PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2025

As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Government

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Peng, West Virginia University [Warning] -- TribLive Guest Essay: America Needs Affordable Energy - Coal Doesn’t Fit The Bill - By Jenny Rowland-Shea, Center for American Progress -- DEP/EPA AirNow Forecasts Code Orange Air Quality Action Day Monday, August. 10th Lehigh Valley Watershed Conference Set For Oct.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

Shedd; Road Salt Pollution; Street2Creek Call For Artists In York; Rain Barrel Kits; Learn How To Plant Trees [PaEN] -- Western PA Environmental Education Summit June 10 [PaEN] -- Allegheny Land Trust, Cannon Design Release Plans For New Mobile Learning Lab [PaEN] -- Brandywine Conservancy Launches New Website For Getting Started With Native Plants; (..)

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

A brief review of Pennsylvanias conservation history-- -- We've Heard This Before: "We're Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs" - Until Air Pollution Killed People, Then We Said No. What REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership Looks Like In PA: -- In Memoriam: Edwin K.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

1 [PaEN] Grants -- Foundation For Pennsylvania Watersheds Announces $650,000 In Conservation Grants; Next Grant Round Opens In August [PaEN] -- Applications Now Being Accepted For The Giant Company, Keep PA Beautiful Healing The Planet Grants To Support Tree Planting Projects [PaEN] -- Dept.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2025

Billion Pounds Of Air Pollution Since It Began Operation, During 80 Malfunctions, 43 Violation Episodes House Members To Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Advance Geothermal Energy Development PA Senate Republican Policy Committee To Hold Aug. 11 Hearing On A.I. 11 Hearing On A.I. 30 Registration Open! 9 PA iMapInvasives Hosts Sept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Here are 108 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- Penn State Ag Council Recognizes Cong.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

12 Water Conservation Best Practices Roundtable In Berks County [PaEN] -- Natural Resources Conservation Service-PA Welcomes Ag Progress Days Visitors To Learn More About Healthy Soil, Conservation [Aug. 5-7 [PaEN] -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Hosts Free Virtual Bugs, Balance, and Biodiversity Forest Health Program, Sept.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

Related Article: -- Allegheny Land Trust, Game Commission Partner To Preserve 266 Acre Deer Creek Conservation Project In Indiana Twp., Click Here to add your email to their mailing list. Click Here to support their work.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2025

House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee hearing on House Bill 505 (Donahue-D-Lackawanna) modernizing the Act 129 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program (part of Governor’s Lightning Energy Plan ). Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2025

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- DCNR: Shapiro Administration Honors Delaware River As PA’s 2025 River Of The Year -- DCNR: 450+ Firefighters Attend Annual Wildland Firefighting Training Preparing To Respond To Wildfires Across PA, Nationwide -- (..)

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

The [state] Oil and Gas Act, Clean Streams Law and Air Pollution Control Act give EQB the authority and mandate to promulgate regulations to protect health and the environment. The agency's duties under the Pennsylvania Constitution to conserve and maintain Pennsylvania resources further bolster this authority.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The existing siting process has resulted in a high concentration of polluting electricity generating units in and near environmental justice neighborhoods. Source: UCS , with Alternatives for Community and Environment, GreenRoots, and the Conservation Law Foundation. Rising to meet the challenge ahead The job is not done yet.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Anti-Nuke Activists Use 46th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident To Protest Restart -- Post-Gazette: Anti-Nuke Activists Use 46th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident To Protest Restart -- PennDOT, DEP, Keep PA Beautiful Invite Public To Be Part Of Pick Up Pennsylvania (..)

Conservation

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Yet it comes with the imprimatur of a host of conservative organizations and involves many people with ties to Trump. Conservatives used to believe in the free market, but Project 2025 seems quite skeptical of the idea of competitive electricity markets. Crippling air pollution control. It also echoes Trump’s priorities.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Note: In Pennsylvania, DEP receives at least $60 million a year in federal funding just to pay staff and other costs of implementing federal environmental protection programs like Air Quality, Water Quality, Mining, Storage Tanks, Waste, Safe Drinking Water and others.]

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

A 1985 study released in 2010 by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources found high concentrations of barium in conventional oil and gas brines was the "likely the source of barium contents exceeding the drinking-water limits in some private wells and small municipal water supplies in western Pennsylvania." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- PA Trout Unlimited, 17 Other Environmental, Conservation Organizations Expressed Opposition To Proposed DEP Changes To Spill Reporting Requirements [PaEN] -- Republican Sen.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Thank you for the opportunity to provide input on the expansion of MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources, LLCs (MarkWest) Harmon Creek Gas Processing Plant (''Harmon Creek''), which adds several new air pollution sources in one of the most overburdened areas in Pennsylvania.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2025

The Clean Air Act, which prohibits states from exceeding federal emissions standards for motor vehicles, with the significant exception of Californias statutory ability to obtain a preemption waiver for standards needed to tackle the states singular air pollution challenges.

Law

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

Grants -- DEP published notice in the August 9 PA Bulletin announcing it is now accepting applications for Small Business Advantage energy efficiency, pollution prevention and natural resource conservation grants through March 13. Contact: Laura Griffin, laurgriffi@pa.gov or (717) 772-3277. Room 202, Dept. Cameron Street, Harrisburg.

Nuclear Power

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

Conservative estimates by the Carbon Containment Lab indicate that the material scheduled for clearance under the Forest Service’s 10-year crisis plan will contain around two gigatonnes (Gt) of CO 2 equivalents. We feel pretty strongly that the way we are approaching [carbon removal] is one of the most scalable ways,” Murnen says.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2025

As much as prior conservative administrations may have criticized the agency, theres never been oneuntil nowthat tried to fire everybody. I literally bought the nuts and bolts that feed into this van that allow the scientists to measure all the chemicals, all the air pollution, Butler said. And I was like Wow this is real!

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2025

DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. 24 [PaEN] -- Manada Conservancy Summer Native Plant Sale Aug. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. July 23-- Agenda Posted. The Nature Place Rookery Room, 575 St.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2025

Right-wing advocacy groups launched a public messaging campaign and conservative editorial boards weighed in. As I wrote Last June , the oil industry and its allies then tried to convince the justices to shield them from climate liability lawsuits brought by cities and states throughout the U.S 7401 et seq.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

“Wells that are improperly abandoned may pose environmental and public health and safety threats such as gas migration into occupied structures, water supply impacts, surface water impacts, hazardous air pollutant emissions, methane emissions, and soil and groundwater contamination,” said Klapkowski.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

penalty and $5 million restitution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for air pollution violations; -- $1.4 Million Investment In Reducing Oil & Gas Facility Air Pollution Emissions [December 2024] -- EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties [Shared Equally], Plus $1.4

2014

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

GT Thompson, Chair of the US House Agriculture Committee; Members Of The PA In The Balance Farm Conservation Initiative Team; Student Jessica Herr [PaEN] -- Penn State Master Watershed Steward Jane Cook Leads By Example In Lehigh Valley [PaEN] -- PA Assn. 16 In State College [PaEN] -- Western PA Conservancy: Dec. 26 to Nov. 26 to Nov.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

The IRA provisions no longer being repealed as part of the bill include air monitoring, diesel emission reductions, school air pollution reduction, climate pollution reduction planning and implementation grants, Environmental Justice block grant funding, and modernization of EPA’s air and water enforcement database (ICIS).

2027

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. And Saved $44.2

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Armstrong County -- DCNR Celebrates Arbor Day By Encouraging Pennsylvanians To Support Tree Planting Across The State With Donations To Keystone Tree Fund [PaEN] -- Allegheny Land Trust, Game Commission Partner To Preserve 266 Acre Deer Creek Conservation Project In Indiana Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: Jack Winieski Dedicated His Professional Career To Improving Trees Through Genetics - By Wayne W. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Million Water Main, Lead Service Line Replacement Projects -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Water Authority Launches $75.4

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

A 1985 study released in 2010 by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources found high concentrations of barium in conventional oil and gas brines was the "likely the source of barium contents exceeding the drinking-water limits in some private wells and small municipal water supplies in western Pennsylvania." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Several conservative-led jurisdictions have proven that supporting renewable energy doesnt mean abandoning careful money management. True conservatives care about open markets and fiscal responsibility. Not all conservative-leaning governments treat the development of renewable energy the same.

Government

Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2025

Data Center Air Pollution Wherever a data center gets its power, it is going to need backup power to deal with outages. In areas where air quality does not meet federal standards (non-attainment areas), the threshold for new source review is 100 tons per year, and it may be necessary to purchase Pollution Reduction Credits.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. This legal battle has both a long history and enormous implications for California’s aggressive pollution control and climate change policies.

Clean Air Act