Awards/Recognition
-- Berks County-based Rodale Institute Named One Of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies For 2025
-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill Commissioners Thank Schuylkill Haven Teacher, Hydro-Extrusions Are Leaders In Litter Pickup
-- Environmental Health News Guest Essay: We Should Empower Youth To Fight For Environmental Justice In Their Own Neighborhoods - By Layla Johnson, Howard University Student, Braddock, Allegheny County [Edgar Thomson Steel Mill Air Pollution]
-- PEMA: PA’s Silver Jackets Team Recognized Nationally For Collaborative flood Risk Reduction Efforts
Grants
-- PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Now Accepting Applications For Environmental Science Scholarships [PaEN]
Help Wanted
-- DCNR: Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps Creating Job Training, Conservation Opportunities For More Young People
Upcoming Events
-- Senate Environmental Committee Meets March 24 On Stream ‘Cleaning,’ Solar Energy Facility Decommissioning, Lake Erie Groin Fee Bills [PaEN]
-- Physicians For Social Responsibility PA, Climate Action Campaign Host March 24 Webinar On Impacts Of Climate Change On Women's Health [PaEN]
-- PA Solar Center: Westmoreland County Businesses, Tax-Exempt Organizations Can Learn How to Save Money On Electric Bills At March 27 In-Person Meeting [PaEN]
-- Pittsburgh Youth For Climate Action Summit Set For March 29 [PaEN]
-- DEP To Host April 1 Webinar On New Program To Reduce Methane Pollution From Oil And Gas Operations [PaEN]
-- Community Advocates For Clean Energy To Introduce Green Schools Campaign In Southeast PA During April 1 Webinar [PaEN]
-- Beaver Times: Free Electronics Waste Recycling Event Coming To Riverside School District April 1
-- Penn State Extension: April 2 Webinar: Gravity Energy Storage - Giving Inactive Oil Wells A Second Life [PaEN]
-- PA Wilds Artisan Collaborative to Hold Pre-Launch Celebration In Saint Marys, Elk County On April 8
-- Washington & Jefferson College To Host April 9 Webinar On Energy, Economy And A.I. - Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN]
-- Volunteers Needed! Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy April 11-12 Stream Clean-Up At 200 Sites In Montgomery County [PaEN]
-- PA Resources Council Launches 2025 Household Chemical Collection Campaign April 12 In Butler County [PaEN]
-- PA Sea Grant, Partners Host April 16 Storm Drain Marking Workshop In Delaware County [PaEN]
-- City & State PA Hosts April 22 Energy Summit - The Future Of Energy In Pennsylvania [PaEN]
-- Delaware River Greenway Partnership: April 24 Webinar Heritage Lecture: Protecting The Jewels Of The Night - How You Can Support Fireflies [PaEN]
-- Tribune-Democrat: Electronics Recycling Event Set For May 3 At Windber Public Library
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Soak Up Science - Be A Stream Doctor Day Camp For Youth 8-12 July 29 To Aug. 1 At The Southeast Agricultural Research Farm In Centre County [PaEN]
-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Highlights April Educational Programs; Tree Planting; Hikes; Summer Camps
-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: It’s Spring! Enjoy The Outdoors And Learn Too With Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Activities, Events
-- Planet Philadelphia Radio Show: Friday, March 21 - Regional Environmental Legal And Regulatory Issues, 4:00 p.m.
Public Participation
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 22 [PaEN]
-- DEP To Host April 1 Webinar On New Program To Reduce Methane Pollution From Oil And Gas Operations [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 115 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In March 22 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
-- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council To Hear Update On State Budget, Chesapeake Bay Program March 26 [PaEN]
-- PUC To Hold Hearings Starting April 7 On Proposed UGI Gas Rate Increase Of Up To 10.8%
Programs/Information
-- DCNR State Parks Environmental Ed Newsletter Blooming With Spring Teaching Ideas, Exploring Outdoors, Educator Workshops [PaEN]
-- Let’s Go 1-2-3 And Let’s Go Outdoors Offer Free ‘Let’s Go Neighborhoods’ Mobile Activities In Philadelphia On Water, Urban Wildlife, Pollinators, Forests [PaEN]
-- WHYY: Philly’s Fox Chase Farm Program Aims To Grow Student Entrepreneurs In Agriculture
-- NextPittsburgh: Prototype Pittsburgh’s New Job Training Program Creates Pathway To Growing Clean Manufacturing Sector
-- Post-Gazette: Carlow Community Garden Helps Feed Students, Neighbors In Pittsburgh
-- TribLive: Fox Chapel Area High School Fishing Club Stocks Trout In Allegheny County
-- KRUNK Movement Goes Global: A Cross-Cultural Music Collaboration Creates Suubi A Global Anthem For Change To Amplify Sustainability, Hope, And The Arts Linking Allegheny County And Uganda [PaEN]
-- DEP: Third Peregrine Falcon Egg Arrives At Rachel Carson Building Nest In Harrisburg
-- DEP Chesapeake Bay Program Healthy Waters Update Highlights Many Partner Accomplishments; Critical Federal Support For Bay Cleanup; 2,100 More Best Management Practices Installed Than In Previous Year [PaEN]
-- Chesapeake Bay Journal Forum: Our Charge Is Clear - Focus On What People And Nature Need For Chesapeake Bay Restoration - By Hilary Harp Falk, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
-- Penn State Extension: Using Live Stake Nurseries To Engage Communities In Stream Health [PaEN]
-- MCall: Rock Salt’s Impact On Lehigh Valley’s Water Will Linger Long After Winter Passes
-- Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: Penn State Scientists Found Microplastics In Freshwater Environments Across Pennsylvania
-- PUC Highlights 2025 Fix A Leak Week Awareness
-- Tribune-Democrat: Long Timeline Ahead To Revitalize Struggling Tree Areas At Flight 93 National Memorial
-- Beaver Times - Katie Claber, Master Gardener: Hemlocks Are Worth Protecting
-- LancasterOnline: 10 Spring Wildflowers To Find And 2 To Avoid In Lancaster County
-- Erie Times: Spotted Lanternfly Egg Sac Discovered In Millcreek; How To Remove The Invasive Species
-- Penn State Research: Natural Insect Predators May Serve As Allies In Spotted Lanternfly Battle
Federal Funding Cuts, Freeze
-- PASA Sustainable Agriculture Joins Lawsuit To Restore Federal Funding To Farmers; March 26 Online Town Meeting [PaEN]
-- Tribune-Democrat: Federal Office Of Surface Mining In PA To Close, Staff Cut, May Significantly Impact Abandoned Mine Reclamation Efforts In PA [PDF of Article]
-- Spotlight PA: Federal Money To Plug PA’s Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners Is Unfrozen, But Federal Uncertainty Plagues Contractors
-- Citizens Voice: Wilkes-Barre Fire Chief Calls FEMA Canceling National Fire Academy Classes ‘Demoralizing’
-- Reading Eagle: Federal Funding Uncertainties Affecting Farming Community In Berks
-- Bipartisan Group Of 51 Former EPA Officials Send Letter To Congress Saying Deep Cuts To The Agency Would Threaten 50 Years Of Environmental Progress [PaEN]
-- New York Times Guest Essay: Three Former EPA Leaders - You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone - By William K. Reilly, Christine Todd Whitman & Gina McCarthy
-- Pittsburgh Business Times Editorial: Uncertainty Around Federal Funding Having Big Impact ‘Instability, Uncertainty And Indiscriminate Direction Are The Antithesis Of Best Practices’] [PDF of Article]
-- PA Capital-Star: President’s Cuts To Federal Workers Have Taken Their Toll On PA, More Are Coming
-- LancasterOnline: Raystown Lake Federal Recreation Area Campgrounds To Close Due To Federal Hiring Freeze In Huntingdon County
-- Altoona Mirror: Part Of Raystown Lake Federal Recreation Area Camps To Close Due To Staff Cuts
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Our National Parks Are National Treasurers DOGE Must Not Cut - By John Plonski
-- Erie Times: Erie-Based IRG/newBin Suspends Collection Of Plastics For Recycling; Federal Funding Uncertain
-- TribLive Letter: Unfreeze The Energy, Climate Benefits Of Federal Inflation Reduction Act - By Bruce Cooper, Slippery Rock Chapter Of Citizens’ Climate Lobby
Background On Issues
-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 15 to 21: 42 More Conventional, 7 More Shale Gas Abandoned Wells; Mine Subsidence Under Compressor Station; Conventional Gas Well Explosion; 2 Shale Gas Companies Fail To Report Shale Gas Waste Generation, Production In 12 Counties [PaEN]
-- Mine Subsidence Found Under Olympus Energy/Hyperion Natural Gas Compressor Station Construction Site In Penn Twp., Westmoreland County [PaEN]
-- Volunteer Firefighters, DEP Respond To Conventional Gas Well Explosion, Fire In Westmoreland County [PaEN]
-- DEP Issues One Conventional Well Owner 36 Violations For Abandoning Their Conventional Wells; 7 More Violations Issued To Shale Gas Drillers For Abandoning Wells [PaEN]
-- DEP Issued Violations To Range Resources, LPR Energy For Not Filing Shale Gas Production And Waste Generation Reports In 12 Counties [PaEN]
-- Presentations Posted From 2025 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference Featuring Health Experts, Scientists, Advocacy Groups, Workers On Health, Environmental Impacts Of Shale Gas Development [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project To Hold April 1 Webinar On What The Shapiro Administration Can Do To Better Protect Public Health From The Impacts Of Shale Gas Development [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project Seeking Communities To Participate In HealthWatch Program To Better Understand Local Health Impacts Of Shale Gas Development [PaEN]
-- Capital And Main - Audrey Carleton: The Little Town Of Cecil Township, Washington County That Stood Up To Big Shale Gas And Set More Protective Setback Distances And Now Faces Legal Challenges From 2 Shale Gas Drillers
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: PA Attorney General Launches Criminal Investigation Into Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Spill In Bucks County
-- Center For Coalfield Justice To DEP: Harmon Natural Gas Processing Plant Should Be Required To Apply For A Full Title V Air Quality Permit As They Originally Proposed In Washington County [PaEN]
-- The Derrick: Hearing Dates Set On Rhodes Estates Water Companies; PUC Judge Urges Parties To ‘Seriously Explore’ Settlements [Venango Water Co. Impacted By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill] [PaEN]
-- Lt. Gov. Davis, DEP, Community Celebrate The Opening Of Federal/State Funded Blacklick Creek Mine Drainage Treatment Plant To Clean Up 25 Miles Of Waterways In Cambria, Indiana Counties [PaEN]
-- Indiana Gazette: Blacklick Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Facility Celebrated Near Vintondale
-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For First Round Of Federally-Funded Local Abandoned Mine Reclamation Grants, Deadline April 25 [PaEN]
-- House Energy Committee Reports Out Bill To Unlock A State Freeze On $156 Million In Federal Funding For Solar For All Program [PaEN]
-- The Allegheny Front: PA House Committee Takes First Step To Access Federal Low-Income Solar Funds
-- Our Solar PA Coalition Highlights How Community Solar Energy Legislation Is A People-Centered Solution For Clean Energy [PaEN]
-- Guest Essay: Solar Power Can Propel Pennsylvania Towards Meeting Energy Demands - By Sharon Pillar, Pennsylvania Solar Center [PaEN]
-- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn.: Solar Panel Recycling, Refurbishment Now Available In Philly Area [PaEN]
-- Warren Times Editorial: Solar Energy Has Benefits For Schools
-- LancasterOnline - Rachel McDevitt: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Begins Evaluating Environmental Impacts Of Restart [PDF of Article]
-- PA Capital-Star: Nuclear Regulators Hear Concerns About Plan To Restart Three Mile Island Reactor
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Westinghouse Mulls Beaver County For Major Microreactor Factory
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: How Pittsburgh Airport’s Microgrid Prevents Heathrow-Like Outages
-- Attorney General Dave Sunday Names Darryl Lawrence To Serve As PA Consumer Advocate For Public Utility Issues [PaEN]
-- WESA: AG Sunday’s Pick For PA Consumer Advocate Appeals To Some Who Worried About Office’s Direction
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer/Kristen Graham: Philadelphia Gas Works Explores Heating, Cooling Philly School And City Rec Center With Geothermal Energy
-- WillowGroveNow.com: DEP To Conduct Soil Testing At Site Of SPS Technologies Industrial Fire In Montgomery County
-- Inquirer Guest Essay: PA Budget Should Fully Fund Environmental Protection - By Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resources Committee [PDF of Article]
-- House Committee OKs Increase In Per Ton Recycling Fee To Support Local Recycling Programs, Waste Disposal Planning [PaEN]
-- NextPittsburgh: Is Hyperlocal Recycling The Future? 2 Pittsburgh Companies Say Yes
-- PennLive Letter: Where Did $100 Million In State Conservation Funds Go? - By Richard Martin, PA Forest Coalition
-- WVIA: Maple Farmers Celebrate Nearly 190 Years Of PA Agriculture As Possible State Funding Boost Looms
-- MCall/Reading Eagle: Snow Goose Migration Winds Down At Middle Creek Wildlife Area And With It Increased Threat Of Avian Influenza In Eastern PA
-- DEP: Third Peregrine Falcon Egg Arrives At Rachel Carson Building Nest In Harrisburg
-- WESA: Peregrine Falcons Nesting Atop Pitt’s Cathedral Of Learning Lay First Egg [Watch Online]
-- DEP, DCNR, Game Commission: Nesting Season Is Here For Peregrine Falcons On Rachel Caron Building In Harrisburg [Watch Online]
-- LehighValleyNews.com: Bird That’s Extinct In The Wild Gets Surprise Layover At Lehigh Valley International Airport
-- WNEP: Pocono Wildlife Gears Up To Care For More Baby Animals
-- Pittsburgh-Based Wild Excellence Films Launches Jackson Hole Birding Festival May 22-25 In Wyoming
Visit the DEP Calendar of Events; PA Parks & Forests Foundation’s Events webpage and DCNR’s Calendar of Events for activities happening near you.
Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.
Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.
[Posted: March 23, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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