Awards/Recognition
-- PA Statewide Envirothon: Penncrest High School (Delaware County) Placed First, Carmichaels High School (Greene County) Placed 2nd - Anyone have more results?
-- PA Environmental Council Honors Cynthia Carrow With Lifetime Achievement Award, Cambria County Conservation & Recreation Authority, DEP's RISE PA Industrial Decarbonization Program [PaEN]
-- WeConservePA/Lancaster Farming: Conservationist Troy Firth Wants To Keep Pennsylvania Forests Strong
-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: PA’s Trail Of The Year - Path Of The Flood Trail- Combines Optimistic Future With Past Tragedy
-- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Graduates Class Of 2025 Young Ambassadors of Pennsylvania; Apply Now For Class Of 2026 [PaEN]
-- PA Wilds Announces 2025 PA Wilds Champion Award Winners To Be Recognized At July 24 Dinner Celebration
Grants
-- DEP Supports 68 Environmental Education Projects Across PA With $1.1 Million In Grants [PaEN]
-- DCED Awards $22.6 Million To 74 Schools To Help Schools Lower Electricity Costs, Create Jobs Under Solar For Schools Program [PaEN]
-- PA Capital-Star: PA Awards $22.5 Million In Solar for Schools Grants To Help 74 Schools Reduce Energy Costs
-- Observer-Reporter: Southwest PA Schools Among Those To Receive Funding To Install Solar Panels
-- The Citizens Voice: Hanover Area School District Gets $400,000 Grant For Solar Energy Facility
-- Erie Times: $400,000 Grant Will Help Fund Solar Energy Facility At Erie County Technical School
-- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Honored With A Foxwynd Foundation $10,000 Visionary Leadership Award [PaEN]
-- CBF: White House Proposes To Eliminate Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education Training (B-WET) Program [PaEN]
-- CBF Blog: Big Spring High School Is Getting Kids Outdoors To Investigate Their Local Environment, Thanks To NOAA Grant [PaEN]
Help Wanted
-- WHYY: Philadelphia Residents Are Tracking Air Quality And Pollution From Their Rowhouses In Real Time
Upcoming Events
-- PEMA: Multi-Agency Resource Center Opens May 22 For Flood Survivors In Somerset County [PaEN]
-- Tribune-Democrat: Johnstown Flood National Memorial To Hold 1889 Flood Anniversary Activities
-- Headwaters To The Ohio Water Network Hosts May 29 Webinar On The Changing Landscape Of Federal Clean Water Funding & Policy [PaEN]
-- May 29 Webinar: Introduction To Community Benefit Agreements For Energy, Other Industrial Projects [PaEN]
-- PA Environmental Educators: June 4 Connecting Youth To Local Watersheds & Other Professional Development Opportunities
-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Highlights June Events - Lehigh River Sojourn, Stream Team Volunteer, Other Events
-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: Berks Sinfonietta To Perform June 7 At Music On The Mountain
-- Penn State Extension: June 10 Tap Talk: The Susquehanna River Fish Assemblage, Collusion Tap Works, York, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
-- PA Recycling Markets Center Hosts 3-Part Business Fundamentals For Compost Operations Webinars Starting June 17 [PaEN]
Public Participation
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 24 [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 95 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 24 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
-- Penn State Seeks Participants For Survey Study On How People Perceive The Safety And Trust Of Their Water [PaEN]
Programs/Information
-- Centre Daily Times: How To Recycle Electronics, Tires And More In Centre County
-- DCNR State Parks Environmental Educator News Blooming With PA Native Species Day; Pollinator Activities; Educator Workshops [PaEN]
-- Penn’s Stewards: Miles Of Beauty - Hiking Pennsylvania’s State Forest Hiking Trails [PaEN]
-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Updating Parks And Trails Plan After 33 Years; Seeking Public Input
-- May 23 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]
-- Tribune-Democrat: Cambria County Conservation And Recreation Authority Talks Test Site For Washout Prevention
-- PublicNewsService.org: Protecting Pennsylvania’s Eastern Hellbender On Endangered Species Day
-- Watch Replay Of Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcon Banding
-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Report Calls For Pennsylvania To Promote Safe Passage For Wildlife
-- TribLive: Cicadas To Surface In Pennsylvania For 1st Time Since 2008
Background On Issues
-- Environmental Hearing Board Agrees There Is ‘Acute’ Danger In CNX Misusing A Deposition In An Appeal Before The Board To ‘Punish’ An Environmental Advocate For Her Advocacy Against CNX [PaEN]
-- Late Night Dumping II: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Dumping Continues On Roads, This Time With Bigger Trucks; New Research On Harmful Wastewater Impacts [PaEN]
-- PA American Water Begins Construction Of Pipeline To Provide Replacement Water For Dimock Township Residents Who Had Wells Contaminated By Shale Gas Drilling 20 Years Ago In Susquehanna County [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 17 to 23 -- Failure To Comply With Shale Well Plugging Order; 28 Months Without 3 Conventional Well Cleanups; 206 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Road Dumping Continues [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s Natural Gas Industry Needs More And Better Regulation - By Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee
-- City & State PA Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Must Energize Efforts To Regulate Its Oil And Gas Industry - By By Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee
-- Inquirer Guest Essay: 9 In 10 Pennsylvanians Support Stronger Health Protection From Oil & Gas Fracking - By Joanne Kilgour, Ohio River Valley Institute, and Alison Steele, Environmental Health Project [PDF of Article]
-- The Citizens Voice Letter: Plan To Extract Lithium From OIl & Gas Wastewater Without A Full Accounting Of Its Hazards Is Not A Solution - By Tonyehn Verkitus, Physicians For Social Responsibility-PA [PDF of Article]
-- Evangelical Environmental Network: US House-Passed Budget Bill Raises Costs, Increases Health Risks; Eliminates PA’s MERP Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funding [PaEN]
-- Physicians For Social Responsibility-Colorado, FracTracker: Oil & Gas Fracking Chemicals Still Secret In Colorado, Little Compliance With 2022 Law Designed To Prevent Toxic Exposures
-- The Guardian: Colorado Oil & Gas Drilling Companies Not Complying With Fracking Chemicals Disclosure Law, Ban On Use Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’
-- PA Capital-Star: Lawmakers Hear Testimony On Meeting PA Power Demand: ‘Huge Amount Of Growth’
-- The Center Square: Electric Transmission Upgrades At Crucial Turning Point
-- LancasterOnline: How PPL, Met-Ed Customers May Be Able To Duck June 1 Electricity Price Hikes
-- The Citizens Voice: Local Electric Rates To Increase June 1; PUC Offers Cost-Saving Tips
-- The Conversation Guest Essay: Why Your Electricity Bill Is So High And What Pennsylvania Is Doing About It - By Hannah Wiseman and Seth Blumsack From Penn State University [Data Center Demand, Rising Fuel Costs]
-- Utility Dive Guest Essay: Is Your Electric Bill Too High? Thank LNG Gas Exports - By Lt.. General Russel L. Honore (Retired) [Stop Selling LNG To Our Competitors]
-- Solar Energy Advocates, Business Owners Urge PA Lawmakers To Unlock $156 Million In Solar For All Federal Funding [PaEN]
-- Centre Daily Times Guest Essay: Pennsylvania State Senators Attack Solar Energy - By Dan Alters & Dorothy Blair, Nittany Valley Environmental Coalition [PDF of Article]
-- E&E News/Politico: Bucks County Judge Rejects Bucks County Climate Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Industry
-- WHYY: Bucks County Climate Lawsuit Against Big Oil Tossed By County Judge
-- The Center Square: Legal, Energy Experts Praise Dismissal Of Bucks County Climate Lawsuit
- MCall Guest Essay: Climate Change Negatively Affects Our Children’s Health - By Citizens’ Climate Lobby - Lehigh Valley
-- Inquirer: DEP: SPS Technologies Warehouse Fire Had No Impact On Drinking Water Or Air Quality
-- Courier Times: EPA Rolls Back PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Regulations: What It Means For Bucks County
-- ABC27: Spotted Lanternflies Starting To Hatch In Pennsylvania
-- TribLive: PennDOT Worker Taken To Hospital After Driver Hits Litter Cleanup Truck In Allegheny County
-- Erie Times: Can You Fly A Drone At A State Park In Pennsylvania? [Spoiler - Only In 6 Parks]
-- The Allegheny Front - Kara Holsopple: Fmr Erie County Gravel Mine Gets 2nd Chance As Forestland; Bosland Growth Planting 70,000 Trees This Spring
-- WNEP: Supporting Reforestation After Carbon County Packerton Wildfire
-- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center - Symmetry In Nature
-- York Dispatch Editorial: A Homegrown Way To Counter Invasive Species, Replace Them
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: May 25, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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