Here are 88 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!

-- House Environmental Committee Holds June 27 Meeting On Bills Increasing Setback Distances From Natural Gas Infrastructure, 2-Year Moratorium On Cryptocurrency Air Permits [PaEN]

-- House Republicans, Democrats Introduce Legislation To Prevent The Court System From Being Used By Powerful Interests To Silence Citizen Critics  [PaEN] 

-- 3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station  [PaEN]

-- WTAE: Washington County Homeowner Takes On Gas Drilling Companies In Court 

-- KDKA: Washington County Family Takes 2 Gas Companies To Court Over Fracking Health Concerns 

-- Children’s Health Defense News: Washington County Family Sickened By PFAS Chemicals Used In Chevron’s Shale Gas Fracking Wells, Lawsuit Alleges

-- WTAE: 6 Leaking Abandoned Conventional Wells In Hanover Twp., Washington County Contaminated Water Supply, Releasing Natural Gas In And Next To Hillman State Park  

-- DEP To Hold July 25 Hearing On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Potter County  [PaEN] 

-- TribLive: Grant Twp., Indiana County Community’s Fight To Stop An Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well

-- TribLive: Murrysville, Plum Officials Deal With Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Issues In Allegheny County 

-- Beaver County Times Guest Essay: How Environmental Justice Community Benefits Agreements Can Empower Residents Of Beaver County - By Dr. Daniel Rossi-Keen, RiverWise

-- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: Finding Grace And Hope In West Virginia Coal Country, Where Others See Only Decay

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Punxsutawney Phil Getting A New Neighbor - Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well

-- TribLive: West Deer Township Approves Olympus Energy Shale Gas Drilling Well Pad; Neighbors Plan To Appeal In Allegheny County

-- Protect PT Hosts June 24 In-Person Community Workshop - Living Near Shale Gas In Westmoreland County, 10:00 a.m.

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 17 to 23 - Federal Well Plugging Project & Dimock Area Shale Gas Well Inspections; Leaking Plugged Conventional Wells; Frack Out Investigation  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Finds PA General Energy Installed Its Shawnee Water Withdrawal On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek At Sizes Larger Than Authorized By Its SRBC, DEP Permits  [PaEN] 

-- PUC Distributes A Record $278.8 Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Revenue; Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Do Not Pay These Fees  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Lawmakers And Regulators Want Permit Reform And Environmental Justice, How Does One Shape The Other? 

-- Southeast PA Transportation Authority Receives 2 Sustainability Awards For Environmental Excellence

-- Triblive: Women For A Healthy Environment Honor Pine-Richland’s Eden Hall, Hance Elementary Schools For Creating Healthy, Sustainable Environments 

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: With Community Guidance, A New Plan To Clean Up The Upper Conestoga River

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Telling 'HerStory' In Career And Leadership Skills Program For Teen Girls  [PaEN]

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: On Summer Solstice, Diverse People Gather To Celebrate Sacred Ground, Water And Air We All Share

-- PA American Water’s Clarion Team Recognized For Outstanding Employee Safety And Water Quality Milestones

-- Guest Essay: Support Increased Funding In 2023 Federal Farm Bill That Benefits Small Family Farms, Landowners, Cleaner Rivers And Streams  - By Brenda J. Shambaugh, PA Association of Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Citizens Voice: Earth Conservancy Receives $1.96 Million EPA Brownfields Grant To Restore Creek In Luzerne County

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Earth Conservancy Plan Would Restore Section Of Nanticoke Creek Buried Under Abandoned Coal Breaker Site In Luzerne County

-- Centre Daily Times: How To Explore This Abandoned Coal Mining Town And Its New Purpose

-- Penn State Watershed Friendly Certification Program Expands To Large And Small Properties, Apartments  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Bug Whisperer Dave Funk Decodes Mysteries Of Mayflies, Other Clean Water Lovers

-- LancasterOnline: RiverFest Kicks Off In Columbia Borough

-- Damascus Citizens, Delaware River Coalition Urges Delaware River Basin Commission To Allow Remote Participation At Meetings During Open Public Comment Period

-- Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Now Accepting Applications For Urban Community Green Infrastructure, Water Quality, Access, Resilience Mini-Grants  [PaEN]

-- Delaware Currents Guest Essay: Threats To Lehigh River Grow While PA Underfunds Water Protection Measures - By PennFuture

-- Delaware River Festival: Calling All Artists - Enter Trash Free Waters Art Contest, Aug. 25 Deadline 

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Ensuring Clean And Safe Water Requires Investment - By Jim Seif, Former PA DEP Secretary, EPA Region III Administrator

-- Legislative Report On Proposed Changes To Biosolids Permits Finds No Approved Method Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemical' Testing, No Standards For PFAS In Biosolids; DEP Says Changes Needed To Protect Health, Environment  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Testing, Treating For PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In PA Water Wells  [PaEN] 

-- LancasterOnline: Lead Abatement Programs Target 3,300+ Lancaster County Dwellings, 377 Remediated So Far

-- Observer-Reporter: Glass Recycling Coming To Washington, PA

-- TribLive Guest Essay: PA’s Rivers Have A Plastics Problem And Nobody Is Willing To Act - By Mountain Watershed Assn., Three Rivers WaterKeeper

-- City & State PA Guest Essay: Community Solar Energy Will Create Jobs, Boost PA’s Economy - By PA Building & Construction Trades Council

-- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host June 28 Webinar On How To Encourage More Solar Power In PA, 7:00 p.m.

-- PA Solar Center Accepting Applications For GET Solar Communities Technical Assistance Program  [PaEN] 

-- Central Penn Business Journal: Lancaster Clean Hydrogen Startup Activates First Reactor System To Power Businesses

-- Spotlight PA: Safety, Oversight Concerns Raised As PA Lawmakers Pursue Billions For Hydrogen Hubs

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Phasing Out Use Of Sulfur Hexaflouride Gas In Electrical Grid Equipment, The Most Potent Greenhouse Gas On The Planet

-- Scranton Times: Energize All Electric Vehicle Charging

-- The Express: Bellefonte Borough Reviews Sustainability Survey In Centre County

-- The GIANT Company, Keep PA Beautiful Award 23 Healing The Planet Grants To Support Food Waste Prevention, Reduction, Recovery Projects  [PaEN]

-- Garfield Community Farm In Pittsburgh Hosting June 30-July 1 Workshop On Design, Implementation Of Food Forests & Perennial Agriculture [PaEN]

-- PASA Sustainable Agriculture Line-up Of Summer Educational Events

-- NRCS-PA Awards Grants To 4 Community Gardens In Philadelphia

-- Agriculture Invests $10.2 Million To Protect 29 Farms, 2,044 Acres In 15 Counties  [PaEN]

-- Natural Lands, Borough Of Chester Heights Partner To Preserve 40 Acres Of Open Space In Delaware County  [PaEN]

-- Willistown Conservation Trust To Establish 90-Acre Public Preserve On Recently Sold Kirkwood Farm Property In Chester County

-- Pocono Heritage Land Trust: Protecting A Part Of Paradise - Upper Paradise Preserve, Monroe County  [More Information]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: North Branch Land Trust Celebrates Nature Photography Along Susquehanna

-- The Valley Ledger: Lehigh Valley Greenways Awards Over $86,000 In Grants To Support 13 Local Recreation, Conservation Projects

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - The Mountain Laurel Is PA’s State Flower

-- Beaver County Times - Brian Whipkey: Cankerworms Defoliated Trees In SW PA, Here’s What You Need To Know

-- Scranton Times: New Disease Threatening Beech Trees

-- NextPittsburgh: Tree Pittsburgh: The Secret Tree Lab Under The 62nd Street Bridge

-- Warren Times - Josh Cotton:  Fire A Primary Concern For Allegheny National Forest In Its Infancy

-- DCNR: Shapiro Administration Celebrates 2023 DCNR Ranger Trainee Graduates; Applications Now Being Accepted

-- DCNR Blog: Campground Hosts - Lesser Known Heroes Of State Park Campgrounds

-- DCNR: Pennsylvanians Urged To Protect Themselves Against Tick-borne, Mosquito-borne Illnesses When Venturing Outdoors  

-- Warren Times: Kinzua State Park Skywalk Reopens After Safety Inspection

-- The Valley Ledger: Lehigh Valley Greenways Awards Over $86,000 In Grants To Support 13 Local Recreation, Conservation Projects

-- Natural Lands: PECO Awards 23 SE PA Municipalities And Nonprofits $150,000 In Green Region Open Space Grants

-- Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia:  We Traveled To Pittsburgh For The Collaboration Of Regional Trail Initiatives Conference

-- Observer-Reporter: Southpointe Trail Connector Links Business District, Montour Trail

-- Altoona Mirror: Bedford’s 4-Mile Long Shuster Way Heritage Trail Nearing Completion

-- PennLive: Harrisburg University, Recycle Bicycle Partnership Means Free Bikes For Students

-- Reading Eagle: Paddlers Make Lifelong Connection On Schuylkill River Sojourn

-- PennLive: 6 More Great Glamping Sites To Check Out In PA

-- Centre Daily Times: Explore Nature With No-Cost Activities Through Centred Outdoors This Summer

-- Warren Times - Josh Cotton: Allegheny National Forest Centennial Hiking Challenge Underway

-- Courier Times: Harmful Algal Blooms In Lakes Galena, Towhee Disrupt Park Activities In Bucks County

-- PennLive: Wildlife Corridors: PA Aims To Offer Safe Passage For Bear, Other Wildlife

-- Observer-Reporter: Wildlife Corridor Measure Passed By House Aims To Protect State’s Wildlife Habitat 

-- Williamsport Sun: Bear Necessities: What You Need To Know About Encounters With Bears

-- Chadds Ford Live: Kennett Township, Chester County Becomes PA Audubon Bird Town

-- PA Natural Heritage Program 2022 Annual Report Now Available  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Where To See Fireflies In Pittsburgh And How You Can Help Keep Their Lights On

-- TribLive: Turnpike, PennDOT Officials Expand Pollinator Habitats, Will Include Irwin Interchange

-- Scranton Times Quills Blog: The Importance Of Wetlands

-- Republican Herald: Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation Features 17 International Staff Members This Summer

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[Posted: June 25, 2023] 

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