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

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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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

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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Washington Nature

APRIL 24, 2021

In the waning hours of the 2021 session and the day after Earth Day, the Washington House of Representatives passed the Climate Commitment Act in a floor vote of 54-43. We are the home of a science-based net-zero 2050 future and clean energy and good jobs—not just for the technology elite, but for middle-class working people.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

Leading up to Earth Day this year, I’ve been reflecting on the meaning and purpose of the annual celebration. Earth Day began under the Nixon Administration in 1970 as a day to support environmental protection and has grown to include nations and communities around the world in appreciation of Mother Earth.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 26, 2023

New England Clean Energy Connect, a 145-mile-long transmission line will cut through the commercial timberlands of western Maine. The permits were revoked on the eve of Earth Day. Red and blue fabric dye often flow into the river. Many of the systems were constructed in the year 500 BCE.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Department of Agriculture is funding more than 700 clean energy projects to lower energy bills, expand access to domestic biofuels and create jobs and new market opportunities for U.S. On April 23, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced that the U.S. farmers, ranchers and agricultural producers.

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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

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 4, 2023

Will It Pay Off?

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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 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 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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Conservation Earth Day Waste Natural Gas 88

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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Conservation Clean Energy Climate Change Earth Day 40

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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Legal Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Earth Day is a perfect day to register to vote and to make sure people in your life are registered—and fully aware of what’s at stake in Election 2024. The first Earth Day in 1970 saw teach-ins, walkouts, and demonstrations grab the participation of 20 million Americans—about 10 percent of the total U.S.

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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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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 5, 2022

True Energy Independence Means Renewables [We’re Not Independent If Foreign Markets, Despots Set The Prices We Pay For Energy ] -- Financial Times: ExxonMobil Flags Highest Quarterly Profit Since The Boom Year Of 2008 When Russia Invaded Georgia [Anyone See A Pattern?

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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 28, 2024

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

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Legal Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

Funding for clean energy. E&E reports that he is open to “limited subsidies” but has criticized the size of the Inflation Reduction Act’s other spending on clean energy. The issue is now so toxic and so radioactive that if you even talk about it, it shuts off people’s brains.” Emissions regulation.

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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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Conservation Earth Day Clean Energy Electricity 48

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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Natural Gas Nuclear Power Earth Day Radiation 107

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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

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Natural Gas Politics Clean Energy Earth Day 113

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% -- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb.

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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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