Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults--

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

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

-- 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

-- 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]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

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

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

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

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

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

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring Operations For Unknown Period

-- Beaver County Times: Expect ‘Continuous’ Flaring- Burning Off Natural Gas, Flammable Gases At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

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

-- 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]

-- 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]

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

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

-- 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

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

-- New Planet Philadelphia Radio Show Coming April 7 On Consequential Environmental Stories In The News

-- Warren Times: Audubon Little Explorers Play ‘Animal Hide And Seek’ April 8

-- Pike County Tick Borne Diseases Task Force Offers Spring Tick Protection Tips

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

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

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

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

-- 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]

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

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Newsletter Highlights Beavers At Jennings Environmental Center, Aultmans Watershed Trash Cleanup April 29  [PaEN]

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

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

-- DEP Blog: What You Should Know About Storage Tanks At Farms And Residential Properties

-- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That?

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

-- March 31 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- Help Wanted: Berks Nature Land Stewardship Specialist; Watershed Education Fellowship  [PaEN]

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

-- Utilizing Rainwater And Gravity: A Guide To Rain Gardens

-- Trenton Daily: Delaware River Alliance For Watershed Education Seeks Summer Fellowship Applicants

-- 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]

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

-- Beaver Times: Beaver County Master Gardeners: 6-Part Series - An Introduction To Environmental Field Studies - Native, Common, Invasive Species

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

-- PennLive: Time To Prepare For Spotted Lanternfly Season, What To Buy, How To Make Traps

-- LancasterOnline: Spotted Lanternflies Will Emerge In Central PA Soon, Here’s What To Expect

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Log Rafts And Raftsmen Once Ruled The Susquehanna River

-- NorthcentralPA.com: Tiadaghton Audubon Society Plans Morning Bird Walks Throughout April, May

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

-- The Express: Clinton County Conservation District, Volunteers To Stock Kettle Creek With Trout

-- Western PA Conservancy: Latest Water Land Life Newsletter - Help Nature Thrive During Earth Month, All Year

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Where Has The Whip-Poor-Will Gotten To?

-- TribLive: First Pittsburgh Hays Bald Eagle Egg Hatched Sunday Afternoon

-- TribLive: 2nd Bald Eagle Egg Hatches In Pittsburgh Nest, Watch Online

-- Save The Date!  Wildlife For Everyone Foundation's Spring Celebration May 19, State College

-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Harbingers Of Spring

-- Penn State Extension: Woods And Wildlife News And Notes Newsletter

-- StateImpactPA: PA Considers Boosting Its Biodiversity And Cuteness With Reintroduction Of The American Marten

-- Williamsport Sun: Climate Change Alters The Human-Raptor Relationship - By Cornell Ornithology Lab

-- Erie Times: Total Eclipse In April 2024 Could Draw 260,000 People To Erie County’s Biggest One-Day Tourist Event

-- Bloomberg: Here’s How Much Top US Polluters Must Cut Methane Emissions To Avoid Fees

-- AP: U.S. Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal In 2022

Visit the PA Parks & Forests Foundation’s Events webpage and DCNR’s Calendar of Events for activities happening near you.

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

[Posted: April 2, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

4/3/2023