Monday, June 2, 2025

June 2 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” 

-- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution  [It’s Not A Suggestion]


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153 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA


Stories You May Have Missed Last Week: PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic


In Memoriam: DCNR State Park Ranger Alec Campbell


In Memoriam: DCNR Mourns The Death Of Dave Warfel, Weiser State Forest, Wildland Fire Academy Instructor


In Memoriam: Gerry Kaufman Founder Of The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership In Montgomery County And Philadelphia


DCNR Celebrates Path Of The Flood Trail In Cambria County As PA's 2025 Trail Of The Year


Master Watershed Steward Christine Boyle Makes A Splash In Luzerne County


Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Network Honors Lancaster County Project To Capture And Treat Over 16 Million Gallons Of Stormwater In Long's Park


Lakeshore Towing & Marine Services, Inc. Recognized With Keep PA Beautiful Community Pride Award For Helping To Install 2 Litter Control Booms In Presque Isle Bay, Erie


DEP: XTO Energy Failed To Restore 5 Multi-Million Gallon Shale Gas Water Impoundments In Butler County


PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 24 to 31 -- Failed To Restore 5 Shale Gas Water Impoundments In One County; 5 New Cases Of Defective Shale Well Cement; More Abandoned Shale, Conventional Wells


DEP Invites Comments On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities; 7 Hearings Set


Inside Climate News: PennEnergy Surrenders Water Withdrawal Approval/Permit Saying Big Sewickley Creek In Beaver County Could Not Provide Enough Water For Shale Gas Operations


PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 31


Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved 45 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In April; 187 In 2025


Guest Essay: Doubling Down On Pennsylvania's Fossil Fuel Extraction Is A Direct Threat To Public Health And Ecological Stability


DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets June 10 To Hear Presentations From The Evangelical Environmental Network, Susquehanna River Basin Commission


Gov. Shapiro Makes State Disaster Funding Available, Secures Federal SBA Low-Interest Loans To Support Flood Victims In Somerset, Bedford, Cambria, Fayette And Westmoreland Counties


PA Elected Officials, Consumer, Clean Energy Advocates Demand Electric Grid Operator PJM Act To Hold Down Electricity Costs


Gov. Shapiro Provides Update On The Fight To Lower Energy Prices, Calls On General Assembly To Move His Commonsense Lightning Energy Plan


Bloomberg: US DOE Orders 760 MW Eddystone Peaking Power Plant In Delaware County To Remain Open Due To The Energy ‘Emergency’ Declared By The President


PA Solar Center Hosts June 5 Lodestar Awards To Recognize 20 Business, School, Farm, Church Solar Energy Projects; Featuring DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn


DEP Begins Accepting Applications For Grid Resilience Grants June 2


DEP Seeking Qualified Contractors To Deliver Energy-Saving Upgrades Across PA As Part Of Penn Energy Savers Program


EPA Completes Final Cleanup Actions At Reading Drum Site Following Fires At The Lincoln Chemical Company


PA State Conservation Commission Farm Conservation Project Certification Expands Capacity To Approve More Projects


DCNR Reports Termination Of $830,862 Federal Grant To Support City Of Easton Trail, Green Space Land Acquisition Projects


May 30 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation


Berks Nature Announces Retirement Of President Kim Murphy


Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults


Cumberland County Master Gardeners: June 12 In-Person Trees For Climate Change Workshop


Penn State Extension: June 16 Community Forestry Webinar On Resolving Tree-Sidewalk Conflicts


Penn State Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts June 24 Webinar On The Pennsylvania Right To Farm Law


Penn State Extension June 25 Pennsylvania Harmful Algal Blooms Webinar


Penn State Extension Hosts In-Person Pest Biocontrol School Oct. 15 In Lancaster County


News From PA House & Senate


The Feds - New Administration


Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events


Grants & Awards


PA Bulletin Public Notices - May 31


Stories Invited - About PA Environment Digest


Supporting Member PA Outdoor Writers Assn.; PA Trout Unlimited; PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers


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-- David Hess

Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection


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[Posted: June 2, 2025]  PA Environment Digest

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