97 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 97 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Thank you for your leadership!

-- Pennsylvania Envirothon Team Places 2nd In International NCF- Envirothon Competition!  [PaEN] 

-- Northeast PA Environmental Partners Announce 2023 Environmental Partnership, Shelburne And Emerging Leaders Award Recipients  [PaEN]

-- Richard Negrin Sworn In As DEP Secretary By Gov. Shapiro With Former Sen. Kury, Author Of State Environmental Rights Amendment, Looking On

-- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: A Government That Listens Is No Longer A Fish Story [Fish & Boat Commission Fish Stocking Rule Changes]

-- WESA: Lenape Nation Of Pennsylvania Seeking State Recognition For 30 Years

-- PA Wilds Center: 2023 PA Wilds Champions Receive Awards At July 27 Dinner 

-- DCNR Blog: 275 State Park & Forest Rangers Help Keep Visitors Safe

-- New Penn State Study: Brine Water Pumped From Played-Out Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Used As Dust Suppressants, Winter Road Treatments Exceed Environmental, Health Standards, Just Like Conventional Oil & Gas Brine Water  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: Take A Deep Breath! Now Think What You Just Inhaled. If You Live Along A Dirt Road You Could Be Inhaling Oil & Gas Wastewater - By Siri Lawson, Warren County   [PaEN]

-- DEP Investigates Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Leak As Possible Source Of Village Of Reno Water Supply Contamination In Venango County; Customers Under Do Not Consume Advisory For 2 Weeks+  [PaEN] 

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 29 to August 4; More Abandoned, Leaking Wells, Reno Water Supply Contamination; Rager Mtn. Natural Gas Storage Area Spills  [PaEN]

-- PUC: Columbia Gas To Pay $990,000 Penalty In Revised Settlement Involving Home Explosion In Washington County

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: PUC Approves $990,000 Penalty Settlement With Columbia Gas Over 2019 House Explosion In Washington County 

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Negotiating Community Benefits, Like Those With Shell Petrochemical Plant Penalty Fund In Beaver County, Takes A Village; So Does Mitigating Harm

-- The Guardian: How A Citizen Vigilante In West Virginia Uses His Drone To Uncover Polluters Who Would Rather Stay Hidden

-- DEP Invites Comments On Section 401 Water Quality Certification For Equitrans To Replace Abandoned Natural Gas Storage Wells In Greene County Due To Coal Mining  [PaEN]

-- DEP Sets Sept. 19 Meeting/Hearing On Air Permit For Expansion Of Marcus Hook Terminal’s Ethane Chilling Capacity In Delaware County  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Health Project: Shale Gas Development And Cancer Fact Sheet

-- NYU Grossman School of Medicine: Closure Of Pittsburgh's Shenango Coke [Coal] Works Tied To Local Health Gains  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: ER Visits Plummet After Shenango Coke [Coal] Works Closes In Pittsburgh

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Proposed EPA Rules Would Further Tighten Emissions From US Steel Clairton Coke [Coal] Works

-- Public Source: Allegheny County’s Handling Of Asphalt Company’s Air Pollution Request Leaves Some Feeling Paved Over

-- EPA Now Accepting Applications For $115 Million In Grants To Cut Harmful Diesel Engine Emissions

-- Gov. Shapiro: Darlington Twp., Beaver County To Receive $544,700 From Norfolk Southern To Pay For Road Repairs As A Result Of The Train Derailment

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Rattled Region 6 Months Ago, Fight For Accountability, Safer Rail Freight Continues - By Cong. Chris Deluzio

-- Aug. 16 Shaping The Pennsylvania Clean Energy & Efficiency Workforce Future Webinar  [PaEN]

-- Sustainable Pittsburgh Selected As One Of 20 Regional Green Jobs Centers To Train Individuals For Climate-Resilient Jobs  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Webinar: Advancing Climate Resiliency In Pennsylvania Aug. 8   [PaEN]

-- EPA Hosting Online Investing In America - Climate Action Funding Fair Starting Aug. 7   [PaEN] 

-- Guest Essay: Investing In Clean Energy Will Benefit PA Communities, Create Jobs, Generate Tax Revenue And Significantly Reduce Climate Changing Emissions - By Lori Brennan, The Nature Conservancy-PA  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: What Can One Person Do About Climate Change?  Climate Solutions Will Help You Get Started

-- York Daily Record: Rising Temps, Severe Weather, Less Snow: Yorkers Discuss How Climate Change Affects Them 

-- TribLive: Power Up: Solar-Power Installations Jump To More Than 40,000 Across The State; Homeowners See Electric Bills Drop

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Bill To Boost Solar Energy In PA Schools Has Bipartisan Support

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Philadelphia’s Large Solar Energy Facility Near Gettysburg 50% Complete And Set To Produce Power By End Of The Year

-- PennLive: Philadelphia’s Large Solar Energy Facility In Adams County Set To Produce Power By End Of Year

-- US DOE Awards $100,000 To Help Beaver County Environmental Justice Communities Go Solar  [PaEN]

-- Beaver County Times: RiverWise, PA Solar Center, New Sun Rising Receive Federal Grant To Expand Solar Adoption In Beaver County

-- StateImpactPA: PASA Sustainable Agriculture Pitches Farms On Solar Energy Facility Model That Keeps Farmland Usable, Takes Up Less Space

-- The Center Square: Senate Bill Argues Brownfields Are Better For Solar Energy Facilities Than Farmland

-- Citizens Voice Editorial: Build Solar Energy Facilities In Urban, Rural Settings

-- Republican Herald Editorial: Spread Solar Power

-- PennLive Guest Essay: The Ongoing Global Climate Horrors Should Surprise No One - By Dr. Doug Morris

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Pennsylvanians Deserve Bold Climate Action And Accountability - By Anita Prizio, Allegheny County Council Member

-- Inquirer Editorial: Climate Change Inaction Means A Lifetime Of Cruel Summers

-- Eureka Resources Extracted 97% Pure Lithium Carbonate Used In Making Lithium-ion Batteries From Oil & Gas Wastewater [PaEN] 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: PGT Trucking Welcomes First Battery-Electric Truck Into Its Pittsburgh Fleet 

-- WHYY: King Of Prussia Startup Looks To Build Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Nationwide

-- Register Now!  PA Statewide Watershed Conference Oct. 29-30 In Altoona  [PaEN]

-- Early Bird Registration!  Delaware River Watershed Forum Sept. 28-29 In Wilmington, DE   [PaEN]

-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Now Accepting Registrations For Loving The Land Through Working Forests Conference Sept. 16  [PaEN] 

-- Buffalo Creek Coalition Hosts Aug. 30 Stormwater Workshop For Municipal Officials, Staff, Engineers And Environmental Advisory Councils In Butler County  [PaEN] 

-- StateImpactPA: PA Farmers Dig Into Soil And Its Ability To Trap Carbon As One Solution To Climate Change

-- Scranton Times Editorial: State Makes Progress On Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals

-- Farm Bill, Agricultural Policy Focus Of Penn State Ag Progress Days Events Aug. 8-10 

-- Ag Progress Days Highlights Biodiversity, Climate-Smart Ag, Spotted Lanternfly Aug. 8-10

-- Dept. Of Agriculture: Reminder To Apply For $13 Million In First-Come, First-Serve Farm Conservation Tax Credits 

-- TreeVitalize Pittsburgh Now Accepting Applications For Spring 2024 Tree Plantings In Allegheny County  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: 2023 Federal Farm Bill Unique Opportunity To Direct Vital Federal Resources To PA Farms - By Kristen Heberling Hoke, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal: Legacy Sediment Behind Old Mill Dams Could Help Heal Abandoned Mine Land - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN]

-- Muncy Luminary: Church Of The Resurrection In Muncy Began A Care For Creation Mission By Planting A Forest On Church Grounds

-- Scranton Times: Engineer From PennDOT’s Dunmore Office Assisting With Flood Recovery In Vermont

-- Lancaster Farming: Managing Increased Drought And Flooding Risk For Pennsylvania

-- WNEP: Kids In Lackawanna County Discovering The World Of Water

-- University Of Pennsylvania: Balancing Work, Life And A Passion For The Environment - Reshmi Nair

-- Pitt Water Collaboratory, Women For A Healthy Environment Report On Allegheny County Drinking Water Systems Found Need For Improvement In One Or More Metrics; Aug. 2 Webinar  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Water Authority: Drinking Water Lead Levels Well Under EPA Action Level, Lowest Level In Decades

-- WTAE: Pittsburgh Water Authority Reports Lowest Lead Levels In Drinking Water In Decades

-- Warren Times: 15th Allegheny River Cleanup To Be Held Sept. 14-16

-- Save The Schuylkill, Partners Seeking Volunteers For Schuylkill River Cleanup Aug. 26 Near Phoenixville, Montgomery County  [PaEN]

-- PennDOT, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Seeking High School Students For Young Ambassadors Program  [PaEN] 

-- WESA: PennDOT Recruiting High School Students To Lead Environmental Stewardship In PA

-- Warren Times: Household Hazardous & Electronic Waste Collection Event To Be Held In Youngsville Aug. 9

-- PA Resources Council Hosts Aug. 19 Household Chemical Collection Event In Boyce Park, Allegheny County  [PaEN] 

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Bring Hard-To-Recycle Items To PA Resources Council Events In Allegheny County

-- WHYY: Philly Filmmakers Want To Disrupt Hollywood With First Zero-Waste Feature Film

-- PA Attorney General Henry Joins Coalition Calling For Stronger Federal Strategy To Fight Plastic Pollution Crisis  [PaEN]

-- The Center Square: 14 State Attorneys General [Including PA] Want Action On ‘Plastic Pollution Crisis’

-- TribLive: Carnegie Mellon University Gets Approval To Build New Robotics Center At Hazelwood Green [Former Brownfield Site]

-- Post-Gazette: The Robots Are Coming For You-- Spotted Lanternfly-- Courtesy Of Carnegie Mellon University

-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Spotted Lanternfly Home Remedies May Be Worse Than Bugs 

-- Penn State Extension Spotted Lanternfly News: Tree Of Heaven Control Strategies; Impacts On Maple Syrup Industry; Take The Lanternfly Survey

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Highlights Moraine State Park Regatta, Operation Scarlift Video  [PaEN]

-- Loving The Land - Landowners Tell Their Stories About Sustainable Forestry:  David & Margaret Yasenchack, Crawford County - By Bennett Gould, David & Margaret Yasenchack, Foundation for Sustainable Forests   [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. Acquires 262 Acres On Moosic Mountain For Permanent Conservation 

-- French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust, White Family Partner To Preserve 7.5 Acres In Chester County  [PaEN]

-- The Nature Conservancy-PA: PA Nature News - 240 Acres Protected; Mushroom Foraging Event Aug. 9; Blooming At The Bog; More!

-- WBRE/WYOU: Two Local Botanists Have Once-In-A-Lifetime Find With Super Rare Orchid

-- Bay Journal: Beyond Bird Feeders, Think Native Plants And Their Insects

-- Beaver County Times: Sahli Nature Park To Host Monarch Butterfly Celebration Aug. 5

-- Walk In Penn's Woods Day Oct. 1, Plan And Register Your Event Now!  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Members Of Congress Call For National Park Service Status For North Country Trail

-- Wall Street Journal: 3 Men Battle FBI Over Buried Civil War Gold Near Dents Run, PA: ‘Stuff Just Doesn’t Add Up’

-- Feet First Philly Launches 4th Year Of Pedestrian Enhancement Mini-Grant Program; Webinar Aug. 24  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Allegheny National Forest Turns 100 In September, Join Sept. 24 Celebration

-- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In July Now Available  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: Warren County Photographer Wins In National Audubon Photo Contest

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[Posted: August 6, 2023]   PA Environment Digest