The Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds announced the awarding of nearly $135,000 for 10 grants to help restore 19.5 miles of Abandoned Mine Drainage impacted streams, assist in underground mine pool monitoring and safeguard private water supplies from sewage impacts.

Golf course superintendents can now take advantage of a new Water Resources Best Management Practices Handbook to help make their courses truly green.

The Crooked Creek Watershed Association this summer has an innovative fund raising initiative underway called Grow An Extra Row.

Volunteers are still needed for the19th Annual PA River Sweep, the largest organized volunteer river cleanup effort in the country, this June 20 from 8 a.m. to noon in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Washington and Westmoreland counties.

With the school year coming to an end are you looking for something creative, fun and educational for your kids to do? Let them GO WILD at Wildlands Conservancy Summer Camps.

The Pennsylvania Resources Council, eLoop LLC and Global Links will sponsor an electronics, medical supplies and battery recycling event on June 20 at Heinz Field's East Parking Lot in Pittsburgh starting at 9:00 a.m.

The Professional Recyclers of PA will host an Organics Roundtable on July 14 at the Bradys Run Park Lodge in Fallston, Beaver County.

The Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania will hold their 19th Annual PROP Recycling Conference in Scranton from July 28–31 at the Scranton Hotel & Convention Center.

PA CleanWays, with funding provided by The Greater Harrisburg Foundation, a component regional foundation of the Foundation for Enhancing Communities, organized two illegal dumpsite cleanups on April 25 and 27 in Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County.

The PA Chamber of Business and Industry expressed concerns this week that diverse viewpoints are not represented in an essential report required by Act 70, the 2008 law that authorized Pennsylvania to proceed with the development of a climate change action plan for the Commonwealth.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now accepting applications for up to $10 million in first of its kind, “Climate Showcase Communities” grants to local and tribal governments to establish and implement climate change initiatives that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Center for Rural Pennsylvania this week released two new reports looking at potential conflicts between wildlife, land use and commercial wind energy farms.

The Department of Community and Economic Development is now accepting comments on a draft request for proposal it will issue to the Commonwealth’s 42 weatherization agencies to solicit participation in the state’s expanded weatherization program under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Mark your calendars for the 2009 Environmental Compliance Issues Conferences sponsored by the PA Chamber of Business and Industry in October.

Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe this week announced that he was retaining protection on feral swine in Bedford County in an effort to facilitate trapping by individuals permitted by the agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The PA Wildlife for Everyone Foundation recently provided an update on the many projects it has going to improvement wildlife habitat. Here's just a sampling.

The Department of Environmental Protection this week published notice of an opportunity to bid on a project to reclaim abandoned mines in Clarion County.

Here’s a selection of NewsClips on environmental topics from around the state--

Read a sampling of NewsClips on watershed topics from around Pennsylvania.

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