Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Environment Minister Rebecca Shultz have allowed this demonstrably wrong belief to go unchallenged, becoming the Alberta United Conservative Party’s (UCP) default stance on climate change.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2023

Conservation easements protect the region’s depleted groundwater. Pragmatic ingenuity is being applied here to overcome them, including a new easement program that uses federal and state tax benefits to conserve groundwater. Easements are the latest step in a developing strategy to meet Colorado’s water conservation directive.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 4, 2022

Knowing they are targets, farmers in southern Arizona and California who receive irrigation water from the Colorado River are discussing a plan that could go a long way toward meeting a federal conservation mandate in the drying basin. Besides the irrigation districts, urban suppliers in the basin are also putting forward conservation plans.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Among environmentalists, government agencies and logging interests, a war of words is raging over the future of our forests.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the halls of Congress, legislators are at a standstill on funding the federal government for the next fiscal year (FY24). No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In that case, Our Children’s Trust represented a group of Oregon youths who sued the federal government, seeking redress for what the children claimed was the government’s failure to protect them from the environmental, health and economic damage wreaked by climate change. United States. The August 14th Held v.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2024

WeConservePA released the 2023 Conserved Land Census which shows 187,626 acres of land have been conserved in Pennsylvania between 2014 to 2023-- an average of 51 acres a day. 76,402 acres were transferred to government agencies for parks, game lands and other public spaces. Click Here to read the 2023 Conserved Land Census.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

On October 30, the PA Council of Trout Unlimited announced it is now accepting applications for approximately $215,000 in Coldwater Heritage Partnership’s Coldwater Conservation Grants. The deadline to apply is December 18. This funding is made possible through a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Everything we do is guided by our mission statement: “ Pike County Conservation District is committed to the long-term protection and sustainable use of Pike County’s natural resources. This means we do lots of different things to conserve our community’s natural resources from different angles.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

WeConservePA is now accepting nominations for the Local Government Conservation Leadership and Lifetime Conservation Leadership Awards. The Local Government Conservation Leadership Award recognizes the critical importance of local government leadership to the success of land conservation initiatives in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

On October 30, the Shapiro Administration launched the new Discover State Grants website -- a one-stop state funding search tool to streamline the process of learning about government funding opportunities. Visit the Discover State Grants website for more information. Click Here for complete announcement.

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A Greener Life

JULY 18, 2024

In a criticism of the previous Conservative government, they said their plans and policies would not deliver the required action soon enough. The new government has an opportunity to correct the course, but it will need to be done as a matter of urgency to make up for lost time.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2024

On October 2, the Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Land Trust announced the appointment of Sarah Costlow as its new Vice President of Land Conservation. Costlow comes to ALT from her role as the Land Protection Director of the Western New York Land Conservancy where she led the organization’s land protection efforts.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 1, 2024

What once was an abandoned department store in downtown Racine, Wisconsin, is now a boutique hotel that is unusually good at conserving energy.

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A Greener Life

MAY 5, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen One of the highest courts in the UK has dealt the government an embarrassing blow to its climate strategy. In a case brought by organisations Friends of the Earth, Client Earth and the Good Law Project, the High Court ruled that the government had not done enough to cut emissions and ordered it to redraw the plans.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2024

WeConservePA is now accepting presentation proposals for the 2025 PA Land Conservation Conference to be held April 2-4 in State College. The Conference is Pennsylvania’s premier networking, training, and inspirational event for staff and volunteers of conservation groups. The deadline for submissions is October October 24.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2024

On August 5, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding invited Pennsylvania farmers to apply for $13 million in Resource Enhancement and Protection Farm Conservation Tax Credits available to support their efforts to improve soil health and water quality now through September 1. Pennsylvania farms increased no-till acres by 2.3% Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” Having a state agency responsible for native terrestrial insects would assist conservation by putting a focus on insects rather than looking at insects as an afterthought.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

On May 2, the Allegheny County Conservation District and Allegheny County Agricultural Lands Preservation Board proudly announced the preservation of Morning Glory Farm in Plum Borough. Visit the Allegheny County Conservation District website for more on conservation assistance available to residents of Allegheny County.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2024

On June 11, the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority announced the launch of a new financing program designed to help local governments identify and develop energy efficiency and energy system upgrades for municipally-owned buildings. PEDA is operating the program on behalf of the Department of Environmental Protection.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Electrification is a critical component of building decarbonization, and local governments are taking a leading role in this policy space. Berkeley decision does and does not say, local governments can better understand that many of them have options for electrifying new buildings. In exploring what the CRA v. Under EPCA, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2024

In a new paper published today, the Sabin Center explores the governance challenges associated with ocean CDR research and (if deemed appropriate) deployment. The ocean is a globally shared resource and, as such, a number of international agreements have been developed to govern ocean-based activities. Read the full paper here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

A new Clean Energy Funding Resource Guide is now available to help Pennsylvania residents access support for home and community energy projects compiled by the Conservation Voters of PA. The Guide has information to help renters, homeowners, landlords, nonprofits, local governments and for workforce development and labor.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy will host a series of three public meetings on the Perkiomen Mapping and Flood Mitigation Study covering the 362 square mile watershed which spans parts of Montgomery, Berks, Bucks, and Lehigh counties. Joe Webster (D-Montgomery). Posted: November 11, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 4, 2022

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – With the recent passing of Bill 109, the Government of Ontario made significant amendments to the Planning Act, violating legal requirements set out in Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993 (EBR).

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In my new role as Director, Arctic Indigenous-led Conservation, I will bring that background and experience to Ocean Conservancy and to build trust and partnership—based on common ground, mutual understanding and respect–between conservation organizations and Alaska Native entities.

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The Applied Ecologist

JANUARY 6, 2023

Lead author Olivia St-Laurent explains why she and her co-authors of the new article advocate for a novel approach to environmental tree planting, benefitting people and nature by prioritizing biodiversity conservation. In megadiverse Australia, endemic species represent 85% of the continent’s biodiversity.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 6, 2024

On May 6, WeConservePA announced the launch of a new Conservation Law Program , led by Director of Conservation Law Justin Hollinger, Esq., to deliver several legal services for the benefit of those working to advance conservation in Pennsylvania. The Program provides presentations on conservation law for a variety of audiences.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2023

On January 18, the Brandywine Conservancy announced it ended 2022 with more than 500 total conservation easements held by the organization, while also exceeding 70,000 acres of land that have been permanently preserved through both direct and facilitated easements. These new milestones further cement our achievements in conservation.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Field stations tend to be established in areas with high conservation value because those areas tend to be the ones biologists are interested in studying. Field station networks as the future of conservation poster presented at COP16 on October 23, 2024. It is an effective model of socially informed conservation.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

He was joined in the discussion by Kyle Shenk, Northeast Regional Director at The Conservation Fund , which helped make the acquisition a reality. Nick and Kyle discussed the importance of collaboration between DCNR and the conservancy/land trust community to accomplish land conservation that adds to the state forest system.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Ahead of COP26, the UK government has signalled its support for climate action by announcing a £265 million renewables support scheme. . The Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme is the preferred government method to incentivise investment in renewables and other low-carbon energy technologies. By Anders Lorenzen.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2023

On November 29, The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania and Delaware announced it has purchased 78 acres located in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, and transferred the parcel to the U.S. OSI congratulates our partners at The Nature Conservancy for this conservation achievement.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Here are 94 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2022

trillion FY2022 omnibus spending package to fund the federal government through Sept. The Nature Conservancy engages deeply on advocacy for federal conservation funding, and we’re pleased to see the solid investments for conservation, climate resilience, and clean energy included in this bill. Photo © TNC.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 14, 2022

Sign in Pro to support Conservation Futures The Conservation Futures bill (HB 1672) is in the House Finance Committee. Washington’s Conservation Futures program has helped counties across the state ensure and expand access to parks and open space for residents for more than 50 years. Not sure how this works?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his government are intensifying their support for the fossil fuel industry, and they have thus distanced themselves further from climate action previously pursued by successive UK governments. The Conservatives are significantly trailing the opposition Labour Party in the polls.

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