A Greener Life

APRIL 24, 2024

President Biden delivers his Earth Day address. By Anders Lorenzen President Biden used Earth Day to ramp up his administrations commitment on tackling climate change, protecting the environment and investing in clean energy technologies. Photo credit: Reuters / Kevin Lamarque.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2022

In celebration of Earth Day, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful , whose vision is a clean and beautiful Pennsylvania, encourages residents to join the 2022 Pick Up Pennsylvania initiative. This year we hope even more people find the time to help improve their communities and make every day Earth Day.”

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 20, 2022

The events under the shared banner of the Yours to Protect Weekend will highlight environmental threats to local natural areas and call on MPP candidates from all parties to make stronger environmental protections part of their election platforms. General Earth Day Events. WHEN: April 22, 23 and 24.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

On April 22 - Earth Day - Heights Philadelphia and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally announced a new partnership to support Heights’ mission of creating student pathways to college and careers, especially for low-income, Black and Brown, and first generation to college students.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency , Philadelphia Water Department , and Partnership for the Delaware Estuary joined to celebrate Earth Week and highlight a new ad campaign, ‘Trash Free Waters Begin with YOU!’ Whether it’s Earth Day or any other day, we all have a role to play in keeping our environment cleaner, greener, and safer.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Winners will be announced in April in time for Earth Day celebrations. Kids can participate individually or as part of a lesson initiated by schools, home-schools, scout troops, 4-H clubs, environmental clubs or other organized groups. The deadline to participate is January 31.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

Symposium Agenda This year’s agenda will begin with a look at the history and future of the oil and gas industry on groundwater management in Pennsylvania by David Yoxtheimer, Research Professor and Extension Associate from Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

Ranks Pittsburgh Area Among Nation’s Most Polluted -- American Lung Assn.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Shy’s study provided a shining example of the threat posed by industrial pollution that galvanized public attention in the late 1960s and led to the first Earth Day in April 1970. There is no EPA standard for indoor air.)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Dernbach , emeritus professor, a leading advocate for sustainable development, received the American Bar Association’s 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award in Environmental Law and Policy for his groundbreaking contributions to environmental protection. “I Dernbach’s work has reached beyond Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2022

While attending Albion College in Michigan, he helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970 and appeared on a CBS-TV prime-time special hosted by Walter Cronkite that was called Earth Day: A Question of Survival. Student concern and action did not stop on Earth Day.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

The Office of Attorney General’s investigation revealed that Shell allegedly failed to notify the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) about multiple issues that the company encountered during some of the horizontal directional drills (HDD) that were utilized to construct some portions of the pipeline. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2023

These supplies were acquired through the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful initiative, which offers registered events free materials via a collaborative partnership with the Department of Environmental Protection, PennDOT, and Keep America Beautiful Program. 6 volunteers from Barry Isett & Associates, Inc.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 29, 2024

Oh and we got the law changed too, and after decades we have a new and better Canadian Environmental Protection Act. This once cancelled highway is emblematic of an approach to transportation, city building, and environmental protection that has failed dramatically for decades.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

in Somerset County -- WHYY: My Climate Story: Philly Students Take Science From Abstract To Personal -- Reading Eagle: Berks Nature Nonprofit Has Evolved Over Its 50-Year History -- MCall: C.F.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 4, 2022

Winners will be announced in April in time for Earth Day celebrations. “We The Litter Hawk Youth Award program was created with funding provided by the Department of Environmental Protection. First runner-up will receive a $15 gift card. All participants will be recognized with certificates.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

The goal of conferring rights to nature is to secure the highest level of environmental protection under which an ecosystem can thrive and whose rights are not violated. By Tiffany Challe*. Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2023

The building housing the departments of Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources in Harrisburg is named in her honor. A teach-in held by Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, blossomed into Earth Day [April 22]. Brinkley is a presidential historian.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

18-20 In WV Registration Open For Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council Level 1 Certification Training Beginning July 30 Join Master Watershed Stewards In Lancaster County For June 13 Waterways On Wheels Bike Tour A Dozen Nonprofit, Agency, Municipal Environmental Experts Team Up To Tackle Stormwater Runoff In The Lake Erie Watershed Dept.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2022

In the court’s decision, Justice Pardu wrote, “The Act should be given a generous interpretation in light of its remedial nature and its objective of environmental protection”. This case marked the first time the Ontario Court of Appeal had considered the meaning of “damage” to habitat under section 10 of the Act.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 Aftershock Follows -- MCall: How Common Are Earthquakes In Eastern PA, Why Was The NJ Quake Felt So Far Away?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2023

The Northeast Pennsylvania Environmental Partners include the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Protection, PA Environmental Council, PPL Corporation, Procter & Gamble Paper Products Company, and Wilkes University. 201 or email avitkoski@pecpa.org.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

NewsClips: -- MCall: Earth Day: Your Guide To Events, Cleanups In Lehigh Valley Area -- WHYY: Tree-Plantings And Trash Walks: Earth Day 2022 In Philly -- The Allegheny Front: Repelled By Trash, They Rappelled To Pick It Up At Pittsburgh’s Mt.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2022

Communities across the region were alive with volunteers last week in celebration of Earth Day and the 2nd Annual Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week organized with the help of the Susquehanna Greenway Partnership. In Harrisburg, Barry Isett & Associates led a cleanup of Wildwood Park.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

CJ, a Junior from Swarthmore, Delaware County, will celebrate Earth Day on April 22 by leading a walk throughout Little Crum Creek Park while discussing aquatic macroinvertebrates and water quality. One such event is an educational “Park Walk” coordinated by Young Ambassador, CJ Chen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 24, Department of Environmental Protection Southeast Regional Director Pat Patterson visited the Riverbend Environmental Education Center in Gladwyne, Montgomery County to showcase its Aquaponics program, recently enhanced with the help of a $20,000 DEP Environmental Education Grant.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Winners will be announced in April in time for Earth Day celebrations. Kids can participate individually or as part of a lesson initiated by schools, home-schools, scout troops, 4-H clubs, environmental clubs or other organized groups. The deadline to participate is January 31.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2022

Related Articles: -- PA Resources Council Announces 2022 Household Chemical, Electronics Waste, Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Eastern, Western PA -- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful: Communities Celebrate Earth Day By Joining Pick Up Pennsylvania [Posted: April 19, 2022] PA Environment Digest FM and AM 1020 KDKA.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Winners will be announced in April in time for Earth Day celebrations. Kids can participate individually or as part of a lesson initiated by schools, home-schools, scout troops, 4-H clubs, environmental clubs or other organized groups. The deadline to participate is January 31.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

We thank the many supporters over the past two decades who have helped PRC to serve more than 60,000 households, and we look forward to serving many more in communities across the state in the future.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

ARRI is a joint effort between OSMRE, state agencies including the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), industry partners, environmental organizations, academia, and landowners. I can’t think of a better tribute to the heroes and families of Flight 93 than what has developed at this memorial.”

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While at the IACHR, Urrejola defended the need for countries to join the Escazú Agreement , as a way to strengthen environmental public policies in the face of the climate emergency. Meanwhile Boric pledged during his campaign to adhere to the agreement and send it to Congress for ratification ahead of this year’s Earth Day, on 22 April.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

They did this though the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, long before the first Earth Day. Ruth led PRC through the 1970s and 1980s when the modern environmental movement was beginning. Uncommon leaders who made an exceptional contribution to conservation and environmental protection in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

Recently she appeared on Nickelodeon's Earth Day special. -- Woman of the Watershed: Julie Slavet, Philadelphia County - Julie has 40 years of experience in building organizations and serving communities. Prior to PADEP, Collier served 19 years with BCM Environmental Engineers, Inc., In 2014, the U.S.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 30, 2022

Looking back, I did not think about environmental justice—I didn’t even know that term until college. I got involved with making sure my school was recycling, coordinating Earth Day rallies, helping create community gardens, and other things. That’s one of the most important aspects of environmental justice.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection last week announced a total of $632,897 in Environmental Education Grants have been awarded to 63 projects, 50 of which engage youth and adults living and/or working within environmental justice areas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The US Supreme Court seems to have appointed itself as a rogue Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to protect polluters rather than the public. It would put any new initiative for environmental protection at automatic risk of being snuffed out.

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