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DEP, DCNR, Agriculture, Fish Commission, Local Partners Celebrate Turtle Creek Watershed Stream Restoration, Investments, Water Quality Improvements

PA Environment Daily

On April 25, four state agencies, legislators and two land conservancies celebrated portions of the Turtle Creek watershed in southeastern Union County being removed, or “delisted” from the federal Clean Water Act impaired waters list. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Sen. Scott Martin (R-Lancaster), the U.S.

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Westmoreland Conservation District To Offer Forest Stewardship Workshop Sept. 24; Focus On Invasive Plants

PA Environment Daily

One of the biggest challenges to local forest health discussed at the Westmoreland Conservation District’s September 24 event will be invasive plants. Invasive plants can completely change the character of a forest, making it less desirable for wildlife, and less able to protect the quality of nearby streams.

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Federal Water Tap, April 10: EPA’s Proposed Strengthening of Air Pollution Standards Comes with Water Benefit

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The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.

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??NRCS-PA Awards Nearly $300,000 To Four Conservation Innovation Grant Projects In PA

PA Environment Daily

On October 12, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service-PA announced nearly $300,000 has been awarded to four Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) projects in Pennsylvania. The selected CIG projects in Pennsylvania for fiscal year 2022 include: -- Water Science Institute $75,000, Legacy Sediment 3.0:

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Fresh, May 16, 2023: New Wisconsin Law Aims to Protect Watersheds From Farm Runoff

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Eleven riparian conservation projects in Michigan will receive $1.7 million from the state Department of Natural Resources. Ohio residents, fearing their drinking water will be contaminated by increasing amounts of fracking waste, are standing up to oil companies and injection-well owners.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

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A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Van Wagner has spent 38 years in Lenawee County promoting environmentally sensitive nutrient management and cultivation practices. . A Weakened National Imperative.

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New U.S. Climate Law Will Make Water Contamination Worse

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How is it possible that legislation billed as an environmental protection statute ends up as a primary threat to clean water and communities? Agricultural nutrient pollution is the primary reason that the Clean Water Act has not come close to meeting its “fishable and swimmable” goal for US surface waters.

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