Here are 126 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!

-- WNEP: John Levitsky, Luzerne Conservation District, Recognized With Thomas P. Shelburne Award By Northeast Environmental Partners  [Video]

-- Morning Ag Clips: York County 4-H Member Suggests Idea For EPA Youth Advisory Council

-- Educators In Greene & Washington Counties Forming Southwest PA Environmental Literacy Coalition; Oct. 16 Kickoff Webinar  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Educators: Multipart Universal Design For Learning In Environmental Education Course Oct. 30 to Dec. 22  [PaEN]

-- EEN Action - Evangelical Environmental Network Will Deliver Over 51,000 Signatures To Gov. Shapiro In Support Of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative  [PaEN]

-- Impacto Media: Rich Negrin, está creando un ejército de guerreros ambientales  [DEP Secretary Rich Negrin Is Forming An Army Of Climate Warriors]

-- Drexel University Environmental Collaboratory Oct. 26 Student-Focused Fireside Chat With DEP Secretary Rich Negrin  [PaEN]

-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Gov. Shapiro, Let’s Hold The Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable Via RGGI - By Rev. Mitchell Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network

-- Re-Imagining A Christian Response To Changing Climate - Comments By Dr. Julia O’Brien, Lancaster Theological Seminary  [PaEN]

-- PA Interfaith Power & Light Religion & Environment Webinar Series: Nov. 1 - A Jewish Approach To Activism & Accompaniment Thru The Climate Crisis  [PaEN]

-- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host Oct. 18 Webinar On Democracy, Voting & Climate Solutions  [PaEN]

-- Manada Conservancy Hosts Nov. 2 In-Person Presentation On A Path Forward - Local Climate Action In Hershey  [PaEN]

-- PA GreenGov Council Launches PA Climate Change Mitigation & Resilience Network  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Communities Marked For Federal Help To Address Climate Change

-- WESA: How A $9 Million Grant Will Boost Pittsburgh’s Urban Forest

-- DCNR Blog: Forests Help With Climate Change

-- Lehigh Valley News: PennEnvironment: PA Ranks 50th In US For Renewable Energy Growth

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Lagged In Renewable Energy Growth In Past Decade, But Trend May Be Reversing

-- Post-Gazette: Advocacy Group Warns PA Isn’t Keeping Pace In Race To Transition Away From Fossil Fuels

-- PA Capital-Star: Report Shows PA Needs To Boost Renewable Energy Production, Lawmakers, Advocates Say

-- House Committee Meets Oct. 16 On Cryptocurrency Mining Moratorium Bill; Resolution To Study Potential Of Geothermal Energy From Abandoned Mine Pools  [PaEN]

-- The Derrick: $30 Million, 20 MW Solar Energy Facility To Break Ground In Clarion County Next Spring

-- Centre Daily Times Climate Watch: Make Community Solar Legal In Pennsylvania

-- PA Solar Center: Oct. 20 Webinar On Solar Guidebook For PA Landowners - Leasing Property For Large-Scale Solar Development  [PaEN]

-- Inside Climate News: A Reality Check About Solar Panel Waste And Effects On Human Health [Amount Is Tiny; Most Health Concerns Are Unfounded] 

-- DOE Announces $38 Million In Hydro Power Funding; Hydropower Vision Roadmap [One PA Project]

-- Penn State Hosts SPARK 2050 Energy Summit To Ignite Energy Transformation

-- Appalachian Regional Commission Awards $14.5 Million In Grants To Pittsburgh, Towanda Groups To Grow Green Manufacturing  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Appalachian Regional Commission Awards $10 Million Grant To Pittsburgh Group To Support Green Manufacturing Efforts

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Catalyst Connection Wins $10 Million In Federal Funding To Help Smaller Manufacturers With Clean Energy

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Converting To Clean Energy Depends On Electric Transmission Line Buildout

-- Altoona Mirror Letter: America Must Rely On Renewable Energy, Nearly Every Species Of Plant, Insect, Fish, Wildlife Under Threat From Rapidly Warming Planet - By Ed Perry, Fmr US Fish & Wildlife Biologist

-- DEP Extends Public Comment Period On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy To Nov. 30; Will Schedule Additional Hearings  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: ZIP Code Discrimination, Pollution Top Concerns At First DEP Hearing On Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy

-- DEP Environmental Justice Update: Invitation To Comment On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: DEP Seeks Input On Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy Protecting Communities With High Pollution Burdens  [Virtual 1st Hearing Lasted 32 Minutes, 3 Witnesses]

-- Scranton Times Column: DEP To Get Earful At University Of Scranton Oct. 16 Environmental Justice Policy Hearing

-- WHYY/Plan Philly: Philadelphians Envision Black Green Futures At Inaugural ecoFEST

-- City Of Philadelphia Awards Community Resilience & Environmental Justice Grants

-- EPA Awards Penn State Hershey Medical Center $1.19 Million Community Pollution Prevention Grant To Advance Environmental Justice In PA, NY  [PaEN]

-- Better Path Coalition: Oct. 18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure  [PaEN]

-- Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. 16 Webinar On Lawsuit Challenging Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells  [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging  [PaEN]

-- PA Physicians For Social Responsibility: MarkWest Carpenter Natural Gas Compressor Station Natural Gas Leaks In Washington County [Video]

-- Vice Chair Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council Asks DEP To Report On University Of Pittsburgh Study That Found At Least 800,000 Tons Of Oil & Gas Production Waste Sent To Landfills Was Unaccounted For In One Year  [PaEN]

-- Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Still Fighting To Make Road Dumping Its Wastewater Legal; DEP Introduces Concepts Of A ‘Life Insurance Policy’ For Plugging Wells; Certified 3rd Party Inspectors  [PaEN]

-- The Derrick: Permanent Alternate Water Supply Being Considered For Village Of Reno, Venango County After Contamination By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill  [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging  [PaEN]

-- DEP Reports Shale Gas Operations Sent Over 138,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2022 - Over  911,000 Cubic Feet Since 2017  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: After Fayette County’s First Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit Was Withdrawn From EPA; Residents Worry There May Be More To Come

-- TribLive: Some Plum Boro, Allegheny County Residents, Activists Push Back Against 2nd Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Well

-- Post-Gazette: Plum Boro, Allegheny County, Environmental Group Go To Commonwealth Court Trying To Stop New Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Well

-- Inside Climate News: Plum Boro, Allegheny County, Environmental Group Go To Commonwealth Court Trying To Stop New Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Well

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Plum Boro, Allegheny County Residents Battle Penneco, Zoning Board Over Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Well

-- DEP Invites Comments At Nov. 14 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Marcus Hook Terminal In An EJ Area, Delaware County  [PaEN]

-- PUC Commissioner Zerfuss Named Co-Vice Chair Of NARUC’s New Natural Gas Resource Planning Task Force

-- PJM Interconnection Formally Files Changes To Electric Capacity Market Rules With FERC Based Largely On Unreliability Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants During Winter Storm Elliot  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: Local Couple First Natural Gas Leaseholders To Contribute To Giving Fund Account Created By EQT Natural Gas At Washington County Community Foundation  [EQT Matches Donations]  [Check EQT’s DEP Compliance Record here. ]

-- Observer-Reporter: Range Resources Welcomes 150 Female Students To Annual Power Of Her Event  [Check Range Resources DEP Compliance Record here. ]

-- The Center Square: State Spending On Alternative Fuel Rebates Hists $15.7 Million

-- The Center Square: Public Electric Vehicle Charging May Get Private Boost Thru C-PACE

-- Citizens Voice: Local Domino’s Deploying 10 Electric Vehicles To Deliver Pizzas

-- PennLive: Sheetz Receives PennDOT Grants To Expand Access To Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

-- TribLive: Environmental Groups Claim Victory In EPA Ruling On US Steel Clairton Coke [Coal] Plant Air Permit

-- Federal Office Of Surface Mining Awards $150,000 Grant For Cambria County Mine Reclamation Project To Western PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation  [PaEN]

-- Tribune-Democrat: OSM Funding Awarded For West Carroll Twp., Cambria County Mine Drainage Treatment Project

-- Oct. 24 Webinar: Reforesting Mine Lands - How The Forestry Reclamation Approach Works For Coal Communities  [PaEN]

-- The Intelligencer: Motorists On I-70 Warned Of Lane Closures Due To Longwall Underground Coal Mining Under I-70 Between The WV and PA State Lines Thru Dec. 9

-- Franklin County Free Press: F&M Trust Employees Plant 500+ Trees And Shrubs, Create Riparian Buffer On Shippensburg Farm

-- Gettysburg Times: Gettysburg H.S. Class Of 1978 Gives Back By Planting Trees

-- Vista Chester County News: How PA American Water Promotes Sustainability Practices In Schools Near You

-- Penn State Extension Oct. 28: Join Master Watershed Stewards In Lancaster County For Water Ways On Wheels Bike Tour  [PaEN]

-- The Daily Review: Conservation Corner: ‘We All Float Down Here;’ Pollution And The Chesapeake Bay - By Bradford Conservation District

-- Reading Eagle: State Officials Tour Communities Ravaged By July Flooding In Berks

-- EPA Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz Visits Brownfields Job Training Site In Pittsburgh, Highlights Conservation Work  [PaEN]

-- EPA Region 3 Celebrates Historic Brownfields Investments With Greater Pittsburgh Area Grantees

-- Post-Gazette: EPA Awards $1 Million Grant To Remediate Future Day Care Center, Preserve Local Historic Structures

-- DEP Collects $500,000 In Penalties From DC Ambler Properties In Montgomery County For Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act Violations  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times: Make Your Voice Heard About Future Of Former Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Property

-- Warren Times: Exposed Veterans Can Benefit From PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Act

-- TribLive: 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Meeting Set At Shanksville VFD Nov. 8

-- TribLive: Allegheny, Westmoreland Emergency Units Practice Hazard Response With Norfolk Southern’s ‘Safety Train’

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Policy Group Says PA’s $200 Million Rail Service Deal With Norfolk Southern Picks Taxpayers’ Pockets

-- Out For Your Fall Hike And Find An Illegal Dump Site Or Graffiti Defacing The Environment?  Don’t Ignore It, Report It!  [PaEN]

-- Keep PA Beautiful: Free Cleanup Supplies Available For Registered Pick Up PA, International Coastal Cleanups Thru Nov. 30  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: 15th Allegheny River Cleanup A Success

-- Scranton Times: Riverside Students Explore Trail, Collect Litter For Art Project

-- TribLive: Giant Eagle To Donate Money From Paper Bag Sales To Charities As Plastic Ban Takes Effect In Pittsburgh

-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Shoppers, Businesses Say Final Goodbyes To Plastic Bags

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Goodbye To Plastic Bags In Pittsburgh

-- Dept. Of Agriculture Invests $3.5 Million To Preserve 18 Farms, 1,336 Acres In 13 Counties  [PaEN]

-- MCall: Two Lehigh Valley Farms Saved From Development

-- LancasterOnline: Rapho Township Farm Among 18 Farms Preserved Across PA

-- Centre Daily Times: Farmland Preservation Artists Of Central PA Launch Show At Capitol Building In Harrisburg

-- Inquirer: Bartram’s Garden Honored Indigenous Heritage Past, Present, Future

-- AP: PA Seeks To Expand Public Awareness Of Its Indigenous Culture And History

-- The Sentinel: Dickinson College Debuts Center For The Future Of Native Peoples

-- 2024 River Of The Year Nominations Now Being Accepted Through Nov. 10  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Canals Played A Pivotal Role In 1800s Transportation Along Allegheny, Kiski Rivers

-- US Fish & Wildlife Service: Largest Dam Removal In PA - Oakland Dam, North Branch Susquehanna River

-- Gov. Shapiro, First Lady Visit Kinzua Bridge State Park, Re-Announce DCNR Local Recreation, Conservation Grants

-- York Daily Record: DCNR Grants Include $1.2 Million For 275 Acre Hellam Hills Land Preservation Effort

-- Observer-Reporter: DCNR Invests In Local Recreation And Conservation Efforts

-- Beaver County Times: Beaver, Lawrence, Butler Parks Receive DCNR Grants For Improvements

-- DCNR Celebrates Keystone State Park’s Selection As Nation’s Top Fall Foliage Destination

-- Williamsport Sun: Denton Hill State Park May Re-Open As 4-Season Resort

-- DCNR Opens Survey For Public Input On Plans For New Susquehanna Riverlands State Park In York County  [PaEN]

-- Natural Lands Accepting Applications For 2023 PECO Green Region Grants  [PaEN]

-- DCNR PA Outdoor Corps Seeks Public Land Partner Projects In 2024  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Upgraded, Wider Mon Wharf Trail Reopens, Critical Part Of Great Allegheny Passage

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Working To Improve Sprawling Hays Woods Park

-- Tribune-Democrat: Keystone Trails Association Hiking Festival Coming To Johnstown Area Oct. 20-22

-- WeConservePA: North American Land Trust Opens 2 New Trails At Brinton Run Preserve In Chadds Ford, Delaware County

-- LancasterOnline: Hiking The Appalachian Trail Thru 4 States In 1 Day

-- The Daily Item: New Playground At White Deer Commons Funding By American Rescue Plan Funding

-- ABC27: Working To Bring Back The American Chestnut

-- Governor's Invasive Species Council Shares Updates On State-Level Invasive Species Initiatives In Latest Newsletter  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: What’s Joining, What’s Leaving PA’s Endangered And Threatened Species List?

-- PA Chapter - Wild Turkey Federation Pledges $325,580 For Conservation, Hunting Heritage Projects  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Master Gardeners Of Cumberland County Host Nov. 18 Wildlife Tree Ornaments Workshop For Youth  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Nature, Butterflies Focus Of South Abington Twp. Little Free Library

-- TribLive: A Sweet Tenant: RIDC’s Rooftop Hives In Hazelwood, New Stanton Give Bees A Home

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: M&T Charitable Foundation Continues To Sponsor Raptors Up  Close

-- TribLive: Lead Poisoning Leads To Death Of Bald Eagle, Says Animal Rescue Group

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: Evans Network Of Companies Sponsors Sanctuary

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Ancient And Disappearing Hobby Of Raising Pigeons Hangs On In Local Clubs

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[Posted: October 15, 2023] 

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