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Reconnecting with the Radical Roots of Earth Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

Happy Earth Day! I was only four years old when the first Earth Day took place. Some companies have co-opted the day to sell more “environmentally friendly” products , or worse, to provide polluters with an opportunity to greenwash their miserable track records. Earth Day didn’t come out of nowhere.

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.24.23

PA Environment Daily

. -- House Hearing Today: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- April 24 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- WTAJ: ClearWater Conservancy Celebrates Earth Day With Annual Watershed Cleanup Day In Centre County (..)

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Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.16.23

PA Environment Daily

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.23.24

PA Environment Daily

Of State Webpage -- Inquirer: Philly DA Withdraws Warrant For Rep. Kevin Boyle’s Arrest Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 23, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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In Memoriam: Walt Pomeroy, Environmental, Wildlife & Wilderness Advocate

PA Environment Daily

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. End of excerpt.]

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.30.23

PA Environment Daily

-- NextPittsburgh: DEP Awards $3.7 Million To Support 22 Environmental Restoration Projects In Southwestern PA [ Jan. Million To Support 22 Environmental Restoration Projects In Southwestern PA [ Jan.

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.17.23

PA Environment Daily

Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S. 2 In The Country When It Comes To Citizen Militias, What Does Constitution Say About That?