119 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 119 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!

-- Pennsylvania Receives Federal Appalachian States Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Award For Clearfield County Mine Reclamation, Trail Enhancement Project  [PaEN]

-- WNEP: Mine Subsidence Sinkhole Filled In Luzerne County Under Emergency DEP Contract

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: DEP: Newport Twp. Mine Subsidence Sinkhole Repair Could Cost $200,000

-- Asbury Woods Environmental Ed Center In Erie Recognizes Outstanding Volunteers  [PaEN]

-- House Judiciary Committee Meets Oct. 3 To Consider Bill Against Lawsuits Aimed At Silencing Citizen Critics; Republicans, Democrats Introduced Similar Bills  [PaEN]

-- DEP Updates Times Of 2 Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy To Accept Comments In Erie, Philadelphia  [PaEN] 

-- Inside Climate News: EPA Rolls Out Training Grants For Environmental Justice Communities

-- PUC Invites Public Comments On Proposed Diversity Policy Statement

-- Environmental Health Project: How DEP Issues Permits For Shale Gas Facilities Without Considering Cumulative Impacts - How New Facilities Will Add To Existing Pollution Loads And Impact The Area  [PaEN]

-- On Sept. 27 Families Will Hold Town Hall Meeting In Washington County Seeking Policy Changes After Pitt Studies Link Natural Gas Development And Negative Health Outcomes  [PaEN]

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Gov. Shapiro, The Fracking Clock Is Ticking - By Megan McDonough, Food & Water Watch

-- Member Of Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Briefs DCNR Advisory Council On Siting Of Shale Gas Well Pad On State Forest Land To Accommodate Taking Gas From Private Land In Tioga County  [PaEN]

-- DCNR: Additional State Forest Roads Opening For Hunting Seasons, Other Outdoor Activities; Use Caution In Areas Of Natural Gas Drilling

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 23 to 29; More Abandoned Wells; Oil & Gas Doesn’t Typically Issue NOVs For ‘Routine’ Venting Of Natural Gas, Will Air Quality Under New Regs?  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Title V Air Quality Permit For Eastern Gas Transmission Compressor Station In Westmoreland County At Oct. 31 Hearing  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: EPA’s Approval Of 2nd Plum Boro Oil/Gas Wastewater Injection Well In  Allegheny County Raises Fears That More Are On The Way

-- Grist - Will Peischel: Inside The Rough-And-Tumble Race To Clean Up America’s Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells [PA Highlighted]

-- Guest Essay: DEP Should Invest $33.6 Million In New Federal Funding Wisely To Plug  Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Not Reward The Industry For Bad Behavior  - By  Russell Zerbo, Clean Air Council  [PaEN] 

-- Post-Gazette/NYT: ‘Monster [Shale Gas] Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger, And Far Thirstier [Texas]

-- FracTracker Alliance: PA Watersheds At Risk: Drought And Fracking; Per Well Water Use In PA Increased From 2 to 9 Million Gallons Per Well In 2008 to 14 to 39 Million Gallons per Well in 2019

-- Halt The Harm Webinar: Wasted Water: The Impacts Of Shale Gas Fracking’s Water Use From PA To Colorado [Video]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Same Geology, Same Drilling, Different Resource: Geothermal Energy Interest Simmers In PA 

-- Observer-Reporter: Pipeline Operator Faces $100,000 PUC Penalty For 2020 House Explosion In Greene County

-- PUC Orders Philadelphia Natural Gas Works To Stop Customer Weather Normalization Charges That Added Millions To Bills

-- PUC Commissioner Kathryn Zerfuss Appointed To Presidential Task Force On Evolving Natural Gas Infrastructure Planning

-- PJM Interconnection Board Proposes Market Reforms Based Largely On Unreliability Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants During Winter Storm Elliot  [PaEN] 

-- Utility Dive: PJM Board Calls For Capacity Market Changes To Bolster Grid Reliability, Resource Adequacy

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: A Voice From Buried Town Of Times Beach, Missouri Has Advice For Residents Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment - Get Out  [Times Beach Roads Were Sprayed With Waste Oil Containing Dioxin To Suppress Dust ]

-- House Environmental Committee Holds Hearing On Bill To Protect Stream Buffers Oct. 2   [PaEN] 

-- EPA: Making Generational Investment To Improve Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay Watershed

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal Column - Tom Horton: If You Point The Finger At Pennsylvania, The Other Three Are Pointing At You

-- NRCS-PA Announces Conservation Funding Opportunities For FY 2024

-- Brandywine Red Clay Alliance: Agriculture’s Role In A Clean Watershed: The Whole Farm Approach  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Project Underway To Rebuild Fishing Creek Trout Habitat, Boost Economy, Help Environment In Clinton County

-- The Nature Conservancy-PA: Blakeslee Preserve Stream Restoration Project, Cherry Valley National Refuge In Monroe County [Video]

-- BCTV.org: Volunteers Needed To Assist Penn State Extension Master Watershed Stewards In Schuylkill County

-- BCTV.org: The Highlands At Wyomissing In Berks County Joins Statewide Partnership To Plant 10 Million Trees 

-- US Forest Service Now Accepting Applications For Local Community Forest Programs, Deadline Jan. 12

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Communities Get Influx Of Federal Cash To Plant Trees 

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Blog: Back To School For Students Means Back Into PA’s Creeks And Rivers In PA’s Rivers & Streams Environmental Ed Program 

-- Save The Date: Keystone Coldwater Conference Feb. 23-24 In State College  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: 4-Part Webinar Series: Primer For Forest Management And Birds Thru Oct. 18 

-- PA Forestry Assn. Annual Symposium & Awards Program Set For Nov. 4 In State College  [PaEN] 

-- Penn State Extension: Nov. 14 PA Forest Seminar Webinar - Benefits Of Large Woody Debris In Streams, Noon and 7:00 p.m.

-- Penn State College Of Agricultural Sciences Hosts Nov. 15 Webinar: A Walk In The Woods - A Look Into Private Forests In PA And Beyond  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: PA Forest Webinar Series Schedule [Late 2023 and 2024]

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy: Women And Their Woods Plant Identification Workshop Oct.  14 At Prompton State Park, Wayne County  [PaEN]

-- WNEP: Residents In Luzerne County Frustrated Over Major Flooding Issues

-- PennDOT Reminds Motorists NEVER To Drive Through Flooded Roadways

-- WHYY: PA To Increase PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Monitoring In Rivers, Streams

-- LehighValleyNews.com: Report: 4 lehigh Valley Streams Found Contaminated With PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

-- EPA Finalizes Rule Requiring Reporting Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Use To Better Protection Communities

-- Gov. Shapiro’s Work Group Concludes A Cap-And-Invest Carbon Pollution Regulation Program Would Be Optimal Approach To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions From Power Plants; Scale Up Solar Energy  [PaEN]

-- Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: Gov. Shapiro’s Climate Work Group Endorses Emissions Curbs To Fight Climate Change But Don’t Embrace RGGI Membership

-- AP: Gov. Shapiro Noncommittal On Greenhouse Gas Strategy As Climate Task Force Finishes Work

-- House/Senate Legislative Climate Caucus Announces Climate Week Activities In PA Oct. 1-7; PA Climate Convergence Oct. 1-2  [PaEN]

-- CEOs For Sustainability Host C-Suite Summit Nov. 15 In Pittsburgh  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Technical Assistance Program Saves Company $50,000+ In Annual Energy Costs; Call To Make Your Appointment Today  [PaEN]

-- Planet Philadelphia Radio: Cleaning Up Our Energy Systems, Oct. 5 At 4:00 p.m.

-- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn., Philadelphia Energy Authority Host Solar Tour Webinar On Oct. 3  [PaEN]

-- Citizens Voice: Turnpike Plans To Add Electric Vehicle Chargers To More Service Plazas

-- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: Climate Activists Bike Hundreds Of Miles Through PA To Demand Change

-- DOE Awards DCNR $1 Million Grant To Provide Technical Assistance For Large Scale Carbon Storage And Regional Carbon Management Hubs  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: Hydropower Makes Splash As Washington & Jefferson College Center Resumes Series

-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: A Drop In Emissions, A Jobs Bonanza?  Critics Question Benefits Of Proposed Hydrogen Hub For the Appalachian Region

-- EPA: New Strategy Directs All Enforcement And Compliance Programs To Help Tackle Climate Crisis In Every Matter Within Their Jurisdiction

-- White House: Fact Sheet On First White House Climate Resilience Summit And Releases National Climate Resilience Framework

-- USDA Makes $3 Billion Available For Climate-Smart Practices On Agricultural Lands

-- EPA Now Accepting Applications For Clean School Bus Funding, Deadline Jan. 31

-- EPA Announces $100 Million In Grants Available To Support Manufacturers Of Cleaner Construction Materials

-- DOE Finalizes Energy Efficiency Standards For Residential Furnaces To Save $1.5 Billion In Annual Utility Bills

-- PennLive Letter: Fossil Fuels Are Fueling Climate Change And Disaster For Our Planet - By Ed Perry, Former Aquatic Biologist, US Fish & Wildlife Service

-- Clean Air Council: Federal Court Denied Industry Requests To Block EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor’ Cross-State Ozone Pollution Reduction Rule

-- Group Against Smog & Pollution Tells Allegheny County Health Dept. It’s Time To Create A Crisis Communications Plan In Wake Of Metalico Fire, Pollution Concerns

-- Observer-Reporter: Washington County Donora Smog Disaster Discussed As 75th Anniversary Nears

-- Save The Date! PA Recycling Markets Center’s PA ReMaDE Conference Jan. 18-19 In Bethlehem  [PaEN] 

-- The Allegheny Front: Pittsburgh Is Banning Plastic Bags Next Month, Here’s What You Need To Know.

-- Penn State Student Club Fosters Diversity, Community, Professionalism In Earth & Mineral Sciences  [PaEN]

-- Citizens Voice: Eckley Miners’ Village Seeks To Become A Hub For College And High School Research

-- Carnegie Museum Of Natural History In Pittsburgh Hosts Smithsonian Life In One Cubic Foot - Exploring The Diversity Of Life On Earth In Your Own Backyards  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: Climate Change Has Altered Poison Ivy Leaves In PA - Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Study

-- TribLive: Does The 2010 Stink Bug Invasion Hold Any Spotted Lanternfly Lessons?

-- PA Environmental Council Blog: Prevent Invasive Species Migration - Clean, Drain, Dry

-- PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Oct. 3 Wildlife Conservation Science, Outdoor Recreation Curriculum, Noon to 1:00 p.m.

-- Gettysburg Times: DCNR Secretary Dunn Stresses Connection Between Community And Protection Of Natural Resources Giving People ‘A Sense Of Place’ That Makes PA Unique  [PaEN]

-- Spotlight PA: PA Budget Chips Away At $1.4 Billion Backlog Of Infrastructure Projects In State Parks, State Forests

-- The Conservation Fund, DCNR Add 436 Acres Of Forest Land To Pinchot State Forest In Lackawanna County With Financial Support From Williams Natural Gas Pipeline Company  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Scranton Opens 400-Acre State Forest Expansion To Public

-- WNEP: 436 Acres Of Scranton Woodland Added To Pinchot State Forest

-- Lancaster Conservancy - Keith Williams: A Preserve Is Born - A Reflection On Mill Creek Falls Nature Preserve

-- WeConservePA Guest Essay - Patrick Starr [PEC]: Good Things Take Time: Reflections On The  Long-Term Kensington & Tacony Rail Trail Project

-- TribLive: Plum Boro Farm Joins Farmland Preservation Program In Allegheny County

-- DCNR Issues First Fall Foliage Report Of The Season - First Glimmers Of Autumn Are Here   [PaEN] 

-- CountryLiving Survey: Wellsboro, Tioga County Named #9; Milford, Pike County #28 of 55 Best Fall Towns In US For Foliage

-- DCNR, PA Forestry Assn., Partners Celebrate Pennsylvania Forests With Walk In Penn’s Woods Events Oct. 1  [PaEN]

-- WeConservePA, Manada Conservancy Host Site Visit To Kittatinny Ridge Land Conservation Projects

-- WVIA: Greenways & Trails Summit Brings Experts From All Over The State To Scranton

-- WeConservePA: 2023 PA Greenways & Trails Summit Wrap-Up: A Scranton Success

-- AmeriCorps Member River Missal Joins PA Parks & Forests Foundation As Trail Training & Workday Coordinator  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Oakland Dam Removed From North Branch Susquehanna River In Susquehanna County

-- TribLive: Allegheny County Man Takes 150-Mile Walk Of Faith On Great Allegheny Passage

-- LancasterOnline: Life Milestones Led Him To Susquehanna River Canoe Trip He’d Dreamed Of For Decades

-- Warren Times: Sorensen's Win Historical Society’s Trails Of History Challenge In Allegheny National Forest

-- DCNR Blog: Trail Towns - Connecting The Outdoors And Communities - By Hanna Ryon, DCNR Intern To Office Of Outdoor Recreation 

-- TribLive: Ohiopyle Borough, Fayette County, Surrounded By Ohiopyle State Park, Holds Youghtoberfest Saturday To Raise Money For Sewer System Repairs

-- Altoona Mirror: Altoona Water Authority, PA Environmental Council Work On Bike Trail Project

-- Tribune-Democrat: Laurel View Residents Get New Opportunity To Explore Outdoors With Cycling Without Age Program

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Donation Supports Wilkes-Barre Special Needs Playground Fund

-- Inquirer: Lyme Disease Vaccines Are Back, One In Trials From Pfizer, Another In Early Tests In PA; But Will People Get Them?

-- Outdoor Life: Bill Would Divert $150 Million From Game Commission, Threaten Federal Wildlife Funding In PA 

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Groups Oppose State’s Attempt To Move Money From Game Commission To Another Fund

-- NewsTalk103.7FM: PA Officials Warn Of $150 Million ‘Raid’ On State Game Fund

-- Centre Daily Times - Mark Nale: PA Senate Passes Bill That Would Rob PA Hunters Of $150 Million

-- PA Conservation Heritage Project Adds Biography Of John Arway, Former Executive Director Of Fish & Boat Commission  [PaEN] 

-- Warren Times: Rain No Damper For 100-Year Allegheny National Forest Celebration

-- Penn State Extension: Wildlife Habitat Is A Top Priority For Game Commission, Many Private Forest Landowners - Issues And Insights  [Video]

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature: It’s October Party Thanks To Game Commission

-- Williamsport Sun - Lycoming Audubon Society: A Look At Bird Calls And Various Songs From Our Avian Friends

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Fall Is The Time In Lancaster County To Observe The Great Bird Migration

-- Republican Herald Editorial: Wildlife Corridors Would Help Drivers, Animals  [PaEN]

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[Posted: October 1, 2023]   PA Environment Digest