September 7 PA Environment Digest Now Available

The September 7 PA Environment Digest is now available.

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[ Headlines ]

Ehrenfeld Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project In Cambria County Wins National Recognition; Renewal Of Federal Reclamation Fee Needed Now

DEP Receives $25 Million From Feds For Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Economic Development Projects

Op-Ed: Federal Abandoned Mine Reclamation Trust Fund Can Be Reauthorized

House Hearing: $2 Billion In Community Solar Projects, Family Farms Waiting For Passage Of Bipartisan Legislation That Costs Taxpayers Nothing

Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills Taking Away DEP’s Authority To Adopt A Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants

Senate Appropriations Meets Sept. 8 To Move Bills Taking Away DEP’s Authority For Carbon Pollution Reduction Programs, Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing

PA Environmental Council: Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage In PA: A Story Map

EPA, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Award Record $18 Million For Projects In Chesapeake Bay Watershed; $7.46 Million In PA

CBF-PA: 8 PA Counties To Add Buffers, Advance Their Clean Water Plans With EPA/NFWF Grant

EPA/NFWF Grant Awarded To Chesapeake Conservancy For Precision Conservation In PA

EPCAMR/Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. Each Receive $50,000 EPA/NFWF Grants To Cleanup Area Waterways

DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 744 More Permits, 1,526 More Inspections Since Last Week

PEMA Shares Preparedness Tips, Encourages Participation In National Preparedness Month

5th DCNR Wildfire Crew Leaves For Colorado; PA Sends Equipment, More People West

DCNR, Officials Celebrate Ghost Town Trail In Cambria, Indiana Counties As PA’s 2020 Trail Of The Year

DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanians: Trevor Nordquist Visited Every State Park

With Record-Setting Use Of Outdoors, DCNR Offers Tips For Recreating Responsibly For Labor Day Weekend

Planning Process For Riverfront At Hazelwood Green Brownfield Site Begins In Allegheny County, Led By PA Environmental Council

Clean Air Task Force Founder Armond Cohen To Receive Dickinson College’s Rose-Walters Prize For Environmental Activism

[ Environmental Heritage ]

We Remember September 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy

[ News From The Capitol ]

PA Capitol & COVID-19 Weekly Report: Republicans, Wolf Go A Few More Rounds; What Budget?

Senate/House Bills Moving Last Week

Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Bills Introduced

House Environmental Committee Meets Sept. 16 On Recycling Solar Panels; But E-Waste Law Is Broken

August Newsletter Now Available From Joint Conservation Committee

[ The Feds ]

EPA Awards $62.9 Million To PA In Clean Water Revolving Loan Funds

EPA Meets With Federal Agency Partners In New Castle, Lawrence County To Discuss Redevelopment

[ Water ]

Special Project: Good River - Stories Of The Ohio River [Yes, PA Is The Ohio River Watershed]

PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Western PA Virtual Watershed Workshops Oct. 7 & 9

Western PA Conservancy: Partnership, Generosity Lead To Ohiopyle Stream Restoration In Fayette County

Lancaster Clean Water Partners Hold Virtual Annual Partners Meeting Sept. 11

Lancaster Clean Water Partners Scholar Spotlight: Marcy Hostetler, Teacher, Volunteer

Pasture Walks Highlight Cover Crop Grazing Sept. 29 Adams County, Oct. 20 Franklin County

Bay Journal: Microplastics, Cigarette Butts, Straws Found In PA Susquehanna River Smallmouth Bass

50th Annual Wissahickon Creek Cleanup Sept. 12 In Philadelphia

Penn State Extension Water Cooler Talk Webinar Sept. 30 On Water Resources In Pennsylvania

[ Litter - Recycling - HHW ]

Sign Up Now For Keep PA Beautiful's Pick Up Pennsylvania

PA Resources Council Sets Traveling Glass Recycling Events In Allegheny County

Independence Conservancy Hosts 4 Waste Tire Recycling Events In Beaver County

PA Resources Council Sets 3 Household Chemical Collection Events In Allegheny, Beaver Counties

[ Energy ]

DEP Provides Notice Of Appeal Rights On Permits For Adelphia Gateway Natural Gas Pipeline Project

Premiere Of Mark Ruffalo's 'Invisible Hand' Film About The Rights Of Nature Movement, Including Grant Twp., PA Injection Well Case

Country View Family Farms Installing Over 8,100 Solar Panels At 4 PA Farms

Sustainable Business Entrepreneur Judy Wicks Will Headline Sept. 15 Virtual Program At NE Sustainable Energy and Education Development Support Meeting

[ Environmental Policy ]

PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In August

[ Citizen Science ]

Birders! Graduate Student Needs Your Help In Reporting Birds Eating Spotted Lanternflies

[ Recreation - Land Conservation ]

September Eastern & Western Trail Summits Go Virtual

2020 Public Lands Ride September 1-30 To Showcase State Parks, Forests

DCNR Good Natured Blog: On The Trail Of Geology

PECO/Natural Lands Green Region Open Space Grant Program Now Accepting Applications

Free Fallingwater Lecture: Environment Creating Healthy Wellbeing, Wellbeing Creating Healthy Environments Sept. 29 Online Event

Heritage Conservancy Facilitates Preservation Of Highly Visible, 97-acre Farm In Bedminster Twp., Bucks County

Delaware Highlands Conservancy Virtual Conservation Conversation About How To Protect Your Land On Oct. 15

Natural Lands Invites Participants To A Virtual ChesLen Chase For Open Space Race Oct. 10-18

Sept. 2 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR

Sept. 4 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

[ Wildlife ]

Educator Offers Video On 6,000 Year-Old Danville Riverside Eel Dam And Eels To The Classroom Project In The Susquehanna River Watershed

State Agencies Issue Alert To Contain Invasive 'Rock Snot' In Quemahoning Creek, Somerset County

Game Commission: Online Elk Cam Goes Live

Outdoor Discovery Center At Crooked Creek Hosts Peregrine Falcons - An Environmental Success Story Online Program Sept. 17

PA Environmental Council Podcast: Why We Need Wildlife Corridors

Brodhead Watershed Assn./Pocono Avian Research Center Host Virtual Birding At Camp William Penn In Monroe/Pike Counties

[ Helpful Resources ]

Environment & Energy NewsClips

Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events

Grants & Awards  

Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits

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