A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2025

A few months later, in a special Earth Day climate summit, Biden announced several new initiatives, including the pledge to halve US emissions by 2030 and increase its UN-focussed nationally determined contributions (NDS).

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Data Center, The Countrys Largest Natural Gas Power Plant [ PDF of Article ] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Homer City Reinventing Itself As Datacenter Campus With Lots Of Natural Gas Power To Supply It -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Homer City Coal Power Plant Site To Become A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Big Spring Tree Planting Is Coming Up April 11-14 -- Volunteers Needed! PA Forestry Assn.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

- By Maya K. To Enhance Regional Planning, Generation Interconnection [PaEN] -- Reuters: Google Deploys A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

Public Utility Commission Hearing On Review of Electric Grid Impacts From Data Center Growth. Allegheny County [PaEN] -- PennLive: Nature Conservancy Acquires 509 Acres Of Land In Dauphin County, Transfers To Game Commission -- DCNR State Parks Environmental Educator Newsletter Helps You Celebrate Earth Day!

Earth Day

Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2025

Even considering Earth Day demonstrations in April, it’s the first time any of the Trump administration’s irrational and dangerous initiatives to impede, weaken, and obliterate the nation’s protections for land, water, and air generated more than a peep of resistance. Rivers and bays were scrubbed of municipal and industrial waste.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

More Than 100 Volunteers Clean Up 30 Miles Of River Banks In Huntingdon, Blair Counties Yuengling Brewery, Keep PA Beautiful Celebrate Partnership With Cleanup In Schuylkill County PA Chapter American Planning Assn.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

Pennsylvanians have rights to clean air and water, and as we mark Earth Day this weekend, my office reaffirms its commitment to protecting those basic freedoms.” At this point in the drilling process, the mud is an industrial waste and ultimately results in pollution wherever it ends up — which happened during Shell construction.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2024

Visit the Board webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Daniel E. Snowden, at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846. -- Gov.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

StreamWatch Volunteer Training May 20 In Monroe County [PaEN] -- CBF: Proposed Settlement Of Lawsuit Against EPA For Failing To Hold Pennsylvania Accountable For Meeting Chesapeake Bay Water Pollution Reduction Goals Focuses On Actions In 7 PA Counties [PaEN] -- New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2024

26-27 In Bethlehem, PA Susquehanna River Basin Commission Newsletter Highlights Proposed York County Hydroelectric Project; Filling Water Use Data Gaps; 2023 Annual Report Two BioBlitz Events, Earth Day Events In Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster Counties Coming Up!

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Outlines 10-Year Plan For Parks, Trails, Open Space In Allegheny County -- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center Hosts Earth Day Volunteer Day -- Cameron County Chamber Of Commerce: Sinnemahone Paddle Results Available; Register For Remaining Triple Crown Events -- Natural Lands: May 20 Field Jam - Music Without Walls Series.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 National- $3.58

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Earth Day: Water At Risk: 'Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness' - Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment - By Carol Hillestad for the Brodhead Watershed Association [PaEN] -- City & State PA: Q/A With Sen.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 29, 2024

So, we worked with experts to develop a plan to fix the plastic waste problem. We did this because bans were easier for people to understand and made it clearer to the plastics industry the consequences of their continued efforts to block progress to fix the entire waste system. It will require car companies to make more EVs available.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

18-20 In WV Registration Open For Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council Level 1 Certification Training Beginning July 30 Join Master Watershed Stewards In Lancaster County For June 13 Waterways On Wheels Bike Tour A Dozen Nonprofit, Agency, Municipal Environmental Experts Team Up To Tackle Stormwater Runoff In The Lake Erie Watershed Dept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

14 -- Save Pennsylvania’s Forests Feb. 22 Webinar: Get To Know Your Forest - Pinchot State Forest.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2023

Passes Ban On Single-Use Plastic Bags; 16th Municipality In PA To Pass A Ban -- TribLive: Aspinwall Cleans Up Through ‘Green Streets’ Program -- TribLive: Leechburg Recycling Center Volunteers Carry Heavy Burden -- Beaver County Times: Earth Day Celebrated At Sisters Of St.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2024

-- WGAL: UGI Gas Utilities Checking Gas Lines As Precaution After East Coast Earthquake: If You Smell Gas, Evacuate Immediately Grants -- ReImagine Appalachia Applauds EPA’s $500 Million Grant To Appalachian Community Capital To Stimulate Green Energy Investments In Low-Income Rural Communities Affected By Fossil Fuel Industry’s Decline [PaEN] Upcoming (..)

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

Senate Democratic Policy Committee hearing on the environmental and public health impacts associated with the practice of spreading oil and gas drilling waste, known as brine, on Pennsylvania's roads for dust control and ice management. April 17-- Virtual. Click Here to watch online. Read more here about the issue.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

Steel Mill In West Mifflin -- Eastern PA Alliance Of Climbers Hosts April 11 Bats + Climbers Virtual Panel Discussion [PaEN] -- University of Pittsburgh, Atlantic Council Host April 12 Webinar On State Of Abandoned Mine Reclamation, PA Perspectives [PaEN] -- PA Resources Council Webinar April 12 Recycling & Waste Reduction.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated: House Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated Senate Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Independent Fiscal Office Posts Budget Hearing Documents -- KDKA: (..)

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

-- Pennsylvania's Clean Energy Economy Grew To Over 92,700 Jobs Since COVID Economic Crisis [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pennsylvania Jumps To Top 10 In Clean Energy Jobs -- York Dispatch: 2nd Solar Energy Facility Proposal Advances Toward Vote In Dover Township -- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Why Your Electric/Natural Gas Utility Bill Has (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

All-State Fishing Team -- Environmental Justice Champion In PA: Veronica Coptis, Center For Coalfield Justice -- Registration Open For Schuylkill Sojourn June 17-24; Sojourn Steward, Sojourn Diversity, First-Time Sojourner Scholarships Available [PaEN] -- DCNR Bureau Of State Parks Offers Special Environmental Education Activities For Earth Day In (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2023

Steel’s Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant - By Mayor & Council Member of Clairton City -- DEP Blog: Air Quality Awareness Week: Particulate Matter 101 -- PPL Electricity Price To Compare To Drop June 1 For Customers Who Don’t Shop For Suppliers -- Altoona Mirror: Blair Conservation District Offering $1.6 Room G-50 Irvis Building.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Leib, Pittsburgh -- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan -- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI] -- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Get $1.5

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2024

Commissioners Consider Updating Solar Regulations In Westmoreland -- Republican Herald: Residents Speak Out Against Solar Energy Facility In Butler Twp., Commissioners Consider Updating Solar Regulations In Westmoreland -- Republican Herald: Residents Speak Out Against Solar Energy Facility In Butler Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment [PaEN] -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2022

PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

[PaEN] -- PennLive: PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill Allowing Large-Scale Energy Projects To Bypass State Agencies -- Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Senate Committee Advances Bill To Allow Utility Companies To Request (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Visit the Board webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Daniel E. Plastics Theme -- WHYY: Looking To Cut Down On Plastics?

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

-- House Bill Would Expand Safety Zones Around Oil/Gas Wells, Infrastructure To Reduce Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts As Recommended By AG Shapiro’s Grand Jury Report [PaEN] -- Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads, Just Like In PA [PaEN] -- New University Of Chicago (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2023

. -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission May 4 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Projects, Including 12 Related To Shale Natural Gas Drilling [PaEN] -- Independent Regulatory Review Commission Approves Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Environmentalists Being Kept (..)

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2024

Magnitude Earthquake Confirmed In Berks County -- MCall: 2.4

Earth Day