PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Delaware Rivers designation as Pennsylvanias 2025 River of the Year underscores the power of partnerships in conserving and celebrating this incredible waterway," said Mark Zakutansky of the Appalachian Mountain Club and Chair of the Delaware River Sojourn Steering Committee. "As

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

PASA Sustainable Agriculture is now accepting registrations for the 2025 PASA Sustainable Agriculture Conference to be held February 5 to 7 in Lancaster. Hear from an incredible lineup of 100+ speakers at 80+ educational sessions who will spark new ideas and inspire action.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Registration is now open for the 2025 Pick Up Pennsylvania ! Posted: February 25, 2025] PA Environment Digest Pennsylvanias largest community improvement program! Events can include litter cleanups, illegal dump cleanups, community greening and beautification, special collections and anti-litter education events. Volunteer Awards!

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

Related Article: -- Reminder: Keep PA Beautiful Litter Hawk Youth Award Program Accepting Nominations For Students In Grades K to 6 [PaEN] [Posted: January 7, 2025] PA Environment Digest Click Here to support their work.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

Response requested by January 20, 2025. Washington Energy Co LLC - Violations: Abandoned Conventional Wells January 2-9, 2025 inspections of three conventional wells in Washington County found them abandoned and not plugged-- -- North Strabane Twp. Violations issued. MTN Energy holds 45 conventional oil and gas well permits.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

The Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education will host Naturepalooza 2025 on April 26 to help celebrate Earth Day in Philadelphia. Posted: April 9, 2025] PA Environment Digest The Center offers a wildlife rehabilitation clinic, an environmental art program, volunteer opportunities, and educational programs for all ages.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

Suchko - Violations: Abandoned Well, Failure To Bond, File Reports January 2, 2025 follow-up inspection of the Suchko Tract 2 conventional well in South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned and not plugged. Diversified Prod LLC - Violations: Abandoned, Unplugged Well January 9, 2025 inspection of the William H.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As of February 2025, there are two pending climate cases in Japan, namely, Youth Climate Case Japan for Tomorrow and Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. (See Japanese Court Upholds Mistakes in post-disaster Energy Policy in Yokosuka Climate Case Decisions.) (See See another blog post for the overview of the older cases.)

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ESA

APRIL 15, 2025

Contributed by ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Chair Lea Johnson On April 5, nearly 300 ecologistsfaculty, students, and practitionersgathered at Longwood Gardens for what were told may have been the largest meeting of ESAs Mid-Atlantic Chapter in its decades-long history.

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Real Climate

MARCH 20, 2025

Other new studies At few other articles on this topic have also appeared recently: Allen and Merchant (2025) give a “new interpretation of the drivers of Earth’s energy budget changes and their links to ocean warming” Terhaar et al. 044002, 2025. Foster, "Global Warming has Accelerated Significantly", 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2025

Driving the most efficient EVs (such as the 2025 Lucid Air) means less climate-changing pollution than any gasoline car, no matter where in the US you recharge. And of course, a more efficient EV will also cost less to recharge. Upstream emissions factors now use the GREET2024 database from Argonne National Laboratory.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

The bill would enact a Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 which would establish the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Program. These hearings are expected to take place in late March or April 2025. The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) would be the agency tasked with overseeing this effort.

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Yale E360

MARCH 24, 2025

Now labeled by Project 2025 as part of the climate alarm industry and facing DOGE-driven cuts, the future of this valuable public asset is in jeopardy. For more than 50 years, NOAA has pioneered climate research and been instrumental in advancing modern weather forecasting. Read more on E360

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Real Climate

MARCH 18, 2025

45-65, 2025. In Mozambique I helped organise a CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study (FPS) workshop in Maputo where we worked on capacity building based on an open source tool for empirical-statistical downscaling. This tool is useful for studying consequences of climate change and providing valuable information for climate adaptation (Benestad et al.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

million metric tons of newly mined lithium from 2025 to 2050. Implementing strategies that result in better EV efficiency, right-sized range, and reduced VMT will result in savings of 1.5 This estimate includes lithium demand for passenger vehicles and transit and assumes all sales are electrified by 2035. Dunn et al.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

UCS is urging the United States and other rich countries, together with additional contributors in a position to provide funding, to commit to a collective goal of $1 trillion annually starting in 2025. Numerous scientific reports (see below) show that nations are falling far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

2025 is also a pivotal year for CEJA implementation in Illinois. Enacting as many of these policies as possible by early 2025 is important so that the agencies can include the anticipated effects in conducting the 2025 resource adequacy study discussed previously.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan. Other Extension Articles -- PA State Conservation Commission Wins Natural Resource Education Champion Award -- Get Your Passport To PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Ag Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Diversified has a total of 13 violations for abandoning and not plugging 13 shale gas wells in 2025. This week DEP issued 9 violations for shale gas well abandonment bringing the total issued in 2025 to 31. Read more here. Read more here. Violations were issued for abandonment and failure to comply with the order. Violations continued.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2025

The 2025 Monroe County program is forming right now (Pike and Carbon County residents also welcome). The deadline to apply is soon: Friday, January 24, 2025. An additional 10 hours of continuing education with Penn State Extension is also part of the overall program.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

PennTAP and DEP will begin accepting RISE PA grant applications during the first quarter of 2025. For more information, visit PennTAPs RISE PA webpage. Click Here to contact PennTAP to learn more. Visit DEPs RISE PA Industrial Decarbonization Grant Program webpage for more information.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

LLC On April 22, 2025, DEP was notified of a well plugging incident at the Brown 1447 conventional well site in Morris Township, Greene County that resulted in contaminating a livestock water supply, two springs and a small stream. Original violations issued March 7, 2025. Read more here. Read more here. No response requested.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

On Monday, March 17, 2025 at approximately 5:30 p.m., DEP did follow-up inspections on March 20, 2025 , March 25, 2025 , March 26, 2025 (file), March 28, 2025 , March 31, 2025 (file), April 1, 2025 , April 2, 2025 (compliance evaluation) and April 3, 2025 (file).

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2025

The federal government has long known that due to rapidly growing electric vehicle sales, funding for the iZEV program was going to run out early in 2025. There was an opportunity in Finance Minister Chrystia Freelands recent Fall Economic Statement to include stopgap funding to top up the program and prevent this from occurring.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Project 2025 favors authoritarian presidential rule. That makes high-quality government a low priority – reflected in the Project 2025 and the America First Agenda’ s desire to replace government professionals with ideological presidential lackeys. It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

planned capacity additions in 2025, with the bulk of these new plants planned for states without a current clean energy standard (the proposed Wisconsin plants wont show up in the EIA data unless they are approved by the state).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

PASA is now accepting registrations for the 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference to be held February 5-7 in Lancaster. Posted: January 9, 2025] PA Environment Digest Join PASA three days of learning, connection, and growth featuring 80+ sessions, networking events, and a vibrant trade show.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 23, 2025

About the poll: The survey was conducted with 1,200 adult Canadians over the age of 18 from April 14 to 16, 2025. Nearly 90 per cent of respondents want the federal government to get toxic chemicals out of products, while 86 per cent support federal action on plastic pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

42 Abandoned Conventional Wells Bialy Gas Production LLC - Violations: 26 Abandoned Conventional Wells (16 Months) March 10-13, 2025 inspections of 26 conventional wells in Baden and Economy Boroughs, Beaver County found them all abandoned and not plugged. Myers - Violations: Abandoned Conventional Well March 18, 2025 inspection of the WM T.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In short, developed countries committed to providing $100 billion to vulnerable countries every year between 2020 and 2025. COP29 is the deadline for negotiations that would set a new target for 2025. The next round is due in February 2025. Back in 2009, countries set a finance goal of $100 billion.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

The PA Association of Environmental Educators is now accepting registrations for the 2025 PAEE Annual Conference - Waves Of Connection to be held March 10-12 in Erie. Posted: January 9, 2025] PA Environment Digest The Conference is an opportunity to celebrate and grow in the fantastic environmental education field in Pennsylvania!

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The City of Reading is now accepting applications for the Spring 2025 cohort of the Reading Conservation Corps. Posted: February 18, 2025] PA Environment Digest Applications are due by February 28, with the program beginning on March 31. As the program continues to grow, additional funding is welcomed.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

31 -- Solar For Schools Toolkit [Posted: January 9, 2025] PA Environment Digest Visit the Philadelphia Solar Energy Association website for more solar energy education resources. Resource Links: -- DCED Solar For Schools Grant Program - Deadline Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

DEP also issued seven more notices of violations to two more shale gas drillers-- Blackhill Energy LLC and EQT ARO LLC-- for abandoning wells they own, bringing the total for 2025 to 39-- closing in on as many violations as were issued in all of 2024-- 47. Myers - Violations: Abandoned Conventional Well March 18, 2025 inspection of the WM T.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

On April 22, 2025, DEP was notified of a well plugging incident at the Brown 1447 conventional well site in Morris Township, Greene County that resulted in contaminating a livestock water supply, two springs and a small stream. DEP approved a notice of intent to proceed with plugging the well on April 1, 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2025

In 2025, agricultural producers in these counties are eligible: Bedford, Berks, Bradford, Butler, Columbia, Cumberland, Fulton, Lawrence, McKean, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Sullivan, York, and Warren. Posted: January 23, 2025] PA Environment Digest Who is eligible to participate?

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2025

Photo Brett Walton/Circle of Blue By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue January 31, 2025 BUCKEYE, Ariz. Were in an era of limits, Tom Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, reiterated during a January 16, 2025, meeting to discuss new policies that could unlock homebuilding in the area.

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