientist Katharine Hayhoe To Discuss Finding Hope In The Face Of Climate Change. Digital Foundry in Westmoreland County. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dickinson College Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Carlisle, Cumberland County. Click Here to watch online. December 5-- Agenda Posted.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. April 21-- Cecil Township Zoning Hearing Board 2nd hearing on Range Resources Appalachia, LLC Substantive Validity Challenge to 2,500 foot setback ordinance. Municipal Building, 3599 Millers Run Road, Cecil, Washington County. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. Read more here.

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