Environmental Protection

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• 6/4/2023
  

  California's Collusion with a Texas Timber Company Let Ancient Redwoods be Clearcut

  by Greg King

  It wasn't shocking that a Houston-based energy company would seek to liquidate newly acquired holdings of ancient redwood trees and defy California law to do it. It was shocking that state agencies seemed determined to help them do it. 

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• SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
  12/7/2020
  

  Paul Sarbanes, Longtime U.S. Senator from Maryland who Championed Protection of Chesapeake Bay, Dies at 87

  The long-serving Marylander is remembered as a "Stealth Senator" who preferred effectiveness to publicity while championing financial regulation, investigating Watergate and Iran-Contra, and protecting the Chesapeake Bay. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10-26-18
  

  The Deadly Donora Smog of 1948 Spurred Environmental Protection—But Have We Forgotten the Lesson?

  Steel and zinc industries provided Donora residents with work, but also robbed them of their health, and for some, their lives.