72 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 72 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!

-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June  [PaEN]

-- Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land  [PaEN]

-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now - By Edward C. Ketyer, M.D., President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania  [PaEN]

-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community - By Rev. Wesley Silva, former Council President Marianna Borough, Washington County  [PaEN]

-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk - By Nicole Deziel PhD MHS, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health  [PaEN]

-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities - By Joan Casey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health  [PaEN]

-- YaleEnvironment360 - Jon Hurdle: As Evidence Mounts, New Concerns About Fracking And Health

-- Environmental Health Project 2022 Annual Report - 10th Anniversary, A Milestone Year 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Natural Gas Drilling Ban Supporters See Wider Effort In Allegheny County Towns 

-- PUC Alerts Consumers Utility Natural Gas Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 128%, Electric Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 34%; Both Driven By Cost Of Natural Gas On World Markets  [PaEN]

-- Canary Media: Charts: Winter Heating Bills To Rise Thanks To High Natural Gas Prices 

-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Needs To Address Its Continuing Oil & Gas Well Abandonment Problem, Here’s How - By Sierra Club

-- Penn State: Can Low-Grade Geothermal Energy Be Recovered From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells?

-- Public Source: Citizen Scientists Prepare To Monitor Shale Ethane Plant In Beaver County

-- Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Community Benefits Agreement Talks To Start In 2023 For Former Philly Refinery Redevelopment

-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA  [PaEN]

-- Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Health Project Calls Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Good First Step [PaEN]

-- U.S. Dept. Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times: Erie Coke (Coal), Ex-Plant Chief Indicted On Charges Of Violating Federal Clean Air Act

-- Pittsburgh's Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts Dec. 14 Webinar: Making The Connection - What The Donora Smog Disaster Can Teach Us 74 Years Later  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal: After 35 Years, Chesapeake Bay Commission Director Ann Swanson Hands Off The Baton

-- Celebrating The Seneca Nation’s Efforts To Strengthen The Next Generation Of Freshwater Stewards - By Tara Muenz, Stroud Water Research Center   [PaEN]

-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Now Accepting Applications, Holding Info Sessions

-- Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 29 Webinar On The Roadside Guide To Clean Water - Recognizing Efforts To Keep Your Community’s Water Clean  [PaEN]

-- Native Meadow Will Benefit Environment In New Caln Township Meadow Park In Chester County  [PaEN]

-- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Meets Dec. 9  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension Report On Private Water Supply Education & Water Testing In 2022  [PaEN]

-- PA American Water Charitable Foundation Awards 2022 Workforce Readiness Grants

-- TribLive: Major Cleanup Effort Transformed Kiski River From Eyesore Into Destination Spot

-- 10th Annual Delaware River Watershed Forum Unites Conservation Organizations, Advocates In Philadelphia   [PaEN]

-- EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide  [PaEN]

-- PA Resources Council Collects 383,175 Pounds Of Household Chemicals In 20th Season  [PaEN]

-- Keep PA Beautiful Marks America Recycles Day Nov. 15 With Cigarette Litter Recycling, Composting Program  [PaEN]

-- Master Watershed Stewards Help Purge Plastics On The Lower Susquehanna River  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: ‘Warren Hooligans’ Again Do Their Part In Roadside Cleanup Effort

 

-- ABC6: Meet The ‘Litter Lifters,’ A Team Keeping Streets Clean In Chester County 

-- StateImpactPA/Inside Climate News: Microplastics Pervade Even Top-Quality Streams In PA, Study Finds

 

-- PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Discusses Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage Efforts, Announces $6 Million Investment In New Carbon Capture Research Facility  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: Core Samples Get A New Home To Help DCNR Understand How PA’s Geology Could Support Carbon Capture, Sequestration Efforts

-- Penn State Hosting Dec. 10 Educators Workshop On Pennsylvania KidWind Challenge In State College  [PaEN]

--ChargEVC-PA: Public Utility Commission To Explore Rate Design Solutions For Electric Vehicles

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Hydrogen-Powered Locomotives?  Wabtec’s Latest Partnership Could Make It Happen

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Here’s What Pennsylvania Can Learn From A World Climate Meeting

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: From The U.N. Climate Conference, Advice For Philly As It Adapts To Global Warming

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: How Philly Can Stay Ahead Of The Curve In Addressing Climate Change

-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Climate Science Education Standards Must Be Developed By Unbiased Education Professionals - By Dr. Gregory Foy, York College Professor

 

-- Post-Gazette: Innovative Seneca Valley School’s Design Hailed As Invention In And Of Itself In Butler County 

 

-- LancasterOnline: Farmland Trust Leader Martynick To Receive Delp Award From Lancaster Chamber

-- Penn State Latinx Agricultural Network Earns National Award For Uplifting Latino Community

 

-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Christmas Tree Begins Journey To White House 

-- Republican Herald: Penn State Schuylkill Students Conduct Tree Inventory On Campus

 

-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Receives Northeast Environmental Partners Award

-- DCNR Announces A Total Of $5 Million In Funding To Help Close Gaps In D&L Trail 

-- MCall: New State Funding Will Help Close Lehigh Valley Gap In D&L Trail

-- MCall: PA Officials Launch Survey To Determine Costs Of Invasive Species

-- Penn State: Berks Center Examines How Telephone Poles Can Help Stop The Spotted Lanternfly

-- PA Environmental Council: Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Annual Gathering - Celebrating Transitions

-- DCNR Seeking Public Comments On ATV Regional Trail Connector Pilot Study  Deadline Nov. 18  [Background]

-- Citizens Voice: Earth Conservancy Unveils Plans For Off-Road Park In Luzerne County

 

-- Warren Times: North Country Trail Chapter Has Ambitious 2023 Planned In Allegheny National Forest

-- WESA: McKeesport Will Move Section Of Great Allegheny Passage Trail To Riverfront, Expanding Scenic Views 

-- Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia: Recap Of 2022 Circuit Trails Semi-Annual Meeting

-- DCNR: Fish Passage Construction To Begin At Shikellamy State Park Dam On Susquehanna River In Shamokin Dam

-- Williamsport Sun: Ashley Wilmont Competed With U.S. Women’s Fly Fishing Team

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Registration Open For Youth Rivers Conservation, Fly Fishing Camp By Cumberland Valley Chapter TU

 

-- Delaware Watershed Activists, Businesses, Residents Commemorate Loss Of 250,000 Atlantic Sturgeon In Procession Around Philadelphia City Hall  [Video Available]

-- WHYY: Environmentalists Protest Projects That Impact Endangered Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon

-- Patch.com: Protecting The Environment: Radnor Recognized As An Audubon Bird Town

 

-- Warren Times: 2022 Audubon Nature Center Photo Contest Winners Announced

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[Posted: November 20, 2022]   PA Environment Digest