Here are 68 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!

-- The Allegheny Front: Environmental Groups Pressure Gov. Shapiro To Crack Down On Shale Gas Industry

-- ABC27: PA Environmental Groups Hold Press Conferences Asking Shapiro To Take Action On Fracking

-- WNEP: Residents Awaiting Water React To Return Of Shale Gas Drilling In Dimock, Susquehanna County: ‘Stab In The Back’

-- AP: Drilling Under Pennsylvania's 'Gasland' Town Has Been Banned Since 2010, It's Coming Back  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 16 to 22 - 46% More Conventional NOVs; More Abandoned Wells; Conventional Well Fire; Venting Gas, Spills, Plugging Mess  [PaEN]

-- Conventional Oil Well Storage Tanks Burn In McKean County, 6 Local Fire Companies Respond  [PaEN]

-- Oil & Gas Facilities Self-Reported 13,432,713 Tons Of Air Pollution In PA In 2022; 101,741,616 Tons Total Since 2012  [PaEN]

-- Bob Donnan Blog: Oil & Gas Industry Air Pollution In Pennsylvania

-- HEI Energy, Penn State Study Uses 28,500 Water Sample Results To Help Identify Oil & Gas Industry Groundwater Pollution  [PaEN]

-- Bob Donnan Blog: Oil & Gas Industry Groundwater Pollution

-- Bloomberg: Congressional House Democrats Investigate Diversified Energy Oil/Gas Producer Methane Emissions, Business Practices  [PA Largest Conventional Well Operators]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Diversified Energy Oil & Gas Well Company Share Drop Sharply After Congressional Democrats Start Well Probe

-- FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators  [PaEN]

-- Project InnerSpace Launches Cross-Collaborative Future of Oil/Gas Well-Based Geothermal In Pennsylvania Study  [PaEN]

-- US DOE, Treasury Release Proposed Regulations Implementing Clean Hydrogen Production Credit Setting A Sliding Scale For Credits  [PaEN]

-- PA Enviro Groups File Appeal For Removal Of Coal Ash 'Mountain’ At Stronghold Digital Mining Scrubgrass Cryptocurrency Power Facility In Venango County  [PaEN]

-- Federal Office Of Surface Mining Awards PA $300,000 To Update Abandoned Mine Land Inventory  [PaEN]

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Dec. 19, 1907: A Day Of ‘Heart-Piercing Shrieks Of Grief’ In A Westmoreland Coal Town

-- PUC Invites Public Comments On Proposed Policy Statement On Electric Utility Rate Design For Electric Vehicle Charging In Pennsylvania  [PaEN] 

-- The Center Square: State Considers Subsidizing Electric School Bus Transition

-- Post-Gazette: At US Steel, Electric Trains Are Still Coming

-- WITF/WVIA: Community Leaders Prepare Priority Climate Action Plan For Federal Funding

-- First Street Foundation: Over 3.2 Million Americans Have Left High Flood Risk Neighborhoods Creating ‘Climate Abandonment Areas’

-- First Street Foundation Flood Abandonment Areas Study

-- AP: Flooding Drives Millions To Move In US As Climate Migration Patterns Emerge

-- Franklin County Joins Clinton, York Counties In Drought Warning Status; 26 Water Supplies Ask For Water Conservation  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Westmoreland Municipal Authority Issues Mandatory Water Conservation Order

-- TribLive: Customers Heed Water Conservation Order But Beaver Run Reservoir Continues To Drop To Record Low-Level

-- York Dispatch: York Water Co. Lifts Mandatory Water Use Restrictions As Lake Redman Reservoir Returns To Normal

-- WITF/AP: As Climate Warms, That Perfect Christmas Tree May Depend On Growers’ Ability To Adapt

-- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn. Offers Free Solar Sprint Student Competition Teacher Training Jan. 13

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: More Vulnerable People Live In Philadelphia Neighborhoods That Are Less Green And Get Hotter - By Penn State, Other Professors

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Storing Carbon Underground Is Risky; Allowing Storage Companies To Shed Liability Makes It Worse - By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council

-- DEP Environmental Justice Update: Comments On Revised EJ Permit Review Policy; Funding & Comment Opportunities; Much More  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Child Care Centers To Receive Funding To Improve Indoor Air Quality

-- Keep PA Beautiful Beautiful Newsletter: Litter Hawk Youth Awards; Open Your Eyes To Litter; Community Pride Award

-- Waste360: Covanta Partners With Lancaster County On Electronics Waste Recycling

-- TribLive: Pitcairn Emergency Management Coordinator Wants ‘Eye-Watering’ Odor From Landfill In Allegheny County

-- Commonwealth Financing Authority Awards $320 Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding For Water Infrastructure Projects  [PaEN]

-- Tioga County Couple Honored By Susquehanna River Basin Commission For Unwavering Efforts To Restore Tioga River Watershed  [PaEN]

-- PA’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Closes Year With More Than 82,000 Acres Of Land Enrolled For Conservation Improvements  [PaEN]

-- PA’s Ag Conservation Assistance Helps Strayer Cattle Farm In Cumberland County Improve Water Quality; $140 Million Committed To Projects So Far Statewide  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension, Partners: Collaborative School Planting Project Creates Lifelong Learners In Chester County - By Megan Hopkins-Doerr, Master Watershed Steward Coordinator Chester, Delaware Counties  [PaEN]

-- Allegheny College: Western PA Conservancy Watershed Mini Grant Supports Creek Connections Program  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Remarkable Natural Restoration Of Lititz Run Headed For Finish

-- Stroud Water Research Center Update: Scaling Up Outreach To Farmers, Landowners To Improve Water Quality  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: Greene Conservation District Honors 9 At Annual Awards Ceremony

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Highlights PA Legislative Priorities For 2024  [PaEN]

-- Dept. Of Agriculture Protects Another 2,553 Acres Of Farmland; 13,663 Acres Protected In 2023  [PaEN] 

-- Western PA Conservancy Protects 460 Acres In McKean County To Create New Nature Reserve [PaEN]

-- ClearWater Conservancy Protects 35 Acre Ecological Gem In Little Sugar Valley Centre County  [PaEN]

-- National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Awards $1.8 Million In Chesapeake WILD Grants To Restore Freshwater Mussels, Other PA Projects  [PaEN]

-- Lock Haven Express: NFWF Grant Awarded To Restore Freshwater Mussels Near Tidlow Dam

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Grants Awarded To Restore Freshwater Mussels In West Branch Of Susquehanna

-- Shippensburg University Slate: Profile Of DCNR Deputy Secretary Claire Jantz 

-- WeConservePA: Williamson Student Scholarship To PA Land Conservation Conference

-- Observer-Reporter: Restoring Canonsburg Lake For Future Generations

-- Beaver County Times: North Country Trail Granted Unit Status By National Park Service

-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Going Off-Trail In The Winter

-- Republican Herald - Tyler Frantz: Winter Wonderland - Quiet Moments In Both Darkness And Light Reveal Nature’s Gifts

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Wraps Up First Project Funded By Park Taxes

-- Feature: Meet Your New Year’s Resolution On The Susquehanna Greenway - By Susquehanna Greenway Partnership  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Blog: Red In The Winter Woods

-- Garden Center Magazine: PA Horticultural Society Announces New Gold Medal Plant Winners

-- Observer-Report: Wildlife Conservancy Of South Connellsville Promoting Love Of The Outdoors

-- Republican Herald: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Fall Migration County Tallies Record Number Of Bald Eagles

-- Scranton Times Blog: Birding Schuylkill County

-- Lancaster Farming: Drone Operator Charged With Illegally Locating Wildlife By Game Commission

Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

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[Posted: December 24, 2023] 

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