March 25 PA Environment Digest Now Available

The March 25 PA Environment Digest is now available.

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[ Headlines ]

PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Planning Steering Committee Workgroup Estimates Funding Gap Of $1.467 Billion Over Next 6 Years

Growing Greener Coalition Urges New Investment In Restoring The Environment, Preventing Flooding, No Backsliding On Existing Funding

Growing Greener Coalition Call To Action:  Make New Investments In Restoring The Environment, Oppose Backsliding

House Committee To Consider Bills To Compensate Landowners For Drilling Rights If DRBC Adopts Fracking Ban, Change Well Pad Permitting March 26

House Environmental Committee Holds Info Meeting March 27 On Debunking Modern Myths Surrounding Climate Change

Op-Ed: Trout Unlimited Supports Common Sense Federal Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act

Op-Ed: Science, Panic And Politics Of Climate Change

Phipps' Center For Sustainable Landscapes In Pittsburgh First Project In World To Be Awarded SITES Platinum Certification

Sustainable Pittsburgh Announces Winners Of Sustainable Pittsburgh Challenge

Westmoreland Conservation District To Receive Governor's Environmental Excellence Award

Award-Winning Master Watershed Steward Projects Across Pennsylvania

Ted Evgeniadis, Lower Susquehanna RiverKeeper, Recognized By York County Master Watershed Stewards

DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanians: Jodi Sulpizio, York County Watershed Steward

Fayette County Boy Scout Peter Livengood Awarded William T. Hornaday Silver Medal For Conservation

Op-Ed: Will Our Dirt Roads Again Be Used As Dumping Sites For Oil & Gas Well Wastewater

[ News From The Capitol ]

Senate/House Bills Moving Last Week

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

House Committee Reports Out Bill Creating Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force

House Environmental Committee Reports Out Bill Allowing Cross Unit Drilling Under Several Properties, Voluntary Pooling

PA Parks & Forests Foundation Tells House Committee: State Parks & Forests Are The Golden Egg, But We’re Starving The Goose

Presenters Urge House Committee To Support Bill Compensating Landowners For Drilling Rights If DRBC Adopts A Fracking Ban

Joint Conservation Committee Meeting Highlights Initiatives To Boost Bicycle Tourism Along PA Route 6

Bill Authorizing Fish & Boat Commission To Set Own Fees To Be Considered By House Committee On March 25

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership: Call Your House Member To Support Bill To Allow Fish & Boat Commission To Adopt Its Own Fees

Senate Agriculture Committee Holds Hearing On Redding As Secretary Of Agriculture April 9

[ The Feds ]

Conservation District Leader From PA Presses Case For Strong Federal Conservation Funding In DC

PA Receives $53.8 Million In 2019 Federal Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Funds, Reclamation Fee Due To Expire

PA Projects Receive Over $1.7 Million In Federal Delaware River Watershed Restoration Grants

Susquehanna National Heritage Area Officially Designated By Congress

[ Regulatory Agenda ]

Updated Agency-By-Agency Regulatory Agenda Published By Governor’s Office

[ Water ]

DCNR Good Natured Blog: Making Progress Toward A Goal Of Planting More Trees Along Streams

Penn State Brook Trout Researchers Featured In New Expedition Chesapeake Film

Bay Journal: Exelon, Maryland Spar Over Who Is Responsible For Nutrients Passing Over Conowingo Dam

NFWF Accepting Applications For Delaware Watershed Restoration Grants

Penn State Water Insights Seminar March 26: Seeking Opportunities To Reduce The Impact Of Flood Events

Penn State Extension: Spring’s A Good Time To Do Pond Inspections

PA Rural Water Assn. Will Hold Annual Conference March 26-29 In State College, Including Seminar On Zebra Mussels, Algal Blooms

EQB Invites Comments On Changes To Class A Stream Redesignations, April 26 Hearing Set

[ Education ]

CBF-PA: Media Invited To Paddle Along As Students Explore Local PA Waterways

Wildlands Conservancy Highlights Educational Programs, Activities Coming Up In April

[ Sustainability ]

PA Green Colleges Hold Conference On Sustainable Development Goals And Higher Education April 9 In State College

[ Litter Cleanup - Recycling ]

Pennsylvania Seeks Volunteers For Statewide Spring Cleanup, Beautification Effort

Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Stream Cleanup Set For April 6 In Montgomery County

PA Resources Council, Partners Hold Reuse Fest As Part Of FutureFest April 20 In Allegheny County

[ Air ]

May 14 DEP Hearing On Proposed RACT II Air Quality Plan For Specialty Tires Plant, Indiana County

Hearing May 14 On Proposed DEP RACT II Air Quality Plan For Texas Eastern Compressor Plant In Cambria County

[ Energy ]

March 27 DEP Meeting On Proposed Drilling Permits At U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant, Allegheny County

PUC Pipeline Safety Investigation Underway Involving Possible Sunoco Gasoline Pipeline Leak In Berks County On March 17

Dueling Press Conferences Pit Opponents Of Mariner East Pipeline Against Those Supporting Pipeline Development

PJM: Reliability, Fuel Supply Strong In PJM During 2018-19 Winter

Community Solar Legislative Forum April 3 In Wilkes-Barre

[ Women Environmental Professionals ]

Greater Philadelphia Society Of Women Environmental Professionals Accepting Applications For Scholarships

Capital Chapter Society Of Women Environmental Professionals Annual Conference April 25

The Energy Co-op’s Alexandra Kroger Appointed Philadelphia WRISE Chapter President

[ Recreation - Forests - Native Plants ]

DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council Meets March 27 To Discuss Update To PA Outdoor Recreation Plan

William Penn Foundation Announced Creative Communities Grant Awards Totaling $2.6 Million

Pike County Outdoors Guide For Sportsmen, Outdoor Enthusiasts Now Available

Fort Indiantown Gap Begins Spring 2019 Prescribed Burn Season In Lebanon County

DCNR Good Natured Blog: Native Plant Conservation Gets Renewed Focus In PA, Meeting April 26

March 20 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR

PA Environmental Council Welcomes Trails Program Manager Brett Hollern

[ Wildlife ]

Game Commission: 2018-19 Deer Harvest At 374,690 Largest Since 2004-05

Wildlife Honors Students Get Hands-On Experience In Pennsylvania’s Elk Range

Peregrine Falcon Nests: Pittsburgh - 4 Eggs, Harrisburg- 2 Eggs; Egg Watch On For PPL Building In Allentown

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Kicks Off Spring Migration Season With Raptorthon March 30

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