PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

DEP said at a June 5 Committee hearing on House Bill 652 it would soon be releasing a mapping tool to help define Environmental Justice Areas using 32 indicators that include -- -- Environmental Exposures : ozone, fine particulate, diesel particulate, toxic air emissions, toxic water emissions, pesticides, traffic density, compressor stations, children’s (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Baka intends to use the findings from the research, education and outreach components of the project to make policy recommendations that help to reduce environmental burdens. Now, this petrochemical corridor in the Ohio River Valley is coming to the forefront, and it’s important to address it.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

This policy recommends that DEP increases the strategic community education, outreach, engagement, and capacity building trust through our intentional actions. “We “The new mapping tool will allow us to identify those [Environmental Justice] communities, including 32 different factors.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Visit DEPs Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Other Events -- Williamsport Sun: Susquehanna Trout Unlimited to Hold Stream Cleanup April 19 On Lycoming Creek -- Berks County Agricultural Center To Host April 23 Open House , 8:00 a.m. Posted: April 27, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

I enjoy doing outreach and education about electronics with kids. The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report measures three of the major types of pollutants in the San Joaquin Valley: long-term particle matter, short-term particle matter, and ozone. Ozone, too, poses significant risks to respiratory health.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Spoiler - Yes] -- TribLive: How To Manage Spotted Lanternflies In Your Yard Visit the PA Parks & Forests Foundation’s Events webpage and DCNR’s Calendar of Events for activities happening near you. Posted: August 27, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

The lines form a chemical fingerprint that could be used to find “biosignatures” such as oxygen or ozone. The craft maintains a constant view of our planet as it rotates, observing ozone, vegetation, cloud height and aerosols in the atmosphere. a Taken in August 2015, this image is typical of what DSCOVR can see.

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Breezometer

JANUARY 26, 2022

Air Pollution - Under a high greenhouse gas scenario, premature mortality attributed to climate change in 2030 could reach 3,340 for ozone-related deaths and 55,600 for PM 2.5. By the 2040s, wildfire numbers could increase by 32% and burn area by 33%.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

The health costs of these pollution sources are also inequitably distributed, since power plants tend to be sited in communities that have lower incomes and education levels. EPA has already finalized a rule that aims to address interstate ozone pollution , dubbed the Good Neighbor Plan.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

Casey Hopes Tax Credits For Clean Energy Projects Can Boost PA’s Coal Communities -- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Commissioners Take First Step Toward C-PACE Clean Energy Financing Program -- DEP Now Accepting Applications For $2.6

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Take The Agrisolar Survey To Help Identify Policy Issues, Educational Needs -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: State Gets $4 Million In Federal Funding For Rural Renewable Energy Projects -- PA Solar Center Webinar Nov. Of Education Now Accepting Applications For Green Ribbon Schools Recognition [PaEN] -- Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool.

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Breezometer

JUNE 12, 2022

Clean Air Day brings together different communities, businesses, educational institutes, and health sector facilities to participate in the largest air pollution campaign in the UK, which suffers from an estimated 36,000 air pollution-linked deaths every year. Clean Air Day 2022: What’s the Big Deal? More info here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Of Environmental Educators Oct. 31 -- EPA Announces $100 Million In Grants Available To Support Manufacturers Of Cleaner Construction Materials -- DOE Finalizes Energy Efficiency Standards For Residential Furnaces To Save $1.5 Partners Celebrate Pennsylvania Forests With Walk In Penn’s Woods Events Oct.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

To determine the exposure of the local population to harmful hydrocarbon and ozone levels. UCAR helps the AQ-Watch project convey the value of our research, education, and partnerships to policymakers and decision-makers.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Many studies have explored the differences in harm from air pollution to racial or ethnic groups and people who are in a low socioeconomic position, have less education, or live nearer to major sources of pollution.”. Those unequal pollution levels translate into more deaths, more asthma attacks, and more hospitalizations.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2022

PaEN] -- Bay Journal: With Waters Rising, Baltimore Eyes $138 Million Plan To Limit Coastal Flood Damage -- Reuters: EPA To Use Limits On Ozone, Coal Ash To Encourage Retirement Of Remaining Coal-Fired Power Plants After U.S. Louis And Kentucky -- Pennsylvanians It Will Flood Here: Are You Prepared? Get Flood Insurance Now!

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ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Antarctic ozone hole shrinks slightly – The Hill. NSF: The National Science Foundation announced changes to the names of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Division of Human Resource Development. More News: Readout: OSTP, CEQ, and CPO Host Roundtables on Nature-based Solutions – White House.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

NSF : The agency issued a solicitation for a new multidisciplinary, world-class educational center at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that aims to serve as a hub for STEM education and outreach. Smaller telescopes and facilities at the Arecibo site remain in use and could be incorporated into the educational center.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 27, 2022

To take just one example, to estimate the proportion of students of color near major freight routes, EPA used an Education Department database covering all U.S. and ozone concentrations as a result of the standards.”. The analysis drew upon numerous published studies, but also included evidence that the agency itself had assembled.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

On July 21, the Environmental Health Project and HealthFirstPA held an educational webinar entitled-- Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It. That picture looks very different from what we have right now. There is some truth to that.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

There are only 6 NAAQS - ozone, carbon monoxide, particulates, lead, sulfur dioxides, and nitrogen dioxides - but they dominate most air quality concerns ranging from smog to health effects, such as from particulates and lead. There remain some problem areas; for example Boston tends to be a non-attainment area for ozone in the summer.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Many studies have explored the differences in harm from air pollution to racial or ethnic groups and people who are in a low socioeconomic position, have less education, or live nearer to major sources of pollution.” and ozone concentrations as a result of the standards.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

Justice40ward Toxic Tours are happening all over the country in an effort to educate folks, including federal government employees, about the Biden Administration Justice40 goal to prioritize 40 percent of federal investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, clean transit, clean water infrastructure, remediation of legacy pollution, etc.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2022

Million To Help Cover Home Energy Costs -- WHYY: Philly Area Finally Off The ‘Worst 25’ List For Ozone Pollution, But Still Gets Failing Grade -- DCED Announces Grant To Fund Industrial Site Reuse Environmental Assessment In Clarion County -- MCall: Emmaus Sues Makers Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Over Groundwater Contamination -- Insurance Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Utility Dive: EPA Regional Ozone Proposal Threatens Electric Reliability: RTOs, State Utility Regulators PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh-Area Man Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Founded in 1945, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has many responsibilities, one of the most important as far as archaeological conservation is concerned is the World Heritage List (19).

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act provides competitive grants for bird habitat conservation, research and monitoring and community outreach and education. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Ozone Review Panel (Nov. Executive Branch.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No. 20-1045 (D.C. 3, 2021); Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. Minnesota v.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

This board advises all of NOAA about long- and short-range strategies for research, education, and application of science to resource management and environmental assessment and prediction. The Chronicle of Higher Education Will a new national park mend tribal ties? – Not Everyone Is on Board. –

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

This bill tasks the new directorate with accelerating research and development to advance solutions to pressing societal challenges, including climate change and sustainability, global competitiveness, STEM education and workforce and social and economic inequality. 2027 ) and Rural STEM Education Research Act ( H.R.

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