PA Environment Digest Blog: November 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024

Keep PA Beautiful Now Accepting Entries For Litter Hawk Youth Award Program For Students In Grades K To 6

Projects are being accepted for the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Litter Hawk Youth Award Program, a recognition program for students in Kindergarten through 6th Grade. The deadline for entries is January 31.

All entries must address the theme: Join us in the Greatest American Cleanup! Show us how you can keep your community litter free for America’s 250th birthday.

Kids can participate individually or as part of a lesson initiated by schools, home-schools, scout troops, 4-H clubs, environmental clubs or other organized groups.

The Litter Hawk Youth Award Program is a way for kids to share their hope, optimism and concerns about litter and inspire others to care for their communities through art, words or video.

Projects include:

-- Grades Kindergarten through 4 - Poster

-- Grades 5 – Essay

-- Grade 6 – Video

First place and second place winners will receive a certificate. All participants will receive a litter hawk sticker.

Winners will be announced in April in coordination with a display of winning entries at the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building in Harrisburg.

The Litter Hawk Youth Award program was created with funding provided by the Department of Environmental Protection.

For more information, downloadable promotional posters and an entry form, visit KPB’s Litter Hawk Youth Award Program webpage.

Questions should be directed to Stephanie Larson at slarson@keeppabeautiful.org or 724-836-4121 ext. 104.

For more information on programs, initiatives and special events, visit the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful website. Click Here to sign up for regular updates from KPB, Like them on Facebook, Follow on Twitter, visit their YouTube Channel.

Keep PA Beautiful helps mobilize over 100,000 volunteers a year to pick up litter, clean up illegal dumping and beautify Pennsylvania.

Resource Link:

-- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Announces Litter Hawk Youth Award Program Winners [PaEN]

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-- DEP Discovers Wastewater Release At Bear Lake Properties Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Warren County During Routine Inspection [PaEN]

-- DEP Awards $18.9 Million To 126 Municipalities To Support Local Recycling Programs [PaEN]

-- DEP To Hold Nov. 14 Public Meeting On 5 Schuylkill County Facilities-- Natural Soil Products, Liberty Soils, Summit Anthracite (Stavola) Mining Site, Rausch Creek Mining Site, CES Landfill [PaEN]

-- DEP To Hold Nov. 19 Public Meeting On Blythe Recycling & Demolition Site Landfill Permit Renewal In Schuylkill County [PaEN]

-- PA Resources Council To Hold Nov. 9 Household Chemical Collection Event Sponsored By PPG & Pittsburgh Penguins; Last Of The Season [PaEN]

-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Awards $44,755 In Recycling Mini-Grants [PaEN]

-- Keep PA Beautiful Now Accepting Entries For Litter Hawk Youth Award Program For Students In Grades K To 6 [PaEN]

-- Penn State Research-Based Startup Intel-E-Waste Offers Turnkey Electronics Waste Recycling Solution [PaEN]

-- Penn State Study Finds Microplastics Increasing In Freshwater, Directly Related To Plastics Production [PaEN]

NewsClips:

-- BP: BP Subsidiary Archaea Energy And UGI Celebrate Start Up Of Landfill Gas Project In Schuylkill County

[Posted: November 1, 2024] PA Environment Digest

DEP Awards $18.9 Million To 126 Municipalities To Support Local Recycling Programs

On November 2, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the award of $18.9 million in Section 902 Act 101 Recycling Grants to 126 municipalities to support local recycling programs. (formal notice)

Section 902 grants are used to develop and implement recycling programs. Municipalities and counties are eligible for up to 90% funding of approved recycling program costs.

Grants were awarded to municipalities in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Butler, Carbon, Centre, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, Lycoming, Luzerne, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Northumberland, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, Snyder, Union, Venango, Warren and York counties.

Click Here for a list of grants awarded.

In 2023, DEP awarded $16.3 million in Section 902 recycling grants to 80 municipalities. Read more here.

Visit DEP’s Recycling Financial Assistance webpage to learn more about funding opportunities. Questions should be directed to Mark Vottero, DEP, at 717-787-7382, or mvottero@pa.gov.

For more information on environmental programs in Pennsylvania, visit DEP’s website, Report Emergencies, Submit Environmental Complaints; Click Here to sign up for DEP’s newsletter; sign up for DEP’s eNotice; visit DEP’s Blog, Like DEP on Facebook, Follow DEP on Twitter and visit DEP’s YouTube Channel.

Related Articles - Waste/Recycling/Litter:

-- DEP Discovers Wastewater Release At Bear Lake Properties Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Warren County During Routine Inspection [PaEN]

-- DEP To Hold Nov. 14 Public Meeting On 5 Schuylkill County Facilities-- Natural Soil Products, Liberty Soils, Summit Anthracite (Stavola) Mining Site, Rausch Creek Mining Site, CES Landfill [PaEN]

-- DEP To Hold Nov. 19 Public Meeting On Blythe Recycling & Demolition Site Landfill Permit Renewal In Schuylkill County [PaEN]

-- PA Resources Council To Hold Nov. 9 Household Chemical Collection Event Sponsored By PPG & Pittsburgh Penguins; Last Of The Season [PaEN]

-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Awards $44,755 In Recycling Mini-Grants [PaEN]

-- Keep PA Beautiful Now Accepting Entries For Litter Hawk Youth Award Program For Students In Grades K To 6 [PaEN]

-- Penn State Research-Based Startup Intel-E-Waste Offers Turnkey Electronics Waste Recycling Solution [PaEN]

-- Penn State Study Finds Microplastics Increasing In Freshwater, Directly Related To Plastics Production [PaEN]

NewsClips:

-- BP: BP Subsidiary Archaea Energy And UGI Celebrate Start Up Of Landfill Gas Project In Schuylkill County

[Posted: November 1, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.1.24

“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]

House Voting Schedule

-- November 12, 13 [End Of Session, All Bills Die]

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

-- November 13, 14 [End Of Session, All Bills Die]

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events .

DEP Advisory: DEP is migrating its website to a new platform to launch in mid-December. Updates to the current site will be limited until then.

-- Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations: Similar Action In 2023 Resulted In $10 Million Settlement [PaEN]

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-- Chesapeake Bay Program: Chesapeake Bay Shows Slight Water Quality Improvement In 2020-22 Assessment Period