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Communities Celebrate Earth Day By Joining Keep PA Beautiful’s Pick Up Pennsylvania; 216 Cleanup Events Scheduled For Earth Day Weekend

PA Environment Daily

In celebration of Earth Day, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful , whose vision is a clean and beautiful Pennsylvania, encourages residents to join the 2023 Pick Up Pennsylvania initiative. 216 Earth Day Cleanup Scheduled Highlighted below are just a few of the 216 Pick Up Pennsylvania events scheduled for Earth Day weekend.

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EPA, Local Philadelphia Area Partners Celebrate Earth Week, Declare Trash Free Waters Begin With You!

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency , Philadelphia Water Department , and Partnership for the Delaware Estuary joined to celebrate Earth Week and highlight a new ad campaign, ‘Trash Free Waters Begin with YOU!’ Whether it’s Earth Day or any other day, we all have a role to play in keeping our environment cleaner, greener, and safer.”

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Keep PA Beautiful Young Ambassadors Conducting Pick Up Pennsylvania Community Improvement Events

PA Environment Daily

CJ, a Junior from Swarthmore, Delaware County, will celebrate Earth Day on April 22 by leading a walk throughout Little Crum Creek Park while discussing aquatic macroinvertebrates and water quality. One such event is an educational “Park Walk” coordinated by Young Ambassador, CJ Chen.

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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

The US Supreme Court seems to have appointed itself as a rogue Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to protect polluters rather than the public. It would put any new initiative for environmental protection at automatic risk of being snuffed out.

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Earth Month is a time for hope, not blind optimism

Enviromental Defense

Oh and we got the law changed too, and after decades we have a new and better Canadian Environmental Protection Act. We have all seen that throw-away plastics clog and poison our oceans, rivers and cities. That is hope made tangible through fewer toxic chemicals in our world.

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Trail Mix Blog: Rachel Carson, A Pennsylvanian Sparked An Awakening

PA Environment Daily

The building housing the departments of Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources in Harrisburg is named in her honor. She wrote three popular books about the oceans, won the National Book Award and developed a storytelling style that added to the punch of her last, and greatest, book.

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. Forest Service , the Department of Agriculture , the Department of Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency this week regarding the agencies’ Fiscal Year 2023 budget requests. Federal Register opportunities.

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