41 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 41 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Thank you for your leadership!

-- PA-Based  Evangelical Environmental Network: U.S. House Passage Of Build Back Better Budget Puts Us Closer To A Bright Inheritance For Our Children [PaEN]

-- Evangelical Environmental Network: Signing Of Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Good News For Our Children, Communities And Country [PaEN]

-- WPCAMR: New Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Addresses PA’s #1 Water Pollution Problem; Questions About What Projects Can Be Funded  [PaEN]

-- NFWF, EPA Announce $2.5 Million In Conservation Grants In Pennsylvania To Help Restore The Chesapeake Bay Watershed  [PaEN]

 

-- PennLive - Guest Essay: Support Bipartisan SB 525 To Protect Our Parks & Forests - PA Parks & Forests Foundation

 

-- YorkDR Guest Essay: PA Communities Should Invest American Rescue Funds In Conservation - Andy Loza, WeConservePA

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Midstate Universities Plant Forest Buffers To Clean Water From Campuses

 

-- Allegheny County Conservation District: 500 Volunteers Planted 17 Acres Of Native Trees In 11 Municipalities To Improve Water Quality; Now It’s Your Turn 

 

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Horse-Drawn Manure Injector Designed To Entice Plain Sects, Reduce Polluted Farm Runoff

 

-- EQB Accepts Petitions For Study To Increase Oil & Gas Well Bonding; DEP Has $15 Per Well Available In Bonds To Plug Conventional Wells [PaEN]

 

-- A First-Hand Account Of How Repeated, Unlimited Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Tearing Apart Dirt Roads And Creating Multiple Environmental Hazards - By Siri Lawson, Farmington Township, Warren County  [PaEN]

-- Environment News Service: Pennsylvania Drilling Wastewater Toxics Spread On Dirt Roads

 

-- Preliminary Results From New Penn State Study Find Increased Cancer, Health Risks From Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Especially For Children  [PaEN]

 

-- New Pitt-Duquesne Study Shows Higher Exposures To Radiation In Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater When Appropriate Exposure Scenarios Are Used  [PaEN]

 

-- Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, FracTracker Alliance Call On Citizens To Report Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater On Dirt & Gravel Roads  [PaEN]

 

-- Trout Unlimited: What Do Pennsylvania's Dirt And Gravel Roads Have To Do With Trout?  [PaEN]

 

-- The Allegheny Front/Environmental Health News: Pollution’s Mental Toll: How Air, Water And Climate Pollution Shape Our Mental Health 

 

-- TribLive - Joseph Sabino Mistick: The Men Who Cleared Pittsburgh’s Skies

 

-- DRBC Extends Comment Period On Draft Regulations Covering Discharges Of Wastewater From Fracking Operations & Ban On Road Dumping Of Wastewater & Co-Products  [PaEN]

-- DEP Proposed To Set Stricter PFAS Limits Approved [For Public Comment] By Environmental Quality Board

 

-- DEP Advisory Committee Supports Adopting Science-Based Water Quality Criteria For Toxic Manganese To Protect Public Health, Environment And No Change In Point Of Compliance For The Standard  ​[PaEN]

 

-- Family Forest Carbon Program Now Open Across Pennsylvania Provides New Revenue Opportunities For Forest Landowners; 60 Enrolled So Far Covering 10,000 Acres  [PaEN]

 

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Officials Hope UN Climate Conference Urgency Translates Into Action At Home 

-- ErieT: World’s First All-Electric Freight Locomotive Made In PA To Be Used In Western PA  [A Product Like This Would Cost More Under Sen. Yaw’s Senate Bill 284.  Read more here]

 

-- Inquirer: SEPTA Buys Hybrid Buses For $178 Million, While It Studies Options For Battery Electric Models

 

-- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: PA Can Build A Clean Electric Vehicle Future,  Wolf, Lawmakers Must Embrace It - PA Budget & Policy Center

 

-- NBC10: Going Green To Fight Environmental Injustice In Philadelphia

-- TribLive: Pitt Gets $100 Million To Build Biomanufacturing Hub At Hazelwood Green Brownfield Redevelopment Site 

-- PG - Salena Zito: Cambria County Fights Population Loss In Little, Big Ways [Fishing, Hiking, Outdoor Life]

 

-- Wildlands Conservancy Protects 2,700 Acre Penrose Swamp Barrens In Carbon & Luzerne Counties  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster Conservancy Preserves 130 Acres Of Forest Land In York County [PaEN]

 

-- Gibble Family Partners With Lebanon Valley Conservancy To Protect 53 Acres In Lebanon County [PaEN]

 

-- Pittsburgh-Based Landforce: Read One Person’s Story About His Journey At Landforce

 

-- ESRI: Annette Ginocchetti - A GIS Innovator Pursues Her 'Mappings' In NE PA

 

-- WBTimes: Ellen Ferretti ‘Comes Home’ To Take The Helm At North Branch Land Trust

 

-- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council Requests Public Meetings On Proposed Very Low-Level Combat Training Flights By Maryland National Guard In PA Wilds  [PaEN]

 

-- PA Wilds Center Seeks Public Meetings On Proposed Low-Level Combat Training Flights By Maryland National Guard; Asking Others To Sign-On To The Request [PaEN]

 

-- DCNR Honors Boy Scout Troop That Visited 120 State Parks In Honor Of Late Scoutmaster [PaEN]

-- TribLive - Deb Erdley: Cyclists Brave Cold For Pantry Pedal On Greensburg Trail

 

-- ScrantonT: Anthracite Bicycle Coalition’s Cranksgiving Ride Gears Up With Donations To Food Bank

-- 4 PA Conservation Group Collaboration Receives NFWF Funding To Track Important Migratory Routes In The Northeast U.S. [PaEN]

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[Posted: November 21, 2021]  PA Environment Digest