Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 6.12.20

CHANGE: Senate scheduled to return to voting session June 22, 23, 24 [Call Of President Pro Tempore]

House scheduled to return to voting session June 22, 23, 24 [Call Of House Speaker]

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Receives National Recognition For Innovation In Social Equity [PaEN]

DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanians: Kate Gonick, Lancaster Conservancy [PaEN]

PA Environmental Defense Foundation Defends Lawsuit Saying DCNR’s Forest Plan Mission To Sell Gas Resources Not Consistent With Environmental Rights Amendment [PaEN]

DEP: Construction Starts On Mine Drainage Treatment Plant On Chartiers Creek In Allegheny County; Federal Funding For Projects Like This Due To Expire [PaEN]

PA Township Supervisors Host Statewide Stormwater Conference At 3 Regional Locations; Workshop Proposals Now Being Accepted [PaEN]

Water Science Institute Storymap Shows How Old Mill Dams, Land Use & Legacy Sediments In Lancaster County Affect Water Quality [PaEN]

Allegheny Conservation District Hosts Webinars On Stream Health, Stormwater Management, More [PaEN]

Delaware RiverKeeper June 12 RiverWatch Video Report
Study Links Air Pollution To 100 Excess Deaths Per Year In Allegheny County From Heart Disease

Funding Will Close Wyoming Valley Levee Gaps That Require Sandbags During Floods

Independence Conservancy To Hold Waste Tire Collection June 20 In Findlay Twp., Allegheny County [PaEN]

New Natural Gas Service Begins In Centre Hall, Centre County

PA Wilds Center, The Progress Fund Invite Small Tourism Businesses To Prep For New COVID-19 Relief Funding [PaEN]

Agriculture Preserves 48 New Farms, 4,432 Acres; Urbanization Threatens Agricultural Lands [PaEN]

Centre County Growers, Producers See High Demand For Local Foods Amid Pandemic, But What’s Next?

YaleEnvironment360: How Small Family Forests Can Help Meet The Climate Challenge

Penn State: Bedrock Type Under Forests Greatly Affects Tree Growth, Species, Carbon Storage

Delaware Highlands Conservancy Native Redbud Tree Sale, Must Be Picked Up June 15

Op-Ed: Life In Nature Amid Pandemic - Paul Kengor

2 Boys Drown In Schuylkill River, One Trying To Save The Other

Six Segments Of East Coast Greenway Approved For Funding, 2 In Philadelphia Area

PRPS PA Park Maintenance Institute Launches New Website [PaEN]

June 10 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR [PaEN]

Wildlands Conservancy Offers Wild Community Programs Online; Camp-2-U! Begins June 15 [PaEN]

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Adds New Virtual And In-Person Educational Programs [PaEN]

Allegheny National Forest Accepting Comments About Bradford Wildlife Habitat Improvement Project [PaEN]

York City Plant Thief Destroys Community Garden, Tramples 2 Duck Nests

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FERC Issues Order Prohibits Pipeline Construction From Beginning Until Regulators Act On Rehearing Requests

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[Posted: June 12, 2020]  PA Environment Digest