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This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues

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DEP 2022 Water Quality Report Shows 27,886 Miles Of Streams With Impaired Water Quality In PA (33%) - An Increase From 25,468 In 2020

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

DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years

PA Professional Geologists: Feb. 16 Webinar: Dust Suppression With Oil & Gas Produced Water Featuring Author Of Penn State Study Finding Increased Cancer Risks With Road Spreading

DEP Proposes New, Limited General Permit For Processing, Beneficial Use Of Oil & Gas Liquid Wastes; No Chemical Concentration Limits Or Public Review Of Individual Permit Uses Are Included

DEP Opportunity To Bid On Plugging 7 Orphan Oil & Gas Wells In Warren County

Brubaker Farms In Lancaster County Receives Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award

Bay Journal: PA Contends Its New Cleanup Plan Will Meet Chesapeake Bay Goals

The Giant Company Donates $1 Million To Harrisburg University To Support New Center For Advanced Agriculture and Sustainability

Chesapeake Bay Foundation Awarded USDA Grant To Expand Outreach To Underserved Farmers In PA, MD, VA

Susquehanna River Basin Commission: New Fee Incentives For Use Of Abandoned Mine Impacted Water

Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: An Intern's Update - November 2021 Water Quality Summary

Foundation For Pennsylvania Watersheds Sets Spring, Fall Grant Application Deadlines

Fish & Boat Commission Accepting Applications For Watershed Improvement Grants In Lancaster, York Counties

Game Commission: Howard Nursery Seedling Orders Being Accepted; Seedlings For Schools Program Opens Jan. 31

DCNR Accepting Nominations For 2022 Watershed Forestry Leadership Award

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

DEP Accepting Applications For Host Municipality Inspectors Reimbursements

EQB Invites Comments On 2 Proposed Regulations: NPDES Water Quality Compliance Schedule; Municipal Waste Rural Transfer Facility Permit-By-Rule

DCNR Blog: 2021 Year In Review From DCNR

Jan. 14 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available From PA Parks & Forests Foundation

Natural Lands Preserves Land Along White Clay Creek In Chester County

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

New Fossil Species Named For Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Paleontologist David S. Berman

Help Wanted: Washington County Conservation District - 2 Positions

Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

DCNR State Parks Offers Environmental Education Activities & Updates For January

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

Wildlife Leadership Academy Seeking Teachers, Adults To Serve As Mentors For Summer Field Schools

Berks Nature Seeking Volunteers To Be Berks Nature Ambassadors

Penn State Extension Webinar: Jan. 26 Water Cooler Talk: Microplastics And Environmental Health

U.S.G.S. PA Water Science Center Winter Pennsylvania Waters Newsletter Now Available

News From PA House & Senate

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

The Feds

NRCS-PA Offers Expanded Conservation Program Opportunities To Support Climate-Smart Agriculture In 2022

USDA NRCS Now Accepting Proposals For $225 Million In Regional Conservation Partnership Grants

EPA: West Penn Power To Pay $610,000 Penalty In Federal-State Settlement Over Coal Ash Landfills Discharge Violations In Allegheny, Washington Counties

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