Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults--

Awards/Recognition

-- WHYY BillyPenn: Inside The Century-Long Effort To Protect The Wissahickon In Philadelphia

-- Environmental Health News: Environmental Justice Advocates Find Hope, Healing And Community In Pittsburgh

-- Philadelphia On EPA's Top Cities For ENERGY STAR Certified Buildings List For 2023  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh 2030 District Reports Gains Toward Energy, Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals  [PaEN]

-- PA Wilds Center Announces 2024 PA Wilds Champion Award Winners; Recognition Dinner July 25  [PaEN]

-- ConnectRadio.fm: Clearfield County Business, Elk County Conservancy Win PA Wilds Awards

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Recognizes 2024 Award Recipients  [PaEN]

Grants

-- DEP Announces Award Of $980,256 To Support 56 Local Environmental Education Projects; New Grant Round Opens In August  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Local PA Environmental Education Programs Receive $980,256 In Grants From DEP Paid For By Environmental Penalties

-- Rep. Bizzarro: DEP Awards Environmental Education Grants To Asbury Woods Environmental Center And Regional Science Consortium At Presque Isle Center

-- Altoona Mirror: Blair Conservation District Receives DEP Grant To Host Four BioBlitz Events For Students

-- PA Assn. Of Conservation Districts Awarded Nearly $37,000 To Support 21 District Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Projects  [PaEN]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Lacawac Sanctuary Receives Grant For Environmental Stewardship Institute

-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants  [PaEN]

-- PennDOT Announces New Funding Opportunity To Repair Existing Electric Vehicle Chargers; June 11 Webinar  [PaEN]

-- EPA Announces Availability Of $14 Million In Brownfields Job Training Grants Under Investing in America Agenda   [PaEN]

Help Wanted

-- Help Wanted: Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay - Executive Director  [PaEN]

-- Help Wanted: USDA Farm Service Agency - County Program Technician, Luzerne County

Upcoming Events

-- Game Commission, DEP Host May 24 Live Peregrine Falcon Online Banding Event At Rachel Carson Building  [PaEN]

-- PA Resources Council Offering Free Learn About Composting Online Workshop May 29  [PaEN]

-- 10th Annual PA Renewables Summit Set For June 3-4 In Harrisburg  [PaEN]

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: Music On The Mountain Returns With Berks Sinfonietta June 8

-- Penn State Extension Hosts June 19 Webinar On Testing Emerging Contaminant Mixtures In PA Private Wells  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster County Master Watershed Stewards Host June 27 Swarr Run Stream Restoration Workshop  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline: Tour Of Swarr Run To Showcase Stream Restoration Techniques

-- USDA NRCS Celebrate American Wetlands Month - Nature’s Conservation Superheros

-- Call For Presentation Proposals: PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct. 22-24 In State College  [PaEN]

-- WeConservePA Upcoming Learn & Network Education Opportunities

-- Wildlands Conservancy Highlights Upcoming Activities, Events In Lehigh Valley

Programs/Information

-- Wildlife Leadership Academy: First Class Of Students Complete Stepping Stones Fly Fishing Program

-- Citizens Voice: Outdoor Environmental Education Library Opens At Dallas Intermediate School

-- Beaver County Times Guest Essay: Why RiverWise Is Paying High School Students To Learn About The County In Summer Sustainability Institute - By Daniel Rossi-Keen

-- PUC: Essential Electric Tips For Pennsylvania’s Warmer Months - Power Up Your Safety

Public Participation

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 25 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 81 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 25 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- PUC To Hold June 5-6 Hearings On Duquesne Light’s Proposed 15.9%  Rate Increase

-- PUC Holds June 6 & 10 Hearings On PECO’s Proposed $510 Million Electric, Gas Rate Increases

-- PUC Adds June 12, 13 Hearings On $510 Million Proposed PECO Electric, Gas Rate Increases

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission June 13 Business Meeting To Consider Water Use Requests Including 7 Shale Gas Drilling Uses In Lycoming, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties  [PaEN]

-- PUC Sets June, July Hearings On Proposed $503 Million FirstEnergy Companies Electric Rate Increases

-- DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Waste Transfer Permit For 5 Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells Owned By Bear Lake Properties In Warren County  [PaEN] 

-- EPA Invites Comments On Draft Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit Renewal For Seneca Resources Company, LLC In Elk County  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Stronghold Digital Mining Direct Air Carbon Capture Project At Scrubgrass Plant Site In Venango County  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Hazardous Sites Cleanup Consent Order For Berkley Products Company Plant Site In Lancaster County  [PaEN]

Background On Issues

-- Gas Industry, Sen. Bartolotta Seek Legislation To Eliminate Environmental Hearing Board Appeals Of DEP Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Republican US Senate Candidate Says US Needs Energy Independence [Why Do PA Gas Drillers Want To Ship Gas To China?]

-- Damascus Citizens: Do You Live In An Oil & Gas Wastewater Disposal Facility? Public Roads In 84 Municipalities In PA, One County In NY Are Being Used As Disposal Areas For Wastewater  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: Oil & Gas Industry Waste And Radioactive Drinking Water In Pennsylvania -  By Justin Nobel, Author of Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It  [PaEN]

-- The Energy Age Blog: Federal Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Exemption History

-- FracTracker Alliance: Not-So-Radical Transparency - An Ineffective And Unnecessary Partnership Between Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro And The Shale Gas Company CNX

-- TribLive: Many West Deer Residents Calling For More Stringent Regulations On Shale Gas Drilling In Allegheny County

-- TribLive: Indiana Twp. Rezoning Would Accommodate Fracking Off Route 910 In Westmoreland County

-- TribLive: Natural Gas Well Fracking Plans On Hold In Indiana Twp. As Planning Commission Seeks Info; Residents Pack Meeting In Westmoreland

-- WBOY: 3 West Virginia Families Say They Abandoned Their Homes After Experiencing Medical Issues From EQT Fracking Contamination

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 100 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In First 4 Months Of 2024  [PaEN]

-- Courier Times Guest Essay: Natural Gas Fuels Pennsylvania’s Economy, And Our Climate Progress - By PA Chamber Of Business & Industry

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: We Need Long-Term Answers To Energy Needs; Pursuit Of More Renewable Energy Can Happen Currently With Production Of Oil & Gas

-- We’re Heard This Before: ‘We’re Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs’ - A Brief Review Of Pennsylvania’s Conservation History

-- SpotlightPA: Communities Fear Health, Environmental Harms As They Await More Info On Hydrogen Hub Projects

-- TribLive/Spotlight PA: Communities Fear Health, Environmental Harms As They Await More Info On Hydrogen Hub Projects

-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Is Hydrogen The Road To A Decarbonized Future Or Just Another Lifeline For Fossil Fuels

-- Pennsylvanians Realized $500+ Billion In Public Health Benefits By Eliminating Coal-Fired Power Plants, Switching To Natural Gas  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: Air Pollution Decreased, But Sill Causes Hundreds Of Deaths A Year In Allegheny County

-- WESA: Allegheny County’s Clean Air Fund Could Do More To Fight Pollution, Controller Argues

-- Post-Gazette: Millions For Air Quality In Allegheny County Have Gone Unspent;  Audit Confirms What Advocates Thought For Years

-- MCall Guest Essay: Now We’re Cooking With Gas And Deadly Pollutants - By Bruce Wilson, Green Builder

-- WHYY: Philly Residents Eligible To Receive $25 From Class-Action Settlement Over 2023 Delaware River Chemical Spill

-- Utility Dive: US Power Demand Expected To Jump 2.7% This Summer, Plus 5 Other Takeaways From FERC’s Open Meeting

-- Appalachian Voices Blog: New EPA Limits On Power Plant Pollution Aim To Protect Communities And The Climate

-- PA Capital-Star: Mine Safety Advocates Urge US Senate Committee To Do More To Help Coal Miners With Black Lung Disease

-- Reps Powell, Pisciottano Introduce HB 2315 Establishing Tax Credit To Encourage Sustainable Energy Jobs

-- Duquesne Light Releases 2023 ESG Report - Playing A Central Role In SW PA Clean Energy Transition  [PaEN]

-- Spotlight PA: PA State Government Refuses To Pay Local Stormwater Fees, Bill Would Force It To

-- WHYY: NOAA: Prepare For An ‘Extraordinary’ Hurricane Season On The East Coast

-- Reuters: US Forecasters See Large Number Of Major Hurricanes In 2024

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Pittsburgh Public Schools Eliminated Lead In Drinking Water, Every School Must Follow Suit

-- Environmental Health News: What Will EPA’s New Regulations For PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Drinking Water Mean For Pennsylvania

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Outdoor Recreation Gets Another State-Sponsored Pitch

-- City & State PA: Shapiro Touts PA As The ‘Great American Getaway’ Ahead Of America250 Celebration In 2026

-- Scranton Times: Gov.. Shapiro Talks Tourism While Fishing At Lake Wallenpaupack

-- WESA: Mount Washington Landslide Mitigation Begins As Climate Challenges Increase

-- TribLive: Heat Forces 39 Pittsburgh Public Schools To Move To Remote Learning

-- The Allegheny Front/WVIA: How The Tannersville Cranberry Bog Formed 13,000 Years Ago In Monroe County

-- Lancaster Farming: Meet The Man Scaling The Tallest Trees In Each Of PA’s 67 Counties

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - A Closer Look At The Aspen Tree

-- Erie Times: Erie’s Harmful Algal Bloom Season Could Arrive Soon

-- Game Commission: Springtime Alert - Leave Young Wildlife Alone

-- Penn State Pollinator Experts Author New Book Exploring The Lives Of Bees

-- TribLive Letter: Take Care Of The Bees - By Michael Steinfeld

-- Bloomberg: Texas Power Prices Signal Grid Stress In Another Long, Hot Summer; Prices In Dallas Hit 82% Premium

-- Reuters: Solar Hits Above Its Weight In Powering US Energy Transition

-- Bloomberg: Even In Saudi Arabia, Renewable Power Is Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels

Visit the  DEP Calendar of Events;  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: May 26, 2024]

5/27/2024