Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Given that you’ll regularly find kids chewing on a mitten or a coat collar, these types of PFAS exposures require immediate attention and action—action from the companies that make these products and from the federal government that should be setting stronger rules to protect us. People in Canada need federal leadership on PFAS.

Government

Legal Planet

JULY 7, 2025

However, unlike the federal Endangered Species Act, CESA does not impose a duty on government actors to avoid jeopardizing the existence of listed species – those actors only must avoid taking members of listed species. But CESA does not provide for that. But CESA does not provide for that. Download as PDF

Endangered Species Act

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s the government’s job to protect us and the environment from harmful chemicals in plastic…and they need to get on it While the plastics industry claims its products are sanitary and safe, the truth is much more complicated. Governments around the world, including in Canada, are caught up in the powerful plastics industry.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 31, 2025

The country has faced drought conditions for the last five years according to the director of the Environmental Protection Organisation Sheena Ansari and the Meteorological Organisation recorded a 40% drop in rainfall over the last four months compared to a long-term average.

Sustainable Development

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 4, 2025

Photo: Related Midwest Onward With Quantum Development The collaboration between government, academia, and the private sector to develop the new technology sector fits seamlessly into the 150-year economic history of Chicago and the region. Photo © Christiana Freitag A Skeptical Southeast When South Works closed in the 1990s, U.S.

Technology

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

On December 4, the Department of Environmental Protection announced grant awards totaling $600,000 to 12 community organizations across Pennsylvania through the new Pennsylvania Engaging New Voices on Environmental Justice program. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Government-To-Government grant.

Environmental Protection

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 23, 2025

Nearly 90 per cent of respondents want the federal government to get toxic chemicals out of products, while 86 per cent support federal action on plastic pollution. People in every part of the country recognize the threat that runaway use of unnecessary plastics poses to our health and the environment, and want our government to tackle it.

Government

Environmental News Bits

MAY 20, 2025

by Anna Turns, The Conversation and Patrick Byrne, Liverpool John Moores University The Isle of Man government has said it is fully committed to environmental protection and transparency regarding its Unesco biosphere status despite admitting that legacy landfill sites are discharging hazardous chemical contaminants into the sea.

Government

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Join PA Sea Grant and the Department of Environmental Protection for the upcoming Pennsylvania Lake Erie Environmental Forum webinar on Groundwater and Climate Change on November 19 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Interested in understanding how climate change affects our groundwater and what it means for the environment and economy?

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Nearly $5 billion in federal grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2024 Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program is also a source of the influx of clean energy funding. billion in clean energy tax credits as of May 2024. This moment has been nearly two years in the making,” said Endowments President Chris DeCardy.

Clean Energy

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

State-level Green Amendments allow states to create environmental safeguards for their citizens above and beyond what the federal government provides. It could require environmental repair to undo the damage already done. Since then, organizations have been able to sue the government to protect the states environment.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Annual reporting is a legal requirement under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). Under CEPA, the government has the power to impose penalties as high as $250,000 for the first failure to meet reporting requirements offense and $500,000 for subsequent offenses.

Government

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Events scheduled from March 1 through May 31 receive free trash bags, gloves, and safety vests provided by support from the Department of Environmental Protection and PennDOT, as supplies last. Events must be registered to receive free cleanup supplies. million pounds of litter and trash were picked up, 4.5

2025

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In July, the Bay received a C+ grade, its best in 20 years, in the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s 2023/2024 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Report Card. Continued leadership -- from state government to grassroots organizations – is sparking even more optimism. You have my commitment that this work will continue.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Ohio River Restoration Program Act, modeled after successful initiatives like those in the Great Lakes, the Chesapeake Bay and other major bodies of water, would create an Ohio River National Program Office within the US Environmental Protection Agency to convene states, local governments, interstate compact agencies, tribal nations, and non-governmental (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2025

The words of the Declaration not only declared our independence from tyranny and government that did not represent us, it outlines fundamental principles the United States had lived by for nearly 250 years. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Government

Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

According to the Department of Environmental Protection, the city and the surrounding regions are currently in a ‘drought watch.’ While the seemingly unending days of blue skies can be picturesque, there are unseen challenges to a long dry season.

Recycling

Enviromental Defense

MAY 27, 2025

PFAS contamination in Canada should prompt this new federal government to turn off the tap This new map of PFAS contamination in Canada is alarming, and allows us to see where our homes and communities are at risk of exposure to these highly toxic chemicals. This is a major problem that demands action from the federal government.

2027

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection will begin accepting applications for the first round of local Abandoned Mine Reclamation and Drainage Treatment Grants in 2025 on March 3. Eligible applicants include a county or municipality, conservation district, council of government, municipal authority and nonprofit organizations.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2025

In written comments submitted to the Senate Republican Policy Committee on August 11 , the Department of Environmental Protection outlined the opportunities of A.I. data center development, but also what they called "recurring challenges" of obtaining environmental approvals for individual projects.

Cooling

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection. With this loss goes flood protection, air pollution removal, plants and animals (including some of the most rare and endangered), food production, and recreational opportunities. Attacks on nature, clean energy, and livable communities filled the headlines.

2025

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

On November 4, Protect PT and Three Rivers Waterkeeper announced they have appealed two permits for the Slickville Pipeline Project issued by the Department of Environmental Protection to the Environmental Hearing Board. mile route.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JULY 24, 2025

Advocates outline priorities under new ECCC framework for implementing the right OTTAWA/TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Following a landmark ruling from the International Court of Justice and changes to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act , people in Canada have new legal rights to a healthy environment.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

JULY 16, 2025

On July 15, the Department of Environmental Protection awarded more than $3.47 million through the Alternative Fuel Incentive Grant (AFIG) program to help local communities purchase alternative fuel vehicles, build out alternative fuel infrastructure, cut costs, and improve air quality in 17 counties across Pennsylvania. “We

Nitrogen Oxides

Law Columbia

MAY 23, 2025

The Court clarified that any review of the legality of government decisions, acts, or omissions must involve members of the public, in compliance with the Aarhus Convention. Environmental Protection Agency. Energy Ministry (The Nort Sea Fields Case) ).

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2025

Canada’s leading environmental law and policy organizations are calling on the Senate to make essential amendments to Bill C-5 before it becomes law. It is now up to the Senate to do what the House did not — protect the public interest by ensuring that national interest projects proceed under strong, lawful oversight.”

Law

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2025

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Environmental Protection

Enviromental Defense

MAY 16, 2025

The federal government has drafted an order to list PFAS as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), but does not intend to start consultations on proposed regulations until 2027.

2027

Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

They dont cover government or enterprise data centers. In 2024, the Joyce Foundation examined groundwater governance in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys region 5, which covers most of the Great Lakes states. Courtesy of Data Center Map. At the time of reporting, of the U.S.s

Cooling

Nanotech

JULY 11, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP). Since February 2020, Kunkler has been directing government affairs for the American Soybean Association (ASA) in Washington, D.C., with a focus on the biotech and crop protection portfolio.

Government

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

PA Trout Unlimited; PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Diversity - Equity - Inclusion (DEI) -- David Hess Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2025

Awardees were evaluated for their degree of environmental protection, innovation, partnership, economic impact, consideration of climate change, sustainability, and environmental justice, as well as outcomes achieved. WESA and 91.3 WYEP in partnership with Appliance Warehouse, eLoop LLC, Liberty Tire and Reworld.

Recycling

Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

These pressures are further compounded by social tensions , as Indigenous communities are frequently excluded from decision-making processes, raising concerns about environmental justice and the equitable governance of natural resources. Initially, this restriction was based on lithiums potential use in nuclear energy.

Politics

Circle of Blue

JULY 22, 2025

Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warned of elevated cancer risks related to such contaminated farm fertilizer. In addition to looking at pesticides and nitrates, the research will also look at cancer links to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Radiation

Enviromental Defense

MAY 20, 2025

In the first three months of 2025 weve already seen Big Oil come out swinging at climate policy and government decision makers. They want the next government to repeal the Impact Assessment Act and the industrial carbon levy for large emitters, one of the most effective policies at lowering Canadas climate pollution to date.

2025

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

This suggests that courts should afford substantial deference to agencies in the context of standalone NEPA claims that do not implicate the agency’s obligations under the substantive statutory framework governing the action.

Fossil Fuels

Earth 911

AUGUST 7, 2025

In the United States alone, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates recyclers will need to process one million tons of solar panel waste by 2030 and up to 10 million tons by 2050. Photovoltaic panel recycling isn’t just an environmental challenge; it’s a massive economic opportunity.

Recycling