67 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 67 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!

-- TribLive: Ken Kaminski Has Volunteered His Time For The Roaring Run Watershed Assn., Trail Work For Nearly 50 Years

-- Foundation For Pennsylvania Watersheds Seeks Next Executive Director - John Dawes Retiring  [PaEN]

-- The News-Item: Shamokin Creek Restoration Awarded 3 Grants, Seeking Federal Infrastructure Money?

-- Fish & Boat Commission Honors Volunteer Tom Hutcheson, Butler County For Outstanding Service To Anglers And Boaters 

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster Farmland Trust Reaches 35,000 Preserved Acres On 35th Anniversary

-- Citizens Advisory Council Presentations Highlight New Center Of Environmental Excellence At DEP To Improve Permitting Efficiency, Deliver Best In Class Service, Share Results;  Environmental Justice;  More  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Senate Republican Lawmakers Want To Replace ‘Protection’ With ‘Services’ In DEP’s Name

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: What’s In A Name?  When It Comes To PA Senate’s Vote Changing DEP’s Name, It Accomplishes Nothing - By Joseph Powers, Former DEP Acting Secretary, Executive Deputy

-- TribLive Editorial: ‘Protection’ Still Core Of DEP’s Job

-- DEP Posts Solicitation For Bids To Plug 23 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Injection Wells Owned By ARG Resources, Inc. And Pennzoil Company In Elk County  [PaEN] 

-- Casey, Fetterman Announce $5.5 Million In Federal Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Wells In The Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 10 to 16 -- Leaking Conventional Wells; 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Using Tape To Repair Containment Liner [PaEN]

-- DEP Finds PA General Energy Installed Its Shawnee Water Withdrawal On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek At Sizes Larger Than Authorized By Its SRBC, DEP Permits  [PaEN] 

-- Robinson Twp., Washington County Seeks Answers To Cleanup Of MarkWest Liberty Midstream 10,000 Gallon Spill Of Natural Gas Condensates After Company Sends Notice To Wrong Municipality  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On MarkWest Liberty Midstream Project To Expose 1 Mile+ Of 2 Natural Gas Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Coal Mining Damage In Washington County  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal: Satellites, Drones, Special Cameras Join The Fight Against Methane/VOC Pollution From Oil/Gas Wells, Petrochemical Plants, Landfills, Coal Mines In Pennsylvania - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN] 

-- Environmental Health News: Federal Investments Supporting Community-Led Air Monitoring Could Lower Southwest PA Cancer Rates

-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Indiana County Community Wins Reprieve From Oil/Gas Wastewater Injection Well 

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Ohio Northern University Research Reveals Streamflow Impacts From Shale Gas Fracking Water Withdrawals That Could Be Altering Ecosystems 

-- PUC Vice Chairman: During Winter Storm Elliot We Learned Natural Gas Can Be An Intermittent Generator Of Electricity Just Like Renewables  [PaEN] 

-- S&P Global: Federal Inquiry Finds Same 3 Causes Driving U.S. Electric Generation Outages In Extreme Cold - Reliability Of Natural Gas System Remains A Concern  [PaEN]   

-- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Pennsylvania’s Largest Coal Plant-- Homer City, And One Of Its Largest Polluters, To Shut Down

-- TribLive: DEP Acknowledges Flying Debris From Cheswick Coal-Fired Power Plant Smokestack Implosion Was Violation Of Blasting Regulations

-- Public Source: As Feds Move Toward Decision On Hydrogen Hubs, Players Jockey On Legislation Requiring ‘Green’ Hydrogen

-- Meadville Tribune: City Council Considers Solar Energy Array On DEP Regional Office Building

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Tracker Says Pittsburgh Companies Have More Work To Do To Reduce Emissions

-- PA Business Report: PECO Prepares Electric, Natural Gas Delivery Systems For Year-Round Weather Resiliency

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: How U.S. Steel Is Progressing Toward Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goals   [2022 ESG Report]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Carnegie Mellon ($3.1 million), Thar Energy ($2.2 million) Receive DOE Industrial Decarbonization Grants

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Rye Development Deal Unlocks $1 Billion In Hydropower Construction On Ohio, Monongahela Rivers 

-- TribLive: Western PA Officials Push For Transition To Electric Vehicles, Clean Energy

-- WESA: Pittsburgh Officials, Advocates Gather To Promote Clean Transportation, Electric Vehicles

-- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: Train Safety Bill Inspired By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Faces Tough Odds In PA Senate

-- Environmental Hearing Board Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To Practice And Procedures Regulations

-- TribLive: Pitt Committee Approves $120 Million In Construction For Biomanufacturing Facility In Hazelwood Land Redevelopment Site

-- AP: PA Using Tons Of Recycled Glass Nuggets To Rebuild Collapsed I-95 In Philadelphia

-- Inquirer: How Aero Aggregates Recycled Glass Will Be Used To Rebuild I-95

-- MCall Guest Essay: Will Bethlehem Finally Stand Up To The Landfill And Stop PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ From Entering The Lehigh River?

-- Scranton Times Editorial: DEP Suffers Sensory Deprivation On Keystone Landfill Stench, NE PA Wildfire Smoke Impacts

-- Environmental Health News: Dick’s Sporting Goods Bans PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Its Clothing, Other Textiles

-- PA Environmental Council, Partners: Enroll Now In Former Mine Lands For Reforestation Program  [PaEN]

-- Western PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Using Telemetry To Reduce Monitoring Costs Of AMD Treatment Systems - Video

-- Free Trees Available To Pike County Residents Thru Conservation District, Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership  [PaEN]

-- Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority, Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Host July 15 Rain Barrel Workshop  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: University Of Pittsburgh Professors Propose ‘Greening’ The 27,000 Vacant Lots In City Of Pittsburgh

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission June Minute Update: Hundreds Of Juvenile Eels Released; Choose Clean Water Conference; More

-- Keystone Trails Association Invites Hikers To Participate In PA Hike Poll  [PaEN]

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Blog: America’s First Thru-Hikers-- Lewis & Clark And The Corps Of Discovery

-- Inquirer: ‘Rocksylvania:’ Trail Hikers Say PA Section Of Appalachian Trail Kills Boots, Rolls Ankles, Crushes Wills

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Construction Set To Begin On Cap With 11.5-Acre Waterfront Park Over I-95 Along Philadelphia Riverfront

-- DCNR State Parks June Environmental Education Newsletter - Take A Hike!  [PaEN]

-- Asbury Woods Environmental Center Weekly City Of Erie Nature In Your Neighborhood Program June 15 to August 17  [PaEN]

-- Republican Herald: 25th Schuylkill River Sojourn Sees First Paddleboarder, Veteran Kayakers For 112-Mile Trek

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Philadelphia Wants Harsher Penalties For Illegal Dirt Bikes Than State Allows

-- TribLive: Graffiti Cleanup Set For June 24 At Popular Beam Rocks In Forbes State Forest 

-- Healthy Lands Week Set For Sept. 23 to Oct. 1, Register Your Projects, Events Now  [PaEN] 

-- Audubon Mid-Atlantic Healthy Forest Initiative: July 19 Webinar - Opportunities For Strategic Forest Conservation Partnerships With Land Trusts  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Allegheny National Forest Turns To Silver Flies To Help Thwart Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

-- Penn State Extension Launches Farm/Vineyard Spotted Lanternfly Survey For 2023 Season

-- Warren Times - Josh Cotton: First And Second Generations Of Timber In Allegheny National Forest Bring Drastic Changes 

-- Game Commission: Good News And Bad News About Piping Plovers At Presque Isle State Park  [PaEN] 

-- Volunteers Needed!  Falcon Watch & Rescue Rachel Carson Building Harrisburg  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal: If You Build It (A Birdhouse), The Bluebirds Will Come

-- Warren Times: Audubon Natural Investigators: Binoculars And Birds June 24

-- US Army Corps Of Engineers Pittsburgh District Awards Contract For Fish Reefs On Monongahela River

-- PennLive: Rehabilitated Public Boat Launch Opened Along Swatara Creek, Dauphin County

-- PennLive: New Dam At Children’s Lake Nearly Complete In Boiling Springs, Cumberland County, With Refill Expected In July

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[Posted: June 18, 2023]   PA Environment Digest