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This week’s Digest is filled with great stories of environmental successes that you can copy.

Learn about innovative environmental education in Armstrong County.

How did the City of Philadelphia, one of the toughest places to recycle, triple the amount of recyclables they collect in a new pilot program?

What are nonprofit groups and agencies doing to protect aquatic diversity in Pennsylvania?

Learn how you might be able to grow pollution controls on farms from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

With only 8 voting days left to work on the state budget, there hasn’t been much discussion of legislation to implement the Growing Greener bond issue.

Budget Clock Ticking

• 8 voting days are scheduled through the June 30 budget deadline in the House

• 8 voting days in the Senate

Contents – On the Hill

· On the Senate, House Agenda

· Senate and House Bills Moving

· House Environment Committee Reports Lateral Funding, Tank, Composting Bills

· New State Senator Will Serve on Environmental Resources Committee

Other News

· Pennsylvania Celebrates 300,000 Acres of Preserved Farmland

· Philadelphia/RecycleBank Triple Recycling in Pilot Areas

· PennFuture Calls for DEP to Adopt Maximum Protection for Mercury

· Chesapeake Bay Commission Hosts Legacy Sediments Presentation

· PEC Endorses Peterson Bill to Accelerate Cleanup of Abandoned Mines

· Mine Water Treatment Technology Conference Features National Experts

· Monongahela Mine Pool Study Now Complete

· Mid-Atlantic Green Highways Initiative Now Underway, Forum Set

· Primer: Future Fuel? On the Road to a Hydrogen Economy

· 2005 Native Plant Conservation Grants Available

· DCNR Hosts Environmental Careers Camps for Students

· They Grow Up Fast – Peregrine Falcons Fledged, One Has Health Problems

· Game Commissioners Approve Important Wildlife Projects.

Feature

· Environmental Education is Alive and Well in Armstrong County

· Guided by Water - Conserving Aquatic Biodiversity in Pennsylvania - From Penn’s Woods, The Nature Conservancy

Award Winning Performances

· EnviroEducation.com, Steinbrenner’s Recognized in Awards Program

Opinion

· Farms- A Good Place to Grow Pollution Controls -By Matthew Ehrhart, Executive Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Pennsylvania

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6/17/2005