51 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 51 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!

-- PennLive: PennLive Outdoors Reporter Marcus Schneck Honored With Posthumous Award From PA Parks & Forest Foundation 

-- Winners Of 14th Annual PA Parks & Forests Foundation Awards

-- Fish & Boat Commission Announces Awards For Outstanding Achievements In Law Enforcement By Waterways Conservation Officers

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Green Building Alliances Releases New 2030 District Report Shows Pittsburgh Nearing Voluntary Sustainability Goals

-- Olympus Energy Shale Gas Driller Expresses Fear Municipalities Will Use Their DEP Compliance Record With Hundreds Of Violations To Help Make Local Land Use Decisions On Oil & Gas Infrastructure Projects  [PaEN]

-- Struggle To Plug Tatonka Oil Co. LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Groups Launched Effort May 4 Asking For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities, So Far No Response  [PaEN] 

-- Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Asks DCNR To Protect State Forest Land From Seneca Shale Gas Drilling Well Pad, Comply With PA Supreme Court Decision, Protect Recreation, Wildlife  [PaEN] 

-- House Environmental Committee Meets May 23 To Consider Bills To Help Prevent The Routine Abandonment Of 561 Conventional Oil/Gas Wells A Year; Authorize Streambank Fencing  [PaEN]

-- Citizens Voice Editorial: PA Supreme Court Reaffirms Environmental Quality Is A Right Not A Luxury In Shale Gas Drilling Ruling  [PaEN]

-- Heinz Endowments Awards Nearly $11.1 Million In Grants For Environmental Health, Food Insecurity, Education, Housing  [PaEN]

-- EPCAMR: PA Solar On Mined Lands Statewide Summit July 19 In State College  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Large Solar Energy Facility In The Works For Western PA’s Largest Waste Coal Pile In Washington County  

-- Republican Herald: Dozens At Meeting, Hearing On Applications For Mining, Reclamation Work In Western Schuylkill County

-- Altoona Mirror: Coal Surface Mining Project Concerns Hollidaysburg Residents Near Muleshoe Reservoir

-- NRDC: PJM Interconnection Delays In Queue To Approve Renewable Energy Projects Threatens State Transition To Clean Energy; PJM Has Approved 35,000 MW Of Renewables Not Yet Connected  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: North American Electric Reliability Corp Issued Highest Alert Ever Urging Electric Generators, Transmission Owners To Take Measures To Prepare For Winter After Generator Nonperformance In 2018, 2021, 2022

-- PUC Adopts Changes To LIURP Regs For Comment On Electric, Natural Gas Utility Programs To Provide Weatherization, Energy Use Reduction Services To Low-Income Customers [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Outdoor Enthusiast Builds Cabin With Plans To Live ‘Off The Grid’ In Harmony Twp.

-- Duquesne Light Releases Inaugural Environmental, Social & Governance Report - Advancing A Clean Energy Future For All

-- TribLive: We Must Be A Climate Leader - By Patricia Oliver, North Huntingdon

-- Erie Times Guest Essay: U.S. Needs Green Locomotives, Erie Needs Jobs - Create Both At Wabtec

-- ReImagine Appalachia Hosts Virtual Community Benefits Summit May 23 & 25 On Maximizing Federal Investments In Appalachia

-- EPA Announces Proposed Rule Requiring Cleanup Of Inactive Coal Waste Impoundments, Disposal Areas For Comment  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Center For Ag Conservation Assistance Training Hosts 3-Part Field, Virtual Learning Series On How To Implement Riparian Buffers On Ag Lands Starting June 23  

-- Western PA Conservancy, BHE GT&S Award 15 Watershed Improvement Grants Totaling $39,484  [PaEN]

-- Elk County Conservation District, 9 Other Districts Partner To Host Regional Forest Landowners Workshop June 17 In Ridgway  [PaEN]

-- Stroud: Property Owners, Farmers Bringing Eastern Brook Trout Back To Red Clay Creek  [PaEN]

-- Gettysburg Connection: Project In Gettysburg Borough Saves Money, Supports Rainwater Conservation 

-- WNEP: Natural Lands, Lackawanna Conservation District Coordinate Planting Of 3,000 Trees  At Glenburn Pond

-- Erie Times: Trout In The Classroom Project Reels Kids In For STEM Learning In Erie Area Schools 

-- NextPittsburgh: YMCA’s Camp Kon-O-Kwee Spencer Immerses Western PA Students In Environmental Education

-- Beaver Times Guest Essay: High School Students Invited To Enroll In Summer Sustainability Institute

-- Stroud: High School Student’s Research Shows Salt Pollution of Fresh Water Has Tripled in 20 Years  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Franklin Regional School District, Westmoreland Conservation District Seek Grant For Haymaker Run Environmental Center Near School 

-- Republican Herald - Tyler Frantz: Mother ‘Nurture’s’ Ways: Memories With Mom In The Great Outdoors Are Oh So Sweet 

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Meet The Environmentalist Advocating For Clean Water From His Home - A Sailboat On The Delaware River

-- Williamsport Sun: Third-Annual Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week Was A Success

-- PA Recycling Markets Center May 31 Webinar Environmental Justice Issues For Recycling Facilities, 1:30 to 2:45 p.m.

-- EPA Announces Completion Of Groundwater Treatment Plant At Chem Fab Superfund Site In Bucks County  [PaEN]

-- Land Conservancy Of Adams County Partners With Smith Family To Preserve Nearly 10 Acres Of Meadow, Woodlands, Historic Home  [PaEN] 

-- WeConservePA: Clifford Twp, Susquehanna County Protects 11 Acres, 1,000 Feet Of Tunkhannock Creek With Park Purchase 

-- DCNR Celebrates Induction Of The Snyder-Middleswarth Natural Area, Snyder County Into The Old-Growth Forest Network  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Notice Of Proposed Mitigation Land Bank With PennDOT Related To Maurice K. Goddard State Park, Mercer County

-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: 2 Million Acres, 8 Forests, It’s All In The Pennsylvania Wilds 

-- NRCS-PA Accepting Applications For Funding For Regional Conservation Partnership Program Entity-Held Easements In The Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Landscape  [PaEN]

-- PA Historical & Museum Commission Receives Grant To Design Research Center At Eckley Miners’ Village

-- Shapiro Administration Announces Support For First National Marine Sanctuary In PA - Lake Erie Shoreline In Erie County; Encourages Others To Support  [PaEN] 

-- AP: Lake Erie Shoreline In PA On Its Way To Becoming National Marine Sanctuary

-- Governor’s Invasive Species Council Celebrates Pennsylvania Native Species Day At North Creek Nurseries, Chester County  [PaEN]

-- Bucks County Herald: Heritage Conservancy To Host BioBlitz Celebration May 18-19 At Croydon Woods Nature Preserve In Bucks County

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[Posted: May 20, 2023]   PA Environment Digest