104 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 104 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!

-- TribLive: Grief, Relief Felt As Westmoreland Woman’s Remains Recovered From Abandoned Mine Sinkhole 

-- TribLive: Coal, Once King In Pennsylvania, Leaves Behind Abandoned Mines That Pose Concerns 

-- TribLive Editorial: The Terrible Cost Of An Unknown Coal Mine 

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Abandoned Mine Sinkhole Where A Westmoreland County Woman Died Is Unusual, But Sinkholes Themselves Are Not

-- WTAE: DEP Works To Prevent Another Abandoned Mine Sinkhole Tragedy

-- What Will Shale Gas Leave Behind?  -- DEP Issues 10 Violations To Big Dog Energy, LLC, Diversified Production LLC For Abandoning Shale Gas Wells; Violations For Shale Gas Abandonments More Than Doubled In 2024  [PaEN] 

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Celebrates 100th Birthday Of Founder Barbara Yeaman By Establishing A New Land Conservation Fund  [PaEN]

-- DEP Sees ‘Very Significant Budget Gap’ In Funding Oil & Gas Regulation Program Due To Reduced Permit Fee Revenue  [PaEN]

-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports Slight Increase In PA 3rd Quarter Natural Gas Production; Lowest Number Of New Shale Gas Wells Drilled Since 2008; Big Hole In DEP’s Budget   [PaEN]  

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 30 to Dec. 6 - Abandoned Shale Gas Wells Doubled From Last Year; Failure To Comply With Court Order To Plug Conventional Wells; Abandoned Waste Injection Well   [PaEN]

-- DEP: Horizontal Exploration LLC Failed To Comply With State Court Order To Plug 6 Conventional Wells In McKean County   [PaEN] 

-- DEP Issues Abandoned Well Violation To Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well With Nearly Full Storage Tanks, Expired EPA Permit In Venango County  [PaEN]  

-- Apply Now! DEP Conventional Oil & Gas Methane Reduction Well Plugging Grant Applications Due Dec. 16; $44.4 Million Available - Only 10 Applicants Applied For 77 Wells So Far  [PaEN] 

-- Penn State Extension Hosts Dec. 12 Webinar On Carbon Reduction Credits In Oil & Gas Well Plugging  [PaEN] 

-- DCED PA Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Dec. 12 To Discuss Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater; New EPA Methane Emissions Reduction Program; Other Updates  [PaEN] 

-- TribLive: Upper Burrell Twp. Considers Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Rules In Westmoreland County [‘They Can’t Use Upper Burrell As A Garbage Place To Dump Bad Water’] 

-- Marcellus Drilling News: EQT Hits Back At Greene County Landowners Claiming Water Contamination  [PDF of Article]  

-- PA Senate Republicans To Reintroduce Bills Limiting Citizen Rights To Appeal DEP Permit Decisions, Punish Communities That Take Steps To Protect Themselves Against Shale Gas Development Impacts  [PaEN]

-- E&E News/Politico: Williams Pipeline CEO Urges Republicans To Put FERC In Sole Charge Of Energy Permits, States Should Be Removed From The Process  

-- E&E News/Politico: PJM Boosts Natural Gas Ahead Of Wind, Solar In Contentious Electric Grid Interconnection Review Plan

-- Inquirer Column: Gov. Shapiro Fast-Tracks Oil Refinery Redevelopment, Impacted Residents Call For Philadelphia City Council Hearings

-- AP: EPA Hails ‘Revitalized’ Enforcement Efforts As Biden Administration Heads To Exit

-- PUC Enforcement Bureau Files Complaint Against Philadelphia Gas Works Over 2021 Natural Gas House Explosion; Alleging The Company Failed To Properly Investigate, Address Leaking Gas Pipeline  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: PUC Safety Investigators Claim Philadelphia Gas Works Failed To Prevent 2021 South Philly Gas Explosion

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant To Be Demolished, New Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant To Be Built  [PDF of Article] 

-- Power Magazine: Largest PA Coal-Fired Power Plant Will Convert To Natural Gas  [Homer City]

-- Post-Gazette: Fracking, Clean Air Permits Dominate Allegheny County Board Of Health Meeting 

-- WESA: New Allegheny Health Director Turns To Air Quality, Black Infant Mortality

-- Post-Gazette: Higher Air Quality Permit Fees Could Be Coming For US Steel And Others In Allegheny County

-- NextPittsburgh: Uncovering The History Of Cement City And Clean Air In Donora

-- The Center Square: PA Cong. Deluzio Rips Norfolk Southern Over Train Derailment [Video]

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy - John Quigley: Remote Sensing-Based Monitoring Networks For The Next Generation Of Energy, Environmental Policymaking  

-- DEP Awards $600,000 To 12 Community Organizations For Environmental Justice Outreach  [PaEN] 

-- Center For Coalfield Justice: Environmental Justice Communities Abandoned By Global Plastics Treaty Process  [PaEN] 

-- WESA: PA Resources Council Spearheads Effort To Build Permanent Recycling Facility In Allegheny County  

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: PA Resources Council Proposes Allegheny County Facility For Hard-To-Recycle Waste

-- WVIA: Schuylkill County Residents Demand End To ‘Urine Smell’ From Surrounding Biosolids Facilities 

-- DEP Invites Comments On Draft Manual For Land Treatment Of Onlot Septic System Wastewater  [PaEN] 

-- The Heinz Endowments: Nonprofits, Philanthropy Create Infrastructure To Help Bring Nearly $1 Billion In Regional, Statewide Clean Energy Funding To Pennsylvania  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times: Venango Twp. Supervisors Approve Settlement Agreement With Developer Of Proposed 80 MW Solar Energy Facility In Erie County 

-- PA Solar Center Hosts Dec. 13 Webinar On Potential Changes Ahead Under New Republican Administration  [PaEN]

-- The Center Square: Grants Open For State’s Solar For Schools Program

-- Allegheny Conference On Community Development: Statement On Eos Energy Storage $303.5 Million US DOE Loan Guarantee, Project AMAZE 

-- US DOE Announces $303.5 Million Loan Guarantee To Pittsburgh-Based Eos Energy For Next Generation Battery Energy Storage Systems 

-- WESA: Pittsburgh-based Eos Energy Secures $303 Million Loan To Scale Up Clean Energy Storage

-- Williamsport Sun: Innovative Manufacturers Center Secures Federal Grants To Drive Green Energy Manufacturing

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: PennDOT Among 39 States In Federal Program To Lower Carbon Emissions In Road, Bridge Work

-- Erie Times: Rising Temperatures Expected To Melt Snow, Lead To Potential Flooding In Erie County

-- The Allegheny Front: That Huge Snowstorm? Welcome To A Warming Future

-- Observer-Reporter: Greene County Residents Travel To Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina  

-- Republican Herald: Volunteers Take ‘Appalachian Christmas’ To Carolinas; Collects 1,300 Toys, Donations Needed  

-- PUC: Natural Gas Distribution Companies Prepare For Winter - Gas Consumption Expected To Decrease 1.8%, Cost For Residential Customers To Increase 1%  [PaEN]

-- Green Building Alliance, 2030 District Host Dec. 10 Webinar On PJM Electricity Price Increases - Why And What To Do?  [PaEN] 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Creditors File Chapter 11 Involuntary Petition Against Cryptocurrency Miner Mawson Infrastructure

-- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: Chapter 14 Utility Law Will Lapse After PA Legislature Deadlocks On Expanding Consumer Protections 

-- PUC Cautions Electricity, Natural Gas Supply Shoppers Against Copycat Online Energy Shopping Websites  

-- Observer-Reporter: Center For Coalfield Justice Protects Coal Miners, Environment 

-- Post-Gazette/WPost: What New Republican Administration Could Mean For Environmental Justice

-- DEP Accepting Applications From Public Schools, Childcare Facilities For Drinking Water Lead Testing, Lead Reduction Measures Starting Dec. 9   [PaEN] 

-- Guest Essay: How Farmers Are Navigating The Challenges Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' - The Growing Problem Of PFAS Contamination In Agriculture - By Ken Sansone and Valentina Marastoni-Bieser, SL Environmental Law Firm  [PaEN]  

-- Penn State Extension Hosts Dec. 9 Webinar On PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Land-Applied Biosolids - Research Update And Discussion 

-- Delaware River Basin Commission Declares Water Supply Emergency, Takes Steps To Protect Water Supplies  [PaEN]

-- WHYY - Zoe Read: Delaware River Basin Commission Declares Water Supply Emergency

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Agriculture To Get Greater Voice In Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Effort

-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: $40 Million+ Heading To PA Farms To Increase Climate Resilience

-- Baltimore Banner: EPA’s Mid-Atlantic Administrator Adam Ortiz Talks About Republican Administration, Coal Dust And Chesapeake Bay

-- Master Watershed Steward Tim Matthews Aims To Make Conservation Family-Friendly In Susquehanna County  [PaEN] 

-- Penn Today: New Program Brings Penn And William L. Sayre High School Students Together at Cobbs Creek To Learn Environmental Science, Engineering In Philadelphia 

-- Bloomsburg University: Prof. Steven Rier To Help Lead Delaware River Watershed Study

-- Pike Conservation District: Sliding Into Winter!  One 12 Ounce Mug Of Salt Is All You Need To Prevent Ice From Forming On A 20 Foot Driveway  [PaEN] 

-- PA Interfaith Power & Light Hosts Dec. 10 Webinar On How DEP, EPA Protect PA's Waterways   [PaEN] 

-- PennLive: Cumberland County Conservation Sets Jan. 17 Deadline To Apply For College Scholarship Applications

-- Interns Wanted: DEP, DCNR Now Accepting Applications For Paid Internships  [PaEN]

-- PA Sea Grant: National Marine Fisheries Service & Sea Grant Fellowship Program Accepting Applications  [PaEN] 

-- College Township Secures $300,000 DCNR Grant For Development of ClearWater Community Conservation Center; Next DCNR Grant Round Opens Jan. 21  [PaEN]

-- Natural Lands, Landowners Starr & Howard Offenger Partner To Preserve Historical Farmstead In Cumberland County  [PaEN] 

-- Wildlands Conservancy Nature Preserves Offer People With A Variety Of Abilities Access To Nature: ‘Being Able To Bring My Mom Here Has Just Changed My Life And Her Life’

-- NextPittsburgh: How Venture Outdoors Is Breaking Barriers To Nature In Pittsburgh 

-- The Nature Conservancy PA News: Landmark Year For Conservation In PA; Protecting PA Forests; Plan Your Adventure At Hauser Nature Center 

-- WHYY: Washington Crossing Historic Park Hosts Annual Historic Reenactment

-- TribLive: 1-Mile Leechburg Trail Finished, Open To Public; Other Sections To Come In Armstrong County  

-- Living Landscape Observer Spotlights: Parks Stewardship Forum - Politics, Practice, Management Of Living Landscapes, Edited By Brenda Barrett and Eleanor Mahoney 

-- Pennsylvania’s Outdoor Recreation Economy Grows To $19 Billion In 2023, Supporting Thousands Of Jobs and Creating Economic Opportunity Across The Commonwealth  [PaEN]

-- PA Office Of Outdoor Recreation Hosts Dec. 11 Webinar On Release Of 2023 Data Showing Tremendous Growth In PA’s Outdoor Recreation Economy  [PaEN]  

-- PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Court Action Challenging Use Of ATVs For Recreation In Northcentral PA State Forests Resulting In 2,000+ Miles Of Illegal ATV Trails  [PaEN] 

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Now Accepting Nominations For 2025 Parks & Forests Awards  [PaEN] 

-- DCNR Announces $3.4 Million Investment In Point State Park Ahead Of NFL Draft, America 250 Celebrations In Pittsburgh

-- TribLive: PA Pledges $3.4 Million To Upgrade Point State Park Ahead Of NFL Draft  

-- Dept. Of Agriculture Encourages Pennsylvanians To Donate A Tree Through ‘Trees For Troops’ To Brighten Servicemembers’ Holidays 

-- Discover NE PA: Preventing Wildfires With The DCNR Bureau Of Forestry  

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: A Deer Camp Not Defined By Hunting 

-- Inquirer: As Hunting Numbers Fade, PA Families, Friends Keep their Camp Tradition Alive 

-- The Center Square: Legislation Lifting Sunday Hunting Ban Still In Sight

-- WHYY - Zoe Read: Anglers Cheer New Federal Dollars Aimed At Keeping Streams Healthy For Native Brook Trout 

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: In Pennsylvania, Researchers Hope Forest Farming Will Help Save Wild Leeks (Ramps)

-- Penn State Research Offers Guidance On Forest Farming Wild Leeks (Ramps)

-- DCNR Awards More Than $372,000 In Wild Resource Conservation Program Grants To Help Protect Pennsylvania’s Native Biodiversity  [PaEN] 

-- TribLive: Audubon’s Annual Christmas Bird Count Puts Focus On Our Feathered Friends 

-- PennLive: How To Participate In Audubon’s 125th Christmas Bird Count 

-- The Allegheny Front: Common Terns Successfully Breed At Presque Isle State Park For First Time In 60 Years 

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Quail Researchers Optimistic About First Year Of Translocation Project In PA 

-- TribLive: Have You Seen A Red-Bellied Woodpecker?  In Pittsburgh Region It’s A Possibility, Birder Says 

-- PennLive: Try These PA Native Plants For Your Holiday Decorating

-- Children’s Book By Penn State Master Gardeners Teaches Kids About The Spotted Lanternfly 

-- Inquirer: Laura Moyer, A Lancaster County Artist, Has Designed The Amazon Kids Gift Book This Year [With Forest Friends Fox, Bear, Raccoon, Mouse, Owl]

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[Posted: December 8, 2024]   PA Environment Digest