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The Delaware River Basin Commission could see a restoration in federal funding under a new congressional plan to give a higher national priority to conservation in the region.
The interstate regulator that represents the water interests of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware has been without federal funding for all but two of the last 23 years, despite the U.S. government’s long-standing agreement to pay 20% of the agency’s running costs, or $715,000 a year.
Advocates say the funding shortage makes it harder for the commission to fulfill its role as coordinator of the water resources that supply more than 13 million people with drinking water, especially when increasingly faced with the floods, droughts, storms and sea-level rise that are driven by climate change.
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The Delaware River Basin Commission could see a restoration in federal funding under a new congressional plan to give a higher national priority to conservation in the region.
The interstate regulator that represents the water interests of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware has been without federal funding for all but two of the last 23 years, despite the U.S. government’s long-standing agreement to pay 20% of the agency’s running costs, or $715,000 a year.
Advocates say the funding shortage makes it harder for the commission to fulfill its role as coordinator of the water resources that supply more than 13 million people with drinking water, especially when increasingly faced with the floods, droughts, storms and sea-level rise that are driven by climate change.
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This Earth Day April 22 fight climate change by participating in local events that reduce environmental waste in the First State.
Climate change takes center stage during this year’s Earth Day celebrations on April 22, 2021, when the Biden administration holds a global leaders’ summit to highlight the need for worldwide action to protect our planet. The summit is one of President Biden’s first steps to taking aggressive action to tackle climate change and help drive our nation toward a clean energy future.
The Restore Our Earth theme focuses on replenishing the world’s ecosystems and forests, conserving and rebuilding soil, improving farming practices, restoring wildlife populations and ridding the world’s oceans of plastics.
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April 12, 2021
Series of online events planned from April 19 through 23, 2021
Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki, Public Works Commissioner Kelly Williams, and Kathy Klein, Executive Director of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary (PDE), invite you to attend the 16
th annual
Wilmington Earth Day and Arbor Day celebration, which will be marked with a series of online events taking place from
Monday, April 19 to Friday, April 23, 2021. The celebration, traditionally the largest of its kind in Delaware, will once again be virtual due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The official dates for Earth Day and Arbor Day are April 22 and April 30, respectively.
Wilmington’s Earth and Arbor Day Celebration is funded by and planned in coordination with the City of Wilmington’s Department of Public Works and the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. The goal of this annual celebration is to educate the public about the importance of trees, native plants, drinkable water a
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