84 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 84 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!

-- House Committee Hearing On Increasing Safety Setbacks Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities Heard About First-Hand Citizen Experiences On Health Impacts, From Physicians On Health Studies And The Gas Industry On Job Impacts  [PaEN]

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Health Versus Wealth Raised During House Hearing On Bill To Expand Safety Setbacks From Natural Gas Infrastructure

-- University Of Pittsburgh Studies Of Shale Gas Development Health Impacts To Be Discussed At Nov. 14 Joint Meeting Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board  [PaEN]

-- PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov. 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference  [PaEN] 

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: PA Needs To Do More To Defend Public Health From Shale Gas - By Alison Steele, Environmental Health Project

-- Protect PT Holds Nov. 11 Workshop On Living Near Shale Gas In Westmoreland County  [PaEN]  

-- Warren Times: Population Exodus From PA Means Higher Taxes For Those Who Remain

-- Shell Accountability Campaign Hosts Nov. 2 Shell Petrochemical Plant Town Hall Meeting On Emergency Response Plans In Beaver County  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Group Wants Governor To Ban PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Oil & Gas Wells 

-- Attorney General Henry Announces Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2018 Natural Gas Explosion That Destroyed Home In Greene County  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Equitrans Faces Criminal Charges In Connection With 2018 Greene County Natural Gas Explosion That Destroyed Home

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Criminal Charges Against Equitrans Should Be A Deterrent To Environmental Violators, Attorney General Says 

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Mariner East 2X Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Being Repaired After Dent Discovered In Chester County During Maintenance Check  [PaEN]

-- Spotlight PA: DEP Has Updated How It Defines An Environmental Justice Area; Here’s Why It Matters For At-Risk Communities 

-- PUC Issues Emergency Order To PA American Water To Operate Troubled East Dunkard Water Authority In Greene County; Lawsuit Filed Alleging Water Tainted By Mine Drainage, Shale Gas Operations  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: East Dunkard Water Authority Customers: ‘We’re The Flint, Michigan Of PA;” Lawsuit Claims Contamination By Mine Drainage, Shale Gas Operations Caused Health Problems  [PDF of article]

-- Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Shapiro Announces Agreement With CNX On Fracking Health Measures, Says New Regulations Coming

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: CNX Natural Gas Company, Gov. Shapiro Find Agreement On Monitoring Program Where Legislators Cannot

-- Evangelical Environmental Network Thanks Gov. Shapiro For Defending Children's Health Thru An Agreement With CNX Natural Gas; Believes In Repenting Of Sins, 2nd Chances  [PaEN]

-- TribLive Editorial: Is Shapiro’s Voluntary Agreement With CNX The Right Move For Gas Well Safety?  [‘We do not trust foxes to guard henhouses’]

-- Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force Issues Report On The Best Ways To Increase Exports Of PA's Natural Gas; Minority Report Rebuts Need For LNG Facility, Outlines Impacts  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Health News: Majority-Black Pennsylvania Community Fights Back Against Proposed $6 Billion LNG Natural Gas Terminal [Chester, Delaware County]

-- Reading Eagle: Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Pipe Linked To Natural Gas Explosion At Reading Factory

-- WITF: At Shippensburg University, Latino Community Members Talk About Climate Change Challenges, Possible Solutions 

-- Pittsburgh Redevelopment Authority To Issue RFP For Solar Energy Facility At Swisshelm Park

-- Erie Times: Venango Twp. Residents Sound Off Against Planned Solar Energy Facility; What Are Their Concerns?

-- PA Capital-Star: USDA Promotes Rural Energy Investments In Pennsylvania

-- Pittsburgh’s Green Building Alliance Receives $500,000 Federal ARISE Grant To Establish A Green Building Product Supply Chain, Manufacturing Hub In Upper Appalachian Region   [PaEN] 

-- The Guardian: US Students At Penn State, University Of Pennsylvania Other Schools File Complaints Over Fossil Fuel Investments  

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Let’s Celebrate More Climate Wins In Pennsylvania - Plugging Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - By Mandy Warner, Environmental Defense Fund & John Walliser, PA Environmental Council 

-- WPXI: DEP Will Work To Fix Abandoned Mine Subsidence Damage In Lincoln Place

-- The Center Square: PA House Passes Bill To Provide Private, C-PACE Funding For Electric Vehicle Chargers

-- WNEP: Getting Students Ready To Repair Electric Vehicles

-- EPA Launches Video Prize Challenge To Showcase Electric Transportation In Action, Entries Due Jan. 23  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: US Steel Converts 2 Diesel Locomotives To Battery Power

-- Energy Efficiency Alliance Of PA/NJ Host Nov. 8 Webinar On Results Of Latest National Energy Literacy Survey  [PaEN]

-- Keep PA Beautiful Seeking Nominations For Litter Hawk Youth Award Program To Recognize Students In Grades K To 6  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Young Ambassadors From Western PA High Schools To Help Fight Litter  

-- PA Watershed Groups Engaged 8,000 Volunteers Contributing Over 44,500 Hours; 35,000+ People Involved In Projects, Education, Hikes, Other Events; Planted 30,000 Trees in 2022  [PaEN] 

-- Shippensburg News-Chronicle: Statewide Watershed Conference Gave Watershed Groups A Place To Share Stories, Concerns, Learn About Projects And Practices Elsewhere, Find Funding And More

-- CBF's Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership: Last Year's Winners Of The Mira Lloyd Dock Diversity Award Work On Completing Environmental Projects  [PaEN]

-- PA Sea Grant's Tom Cermak Recognized With Great Lakes Sea Grant Individual Achievement Award  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster Farming: EPA Rolls Out Youth Advisory Council Led By PA 4-H’er

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: Call For Submissions For Westminster College Student Symposium On The Environment Dec. 4 to 7 [PaEN]

-- DEP Chesapeake Bay Update Spotlights Local Restoration Efforts; Recent Conferences With Local Partners; Release Of Draft 2024 Integrated Water Quality Report

-- LancasterOnline: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Puts $2 Million In Federal Funds Toward Pequea Creek Restoration

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Watershed Renewal Project Accelerates Restoration Work In Halfmoon Creek, Centre County, Pequea Creek, Lancaster County  [PaEN] 

-- Quittapahilla Watershed Assn. Interns Present Stream Morphology Surveys On Lebanon County Streams   [PaEN]

-- Berks Nature Releases 15th State Of The Environment Report At Program Attended By Over 300  [PaEN] 

-- WTAE: Sen. Robinson Wants Tougher Lead Testing Standards For PA Schools

-- 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Holds Nov. 8 Open Enrollment Meeting In Somerset County  [PaEN] 

-- Scranton Times: Scranton Holding Flood Recovery Grant Outreach Sessions Thru Friday

-- Scranton Times: Scranton Flood Grant Sessions Well Attended As Application Period Remains Open From Community Foundation

-- Pike Conservation District: What Happens When Stormwater Management Goes Wrong? - By Chris Metzler, District Engineer  [PaEN]

-- Protecting Clean Water Together Series: Keeping The Gunk Out Of Your Water Supply - By Carol Hillestad for the Brodhead Watershed Association   [PaEN]

-- Friends Of The Wissahickon Host Nov. 7 Climate Change In Our Watersheds Fall Valley Talk, In-Person, Online In Philadelphia  [PaEN]

-- Western PA Conservancy Now Accepting Applications For BHE GT&S Watershed Mini Grants In Western PA  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Accepting Applications For Consumptive Use Mitigation Grants; Nov. 15 Webinar  [PaEN]

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Western PA Conservancy, Other Nonprofit Groups Will Do More Than Plant Trees In McKeesport

-- Lehigh Valley-based Wildlands Conservancy: Record-Setting Tree Plantings; Our Animal Ambassadors Are Stars! Fall Photo Contest; Activities, Programs!

-- Republican Herald: Volunteers Help Plant Trees In Pottsville, Elsewhere In Schuylkill County

-- WNEP: Susquehanna University Students Install Manmade Beaver Dams

-- Forests For Chesapeake Bay: Fall Tree Plantings; Bat Stories; Ghosts Of Forest; Devil Tooth Fungus; Poisonous Plants 

-- Registration Open For 7-Part Online Tree Tenders Training Workshop Starting Jan. 17 Thru Feb. 28  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Program: Protected Land In Bay Watershed Reaches 9.1 Million Acres; PA Leads With 3.6 Million Acres

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Region On Track For 2 Million Acre Land Protection Goal

-- WESA: Farmland Preservation Efforts Grow As Allegheny County Protects Unique Crops And Smaller Farms

-- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Art Reflecting Pittsburgh’s Geological History Unveiled At Fern Hollow Bridge

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front: Why Teaching People About Invasive Plants Can Get A Little Thorny

-- Penn State Extension/PA Sea Grant: Nov. 15 Webinar On Developing A Choose Native Plants Publication For Landscapers And Homeowners  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension Community Trees News: DCNR Funding Community Forestry Projects; What’s A Tree City USA Community? Tree Health Struggles; What’s My Tree Doing For Me? 

-- York Daily Record Column: Creatives & Recreationalists: Galleries And Outdoors Replacing Factory Work

-- York Daily Record: Shank’s Mare Outfitters Owners Created A Susquehanna River Institution, Now They’re Retiring

-- Fish & Wildlife Service: $36 Million For Fish Passage And River Restoration Grants Available, Deadline Dec. 31

-- National Sea Grant College Program Now Accepting Applications For 2 Marine Debris Prevention & Removal Funding Opportunities  [PaEN]

-- Reminder: DCNR Holds Nov. 6 Public Meeting On Planning For Big Elk Creek State Park In Chester County

-- WITF: DCNR Reclaiming Part Of Michaux State Forest In Franklin County, Here’s What To Know

-- Game Commission Proposes Black Rail As Threatened Species  [PaEN]

-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: US Youth Fly Fishing Team Fills Up With PA Teenagers

-- PennLive: To The Bat Hospital!  PA Bat Rescue Group Treats These Misunderstood Creatures 

-- TribLive: Fish Reefs To Be Built In The Monongahela River

-- Observer-Reporter: Army Corps Of Engineers To Start Fish Reef Construction On Monongahela River

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Lost Heritage: Bringing American Martens Back To PA

-- WTAE: Rep. Major Wants To Chomp Down Exotic Animal Release After Multiple Gators In Kiski River

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[Posted: November 5, 2023]   PA Environment Digest