Here are 87 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!

-- Pennsylvania Environmental Council President Davitt Woodwell To Retire  [PaEN]

-- Luzerne County Native Dr. Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Steve Sorenson Takes Home PA Outdoor Writers Assn. Award

-- PA Farm Bureau, Sand County Foundation, Partners Now Accepting Nominations For PA Leopold Conservation Award  [PaEN]

-- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Now Accepting Nominations For Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Award  [PaEN]

-- University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Will Release Results Of Shale Gas Development Health Impact Study On Aug. 15 In Washington County  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline: Study Finds Radioactive Materials In PA Waterways Near Treatment Plants Linked With Oil & Gas Industry Waste

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Repeal Law Prohibiting Increases In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Bonds

-- DEP Signs $660,000 Penalty Agreement With Sunoco To Resolve More Violations During The Construction Of Mariner East Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline In 9 Counties; Penalties Now Total Nearly $31 Million Just From DEP  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: DEP Orders Sunoco Pipeline To Pay $660,000 Penalty For Environmental Violations Related To Mariner East Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline 

-- Comments Submitted On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Potter County By Save Our Streams PA Show Principals Have Been Involved In Abandoning 8 Previous Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Riles Community In Fayette County

-- Warren Times: Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Fayette County Riles Community

-- TribLive: Olympus Energy Proposes Another Shale Gas Drilling Well Pad, Pipeline In West Deer Township, Allegheny County

-- Beaver County Times Guest Essay: Here’s What’s Happening As A Result Of Shell Petrochemical Plant’s [$5 Million] Fine - By Daniel Rossi-Keen

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pittsburgh’s Problem With Shell Petrochemical Plant’s Plastic Nurdles - By Jack Doyle

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Allegheny County Health Dept.  Begins Appeal Hearing On Invenergy Natural Gas Power Plant Proposed In Elizabeth Twp.

-- WHYY: SEPTA Natural Gas Power Plant In Nicetown Still Faces Opposition As Philadelphia Weighs Permit Renewal

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak/Jonathan Salant: White House Pushing To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Wells; Methane Accounts For 12% Of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions In PA

-- NRDC: PJM Electric Grid Operator Report Confirms Blackout Danger From Poor Maintenance At Natural Gas Power Plants

-- AP: After Decades Of Delays And Broken Promises, Coal Miners Hail Rule To Slow Rise Of Black Lung Disease

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Overdue Action On Coal Mine Safety

-- ReImagine Appalachia: New Report Finds Targeted Employment Program Could Boost Income, Improve Quality Of Life In Appalachia

-- WTAE: GASP: Allegheny County, State Regulators Allow Air Quality Permits To Lapse For Years

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Climate Adaptation Carries $15 Billion Price Tag For PA Towns, Study Says

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: PA Municipalities Have Big Climate Tab Coming Due, Who Should Foot The Bill?

-- PA Capital-Star: Report Outlines Costs Of Climate Change On PA Communities, Taxpayers

-- Erie Times Guest Essay: We Are Not Exempt, Erie’s Smoky Summer Disrupts Hopes For Climate Change Refuge - By Times Opinion & Engagement Coordinator

-- Harrisburg Tree Of Life Lutheran Church Meets 103% Of Their Energy Needs, And Offers A Sign Of Creation Care, With New Solar Panels  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: East Lycoming School District Solar Energy Facility Could See Grazing Sheep

-- Beaver County Times: Ambridge Installs Public Electric Vehicle Chargers, A County First

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Report Urges Governments To ‘Go Electric’ With Vehicle Fleets; PA Needs A Jump Start

-- New Report: PA Taxpayers Could Save Over $360 Million Transitioning Government Fleets To Electric Vehicles

-- Spotlight PA: PA Is Competing For Billions To Build Hydrogen Hubs, Will They Really Be Green?

-- PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network Joins Businesses, Communities, Nonprofit Groups In The Trillion Trees Community  [PaEN]

-- The BURG: Canopy Cure: In Harrisburg, Trees Are Vital For Fighting Climate Change, Boosting The Environment

-- Environmental Health News: Pittsburgh-Area Hospitals Tackling Climate Emissions, Pollution And Waste

-- PA Business Report: Lancaster-based Armstrong World Industries Reports On Sustainability Progress

-- PA Capital-Star: Wabtec Strike Passes 30-Day Mark As Workers Push For Greener Locomotives

-- Penn State Technical Assistance Program Hosts Sept. 21 Pollution Prevention: Discover Green Sustainable Pathway Technologies Webinar  [PaEN]

-- DEP, Agriculture, DCNR Release Pennsylvania’s 2022 Chesapeake Bay Annual Progress Report  [PaEN]

-- EPA Directs $14 Million In Grants To PA For Farmers’ Conservation Efforts, Chesapeake Bay Restoration Goals  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Federal Funding Boost Will Help Farmers Protect Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay Region

-- York Daily Record: Central PA Farmers Targeted By PA For Chesapeake Bay Cleanup, How $14.3 Million In Grants Will Help

-- Altoona Mirror: No-Till Farming Method Touted In Demonstrations At Penn England Farm

-- Franklin & Marshall College Students, LandStudies Research Ancient Climate Through Stream Restoration

-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Guest Column: Environmental Stewardship Fund Helps Northcentral Stream Restoration Partnership’s Watershed Restoration Efforts

-- Courier Express: Watershed Wednesdays Youth Education Programs Return By Clarion County Conservation District

-- National Stream Restoration Conference Aug. 21-23 In Baltimore  [PaEN]

-- PennVEST Now Accepting Applications For Chesapeake Bay Watershed Clean Water Project Procurement Program  [PaEN]

-- Help Wanted: Penn State Center For Agriculture Conservation Assistance Seeks Engineer For Ag Conservation Contract

-- Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay Experts Focus On Solar Power’s Stormwater Footprint

-- Federal Office Of Surface Mining Reclamation Awards Sewickley Creek Watershed Assn. $100,000 Grant To Treat Acid Mine Drainage In Westmoreland County  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center, Partners Host 7-Part, Online Expanding Meaningful Environmental & Watershed Literacy With Geospatial Tools Workshops Starting Sept. 28  [PaEN]

-- AP: PA Attorney General, 21 Others Oppose 3M Settlement Over PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’In Drinking Water Systems

-- PA Attorney General Henry Joins Bipartisan Coalition Opposing 3M’s Proposed PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Settlement For Drinking Water Suppliers

-- EPA To Post 10 Years Of Pesticide Incident Data Publicly With Monthly Updates

-- Engineers' Society Of Western PA Call For 2024 PA Brownfields Conference Presentations   [PaEN]

-- PennLive: Small Hospital Could Be Built At Former PA Superfund Site In Northampton County

-- TribLive: Norfolk Southern To Give Beaver County Town $660,000, Lawrence County $340,000 In Wake Of Ohio Train Derailment

-- Gov. Shapiro: Darlington Twp, Beaver County, Lawrence County Receive $1 Million In Community Relief From Norfolk Southern For Impacts Related To Train Derailment

-- LancasterOnline: Listen: WITF Talks To Lancaster Online Reporter On Toxic Trains, Transparency

-- Penn State Philadelphia Soil Testing Project Signals Largely Positive Findings For Urban Growers

-- Inquirer: In Philly’s Pollinator Network, The Birds And Bees Have Our Backs Too

-- TribLive: Pine Township Partnering With PA Resources Council For Glass Recycling In Allegheny County

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PennDOT Eyes Reclaimed Asphalt As Multi-Million Dollar Cost Saver

-- MCall: Search Ends For 9-Month-Old Swept Away In Bucks County Flash Flood: ‘We Have Exhausted All Means’

-- WHYY: Police Narrow Search For Infant Lost In Bucks County Flash Flood, After 2-Year-Old Sister’s Body Found

-- DEP Accepting Applications For Environmental Education Grants Starting Aug. 1  [PaEN]

-- Citizens Voice: Girls Have Fun With Science At Summer Camp At Wilkes University

-- WeConservePA: The Nature Conservancy PA Permanently Protects 240 Acres In Luzerne County, Transfers To Game Commission  [PaEN]

-- Natural Lands Partners With Martin Aguilar To Permanently Preserve 44-Acre Farm In Chester County  [PaEN]

-- Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust Accepts Donation Of 38-Acres Of Forest, Wetlands In Montgomery County  [PaEN]

-- WeConservePA Hosts Aug. 16 Update On DCNR, Bureau Of State Parks Land Management Program  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: 5-Part Woodland Stewardship - Guided Engagement With Your Land Starting Sept. 20  [PaEN]

-- Pilot Partnerships For Regional Invasive Species Management Program Initiated In Northwest PA  [PaEN]

-- Fish & Boat Commission: Actions Taken On Invasive Species, Fish Stocking, Boating Registration At July 24 Board Meeting

-- Join Statewide PA iMapInvasive Species Program August Scavenger Hunt; July 31 Webinar To Learn More  [PaEN]

-- Keystone Trails Assn. Introduces New Trail Academy Series Of Education & Training Events  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: Gather ‘Round The Campfire

-- American Rivers, Partners Begin Removal Of Oakland Dam, Largest Dam Removal In PA, On North Branch Susquehanna River In Susquehanna County  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: PA Legislators Order Wildlife Corridor Study

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Study Dishes Up Surprises About Deer Behavior, Forest Impacts In PA

-- Amber Wiewel Selected As 3rd Pennsylvania Bird Atlas Coordinator  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: Scientists Discover First Proof Of Swainson’s Warbler Breeding In PA

-- Reading Eagle: Blue Marsh Lake Aquatic Habitat Installation To Help Boost Fish Population

-- Center For Biological Diversity Proposes Green Floater Freshwater Mussel For Federal Endangered Species Protection From New York To North Carolina

-- Altoona Mirror: Bat Counting Event At NatureWorks Park In Hollidaysburg Tracks Population Changes

Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

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[Posted: July 30, 2023] 

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