Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

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

-- DEP Awards $1 Million To Support 73 Local Projects To Educate, Engage Youth And Adults In Improving The Environment In Their Communities  [PaEN]

-- Register Now!  Dive Deeper Biennial Water Resource Conference For Educators Set For Sept. 28 In Harrisburg; Scholarships Available  [PaEN]

-- Game Commission To Hold Junior Game Warden Camps For Students 12 to 15 Starting June 23 

-- Fort Indiantown Gap Offers Free Guided Tours Of Rare Regal Fritillary Butterfly Habitat In Lebanon County  [PaEN]

-- PennLive: Rare Butterfly Habitat Tours Open To Public At Fort Indiantown Gap

-- PA American Water Announces Winners Of Protect Our Watersheds Student Art Contest  [PaEN] 

-- PA Capital-Star: Lawmakers Are Clawing Back State’s Power To Prevent The Abandonment Of Conventional Oil/Gas Wells

-- Warren Times Guest Essay: Simple Truth - Conventional Oil/Gas Well Operators Frequently Abandoned Their Wells, Better Bonding Is A Solution To This Ever-Growing Problem - By Sierra Club

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Advocates Say More Scrutiny Needed Over Conventional Oil/Gas Well Plugging

-- DEP Moves To Enforce Order To Plug 4 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells Leaking Methane In Allegheny County Owned By Michael Harju & Economy Natural Gas, Inc.  [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 27 to June 2 -- Conventional Operators Fail To Start Plugging, Fail To Cleanup Spills; More NOVs For Abandoning Wells  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 3   [PaEN] 

-- DEP Posts 59 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In June 3 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: Environmental Groups Seek Results Of Pitt Health Studies On Impact Of Natural Gas Development

-- Pittsburgh Group Against Smog & Pollution: Despite Fee Changes, Air Quality Permit Backlog For Major Air Pollution Sources Still An Issue For Allegheny Health Dept, DEP

-- Now On Demand: Responsible Decarbonization Alliance Webinar On Climate Change And Penn’s Woods: What Does The Future Hold  [PaEN]

-- UPDATED: Susquehanna River Basin Low Stream Flows Trigger SRBC Water Withdrawal Restrictions On 49 Oil & Gas Drilling Operations & Other Water Users  [PaEN] 

-- Visit U.S. Geologic Survey Real-Time Water Data Map For Pennsylvania Showing Very Low Stream Conditions All Over The Commonwealth

-- PennLive: Harrisburg Area On Pace To Have The Driest May Ever Recorded 

-- Citizens Voice: Dry Weather Impacting Area Farmers

-- York Dispatch: York County Issues Another 30-Day Burn Ban

-- Observer-Reporter: Western PA Experiences 19th Driest May On Record

-- Inquirer: Philly Had Driest May On Record, And Some Parts Of Region Were Even Drier

-- Governor’s Advisory Council For Hunting, Fishing & Conservation Seeking Candidates To Serve On Fish & Boat Commission Board In Multiple Positions

-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports PA Natural Gas Production Peaked In 4th Quarter 2021 [PaEN] 

-- TribLive: 40 Pittsburgh Schools To Shift To Remote Learning Thursday Due To Heat

-- NextPittsburgh: Pitt Research Grants Ignite Sustainable Innovation For A Greener Energy Future

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Bridgeway Capital To Offer Solar Energy Loans To Nonprofits

-- Pocono Record: Solar Energy Project Proceeding With Protections For Swiftwater Creek

-- Ohio Valley 2023 Solar And Electric Vehicle Charger Co-op Now Open

-- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn., Partners Host June 8 Webinar - Solar Successes & Lessons Learned From PA School Case Studies  [PaEN]

-- AP: It’s Time To Prepare For The 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season

-- House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities  [PaEN]

-- House Environmental Committee Meets June 6 To Consider Bills On Environmental Impact Reports; Cryptocurrency Operations; Clean Hydrogen  [PaEN]

-- Center for Applied Environmental Science June 1 Webinar On Carbon Capture & Storage, Noon 

-- Pittsburgh Group Against Smog & Pollution Seeking Pollution Reading Watchdogs For Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant At Special June 2 Event

-- PA Capital-Star: Shell Petrochemical Plant To Pay $10 Million In Fines For Exceeding Air Pollution Limits - Will It Matter? 

-- Eyes On Shell Petrochemical Plant Accountability Campaign To Hold In-Person Rally June 8 In Beaver. 9:00 a.m. 

-- Eyes On Shell: Shell Petrochemical Plant Announced On Facebook It Is Restarting Plant, Flaring Of Gases Will Be Occurring

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: These High School Students Are Grappling With Living With The Chemical Pollution From The Shell Petrochemical Plant And The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment 

-- CNX Releases 2022 Sustainability Report Highlighting Local Environmental, Social, Governance Approach

-- Delaware County’s 2nd Annual Sustainability Conference June 8, Widener University, Chester, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

-- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center Little Explorers Get ‘Down In The Dirt’ June 10

-- Asbury Woods Environmental Ed Center 5 Mile Trail Run In Erie June 10

-- Keep PA Beautiful, DCED Host June 13 Webinar On How Your Community Can ‘Fight Dirty’ - A Review Of Anti-Littering Media Assets, Tools And Resources  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Pittsburgh, State Must Clean Up Their Act With Stiffer Penalties For Littering And Dumping

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Pass State Bill To Get Serious About Preventing Litter

-- Republican Herald Editorial: Dump More Fines On Litterbugs

-- Guest Essay: Consider Health Risks When Sealing Driveways And Parking Lots - By Harry Campbell, Chesapeake Bay Foundation  [PaEN]

-- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers June 14 Conversation Cafe Webinar - A Story Of Nonprofit Resilience - The Upper Merced River Watershed Council (California)  [PaEN]

-- PennLive: Annual Pollinator And Garden Faire Planned For June 17 In Halifax, Dauphin County

-- Western PA Conservancy: June 27 Webinar - Pollinator Habitat - Build It And They Will Come, Noon 

-- PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators June 29 Webinar On Implementing JEDI - Environmental Justice In Environmental Education  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Philly ‘Water Bar’ Back At City Hall To Let You Taste The Tap Water

-- Warren Times: Conewango Watershed Association Needs Volunteers, Info Session June 7 At Warren Conservation District

-- Inquirer: Once Neglected, Ignored, Tacony Creek Park is Finally Getting Visitors Thanks To Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Programs

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners 2022 Milestones Report - Progress Toward Achieving Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Goals 

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update Newsletter - Restoring And Sustaining Lancaster County Waterways

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: New Lancaster Conservation District Watershed Website Makes Improving Lancaster’s Waterways Easy 

-- Lancaster Conservancy: Lancaster Water Week Now Underway June 2 to 10 

-- The Reporter: Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership, Rep. Sanchez Celebrate Installation Of Stormwater Tanks At Alverthorpe Park 

-- Rep. Webster, Environmental Groups Promote HB 1275 Requiring Riparian Stream Buffers In PA To Help Reduce Flooding, Stormwater Damage - Video  [Sponsor Summary]

-- Pike Conservation District: Homeowner's Checklist For Watershed-Friendly Home - By: Rachael Marques, Pike County Watershed Specialist  [PaEN] 

-- DCNR Bureau Of Forestry Forest Focus Newsletter Now Available: New Bureau Structure, Cultural Resources Management, Beech Leaf Disease, Forest Fridays Sign Up  [PaEN]

-- Fairmount Park Conservancy Announced It Received $10 Million Grant For $250 Million Project To Transform Philadelphia's FDR Park  [PaEN]

-- Western PA Conservancy: June 27 Webinar - Pollinator Habitat - Build It And They Will Come, Noon 

-- Penn State Extension: Home Garden News - Supporting Native Bees; Make Your Property Pollinator Friendly; Much More  

-- TribLive: Climate Change, Pollution, Weather Impact Start, Severity Of Allergy Season

-- USDA NRCS Promotes National Dam Safety Awareness Day

-- Electrification Coalition Hosts June 20 PA Medium, Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Boot Camp And Showcase At Harrisburg University  [PaEN] 

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Cryptocurrency Data Mining Could Be PA’s Next Big Environmental Threat, We Need To Treat It That Way - By Clean Air Council

-- Altoona Mirror: Blair County Area Recreation Key To Economic Growth

-- Williamsport Sun: Susquehanna Greenway Partnership June 3 Outdoor Expo

-- TribLive: Canoe, Kayak Trip Set For Sewickley Creek June 3

-- NorthCentralPA.com: Envision Marsh Creek June 8 At Bald Eagle State Park Environmental Learning Center In Centre County

-- NextPittsburgh: Digging Up The Secrets Of The Frick Environmental Center 

-- Scranton Times: Meet The Team Restoring Brooks Coal Mine At Nay Aug Park To Reopen To Public As Museum

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: Jennings Environmental Center, 3MJC Host Historic Foltz One Room School Open House Events; Mine Drainage Treatment At Slippery Rock U.  [PaEN]

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy: Summer 2023 Delaware Highlands Journal 

-- Game Commission Springtime Alert: Leave Young Wildlife Alone

-- Nature At Risk: Are Bats Flying Back From The Brink? - By Carol Hillestad for the Brodhead Watershed Association, Monroe County  [PaEN] 

-- York Dispatch: DEP ‘Mosquito Academy’ Prepares Biologists For Summer Pest Control

-- Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly Newsletter - Checklist For Travelers; Business Resources; Online Learning Opportunities; More

-- Lancaster Farming: Proposed French Creek National Wildlife Refuge Draws Farm Opposition

-- The Allegheny Front: Researchers Team Up To Analyze Recordings Of Bird Songs In PA Forests

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Many Animals And Birds In Wild Have Albinism In Nature

-- Bloomberg: Net Zero Insurance Alliance Loses More Members After Republican Attacks On ESG [Environmental, Social, Governance] Goals

-- AP: Earth Is ‘Really Quite Sick Now’ And In Danger Zone In Nearly All Ecological Ways, Study Says

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: June 4, 2023]  PA Environment Digest