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

Awards/Recognition

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: Early Data Shows Benefits Of Analog Beaver Dam Effort In Stream Management At Susquehanna University - By Jay Scholfield, Summer Intern  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front - Kara Holsopple: Pittsburgh-Area Teacher Finds Plastic And Inspiration On A Lake Erie Research Expedition

Grants

-- WHYY: Bucks County Community College Receives $2 Million For Clean Energy Job Training

-- Partnership For Resilient Schools Receives $15.3 Million US DOE Grant To Support Energy Efficient, Safe Learning Environments In Pittsburgh Public Schools, Wilkinsburg School District  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Pittsburgh School Leaders Say $15 Million Grant Will Help Make Buildings Energy Efficient

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Public Schools, Wilkinsburg School District To Get Federal Funds To Make Schools More Energy Efficient

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Solar For Schools Can Power And Empower School Districts - By Ralph Cecere, Homer-Center School District

-- The Reporter: Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Gets $25,000 Grant For Floating Classroom

-- US DOT Now Accepting Grant Applications For Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program [PaEN]

Upcoming Events

-- Beaver County Eyes On Shell: Aug. 7 Webinar On Shell Petrochemical Plant Title V Air Quality Permit Application, 7:30 p.m.

-- LancasterOnline: College Park Climate Action To Host Art, Science Event In Lancaster Aug. 10

-- WESA: PA Resources Council Hard-To-Recycle Collection Event Saturday In Pittsburgh

-- Residents, Environmental Groups, Advocates To Hold A Stand With Dimock Day On Aug. 16 In Montrose, Susquehanna County [PaEN]

-- American Chestnut Foundation Hosts Aug. 16 Webinar On Adaptive Silviculture For Climate Change: Exploring Options For Sustaining Eastern Forests  [PaEN]

-- State Museum Of PA Hosts Aug. 16 Virtual Program On How The PA Geological Survey Uses Satellite Data And You Can Too  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: PA Bituminous King Coal Show Returns Aug. 17-24

-- Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Aug. 20 In-Person Program On Investigations Into Rare Childhood Cancers In Washington County  [PaEN]

-- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Aug. 21 Online Community Engagement And Climate Resilience Planning Workshop  [PaEN]

-- State Health Dept: Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Be Distributed To Those Living, Working Near State’s 4 Active Nuclear Power Plants Aug. 22, 23, 24  [PaEN]

-- PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Hosts Aug. 28 Webinar On PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Environmental Behavior, Transport, Remedies  [PaEN]

-- Schuylkill Action Network To Hold Schuylkill River Restoration Fund Bus Tour On Sept. 5  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 5 Webinar On Watershed Friendly Native Planting  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Offer Native Trees, Shrubs In Annual Fundraiser

-- Reminder: Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Native Tree & Shrub Sale Continues Thru Aug. 28

-- Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 10 Webinar On Proper Native Tree Planting For Long-Term Success  [PaEN]

-- South Mountain Partnership Holds Annual Power Of The Partnership Program Sept. 27 In Franklin County  [PaEN]

-- Registration Now Open For Stewardship Projects To Be Held During PA Healthy Lands Week Sept. 28 To Oct. 6  [PaEN]

-- Save The Date!  WeConservePA Environmental Advisory Council Fall Gathering Oct. 5 Temple University, Ambler

-- Call For Presentations! WeConservePA Is Accepting Presentation Proposals For The April 2-4 PA Land Conservation Conference In State College  [PaEN]

Programs/Information

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: 29 Students Split Across 2 Day Explore Wellsboro State Park In HERYN Environmental Education Expansion Program

-- Reading Eagle: French Creek State Park Connects Kids With Nature

-- Penn State, Carnegie Mellon Students, Staff Work With Pittsburgh Municipalities To Predict Geohazards  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Blog: Organizations Making The Outdoors More Inclusive In Pennsylvania

-- Lower Susquehanna River Mussel Survey [Video]

-- NextPittsburgh: 4 Groups Burned The Competition, Not Fossil Fuels, In Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Carbon Reduction Sprint Competition

-- NextPittsburgh: New Interactive Map Shows EV Charging Stations Near PA State Parks

-- Public News Source: Western PA Leads The Charge In ‘Green Economy’

Public Participation

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 10 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 62 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In August 10 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: West Deer Twp. To Take Public Comments On Oil & Gas Well Pad Zoning Proposal Tuesday [Aug. 6] In Allegheny County 

-- DCNR To Host Aug. 23 Meeting For Prospective Vendors At Catawissa Motorized Recreation Area In Luzerne, Schuylkill Counties  [PaEN]

-- US Fish & Wildlife Service Proposes To List Regal Fritillary Butterfly As Endangered; Habitat At Fort Indiantown Gap In Lebanon County  [PaEN]

-- PennLive: Proposal Would Put Rare Butterfly At Fort Indiantown Gap On Endangered Species List

Background On Issues

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 3 to 9 - Diversified Prod LLC Fails To Comply With Order To Plug Abandoned Shale Gas Wells;  700 Abandoned Conventional Well Violations  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times: How PA's Oil & Gas Industry Continues To Illegally Dump Wastewater On Roads Across The State  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times - How PA’s Oil & Gas Industry Illegally Dumps Waste On Roads Across The State

-- Courier Times: How PA’s Oil & Gas Industry Illegally Dump Wastewater On Roads Across The State

-- Environmental Health Project Contributes To New Book On Sustainable Development & Rural Public Health - From Fossil Fuels To Greener Futures  [PaEN]

-- WTAE: Washington County Man Wins Battle To Question Chevron Shale Gas Company Over Alleged Contamination, Health Impacts [Brian Latkanich lawsuit]

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Fracking And Harris - How Close Is Too Close? - By Terrie Baumgardner, Clean Air Council’s Beaver County Outreach Coordinator

-- NPJ Climate Action: Community Rights And Energy Politics In Lycoming County

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: DEP Won’t Use Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners To Plug Abandoned Wells - By Commonwealth Foundation [Factually Wrong On Plugging Contracts + Conventional Well Owners Own Tens Of Thousands Of Abandoned Wells + They Got 687 Violations For Abandoning Wells So Far In 2024, One Well Owner Abandoned 120 Last Week Alone]

-- Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Be Able To Keep All The Lights On In Four Years -  By Terry Fitzpatrick, Energy [Utilities] Association Of PA  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: Dominion Energy Says Its Ratepayers Will Be Insulated From PJM Capacity Auction Record High Prices

-- Utility Dive: Constellation Energy Raises 2024 Profit Guidance Amid PJM Load Growth, Tighter Power Supplies

-- US Treasury: More Than 160,000 PA Families Saved $267 Million+ On Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency Investments Thru Federal Inflation Reduction Act  [PaEN]

-- Pivot Energy Collaborates With Microsoft To Develop 150 Community-Scale Solar Energy Projects In PA, Other States

-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Despite The Risks, Pennsylvania Races Into The Geologic Carbon Capture Era

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Shale Drilling Becomes Leaner & Meaner, Lowering Costs  [PDF of article]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Diversified Energy Grows Via Culling, Harvesting Mature Conventional Gas Wells  [PDF of article]

-- Washington Examiner: US DOE Files Appeal To Continue Pause On New LNG Gas Export Facility Permits

-- Clean Air Task Force: Federal Court Refuses To Block Stricter Standards For Hazardous Air Emissions From Power Plants

-- Princeton University Center For Energy & Environment: PA Policy Makers Underestimate Public Support For Solar Projects, Survey Says

-- Citizens Voice: Lehman Twp. Solar Energy Facility Meeting Now Set For Next Week At Misericordia University

-- Scranton Times: Proposed Newton Twp. Solar Energy Facility Draws Resident Opposition

-- Scranton Times: Mayfield Twp. To Vote On Legislation Addressing Large Solar Energy Facilities

-- Utility Dive: FERC Seeks More Info On Talen Nuclear - Amazon Data Center Energy Deal

-- BisNow.com: Wave Of Nuclear-Powered Data Centers Faces Opposition From Utilities

-- NextPittsburgh: 4 Groups Burned The Competition, Not Fossil Fuels, In Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Carbon Reduction Sprint Competition

-- Firepoint Energy Takes Steps To Become Publicly Traded Company To Pursue Waste-Coal-To- Energy, Rare Earth, Critical Minerals Recovery Projects

-- Clean Air Council, Johns Hopkins University, Marcus Hook Area Neighbors Release Community Environmental Health Study Findings In Delaware County  [PaEN]

-- KDKA: How Do Coaches, Student Athletes Adjust To A Changing Climate?

-- LancasterOnline: College Park Climate Action Neighborhood Debut New Stormwater Drain Murals In Lancaster City

-- NextPittsburgh: Are There Hazardous Levels Of Lead In Gardens Across Allegheny County?  [Allegheny Conservation District Explains]

-- Trout Unlimited Releases 'Angling For Hope - A Vision For PA's Beech Creek' A Short Film On Efforts To Treat Abandoned Mine Drainage, Bring Back Aquatic Life In This Centre, Clinton County Watershed  [PaEN]

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Aug. 9 RiverWatch Video Report

-- Pittsburgh-based Volpatt Construction, Partners Diverted More Than 275 Tons Of Waste From Landfills As Part Of 'Dumpster Last' Philosophy  [PaEN]

-- TribLive/AP: Microplastics Are Everywhere, But Are They Harming Us?

-- Spotlight PA: High Temps Can Make People With Dementia Irritable, Confused And Uncomfortable; What To Know

-- Centre Daily News: Climate Watch - The Dangers Of Heat Must Be Understood, Addressed

-- TribLive: Heat Waves, Dry Spells Have Financial Impacts Yet To Be Seen By Local Farmers

-- TribLive: Hayes Eagles Nest In Pittsburgh Destroyed By Storms

-- Post-Gazette: Myths And Facts About Tick Bites, Lyme Disease

-- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Spotted Lanternfly Reports Drop 75% Across PA, But Allegheny County Leads The State

-- WESA: Pittsburgh-Area Arborist - Spotted Lanternfly Populations May Be Waning, But Residents Should Remain Vigilant

-- WITF: What Researchers Have Learned About The Spotted Lanternfly

-- PA Resources Council What’s Up, Watershed: Cool Waters - How Trees Help To Protect Pennsylvania’s State Fish The Brook Trout

-- Erie Times: Dog Owners Take Precautions As Harmful Algal Blooms Thrive In Erie County Waters

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Some Raspberries, Blackberries And Blueberries

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: August 11, 2024]

8/12/2024