Here are 35 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Thank you for your leadership!

-- In 2021 Initiatives By The Biden Administration, Congress Make Historic Investments In Cleaning Up PA’s Environment; How To Invest $11 Billion Remains Up In The Air  [PaEN]

-- ScrantonT: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law To Deliver NE PA Major Funding For Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation

-- Let’s Pass Some Good Environmental & Energy Legislation In 2022 - Instead Of Just Dog Whistles  [PaEN]

-- E&E Daily: New $800 Billion Federal Defense Spending Bill Includes Provisions On PFAS, Climate Resilience, Net-Zero Energy  [Bill Summary]

-- TribLive: Outgoing Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto Reflects On Time In Office, What’s Next

-- Pinchot Institute For Conservation: Lessons & Losses To Remember In The New Year

-- DCNR Invests $70 Million In 317 Recreation, Land Conservation, Riparian Buffer Projects  [PaEN]

-- Bay To Bay News Guest Essay: Delaware River Basin Commission 60th Anniversary Is A Story Of Our Shared Waters - By Steve Tambini, Executive Director 

-- Partnership For The Delaware Estuary: A Quarter Century Of Progress 

-- 30th Annual Environmental Quality Report On Pike County Streams Now Available  [PaEN]

-- Pike County Conservation District Participating In Winter Salt Watch Practice Run  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Master Watershed Stewards To Monitor Road Salt Concentration In PA Streams & Water Supplies In Armstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland Counties

-- Plan Philly: Philly’s Year In Environmental News And What’s Next: Carbon Pledge, Bag Ban, Tree Plan

-- ReadingE: Reading’s First Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Will Be At Albright College

-- ScrantonT: EV Charging Stations Available At Scheetz In Scranton

-- PG: Pittsburgh Opens Largest Electric Vehicle Charging Station In Western PA

-- Harrisburg University: Research Suggests Methane Leak Detection, Repair Programs Reduce Emissions

-- Anthracite Heritage Foundation/King’s College Announce January Anthracite Mining Heritage Month Events  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Wolf Administration Says It Wants To Improve Environmental Justice Policy

-- Society Of American Foresters Honors Penn State Extension Forest Resources Educator David Jackson  [PaEN]

-- Westminster College 2021 Student Symposium On The Environment Winners; 100+ Participate  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Hempfield Students Take 2nd In Carnegie Science Center Competition

-- TribLive: Franklin Regional Receives Grant To Expand Science Olympiad For Elementary, Middle-School Students

-- WESA: Pittsburgh Uses School Lunches To Take On Environmental And Labor Issues

-- CourierT Guest Essay: 10 Easy Steps To Help The Environment In 2022 - Avery Vaughan, Council Rock H.S. South, Bucks County

-- LancasterOnline Editorial: This Week’s Good Things - Environmental Stewards

-- AltoonaM: Writer Pat Farabaugh Captures Johnstown’s Resiliency Thru Historic Floods

-- The Allegheny Front: First Person: Denele Hughson, Grow Pittsburgh’s Executive Director

-- The Allegheny Front: Long-Time Environmental Journalist Don Hopey Reflects On His Beat In Pittsburgh

-- AP: Thanks To Help From Rodale Institute, A PA Collective Owned By Immigrants Provides Indigenous Corn To Make Tortillas

-- Conservation Effort Launches In Northern PA To Protect, Enhance Or Restore 1,675 Acres of Endangered Wetland Habitat By Ducks Unlimited, Partners  [PaEN]

-- Ducks Unlimited, Partners Restore Wetlands On 130-Acre Aquafarm In Mercer County As Migrating Bird Habitat  [PaEN]

-- Ducks Unlimited, Cargill Improve PA Public Land In Bradford County

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Council Approves 6 Greenways As City Parks

-- DCNR Submits Comments Calling For A Full EIS, Comment Extension On Proposed Low-Altitude Combat Training Flights Over The PA Wilds  [PaEN]

Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

Going The RIGHT WAY:

-- 35 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA 

-- 1,198 New Articles In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA 

Going The WRONG WAY:

-- This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues 

[Posted: January 2, 2022]

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