A Greener Life

APRIL 24, 2024

President Biden delivers his Earth Day address. By Anders Lorenzen President Biden used Earth Day to ramp up his administrations commitment on tackling climate change, protecting the environment and investing in clean energy technologies. Photo credit: Reuters / Kevin Lamarque.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

Million, 11.35% Increase Over March 2022 -- Post-Gazette Editorial: COVID Still Demands Vigilance Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 19, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

StreamWatch Volunteer Training May 20 In Monroe County [PaEN] -- CBF: Proposed Settlement Of Lawsuit Against EPA For Failing To Hold Pennsylvania Accountable For Meeting Chesapeake Bay Water Pollution Reduction Goals Focuses On Actions In 7 PA Counties [PaEN] -- New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Senators Leading The Way In Holding The Rail Industry Accountable 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- Reuters: Why U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

Million In Energy Costs In 2024 [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Critics Slam Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant For Not Reporting Fire In Damaged Unit 2 Reactor Building Feb. 11-13 In State College -- Penn State Master Gardeners: Ken & Mee Park In Montgomery County Recognized With Pollinator Habitat Of Merit Award; Aug. And Saved $44.2

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

- By Lee Kump Dean Of Penn State College Of Earth & Mineral Sciences -- Better Path Coalition Hosts Feb. Imagine A Clean Energy Future 5th to 12th Grade Student Competition Submissions Due Feb. 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. -- Sentinels Of The Susquehanna Vol. 22 Webinar: Get To Know Your Forest - Pinchot State Forest.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Shapiro’s Proposed Budget Supports Pennsylvania’s Environment -- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Lawmaker Says DEP Bullies Hazardous Dam Owners; Acting Secretary Hopes To Change Culture At DEP -- PennLive Guest Essay: Clean Energy Makes Economic And Environmental Sense For Pennsylvania - By Greg Alvarez, Energy Innovation -- Courier Times Guest Essay: (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

14 -- Save Pennsylvania’s Forests Feb. 22 Webinar: Get To Know Your Forest - Pinchot State Forest.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

All-State Fishing Team -- Environmental Justice Champion In PA: Veronica Coptis, Center For Coalfield Justice -- Registration Open For Schuylkill Sojourn June 17-24; Sojourn Steward, Sojourn Diversity, First-Time Sojourner Scholarships Available [PaEN] -- DCNR Bureau Of State Parks Offers Special Environmental Education Activities For Earth Day In (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Outlines 10-Year Plan For Parks, Trails, Open Space In Allegheny County -- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center Hosts Earth Day Volunteer Day -- Cameron County Chamber Of Commerce: Sinnemahone Paddle Results Available; Register For Remaining Triple Crown Events -- Natural Lands: May 20 Field Jam - Music Without Walls Series.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

18-20 In WV Registration Open For Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council Level 1 Certification Training Beginning July 30 Join Master Watershed Stewards In Lancaster County For June 13 Waterways On Wheels Bike Tour A Dozen Nonprofit, Agency, Municipal Environmental Experts Team Up To Tackle Stormwater Runoff In The Lake Erie Watershed Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

-- PA Council Of Trout Unlimited Accepting Applications For Trout In The Classroom Funding [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Eels In The Classroom Program Partners With Schools To Release American Eels [PaEN] -- DCNR Bureau Of State Parks Offers Special Environmental Education Activities For Earth Day In April [PaEN] -- WITF Smart Talk Monday (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Here are 74 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.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Leib, Pittsburgh -- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan -- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI] -- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Get $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2022

DOE Awards Grant For Pittsburgh Hill District Project To Develop Renewable Energy Plan Focused On Vacant Lots PennDOT Hosts April 27 Teleconference On State Plan For National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Funding Allegheny College To Host Fifth World Symposium On Sustainable Development At Universities June 16-17 PA Interfaith Power & Light, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2022

20 Via Zoom, Offer Sensor Rentals -- Citizen Science Parasite Hunters Needed: Penn State Researcher Asking Deer Hunters For Help In Biting Flies Research Effort - By Penn State News [PaEN] -- PUC Joins 8th Annual ‘Imagine A Day Without Water’ To Raise Water Awareness -- Warren Times: Night Sky Program Offered Oct. 22-23 -- Penn State Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

A new solar array on the campus of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Fayette County will soon harness the power of the sun to offset 100% of electricity used by Fallingwater’s main and guest houses, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy announced on Earth Day, April 22.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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Cresforum

JULY 19, 2021

An enduring stigma exists that Republicans are against clean energy and climate policies. In advance of Earth Day, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) introduced the Energy Innovation Agenda: Conservative Solutions for a Better Climate. Conservatives have had major wins with climate policy in 2021.

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Cresforum

JULY 19, 2021

An enduring stigma exists that Republicans are against clean energy and climate policies. In advance of Earth Day, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) introduced the Energy Innovation Agenda: Conservative Solutions for a Better Climate. Conservatives have had major wins with climate policy in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2022

[PaEN] -- PA Master Naturalist Accepting Applications For Fall Volunteer Training In 5 Counties [PaEN] -- MCall: Bethlehem Approves Lehigh University Solar Farm, Despite Neighbors’ Objections -- WNEP: PA Natural Gas Industry Facing Labor Shortages - Programs Not Attracting Enough Students -- Quakers, Jews, Elders, Students Planning A 40-Mile Walk On (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- Republican Herald: West Nile Virus Monitoring Starts In Schuylkill County -- Shapiro Administration Commends 3 PA Schools For Environmental Efforts As Green Ribbon Schools -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Announces 5 Recipients (..)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment [PaEN] -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

How Healthy Soils Grow Better Veggies. Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People- A coalition of environmental, health, and social justice groups are calling on Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault to ban the export of thermal coal from Canadian ports by 2023 and to release a roadmap of this ban on Earth Day.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

-- House Bill Would Expand Safety Zones Around Oil/Gas Wells, Infrastructure To Reduce Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts As Recommended By AG Shapiro’s Grand Jury Report [PaEN] -- Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads, Just Like In PA [PaEN] -- New University Of Chicago (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Shy’s study provided a shining example of the threat posed by industrial pollution that galvanized public attention in the late 1960s and led to the first Earth Day in April 1970. And in 2022, Atmos Energy, Black Hills Energy, Summit Utilities, and Xcel Energy were among the founders of Coloradans for Energy Access.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2022

Of Education Recognizes Spring-Ford School District, Shippensburg University As Green Ribbon Schools [PaEN] -- DEP Announces Award Of $632,897 In Environmental Education Grants To Support 63 Projects Across The State [PaEN] -- Exelon Foundation Announces Green Lab Grant Winners, 2023 Applications Open; Plans To Advance STEM Education In Under-Resourced (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

Ranks Pittsburgh Area Among Nation’s Most Polluted -- American Lung Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW [PaEN] -- Fox45: PA Republican Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

Reschenthaler Blames Biden For Closure Of Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant -- Utility Dive: PJM Asks FERC To Help Resolve Complaints With 8 Power Companies Over Winter Storm Elliott Nonperformance Penalties [About 200 Companies Face Penalties] -- Marcellus Drilling News/CMU: 10% Of Natural Gas Pipeline Compressors Vulnerable To Outages Because They (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2023

Will It Pay Off?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Big Spring Tree Planting Is Coming Up April 11-14 -- Volunteers Needed! PA Forestry Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Yaw Proposed Same Program In PA] -- PA Capital-Star/Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Foes And Friends Of Nuclear Power Face Off Near Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant -- ABC27: Local Activist Files Lawsuit Against Dauphin County For Using Tax Money To Promote Restart Of Undamaged Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Reactor -- AP - Marc Levy: (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2022

PaEN] -- TribLive Guest Essay: Energy Freedom In PA Would Help Support Our European Allies - Boost Solar Energy & Micro Hydro - By Rep. PaEN] -- TribLive Guest Essay: Energy Freedom In PA Would Help Support Our European Allies - Boost Solar Energy & Micro Hydro - By Rep. Mike Puskaric (R-Allegheny) & Rep.

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