June 25 PA Environment Digest Is Now Available

The June 25 PA Environment Digest is now available.

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[ Headlines ]

EPA Outlines Specific Expectations For PA To Meet In The Next Phase Of Chesapeake Bay Restoration, And The Consequences If We Don’t

Senate, House Send Budget Bills To Wolf, Includes Funding For 35 New DEP Positions, Few Other Changes

Fiscal Code Bill Goes To Governor With New Private Dam Financial Assurance Program, ATV Trails Provisions

PUC Distributes $209.5 Million In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees, Total Fee Revenue Tops $1.4 Billion

PA Environmental Council: Putting A Price On Carbon Would Spur Energy Competition, Help Nuclear Power Plants

More Than 86,000 Pennsylvanians Work In Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency Jobs

PEC Honors Cycling Advocate Robert Thomas, Philadelphia Water Commissioner Debra McCarty, Philadelphia Eagles Go Green Program

Wolf Administration Recognizes PA's 2 Green Ribbon Schools From Allegheny County 

State, Local Partners Celebrate Wissahickon Forbidden Drive Trail As Trail Of The Year

Amazon Names Stroud Water Research Center's Model My Watershed A City On A Cloud Innovation Challenge Winner

PA Conservation Heritage WITF Documentary Justice In Chester Now Available Online

Eastern Hellbender STILL Waits For House Action To Name It Official State Symbol Of Clean Water

[ News From The Capitol ]

Bills On Governor's Desk

Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced

Alternative Utility Ratemaking Bill To Encourage Conservation, Infrastructure Investment Goes To Governor

Senate Bill Updating Littering, Illegal Dumping Penalties Goes To Governor

House Bill To Limit Eminent Domain Use On Land Protected By Conservation Easements Goes To Governor

House Committee OKs Bills To Fund Natural Gas Service Extensions, Replace Lead Water Service Lines

Nuclear Energy Caucus: Testimony Highlights Environmental Impacts Of Premature Shutdown Of Nuclear Power Plants

Competitive Electricity, Natural Gas Supplier Marketing Topic Of House Consumer Affairs Hearing

Senate Committee OKs Pipeline Eminent Domain Landowner Bill Of Rights Legislation

House Environmental Committee Again Cancels Meeting On Bill To Implement Governor’s Oil & Gas Well Permitting Reforms

House Adopts Resolution Asking Auditor General To Audit PennVEST Nonpoint Source Program As A Result Of Timber Loan

House Recognizes July As Lake Appreciation Month

[ Disaster Aid ]

Gov. Wolf Requests Federal Disaster Aid For Allegheny, Westmoreland Landslide Damage

[ Water ]

DEP Expands Small Business Advantage Grants To Farm Conservation Projects

Lehigh/Northampton Master Watershed Steward Trainees Complete Training

Capital RC&D, South Mountain Partnership Invite Ideas On Watershed Programs In Southcentral PA

York County Held First Of 3 Public Meetings On Flooding, Water Pollution Solutions

Reminder: Call For Proposals: 2018 Chesapeake Watershed Forum Nov. 2-4 In Shepherdstown, WV

Become A Rain Garden Volunteer In Naylors Watershed, Delaware County

PRC: Students Serve As Stream Stewards In Delaware County, Your School May Be Eligible

Labatt USA Partners With Three Rivers WaterKeeper To Promote Local Water Stewardship In Western PA

Partnership For Delaware Estuary Accepting Schuylkill Shots Photo Contest Entries

Penn State Extension LearnNow Video Discusses Tips For A Healthier Pond

June Catalyst Newsletter Now Available From Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition

Penn State Extension Watershed Winds Newsletter Now Available

[ Litter - Illegal Dumping Cleanup ]

ORSANCO River Sweep A Success In PA, 400+ Volunteers Picked Up 35 Tons Of Trash

Vote Now! For Your Favorite 2018 Great American Cleanup Of PA Video

Keep PA Beautiful: Start Registering Cleanup Events For International Coastal Cleanup

Summer Newsletter Now Available From PA Resources Council

[ Land Recycling ]

EPA Awards $500,000 Supplemental Funding For Montgomery County Brownfields

[ West Nile Virus ]

DEP: West Nile Virus Found In 9 More Counties This Week Bringing Total To 12

[ Energy ]

PUC Releases Summer Readiness Reports From Electric Utilities, PA Added 1.247 Gigawatts Of New Electric Generation

PennDOT: Altoona CNG Transit Fueling Station Opens In Blair County

PUC Invites Comments On Proposed Policy Statement On Alternative Ratemaking

FERC Gives OK For Several Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Projects To Proceed Without Federal Power Licenses, Other Projects Move Forward

[ Interns ]

DEP Blog: Empowering DEP's Interns, Helping Young Falcons Take Flight

[ Spotted LanternFly ]

Agriculture To Host A Live Spotted LanternFly Q/A On Facebook June 26

[ Recreation - Land Conservation ]

Friends of Minsi Lake Need Your Help On Lake Habitat Project In Northampton County

Central PA Conservancy Acquires Mountain Tract On Kittatinny Ridge In Cumberland County

Fish & Boat Commission Accepting Applications For Boating Infrastructure Grants

Applications Now Being Accepted By Fish & Boat Commission For Clean Vessel Act Grants

Straight Talk: Anglers, Boaters Declare Your Independence, General Assembly Should Act On Fee Bill

Op-Ed: Reflections: Practice Good Science, Do The Right Things For The Resource, And Tell The Truth

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