63 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 63 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!

-- AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To 15 Criminal Charges Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County  [PaEN]

 

-- DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov.  [PaEN]

-- Bloomberg: Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Area Leak In Cambria County Probed By Federal PHMSA Investigators 

 

-- DEP: Schedule For Updating Conventional Oil & Gas Environmental, Waste Regulations Will Be Up To Gov. Shapiro  [PaEN]

 

-- Bob Donnan Blog: Tale Of Two Townships In Washington County: Union & Peters Townships  - A Decade Of Fracking Issues

-- EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Republicans Vote Against  [PaEN]

 

-- DEP Announces VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities Are Final And Effective Dec. 2, 2022

 

-- PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund: PA Acts To Avert A Manufactured Crisis To Protect Its Economy, Environment And $750 Million In Federal Funds By Adopting Methane Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Operations

 

-- U.S. Dept. Of The Interior Proposes Regulation Limiting Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operators On Federal And Tribal Lands [Including The Allegheny National Forest]

 

-- DEP Preparing To Plug The Next 198 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells With Federal Funding  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: New Web Tool By Drexel Lab Helps You Access Refinery Air Pollution Data [Including 4 In PA - Bradford, Warren, Philadelphia Area] 

 

-- LancasterOnline: New DEP Standards To Reduce Pollution Coming From Lancaster County Trash Incinerator

 

-- Beaver Times: Group Against Smog & Pollution Threatens To Sue Beaver County Landfill Operators Over Air Permit Delays

 

-- DEP Now Accepting Grant Applications For $12.7 Million Initiative To Electrify Truck Fleets For Cleaner Air; Awards $1.7 Million For 3 Vehicle Projects

 

-- Group Against Smog And Pollution: Neville Scrap Recycler Awarded $499,000 Grant To Replace Diesel Material Handler With All-Electric In Pittsburgh

 

-- Inquirer: Climate Protesters Target Pennsylvania Society Political Dinner In NYC

 

-- TribLive: New Sustainable Senior Housing Development Opens In Penn Hills

 

-- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Dec. 7 Webinar On Where Solar Energy And Farming Meet  [PaEN]

 

-- Dec. 5 Penn State EarthTalk Webinar On Empowering Native Communities With Renewable Energy.  4:00 p.m. 

 

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Why Etna Went Green: ‘The Community Needed To Fight Back,’ Borough Manager Says

 

-- DEP Blog: ‘Tis The Season For Sustainability

 

-- PA Resources Council Announces Winners Of 2022 Gene Capaldi Lens On Litter Photo Contest  [PaEN]

 

-- Keep PA Beautiful Litter Hawk Youth Award Program Now Open! Fun, Prizes & Litter Awareness For Grades K To 6  [PaEN]

 

-- Exelon Awards 27 STEM Education Grants, Including 9 In Pennsylvania

 

-- DEP Withdraws Final Manganese Water Quality Standard Regulation Ending Rulemaking; Existing Standard Remains In Place  [PaEN]

 

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Highlights Restored One Room Foltz School House At The Jennings Environmental Education Center; Northwest GIS Conference  [PaEN]

 

-- National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Announced $33.8 Million In Chesapeake Bay Nutrient, Small Watershed Grants; 31 Projects Will Benefit PA  [PaEN]

 

-- GAPS Program Now Accepting Applications For Assistance To Develop Stream Remediation Projects In Allegheny, Monongahela River Watersheds  [PaEN]

 

-- Headwaters RC&D Council Accepting Applications For Sinnemahoning Watershed Grant Program In McKean County  [PaEN]

 

-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill Headwaters Association ‘Legends’ Celebrate 25 Years Of Service

 

-- Pike County Conservation District: Microplastics Testing Report, What We Found 

 

-- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Chesapeake Bay Loses A Champion, Nick DiPasquale

 

-- PA Forestry Association Honors Allyson Muth, Michael Powell, Linda Finley In Penn State's Dept. Of Ecosystem Science & Management  [PaEN]

 

-- Navy Veteran, Penn State Forest Ecosystem Major John Buckley Named 2023 National Veterans Leadership Foundation Fellow

 

-- DCNR Celebrates Induction Of Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center In Berks County Into Old-Growth Forest Network  [PaEN]

 

-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Highlights Recent Jim Finley Stewardship Day; Thompsons’ Wood Stream Survey; A Hooded Warbler’s Story  [PaEN]

 

-- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: PA Timber Museum Chronicles The Decline, Return Of Pennsylvania Forests

 

-- Altoona Mirror: Altoona Water Authority Signs Carbon Credits Agreement With Bryn Mawr College On Watershed Land 

 

-- Pike Conservation District, Keystone 10 Million Trees Partner To Offer County Residents Free Trees  [PaEN]

 

-- Carbon County Chamber Nature & Commerce Committee, Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau Release 2 New Conservation Focused Videos  [PaEN]

 

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: ‘Generational Changing’ Investments Poised To Remake Western PA’s Trails System 

 

-- Presentation Proposals Wanted For 2023 Watershed Forestry Summit June 13-15  [PaEN]

 

-- WeConservePA: Donation Of Historic Oakford Park Land In Westmoreland County Protects Acres For A New Community Greenspace  [PaEN]

 

-- Manada Conservancy Acquires 40 Acre Preserve In Dauphin County  [PaEN]

 

-- WeConservePA Blog: Lancaster Conservancy Adds 85 Acres To Two Current Preserves

 

-- Vote Now! For Pennsylvania’s 2023 River Of The Year  [PaEN]

 

-- LancasterOnline: Conestoga River Among 4 In Running For PA River Of The Year

 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times Editorial: Support North Branch Susquehanna River For PA River Of The Year

 

-- Pittsburgh-Based Landforce Workforce Development Crews Surpass 57,000 Hours Of Environmental Stewardship Work; Have A Project?  [PaEN]

 

-- DCNR: Laurel Run Dam Removal Underway In Plains Twp., Luzerne County

 

-- DCNR Discusses Nearly $14 Billion Economic Value Of PA’s Outdoor Recreation Industry

 

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: River Trails Prove To Be A Boon To Business In Marietta, Columbia In Lancaster County

 

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Brilliant Branch Trail Project Potentially Transformative

 

-- Appalachian Trail Museum Accepting Nominations For Appalachian Trail Hall Of Fame Thru Jan. 31  [PaEN]

 

-- PA Recreation & Park Society Now Accepting Nominations For 2023 Awards  [PaEN]

 

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Raystown Lake Receives National Acclaim For Protecting Fish 

 

-- EPA Grants Petition By Environmental Coalition To Set New Water Quality Standards For Delaware River Estuary  [PaEN]

 

-- WHYY: EPA Pushes For More Pollution Controls In Delaware River To Protect Endangered Atlantic Sturgeon

 

-- PA Natural Heritage Program News Spotlights Climate Change Vulnerability In Plants; Allegheny National Forest Ecological Surveys; Zombie Moths; Much More!  [PaEN]

 

-- AP: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Declared Northern Long-Eared Bat Endangered Due To Impact Of White-Nose Syndrome Fungal Disease

-- TribLive: Bird-Safe Glass Taking Off: Vitro Of Harmar Produced National Aviary Windows For $3 Million Project 

 

-- Republican Herald - Tyler Frantz: Game Commission Management Plan Has Bobcats Thriving In PA

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[Posted: December 4, 2022]   PA Environment Digest