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Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults--
Awards/Recognition
-- Pennsylvania Envirothon Team Places 2nd In International NCF- Envirothon Competition! [PaEN]
-- Northeast PA Environmental Partners Announce 2023 Environmental Partnership, Shelburne And Emerging Leaders Award Recipients [PaEN]
-- Warren Times: Allegheny National Forest Turns 100 In September, Join Sept. 24 Celebration
Upcoming Events
-- Pitt Water Collaboratory, Women For A Healthy Environment Report On Allegheny County Drinking Water Systems Found Need For Improvement In One Or More Metrics; Aug. 2 Webinar [PaEN]
-- Beaver County Times: Sahli Nature Park To Host Monarch Butterfly Celebration Aug. 5
-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Highlights Moraine State Park Regatta Aug. 5-6, Operation Scarlift Video [PaEN]
-- EPA Hosting Online Investing In America - Climate Action Funding Fair Starting Aug. 7 [PaEN]
-- DCNR Webinar: Advancing Climate Resiliency In Pennsylvania Aug. 8 [PaEN]
-- Farm Bill, Agricultural Policy Focus Of Penn State Ag Progress Days Events Aug. 8-10
-- Ag Progress Days Highlights Biodiversity, Climate-Smart Ag, Spotted Lanternfly Aug. 8-10
-- The Nature Conservancy-PA: PA Nature News - 240 Acres Protected; Mushroom Foraging Event Aug. 9; Blooming At The Bog; More!
-- Warren Times: Household Hazardous & Electronic Waste Collection Event To Be Held In Youngsville Aug. 9
-- Aug. 16 Shaping The Pennsylvania Clean Energy & Efficiency Workforce Future Webinar [PaEN]
-- PA Resources Council Hosts Aug. 19 Household Chemical Collection Event In Boyce Park, Allegheny County [PaEN]
-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Bring Hard-To-Recycle Items To PA Resources Council Events In Allegheny County
-- Save The Schuylkill, Partners Seeking Volunteers For Schuylkill River Cleanup Aug. 26 Near Phoenixville, Montgomery County [PaEN]
-- Buffalo Creek Coalition Hosts Aug. 30 Stormwater Workshop For Municipal Officials, Staff, Engineers And Environmental Advisory Councils In Butler County [PaEN]
-- Warren Times: 15th Allegheny River Cleanup To Be Held Sept. 14-16
-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Now Accepting Registrations For Loving The Land Through Working Forests Conference Sept. 16 [PaEN]
-- Early Bird Registration! Delaware River Watershed Forum Sept. 28-29 In Wilmington, DE [PaEN]
-- Walk In Penn's Woods Day Oct. 1, Plan And Register Your Event Now! [PaEN]
-- Register Now! PA Statewide Watershed Conference Oct. 29-30 In Altoona [PaEN]
-- WeConservePA Hosts Nov. 8 Webinar On Offering Successful Educational Programming [PaEN]
-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: Upcoming Events In August
Programs/Information
-- University Of Pennsylvania: Balancing Work, Life And A Passion For The Environment - Reshmi Nair
-- PennDOT, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Seeking High School Students For Young Ambassadors Program [PaEN]
-- WESA: PennDOT Recruiting High School Students To Lead Environmental Stewardship In PA
-- WNEP: Kids In Lackawanna County Discovering The World Of Water
-- Bay Journal: Legacy Sediment Behind Old Mill Dams Could Help Heal Abandoned Mine Land - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- Scranton Times Editorial: State Makes Progress On Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals
-- TribLive: Trib Total Media Partners With Citizens Financial Group To Support Clean Energy Efforts By Nonprofits [PaEN]
-- TribLive: Power Up: Solar-Power Installations Jump To More Than 40,000 Across The State; Homeowners See Electric Bills Drop
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Bill To Boost Solar Energy In PA Schools Has Bipartisan Support
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Philadelphia’s Large Solar Energy Facility Near Gettysburg 50% Complete And Set To Produce Power By End Of The Year
-- PennLive: Philadelphia’s Large Solar Energy Facility In Adams County Set To Produce Power By End Of Year
-- Citizens Voice Editorial: Build Solar Energy Facilities In Urban, Rural Settings
-- Republican Herald Editorial: Spread Solar Power
-- US DOE Awards $100,000 To Help Beaver County Environmental Justice Communities Go Solar [PaEN]
-- Beaver County Times: RiverWise, PA Solar Center, New Sun Rising Receive Federal Grant To Expand Solar Adoption In Beaver County
-- StateImpactPA: PASA Sustainable Agriculture Pitches Farms On Solar Energy Facility Model That Keeps Farmland Usable, Takes Up Less Space
-- The Center Square: Senate Bill Argues Brownfields Are Better For Solar Energy Facilities Than Farmland
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: What Can One Person Do About Climate Change? Climate Solutions Will Help You Get Started
-- NYU Grossman School of Medicine: Closure Of Pittsburgh's Shenango Coke [Coal] Works Tied To Local Health Gains [PaEN]
-- The Allegheny Front: ER Visits Plummet After Shenango Coke [Coal] Works Closes In Pittsburgh
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Proposed EPA Rules Would Further Tighten Emissions From US Steel Clairton Coke [Coal] Works
-- Scranton Times Editorial: PennDOT Is Paving The Way For Recycling [Asphalt]
-- WESA: Vaccine Baiting Program Driving Down Rabies Rate In Pittsburgh Raccoons
-- Dept. Of Agriculture Reports 106 Cases Of Rabies This Year Thru June
-- KYW: Delaware County To Spray For Mosquitoes After West Nile Virus Identified In Neighborhood
-- DEP: Mosquitoes Testing Positive For West Nile Virus Found In 22 Counties [Up 3 From Last Week]
-- WHYY: FDR Park’s Popular Boating And Fishing Programs In Philly Are At Risk Thanks To Repeated Vandalism
-- Pike County Conservation District: Harmful Algal Blooms
-- TreeVitalize Pittsburgh Now Accepting Applications For Spring 2024 Tree Plantings In Allegheny County [PaEN]
-- Loving The Land - Landowners Tell Their Stories About Sustainable Forestry: David & Margaret Yasenchack, Crawford County - By Bennett Gould, David & Margaret Yasenchack, Foundation for Sustainable Forests [PaEN]
-- Muncy Luminary: Church Of The Resurrection In Muncy Began A Care For Creation Mission By Planting A Forest On Church Grounds
-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Summer Newsletter: Hubbel Hill Conservation Project; Land Story-David & Margaret Yasenchack; Much More!
-- Bay Journal: Beyond Bird Feeders, Think Native Plants And Their Insects
-- WHYY: Bucks County Nature Center Serves Up Crickets And Roach Races At Annual Arthropalooza
-- Penn State Extension Home Garden News: Seed To Supper; Insect Pests; Figs In The Home Garden; Much More!
-- WBRE/WYOU: Two Local Botanists Have Once-In-A-Lifetime Find With Super Rare Orchid
-- Penn State: 2nd Species Of Ramp, Or Wild Leek, Documented In Pennsylvania
-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature: PA Has 25 Species Of Goldenrod
-- PA Capital-Star: PA’s Little Brown Bat, Decimated By A Pathogen, Is Now Endangered
-- Williamsport Sun - Lycoming Audubon Society: A Salute To The Hummingbird: An Intriguing Bird
-- TribLive: Kayakers Report Alligator In Kiski River Near Salina Bridge
-- TribLive: Alligator Eludes Capture In Kiski River, Officials Seek Public’s Help
-- TribLive: Helicopter Aids Hunt For Kiski River Alligator; More Sightings Reported
-- PennLive: Alligator Named ‘Fluffy’ Discovered In Antietam Creek, Berks County
-- Reading Eagle: Alligator Found Along Antietam Creek In Exeter Township
-- Post-Gazette: The Robots Are Coming For You-- Spotted Lanternfly-- Courtesy Of Carnegie Mellon University
-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Spotted Lanternfly Home Remedies May Be Worse Than Bugs
-- Penn State Extension Spotted Lanternfly News: Tree Of Heaven Control Strategies; Impacts On Maple Syrup Industry; Take The Lanternfly Survey
Public Participation
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 5 [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Section 401 Water Quality Certification For Equitrans To Replace Abandoned Natural Gas Storage Wells In Greene County Due To Coal Mining [PaEN]
-- DEP Sets Sept. 19 Meeting/Hearing On Air Permit For Expansion Of Marcus Hook Terminal’s Ethane Chilling Capacity In Delaware County [PaEN]
Background On Issues
-- DEP Investigates Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Leak As Possible Source Of Village Of Reno Water Supply Contamination In Venango County; Customers Under Do Not Consume Advisory For 2 Weeks+ [PaEN]
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 29 to August 4; More Abandoned, Leaking Wells, Reno Water Supply Contamination; Rager Mtn. Natural Gas Storage Area Spills [PaEN]
-- New Penn State Study: Brine Water Pumped From Played-Out Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Used As Dust Suppressants, Winter Road Treatments Exceed Environmental, Health Standards, Just Like Conventional Oil & Gas Brine Water [PaEN]
-- Guest Essay: Take A Deep Breath! Now Think What You Just Inhaled. If You Live Along A Dirt Road You Could Be Inhaling Oil & Gas Wastewater - By Siri Lawson, Warren County [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Negotiating Community Benefits, Like Those With Shell Petrochemical Plant Penalty Fund In Beaver County, Takes A Village; So Does Mitigating Harm
-- StateImpactPA: PASA Sustainable Agriculture Pitches Farms On Solar Energy Facility Model That Keeps Farmland Usable, Takes Up Less Space
-- The Center Square: Senate Bill Argues Brownfields Are Better For Solar Energy Facilities Than Farmland
-- Sustainable Pittsburgh Selected As One Of 20 Regional Green Jobs Centers To Train Individuals For Climate-Resilient Jobs [PaEN]
-- Guest Essay: Investing In Clean Energy Will Benefit PA Communities, Create Jobs, Generate Tax Revenue And Significantly Reduce Climate Changing Emissions - By Lori Brennan, The Nature Conservancy-PA [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: A Practical, Financially Helpful Way To Fight Climate Change - By Erica Smithwick, Penn State Earth And Environmental Systems Institute
-- Lancaster Farming: Managing Increased Drought And Flooding Risk For Pennsylvania
-- York Daily Record: Rising Temps, Severe Weather, Less Snow: Yorkers Discuss How Climate Change Affects Them
-- The Allegheny Front: ‘We’re Loading The Dice:’ Scientists Say Record Heat Is Due To Climate Change
-- AP: Here’s How Hot And Extreme The Summer Has Been, And It’s Only Halfway Over
-- WPost: It’s Not Just Hot, Climate Anomalies Are Emerging Around The Globe
-- Eureka Resources Extracted 97% Pure Lithium Carbonate Used In Making Lithium-ion Batteries From Oil & Gas Wastewater [PaEN]
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: PGT Trucking Welcomes First Battery-Electric Truck Into Its Pittsburgh Fleet
-- WHYY: King Of Prussia Startup Looks To Build Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Nationwide
-- Guest Essay: 2023 Federal Farm Bill Unique Opportunity To Direct Vital Federal Resources To PA Farms - By Kristen Heberling Hoke, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA [PaEN]
-- Williamsport Sun: ‘Out Of Control:’ Deer Are Eating Up Corn Farmers’ Profits
-- The Allegheny Front: In The Last 3 Years Wildfires In Pennsylvania Have Nearly Doubled; Season Is Longer
-- Wall Street Journal: 3 Men Battle FBI Over Buried Civil War Gold Near Dents Run, PA: ‘Stuff Just Doesn’t Add Up’
-- PA Attorney General Henry Joins Coalition Calling For Stronger Federal Strategy To Fight Plastic Pollution Crisis [PaEN]
-- The Center Square: 14 State Attorneys General [Including PA] Want Action On ‘Plastic Pollution Crisis’
-- The Guardian: How A Citizen Vigilante In West Virginia Uses His Drone To Uncover Polluters Who Would Rather Stay Hidden
-- Reuters: Top US Electric Utility Group Opposes EPA Emissions Plan For Existing Natural Gas Power Plants - Source
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: August 6, 2023] PA Environment Digest
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