Sunday, December 4, 2022

Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults--

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

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

-- 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

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

-- 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 

-- Reuters: Natural Gas Flow Resumes From Equitrans PA Site After November Leak

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Malfunction At Shell’s Ethane Plant In Beaver County Turned Sky Orange By Burning Natural Gas Flaring System

-- Dramatic Video From Carnegie Mellon’s Project Breathe Shows Shell Ethane Plant In Beaver County Flaring Natural Gas Due To Malfunction  [PaEN]

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

-- Ohio River Valley Institute Blog: Fact-Checking PA Politicians On Blue Hydrogen Hype

-- Bay Journal: EPA Says PA’s Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan Falls Short, Again - By Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN]

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

-- Dec. 1 Penn State Webinar On Coordinating And Enhancing Access To Low-Income Energy Efficiency Programs.  10:30 a.m.  

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

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

-- Misericordia University To Host In-Person Ocean Sustainability Symposium Dec. 9 Focusing On Pennsylvania's Impacts On Marine Life  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Audubon Nature Center Hosts Little Explorers Look Under The Snow Dec. 10

-- Penn State’s Behrend Campus In Erie Hosts Dec. 13 Webinar On Invasive Freshwater Snails. 10:00 a.m.

-- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In November  [PaEN]

-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Surprise! Lake Erie Anglers Find Brown Trout - If They’re Lucky

-- Fish & Boat Commission: No Invasive Carp eDNA Detected In Follow-up Sampling In Erie’s Presque Isle Bay

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

-- DEP Blog: ‘Tis The Season For Sustainability

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

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

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

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

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

-- PA Sea Grant: Apply Now For John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Monthly Video Minute - October

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Informative Public Information Pamphlets

-- Brodhead Watershed Assn.: Clean Water Is Up To You: Real Or Artificial Christmas Tree?  [Spoiler - Real] 

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

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

-- Williamsport Sun - John Zaktansky, Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: Diet Study Among Ways To Understand Invasive Flathead Catfish’s Impact

-- 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]

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Developments On Tundra Might Make Snowy Owls Scarce In PA This Winter

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

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

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

-- Republican Herald: Female Peregrine Falcon Cared For At Red Creek Wildlife Center Dies

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Highlights Upcoming Bald Eagle Programs, Tours

-- Lehigh Valley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Highlights December Programs, Activities

-- Brodhead Watershed Assn.: Nature At Risk: Northern Flying Squirrel - Disappearing  Along With Old Growth Forest [Game Commission Fact Sheet]

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - No Animal Will Eat Seeds Of The Osage Orange

-- Penn State Extension: Master Gardener News - 2023 Master Gardener Calendar; Gifts For Birds; Winter Garden Activity Guide; Much More!


Visit the PA Parks & Forests Foundation’s Events webpage and DCNR’s Calendar of Events for activities happening near you.

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

[Posted: December 4, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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