98 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 98 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!

-- Sand County Foundation Selects 3 Finalists For Pennsylvania Leopold Farm Conservation Award  [PaEN] 

-- Cecil Township Supervisors Direct Solicitor To Prepare Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads By At Least 2,500 Feet; Another Hearing, Vote Expected Nov. 4   [PaEN] 

-- Southwestern PA Community, Health Organizations To Hold Sept. 17 Online Press Event - One Year After Pitt Shale Gas Health Impacts Studies And The Failure To Fulfill Essential Promises Made To Residents  [PaEN]  

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: What’s The Health Risk Of Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In PA?  Regulators Want To Know 

-- Natural Resources Defense Council Blog: Fracking Loopholes Remain, With More Sick Families In Communities [Includes Pennsylvania Examples] 

-- WESA: New Freeport, Greene County Residents File Lawsuit Against EQT Gas Drilling Company Over Contaminated Water Supplies  [PaEN]

-- WESA: New Freeport, Greene County Residents File Lawsuit Against EQT Gas Drilling Company Over Contaminated Water Supplies 

-- PublicSource.org: New Freeport, Greene County Residents In Federal Court Demanding Clean Water From EQT Natural Gas Company After Frack-Out  

-- TheDailyClimate.org: PA’s CNX Resources Gas Drilling Company With More Than 2,000 Environmental Violations Selected For Federal Hydrogen Hub Environmental Justice Funding 

-- TribLive Letter: Between 2016-2023 PA Households Paid 51% More For Natural Gas As LNG Gas Exports Surged; Shale Gas Drillers Accumulate 81,289 Environmental Violations - By Jan Milburn, Westmoreland County

-- PUC Publishes Final Public Utility Owned Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Standards In Sept. 14 PA Bulletin  [Read background here ]

-- House Committee Sets Sept. 17 Hearing On PA One Call Underground Utility Notification Program Reauthorization; Almost All Conventional Gas/Oil Pipelines Specifically Excluded  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 7 to 13 - 12,600+ Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Release; 1,000 Gallon+ Subsurface Conventional Wastewater Spill; 28+ Abandoned Wells; Stray Gas Investigation In Elk Viewing Area  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Finds Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Sprayed & Leaked 12,600+ Gallons For Nearly 3 Hours In Gilmore Twp., Greene County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Reports Subsurface Release Of An Estimated 1,000 Gallons Of Wastewater At Hebron Gas Storage Field Conventional Well In Hebron Twp., Potter County; Water Supplies Impacted, Report Well Problems To DEP Near This Facility  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Issues Violation To Apex Energy (PA) LLC For Failure To Submit List Of Fracking Chemicals For 37 Shale Gas Wells Over 6 Years In Westmoreland County  [PaEN]

-- WHYY Climate Fixers - Susan Phillips: A 20,000 Square Foot Philly Building Ditched Natural Gas By Tapping Into The Heat Beneath Our Feet

-- Senate Hearing: Landowner Concerns About Liability For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells May Be Impediment To Plugging Leaking Wells; Need To Make Plugging Programs More Effective To Deal With ‘Growing Problem’  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Declares 21 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Owned By Schreiner Oil & Gas Inc. Abandoned, Not Plugged In Erie, McKean Counties; 747 Violations For Conventional Well Abandonment This Year  [PaEN]  

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: State’s $100,000+ Cost To Plug Abandoned/Orphan Wells ‘Outrageously Enormous;’ Taking Care Of Problem No Simple Task  

-- Groundbreaking Initiative Using Drones To Locate Orphan, Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania Kicks Off  [PaEN]

-- The Derrick - John Bartlett: An Eye In The Sky Will Seek Old Oil, Gas Wells  [PDF of Article]  

-- Baker Hughes: PA Shale Gas Drilling Rigs Drop Another 2 From Last Week To 14 - On Aug. 23 There Were 21 - 33% Drop [Effort To Raise Natural Gas Prices Continues]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Coterra Energy Pulling All Active Marcellus Drilling Rigs From Susquehanna County Until Natural Gas Price Recovers  [PDF of Article]  [Dimock Is In This County]

-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Shale Gas Drilling Slowed In 2024, Prices Expected To Rise This Winter

-- Governing Magazine: Oil & Gas Towns Don’t Need Help Now, But They Will As World Shifts To Clean Energy 

-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Methane Emissions Much Higher Than Gas Industry Targets, EDF Study Says  

-- US DOE Now Accepting Applications For $15 Million In Funding To Reduce  Methane Emissions From Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells

-- Governing Magazine: Oil & Gas Towns Don’t Need Help Now, But They Will As World Shifts To Clean Energy 

-- Environmental Quality Board Approves Proposed Stream Redesignations For Public Comment; Votes Down Motion To Decouple Truck Emission Standards From California In 2 Years  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Company To Be Featured In $1 Million Project To Define ‘Regenerative Poultry’

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: City Of Lancaster Getting More Trees, Thanks To A Grant From The GIANT Company, Keep PA Beautiful

-- Secretaries Of Maryland Dept. Of Natural Resources, PA DCNR Discuss Water Quality Goals, Potential Interstate Trail Connections At Joint Event

-- Volunteer Gary Grahl Finds Next 'Career' As A Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward In Berks County  [PaEN] 

-- Gettysburg Times: What’s In Your Water? - By Adams County Master Watershed Stewards

-- Chester County News: Stroud Water Research Center In Avondale Is Pioneering Watershed Health

-- Horn Farm Agricultural Education Center Launches New Ecological Restoration Certification, Ecological Gardener Training Programs  [PaEN] 

-- LancasterOnline - Erin Negley: New Law Limits Grass Fertilizer In PA; Free Sept. 11 Webinar Teaches How To Feed Your Lawn

-- Forests For The Chesapeake Bay News: Planning For Resilience; Loblolly Pine; Upcoming Events; News Around The Watershed

-- Penn State Extension Hosts Oct. 17 Webinar - Adenosine Triphosphate In Algal Bloom Tracking  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Invites Comments On Draft PA Great Lakes Water Management Program 5-Year Report  [PaEN]

-- FEMA: President Issues Tropical Storm Debby Disaster Declaration For Lycoming, Potter, Tioga, Union Counties

-- Williamsport Sun: Biden Signs Federal Disaster Declaration For Lycoming, Potter, Tioga, Union Counties Due To Flooding From Tropical Storm Debby  

-- PennLive: Cleanup Continues In Perry County After Damage From Devastating August Rainstorm

-- WNEP: Marking 1 Year Since Severe Flash Flooding In Lackawanna County

-- Williamsport Sun Letter: Stream ‘Cleaning’ Could Be Key To Flood Prevention - By Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming)  [Senate Bills 689 & 690  Read real story here.]

-- Group Against Smog & Pollution Lauds Allegheny County Board Of Health Approval Of Revised Fee Schedule To Fund Air Quality Program

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists Question PA Company’s Plan To Use Plastic Waste To Make Steel

-- Shapiro Administration Announces $75 Million In Environmental Repair Grants To 109 School Districts To Deal With Lead, Asbestos, Mold, Other Contaminants

-- Vote Solar, Solar United Neighbors, 60+ Groups Urge PA Senate To Unlock Community Solar Energy Benefits By Taking Action On Bipartisan Legislation  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Environmental, Education, Labor Advocates Celebrate New ‘Solar For Schools’ Grant Program

-- WESA: Program To Help Power PA Schools With Solar Energy Will Go Online Soon

-- US Dept. Of Energy Awards $20 Million To Improve Siting Of Renewable Energy Facilities; $1.96 Million To PA  [PaEN]

-- Shapiro Administration Secures $1.96 Million US DOE Grant To Help Communities Build Out Clean, Renewable Energy Projects

-- The Keystone: PA Received Over $1.08 Billion In Clean Energy Investments From Federal Inflation Reduction Act

-- Grist: Coalition Of PA Trade Unions Launch New Clean Energy Advocacy Group-- Union Energy

-- Centre Daily Times: Climate Action, Resiliency A Team Effort In Centre County

-- Ohio River Valley Institute, Black Appalachian Coalition Host Sept. 19 Webinar On Environmental Justice & Building A Clean Energy Economy  [PaEN] 

-- Ohio River Valley Institute: $55 Million Federally-Funded Tenaska Carbon Geologic Sequestration Project Expected To Permanently Employ 4 People, According To A WV University Study  [PaEN] 

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Growing Demand For Power, But No Clean Plan For PJM Grid Operator

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: ‘Good Bones:’ A New Life For The Former Bruce Mansfield Coal Power Plant Could Mean It Stays Put; Possible Conversion To Gas Due To High PJM Electricity Prices 

-- WHYY: Low-Income Philadelphians Continue To Face High Energy Costs, Analysis Finds

-- Utility Dive: Rising Power Prices Increase Credit Risk For Utilities - Moody’s  [PJM Price Spikes Included] 

-- Post-Gazette: US Dept. Of Labor Electric Vehicle Apprenticeship Program Coming To Pittsburgh

-- Dickinson College Included In AASHE Sustainable Campus Index For Third Straight Year

-- WHYY Climate Fixers: PA Flax Project Wants To Use A ‘Climate-Positive’ Plant To Transform Fashion Industry

-- PA Resources Council What’s Up Watershed: Beautiful Your Yard With Three Native Plants!

-- WESA: Pittsburgh Environmental Charter School’s New CEO Goes Back To School

-- Williamsport Sun: Just 3 Floating Classroom Programs Left For This Year

-- Independence Conservancy Hosts Waste Tire Collection Events In Beaver, Washington Counties [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Weather Cooperating For 16th Allegheny River Cleanup

-- Countryside Conservancy, Peck Family Partner On Preservation Of 420-Acres In Susquehanna County  [PaEN] 

-- The Allegheny Front: Countryside Conservancy Preserves Peck Family Land In Susquehanna County For Future Generations To Enjoy

-- North Branch Land Trust Partners With Estate Of Robert L. Carson Family To Conserve 94 Acres In Columbia County  [PaEN] 

-- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council Meets Sept. 25 On Sustainability And Green Infrastructure Initiatives; Ecological, Economic Benefits Of Restoration Work  [PaEN] 

-- Sept. 13 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- DCNR To Host Programs In 25 State Parks For Girl Scouts Love State Parks Weekend Sept. 13-15

-- Olean Times Herald: $72,000 Appalachian Regional Commission Grant To Support Trail Connectivity In NY, PA [PA Environmental Council]   

-- TribLive: Construction To Begin For 1-Mile Leechburg Bike Trail In Armstrong County

-- Times Of Chester County Guest Essay: Trails Are No Longer A Luxury, But A Must-Have In Many Communities - By Patrick Starr, PA Environmental Council 

-- Warren Times Editorial: Plan For More Jakes Rocks Trails Success

-- Observer-Reporter: Greens Bring Green$: Trails Like Panhandle, Montour, Great Allegheny Passage Support Local Businesses

-- TribLive: Greensburg Approves Plan To Improve Infrastructure For Walking, Cycling With WalkWorks Grant 

-- NextPittsburgh: 10 Great Creeks To Explore Around Pittsburgh

-- Reading Eagle: Input Sought On Improvements For Recreation Area Along Schuylkill River In Southeastern Berks

-- TribLive: Unity Twp. Supervisors Give Solicitor OK To Address ATV Use, Reject Resident’s Proposal In Westmoreland

-- Manada Conservancy, Partners To Host Sept. 26 Climate Change & Penn's Woods; Oct. 6 Walk In Penn's Woods Events In Dauphin County  [PaEN]

-- Dept. Of Agriculture: Invasive Box Tree Moth Discovered In Erie, High-Value Ornamental Shrubs Threatened

-- Erie Times: Invasive Box Tree Moth Found In Erie, Limiting Some Plant Sales; What To Know

-- WHYY: Invasive Box Tree Moth Spotted In Western PA: What To Know About The Threat It Poses And How To Control It

-- The Allegheny Front: Citizen Help Wanted Collecting Spotted Lanternflies So Saint Vincent College Scientists Can Track Them

-- PA Natural Heritage Program Wild Heritage News Highlights Partners & Priorities In Invasive Species Management, Aquatic Mushrooms And Much More  [PaEN]

-- PA Firefly Festival Newsletter Reflects On 2024 Firefly Festival Week; Describes Firefly Education Services And More  [PaEN] 

-- NextPittsburgh: After 87 Years, Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies Return To Pittsburgh Thanks To Pawpaws

-- NextPittsburgh: How My Backyard Project Helped Bring Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies Back To Pittsburgh

-- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Re-Introducing The Extinct Guam Kingfisher One Chick At A Time, Pittsburgh National Aviary

-- Warren Times: State Police Corporals Swoop In To Rescue Red-Tailed Hawk

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[Posted: September 15, 2024]   PA Environment Digest