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

Awards/Recognition

-- TribLive: Franklin Regional Science Teacher Joins Research On Lake Erie

-- Patch.com: New Hope-Solebury Students Awarded Aquetong Watershed Scholarships In Bucks County

-- Disc Golf Soars To New Heights In The Susquehanna Greenway; Susquehanna Greenway Outdoor Expo Aug. 3 - By Sienna Dunkleberger, Intern, Susquehanna Greenway Partnership   [PaEN]

-- Celebrating The 20th Anniversary Of The Foundation For Sustainable Forests With Wendell Berry’s  'A Forest Conversation' Essay On The Foundation's Founders, Mission & Roots  [PaEN]

-- Arboretum At Penn State's Pollinator And Bird Garden Wins International Award  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center To Honor Award-Winning Author, Fisherman Paul Greenberg With Award For Freshwater Excellence At Sept. 19 Gala  [PaEN]

Grants

-- PA Lawmakers, Groups Celebrate Passage Of Solar For Schools Bipartisan Solar Energy Initiative  [PaEN]

-- Dept. of Agriculture Starts Accepting Applications For Urban Agricultural Infrastructure Grants July 22, Deadline Sept. 6

-- Inquirer: Federal Agency Is Pushing Urban Agriculture As A Climate Change, Social Issues Solution

-- The Heinz Endowments Commits $9.3 Million To Improve Region’s Climate, Environment, Health Outcomes

-- Post-Gazette: Heinz Endowments Awards $9.3 Million To Pittsburgh Organizations Focused On Climate, Health

Help Wanted

-- Help Wanted: Susquehanna River Basin Commission - Executive Assistant

-- PA Environmental Council: DCNR Seeking Applications For Its NextGen Advisory Council  [PaEN]

-- EPA Invests $20 Million In Water Workforce Training, Career Development; Including $4.9 Million Grant To The Energy Innovation Center Institute In Pittsburgh  [PaEN]

Upcoming Events

-- Penn State Hosts Mining Summer Camp Aug. 4-9 In State College For H.S. Juniors, Seniors  [PaEN]

-- Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education Hosts New Art Exhibit: Seed Stories - A Celebration Of Land-based Creators

-- Sierra Club DelCo Green Team To Host July 15 Webinar On Congress, the Environment, And Congressional Review Act   [PaEN]

-- DCNR Grants Newsletter: Celebrate Park & Recreation Professionals Day July 19; Featured Projects In Dauphin County; Philadelphia

-- Celebrate The Bloom! July 27 In Butler County, PA’s Only Prairie With Native Blazing Star, 224 Other Species  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Mountain Watershed Assn. Plans Youghiogheny River Rafting Trip July 28

-- Tom Ridge Environmental Center In Erie Hosts Aug. 3 Film Showing Of Seeing The Unseen - Aquatic Invaders & What's At Stake  [PaEN]

-- Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Sustainable Community Development Network Hosts Aug. 6 Climate Action Planning - Resources And Funding Opportunities Webinar; Guide To Tools & Funding  [PaEN]

-- Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance Energy Policy Conference Sept. 17-18 In King Of Prussia

-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Loving The Land Through Working Forests Conference Sept. 21; Annual Dinner Sept. 20 With Tim Palmer And Rosalie Haizlett, In Crawford County  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension Hosts 5-Part Woodland Stewardship Webinar Series - Guided Engagement With Your Land Starting Sept. 25  [PaEN]

-- Registration Open!  Keep PA Beautiful 2024 Summit For Community Stewardship In Scranton Oct. 16-17  [PaEN]

-- PA Assn. Environmental Educators Call For Presentation Proposals For 2025 Annual Conference Set For March 10-12 In Erie  [PaEN]

Programs/Information

-- Scranton Times Quills Blog: DCNR, Education Launch PA’s 2024 Summer Learning And Literacy Road Trip 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Pack Up For Pennsylvania 2024 Summer Learning, Literacy Road Trip

-- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn. Junior Solar Sprint Another Sunny Success  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: UK-based Octopus Energy Acquires Pitt-Developed Gaucho Solar From Vesper Energy

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Success Outdoors Not Measured In Fish Caught or Miles Hiked, But In Mindful Immersion During 24-Day Kayaking, Canoeing Adventure On West Branch Of Susquehanna River 

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: 2024 HERYN Programs Serve 84 Young People With Kayaking, Fishing, Conservation Instruction

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: 16 Middle Schoolers Explore Preserve, Creative Problem Solving Through STEM Camp Program Day   

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Students Engage With RiverKeeper Presentation On Eastern Hellbender During Annual Envirocamp Program

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission June Monthly Video Minute

-- WNEP: Celebrating Bugs In The Poconos At Kettle Creek Environmental Center

-- Republican Herald: Boy Scouts From Across The Area Learn Sailing At Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation

Public Participation

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 13 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 77 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 13 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Water Encroachment Permit For A Beech Resources, LLC Project To Construct 3 Pipelines On A Right-of-Way Impacting An Exceptional Value Stream, EV Wetlands In Lycoming County  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Quality Board Sets 3 Hearings On Proposed Changes To 80 Chemical Cleanup Standards Under Land Recycling Program, Including More PFAS Chemicals And Lead  [PaEN]

-- DEP Sets Aug. 14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County  [PaEN]

-- DEP To Hold Aug. 14 Hearing On Title V Air Quality Permit For the IPSCO Koppel Tubular LLC Facility In Beaver County  [PaEN]

Background On Issues

-- Final State Budget Includes $50 Million For Clean Streams Fund; New SPEED Permit Review Program; Support For DEP Oil & Gas Program  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Chesapeake Conservancy Highlight Importance Of $50 Million In Stream Restoration Funding Included In Pennsylvania’s New Budget  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 6 to 12 - Double Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Failure; 19 + 12 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Draining Water Impoundment By Spraying  [PaEN]

-- Federal Court Again Says Groups Have A Right To Appeal Permits For Gas Pipelines To State Environmental Hearing Board, Overruling Transco, DEP Objections  [PaEN]

-- PUC's Pipeline Safety Program Recognized For Exemplary Standards & Impact On Residents, Businesses; State Agencies Lack Authority To Act On Pipeline Issues [PaEN]

-- State Health Plan Identified Oil & Gas Development As Health Risk Last Year; Environmental Health Indicators Map Is Now Available To Show Potential Risks Near You  [PaEN]

-- The Derrick: PUC To Hold Second Hearing July 15 On Venango Water Company [Impacts Continue From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Contamination Of Water Supply]   [PaEN]

-- Now On Demand: PublicSource.org - Learn The Story Behind The Story - EQT's Gas Play In Pennsylvania, West Virginia  [PaEN]

-- Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: New Book Investigates What Happens To The Mountains Of Waste Generated By Oil & Gas Industry [Including Road Dumping]

-- DCNR Celebrates Forest Stewardship Council Leadership Award For Achieving 25 Years Of Forest Management Certification; 2024 Update Available On Shale Gas Drilling In State Forests  [PaEN]

-- House, Senate Send Bill Authorizing Geologic Sequestration Of Carbon Dioxide To The Governor  [PaEN]

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Environmental Groups Warn Fast-Tracking Carbon Capture A Mistake In Pennsylvania 

--  Pittsburgh Business Times: Bill Would Regulate Carbon Capture, Storage In Wells Underground, But Environmentalists Are Pushing Back

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Homer City, Indiana County Navigates An Uncertain Future After Its Coal-fired Power Plant Closed

-- PhillyVoice.com: PA-Constellation Energy Considering Restarting Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1

-- Inquirer: Could Nuclear Power Restart At Three Mile Island?  Here’s What To Know About The Plant’s History Amid Questions About Its Future

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Reopening Chatter Keeps Getting More Serious

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Consider Restart As PA Look To New Tech To Meet Demand

-- Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 -- Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov. Dick Thornburgh  [PaEN]

-- Breathe Project: PA Cong. Summer Lee Questions EPA Administrator Over Cancer Rates In Braddock [Video]

-- WHYY: How To Prepare For Power Outages If Your Health Depends On Home Medical Devices

-- University Of Maryland Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card Shows The Same (Watershed) Or Improving (Bay) Water Quality  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Report Card Gives Chesapeake Bay A C+, Its Best Grade In 21 Years; Bay’s Health Received The Same Score In 2002

-- AP: Overall Health Of Chesapeake Bay Gets Best Grade In More Than 2 Decades, Annual Report Shows

-- PennLive: Blamed For Chesapeake Bay Pollution, PA Took Steps To Clean Up - Here’s How It’s Going

-- LancasterOnline: Chesapeake Bay Report Card Reveals Progress From Local Pollution Control Efforts

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw: State’s Efforts Are ‘Positively Transforming’ Chesapeake Bay Watershed

-- WITF/AP: Demand For Rare Earth Elements Used In Clean Energy Could Help Clean Up Abandoned Coal Mines In Appalachia

-- Penn State: Making Rechargeable Batteries More Sustainable With Fully Recyclable Components

-- The Guardian: PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Used In Lithium Batteries Threaten Environment, Research Finds

-- Discover NEPA: Keep NE PA’s Rivers & Streams Clean With PA Environmental Council

-- Darby Creek Valley Assn. Webinar Features Master Watershed Steward Dr. Carol Armstrong On Microplastics In Riverine Systems  [Video]

-- Empowering People: Trash Monitoring Along The Schuylkill River

-- Stroud Water Research Center Latest Upstream Newsletter: Heat Waves In The Water; Unseen Intruders; Trash Monitoring; Plastic Free July; Celebrating 75 Years Of Ruth Patrick’s Legacy 

-- Delaware RiverKeeper July 12 RiverWatch Video Report

-- WITF/LancasterOnline: With Temperatures Continuing To Climb, How Does Heat Impact Crops?

-- MCall Guest Essay: How Farming Contributes, And Doesn’t, To Climate Change - By Mark Lichtenwalner, Lower Macungie Twp. Farmer

-- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Highlights Youth Conservation Corps 50-Mile Paddling Perki-Bay Expedition In New Video  [PaEN]

-- Sen. Culver: US EPA Installs Air Quality Monitors Around Wilburton Coal Bank Fire In Columbia County  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: DEP To Fix Abandoned Mine Borehole In Millers Run In Cecil Twp. Washington County  [PDF of Story ]

-- Reading Eagle: Antietam Schools’ Post-Flood Project To Build Temporary Classrooms On Schedule, Officials Say

-- FEMA Finalizes Rule To Increase Resilience Against Flooding To Protect Future Taxpayer-Funded Projects

-- The Guardian: After Hurricane Beryl’s Destruction, Climate Scientists Fear For What’s Next

-- The Allegheny Front: Trails Along Pittsburgh’s Rivers Helping The Region’s Economy

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: New Big Elk Creek State Park Development Highlights Tension Between State Agency, Local Power

-- Daily Local News: Lawmakers, Residents Call On DCNR To make Big Elk State Park A ‘Preserve’ As Fight To Save Watershed From State Development Heats Up

-- Daily Local News: Residents Join Lawmakers To Oppose State’s Plan To Develop Big Elk Creek Watershed Into ‘Tourist Attraction’

-- Post-Gazette: 2.5 Mile Segment Of Great Allegheny Passage Trail In Fayette County To Closure Due To Gas Pipeline Project Through Mid-October

-- WHYY: Brandywine Valley’s Trail System In PA, DE Set For New Additions, Closures

-- Warren Times: Route 6 Alliance Projects In Warren, Tidioute, Youngsville To Make Area More Bike Friendly With Racks, Repair Stations

-- WHYY: Second Wind Bicycles Repairs, Delivers Bikes To People In Berks, Bucks, Montgomery Who Need Them The Most

-- Game Commission Board Adds Nearly 5,300 Acres To State Game Lands

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Hunting Lobbyist - Game Commission Puts Itself ‘In Political Peril’

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Support Sunday Hunting In PA, Improve Wildlife Habitat

-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Fish Commission Outlines New Management Plan For Black Bass

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Opening 6 Cooling Centers As Temperatures Climb Monday, Tuesday

-- WHYY: Philly Declares Heat Health Emergency With Temperatures Nearing 100 Degrees

-- Centre Daily Times: Climate Watch - What’s The Answer To Heat?  Heat Pumps!

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Electrification Is Coming, Grid Panic Is Already Here

-- PennLive: Dry Conditions Are Likely As ‘Relentless’ Heat Continues; Are We Headed For A Drought?

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Temperature In Streams Can Be A Pollutant

-- Republican Herald: New Boat Launchpad Offers Easier Access To Schuylkill River At Island Park In Schuylkill Haven

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: New Susquehanna University Study Shows Key Behavioral, Physical Impacts Of Increasing Water Temps On Sculpin (Fish), Stream Headwaters

-- WNEP: Eclipse The Bald Eagle Released Back Into Wild By Pocono Wildlife & Rehabilitation Center

-- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Lead Poisoning Continues To Impact Bald Eagle Populations In PA And Beyond

-- TribLive: Dry, Hot Weather Brings Timber Rattlesnakes Out In Westmoreland

-- Dept. Of Agriculture Issues Quarantine Order Establishing A Framework For Taking Actions To Prevent Damage To Nursery Stock From The Invasive Box Tree Moth  [PaEN] 

-- Warren Times - Josh Cotton: Allegheny National Forest Fighting Spread Of Hemlock Wooly Adelgid With Silver Flies

-- MCall: Emerald Ash Borer Killing Trees Causing Frequent Power Outages In One Lehigh Valley Neighborhood

-- The Allegheny Front: Hollow Oak Land Trust Is Fighting Invasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid In Allegheny County

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Pittsburgh Must Embrace The Trees

-- WITF/WPSU: At PA Firefly Festival In Forest County, Visitors And Researchers Experience Synchronous Fireflies

-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Moths Emerge For A Short Time Span

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Dog Days Of Summer Won’t Last For Too Long

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: July 14, 2024]

7/15/2024