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Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults--
Awards/Recognition
-- EPA Names Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens In Pittsburgh One Of 4 Leading National Green Power Partners In 2024 [PaEN]
-- Williamsport Sun: PA College Of Technology Earns US DOE Zero Energy Design Designation For Education Programs
-- October Is Riparian Buffer Month! Celebrate Trees And Streams! [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Mt. Oliver Takes Trashiest Title In Pittsburgh’s 8th Garbage Olympics
Help Wanted
-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Special Report: Local Experts All Agree, Hellbenders Need Better Protection - Sign The Petition To Protect The Hellbender [PaEN]
Upcoming Events
-- Lehigh Valley-based Wildlands Conservancy Highlights Upcoming October Programs - It’s Spooky Out There!
-- National Museum Of Industrial History Hosts Immersive VR Experiences On Industrial History For Lehigh Watershed Explorers Starting Sept. 21 [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas Industry Experts, Execs Gather In Erie Sept. 24-26 At Shale Insight Conference
-- PA Resources Council, Partners Host 3 Electronic Waste Collection Events In Delaware, Montgomery Counties Starting Sept. 26 [PaEN]
-- Still Time To Register! Delaware River Watershed Forum Sept. 26-27 In Bethlehem, PA
-- Southwestern PA Water Network Hosts Sept. 28 Confluence At Mingo Creek - A Celebration Of Watersheds In PA's Ohio River Watershed [PaEN]
-- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center To Host Night Hike Sept. 28
-- Creek Defenders’ Nurdle Patrol Harrisburg Oct. 5 City Island Boat Ramp
-- Center For Rural Pennsylvania Hosts Oct. 7 Webinar On Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facility Development [PaEN]
-- PA Dept. Of Health Seeks Participants In Oct. 16 Online Focus Group Sessions On How Private Water Well Owners Prepare, Respond To Emergencies Impacting Their Wells [PaEN]
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Host Oct. 21 MS4 Stormwater Forum In Manheim [PaEN]
-- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay Hosts 3-Part Online Faithfull Green Leaders Training Program Starting Oct. 14 [PaEN]
-- Three Rivers WaterKeeper: Nov. 2 Drink Your Watershed Celebration Of Clean Water Progress
-- Call For Presentations! Bucknell University 2024 River Symposium Nov. 8-9 [PaEN]
-- Save The Date! Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance, Bucknell University To Host Abandoned Mine Pools As Beneficial Resource Conference June 4 - 5, 2025
-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: Sept. 18 Virtual, In-Person Public Symposium On Options For Carbon Dioxide Removal In The US, 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Programs/Information
-- TribLive: Lowber Field Day Gives Area Students Hands-On Knowledge Of Abandoned Mine Drainable Problem In Westmoreland
- EPA’s 12th Annual SepticSmart Week: Do Your Part, Be SepticSmart!
-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Adds New Fall Programs For All Age Groups To Nurture Love Of Nature
-- WNEP: Luzerne County School District Closes Football Stadium For Season After Lead Found
-- WHYY: Schoolyards In Philly Will Get Rain Gardens To Prevent Stormwater Runoff, Provide Relief From Heat Thanks To Federal Grant To The Nature Conservancy
-- EPA Announces New Kids & Climate Health Zone With Stories, Tips To Protect Children In A Changing Climate
-- AP: Classrooms, Playgrounds Across The US Are Heating Up, School Districts Race To Invest In Cooling Solutions
-- PennLive - Outdoors Cindy Ross: Trails, Bikes, Boats: People With Disabilities Have Many Options For Enjoying The Outdoors
-- University Of Penn Today: How Is The World Working To Save Biodiversity? Panel Discussed Local, Global Initiatives
-- Post-Gazette: America’s Environmental Poet Robinson Jeffers First Met Nature In Western PA
Public Participation
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 21 [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 77 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In September 21 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
-- PA Dept. Of Health Seeks Participants In Oct. 16 Online Focus Group Sessions On How Private Water Well Owners Prepare, Respond To Emergencies Impacting Their Wells [PaEN]
Will There Be Enough Gas?
-- Utility Dive: North American Electric Reliability Corp Sounds Alarm Over Maintaining Sufficient Winter Natural Gas Supplies To Address Extreme Winter Conditions; PA Gas Producers Cutting Production, Pulling Drill Rigs [PaEN]
-- Utility Dive: North American Electric Reliability Corp Sounds Alarm Over Whether There Will Be Sufficient Winter Natural Gas Supplies To Address Extreme Weather Conditions This Winter [Click Here for NERC statement]
-- Utility Dive: PJM Is Blocking Battery Storage Interconnection Pathway That Could Unlock ‘Tens Of Thousands Of Megawatts’ Of Additional Capacity For The Grid
Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart
-- Bloomberg: Microsoft’s AI Power Needs Prompt Revival Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant By 2028
-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Plan To Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant By 2028 Unveiled To Sell Power To Microsoft AI Project
-- Utility Dive: Constellation Plans 2028 Restart Of Three Mile Island Unit 1, Spurred By Microsoft AI Project
-- AP: A New Life Is Proposed For Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 Supplying Power To Microsoft Data Centers
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Lawmakers React To Three Mile Island Restart Plan: ‘It’s A Great Day For Central PA’
-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Many Of TMI’s Neighbors Want The Nuclear Plant Turned Back On, But…
-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Residents Who Remember TMI Nuclear Plant Meltdown See Positives In Reopening
-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Pieces Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 Meltdown History To Be Preserved
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Can Pennsylvania’s Nuclear Power Save The PJM Electric Grid? Maybe [Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart]
Background On Issues
-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 14 to 20 - Seeing Conventional Wastewater Spill From Google Earth; Emergency Well Plugging; Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Leaking Gas Well Next To Baseball Field [PaEN]
-- Cecil Township, Washington County Posts Proposed Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads Of 2,500 Feet From Homes, Businesses; 5,000 Feet From Schools, Hospitals; Nov. 4 Hearing, Meeting Set [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project: State Dept. Of Health Progress On Implementing Recommendations After Pitt Health Studies Show Impacts From Shale Gas Development ‘Extremely Limited’ [PaEN]
-- WVIA: Fracking Still Stains Dimock, Susquehanna County As Candidates Spar Over Shale Gas Drilling
-- Del-Chesco United For Pipeline Safety: Texas Explosion Shows Communities In PA With Energy Transfer's Mariner East Pipeline And Other Pipelines Are Vulnerable To The Same Unmitigated Risk From Unsecured Pipeline Valves [PaEN]
-- Food & Water Watch: Explosion Of Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline In Texas Highlights Company’s Terrible Safety Record In Pennsylvania
-- WFMJ/AP: Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Fire That Burned For 4 Days Now Out In Houston
-- Bloomberg: Human Remains Found In Vehicle Involved In Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Fire In Houston
-- Reuters: Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Fire Burns For A 3rd Day In Houston
-- The Energy Age Blog: North Fayette Residents Raise Concerns About Proposed Range Resources Fracking Site In Allegheny County
-- KDKA: North Fayette Twp. Residents Raise Concerns About Proposed Range Resources Fracking Site In Allegheny County
-- TheDailyClimate.org: Residents Say Pennsylvania Has Failed Communities After State Studies Linked Shale Gas Fracking To Child Cancer
-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Scientists Skeptical Of CNX Claim Its Fracking ‘Poses No Public Health Risks’
-- Protect PT: Westmoreland Landfill Surrenders Air Quality Permit For An Evaporator System To Dispose Of Leachate Wastewater Impacted By Shale Gas Drilling Waste [PaEN]
-- Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: Eureka Resources Oil/Gas Wastewater Treatment Company Struggles Raise Questions About The Future Of Lithium Extraction From Oil/Gas Wastewater
-- Exploding Water Well Shed Triggers DEP Investigation Of 59+ Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Cyclone, McKean County; Highlights Limits On Providing Temporary Water For Well Owners Impacted [PaEN]
-- Homeowner Complaint Results In DEP Emergency Plugging Of A Penn Resources, Inc. Conventional Oil Well Leaking Gas, Oil, Wastewater In McKean County [PaEN]
-- Sierra Club Magazine: Plants & Goodwin Racing To Fix Pennsylvania’s Leaking Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
-- Warren Times Editorial: There Isn’t Enough Money To Plug All Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Conventional Well Owners, Must Use Funds In A Cost-Effective Way
-- DEP Discovers Wastewater Spill From Conventional Oil/Gas Well That Could Be Seen From Google Earth In Armstrong County As A Result Of A Complaint [PaEN]
-- Allegheny Institute For Public Policy: Counties, Municipalities Need To ‘Begin Lowering Their Expectations’ On The Support From Shale Gas Industry Drilling Impact Fee [PaEN]
-- Positive Energy Hub: CNX Resources & EIP Offer Environmental Credits Through Blacksville Stream And Wetland Mitigation Bank
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Developers Seek More Hydrogen Hub Projects In Western PA
-- Coalition For The Delaware River Watershed Celebrates $17.3 Million In National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Grants To Improve The Health Of The Delaware River Watershed [PaEN]
-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Releases Spanish-Language 'Leave No Trace' Video To Promote Inclusion, Diversity In The Outdoors [PaEN]
-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Game Commission Expert Explains What Hunters Should Know About Chronic Wasting Disease
-- TribLive: Fisher, Weasel-Like Animal Once Eliminated From PA, Spotted On Murrysville Wildlife Camera
-- VistaToday: Phoenixville Becomes A Designated Audubon ‘Bird Town’
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Philadelphia High School Becomes Birder Attraction As Chimney Swifts Fly In By The Thousands
-- TribLive: Are Spotted Lanternflies On The Decline In Western PA?
-- Inquirer: Giant, Flying Joro Spider Seen In Bucks County, Here’s What To Know About This Invasive Species
-- Reuters: US Solar Set To Surge Long Past US Presidential Election
-- The Guardian: Biden’s Green Policies Will Save 200,000 Lives, Create Nearly 150,000 Jobs
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: September 22, 2024]
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