Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

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

-- Moms Clean Air Force Blog: Happy Mother’s Day To My Growing, Badass Climate Community - By Alexandra Zissu

-- Observer-Reporter: Canon-McMillian H.S. Team Wins Washington County Envirothon

-- Warren Times: Aletta Marie Summers Returns To PA Wildlife Leadership Academy As Wildlife Conservation Ambassador

-- Dallas Youth Commit To Conservation With North Branch Land Trust In Luzerne County - By Melissa Lopez, North Branch Land Trust, Land Protection and Stewardship Coordinator  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Westmoreland Students Craft Metal Selfie Frames At County Parks To Mark County’s 250th Anniversary 

-- Keep PA Beautiful: Young Ambassadors Of Pennsylvania Program Graduates Inaugural Class Of 2023; Sign Ups For New Class Start Aug. 1  [PaEN] 

-- University Of Pennsylvania, Drexel University Team 2nd Place Winner Of EPA Environmental Justice Video Challenge For Students To Help Solve Community Problems [PaEN]

-- PennLive: Peregrine Falcon Chicks Hatch In Nest On Rachel Carson Building In Harrisburg: ‘Remarkable Turn Of Events’ 

-- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center: Making Memories With Nature

-- ​​PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers, Partners Host May 17 Webinar - Putting Water Quality Data To Work Locally, A Conversation Cafe  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline: Janus School Students Release Rainbow Trout Into The Wild 

-- Republican Herald: Tamaqua Area Students Learn About The Outdoors At Locust Lake State Park 

-- Observer-Reporter: Gone Fishin’: Trinity Elementary Students Head To Mingo Creek County Park For Nature Lessons

-- Penn State Shale [Gas] Network Workshop Features Acting DEP Secretary Richard Negrin May 18-19 In State College  [PaEN] 

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 6 to 12; Equitrans Gas Storage Area Issued New NOVs  [PaEN] 

-- DEP: Seneca Resources Ignores NOVs On DCNR Shale Gas Well Pad Cleanup For 7 Months & Counting; Citizen Complaint Finds Homeowner Well Venting Gas; Multiple Tanker Truck Spills  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment May 13   [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 61 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 13 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Ohio Environmentalists, Oil Companies Battle State Over Dumping Of PA/OH Fracking Wastewater

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Natural Gas Transitional Fossil Fuel

-- PJM Interconnection: Summer Electricity Supplies Should Be Sufficient Under Anticipated Conditions; Higher Than Expected Generator Outages, Extreme Scenarios Could Bring Risk To Reserve Margins [PaEN] 

-- Utility Dive Guest Essay: How PJM Interconnection Grid Operator Got Its Electric Reliability Report Wrong - By Casey Roberts, Sierra Club

-- DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County   [PaEN]

-- The Guardian: Societal Cost Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ About $17.5 Trillion Across Global Economy, Report

-- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells

-- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp., Indiana County  [PaEN] 

-- Triumph Township, Warren County Advertising For 100,000 Gallons Of ‘Salt Brine’ To Dump On Township Roads  [PaEN]

-- Penn State To Host Inaugural Mining PA Conference Aug. 12-16 In State College  [PaEN]

-- PEMA, Insurance Dept. Urge Preparedness For Potential Spring And Summer Flooding

-- Williamsport Sun: Naturally Occurring Uranium vs. New National Drinking Water Study Offers Key Takeaways

-- LebTown.com: Quittapahilla Watershed Group Spotlights Quittie Creek Stream Restoration Project

-- Penn State Fly Fishing Club Spotlights Community, Conservation  [PaEN]

-- York County Master Watershed Stewards Accepting Entries To Street 2 Creek Storm Drain Art Contest  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Program: Independent Study Evaluates Why Progress In Achieving Bay Water Quality Goals Is Lagging 

-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Chesapeake Bay Lawsuit Settlement Focuses On Cleanup Efforts At Central PA Farms - By Julia Krall, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA 

-- Alliance For Chesapeake Bay Accepting Presentation Proposals For Chesapeake Watershed Forum, Due June 4 

-- WHYY: Philly’s Tap Water Has A Trust Problem, Did The Recent Contamination Scare Make It Worse?

-- York Daily Record: York Water From Stream To Your Tap: See How The System Works

-- TribLive: Blaze A Trail With Family-Focused Fun Near Clear Creek State Park

-- NextPittsburgh: Solarpunk Envisions A Sustainable Future With Art, Innovation And Jobs

-- Financial Times: Few U.S. Companies In Position To Fully Capitalize On New Solar Tax Credit Rules, Experts Warn

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Home Energy Use Can Be Expensive, Contribute To Climate Change; New Programs Aim To Cut Bills And Emissions 

-- Harrisburg University Research Cited By 2 Federal Agencies In New Regulations To Fight Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities  [PaEN] 

-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: PA’s Largest Coal-Fired Power Plant Is Closing, What Would It Take To Transition The Site To Renewables? 

-- New Jersey Monitor: Critics Of Gibbstown, NJ Plan For LNG Natural Gas Transport From Bradford County Warn Of Global Warming Impact

-- StateImpactPA: In PA, Climate Change Threatens The State Tree, Bird And Fish; Work Is Under Way To Help The Native Species

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy, Resources For The Future: The Prospects For Pennsylvania As A RGGI Member - Reducing Emissions, Generating Revenue, Minimal Impact On Electricity Rates

-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: New Study Bolsters Case For PA To Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

-- Marcellus Drilling News: UPenn Fake Report Endorses Marcellus-Killing RGGI Carbon Tax

-- Better Path Coalition: May 24 Webinar With Dan Zegart, Investigative Reporter Who Covered 2020 CO2 Pipeline Explosion In Mississippi. Noon to 1:00 p.m.

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Central PA Is Among The Nation’s Worst Air Pollution - By Evangelical Environmental Network  [RGGI]

-- The Economist: Expensive Electricity (68% Spike), Natural Gas (145% Spike) May Have Killed More Europeans Than COVID Last Winter

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: New Study Tracks PA’s Top 12 Polluting Power Plant, And Nearly Half Are In Pittsburgh Region

-- Tribune-Democrat: Report: Region’s Power Plants Among State’s Top Polluters 

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Philly-Area Power Plant On Group’s List Of ‘Dirty Dozen’ PA Greenhouse Gas Polluters

-- Scranton Times: Invenergy’s Natural Gas Power Plant Among State’s 12 Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluters, Study Shows

-- WESA: Nearly Half Of PA’s Top 12 Greenhouse Gas Emitting Power Plants Are In Pittsburgh Region

-- PA Capital-Star: Report: Pennsylvania Ranked Fourth Nationally In Greenhouse Gas Emissions In 2020

-- WHYY: Power Plants Among The Largest Industrial Climate Polluters In PA

-- MCall: Who Are Top Greenhouse Gas Polluters In Lehigh Valley?  New Report Provides Details

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: House Lawmakers Examine Cryptocurrency’s Use Of Waste Coal To Generate Power For Data Mining

-- Guest Essay: PA Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Blog: More Carbon Dioxide Is Good, Less Is Bad - By Gregory Wrightstone, CO2 Coalition  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Class Action Lawsuit Alleges 123,000 Mon Valley Residents Due Compensation For Nuisance Caused By 2018 U.S. Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Fire

-- Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations  [PaEN] 

-- AP: Environmental Groups Sue Shell Over Air Quality At Massive New PA Petrochemical Plant

-- Beaver County Times: Environmental Groups Sue Shell Petrochemical Plant For ‘Repeated Air Pollution Violations’

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Shell Petrochemical Plant’s Air Pollution Problems Have Some In Beaver County Questioning Its Ability To Be A Good Neighbor

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Shell Petrochemical Plant’s Air Pollution Problems Leave Some Beaver County Locals Concerned

-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Sued Over Air Emissions

-- Post Gazette: Shell Faces Lawsuits From Environmental Groups Over Pollution, Emissions At Its Beaver County Plant

-- Reuters: Shell’s Start Up At Beaver County Petrochemical Plant Slower Than Expected, To Take Rest Of 2023 

-- ABCNews: Microplastics In Lake Erie Highlight Growing Concern Over Potential Health Effects [Shale Gas Wells, Shell Petrochemical Plant]

-- Brodhead Watershed Assn.: May 20 Grass Lake & Glacial Till Barrens Evening Birding & Blooms, Monroe County

-- Delaware RiverKeeper May 12 RiverWatch Video Report

-- DCNR Blog: One Of The Best Things You Can Do To Help The Environment - Plant A Native Tree! 

-- PA Wilds Center Announces Winners Of 2023 PA Wilds Champion Awards; Recognition Dinner July 27  [PaEN] 

-- PA Wilds Center Seeks Full Environmental Impact Statement For Proposed Very Low-Level [100 Feet] Maryland Air National Guard Training Flights; Take Action Now  [PaEN] 

-- DCNR, Aging, Health Highlight Physical, Mental Benefits Of Connecting Older Adults To The Outdoors 

-- DCNR, DCED Visit Priority Bicycles Company In Lycoming County To Highlight PA’s Growing Outdoor Recreation Economy 

-- WGAL-TV: Major Transformation Underway At Michaux State Forest

-- Allegheny County Conservation District May 20 Free Soil Lead Screening, Education Event In Braddock, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Photo Contest - Confluence: Land, Water Wildlife

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Highlights Upcoming Summer Events

-- DCNR's New Woods And Meadows News Offers Tips, Examples On Lawn Conversions To Native Meadows, Woods  [PaEN]  

-- DCNR Let It Grow! Video Puts To Music The Benefits Of Native, Meadow Habitats by DCNR Environmental Educator Curtis Sherwood  [It’s great!]

--  York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Efforts Underway To Save Oak Trees From Spongy [Gypsy] Moths Across PA 

-- Penn State Extension: The Bite Stops Here: Fighting Lyme Disease With Prevention 

-- StateImpactPA: PA Leads The Nation In Lyme Disease, State Responding With New Tick Testing, Research, Education 

-- Pike County Tick Borne Diseases Task Force Children's Art Contest Winners Attend Commissioners Meeting To Accept Awards  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Enjoy Dogwoods In Bloom This Year

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: May 14, 2023]