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We provide an update on the budget schedule in this Digest, but things still look very ugly for the budget season-- $1.5 billion deficit--and it is getting uglier.

The Issues/PA Poll results this week confirm the public thinks the economy, fair taxes, and affordable higher education are their top three concerns. The environment generally didn’t make their priority list. The results did strongly support having the voters vote on Gov. Rendell’s proposed $800 million bond issue, but there was no question about how to pay for it. (see article below).

And read our special feature on the Steel Valley Middle School teacher who is making an art of environmental education and read the PA Center for Environmental Education January EE and Higher Ed newsletter that’s now available.

Contents – On the Hill

· Rocky Landscape: Budget Address, Hearings Now Set for February and March

· First Environmental Issues Forum to Focus on Nutrient Trading Program

Other News

· PUC Sets Technical Conference on Implementing Alternative Energy Law

· Are You Prepared for a Winter Flood?

· DEP Proposes NOx Allocations for Upcoming Ozone Seasons

· Rendell Unveils Pennsylvania's Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy

· Grants Made By Western PA Watershed Protection Project, New Apps Due

· Revised Drinking Water Project Priority List Now Available

· PA Center for Environmental Education EE and Higher Ed Newsletter Available

· Central PA Green Building Council Sponsoring 2 Upcoming Events

· Save the Dates: Green Building Summit, Workshops Set in Pittsburgh Region

· Affordable Housing Goes Green in Cumberland County

· Dept. of Energy Grants Solicitations Open in February

· DEP Awards Small Business Pollution Prevention Grants

· Conservation Planning Using a Green Infrastructure Approach

· EPA Extends Deadline for Brownfields Grants to January 21

· EPA Helps Local Governments Use Environmental Management Systems

· Free Waste Reduction Assessments Available in Allegheny County from PRC

· Beverage Industry Cuts Packaging in Half Since 1990

· DEP Seeks Waste Tire Removal, Recycling Grant Proposals for Starr Pile

· EPA Proposes to Modify Toxics Release Inventory Reporting Requirements

· Conservation Groups Featured at 2005 State Farm Show

· Nominations Due for Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards

· What’s on the Minds of Pennsylvanians? Economy, Higher Taxes, Education

· Looking for Internships? Check Out these Agencies, Groups

· Geologists Association Looking for Executive Director

Taking Positive Actions

· The Art of Environmental Education in Steel Valley Middle School

1/14/2005