Here are 85 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!

-- Take Action Now! State Budget Isn’t Done! - Help Bipartisan Lawmakers, Wildlife, Farm, Environmental, Recreation Groups Working To Get Growing Greener III Funding  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Discusses Infrastructure Needs At Shikellamy State Park, Across State Parks And Forests  [PaEN]

-- PennLive: DCNR Staffing Shortages Force More Than Half Of State Park Pools To Close Or Reduce Hours

-- MCall: Beltzville State Park In Carbon County Warning It May Turn People Away Over July 4 Weekend Due To Overcrowding

-- Daily Item: Rep. Culver, DCNR Secretary Say State Considering Adding State Park Infrastructure Funding To Budget

-- MyChesco.com Guest Essay: The Great Outdoors Plays Critical Role In America - By Stuart Clarke, Watershed Program Director, William Penn Foundation

-- DEP Chesapeake Bay Office Update: Farm Conservation Tax Credit Applications; York County Better Farms, Clean Water Field Day; Join Mifflin County Riparian Rangers! [PaEN]

-- 30 Years and Counting - Stroud Water Research Center’s Education Department Makes Cutting-Edge Freshwater Science Fun  [PaEN]

-- EPA Approval Of Pequea Creek Watershed Restoration Plan Advances Efforts To Improve Water Quality In Lancaster County  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Begin Accepting Clean Water Fund Large Grant Applications July 26; Watershed Leadership Academy Open  [PaEN]

-- Penn State: Regional Manure Expo Focuses On Farm-Level Agronomic, Economic, Environmental Advances July 13-14 In Franklin County 

-- PA Environmental Council Video: An Unlikely Team Works To Restore Native Woodlands On Reclaimed Mining Site In Cambria County

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Mine Drainage Restoration Along North Country Trail; Celebrate The Blazing Star Prairie Bloom At Jennings July 30  [PaEN]

-- WPCAMR: WPSU Video: Microbes Clean Pollution From Abandoned Mine Drainage [PaEN Companion Story 2018 ]

-- PA Environmental Council: $3.7 Billion - The Value Of Clean Water In Just 3 Watersheds Of The Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape - By Marla Meyer Papernick, PA Environmental Council  [PaEN]

-- Huntingdon Daily News: Eagle Scout Teams Up To Plant Trees At Camp Anderson

-- Pike Conservation District: What Are Harmful Algal Blooms?  Climate Change Makes Them More Prolific, Intense  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline: Fundraiser To Bring Public Butterfly Garden To New Holland

-- LancasterOnline - Sean Sauro: Conestoga Club, RiverKeepers Plan To Improve Recreational Access Along 30-Mile Stretch Of Conestoga River

-- Western PA Conservancy: Special Discover French Creek Webinar Aug. 10  [PaEN]

-- University Of Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory Will Lead Regional Network To Improve Water Quality  [PaEN]

-- Lackawanna College Environmental Ed Center Accepting Applications For Fall Conservation & Natural Resource Certificate  [PaEN]

-- GIANT Foods, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Award 45 Healing The Planet Waterways, Community Improvement Grants  [PaEN]

-- Fox43: Harrisburg City, DCNR Launches New PA Outdoor Corps Youth Environment Cleanup Program

-- PASA Sustainable Agriculture Hosts July 16 Trees For Your Animals & Land Workshop In Perry County  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times Guest Essay: Let’s Clean Up And Protect Western PA’s Waterways - Chesapeake Bay Foundation

-- DEP To Recommend Fee Increase For Erosion & Sediment Control Permits To EQB July 12  [PaEN] 

-- Post-Gazette - Laura Legere: With State Climate Action In The Spotlight, Wolf’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Rule Takes Effect

-- U.S. DOE Seeks Public Input On $500 Million Bipartisan Infrastructure Program To Turn Former Mine Lands Into Clean Energy Projects  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: PA Landowners Guide To Utility-Scale Solar Leasing  [PaEN]

-- Nextracker And BCI Steel Renovate Abandoned Pittsburgh Steel Factory To Serve Growing U.S. Utility-Scale Solar Market  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: U.S. Steel Meets U.S. Solar In Leetsdale Manufacturing Facility

-- NextPittsburgh: BCI Steel Reopens Leetsdale Factory To Make Solar Components

-- Kraft Heinz Company Makes First Wind Energy Investment With Repsol For 90% Of Electricity Used In European Plant Sites  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: DOE Secretary Talks Western PA’s Clean Energy Future During Visit

-- WESA: In Pittsburgh Visit, Energy Secretary Touts Economic Benefits Of Combating Climate Change

-- WHYY: Philly’s Suburban Municipalities Embrace Electric Vehicle Revolution With Open Arms

-- Bay Journal: Penn State Study: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread On Pennsylvania Roads Bad For Health, Land - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [6.30.22]

-- Evangelical Environmental Network Testifies In Congress On Need To Defend Our Children’s Health & Taxpayers By Fixing Oil & Gas Facility Methane Leaks, Require Real Well Plugging Bonding  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Health Project Anniversary Celebration Sept. 15 In Pittsburgh

-- WPSU: For A Rural Elk County Community, A Cryptocurrency ‘Mine’ Brought Noise Pollution Like A Jet Engine

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Fracking Is Bad For Public Parks And The People Who Use Them - Forest Hills Resident

-- Sign On To REAL Energy Freedom For Pennsylvania - Petition To PA Lawmakers  [PaEN]

-- Evangelical Environmental Network: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of U.S. Supreme Court Decision On Regulating Carbon Pollution [PaEN]

-- Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Respond To U.S. Supreme Court Decision On Regulating Power Plant Carbon Pollution  [PaEN]

-- WESA: New State Consumer Advocate Aims To Be ‘The Consumer’s Voice’ On Utility Issues

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Freeing Competitive Markets Where Only A Handful Of Corporations Control The Prices You Pay - Rep. Pisciottano (D-Allegheny) & Rep. Innamorato (D-Allegheny)

-- PennLive Guest Essay: We All Benefit By Helping People In Need Pay Utility Bills [LIHEAP] - By Rep. Matzie (D-Beaver)

-- WESA: Braddock Residents, Environmentalists Push Back On Air Pollution From Edgar Thomson Steel Works

-- Post-Gazette: Proposed U.S. Steel Permit At The Forefront Of Air Quality Hearing In Braddock

-- MCall: How Much Pollution Are Tractor-Trailers Causing In Lehigh Valley?  This Group Is On A Quest To Find Out

-- Centre Daily Times: Benner Twp Residents Want Expanded PFAS Water Testing Around State College Airport Contamination Site

-- EPA Awards Villanova University Innovative Solutions Student Research Grant Related To PFAS Stabilization In Soils  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: EPA Hearing On Drilling Wastewater Injection Well Hears Plum Borough Residents’ Complaints

-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: PUC Approves Refund Of $12.4 Million In Excessive Weather Charges For Philadelphia Natural Gas Customers

-- Williamsport Sun: Williamsport Joins Hazmat Training On Railroad Preparedness For Real-Life Scenarios

-- WESA: Environmentalists Train Drone Pilots To Find And Pursue Pollution [PA Included]

-- Penn State Names Lara Fowler Interim Chief Sustainability Officer, Director Of Sustainability Institute 

-- Independent Regulatory Review Commission Executive Director David Sumner Receives The Legal Intelligencer Professional Excellence Award

-- Three Rivers Waterkeeper Hosts 3 Rivers Watch Summer Training Events July 9, August 6  [PaEN]

-- Frances Rodgers Partners With French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust To Preserve 7.5 Acres In Chester County [PaEN]

-- Citizens Voice: Luzerne County Farm Joins County’s Farmland Preservation Program

-- York Dispatch: For Native Americans In Southcentral PA, ‘We’re Still Growing, We’re Still Surviving’

-- Bay Journal: Susquehanna Greenways Deliver Recreation, Eco-Tourism For River Towns In PA - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN] 

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Green Lodging Partnership Celebrates 10 Years Of Supporting Local Conservation  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Night Skies In PA: State Parks Offer Clear Views For Stargazers, Astrotourists

-- The Valley Ledger: Delaware River Sojourn Committee Honors High Admirals In Northampton County

 -- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: PA Boat Registration Process Simplified

-- Scranton Times: Tuscarora And Locust Lake Sister Parks Celebrate Half A Century

-- Republican Herald: Locust Lake State Park Campers Marvel At Rescued Reptiles

-- 15th Coal Miner’s Heritage Festival July 10 At The No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum, Carbon County  [PaEN]

-- MCall: Washed Out Bridge, Crumbling Road Threatened To Leave Woman Stranded In Her Remote Home Near Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area; Enter Project Saving Charlotte

-- Republican Herald: - Pat McKinney: Schuylkill County Outdoor Recreation Map Shows The Way To Adventure

-- Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed: Share Your Tacony Creek Park Story And Connection!

-- Post-Gazette: Bike Share Pittsburgh Donating 450 Retired Healthy Ride Bikes As Part Of Recycle A Bicycle Program

-- KYW: Lawmakers Pass Bill To Crack Down On Illegal Dirt Bikes, ATVs On City Streets  [Returns To Senate for concurrence - Senate Bill 1183]

-- DCNR Blog: What Can We Do About The Spongy Moth [Formerly Known As Gypsy Moth] Outbreak

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Penn State Researchers Ask You To Report - Have You Seen Something Eat A Spotted Lanternfly?

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: PA Freshwater Mussel Included As Part Of Lawsuit Over Endangered Species Protection

-- PennLive: ‘Critically Endangered’ Andean Condor Hatches At National Aviary In Pittsburgh

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Game Warden, U.S. Steel Employees Rescue Bald Eagle; Bird’s Sibling Helped Rescuers Find It

-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Steel Plant Eagle Fledgling’s Tumble Lands It In Rehab Center

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Furbearing American Martens, Last Seen In The Early 1900s, Could Be Reintroduced In PA

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Pittsburgh Named One Of Top Fishing Cities In New Study

-- WTAJ: Diversified Energy Donates Game Commission Buildings For Wildlife Processing

Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

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Going The WRONG WAY:

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

[Posted: July 3, 2022]

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