PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

PaEN] -- New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change In Top 5 Threats To Health Outcomes; No Update On University Of Pittsburgh Oil & Gas Health Impacts Study [PaEN] -- DEP Environmental Justice: State Dept. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

PaEN] -- New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change In Top 5 Threats To Health Outcomes; No Update On University Of Pittsburgh Oil & Gas Health Impacts Study [PaEN] -- DEP Environmental Justice: State Dept. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

Tom Wolf recognized employees from the departments of Conservation and Natural Resources, Environmental Protection and Transportation with the Governor’s Award for Excellence for environment-related projects. On May 20, Gov. The projects included Pennsylvania’s first Litter Action Plan, a creative “Let It Grow!”

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hydrogen is an indirect greenhouse gas that can lead to the formation of ozone and methane. Comments submitted to the Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee in August of this year by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recommend a life-cycle standard that is no less stringent than 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

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. Ozone plays a dual role in our atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

“These actions are the result of our continuing efforts to ensure that oil and gas operators comply with the Clean Air Act,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. Its operations stretch from the Great Plains to Appalachia.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Clean Air Council, and Clean Wisconsin filed a petition seeking review of EPA’s administrative stay of performance standards and emission guidelines for municipal solid waste landfills. Natural Resources Defense Council v. verdict June 7, 2017; sentencing June 23, 2017).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These fleets, those with more than 10 tractor trucks, are responsible for the lion’s share of emissions: about 85 percent of fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions and just under 90 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from all California tractors (see the pie charts below).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

WEDNESDAY 10:00: DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council meeting. Tiadaghton State Forest Resource Center, Lycoming County. TODAY 9:00: House Game and Fisheries Committee informational meeting on problems with Game Commission launch of license sales. Room 523 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch live online.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2023

3 Wildlife Conservation Science, Outdoor Recreation Curriculum , Noon to 1:00 p.m. -- Gettysburg Times: DCNR Secretary Dunn Stresses Connection Between Community And Protection Of Natural Resources Giving People ‘A Sense Of Place’ That Makes PA Unique [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: PA Budget Chips Away At $1.4 Of Environmental Educators Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

There are agencies designed to protect public health and our natural resources. And, particularly with the State Department of Health, they have not been given the resources or even the authority to do that work effectively. And that brings me to the next pillar of this framework, which is authority. Read more here.]

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The key difference according to the US National Park Service is that conservation ethics seeks the “proper use” of natural resources while preservation seeks to protect nature against any kind of use. This concern about natural resources meant the 19 th century was also a great expansion in conservation in other areas.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 19, 2025

Now a $314-million-a-year global organization with 1000 employees, EDF went on to influence pivotal environmental achievements, among them the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, and then helping the agency ban DDT and close the ozone hole.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Woods, who previously worked at the EPA and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), holds a doctorate degree in environmental health engineering and a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University.

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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. Rhode Island v.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Congress Legislative updates: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-MO) reintroduced the Save Our Sequoias Act ( R. Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA – Request for Nominations to the Task Force on Agricultural Air Quality Research.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Conservation: The House Natural Resources Committee approved the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. Lawmakers voted down amendments from Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) that would have designated funding sources for the bill. This bill provides a combined $1.4 Bill sponsor Rep.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Department of Agriculture undersecretary for farm production and conservation, overseeing the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Farm Service Agency and the Risk Management Agency. He served as the USDA undersecretary for nature resources and the environment in the Obama administration. 5345 ), sponsored by Rep.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing for that bill, along with another fishery management bill from Young ( H.R. The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing for the companion House bill ( H.R. The House Natural Resources Committee approved a bill ( H.R. 1320 ), sponsored by Sen.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Jared Huffman of California, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, in a statement. The same report finds that at least 156 million Americans, about 46 percent of the population, live with unsafe levels of ozone, particulate pollution or both. How well is Trumps attack on congestion pricing going?

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ESA

APRIL 25, 2022

The next day, the House Science Committee will hold a hearing about climate change with Ko Barrett of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NOAA; Dr. Dominique David-Chavez, an assistant professor of indigenous natural resource stewardship at Colorado State University; and Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

NRCS – Proposed Revisions to the National Handbook of Conservation Practices for the Natural Resources Conservation Service. NOAA – Notice of Intent To Conduct Scoping and To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Designation of a National Marine Sanctuary for the Pacific Remote Islands.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

Mining: House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sen. House Natural Resources Committee: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing about wildlife disease surveillance and preventing future pandemics. Martin Heinrich introduced legislation ( H.R. 7580 & S.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

The SAB Staff Office is especially interested in scientists with the expertise described above who have knowledge and experience relating to criteria pollutants (carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen oxides, ozone, particulate matter and sulfur oxides). Nominations are due May 3, 2021. They will consider comments that they receive by Apr.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

BLM: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a confirmation hearing for President Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone Manning. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) reintroduced a revised Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act ( H.R. 140 ) from Sens.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

House Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sen. EPA – 2021 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (June 15). President Biden revoked this executive order during his first week in office.

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