79 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 79 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!

-- Bipartisan Group Of Lawmakers, Hunters, Anglers, Farm, Environmental, Recreation Groups All Working Together, Down To The Wire, To Bring Home A Win On Growing Greener III Funding [PaEN]

 

-- Governor's Adult, Youth Advisory Councils For Hunting, Fishing & Conservation Urge Lawmakers To Support Growing Greener III Environmental Funding  [PaEN]

-- Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia: Call To Action - Advocate For Growing Greener III Funding 

 

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: How To Fund Public Parks And Wild Places In PA [Growing Greener III Funding]

-- LancasterOnline Guest Essay: It’s Time For Historic Investments In PA Parks, Trails, Forests, Clean Water - By Steve Stroman

 

-- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: Families Priced Out Of Making Vacation Memories [But PA State Parks Are There, Free, Close To Home For Recreation]

 

-- Centre Daily Time - Mark Nale: Afield: Keeping Pennsylvania’s State Parks Free Benefits Residents, Visitors

 

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: How Pine Creek Survived Its Extraction Past To Become A Top Outdoors Draw

 

-- Lancaster County Approves $3.4 Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To Support Lancaster Clean Water Partners Projects  [PaEN]

 

-- 2-Year Effort To Restore Plunketts Creek In Lycoming County Recognized With Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence  [PaEN]

 

-- Doc Fritchey Chapter TU Setting The Pace In Restoring PA Coldwater Resources In Central PA  [PaEN]

 

-- PA American Water Announces Winners Of Protect Our Watersheds Student Art Contest  [PaEN]

 

-- Delaware Currents: Lackawaxen River Basin Earns Top Scores For Water Quality

 

-- Scranton Times: Appreciate The Aquatic Critters In Upper Little Swatara Creek With ‘Porcupine Pat’

 

-- TribLive: Murrysville Library Otter Program July 9 For Families, Children

 

-- Williamsport Sun: Montgomery’s River Fest Draws Artists, Vendors, Community

-- Wildlands Conservancy Highlights Upcoming Summer Camp, Educational Programs In Lehigh Valley

 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times Editorial: Diamonds To The Return Of Riverfest

 

-- New USGS PA Groundwater Quality Monitoring Data Tool Displays Monitoring Results On Interactive Map  [PaEN]

 

-- WHYY: Sculptural Fountain At Philly’s Cherry Street Pier Is A 16 Inch Glass Bed Of Living Freshwater Mussels That Cleans Delaware River Water 

-- Courier Times: Could Bucks, Montgomery Communities Be Model Towns For Others After New EPA PFAS Guidelines?

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: 60 Years Ago, Pittsburgh’s Rachel Carson Was More Right Than She Knew - By Jack Doyle, Historian [PFAS ‘Forever’ Chemicals]

 

-- Penn State Extension Host July 27 Water Cooler Talk On Pesticides And Water Pollution  [PaEN]

 

-- Sign On To The REAL Energy Freedom For Pennsylvania Petition To PA Lawmakers   [PaEN]

 

-- New Muhlenberg Poll Finds 77% Of Pennsylvanians Believe Climate Change Is A Serious Problem; 55% Believe Human Actions Are To Blame [PaEN]

 

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Poll: 75% Of Pennsylvanians Accept Evidence Of Climate Change

 

-- Sustainable Pittsburgh Blog: Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Unlocks Decarbonization Playbook -  By Tyler Sing

 

-- WHYY: Northeast Philly Airport Could Go Solar

-- SWPA EE Roundtable, PA Solar Center Host July 28 Workshop In Pittsburgh On How Businesses Use Solar Energy To Make Them Less Vulnerable To Energy Cost Spikes  [PaEN]

-- DEP Opportunity To Bid On Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project To Be Developed Into A Solar Energy Farm In Luzerne, Schuylkill Counties  (PA Bulletin, page 3632)

 

-- AP: PA, East Coast Governors Team Up With Biden For Offshore Wind Power

 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Montauk Renewables Joining Russell 3000

 

-- PUC Chair Gladys Brown Dutrieuille Elected President Of Mid-Atlantic Conference Of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners  [PaEN]

 

-- PUC Stresses Ways To Stay Cool, Ways To Save Energy During Summer Heat

 

-- DEP Energy Conservation & Energy Efficiency Programs Can Help Your Business Respond To Rising Energy Costs As Energy Markets Spike  [PaEN]

-- Get Help Reducing Your Rising Energy Costs In A Spiking Energy Market From PennTAP, Free Energy Assessments, More  [PaEN]

-- PA Small Business Development Centers EMAP Program Provides Free Energy Efficiency Assessment To Help Businesses Reduce Energy Costs As Energy Markets Spike  [PaEN]

-- PennTAP Hosts July 21 Webinar On Financing Energy Improvements To Increase Efficiency, Save Money As Energy Markets Spike  [PaEN]

 

-- Ohio River Valley Institute, A-Z Impacts Of Plastic July 7 Webinar Understanding the Impacts of the Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Hub Proposed for the Ohio River Valley. 7:00 p.m.

-- Appalachian Voices: Biden Administration Announces Programs Included In The Justice40 Initiative From 4 Agencies To Help Disadvantaged Communities  [PaEN]

-- EQT Natural Gas Releases 2021 Environmental, Social And Governance Report

 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Shows Progress Toward Net-Zero Goals

 

-- PJM Capacity Auction Secures Electricity Supplies; Solar Increased 25%; More Carbon-Free Resources At Competitive Prices  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: PJM Capacity Auction Prices Fall 32% With More Nuclear, Solar Capacity Clearing

 

-- Bloomberg: Payouts Fall On PJM Power Grid In Win For Nukes, Solar, Blow To Coal

 

-- Post-Gazette: PennDOT Survey Seeks Input On Location Of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

-- PA Capital-Star: House Democrats Pitch Bills To Take On Price-Fixing, Price-Gouging At Gasoline Pump

-- PA Resources Council: Glass Recycling Program Collects 420 Tons So Far This Year, Shattering Record [PaEN]

 

-- Centre Daily Times: Recycling: Spring Collection Events Produce Big Numbers In Removing Unwanted Waste

-- Warren Times: Warren County Hosting Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event July 14

-- WHYY: Easttown Twp. Bans Plastic Bags, As Advocates Push To Eliminate Styrofoam Across The Philly ‘Burbs

 

-- Summer Opens New Opportunities To Participate In PRC’s Lens On Litter Photo Contest, Win Up To $500!  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Council Approves Partnership To Hire Formerly Incarcerated People, Refurbish Old Electronic Devices

 

-- PA Resources Council Summer - Building A Pennsylvania Where Nothing Is Wasted

 

-- The Valley Advantage: 5 Questions With KPB Litter Hawk Youth Winner Amber Drozdis

 

-- PA Environmental Council Podcast: Trawling For Nurdles

 

-- WHYY: Philly’s New Anti-Violence Plan Funds Policing, Youth Safe Havens And Environmental Improvements

 

-- Natural Lands Saving Land In Landenberg, Chester County To Protect Drinking Water  [PaEN]

 

-- Appalachian Regional Mine Land Reforestation Conference Aug. 17-18 In West Virginia  [PaEN]

 

-- University Of Pittsburgh - Pitt Sustainability - Pollinator Week 2022 Events

-- Erie Times: ‘Meadow Areas Provide Critical Habitat’: That’s Why Brown’s Farm Meadow Is Being Restored At Asbury Woods Environmental Center

 

-- PennLive: Giant Foods Replaces Tens Of Thousands Of Solen Honeybee From Solar Energy Farm

 

-- Post-Gazette - Good Things: Nominate Remarkable Trees In Pittsburgh; International Canoeing Championships

-- Courier Times: Bristol’s 338-Year-Old Tree Dying On Radcliffe Street?  Not On Lou’s Watch 

-- DCNR Celebrates 2022 Ranger Trainee Graduates At Gifford Pinchot State Park - Thought About Being A Ranger?  [PaEN]

 

-- Williamsport Sun: PA Wilds Center Announces 2022 Champions Of The PA Wilds Award Winners

-- Centre Daily Times: People Flocking To Bellefonte From Thousands Of Miles Away For New Remote Worker Program

-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Cook Forest State Park Named One Of The Best Places To Camp In U.S.

-- Erie Times: Presque Isle Bounces Back After 2019-20 Flooding Fueled By High Lake Levels

-- WHYY: 6 Don’t Miss Stops Along The Delaware River Trails, One Of Philly’s Best New Outdoor Spaces

-- Feature - 27th Annual Delaware River Sojourn Highlighted Unique Geology Of Delaware River Basin - By Chris Mele for Brodhead Watershed Association, Monroe County  [PaEN]

-- PA Recreation & Park Society Releases 2021 Annual Accomplishments Report

 

-- Penn State Study Finds Tourism Activity Collapse During COVID Benefited Rural Hospitality Employment  [PaEN]

-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Almost $90 Million Worth Of Lake Improvements Planned Across PA By Fish & Boat Commission

 

-- Reading Eagle: It’s 15th Anniversary Of First Nesting Of Peregrine Falcons In Downtown Reading

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: New Museum At Middle Creek Wildlife Area Allows Visitors Experience PA’s Conservation History

 

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Fathers Could Take Lesson From Roles In Nature

-- MCall Guest Essay: Morning Call Editor With ALS - I Have Journeyed To The Mountains To Die

-- Penn State Forest Ecologist Marc Abrams Retires After 35 Years

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Going The RIGHT WAY:

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Going The WRONG WAY:

-- This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues  [PaEN] 

[Posted: June 26, 2022]   PA Environment Digest