April 22 PA Environment Digest - Earth Day Edition- Now Available

The April 22 PA Environment Digest-- Earth Day Edition-- is now available.

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[ Headlines ]

Pennsylvania’s Conservation Activism Began Long Before The First Earth Day On April 22, 1970

Winners Of Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence Celebrated

PennFuture To Honor 8 Winners Of Central PA Women In Conservation Awards April 25

DEP Releases Water Quality Assessment Showing 40% Of PA Streams Polluted By Agriculture, Abandoned Mines, Stormwater Runoff 

Bay Journal: Pennsylvania's New Chesapeake Bay Plan Falls Well Short Of Cleanup Goals

Senators Scarnati, Yaw File Court Action To Compel DEP, EQB To Set Manganese Standard

Gov. Wolf Announces $69 Million Investment In Water Infrastructure Projects In 14 Counties

EQB Accepts Cap-And-Trade Petition For Evaluation; State Does Have Authority To Adopt A Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program

Nuclear Power Plant Owners Again Oppose Financial Needs Test To Receive Aid To Keep Plants Open At House Hearing

House Environmental Committee To Hold April 29 Info Meeting On Nuclear Waste Containment In Light Of TMI Closure

House Democratic Policy Committee Holds April 22 Montgomery County Hearing On Future Of Nuclear Energy 

Senate Democratic Policy Committee Holds April 23 Hearing On Methane Emissions, Climate Change In Pittsburgh

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets April 23 On PA Greenhouse Gas Inventory; Final Climate Action Plan Update Due Any Time

Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners Gives PUC Notice It Will Restart Mariner East 1 Pipeline Monday

PUC Investigation Finds No Petroleum Pipeline Leak In Berks County

Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bill To Ban Sale Of PA Natural Gas To States That Impede Pipeline Development 

House Environmental Committee Reports Out Bill Authorizing The General Assembly To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing

House Passes Bill Authorizing Fish & Boat Commission To Set Own Fees, Now Goes To Senate

House Passes Bill Designating Eastern Hellbender PA’s Official State Amphibian, Clean Water Ambassador, Now Goes To Governor! 

Keep PA Beautiful Recommends Comprehensive Strategy For Reducing Litter, Illegal Dumping

Celebrate Earth Day By Joining Keep PA Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup Of PA

House Committee Finds Curbside, Electronics Waste Recycling Continues To Struggle; Taking $10 Million From Recycling Fund Won’t Help

[ News From The Capitol ]

Senate/House Bills Moving Last Week

Bills On Governor's Desk 

Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Bills Introduced

[ Water ]

Philadelphia Green City, Clean Waters Green Infrastructure Program Saves $50 Million/Year, Generated $4 Billion In Economic Impact So Far

Study Shows 150% Return On Investment For Cleaning Up Little Conemaugh Watershed, Cambria County

PA Sustainable Agriculture: Designing A Rotational Grazing Plan Workshop May 2 In Mifflin County

Penn State Launches Water & Agriculture Website On Water Quality, Quantity Issues

Volunteers Plant 1,500 Trees Along White Clay Creek In Chester County

Help Tree Pittsburgh Plant 1,000 Trees On Arbor Day April 27

Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Rescues Seedlings For Schools Program, Expands To Pollinator Gardens

DCNR, Corrections Collaboration To Teach Inmates Tree Maintenance Recognized Nationally By Fast Company

Stroud Water Research Center Hosts Brown Bag Lecture On Spotted Lanternfly April 23 In Chester County

Make Plans To Go To Lancaster County’s Water Week Events June 1-8

DEP Invites Submissions Of Water Quality Data For Stream Evaluations In Centre County

Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Hearing May 9, Business Meeting June 14

Vote Now For PA Entry! For Chesapeake Bay Foundation Viewers’ Choice Photo Contest Award

[ Illegal Dump Prevention, Cleanups ]

Independence Conservancy Holds 4 Waste Tire Collection Events In Allegheny, Beaver Counties

Columbia Gas Employees Celebrate Earth Day With Cleanup In Beaver County

[ Black Flies ]

DEP Will Soon Begin Black Fly Spraying In 35 Counties

[ Energy ]

DEP Accepting Alternative Fuel Incentive Vehicle Grants Starting April 26

Updates To DCNR’s EDWIN Database Of PA Oil & Gas Well Information

Gov. Wolf Reappoints Gladys Brown Dutrieuille As PUC Chairman

[ Land Conservation ]

31 Farms, 3,134 Acres Added To Farmland Preservation Program

Land Conservancy Of Adams County Protects 80-Acre Farm

French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Preserves Family Farm In Chester County

[ Recreation ]

Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Accepting Lehigh Valley Greenways Mini Grants Until May 3

DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanians: Mark Houser Uses His Passion As A Diver To Clean Up Lakes

April 17 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR

Gifford Pinchot's Grey Towers In Pike County Announces 2019 Program Schedule

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