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EPA, Local Philadelphia Area Partners Celebrate Earth Week, Declare Trash Free Waters Begin With You!

PA Environment Daily

Whether it’s Earth Day or any other day, we all have a role to play in keeping our environment cleaner, greener, and safer.” Most of the trash that pollutes rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans comes from sources on land. Plastic trash, in particular, threatens human health, aquatic ecosystems, and the economy.

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Earth Month is a time for hope, not blind optimism

Enviromental Defense

We have all seen that throw-away plastics clog and poison our oceans, rivers and cities. Oh and we got the law changed too, and after decades we have a new and better Canadian Environmental Protection Act. That is hope made tangible through fewer toxic chemicals in our world.

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Falling Walls 2023: How open science and systems thinking can save the planet 

Frontiers

It must be the meeting when we start really showing credible pathways to phase out fossil fuels.” Yet, researchers don’t have complete explanations for all the events we are seeing with rising ocean temperatures, rapidly melting ice caps, and extraordinary temperatures. Now it’s time to pull up our sleeves and get serious.

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Sign up for an Earth Day 2024 Event: Planet vs. Plastic

Enviromental Defense

April 22nd is Earth Day and this year’s theme is Planet vs. Plastic. This year’s Earth Day theme couldn’t come at a better time, because April 22nd also the day countries from around the world will gather in Ottawa to start the fourth round of negotiations to develop an international treaty on plastic pollution.

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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

That includes 5 million deaths linked to breathing in the emissions of fossil fuels. But, despite his personal beliefs, Nixon was pressured by the times to respond to burgeoning ecological concerns ignited by Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring , and the 20 million people protesting for the planet in the first Earth Day in 1970.

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Climate Action for Earth Day

Legal Planet

Earth Day is a perfect day to register to vote and to make sure people in your life are registered—and fully aware of what’s at stake in Election 2024. The first Earth Day in 1970 saw teach-ins, walkouts, and demonstrations grab the participation of 20 million Americans—about 10 percent of the total U.S.

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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Carbon Management and Negative Emissions

Law Columbia

For example, the White House released a statement on Earth Day that the administration is supporting cutting-edge technologies like carbon capture and storage. Firings also impacted marine carbon dioxide removal experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).