-- Gov. Shapiro Honors Exceptional Commonwealth Employees For Remarkable Public Service, Including From DCNR, DEP [PaEN]
-- In Memoriam: Delaware Highlands Conservancy Founder Barbara Yeaman
-- PA Resources Council Receives 2025 Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence For Hard-To-Recycling Collection Events [PaEN]
-- Tribune-Democrat: Geistown Artist Ryan Kniss Wins First Place In Game Commission Contest [PDF of Article]
-- Sand County Foundation Now Accepting Nominations For Leopold Farm Conservation Award [PaEN]
Grants
-- PA Trout Unlimited: Coldwater Heritage Partnership Extends Deadline For Conservation Grants, Mariner East Pipeline Settlement Grants To July 22 [PaEN]
-- Reminder: The Giant Company, Keep PA Beautiful Accepting Healing The Planet Tree Planting Grant Applications Until July 1 [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna University Awarded $200,000 NSF Grant To Evaluate The Efficacy Of Beaver Dam Analogs In Improving Health Of Urban Streams Overwhelmed By Stormwater
Upcoming Events
-- Post-Gazette - Brandon McGinley: July 15 PA Energy & Innovation Summit Will Be The Biggest Day For Pittsburgh In Decades
-- PennTAP Hosts July 17 Webinar On Funding & Incentives To Support Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency Projects [PaEN]
-- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader: North Branch Land Trust To Host Moth Monitoring Event July 19
-- Penn State Extension Hosts July 23 Webinar On Understanding Pennsylvania's Legacy Conventional Oil & Gas Well Problem [PaEN]
-- Penn State Ag Progress Days Set For Aug. 12-14; Use Your Agricultural Conservation Passport [PaEN]
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Aug. 20 Webinar On Oil & Gas Development Impacts On Groundwater Quality, Public Health [PaEN]
-- PA Interfaith Power & Light Accepting Applications For Watershed Circle Watershed Protector Training For Congregations, Community Groups [PaEN]
-- Register Now! PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. 10-12 In State College [PaEN]
-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Highlights Upcoming Activities; Meet Grant Andreus; Recap The 29th Lehigh River Sojourn
-- The Allegheny Front: Pittsburgh Botanic Garden’s ‘Momentum’ Brings Color And Movement To Nature
Public Participation
-- DEP Sets 8th Hearing July 22 On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities [PaEN]
-- Environmental Quality Board Invites Comments On Proposed Land Recycling Standard For chromium
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 28 [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 81 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In June 28 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
-- DEP Seeking New Member Of Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board [PaEN]
-- Senate Confirms Jessica Shirley To Lead The Department Of Environmental Protection; Committee Questions On Environmental Justice, RESET Energy Board [PaEN]
-- The Allegheny Front - Julie Grant: PA Lawmakers Consider New State Energy Siting ‘RESET’ Board To Fast-Track Electricity Projects
-- Senate Republicans Moving Bill To Abolish DEP Climate Change, Recycling Fund, Coastal Zone Advisory Committees [PaEN]
-- TribLive Editorial: Public Participation Shouldn’t Just Happen When Convenient For Government
Programs/Information
-- ExploreClarion.com: DEP Warns Customers Of Rimersburg Borough, East Brady Water Systems In Clarion County To Stop Drinking Their Tap Water After Discovering An Unidentified Chemical In The East Brady Water Supply
-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s Communities Win When We Invest In Outdoor Recreation - By Tom Gilbert, PA Environmental Council
-- PUC Highlights Ways To Keep Cool, Conserve Energy, Reduce Strain On Grid During Prolonged Extreme Heat
-- York Dispatch/AP: Consumers Rely On Energy Star Ratings President Wants To End
-- Tribune-Democrat: Local Youths ‘Learn A Lot’ About Stonycreek’s Creatures At First Wave River Education Program
-- Susquehanna Greenway: Adventure Awaits In New Kids’ Adventure Book Exploring The Susquehanna River, Featuring The Mighty Mussel
-- Slippery Rock University Environmental Educator April Claus Leads Childrens’ Interactive Environmental Summer Camp Program At SRU
-- New Online Tool Helps Southeast PA Residents, Businesses Divert Waste From Chester Incinerator, Bucks County Landfill By Recycling, Donating Unwanted Items [PaEN]
-- TribLive: On The Water: RiverLife Launches Shore Thing In The Heart Of The Sister Bridges In Pittsburgh
-- LancasterOnline - Erin Negley: How Well Do You Know Fireflies? Test Your Lightning Bug Knowledge With This Quiz
-- WESA: Pitt Falcon Fledglings Fly The Cathedral Of Learning Coop, But Likely Linger In Pittsburgh
-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Monarch Butterflies Visit Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Background On Issues
-- 5 Years Later: A Progress Report On PA’s Grand Jury Recommendations For Protecting Public Health, Communities From Shale Gas Industry Impacts - A Long Way To Go [PaEN]
-- WHYY - Susan Phillips: A State Grand Jury Report On Fracking Had 8 Recommendations, 5 Years Later, Few Have Been Implemented
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: 5 Years After Landmark PA Grand Jury Report On Fracking, Public Health Goals Remain Largely Unmet, Groups Say
-- DEP Reports It Has No Idea How Many Shale Gas Water/Wastewater Pipelines There Are, The Spills They’ve Had Or Their Impacts [PaEN]
-- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: Boots And Drones Deployed In Hunt For Orphan Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Southwest PA
-- Range Resources Proposes To Drill 2 New Shale Gas Wells In Cecil Township, Challenging Its 2,500 Foot Setback Ordinance In Washington County [PaEN]
-- Inside Climate News: Kiley Bense: Truckers Say Oil & Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations, Fracking Industry Says No
-- Marcellus Drilling News: Integrated Lithium Production Plant Coming To PA In 2026 Using Oil & Gas Production Wastewater [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: Avonlea Lithium Corp. Completes Successful Lithium Extraction From Shale Gas Wastewater At Susquehanna County Pilot Plant [PaEN]
-- Westmoreland-Based WATT Fuel Cell, Hope Gas In WV Launch Home Natural Gas Fuel Cell Backup Power Program To Strengthen Electric Grid Resiliency [PaEN]
-- DEP Sets 8th Hearing July 22 On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities [PaEN]
-- Public News Services: Congress Could Delay Oil & Gas Facility Methane Emission Reduction Program In PA
-- Range Resources Reports It Achieved Net Zero In Scope 1 & 2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions In 2024
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Shale Gas Company Achieved Net Zero Scope 1 & 2 Emissions In Its Assets Owned In 2024
-- NRDC, PennFuture, EDF, Other Groups Challenge US DOE Decision To Keep Eddystone Power Plant In Delaware County Running Past Its Planned Closing Date [PaEN]
-- Observer-Reporter: Decreasing Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Money Squeezing Municipal Budgets; 2nd Lowest Revenue Generated Since Program Began In 2012 [PDF of Article]
-- Uniontown Herald-Standard Editorial: Jeers - Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Dropped To 2nd Lowest Amount Since Distribution Began - Municipalities Can’t Rely On It [PDF of Article]
-- PA Capital-Star: PA Act 13 Shale Gas Impact Fee Revenue Drops
-- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County Receives $6.9 Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen. Yaw’s Senate District
-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Just Part Of Gas Industry’s Success
-- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader Guest Essay: Know The Risk Of Mine Subsidence - By Robert Hughes, Eastern PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation
-- PA Capital-Star: Gov. Shapiro Warns PA Members Of Congress Against Cutting Renewable Energy Funds
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Pennsylvania’s Clean Energy Momentum In Crosshairs Of The Congressional Republican One Big Beautiful Bill
-- PA Solar Center Launches GET Solar Program To Expand Solar Energy In 10-County Southwest PA Region To Help Businesses, Nonprofits Save Money [PaEN]
-- PA Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Promote Solar Energy On Warehouses To Lower Energy Costs, Expand Renewable Energy [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Community Solar Energy - An Energy Plan To Sustain Rural Pennsylvania - by Former Republican Rep. Jim Gregory, Justin Mason, Conservative Energy Network Pennsylvania
-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Don’t Boil Over As Summer Electric Bills Arrive, Use The Power To Shop For Your Electricity In PA - By John Hanger, Former PUC Commission, DEP Secretary
-- WNEP: Local Farms In NE PA Negatively Impacted By Significant Recent Rain
-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Farmers Cope With Weather Extremes
-- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: How Philly Communities And City Government Are Tackling Climate-Driven Flooding
-- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: US Dept. Of Justice Files Criminal Charges Against Philadelphia School District Over Asbestos Management
-- DEP Launches Chapter 102 Erosion & Sedimentation Permit SPEED Permitting Initiative June 30 [PaEN]
-- NJ Spotlight News - Jon Hurdle: Critics Fear Delaware River Basin Commission Vote To End Funding Of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Climate Change Means Environmental Protections Will Be Dismantled
-- Delaware Currents: Deadline Looms For New Rules To Improve Delaware River Water Quality; Will EPA Follow Through?
-- Inquirer: Veolia Opens $35 Million Plant To Remove PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ From Polluted Chester County Creeks
-- WHYY: Philadelphia Water Dept. Celebrates Improved Waterways In Manayunk
-- Penn State Extension Watershed Winds News: Sinuosity & Stream Health; PFAS Detected In 65% Of Water Wells: Native Plants For Aquatic Gardens; Online Learning Opportunities
-- Tribune-Democrat: Two Local Trout Streams Receive Habitat Improvements [PDF of Article]
-- TribLive: PA Senate Approves Bill To Repeal Sunday Hunting Ban
-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: GPS Collars On PA Deer Answer Questions On When, Where Deer Usually Move
-- LancasterOnline - PJ Reilly: PA State Game Lands Are Safe, While Millions Of Acres Of Federal Public Lands Across The US Are At Risk Of Being Sold
-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: PA Opens Nature-Like Passage To Help Fish Navigate Susquehanna River At Sunbury
-- Williamsport Sun - Bob Bowers: Reflections In Nature: More Than 1,000 Species Of Wasps Exist
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: June 29, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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