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United Strengthens Sustainability Commitment Through Collaboration With More Than a Dozen New Community Organizations Published 2 hours ago United works with more environmental, nonprofit partners than any other major U.S. airline CHICAGO, May 13, 2021 /CSRwire/ – United announced today that it has teamed up with more than a dozen new environmental, nonprofit partners to advance sustainability efforts across the airline’s hub cities as well as Hawaii, complementing the airline’s commitme...

RMI* Environmental Innovators – Organizations that foster research, development and programming focused on reducing carbon in the atmosphere and promoting renewable energy. Elemental Excelerator (San Francisco and Honolulu)* − LA Cleantech Incubator (Los Angeles) Prime Coalition (Boston)* Rutgers University (Newark)* Environmental Justice and Equity – Organizations that fight to ensure a more equitable future for our communities’ most vulnerable members. Air Alliance Houston (Houston)* ...

More Than $640,000 Awarded to County Environmental Projects  More than $640,000 in grant funding has been awarded to 15 environmental projects in Montgomery County, officials announced Sunday. “Great start to #EarthWeek!” County Executive Marc Elrich wrote on Twitter. “These awards provide funds directly to Montgomery County organizations and communities for projects that will help clean our air and water,” County Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Director Adam Ortiz said in...

Credit: (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) File photo: A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas A historic decision to ban fracking for natural gas in the Delaware River Basin is raising new questions about plans for a South Jersey dock where fracked gas would be exported in liquid form. On Feb. 25, Gov. Phil Murphy and the governors of Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware voted at the Delaware River Basin Commission to formally block the controversial process of harvesting natural gas, on the grounds that...

U.S. Supreme Court to hear PennEast pipeline eminent domain case By A sign protesting the proposed PennEast Pipeline route in Carbon County, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY) This article originally appeared on StateImpact Pennsylvania. — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an eminent domain case pitting the state of New Jersey against the PennEast pipeline company. The 116-mile line would ship Marcellus Shale gas from Northeast Pennsylvania across the Delaware River to New Jersey, to provide what the company...

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear PennEast Case Versus New Jersey in Big Win for Natural Gas Project The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC’s case against New Jersey, which has stopped the natural gas project from condemning state-owned land.  The high court on Wednesday granted PennEast’s petition in a win for the project, which has been under development for more than five years. The pipeline is one of the last major greenfield infrastructure projects still p...

Environmental Protection Agency PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied an attempt from the Environmental Protection Agency to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, over the implementation of a specific tenet of the Clean Water Act. On June 1, the EPA issued a Final Rule which largely changed its regulations in implementing Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, also published in the Federal Register on July 13. Section 401 of the Clean Water A...