100 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 100 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!

-- Wilkes-Barre Times Editorial: Wildfire Smoke A Reminder Of Our Shared Vulnerability  [PaEN]

-- Tribune-Review Column: Where There's Smoke, There's Wildfires And Serious Questions To Answer - By Lori Falce, Tribune-Review Community Engagement Editor  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star - John Micek: What The Wildfires Teach Us - We Might Not Survive Our Own Climate Foolishness, But The Planet Will Go On Spinning Without Us

-- Centre Daily Times: Climate Watch - Baseball: The Common Ground On Climate Change

-- DCNR Celebrates Susquehanna River North Branch As 2023 River Of The Year  [PaEN]

-- Citizens Voice: River Of The Year Nod Could Boost Event Attendance Along Susquehanna

-- Republican Herald: - Doyle Dietz: Schuylkill River Sojourn Celebrates Its 25th Year June 17-23  

-- Senate Confirms Cindy Adams Dunn As Secretary of the Department Of Conservation & Natural Resources  [PaEN]

-- York County Conservation District 2023 Envirothon Involved Nearly 800 Students Countywide  [PaEN]

-- NextPittsburgh: Rhonda Phillips Brings Decades Of Sustainability Research To New Role As Chatham University President 

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 3 to 9:   Plugged Conventional Well Frack-Out; 10 More NOVs For Abandoning Conventional Wells  [PaEN]

-- Better Path Coalition: June 22 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing With Laurie Barr On Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Wells  [PaEN] 

-- Inside Climate News: Abandoned Conventional Oil/Natural Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens, Other Harmful Pollutants In PA, Study Shows  [PaEN]

-- Inside Climate News - Stacey Burling: $400 Million In Federal Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Plugging Funds In PA, But It’s Not Enough; Hazards Include EQT Frack-Out In Greene County; More Wells Being Abandoned All The Time 

-- EPA Invites Comments On Proposed Oil/Gas Waste Underground Injection Well In Fayette County; July 11 Virtual Public Hearing Set  [PaEN]

-- Federal Court Declines To Prohibit PA Environmental Hearing Board From Hearing Appeals Of DEP Permits Issued For Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline Project  [PaEN]

-- PennRecord.com: Judge Partially Sustains Objections In Natural Gas Pipeline Trespass Lawsuit In Allegheny County

-- Richmond Register: PA Company Fairmont Brine Settles Charges Of Illegally Dumping WV Radioactive Fracking Waste In Kentucky 

-- WBOY: WV DEP Testing After Fairmount Brine Plant Fire/Explosion Shows No Signs Of Contamination

-- House Committee Reports Out Bill Requiring The Evaluation Of Cumulative Impacts Of Some New Pollution Sources On Communities Already Burdened By Pollution; And Other Bills  [PaEN]

-- Republicans, Shale Gas Industry Oppose House Bill Requiring The Evaluation Of Cumulative Impacts Of Some New Pollution Sources On Communities Already Burdened By Pollution  [PaEN]

-- Residents, Environmental Groups Rally Against Shell Petrochemical Plant's Pollution In Beaver County  [PaEN]

-- Beaver County Times: Activists Ask County Leaders To Support Greater Oversight Of Shell Petrochemical Plant

-- Beaver County Times Guest Essay: Beaver County Commissioners Meeting About Shell Petrochemical Plant Highlights Importance Of Leading Without Being In Charge 

-- WESA-Reid Frazier: Residents Rally Against Shell Petrochemical Plant Pollution In Beaver County

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Residents Urge Beaver County Commissioners To Help Lobby Shell To Protect Health, Police Shell

-- House Passes Bipartisan Legislation To Strengthen Rail Safety After Norfolk Southern Train Derailment  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA House Passes New Train Safety Bill In Split Vote: ‘How Many East Palestines Should We Accept?’

-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: PA Senate Moves Bill To Require Blood Lead Level Testing For Children

-- PV Magazine: Chesapeake Conservancy Mapped Solar Energy Buildout To Determine Biodiversity Impact On Largest Estuary In The US

-- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Should New Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals Have A Greater Dose Of Reality? 

-- University Of Maryland Center For Environmental Science Report Finds Chesapeake Bay Health Showing Significant Improvement, New Environmental Justice Index Shows Strong Disparities

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Mourns The Loss Of Dr. Beth McGee, Director Of Science & Agricultural Policy

-- PA Senate Passes Resolution Designating June 4 to 10 Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week In Pennsylvania

-- Penn State's 2023 Ag Progress Days On Tap For August 8-10 In Centre County  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Center For Ag Conservation Training, Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals Host 3-Part Riparian Buffers On Ag Lands Training Starting June 23  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Learn How To Protect Your Watershed By Attending 3 Upcoming Community Science Webinars Starting June 7  [PaEN] 

-- LancasterOnline: Manheim Twp. Stream Restoration Effort Part Of Lancaster Water Week 

-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Farm Gets $10,000 DEP Grant To Help Students Explore Their Watershed

-- Warren Times: Conewango Creek Watershed Assn. Hosts June 7 Water Quality Monitoring Workshop

-- Warren Times: Middle Schoolers Work In Watershed

-- Extended: Appalachian Regional Independent Power Producers Accepting Mine Reclamation Grant Applications Thru June 30

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Assess Abandoned Mine Pollution In Moshannon Creek Watershed With DEP Grant  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Abandoned Mine Subsidence-Marred Dickson City Road To Finally Receive Repairs

-- Water Resources Association Of The Delaware River Basin Accepting 2023 Award Nominations  [PaEN] 

-- Now On Demand: 2023 Watershed Congress Along The Schuylkill River Now Available  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Pittsburgh Water Authority Receives $52.4 Million EPA Loan To Continue Drinking Water System Improvements

-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Officials Announce $52.4 Million EPA Loan For Water Infrastructure Improvements

-- Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions -  44.8% From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7 Million In Utility Costs  [PaEN]

-- Covestro Signs First Major Renewable Energy Agreement For Its U.S. Operations Headquartered In Pittsburgh

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Help Schools Develop Solar Power

-- WHYY - Susan Phillips: How Climate Activists Are Working To Shift Trillions Of Dollars Away From Fossil Fuels And Into Renewables

-- Senate Environmental Committee Info Session On Carbon Capture Discusses Job Potential; Reaching Net-Zero Carbon Goal; Impacts/Risks Of The Technology; PA’s Poor Track Record In Regulating Pipelines, Oil & Gas Industry  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension Hosts Virtual Fundamentals Of Carbon Capture And CO2 Flooding Workshop June 27  [PaEN]

-- Rebuild By Design: Atlas Of Disaster Finds Climate-Related Extreme Weather Caused Over $630 Million In Disaster Damage In PA From 2011 to 2021; Doesn’t Include Damage Not Covered By Federal Programs [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Climate Disasters Cost Pennsylvania $630 Million Over 10 Years

-- New Analysis: PA's RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants Will Cut Consumer Energy Costs, Increase Federal Investments In PA  [PaEN]

-- EnergyWire: PA Coal Plants Keep Closing, Does The State Need Carbon Trading?  [RGGI]

-- TribLive: PJM Interconnection: Closure Of Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant Won’t Impact Electric Grid Reliability

-- Utility Dive: FERC To Oversee Settlement Talks To Resolve Complaints About $1.8 Billion In PJM Interconnection Winter Storm Elliot Nonperformance Penalties  [Primarily Natural Gas-Fired Generation]

-- Planet Philadelphia: June 16: Transportation Options For Sustainability, 4:00 p.m.

-- TribLive Editorial: Electric Vehicle Fee For Road Use Only Fair, But Is There A Better Path Forward?

-- Keep PA Beautiful: Lebanon County Residents LuAnn Horn & Kathy Redinger Recognized With Community Pride Award  [PaEN]

-- Citizens Voice: Volunteer Has Advice For Keeping Roadways Clean - Recycle

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Hannah Hohman, Allegheny CleanWays Cleaning Their Way Down The Mon River

-- Centre County Region Announces Pilot Food Scraps Drop Off Sites For Composting  [PaEN]

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: PA Resources Council Teams Up With Special Events To Reduce Waste

-- MCall - Bill White: Back On The Attack Against Campaign Yard Sign Trash

-- TribLive Editorial: Enough Garbage, It’s Time To Pass A Bill That Gets Serious About Litter

-- Republican Herald: Natural Soil Products In Pottsville Fined $50,000 By DEP, Ordered To Reduce Biosolid Smells

-- DEP Hosts June 21 Hearing On Proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Response For The Boyertown Landfill PFAS Contamination Site, Montgomery County  [PaEN]

-- Reminder: DEP Hosts June 21 Hearing On Proposed Municipal Waste Transfer Station In Hazleton, Luzerne County.  

-- TribLive: Rustic Ridge Coal Mine Opponents To Petition DEP To Reject Mining Permit

-- PA Capital-Star: Mountain Watershed Assn. Calls On DEP To Reform Coal Mining Permit Process, Oppose 4,200 Acre Expansion Of Rustic Ridge Mine In Westmoreland County

-- DCNR Bureau Of Forestry: State Forester Ellen Shultzabarger Accepts Position With US Forest Service  [PaEN]

-- Penn State, PA Forest Products Assn. Host 2023 Forest Products Equipment & Technology Exposition June 9-10 In Centre County  [PaEN]

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Permanently Preserves 63.5 Acres At Confluence Of East, West Branches Of Delaware River  [PaEN]

-- Allegheny Land Trust Launches Land Conservation Project To Preserve Additional 24 Acres In Ross Township, Allegheny County  [PaEN]

-- WeConservePA: Heritage Conservancy Permanently Preserves 2 Properties Totalling Nearly 30 Acres In Northampton County

-- WeConservePA: Brandywine Red Clay Alliance Completes 2 Conservation Easements Protecting Critical Resources In Brandywine Creek Watershed

-- Registration Open! PA Greenways & Trails Summit Sept. 17-19 In Scranton  [PaEN]

-- South Mountain Partnership Flex Grant Program Now Accepting Applications [PaEN]

-- PA Natural Heritage Program Newsletter Spotlights Ecological Value Of Floodplains; Other Updates On PA’s Rarest Species  [PaEN]

-- Beaver County Times: Penn State Master Gardeners Of Beaver County Hosting Field Studies Of Trees In Regional Ecosystem

-- Jennings Environmental Ed Center Celebrates The Bloom! July 29 In Butler County, PA’s Only Prairie With Native Blazing Star, 224 Other Species  [PaEN]

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Newsletter Spotlights Dark Skies In PA; Reading Trail Markers; Local Partnerships; Initiatives By Friends Of Groups; Much More!  [PaEN]  

-- Pennsylvania Firefly Festival: Lights Out For Lightning Bugs!  June 24-30  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: 10-Year PA Deer Study Shakes Up What Hunters Thought They Knew

-- TribLive: Game Commission Wildlife Officers Free Deer Of Plastic Feeder Stuck Around Its Neck In O’Hara

-- Now Underway!  Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation - Donate To Your Favorite Team By June 19 [PaEN] 

-- WTAJ: Elk County Visitor Center Extends Hours, Prepares For Elk Calving Season

-- NextPittsburgh: Wellsboro Adds Charm And Adventure To The Heart Of The PA Wilds

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Blog: The Zen Of The Trail 

-- WESA/LehighValleyNews: How A Statewide Study Of Wildlife Corridors Could Impact PA

-- Penn State Researchers Study Biodiversity Through Science And Art At Berks & Lehigh Valley Campuses

-- DEP: Harrisburg Peregrine Falcon Banding Event Wednesday, June 7 At 9:30 Available Online 

-- Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Opens Chirp, Chitter, Caw - Surrounded By Bird Song Experience

-- Scranton Times: Wildlife Experts Banded Together With Alliance Landfill To Study Kestrels

-- The Nature Conservancy-PA Newsletter: New Native Planting In Lackawanna County; Holmesburg Baptist Church Stormwater Pioneer; And More

-- PA/NJ Chapter American Chestnut Foundation Fall Member Meeting Nov. 4; Passing Of Bob Summersgill; Volunteers Needed! 

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[Posted: June 11, 2023]   PA Environment Digest