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Registration Open! Pennsylvania Groundwater Symposium, May 23 In Harrisburg

PA Environment Daily

The Symposium will be preceded by an optional day-long field trip highlighting springs, caves and other groundwater resources in the Cumberland Valley on May 22. Groundwater professionals, natural resource managers, educators, and anyone interested in the management and protection of water resources are invited to attend.

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April 29 Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Northeast PA Environmental Partners Announce 2023 Environmental Partnership, Shelburne And Emerging Leaders Award Recipients

PA Environment Daily

John has led numerous efforts that have had direct results in conserving natural resources in Northeastern Pennsylvania. For information on how to sponsor the Awards Event, please contact Angela Vitkoski at 570-718-6507 ext. 201 or email avitkoski@pecpa.org.

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Keep PA Beautiful’s Fayette County Affiliate Transitions From All Volunteer Led To County Recycling Office

PA Environment Daily

NewsClips: -- MCall: Earth Day: Your Guide To Events, Cleanups In Lehigh Valley Area -- WHYY: Tree-Plantings And Trash Walks: Earth Day 2022 In Philly -- The Allegheny Front: Repelled By Trash, They Rappelled To Pick It Up At Pittsburgh’s Mt.

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In Memoriam: Walt Pomeroy, Environmental, Wildlife & Wilderness Advocate

PA Environment Daily

While attending Albion College in Michigan, he helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970 and appeared on a CBS-TV prime-time special hosted by Walter Cronkite that was called Earth Day: A Question of Survival. Student concern and action did not stop on Earth Day. It was a life well lived.”

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Appeals court upholds Ontario town’s convictions for damaging piping plover habitat

Enviromental Defense

In the court’s decision, Justice Pardu wrote, “The Act should be given a generous interpretation in light of its remedial nature and its objective of environmental protection”. By conserving wildlife, we ensure that future generations can enjoy our natural world and the incredible species that live within it.

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PA Resources Council Celebrates Three Pioneering Women - Hilda Fox, Cynthia Calhoun, Ruth Becker

PA Environment Daily

They used their resources, skills, and influence to preserve Pennsylvania’s natural beauty, fight billboards, and prevent litter. They did this though the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, long before the first Earth Day. Ruth led PRC through the 1970s and 1980s when the modern environmental movement was beginning.