128 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 128 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!

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Recognizes 2024 Award Recipients  [PaEN]

-- PA Wilds Center Announces 2024 PA Wilds Champion Award Winners; Recognition Dinner July 25  [PaEN] 

-- ConnectRadio.fm: Clearfield County Business, Elk County Conservancy Win PA Wilds Awards

-- WHYY BillyPenn: Inside The Century-Long Effort To Protect The Wissahickon In Philadelphia

-- Gettysburg Times: Adams County Trout Unlimited Honored With Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award 

-- DelcoToday.com: West Chester University’s GNA Forest Fest Wins 2024 Governor’s Award For Environmental Excellence 

-- The Patch: Lower Merion, Norberth Environmental Advisory Councils And Shade Tree Commissions Name Winners Of Go For Green Awards

-- Game Commission, DEP Host May 24 Live Peregrine Falcon Online Banding Event At Rachel Carson Building  [PaEN]

-- Wildlife Leadership Academy: First Class Of Students Complete Stepping Stones Fly Fishing Program 

-- City & State PA Guest Essay: DEP Needs To Be Protected  From Underfunding, Understaffing - By Rep. Vitali, Majority Chair House Environmental Committee

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: PA Democrats Must Prioritize The Environment In Budget Negotiations - By Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair House Environmental Committee

-- Gas Industry, Sen. Bartolotta Seek Legislation To Eliminate Environmental Hearing Board Appeals Of DEP Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities  [PaEN] 

-- Damascus Citizens: Do You Live In An Oil & Gas Wastewater Disposal Facility? Public Roads In 84 Municipalities In PA, One County In NY Are Being Used As Disposal Areas For Wastewater  [PaEN] 

-- Guest Essay: Oil & Gas Industry Waste And Radioactive Drinking Water In Pennsylvania -  By Justin Nobel, Author of Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It  [PaEN] 

-- The Energy Age Blog: Federal Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Exemption History

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 100 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In First 4 Months Of 2024  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Could PA’s Oil & Gas Wastewater Hold The Key To The Country’s Energy Transition? 

-- PennLive: Here’s How PA Could Become A Huge Player In Lithium Mining [Oil & Gas Wastewater]

-- FracTracker Alliance: Not-So-Radical Transparency - An Ineffective And Unnecessary Partnership Between Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro And The Shale Gas Company CNX 

-- TribLive: Many West Deer Residents Calling For More Stringent Regulations On Shale Gas Drilling In Allegheny County

-- TribLive: Indiana Twp. Rezoning Would Accommodate Fracking Off Route 910 In Westmoreland County 

-- TribLive: Natural Gas Well Fracking Plans On Hold In Indiana Twp. As Planning Commission Seeks Info; Residents Pack Meeting In Westmoreland 

-- WBOY: 3 West Virginia Families Say They Abandoned Their Homes After Experiencing Medical Issues From EQT Fracking Contamination 

-- Meadville Tribune Guest Essay: Abandoned Conventional Well Plugging Grant Program Is Opportunity To Work Collaboratively With Oil & Gas Industry To Benefit The Environment - By Rep. Mandy Steele (D-Allegheny)  [Conventional Well Industry Paid $4,400 Into Well Plugging Fund So Far In 2024]

-- Williamsport Sun: Republican US Senate Candidate Says US Needs Energy Independence [Why Do PA Gas Drillers Want To Ship Gas To China?]

-- Citizens Voice Editorial: Protect Consumers From Energy Market Volatility By Reforming Utility-Rate Process [UGI Gas Increases] 

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: New EPA Rules Could Force Emission Limits, Monitoring At US Steel Clairton Coke [Coal] Works  

-- Appalachian Voices Blog: New EPA Limits On Power Plant Pollution Aim To Protect Communities And The Climate 

-- WESA: Allegheny County’s Clean Air Fund Could Do More To Fight Pollution, Controller Argues

-- Post-Gazette: Millions For Air Quality In Allegheny County Have Gone Unspent;  Audit Confirms What Advocates Thought For Years

-- Pennsylvanians Realized $500+ Billion In Public Health Benefits By Eliminating Coal-Fired Power Plants, Switching To Natural Gas  [PaEN] 

-- The Allegheny Front: Air Pollution Decreased, But Sill Causes Hundreds Of Deaths A Year In Allegheny County

-- MCall Guest Essay: Now We’re Cooking With Gas And Deadly Pollutants - By Bruce Wilson, Green Builder

-- Environmental Health News: Environmental Justice Advocates Find Hope, Healing And Community In Pittsburgh 

-- SpotlightPA: Communities Fear Health, Environmental Harms As They Await More Info On Hydrogen Hub Projects 

-- TribLive/Spotlight PA: Communities Fear Health, Environmental Harms As They Await More Info On Hydrogen Hub Projects

-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Is Hydrogen The Road To A Decarbonized Future Or Just Another Lifeline For Fossil Fuels

-- 10th Annual PA Renewables Summit Set For June 3-4 In Harrisburg  [PaEN]

-- PennLive: Wilsbach Distributors In Dauphin County Receives USDA Rural Energy For America Grant For Solar Energy Facility

-- TribLive: EPA Earmarks $2 Million To Convert Pittsburgh Slag Heap To Solar Energy Facility

-- Pittsburgh 2030 District Reports Gains Toward Energy, Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals  [PaEN]

-- Philadelphia On EPA's Top Cities For ENERGY STAR Certified Buildings List For 2023  [PaEN]

-- Duquesne Light Releases 2023 ESG Report - Playing A Central Role In SW PA Clean Energy Transition  [PaEN] 

-- Reps Powell, Pisciottano Introduce HB 2315 Establishing Tax Credit To Encourage Sustainable Energy Jobs

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: We Need Long-Term Answers To Energy Needs; Pursuit Of More Renewable Energy Can Happen Currently With Production Of Oil & Gas

-- US Senator Casey Statement On Norfolk Southern/EPA Settlement: ‘We Must Do More To Ensure Pennsylvanians Are Never Forced To Go Through This Hell Again’

-- PA Capital-Star: Federal Farm Bill Advances From US House Committee But Faces Tough Row To Hoe

-- Politics PA: PA Cong. Thompson Unveils Federal Farm Bill Text

-- PA Capital-Star: Federal Farm Bill Text Released In US House, Setting Up Fight With US Senate

-- Evangelical Environmental Network Applauds PA Cong. Thompson For Proposed Federal Farm Bill Investment In Conservation, Encouraging Dedicated Support For Climate-Focused Practices 

-- DEP Announces Award Of $980,256 To Support 56 Local Environmental Education Projects; New Grant Round Opens In August  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Local PA Environmental Education Programs Receive $980,256 In Grants From DEP Paid For By Environmental Penalties

-- Rep. Bizzarro: DEP Awards Environmental Education Grants To Asbury Woods Environmental Center And Regional Science Consortium At Presque Isle Center

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Lacawac Sanctuary Receives Grant For Environmental Stewardship Institute

-- Citizens Voice: Outdoor Environmental Education Library Opens At Dallas Intermediate School

-- Beaver County Times Guest Essay: Why RiverWise Is Paying High School Students To Learn About The County In Summer Sustainability Institute - By Daniel Rossi-Keen

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Pittsburgh Public Schools Eliminated Lead In Drinking Water, Every School Must Follow Suit

-- Environmental Health News: What Will EPA’s New Regulations For PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Drinking Water Mean For Pennsylvania

-- Republican Herald: Frackville Law Office Provides Legal Representation To Clients Exposed To Cancer-Causing PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

-- WNEP: PA American Water Issues Warning On High Manganese Levels, Mixing Baby Formula In Monroe County

-- Penn State Extension Hosts June 19 Webinar On Testing Emerging Contaminant Mixtures In PA Private Wells  [PaEN]

-- AP: EPA Warns Of Increasing Cyberattacks On Water Systems, Urges Utilities To Take Immediate Action

-- EPA Outlines Enforcement Measures To Help Prevent Cybersecurity Attacks And Protect The Nation’s Drinking Water

-- Call For Presentation Proposals: PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct. 22-24 In State College  [PaEN] 

-- PA Capital-Star: Mine Safety Advocates Urge US Senate Committee To Do More To Help Coal Miners With Black Lung Disease

-- Observer-Reporter: Fire Destroys Coal Waste Processing Facility At Consol’s Bailey Mine Complex 

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: No Injuries Reported In Fire At Coal Waste Refinery

-- WPXI: Chemical Fire At Consol Energy Plant In Washington County Causes Roof To Cave In

-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership: 125 PA Trout Streams Deserve A Conservation Status 

-- Spotlight PA: PA State Government Refuses To Pay Local Stormwater Fees, Bill Would Force It To 

-- PA Assn. Of Conservation Districts Awarded Nearly $37,000 To Support 21 District Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Projects  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster County Master Watershed Stewards Host June 27 Swarr Run Stream Restoration Workshop  [PaEN] 

-- LancasterOnline: Tour Of Swarr Run To Showcase Stream Restoration Techniques

-- Reading Eagle: Reading’s New Baer Park Rain Garden, Splash Pads Dedicated

-- PennLive: Federal Funding For Paxton Creek Redesign Will Help Replace Sewer Lines, Reduce Flooding In Dauphin County

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Harrisburg’s Paxton Creek Flooding Problem Is Target Of $1.25 Million In Grants

-- Altoona Mirror Letter: Rutters Needs To Be Environment Friendly; Protect Old Crow Wetlands Area In Huntingdon County 

-- North Branch Land Trust Awarded American Water Charitable Foundation 2024 Water And Environment Grant [PaEN]

-- USDA NRCS Celebrate American Wetlands Month - Nature’s Conservation Superheros

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Will The Schuylkill River Ever Be Clean Enough To Swim In?  A City Group Hopes So

-- WHYY: Philly Residents Eligible To Receive $25 From Class-Action Settlement Over 2023 Delaware River Chemical Spill 

-- EPA Announces Availability Of $14 Million In Brownfields Job Training Grants Under Investing in America Agenda   [PaEN]

-- EPA Announces $16 Million In Brownfield Grants To Rehabilitate, Revitalize Communities In Pennsylvania  [PaEN] 

-- Tribune-Democrat: EPA Awards Cresson Twp. Funding For Former Cresson Ridge Industrial Site

-- WHYY: Cleanup Of Former Oil Terminal Near Bartram’s Garden Gets Boost With EPA Funds

-- Erie Times: Redevelopment Authority Lands EPA Brownfields Grant To Clean Up Old Factories

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Dead Fish, Spoiled Milk And Human Waste: Food-Waste Fertilizers Turn Up Noses

-- PA Resources Council Offering Free Learn About Composting Online Workshop May 29  [PaEN]

-- Republican Herald: Shenandoah To Clean Up Littered Area, Set Up Trail Cameras To Deter Illegal Dumping

-- WHYY: Doylestown Twp. Passes Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban

-- LehighValleyNews.com: PA Lawmaker Introduces Lithium Ion Battery Recycling Bill

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Outdoor Recreation Gets Another State-Sponsored Pitch

-- TribLive: Riding The Great Allegheny Passage Trail, Gov. Shapiro Talks Nippon Steel, Steelers, Tourism And Biden

-- Scranton Times: Gov.. Shapiro Talks Tourism While Fishing At Lake Wallenpaupack

-- City & State PA: Shapiro Touts PA As The ‘Great American Getaway’ Ahead Of America250 Celebration In 2026

-- ClearWater Conservancy Kicks Off 8th Season Of Centre Outdoors Offering Free Guided Group Outings Starting June 2 Thru October In Centre County  [PaEN] 

-- DCNR Announces Expansion Of Program Supplying Free Sunscreen At State Parks

-- DCNR: Northcentral Regional ATV Trail Opens For 2024 Riding Season

-- Williamsport Sun: Michael Kinney, Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper, Continues Paddling Along The West Branch

-- WNEP: Pedestrian Bridge Will Soon Connect 2 Sections Of Frances Slocum State Park

-- Republican Herald: Pinchot State Forest Holds Many Outdoors Treasurers To Enjoy And Explore

-- York Dispatch: Lake Williams Reopening For Recreation As Dam Project Nears Completion

-- NextPittsburgh: Gateway Woods Project Creates 396-Acre Greenway In Monroeville, Allegheny County 

-- TribLive: Advocates Laud ‘Long Overdue’ Effort To Boost Frick Park Access For Disabled People

-- Scranton Times: Scranton Bike Coalition Aims To Unite Community Through Cycling

-- TribLive: Bicycle Group Helps Seniors Cruise Through Their Golden Years

-- Friends Of Wissahickon: Construction Begins On Valley Green Run Restoration And Pedestrian Bridge Project In Philadelphia 

-- WNEP: A Spin On D&H Rail Trail In Susquehanna County

-- Erie Times: Erie’s Harmful Algal Bloom Season Could Arrive Soon 

-- Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust Protecting 41-Acre June Fete Fairgrounds In Montgomery County  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Land In And Around Two PA Military Installations Protected As Sentinel Landscapes 

-- Chester County Awards French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust $623,765 To Preserve 4 Environmentally Sensitive Properties Totaling 228 Acres  [PaEN] 

-- Berks Nature, Partners Protect 131 Acres In Schuylkill County And Kittatinny Ridge  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna National Heritage Area, Conservation Fund Partner To Preserve Historic 87 Acre Farmstead In York County  [PaEN] 

-- Heritage Conservancy Completes Conservation Easement Preserving 29.3 Acres In Northampton County  [PaEN]

-- Natural Lands Preserves Additional 22 Acres In Stone Hill Greenway, Montgomery County  [PaEN] 

-- Allegheny Land Trust Permanently Protects Former Hospital Site In Allegheny County  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front/WVIA: How The Tannersville Cranberry Bog Formed 13,000 Years Ago In Monroe County

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Philly Collects 2,000 Tons Of Downed Trees A Year, Now It’s Selling Them As Lumber

-- Lancaster Farming: Meet The Man Scaling The Tallest Trees In Each Of PA’s 67 Counties 

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - A Closer Look At The Aspen Tree

-- PA Capital-Star: PA House Committee Sets Sights On Game Commission Transparency And Ethics Issues; Overshadows Vote To End Sunday Hunting Restrictions

-- Lancaster Farming: Farmers Weigh In As House Committee Advances Sunday Hunting Bill

-- LancasterOnline: Donated Bird-Safe Glass Will Soon Grace 3 Lancaster County Sites

-- Game Commission: Springtime Alert - Leave Young Wildlife Alone 

-- Altoona Mirror: Blair Conservation District Receives DEP Grant To Host Four BioBlitz Events For Students 

-- Penn State Pollinator Experts Author New Book Exploring The Lives Of Bees 

-- TribLive Letter: Take Care Of The Bees - By Michael Steinfeld

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[Posted: May 26, 2024]   PA Environment Digest