Here are 66 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!

-- Trail Mix Blog: Rachel Carson, A Pennsylvanian Sparked An Awakening - By Kent Jackson  [PaEN]

-- Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons Lay First Egg, Watch Live

-- WHYY - Rachel McDevitt: Acting DEP Secretary Pitches Permit Reform During Budget Hearing

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Agriculture Announces Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Grants Now Becoming Available Thru County Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County

-- Registration Open! 2023 Watershed Forestry Summit In Altoona   [PaEN]

-- Ohio River Basin Alliance, ORSANCO Host Congressional Day On The Hill June 13 To Educate Members Of Congress On Needs Of Ohio River Basin   [PaEN]

-- DEP Provides Update On 8,100 Gallon Spill From Bucks County Chemical Plant Affecting The Delaware River  [PsEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center On Bucks County Chemical Spill: We Need To Revisit Source Water Protection, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plans To Protect Our Share Water Resources  [PaEN]

-- StateCollege.com: Centre County PA Senior Environmental Corps Provides Update On Water Sampling

-- Inquirer: These Philly High School Kids Are Trying To Clean The Schuylkill River - With Mussels 

-- TribLive: Linn Run Trout Study Results To Be Unveiled In Westmoreland County

-- LebTown: Lebanon County Conservation District Seeks Volunteers To Help Plant 800+ Trees In Millcreek Twp. April 11-13

-- TribLive: Tree Planting Planned In Leetsdale, Allegheny County April 29, Volunteers Needed

-- TribLive: Fox Chapel To Host Planting Of 1,000 Tree Seedlings For Arbor Day Weekend In Allegheny County

-- Western PA Conservancy Hosts April 18 Webinar On Helping Elk Creek Thrive In Erie County  [PaEN]

-- Pike County Conservation District Releases 2022 Annual Report On Many Accomplishments With Local Partners 

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Penn State Expanding Weather Network, Offering Data That Could Help Areas Prepare For Floods

-- Post-Gazette: PA Will Resume Program To Help Low-Income Households Pay Their Drinking Water, Wastewater Bills

-- Shapiro Announces Norfolk Southern Repaid PA Fire Departments, First Responders $1 Million  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Wants Norfolk Southern To Reimburse Farmers Who Lost Meat Sales After Train Derailment

-- Dept. Of Health Establishes Community-Based Health Resource Network To Provide Long-Term Assistance To Residents Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment  [PaEN]

-- TribLive Editorial: Norfolk Southern Lawsuits Are Necessary Enforcement Of Railroad’s Promises

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S. Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant  [No Specifics Yet]

-- Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts April 19 Workshop On Local Air Quality Issues  [PaEN

-- Public Source: Braddock, Allegheny County - Imagining Environmental Justice For A ‘Sacrifice Zone’

-- Bipartisan House, Senate Members Introduce Legislation Establishing Real Community Solar Program To Help Address Home/Business Energy Spikes Caused By Volatile Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: What Happens At The End Of The Useful Life Of A Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facility?  PA Should Have Been Talking About The Same Thing With Oil/Gas Wells To Prevent Thousands Of Abandoned Wells

-- Guest Essay: A Conservative Argument For Clean Energy -- Follow The Market, Fossil Fuels Are No Bargain - By Dave Jenkins,  Conservatives For Responsible Stewardship    [PaEN]

-- Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air  [PaEN]

-- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts April 5 Webinar On Justice40 - Bringing Energy Transition Benefits To Disadvantaged Communities  [PaEN]

-- 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Hosts May 22-23 Climate Solutions Symposium  [PaEN]

-- BreatheProject.org: Pittsburgh Youth Climate Action Summit April 1

-- MCall Guest Essay: Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change - They Should Be

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- BreatheProject.org /Reddit: March 31 Video Showing Shell Petrochemical Plant Still Flaring Natural Gas, Still Using Hose To Cool Barrel Tower Around Flare

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Disabled Vet Sues Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Destroying Home Water, Sewage [MDN: Energy Transfer Should Buy Him Out, If They Damaged His Property]

-- PUC Denies Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Petition To Reconsider Regulation Of Class One Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: Protect This Place - Fracking Threatens The Allegheny Plateau And Its Biodiversity - By Lisa C. Leib, Pittsburgh

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI]

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Get $1.5 Million In DEP Grants For Electric Vehicles, Natural Gas Trucks

-- Scranton Times: Scranton School Board Approves Electric Bus Program

-- Post-Gazette/Johnstown Democrat: Mining Company, Some Landowners Pushing For New Coal Mine Near Johnstown, Cambria County

-- Observer-Reporter: Sinkhole From Abandoned Coal Mine Swallowing Pike Run In Daisytown, Washington County

-- York Dispatch: Residents Worry As $2.1 Billion Hydro-Dam Project Begins Approval Process Along Susquehanna River

-- PUC Urges Consumers To Contact Utilities About Payment Of Past-Due Or High Bills As Winter Moratorium Ends March 31

-- Observer-Reporter: Earth Day Fundraiser Will Benefit Western PA School For The Blind

-- UnionProgress.com: Litter League Games A Real Pick-Me-Up For Volunteers, Neighborhoods In Pittsburgh 

-- UnionProgress.com: PA Resources Council’s Spring Zero Waste Events Aid Recycling, Composting

-- Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week April 15-23, Volunteers Needed!

-- Warren Times: 2023 Marks Centennial Of Allegheny National Forest

-- Warren Times: Civilian Conservation Corps Honored On 90th Anniversary

-- PA Director Of Outdoor Recreation Highlights Recreation Job Opportunities; 7 Regional Stakeholder Meetings Coming Up  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County, Susquehanna Greenway Partnership Announce Trail System Wayfinding Survey

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Playgrounds More Than Recreation

-- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Lenape Challenge April 29, Premier Adventure Race Experience  [PaEN]

-- PA Society For Ornithology Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation June 9-19, Sign Up Now!  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: $6 Million Game Commission/Ducks Unlimited Project Will Revive 1,600 Acres Of PA Wetlands

-- The Susquehanna Greenway: A Corridor for Wildlife -  By Susquehanna Greenway Partnership   [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Bat Boxes Project Wins Pine-Richland Student’s Girl Scout Gold Award

-- Manada Conservancy Hosts April 13 Workshop On Converting Traditional Landscapes Into A Pollinator Paradise In Dauphin County  [PaEN]

-- PA Sea Grant Program Now Has New Aquatic Invasive Species App  For Android Users

-- Game Commission Delivers Annual Report To Legislature

-- Fish & Boat Commission Presents Annual Report To Legislature

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: April 2, 2023]

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