34 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 34 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!

-- ​​Brubaker Farms In Lancaster County Receives Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award  [PaEN]

-- Two Bipartisan Bills Just Sitting In Senate Waiting To Address Record Number Of Water Quality Impaired Streams Reported In 2022  [PaEN]

 

-- U.S. Dept. Of Interior Formally Extends Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program Thru 2034  As Required By Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law

 

-- PA Environmental Council: Thomas Dolan IV - 1923-2021

 

-- Foundation For Pennsylvania Watersheds Sets Spring, Fall Grant Application Deadlines  [PaEN]

 

-- DCNR Accepting Nominations For 2022 Watershed Forestry Leadership Award  [PaEN]

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: An Intern's Update - November 2021 Water Quality Summary - By Isaac Busler, Butler Senior High School  [PaEN]

-- Daily American: Shade Twp. Approve Space For Shade Creek Watershed Association

-- PG: Some Allegheny County Residents Say Health Dept. Hasn’t Taken Enough Steps To Improve Air Quality

 

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: South Philly Residents Worried About Hilco Refining Operations Permits At Fmr Philadelphia Refinery Site

 

-- AP: EPA Moves To Crack Down On Dangerous Coal Ash Storage Ponds

-- TribLive: Big Sewickley Creek Watershed Assn. Wants Stream Restoration, Not Credits From Revolution Pipeline Settlement In Beaver County 

 

-- WESA: Restoring Pittsburgh’s Vacant Land To Use Just Got A Little Easier With Agreement To Clear Debt To Pittsburgh Water Authority

-- WHYY: Phoenixville’s Wastewater Treatment Plant To Get First Hydrothermal Carbonization Upgrade In North America 

-- PG: Recycle By Refilling: Meet The Women Bringing ‘Refilleries’ To Pittsburgh

 

-- ErieT: Wabtec Sells 4 More Erie-Build Electric Locomotives

 

-- AP: Wabtec Sells 4 More Battery-Electric Locomotives To Mining Company In Australia

 

-- Gov. Wolf Vetoes Resolution That Would Kill Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants; General Assembly Failed To Act Within Statutory Deadlines  [PaEN]

 

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: 3 Philly Experts On How The City Can Burn Less Fossil Fuel To Heat Homes

 

-- Senate Democratic Policy Committee Jan. 28 Hearing On $300 Million Anthracite Ridge Wind Farm In Schuylkill County  [PaEN]

 

-- PA State Grange: Jan. 13 Farm Show Solar Energy Program. 10:00 a.m.  Available Online.

 

-- ScrantonT: Care-A-Van Departs For Kentucky, Tennessee To Aid Tornado Victims

-- DCNR Blog: 2021 Year In Review From DCNR  [PaEN]

-- NEW!  DCNR Now Accepting Applications For Aspiring Archaeologists, Preservationists For PA Cultural Resource Crew Members  [PaEN]

 

-- Berks Nature Seeking Volunteers To Be Berks Nature Ambassadors [PaEN]

 

-- Wildlife Leadership Academy Seeking Teachers, Adults To Serve As Mentors For Summer Field Schools  [PaEN]

-- WeConservePA: Lackawanna County-Based Countryside Conservancy Protects 265 Acres At Base Of Elk Mountain

-- Natural Lands Preserves Land Along White Clay Creek In Chester County  [PaEN]

 

-- ChesterCounty.com: In Wyn’s Memory: New Garden Twp. Purchases 7.8-Acre Property For Preservation

 

-- Land Conservancy Of Adams County, Knouse Foods, Partners Protect Fly-Fishing Access Along Conewago Creek  [PaEN]

 

-- TribLive: Green Space In Sewickley Area To Grow More Than 90 Acres

 

-- Inquirer: Upper Gwynedd Twp. Wants To Use Eminent Domain To Preserve 33 Acres In Montgomery County

-- Lancaster Farming: Game Commission Testing Deer For Presence Of PFOS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Response To Advisories In Neshaminy Creek Watershed

-- New Fossil Species Named For Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Paleontologist David S. Berman  [PaEN]

Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

Going The RIGHT WAY:

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Going The WRONG WAY:

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[Posted: January 16, 2022]   PA Environment Digest