59 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 59 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!

-- Lancaster Farming: Karl Brown, Executive Secretary Of State Conservation Commission Retires After Decades Of Program Growth 

-- In Memoriam: Marcus Schneck, PA’s Preeminent Outdoors Journalist, Dies At 66  

 

-- Appalachian Voices: Final FY2023 Federal Budget Includes STREAM Act, Abandoned Mine Land Economic Program Increase, Not Black Lung Benefits  [PaEN]

 

-- PA Trout: Federal STREAM Mine Reclamation Act Advocacy At National Wild Trout Symposium Highlights Trip West  [PaEN]

 

-- The Allegheny Front: Abandoned Mine Pollution Long-Term Cleanup Will Get Money From Federal Spending Bill

 

-- Scranton Times: STREAM Act Legislation Passes Congress

 

-- National Assn. Of Conservation Districts Applauds Strong Conservation Investments In Final Federal Spending Bill  [PaEN]

 

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Federal FY2023 Budget Increases Funding For Chesapeake Bay Program, Watershed Investments For Landscape Defense, NRCS Technical Assistance

 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Cong. Cartwright: Omnibus Federal Budget Package Includes $53 Million For NE PA, Including Wyoming Valley Stormwater Funding

 

-- PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network Praises Inclusion Of Growing Climate Solutions Act In Year-End Congressional Funding Package

 

-- CBF: Federal Court Vacates FERC Conowingo Power Dam License, Offering New Chance For Chesapeake Bay Protections  [PaEN]

 

-- Bay Journal: Federal Appeals Court Vacates Conowingo Dam License, Federal Regulators Ordered To Weigh Tougher Requirements To Reduce Pollution Going To Chesapeake Bay

 

-- LancasterOnline: Federal Court Pulls Conowingo Dam 50-Year License

 

-- Master Watershed Stewards Complete Live Stake Nurseries Across Pennsylvania  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Watershed Education Mobile Lab Advances Environmental Literacy - 3,000 Miles, 1,300 Participants  [PaEN]

 

-- York Master Watershed Stewards Participate In Vernal Pool Monitoring At Gifford Pinchot State Park [PaEN]

-- York County Watershed Organizations Remove 50,000 Pounds Of Trash From Waterways In 50K Trash Challenge In 2022  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Watershed Education Mobile Lab Advances Environmental Literacy - 3,000 Miles, 1,300 Participants  [PaEN]

-- Baltimore Sun Guest Essay: A Moral Obligation To Clean Up The Chesapeake Bay - Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake

 

-- Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Navy Veterans Patrick & Helen Robinson Relate Their 7-Year Struggle Dealing With Impacts Of Mariner East Pipeline Construction In Indiana County, And They Continue  [PaEN]

 

-- Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Cambria County Family Sues Sunoco After 3 Years Of Dealing With Damage To Home, Well, Septic System, Property From Mariner East Pipeline Construction  [PaEN] 

 

-- Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Families Affected By Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ In Greene County Have A Little Happier Holiday Thanks To Water Donated By Center For Coalfield Justice  [PaEN]

 

-- Inside Climate News - John Hurdle: Dimock Residents Fear New Methane Contamination As PA Lifts Shale Gas Drilling Ban In Susquehanna County

 

-- Bob Donnan Blog: Is The Public Being ‘Dimocked’ Again On Shale Gas?

-- Concerned Health Professionals Of PA Ask Health Professionals To Sign Letter Urging Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Protect Public Health, Environment From Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industry  [PaEN]

 

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: It’s Time Pennsylvania Residents, Regulators Demand Health Risks From Shale Gas Fracking Be Addressed - By Clean Air Council

-- TribLive Guest Essay: I’ve Seen Firsthand How Harmful Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry Can Affect Our Health - Physicians For Social Responsibility Pennsylvania

 

-- League Of Women Voters, Partners Host Jan. 12 Webinar On LNG Natural Gas Export Terminal Safety  [PaEN]

 

-- Republican Herald Editorial: Gas Industry Appeased Too Long [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Better Path Coalition Wants More Information On DEP’s Settlement On Illegal Dumping 1,831 Truck Loads Of  Oil & Gas Waste In Fayette County 

-- Carnegie Mellon, Other Partners In Project Breathe Wish Southwest PA Residents Happy Holidays By Showing Memorable Moments In 2022  [Video] 

 

-- Post-Gazette Essay: What Fossil Fuel Disaster Will Be The Last One We Tolerate? - By Adriana E. Ramirez  [Equitrans Gas Leak, Keystone Oil Pipeline Spill]

-- The Allegheny Front: ‘We Do Have Questions To Answer’ About Single-Use Plastic Waste, Shell Internal Emails Reveal

 

-- Centre Daily Times: Centre County To Expand Curbside Recycling Program In 2023

-- U.S. Attorney: Families Might Be Eligible For Crime Victims’ Compensation For Hardships Caused By The Indictment Of Former Erie Coke (Coal) Plant For Environmental Crimes  [PaEN]

 

-- Erie Times Guest Essay: Harmed By Erie Coke (Coal) Plant?  You Might Be Eligible For Financial Compensation - Sister Pat Lupo

 

-- WESA: Pittsburgh’s Plan To Build Solar Energy Farm On Former Steel Mill Dumping Ground Awaits State Approval

 

-- PA Solar Center: Gov.-Elect Shapiro Appoints Leaders Of PA Solar Center, PA Solar & Storage Industries Assn. To Transition Team

 

-- Reading Eagle: Reading-based Penske Truck Rentals Adds Electric Trucks To Commercial Fleet

-- The Center Square: Philadelphia School District Adding 47 Electric, Propane School Buses

-- PA Environmental Council Podcast: PUC Studies How Utilities Will Meet New Electric Vehicle Demand

 

-- PUC Highlights 2022 Accomplishments

 

-- PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network Applauds EPA’s Heavy-Duty Vehicle Nitrogen Oxide Standard

 

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Climate Change Is Coming For The New Jersey Shore, Retiring Stockton University Coastal Expert Warns

 

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Lancaster Nonprofit Launches Local Carbon Credit Program To Help Businesses Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

 

-- DCNR To Celebrate The New Year With Nearly 60 First Day Hikes Across Pennsylvania Public Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: DCNR To Host ‘First Day’ Hikes At PA State Parks To Boost Health, Foster Connection To Public Lands

 

-- DCNR Blog: Working On The Pennsylvania State Parks Of Tomorrow

 

-- NextPittsburgh: Presque Isle State Park Attracts Nature Lovers To Erie

 

-- NextPittsburgh: Meet Joey-Linn Ulrich, Allegheny County Parks Foundation’s New Leader

 

-- TribLive: State Service Forester Leads Tree Value Workshop At Penguin Court Farm In Westmoreland 

 

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Lancaster Branches Out With First Urban Forester, Investing $500,000 For Trees

 

-- Cumberland Valley Trout Unlimited Rivers Youth Camp Now Accepting Applications [PaEN]

 

-- Inquirer: Honeybees Are At Risk, Along With The Crops They Pollinate; These PA Scientists Think The Solution Lies In The Insects’ Brains

 

-- Allegheny Land Trust Establishes Churchill Valley Greenway Conservation Internship, Applications Open In March  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Nature Calendar Honors Delmont, Westmoreland County Man’s Memory, Will Benefit Borough Library

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: 2 Young Hawk Mountain Researchers Published In The Journal Of Raptor Research

 

-- Reading Eagle: Following Tragic Fire, Red Creek Wildlife Rescue Plans To Bounce Back Stronger Than Ever

-- Altoona Mirror: On Target: Google Search Leads Hollywood To Blair County Bowmaker 

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[Posted: December 25, 2022]   PA Environment Digest