Awards/Recognition
-- PA’s Penncrest High School Envirothon Team From Delaware County Takes 7th Place In International NCF-Envirothon In Canada! [PaEN]
-- LancasterOnline: Ephrata Boy Scout Ethan Garman, Troop, Friends Build Bridges For Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area [PDF of Article]
-- PA Association Of Conservation Districts Recognizes County Conservationists [PaEN]
-- Echo-Pilot: Franklin Conservation District Manager Dave Stoner Wins PACD Employee Excellence Award
-- Master Watershed Steward Rose Johnson Brings A Green Thumb To Philadelphia Rain Garden [PaEN]
-- Wilkes-Barre Times Leader: Eastern PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Is Underappreciated
-- Reading Eagle: Berks County Reaches 80,000 Acres Of Preserved Farmland
-- Guest Essay: We Helped PA Homeowners ID PFAS 'Forever Chemicals,' Other Contaminants In Drinking Water Wells - Then The Feds Cut Funding - By Kelly Kosiarski, Graduate Assistant, Penn State University [PaEN]
Grants
-- EPA Accepting Applications For Up To $14 Million In Brownfields Job Training Grants [PaEN]
-- DEP Accepting Applications For 500 Alternative Fuels Incentive Program Rebates Through End Of June 2026
Upcoming Events
-- York Dispatch: Volunteers Sought For Codorus Creek Cleanup This Weekend In York
-- PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn. Holds July 30 Training On Managing PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Contaminated Water, Waste In Washington County [PaEN]
-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Highlights Stream Team Volunteer Work Days; Wellness; Bird Habitat Education; Other August Activities
-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: PA Resource Council Offers Hard-To-Recycle And Household Chemical Collections In Allegheny County [Aug 2 & 23]
-- WESA: Drop Off E-Waste And Other Hard-To-Recycle Items At 2 Allegheny County Collection Events In August
-- Penn State Extension Woods & Wildlife News: Ag Progress Days Aug. 12-14; July Forest Snapshot; Hope For Our Forests; Woodland Stewardship Webinar Series
-- Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts In-Person Workshops On Identification Of On-Farm Resource Concerns & Implementing Conservation Practices Aug. 19-21, Sept. 16-18 [PaEN]
-- Registration Open! Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 21 [PaEN]
-- DEP Sets Aug. 28 Meeting/Hearing On Waste Permit Modification For ERSI Construction/ Demolition Waste Landfill In Taylor Boro, Lackawanna County [PaEN]
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 6 Webinar On Cultivating Resilient Gardens For Weather Extremes [PaEN]
-- Save The Date: Delaware River Watershed Forum Set For Sept. 25 At County College Of Morris, Randolph, NJ [PaEN]
-- Scranton Times: Sept. 28 Lackawanna County Household Chemicals Disposal Event
Public Participation
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 26 [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Permits For Daylighting 5.33 Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 78 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 26 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Holds Aug. 6 Hearing, Sept. 10 Business Meeting [PaEN]
-- Erie Times: US. Army Corps Of Engineers Inviting Comments On Draft Plan For Union City Dam Recreation, Wildlife Resources In Erie County
Programs/Information
-- TribLive: Workers Clear Asbestos From Springdale Jr.-Sr. High School As Renovation Work Continues
-- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M. DeFrank, Chairman, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission [PaEN]
-- A.I./Data Center Articles - NewsClips - 7.28.25
-- DEP Healthy Waters Update: Draft Revised Chesapeake Bay Agreement Comments Due; Local Restoration Projects, Grants And Education Opportunities [PaEN]
-- Penn State Extension Watershed Winds: Summertime Riparian Buffer Maintenance; Social Science Of Ag Conservation; Ag Progress Days Passport; Deeper Dive Into Water Education [PaEN]
-- LandStudies: Ripple Effect - 9 Years Of Lancaster Water Week Partnership Highlighting Watershed Restoration Projects
-- The Allegheny Front: Penn State Professor Explains How Climate Change Affects Weather
-- Delaware RiverKeeper Network: Now On-Demand - 2025 Watershed Congress Presentations [PaEN]
-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Proactive Williamsport Project Maps Extensive Network Of Stormwater Outfalls
-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: New GIS Mapping Tool Helps Emphasize Importance Of Groundwater Recharge, Helps Landowners With Decision Making
-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Families Learn About Water Chemistry, Aquatic Health Through Hands-On Floating Classroom
-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Students Fish, Kayak, Study Pond Life During West Branch HERYN Program At Bald Eagle State Forest
-- Penn State Extension: Geothermal Energy And Agriculture In Pennsylvania
-- Penn State Extension Energy Essentials Newsletter: Meet The Penn State Extension Energy Team
-- NYT: Pittsburgh Is Putting Its New Streetlights On A Dimmer To Save Energy, Curb Light Pollution
-- The Center Square: Extended LIHEAP Energy Assistance Proposed In PA [In Face Of Proposed 100% Federal Cut]
-- Inquirer: Spotted Lanternflies Surge Again And This Time They’re Heading For Berks & Erie Counties Wine Country
-- WTAE: Prairie In Bloom After Controlled Burn At Jennings Environmental Ed Center In Butler County
-- DCNR Unveils New Statewide Recreation Plan, Celebrates 2nd Annual Outdoors For All Day In Lancaster [PaEN]
-- WNEP: Luzerne County Cuts Band From Playing Rockin’ The River Due To ‘Politics And Propaganda’ Concerns
-- Scranton Times: Band Canceled For Rockin’ The River Concert For Political Reasons Paid $10,000
-- WNEP: Coudersport Natural Ice Mine In Potter County
-- The Allegheny Front - Isabel Kim: Pittsburghers React To Summer Heat, Share Thoughts On Climate Change
-- The Allegheny Front - Isabel Kim: How Small Temperature Shifts Lead To More Blooms And Bees
-- Scranton Times: Bee Bandits Steal Thousands Of Insets From Keystone College Apiary
-- Republican Herald: Little Pollinators Play Big Role In Agriculture Production
Background On Issues
-- Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas From Its Rager Mountain Gas Storage Field In Cambria County [PaEN]
-- Tribune-Democrat: Attorney General Files Charges Against Company Over 2022 Natural Gas Leak At Cambria County Storage Field
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: EQT Faces Criminal Charges Over Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Well Leak In Cambria County
-- Protect PT: CNX Appeals EHB Decision Requiring DEP To Enforce Local Environmental Protection Settlement At The Drakulic Shale Gas Well Pad In Westmoreland County [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 19 to 25 - More Criminal Charges; Weeks Long Wastewater Cleanups Continue; 27 More Abandoned Conventional Wells [PaEN]
-- TribLive Guest Essay: Local Action Can Protect Allegheny County From Rising Energy Costs Caused By President’s Budget Bill - By Gregory Bernarding, Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades, & Jeanneen Zappa, Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance
-- PUC: Pennsylvania Doubles Solar Power Generation In Just 17 Months To 2 Gigawatts [PaEN]
-- Whitehall Borough Launches New Rooftop Solar System Installed With Help From PA Solar Center, Elysium Solar Energy In Allegheny County [PaEN]
-- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: Solar For All Program At Risk In PA If State Lawmakers Don’t Act Soon
-- The Allegheny Front - Julie Grant: Federal Cuts In ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Casts Shade Over Pennsylvania’s Solar Boom
-- MCall: How Federal Megabill Will Impact Green Energy Investments In Lehigh Valley
-- E&E News: President Axes Nuclear Waste Oversight Pane While Pursuing Nuclear Power Expansion
-- Financial Times: ‘Net Zero’ Emissions Standard Paused As Shell Quits
-- Observer-Reporter: ‘Too Many Deer:’ Farmers To Meet With Game Commission To Address Crop Damage
-- Tribune-Democrat: DEP Cites Shooting Range Owned By Pittsburgh Pirates Owner For Blue Hole Creek Pollution In Somerset County
-- Mountain Watershed Assn.: DEP Issues Violation To Highlands Sporting Clays For Lead Contamination Of Blue Hole Creek In Somerset County
-- TribLive: DEP: Lead In Laurel Hill Creek Linked To Shooting Range In Somerset County
-- Courier Times: DEP Told Trumbauersville To Find The Source Of Polluted Ditch Water, But Have They?
-- WPXI: Family Leaves Mon Valley After Testing Shows Elevated Benzene Levels At Their Home
-- Observer-Reporter: Mine Subsidence Sinkhole Prompts Emergency Declaration In Monessen
-- Erie Times: Ocean Conservancy Report: PA Trails In Efforts To Combat Plastic Pollution
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: What You Don’t Know About Being A Farmer In Western PA - By Vincent Mangini, Food21 Of Pennsylvania
-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Proposed Project to Stock Rainbow Trout Over Wild Trout Draws Criticism
-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: 10,000 Catfish Released In Pittsburgh Three Rivers Area
-- Local Conservation Groups Unite To Boost Bluebird Habitat At Lundale Farm In Chester County; July 23 Bird Walk [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Yes, Pittsburghers Should Be Concerned About Cuts To National Park Service - Wounding America
-- Inquirer: President’s National Park Service Considers Removing Independence Park Exhibits In Philadelphia For ‘Depicting American History In A Negative Light’ [References To Slavery]
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: July 27, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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