We are very sad to report Lancaster County native Louise Dunlap passed away on April 15. She was a major force behind the 1977 enactment of the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and worked in that field with groups all across Pennsylvania on mine reclamation issues for many years.
Here is a brief summary of her advocacy career done in 2016 when then federal Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Director Joe Pizarchik presented her with the national Environment, Community, humanity, Ownership Award. Read more here.
She most recently spoke at the 2020 Statewide Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference. Read more here.
PA Environment Digest will be doing a profile of her in the coming week to give you a full sense of what she meant to the mine reclamation movement in the Commonwealth.
Appreciations From Friends & Colleagues
If you would like to share an appreciation of her work to be included in that profile, please send it to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com
(Photo: Taken at the 40th Anniversary of the 1977 Act. Center- Louise Dunlap holding a photo of the signing of the 1977 Act by President Carter; Left- John Pizarchik, Director of federal OSM and former Director of PA’s Mining Program; Jim Lyons, U.S. Dept. of the Interior; Edward Grandis, Chair, Citizens Coal Council; Right- Walter Heine, first Director of federal OSM in 1977 and former Director of PA’s Mining Program. Taken by Aimee Erickson, Citizens Coal Council.)
Related Article:
-- U.S. House Hearing On Reauthorizing Federal Abandoned Mine Lands Program: We Don’t Deserve To Wait Any Longer For Clean Streams, Diversified Economies[Posted: April 18, 2021] PA Environment Digest
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