Here are 99 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.

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-- DEP Issued NOVs To Conventional Oil & Gas Companies For Abandoning 55 Wells Without Plugging Them During September Alone, A Dramatic Increase In New Well Abandonments  [PaEN]

-- WSJ: Nationwide Work Starts To Plug Abandoned Conventional Gas & Oil Wells [In PA Newly Abandoned Wells Outnumber Wells The State Plans To Plug]

-- DEP Adds Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. 12 EQB Agenda  [PaEN]

-- DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 since 2016  [PaEN]

-- Fall Visitors To Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Areas Urged To Report Illegal Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Groups Raise Serious Compliance Issues With Olympus Energy-- Over 600 Violations On 13 DEP Permits-- In Comments On Proposed Shale Gas Drilling Pad In Allegheny County  [PaEN]

-- Washington County Community Meeting Updates Residents On PA Health & Environment Studies, Discusses Health Impacts Of Shale Gas Development  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Washington County Residents Seek Answers On Health Impacts Of Fracking, Shale Gas

-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Public Briefed On Fracking Health Studies, Despite No-Show From Pitt, State Health Dept.

-- Observer-Reporter: Looking For Answers - Residents Await Results Of Shale Gas Drilling Health Studies

-- Inquirer: A Few Philly-Area Churches Are Going Solar, New Tax Incentives Make It Easier For Others

-- Williamsport Sun: Interest In Solar Power Projects Growing Statewide, Including Lycoming County

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Massive Solar Project To Help Power U.S. Steel Plant… In Arkansas

-- PA Solar Center: New Federal Climate, Energy Law Makes Flipping The Switch To Go Solar For Homeowners, Businesses Well Within Reach - By Sharon Pillar, Executive Director PA Solar Center  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Announces Guidance For Planners Seeking To Generate Clean Renewable Energy Through Grid-Scale Solar Installations  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Oct. 10 EarthTalks Lecture To Discuss Solar And Agriculture Land Use Competition  [PaEN]

-- TribLive Letter: Permitting Reform Required For Renewable Energy In Race Against Climate Change - Citizens’ Climate Lobby

-- UPMC Pledges To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 50% By 2030, Announces New Sustainability Leadership  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Meet UPMC’s Sustainability Cochairs And How They’re Approaching Going Net Zero [PA’s Largest Non-government Employer]

-- CEOs For Sustainability 2022 C-Suite Summit Nov. 2 Hazelwood Green Pittsburgh

-- Sustainable Pittsburgh: Insights For A Successful Regional Decarbonization Strategy

-- StateImpactPA: PA Climate Forum Brings Informed Public Into Problem-Solving Effort

-- AP: Low-Income Communities Learn To Tackle Climate-Fueled Heat [Philadelphia Included]

-- PA Sea Grant, DEP Host Oct. 25 PA Lake Erie Forum Webinar On Climate Hazard Mitigation & Climate Migration  [PaEN]

-- Annual Conference Of Interfaith Power & Light To Focus On Environmental Justice & Human Resilience On Nov. 13  [PaEN]

-- WITF Smart Talk: Zero Emission Trucks Would Make Central PA Healthier; Asthma Prevalent In Harrisburg Region

-- Republican Herald: Pottsville Parking Authority To Install More Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

-- TribLive - Deb Erdley: Some Say Legislation Requiring Radon Testing In Schools Comes Down To Politics, Others Say It’s Money 

-- TribLive - Deb Erdley: For Children, Radon Risks Outweigh That For Adults

-- TribLive - Deb Erdley: These Women Effected Change To Spur Radon Laws In Their States

-- TribLive Editorial: PA Needs To Test Schools For Radon

-- Delaware County Times: Conservation Groups Laud Bipartisan Effort To Pass Growing Greener III Environmental Funding

-- Sanatoga Post: Land Conservationists Thank Lawmakers For GG III Funds

-- WHYY: PA Task Force 1 Assists In Search And Rescue Operations Following Hurricane Ian

-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Startup Uses Power Of Algae To Clean Up Indoor Air

-- Erie Times: Girl Scout Creates Storybook Trail At Ashbury Woods In Hopes Of Bringing More Children Outside

-- TribLive: Shaler Area Students Rally To Protect Girty’s Run Farmland In Allegheny County

-- DEP Environmental Ed Update: Grant Applications Due Soon; Student Radon Poster Contest; 60th Anniversary Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring  [PaEN]

-- Rodale Institute: Celebrating 75 Years Of Organic Leadership  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Section-American Society Of Civil Engineers:  Federal Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary Celebration Oct. 15 In Pittsburgh

-- PA Capital-Star: ‘Tired Of Talking’: Advocates Call On Legislature To Address Environmental Justice Issues

-- House Democrats: State Government Should Refocus Efforts On Environmental Justice, Prepare Permit Environmental Impact Assessments

-- Reading Eagle: Reading Activists Want City Protection From Environmental Toxins, Oversight By New Environmental Justice Committee

-- Apply Now For Institute Of Conservation Leadership Delaware River Watershed Professionals Of Color 2022 Cohort  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: On Native Ground: As ‘Land Acknowledgments’ Proliferate, Indigenous Peoples Want Actions, Not Words

-- Bay Journal: With 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goal Out Of Reach, Region Plans For What's Next At Oct. 11 Executive Council Meeting - By Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN]

-- DEP Awards $3 Million To Restore Watersheds Statewide By Reducing Water Pollution  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster County Community Foundation Announce More Than $100,000 In Lancaster Clean Water Fund Grants  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline - P.J. Reilly: ‘Transformational’ Project To Create Trail, Restore Floodplain On Little Conestoga Creek

-- Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay States To Get Millions For Climate-Smart Farm Practices -- By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN]

-- Register Now For NFWF Virtual Chesapeake Bay Agricultural Networking Forum & Listening Sessions Starting Nov. 8  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Environmental Groups Tour Acid Mine Drainage Sites And Revitalized Stream in Luzerne County

-- PaHomePage.com: Combating Climate By Restoring  Abandoned Mine Drainage Degraded Streams

-- Bradford Era: McKean Conservation District Holds Annual BMP Tour

-- Schuylkill River Greenways, Partners Award $362,756 In Schuylkill River Restoration Fund Grants  [PaEN]

-- Reading Eagle: DEP Grant To Aid Schuylkill Headwaters Assn. Watershed Cleanup Project

-- Schuylkill Action Network Oct. 11 Abandoned Mine Drainage Workgroup Meeting 10:00 a.m.

-- Schuylkill Action Network Annual Meeting Nov. 10, Berks Nature Rookery, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

-- Registration Now Open For 2022 Watershed Congress In Montgomery County Oct. 22  [PaEN]

-- Registration Now Open For Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Jan. 30-Feb. 1  [PaEN]

-- Register Now For Ohio River Basin Alliance Summit Nov. 17-18 At Marshall University, WV  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Ever Wonder If The Soil In Your Philly Yard Has Lead In It?  Now’s Your Chance To Find Out

-- Sen. Yaw Announces Legislation To Ban Food Packaging Containing PFAS ‘Forever’ Chemicals

-- Environmental Health Project Oct. 19 Webinar: PFAS And Health Impacts - What Frontline Communities Need To Know, 7:00 p.m.

-- York Dispatch: York County Landfill Discharge Into Creek Violates DEP Standards, Remedy Expected In 2023

-- PA Interfaith Power & Light Hosts 9-Part Virtual Caring For Creation Environmental Education Program Starting Oct. 7  [PaEN]

-- DEP, Partners Join In Luzerne County Litter Cleanup, Call On Pennsylvanians To Help Pick Up Pennsylvania This Fall  [PaEN]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Pick Up Pennsylvania Targets Local Litter

-- Recycling Program, Managing Electronics Waste On DEP Citizens Advisory Council Agenda For Oct. 18  [PaEN]

-- Land Trust Alliance Magazine Highlights Efforts Along PA's Kittatinny Ridge To Document The Economic Benefits Of Land Conservation - By Marina Shauffler [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster Farmland Trust Celebrates Preservation Successes, Sees Urgency With Encroaching Development

-- Natural Lands Joins Art-Reach’s ACCESS Program To Let More People Enjoy Popular Paid Events  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Meet Winners Of 2022 Sustainable Gardening Awards From Phipps Conservatory

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: North Branch Land Trust Welcomes Howland Preserve As New State Park

-- Susquehanna Greenway Partnership: Your Guide To Fall Colors On The Susquehanna Greenway - By Andrew Bechdel, AmeriCorps Susquehanna Greenway & Trails Assistant  [PaEN]

-- Republican Herald: Penn State Schuylkill Seeking Arboretum Certification For Campus

-- Forests For The Chesapeake Bay: Monster Trunk Talley Photo Contest; Oct. 28-29 TreeLay; Riparian Forest Buffer Summit

-- Monterey Pass Civil War Battlefield Park Trail System Project In Franklin County Recognized With 2002 Spirit Of South Mountain Award  [PaEN]

-- South Mountain Partnership Announces $50,000 In Mini-Grants To Support 8 Local Recreation, Restoration, Education Projects  [PaEN]

-- South Mountain Partnership Now Accepting Research Grant Proposals  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Traveling The Great Allegheny Passage Trail By Motorized Wheelchair

-- Post-Gazette: Riverlife Gets $2 Million Allegheny County Grant To Begin Buying Property For New Parks Around West End Bridge

-- Post-Gazette: RiverLife Begins Project To Create Park ‘Unforgettable Experience’ Between Downtown Pittsburgh’s Sister Bridges

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pittsburgh Building One Of The Great Linear Parks In The World

-- Pittsburgh, KABOOM!, Partners Unveil Kid-Designed, Community-Built Playground In West Penn Park

-- Inquirer Editorial: Redesign Of FDR Park Is The Kind Of Planning Philly Should Get Behind

-- Warren Times: Allegheny National Forest Looking For Artist-In-Residence

-- Warren Times: Lumberjack Competition In The Heart Of The Allegheny National Forest

-- Natural Areas Assn. To Host A Virtual Symposium Oct. 28 On The Role of Natural Areas in Climate Resilience in Central Appalachian Forests  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Ecological Restoration Efforts Aim To Preserve Historic CCC Camp In Michaux State Forest, Cumberland County  [PaEN]

-- WESA/Allegheny Front: How The Fungi Beneath Our Feet Help Decide The Trees Overhead

-- Warren Times: Audubon Nature Center - A Gentian Conservation And Conservation

-- WeConservePA: DCNR Forest Fridays - Using Native Plants To Create An Impressive Fall Display

-- Warren Times: Lake Fish Survey Brings Encouraging Results At Chapman State Park

-- The Allegheny Front: New Film Connects Plight Of Hellbenders With Concerns Over Natural Gas Development 

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: New Clean Water Violations On Loyalsock Creek From Natural Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Should Spark Change, Improved Hellbender Protection

-- Fish & Boat Commission To Begin Blue Catfish Restoration In The Ohio River

-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Blue Catfish, An Aquatic Alpha Predator Is Being Reintroduced To The Ohio River

-- Centre Daily Times - Mark Nale: Afield - In Outdoor World Or In Politics, Extreme Views Rarely Solve Anything

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[Posted: October 9, 2022]   PA Environment Digest

10/10/2022