Upcoming conferences, meetings, workshops, plus links to other online calendars. Go To: PA Environment Digest Calendar Page

· DEP’s Annual schedule of board and advisory committee meetings for 2006

· No Cost Environmental Training Courses Online January/February

· January 9 – DCNR Snowmobile and ATV Advisory Committee meeting Room 105 Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. 9:00.

· January 10 – Invasive Species Presentation – PA Sea Grant Lake Erie. Presque Isle State Park, Erie.

· January 10 – Southwest PA Air Quality Partnership annual meeting. Pittsburgh.

· January 11 – House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee informational meeting on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Springfield, Delaware County.

· January 11 – PA Energy Development Authority meeting (rescheduled from December 16) Room 105 Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. 10:00 a.m.

· January 12 – Forestry Task Force Meeting (Joint Legislative Conservation Committee) in State College.

· January 13 – NRCS Know Your Soils Using Web Soil Survey Net and Audio Conference.

· January 17 – CANCELLED. Environmental Quality Board meeting.

· January 19 – Rachel Carson Forum on Nutrient and Sediment Credit Trading.

· January 19 – Green Building Association of Central Pennsylvania “Escape Cabin Fever Reception and Seminar” Harrisburg.

· January 23 – Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition presents Judy Wicks, founder White Dog Café, on Local Living Economics, 3:00, Glasbern Inn, Fogelsville. Info: Julie Thomases, jthomases@yahoo.com

· January 24 – Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee meets to consider consider the re-appointment of Michael L. Krancer to the Environmental Hearing Board and Senate Resolution 207 (Vance-R-Cumberland) urging DEP to place a nine month moratorium on implementation of the Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy and House Resolution 382 (Frankel-D-Allegheny) urging Congress to reauthorize the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund in Room 8E-A, 9:30.

· January 24 – House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee informational meeting on energy policy.

· January 31 – Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee hearing on legislation modernizing Pennsylvania’s deep mine safety law.

(courtesy PA Organizations for Watersheds & Rivers)

Environmental Education Workshop/Training Calendar

(courtesy PA Center for Environmental Education)

Senate Committee Schedule

House Committee Schedule

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