Awards/Recognition
-- Post-Gazette: Carmichaels, Lakeview High Schools Finish In Top 10 In State Envirothon
Grants
-- Rep. Fiedler: PA School Superintendents Voice Support For Solar For Schools Legislation
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: MORE Money, Less Energy: State Launches Program For Municipalities To Fund Energy Efficiency Projects
Help Wanted
-- Help Wanted: Pittsburgh-based Landforce Green Infrastructure Job Training Program
Upcoming Events
-- June 27 VideoCast On Insights Into Circularity - Keeping Plastics And Other Resources In Use For As Long As Possible - PA Recycling Markets Center [PaEN]
-- Juniata College Raystown Field Station: Leave No Trace Level 1 Instructor Course June 29-30 [PaEN]
-- PA Recycling Markets Center Hosts July 11 Battery Recycling Markets Development Summit [PaEN]
-- DEP To Hold July 15 & 16 Hearings On Phasing Out Stage II Gasoline Vapor Recovery Systems [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed 41 Acre Expansion Of Pioneer Crossing Landfill In Berks County [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Waste Permit Renewal For Kelly Run Landfill In Allegheny County [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On An Application For Air Quality Plan Approval For IRG Erie Plastics Recycling Facility [PaEN]
-- Chesapeake Bay Conservation Landscaping Council Offers Buffer Basics, Marvelous Meadows & Level 1 Landscape Professional Certification Training In PA [PaEN]
-- Registration Open! PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. 11-13 In State College [PaEN]
-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Now Accepting Applications For Women And Their Woods Educational Retreat Sept. 15-18 [PaEN]
Programs/Information
-- DCNR State Parks Environmental Education: Take A Deep Breath And Dive Into Summer! [PaEN]
-- Master Watershed Steward Marcus Ferreira - The Man Behind Philadelphia's Green Future [PaEN]
-- Penn State Students Learn Best Practices During High-Performance Building Summer Camp In Pittsburgh [PaEN]
-- WNEP: Fire Causes Delays At East Stroudsburg University’s Tick Research Lab
-- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: 24-Hour World Series Of Birding Delights Saint Vincent Students
Public Participation
-- DEP Establishes A Customer Experience Management Advisory Council To Put Customer Service Front And Center For Agency Leadership [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: PA DEP Customer Service Advisory Council Has No Customers On It
-- DCNR Forests For All Strategic Plan Online Town Hall Meeting Available On Demand; Take Survey To Provide Feedback [PaEN]
-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Proposed State Forests Plan In PA Addresses Variety Of Challenges And Needs
-- PUC Schedules Additional Hearing In Montgomery County On Proposed 25% Rate Increase For PECO
-- DCNR Holds Aug. 7 Hearing On Wild Resource Conservation Grant Applications
Background On Issues
-- House Committee Reports Out Bills To Ban Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Prohibit Use Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals’ In Consumer Products [PaEN]
-- Warren Times Guest Essay: DEP Has Been Chronically Understaffed For Years, Unable To Fulfill Its Basic Mission - By Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware)
-- House Hearing: Shapiro Administration Supports Bill Banning Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater, Prohibiting Its Use As Coproduct Under Residual Waste Regulations [PaEN]
-- House Hearing: Penn State Expert Says ‘Pennsylvania Should Ban Road Spreading Of Oil & Gas Wastewater;’ Contaminants Exceed Health, Environmental Standards [PaEN]
-- House Hearing: Penn State Center For Dirt & Gravel Road Studies Says Road Spreading Oil & Gas Wastewater Is Not An Effective Dust Suppressant, Does Not Meet Environmental Testing Standards [PaEN]
-- House Hearing: A First-Hand Account Of How Repeated, Unlimited Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Tearing Apart Dirt Roads And Creating Multiple Environmental Hazards [PaEN]
-- House Hearing: Protect PT - Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater ‘Is Disproportionately Responsible For Negative Impacts On Human Health,’ Especially From Radioactive Radium [PaEN]
-- House Hearing: On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater - ‘We Studied This For Nearly 30 Years And The Conclusions Are The Same - The Wastewater Contains Harmful Contaminants’ [PaEN]
-- House Hearing: PA State Assn. Of Township Supervisors Opposes Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Saying It’s Only Affordable Option For Dust Suppression [Plain Water Works Just As Well] [PaEN]
-- House Hearing: Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Trade Groups Oppose Bill Banning The Road Dumping Their Wastewater Saying It’s ‘Effective And Safe’ [PaEN]
-- PA Environmental Council Supports Bill To Ban Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater [PaEN]
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA House Effort Seeks To Ban Spreading Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater On Roads
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater For Dust Suppression Called Into Question
-- Bradford Era: Rural Road Dust Suppression Technique Using Oil & Gas Wastewater Called Into Question
-- The Guardian: Rare Cancers, Full-Body Rashes, Death: Did Fracking Make Their Kids Sick? [Pennsylvania]
-- Public Source: There Is Something Wrong Under New Freeport, Greene County After EQT Shale Gas Fracking
-- Public Source: DEP Takes Measured Approach To Private Water Supply Complaints Related To Oil & Gas Drilling
-- The Energy Age Blog: EQT Gives Act 14 Notices In Washington County For 8 More Wells In Union Township
-- House Committee Approves Bill Giving PA Energy Development Authority Ability To Use Federal Climate, Clean Energy Funding [PaEN]
-- Pa Capital-Star: PA Energy Financing Authority Overhaul Could Help PA Tap Billions In Energy Federal Infrastructure Money
-- PA Energy Development Authority Launches $1.8 Million Financing Program To Help Local Governments Make Energy Efficiency Upgrades [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: With ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Planned For Western PA, Some Decisions Are Malleable, Others Are Already Made
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Hydrogen Hub Boosters Promise Major Jobs, Opponents, Demand More Transparency
-- TribLive Guest Essay: Federal Rules Put PA’s Hydrogen Future At Risk - By PA Chamber Of Business & Industry
-- Natural Resources Defense Council Blog: Pennsylvania Takes A Crack At Making Virtual Power Plants A Reality
-- TribLive: US Army Corps Of Engineers Says Removal Of Nuclear Waste From Armstrong County Dump To Start Next Summer
-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Faces Headwinds In Reducing Nutrient Pollution
-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Lancaster County Waste Authority Complete Cooling Tower Retrofit At Waste-To-Energy Plant To Save Energy, Conserve Water
-- York Daily Record: After Family Became Sick, Moved, Cumberland County Farmer Wants To Inform About Food Processing Residuals
-- Scranton Times: DEP Cites Keystone Landfill For Exceeding Leachate Storage Limits
-- Reading Eagle: Delaware County Plans To Divert More Than A 250,000 Tons Of Trash To Berks Landfill
-- Scranton Times: Dunmore Asks DEP For Enhanced Air Monitoring Around Keystone Landfill, Landfill Defends Current System
-- York Daily Record: After Family Became Sick, Moved, Cumberland County Farmer Wants To Inform About Food Processing Residuals
-- DCNR Blog: Parks, Forests, Trails Help Make Pennsylvania - The Great American Getaway
-- WTAE: Tips For Staying Safe On The Water This Summer
-- TribLive: Lower Burrell Seeks Ways To Mitigate Extensive Algae Bloom At Burrell Lake Park In Westmoreland
-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Wildlife As Pets? It’s Illegal And A Really Bad Idea
-- Inside Climate News: Will The Lightning Bug Show Go On?
-- House Adopts Rep. Matzie’s Pollinator Week Resolution
Visit the DEP Calendar of Events; 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 16, 2024] PA Environment Digest
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