Here are 46 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 Memoriam: Greg Wilson Donegal Chapter Of Trout Unlimited, Lancaster County - ‘One Stream At A Time’  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Donegal Trout Unlimited Much More Than A Fishing Club [Includes The Late Greg Wilson]

-- DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds

-- Two Bipartisan Bills Just Sitting In Senate Waiting To Address Record Number Of Water Quality Impaired Streams Reported In 2022  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Calls For Greater Investments To Reduce Pollution As Number Of Impaired Streams Increases In PA  [PaEN]

-- Penn State To Survey Farmers In 14 Counties On Their Use Of Conservation Practices  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center: How’s My Soil? How We’re Helping Farmers Answer This Question - Video

-- Coldwater Heritage Partnership Now Accepting Applications For 2022 Coldwater Conservation Grants  [PaEN]

-- Applications Now Being Accepted For 2022 Schuylkill River Restoration Fund; Land Transaction Assistance Grants  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline - Sean Sauro: Streamside Erosion, Pollution In Lancaster County Targeted By Franklin & Marshall Professors

-- The Progress: Clearfield County Conservation District Awarded Grant For Countywide Clean Water Action Plan Projects

-- The Patch: Bucks County Audubon Gets $154,000 Growing Greener Grant For Watershed Restoration Project

-- ErieT: New Advisory Group To Become Part Of Erie Stormwater Fee Push

-- SunburyDI: Some Stream Success Stories In Central Susquehanna Valley From DEP’s Stream Water Quality Report

-- PA Environmental Council Podcast: A Conversation With Hannah Smith-Brubaker Of PASA On Regenerative Agriculture

-- Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Highlights 2021 Accomplishments

-- WeConservePA: Conservation Easement Transaction Assistance Grants Now Available  [PaEN]

-- ‘Trust The People’- Amend The State Constitution To Authorize Citizens To Establish New Laws Without The General Assembly  [PaEN]

-- PG - Laura Legere: Last Coal-Fired Power Plant In Allegheny County To Be Demolished, Redeveloped 

-- PG - Anya Litvak: New Pittsburgh Well-Plugging Company, Leak Detection Firm Tackle Landscape Of Gas & Oil Wells Abandoned By Conventional Well Drillers 

--  TribLive: Olympus Energy Gas Well In Washington Twp On Hold As More Discussions To Be Scheduled

-- Pittsburgh, Philadelphia Join White House Building Energy Performance Standards Coalition  [PaEN]

-- OilPrice.com: Are America’s Natural Gas Drilling Hotspots Preparing For A Pivot To Renewables?

-- PG: Fox Chapel Councilwoman Mandy Steele Conquers Coal Tar, Now Wants A Shot At State House

-- WBTimes: Earth Conservancy Seeks Applicants For Free Environmental Job Training Program

-- ReadingE: Proposed Reading Climate Corps Workforce Training Program Aimed At Conserving Natural Resources In Reading

-- Landforce Receives $15,000 Grant From Hydro Flask Parks For All Program  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Monroeville Corvette Club Sends Relief Supplies To Kentucky Tornado Victims

-- Call For Proposals: 9th Annual Sustainability Symposium At Bucknell University April 22-23 [PaEN]

-- Passive House Accelerator: Pittsburgh Sanctuary Saved By Passive Retrofit

-- PG. Western PA Democrats See  Federal Infrastructure Investments As Game-Changer

-- NextPittsburgh: CMU Astronomer Diane Turnshek Leads The Fight For Dark Skies In Pittsburgh And Beyond

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: One Man’s Dedication To Cleaning Up Litter Along the River Offers An Example Of How To Make A Difference In 2022 

-- WESA: Fox Chapel Teen Focuses On Litter With Award-Winning Photo

-- DEP Blog: Cleaning Up Illegal Dumps, An Interview With Keith Ruhl a.k.a. The Garbage Man

-- WLVR: Meet ‘Meeko,’ The Lehigh Valley Zoo’s Plastics Recycling Raccoon

-- PA Horticultural Society: Community-Led Greening Efforts Beautify Nicetown-Tioga Neighborhood For Years To Come

-- PA Environmental Council: PA Groups Comment On Maryland Air National Guard Proposed Low-level Flyover Training

-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Awarded $5,000 MTN DEW Outdoor Grant For Recreation Access Project  [PaEN]

-- PG: Cold, Wet Run On North Country Trail Raised $15,000 For A Nigerian Family

-- CitizensV: Second Mine Car Moved To Miners’ Memorial Park In Ashley

-- DEP: Public Urged To Take Precautions - Deer Tick Virus (DTV) Detected At High Levels In Clearfield County Park  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Migration Sensor Network Tracks Purple Martins From Christina River Watershed To Central America

-- The Allegheny Front: Conversation With Famed Biologist, E.O.Wilson, Who Died At The Age Of 92

-- AP: Long-Sought Great Lakes Projects Get Funding, Including Protecting Lakes From Asian Carp

Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

Going The RIGHT WAY:

-- 46 New Stores - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

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-- 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 23, 2022]

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