92 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 92 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.

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-- Myers Family Farm In Centre County Receives 2023 PA Leopold Conservation Award  [PaEN] 

-- PA Dept. Of Agriculture Honors 300-Year-Old Chester County Farm

-- DCNR Blog: Message From The Secretary On New Beginnings In 2023 - By DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn  [PaEN] 

-- Interim DEP Secretary Shirley Tells Citizens Advisory Council Priorities Of Permitting Reform, Environmental Justice, Customer Service, Moving Forward  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: Meet The Nominees For PA’s 2024 River Of The Year

-- WTAE: Rustic Ridge Neighbor Honored For Heroic Acts After Natural Gas Explosion In Plum Boro, Allegheny County

-- TribLive Editorial: Rustic Ridge Carries On After Natural Gas Explosion In Plum Boro, Allegheny County 

-- DEP Issued At Least 512 Violations To 95 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In 2023; 10 Shale Gas Operators Were Issued NOVs For Abandoning Wells  [PaEN]

-- DEP Issues Record 6,860 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators In 2023-- Nearly 52% More Than In 2021; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues  [PaEN]

-- 2023 Shale Gas Operator Compliance Report: 1,310 Violations; Explosions; Pad Fire, Evacuation; Uncontrolled Gas Venting; Frack-Outs; Polluting Water Supply; Spills; Pipeline Crashing Thru A Home; More  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 4 to 12 - 9 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Cleanup Continues; Pipeline Land Slips  [PaEN] 

-- Environmental Hearing Board Allows Protect PT Appeal Of Olympus Shale Gas Well Permits In Westmoreland County To Proceed; Olympus Was Trying To Deprive Protect PT Of Its Rights  [PaEN]

-- Bob Donnan Blog: Fracking Groundwater Study Underway In SW PA

-- Wall Street Journal - Kris Maher: Democrat PA Gov. Shapiro, CNX Fracking Executive And The Deal They Struck, Can It Work? 

-- Bob Donnan Blog: What’s Not To Hate About Natural Gas Compressor Stations?

-- Evangelical Environmental Network: EPA Proposes Waste Charge On Methane Leaking From Large Oil & Gas Facilities  [PaEN]

-- Jewish Earth Alliance, Beth Am Israel Hosting Jan. 23 Online Program Rethinking Our Connection To Fossil Fuels - A Discussion  [PaEN]

-- No False Solutions PA Coalition Issues Position Statement On Hydrogen, Carbon Capture & Storage, Chemical Recycling Of Plastics, Other Climate 'Solutions'  [PaEN]

-- WTAE/CNN: Plastic Chemicals Linked To $249 Billion In US Health Care Costs In 2018 Alone, Study Says

-- NPR: US Researchers Find Massive Number Of Plastic Particles In Bottled Water

-- Post-Gazette: New Study Finds Nanoplastics In Water From 3 Common Bottled Water Brands

-- EPA Awards $3 Million Grant To DEP To Support Development Of Climate Action Plan, Grant Program To Reduce Emissions In Heavy Industry; Public Input Needed By Jan. 22  [PaEN] 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Heavy Industry Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targeted In EPA $3 Million Grant To DEP

-- WeConservePA: EPA Accepting Applications For Environmental & Climate Justice Community Change Grants  [PaEN]

-- Centre Daily Times - Climate Watch: Local Sources Of Climate Inspiration For A New Year

-- LancasterOnline: Solar United Neighbors Uses Co-Op Model To Bring Solar Energy To Lancaster County

-- Williamsport Sun: 2nd Solar Energy Facility Proposed For Muncy Area Draws Interest

-- Citizens Voice: Proposed Solar Energy Facility In Plains Twp. Awaits Zoning Approval

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Time For Pennsylvania To Speed Up Transition To Clean Energy - By PennEnvironment

-- Broad+Liberty Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Are Better Off For Having More Electricity Options - By John Hanger, Former DEP Secretary, PUC Commissioner

-- DEP Awards $39.6 Million In Grants To Replace Aging Diesel Fleets With Zero-Emission Vehicles From VW Settlement Funding  [PaEN] 

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Funds $40 Million To Replace Diesel Trucks With Electric Vehicles

-- Tribune-Democrat: Pro Disposal Inc. Received $6.19 Million Grant For Zero Emission Trucks

-- WESA: Casey- Federal Funding To Grant PA Schools Clean Energy Buses

-- PA Capital-Star: PA To Receive $47.3 Million For Federal Clean School Bus Program

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Electric Vehicle Tax In PA Would Punish Drivers For Being Responsible - By Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Expanding Electric Vehicle Charging Network Is Vital To Fighting Climate Change

-- WPXI: Public Hearing Held Over Air Quality Permit For Clairton Coke [Coal] Works

-- The Allegheny Front: Allegheny County Fines US Steel Another $2 Million For Rotten Egg Smell Releases

-- Still Time To Register!  PA Recycling Markets Center’s PA ReMaDE Conference Jan. 18-19  [PaEN] 

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: PA Resources Council Asks You To Consider Some Green Resolutions And Help The Environment

-- Citizens Voice: Residents Grill Wyoming Boro Officials For Eliminating Recycling Program In Luzerne County

-- Public News Service: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Has Tracked The Planting Of More Than 5.9 Million Trees In PA To Improve Water Quality  [PaEN]

-- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Chesapeake Bay Foundation Offering Free Native Trees & Shrubs To Plant This Spring Anywhere In PA  [PaEN]

-- Game Commission: Howard Nursery Seedling Sale Accepting Orders; Seedlings For Schools Program Ordering Begins Feb. 5  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Annual Game Commission Seedlings Sale Officially Underway

-- Tribune-Democrat: Cambria County Watershed Sediment Reduction Project Lands Grant

-- The Daily Item: Snyder County Receives DEP Grant For Waterway Protection

-- WESA: Wilkinsburg Group Lands Over $575,000 For Local Watershed Restoration In Allegheny County

-- Gettysburg Times: What’s Next For The Watershed Alliance Of Adams County?

-- TribLive: Delmont Starts Calculating How To Implement Stormwater Authority Fees In Westmoreland County

-- Warren Times: Nature Knows Best - DCNR Grant Program Aims To Convert Lawns To Native Meadows, Aid Pollinators

-- Warren Times: Warren Conservation District Hosting Art Contest For Students In Grades K to 12 - Theme ‘May The Forest Be With You’ 

-- The Allegheny Front - Jon Hurdle, Inside Climate News: Pittsburgh Lauded For Its ‘Innovative’ Rules To Curb Climate-Fueled Flooding

-- WESA - Jon Hurdle, Inside Climate News: Once Known For Its Pollution, Pittsburgh Becomes Poster Child For Climate Consciousness

-- Williamsport Sun: Trout Unlimited Priority Waters Program, Abandoned Mine Reclamation To Be Featured At Jan. 10 Meeting

-- PennLive Guest Essay: We Must Do More To Protect Pennsylvania’s Forests & Streams - By Imani Jackson, Student at Dauphin County Technical School 

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Fiscal, Political Woes Dim Hopes In Bay States For Legislative Action On Environmental, Energy Issues

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Guardian Newsletter Features Groundwater Recharge Study; Octoraro StoryMap; Stream Salinization Study; Tioga River Stewards Honored; More!  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension Hosts 9-Part Woods In Your Backyard Webinar Series Starting Jan. 17  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Feb. 19 Webinar - Climate Change Projections For PA & Conservation Practices To Help Farmers Cope  [PaEN] 

-- Penn State Extension Community Trees Update: DCNR Helping Communities Map Trees; Input Needed On Forestry Programing; Education Opportunities  [PaEN]

-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Woods & Water Film Series Jan. 19 & Feb. 23 

-- Forests For Chesapeake Bay Update: Wasting Your Backyard Waste?  Butternut; Phenological Fun! More! 

-- City & State PA Guest Essay: Federal Funds Needed For Philly To Become Our Nation’s Biggest Green City - By Julie Slavet, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership & Molly Parzen, Conservation Voters of PA 

-- KYW: Daring Water Rescue In Delaware County Saves Man Surrounded By Rushing Water

-- PUC Calls On PA Congressional Delegation To Support Permanent Program To Provide Financial Assistance For Water, Wastewater Services To Low-Income Households [PaEN]

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PUC Commissioners Ask For Permanent Federal Low-Income Water, Wastewater Bill Assistance

-- Eckley Miners’ Village Awarded Willary Foundation Grant To Design, Research Lodging Facilities  [PaEN]

-- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Accepting Applications For Student Scholarships  [PaEN]

-- Appalachian Audubon Society Chapter Offering Scholarships To Hog Island Audubon Camp In Maine  [PaEN]

-- Interns Wanted: Department Of Environmental Protection,  Conservation & Natural Resources, Agriculture - Deadline Feb. 16 [PaEN]

-- Intern Wanted: Penn State/The American Chestnut Foundation  [PaEN] 

-- PA Sea Grants: Grade 5-12 Teachers Can Apply Now For Spot Aboard EPA's Lake Guardian Research Vessel For Hands-On Scientific Exploration Of Lake Erie In July  [PaEN]

-- WESA: PA Outdoor Corps Seeking Young Adult Crew Members

-- ReImagine Appalachia Blog: Good-Paying Jobs For Appalachians: The American Climate Corps Initiative - Attend An Upcoming Listening Session

-- Susquehanna Greenway Partnership Awards Mini-Grants; New Grant Round Now Open  [PaEN] 

-- City Of Philadelphia: Making Parks & Recreation Cleaner, Greener And More Sustainable 

-- New PA Parks & Forests Foundation Video Explores The Benefits Of Nature & Silence [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: ShiverFest 2024 Runs High And Fast On Swollen Lackawanna River In Scranton

-- WNEP: Hundreds Shiver By The Lackawanna River In Scranton

-- PA Wilds Blog: Jillia Ceramics Expresses Beauty Of PA Wilds Region Thru New Product Line

-- Northcentral PA Conservancy Partners With Landowner To Preserve 64 Acres In Columbia County   [PaEN]

-- Warren Times - Josh Cotton: 2,195 Acre Land-For-Oil Deal Between Game Commission, PA General Energy Oil & Gas Company Draws Ire From Some In Community 

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: How To Participate In PA’s Third Bird Atlas, The Birds Could Benefit From Your Help 

-- Warren Times: Audubon Center Little Explorers Learn About Bears Jan. 13

-- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center To Host Day Camp Jan. 15

-- Shenango River Watchers, US Army Corps Of Engineers Host 4th Annual Eagle Fest At Shenango River Lake Jan. 13 In Mercer County  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Eagle Watch At Allegheny Reservoir To Be Held Feb. 3

-- The Derrick: Seneca Rocks Audubon Holding Bird Seed Sale Until Jan. 20

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: When Is A Little PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Too Much To Eat In Fish?

-- Public News Service: Actions Urged To Reduce, Prevent Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions In PA

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[Posted: January 14, 2024]   PA Environment Digest