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PA State Conservation Commission Wins Natural Resource Education Champion Award

PA Environment Daily

The PA Association of Natural Resources Extension Professionals has selected the Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission as their 2024 Natural Resource Education Champion award recipient for their unwavering support and partnership in advancing agricultural and environmental education in the Commonwealth.

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LA Fires and the Climate Connection

Legal Planet

The evidence shows that hydroclimate whiplash has already increased due to global warming, and further warming will bring about even larger increases, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources who led the study.

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Success! Removing the Klamath Dams

Legal Planet

(Klamath River Dam removal project [credit: Los Angeles Times]) Most of the environmental law and policy matters discussed on Legal Planet–especially over the past few months–have dealt with natural resource crises, environmental rollbacks, hostile political actors and actions in Washington, D.C.,

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DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council To Hear Update On State Budget, Chesapeake Bay Program March 26

PA Environment Daily

The DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on March 26 to hear updates on the Chesapeake Bay Program and the state budget. Visit DCNRs Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council webpage for more information on Council activities.

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‘Legacy’ Forests. ‘Restoration’ Logging. The New Jargon of Conservation Is Awash in Ambiguity. And Politics

Inside Climate News

By Nathan Gilles, Columbia Insight In 2019, conservation activist and longtime Washington state resident Stephen Kropp did something he’d never done before: he explored a forest managed as state trust land by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.

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Big Oil’s steady lobbying in 2024: Suncor tops the lobbyist list from July-September

Enviromental Defense

Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson had three meetings, one each with LNG Canada, BHP, and the Pathways Alliance. That is the highest number of meetings in a three-month period that a Minister has participated in this year.

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War and the Environment

Legal Planet

From the contamination of land and the destruction of forests to the plunder of natural resources and the collapse of management systems, the environmental consequences of war are often widespread and devastating.” General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict.