Chickies Rock, Lancaster County

As you take time to celebrate this holiday season, we at PA Environment Digest are no different. This week and next we put together a list of the major environmental accomplishments for 2005, along with a special collection of stories showing how individuals, farmers, businesses, watershed groups, public agencies and nonprofits took positive action to improve their habitat in 2005.

We hope you enjoy them and we wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season!

-- David E. Hess, Editor

Session Schedule

The House and Senate return to start the 2006 session of the General Assembly on January 3, but the real work does not begin until January 23. But, we can’t rule out the possibility they may return earlier to address property tax relief.

On the Hill

· House-Passed Property Tax Relief Plan Includes Tax on Consulting Services

Other News

· More Utilities Answer Call to Help Pennsylvanians Stay Warm

· Energy Efficiency, Pollution Reduction Grants Help Small Businesses

· Steam Workshop Will Help Reduce Energy Costs for Manufacturers

· Green Building Workshops for Interiors, Existing Buildings Set for January

· BP, Johnson & Johnson, Others Named Low Carbon Leaders By The Climate Group

· DEP Accepting Applications for Solid Waste – Resource Recovery Dev. Grants

· York Foundation Awards Grant for Farm Preservation Work

· Goodwill Industries Receives $200,000 Brownfields Job Training Grant

· Projects Funded to Study Rare, Declining Species and Their Habitats

· December Monitoring Matters Focuses on Invasive Species

· National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Awards $650,000 to Restore Delaware Estuary

· New Publication on Mid-Atlantic Vernal Ponds Available from MAIA

· Play It Safe On Or Around Ice This Winter

· DEP Publishes Notice of 2006 Board and Advisory Committee Meetings

Feature: 2005 In Review Part I

· Legislative & Program Milestones of 2005

Go To: PA Environment Digest Calendar Page

12/23/2005