Here are 106 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 Citizens Advisory Council Meets June 13 To Hear Acting DEP Secretary Negrin Outline His Vision For Changing DEP; Enforcement, Customer Service Strategies; Permit Review Changes; Environmental Justice Plans; More  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: Lawmakers Are Clawing Back State’s Power To Prevent The Abandonment Of Conventional Oil/Gas Wells

-- Warren Times Guest Essay: Simple Truth - Conventional Oil/Gas Well Operators Frequently Abandon Their Wells, Better Bonding Is A Solution To This Ever-Growing Problem - By Sierra Club

-- DEP Moves To Enforce Order To Plug 4 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells Leaking Methane In Allegheny County Owned By Michael Harju & Economy Natural Gas, Inc.  [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 27 to June 2 -- Conventional Operators Fail To Start Plugging, Fail To Cleanup Spills; More NOVs For Abandoning Wells  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: Environmental Groups Seek Results Of Pitt Health Studies On Impact Of Natural Gas Development

-- Post-Gazette-Megan Tomasic: Elizabeth Twp. Residents Concerned About Planned Shale Gas Drilling Well Pad Near High School In Allegheny County

-- UPDATED: Susquehanna River Basin Low Stream Flows Trigger SRBC Water Withdrawal Restrictions On 49 Oil & Gas Drilling Operations & Other Water Users  [PaEN]

-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports PA Natural Gas Production Peaked In 4th Quarter 2021 [PaEN]

-- Delaware Valley Journal: Delaware County Natural Gas Pumping Station Still On Hold In Marple Township After Court Decision Said PUC Had To Apply Environmental Rights Amendment

-- CNX Releases 2022 Sustainability Report Highlighting Local Environmental, Social, Governance Approach

-- PA Capital-Star: Shell Petrochemical Plant To Pay $10 Million In Fines For Exceeding Air Pollution Limits - Will It Matter?

-- Eyes On Shell Petrochemical Plant Accountability Campaign To Hold In-Person Rally June 8 In Beaver. 9:00 a.m.

-- Eyes On Shell: Shell Petrochemical Plant Announced On Facebook It Is Restarting Plant, Flaring Of Gases Will Be Occurring

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: These High School Students Are Grappling With Living With The Chemical Pollution From The Shell Petrochemical Plant And The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- Environmental Health Project, HealthFirstPA May 31 Webinar On Pollution And Children’s Health - Norfolk Southern Train Derailment And Beyond, Noon

-- TribLive: Westmoreland Officials Talk Train Derailment  Contingency Plans With Expert

-- GridPhilly.com: At Former Philadelphia Refinery, Pollution Concerns Persist Under The Surface

-- PA Capital-Star: Cash-Strapped Volunteer Fire Departments Ask Lawmakers For Help

-- WESA: Mon Valley Leaders Have $5 Million In U.S. Steel Fines From Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant, But Little Has Gone To Public Health 

-- Pittsburgh Group Against Smog & Pollution Seeking Pollution Reading Watchdogs For Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant At Special June 2 Event

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Cryptocurrency Data Mining Could Be PA’s Next Big Environmental Threat, We Need To Treat It That Way - By Clean Air Council

-- Now On Demand: Responsible Decarbonization Alliance Webinar On Climate Change And Penn’s Woods: What Does The Future Hold  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Bridgeway Capital To Offer Solar Energy Loans To Nonprofits

-- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn., Partners Host June 8 Webinar - Solar Successes & Lessons Learned From PA School Case Studies  [PaEN]

-- Pocono Record: Solar Energy Project Proceeding With Protections For Swiftwater Creek

-- Ohio Valley 2023 Solar And Electric Vehicle Charger Co-op Now Open

-- NextPittsburgh: Pitt Research Grants Ignite Sustainable Innovation For A Greener Energy Future

-- LancasterOnline: Four Seasons Produce Warehouse Dramatically Reduces Energy Use, Price Of Electricity In New Cool Warehouse Expansion

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Considering $2.2 Million Study On LED Streetlight Conversion

-- PJM Interconnection Issues Hot Weather Alert For Entire Footprint For June 2  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: PJM, PSEG, Other Electric Generators Urge FERC To Reject Natural Gas-Fired, Other Generator Pleas To Drop Winter Storm Elliott Nonperformance Penalties

-- AG Henry, Office Of Consumer Advocate Urge Pennsylvanians To Shop For Electricity, Natural Gas Suppliers; Be Aware Of Door-To-Door Solicitation

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Home Repair, Energy Efficiency Program To Open Applications In Allegheny County May 30

-- Electrification Coalition Hosts June 20 PA Medium, Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Boot Camp And Showcase At Harrisburg University  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Pine-Richland School District Launches Pilot Program To Test Viability Of Electric Buses

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Lawmakers Examine Climate Issues Related To Proposed Hydrogen Hub

-- Post-Gazette-Anya Litvak: Pittsburgh-Area Utilities, Transit Agencies Launching Hydrogen Pilots, Anticipating Wider Use In The Future

-- Delaware County’s 2nd Annual Sustainability Conference June 8, Widener University, Chester, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

-- House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities  [PaEN]

-- House Environmental Committee Meets June 6 To Consider Bills On Environmental Impact Reports; Cryptocurrency Operations; Clean Hydrogen  [PaEN]

-- PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators June 29 Webinar On Implementing JEDI - Environmental Justice In Environmental Education  [PaEN]

-- Attorney General Henry Files Civil Complaint Against DuPont And Affiliates For Manufacture Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals,' Seeks Payment For Cleanup Costs  [PaEN]

-- NYT: PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Makers Chemours, DuPont, Corteva Settle Public Water Lawsuits In $1.19 Billion Agreement

-- Lancaster Farming Guest Essay: Too Many Farmers Take Clean And Green Tax Break But Don’t Comply With Law Requiring A Conservation Plan - By PASA Sustainable Agriculture

-- Lehigh Valley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Seeking Stream Team Volunteers To Help Maintain Riparian Buffers  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Conewango Watershed Association Needs Volunteers, Info Session June 7 At Warren Conservation District

-- Pike Conservation District: Homeowner's Checklist For Watershed-Friendly Home - By: Rachael Marques, Pike County Watershed Specialist  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: Once Neglected, Ignored, Tacony Creek Park is Finally Getting Visitors Thanks To Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Programs

-- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers June 14 Conversation Cafe Webinar - A Story Of Nonprofit Resilience - The Upper Merced River Watershed Council (California)  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners 2022 Milestones Report - Progress Toward Achieving Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Goals

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update Newsletter - Restoring And Sustaining Lancaster County Waterways

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: New Lancaster Conservation District Watershed Website Makes Improving Lancaster’s Waterways Easy

-- PA American Water Announces Winners Of Protect Our Watersheds Student Art Contest  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Philly ‘Water Bar’ Back At City Hall To Let You Taste The Tap Water

-- Register Now!  Dive Deeper Biennial Water Resource Conference For Educators Set For Sept. 28 In Harrisburg; Scholarships Available  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster Conservancy: Lancaster Water Week Now Underway June 2 to 10

-- NorthCentralPA.com: Envision Marsh Creek June 8 At Bald Eagle State Park Environmental Learning Center In Centre County

-- Rep. Webster, Environmental Groups Promote HB 1275 Requiring Riparian Stream Buffers In PA To Help Reduce Flooding, Stormwater Damage - Video  [Sponsor Summary]

-- Game Commission To Hold Junior Game Warden Camps For Students 12 to 15 Starting June 23

-- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center Little Explorers Get ‘Down In The Dirt’ June 10

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Maximize Use Of New Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding To  Cleanup Abandoned Coal Mines In Pennsylvania - By Cong. Chris Deluzio & Molly Parzen, Conservation Voters Of PA

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Advocates Say More Scrutiny Needed Over Conventional Oil/Gas Well Plugging

-- Guest Essay: Consider Health Risks When Sealing Driveways And Parking Lots - By Harry Campbell, Chesapeake Bay Foundation  [PaEN]

-- Republican Herald Editorial: Dirty Water Deed [U.S. Supreme Court Decision On Wetlands Protection]

-- Tribune-Democrat: Victims Of 1889 Johnstown Flood Remembered At National Memorial

-- The Allegheny Front Wins 3 Golden Quill Awards And Best In Show

-- Meadville Tribune: EPA Awards $1 Million Grant For Industrial Site Cleanup In Meadville

-- Delaware County Redevelopment Authority Announces Award Of $1 Million EPA Brownfields Grant

-- Keep PA Beautiful, DCED Host June 13 Webinar On How Your Community Can ‘Fight Dirty’ - A Review Of Anti-Littering Media Assets, Tools And Resources  [PaEN]

-- PA Resources Council Announces Schedule Of Summer Public Events Committed To Zero Waste In Western Pennsylvania  [PaEN]

-- PA Resources Council, Partners To Host Household Chemical Collection Events In Fayette, Washington Counties In June  [PaEN]

-- Protecting Clean Water Together - Disposing Of The Hard Stuff - By Carol Hillestad for the Brodhead Watershed Association, Monroe County  [PaEN]

-- Republican Herald: PPL To Host Small Appliance Recycling Event At Frackville Center June 3

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Pittsburgh, State Must Clean Up Their Act With Stiffer Penalties For Littering And Dumping

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Pass State Bill To Get Serious About Preventing Litter

-- Republican Herald Editorial: Dump More Fines On Litterbugs

-- York Dispatch: DEP ‘Mosquito Academy’ Prepares Biologists For Summer Pest Control

-- DCNR Bureau Of Forestry Forest Focus Newsletter Now Available: New Bureau Structure, Cultural Resources Management, Beech Leaf Disease, Forest Fridays Sign Up  [PaEN]

-- Patch.com: $2.5 Million In Preservation Grants Awarded By Chester County Commissioners

-- WHYY: Hibernia County Park In Chester County Gets 5-Acre Wildflower, Grass Meadow

-- PennLive: Annual Pollinator And Garden Faire Planned For June 17 In Halifax, Dauphin County

-- Western PA Conservancy: June 27 Webinar - Pollinator Habitat - Build It And They Will Come, Noon

-- Altoona Mirror: Canoe Creek State Park Works To Control Invasive Shrubbery In Blair County

-- PA U.S. Senators Casey, Fetterman Request Full Environmental Impact Statement On Maryland Air National Guard Very Low Level Military Training Flights [100 Feet] Over PA Wilds  [PaEN]

-- WITF/WVIA: PA’s U.S. Senators Call For More Intensive Study On Very Low Level Military Training Flights In PA Wilds

-- 11 Remote Workers, Families To Live, Work And Play In PA Wilds This Summer In Cameron, Warren Counties  [PaEN]

-- Altoona Mirror: Blair County Area Recreation Key To Economic Growth

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: Jennings Environmental Center, 3MJC Host Historic Foltz One Room School Open House Events; Mine Drainage Treatment At Slippery Rock U.  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Susquehanna Greenway Partnership June 3 Outdoor Expo

-- TribLive: Canoe, Kayak Trip Set For Sewickley Creek June 3

-- Fairmount Park Conservancy Announced It Received $10 Million Grant For $250 Million Project To Transform Philadelphia's FDR Park  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Plans $300,000 In Improvements At Mellon Park

-- Scranton Times: Meet The Team Restoring Brooks Coal Mine At Nay Aug Park To Reopen To Public As Museum

-- June 2 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In May Now Available  [PaEN]

-- Citizens Voice: Ricketts Glen Waterfall Featured On New Postal Service Stamp

-- Fort Indiantown Gap Offers Free Guided Tours Of Rare Regal Fritillary Butterfly Habitat In Lebanon County  [PaEN]

-- PennLive: Rare Butterfly Habitat Tours Open To Public At Fort Indiantown Gap

-- Warren Times - Josh Cotton: With Need For Allegheny National Forest Outlined, First Supervisor Identified Priorities For Early Forest Management

-- Warren Times - Josh Cotton: Recreation Valued, If Ancillary Benefit To Creation Of Allegheny National Forest

-- Governor’s Advisory Council For Hunting, Fishing & Conservation Seeking Candidates To Serve On Fish & Boat Commission Board In Multiple Positions

-- Game Commission Springtime Alert: Leave Young Wildlife Alone

-- WHYY: Fish Kill In Bushkill Creek Has People Wondering Is Nearby Quarry To Blame In Northampton County; Fish & Boat Commission Investigating

-- The Allegheny Front: Researchers Team Up To Analyze Recordings Of Bird Songs In PA Forests

-- Nature At Risk: Are Bats Flying Back From The Brink? - By Carol Hillestad for the Brodhead Watershed Association, Monroe County  [PaEN]

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[Posted: June 4, 2023]

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