PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

On April 23, Department of Environmental Protection Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley and members of the Lancaster Clean Water Partners gathered at the Blue Green Connector Project to celebrate stream and floodplain restoration investments on Little Conestoga Creek. Grantees have up to three years to implement their projects.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2022

In celebration of Earth Day, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful , whose vision is a clean and beautiful Pennsylvania, encourages residents to join the 2022 Pick Up Pennsylvania initiative. This year we hope even more people find the time to help improve their communities and make every day Earth Day.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

11-13 In State College -- Penn State Master Gardeners: Ken & Mee Park In Montgomery County Recognized With Pollinator Habitat Of Merit Award; Aug. 11-13 In State College -- Penn State Master Gardeners: Ken & Mee Park In Montgomery County Recognized With Pollinator Habitat Of Merit Award; Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

On June 14, PennFuture announced it will honor 11 women from Southeastern Pennsylvania at this year's Celebrating Women In Conservation Awards. Each year these awards honor the accomplishments of outstanding women conservationists in Pennsylvania who are deeply committed to working to protect the Commonwealth's environment.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2025

Hosts Annual Fishing Event For Children With Autism -- Republican Herald: 7 Ways To Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day Storm Damage/Power Outages -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Locations To Have Power Restored By Late Tuesday, Other Areas Sooner -- KDKA: Rep. The current minimum setback is 500 feet from a well bore. Cecil Township is in Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

Symposium Agenda This year’s agenda will begin with a look at the history and future of the oil and gas industry on groundwater management in Pennsylvania by David Yoxtheimer, Research Professor and Extension Associate from Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2023

These supplies were acquired through the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful initiative, which offers registered events free materials via a collaborative partnership with the Department of Environmental Protection, PennDOT, and Keep America Beautiful Program. 6 volunteers from Barry Isett & Associates, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2023

Shelburne Environmental Leadership Award will be presented to John Levitsky, Luzerne County. John’s professional conservation resume is vast, with many great projects and efforts to improve the local environment being done and led by him over the past couple of decades.

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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. /DEP

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

The goal of conferring rights to nature is to secure the highest level of environmental protection under which an ecosystem can thrive and whose rights are not violated. The Supreme Court declared that the Colombia Amazon accordingly was entitled to protection, conservation, maintenance and restoration.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2023

The building housing the departments of Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources in Harrisburg is named in her honor. A teach-in held by Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, blossomed into Earth Day [April 22]. Brinkley is a presidential historian.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2022

In the court’s decision, Justice Pardu wrote, “The Act should be given a generous interpretation in light of its remedial nature and its objective of environmental protection”. By conserving wildlife, we ensure that future generations can enjoy our natural world and the incredible species that live within it.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 29, 2024

Oh and we got the law changed too, and after decades we have a new and better Canadian Environmental Protection Act. This once cancelled highway is emblematic of an approach to transportation, city building, and environmental protection that has failed dramatically for decades.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 Aftershock Follows -- MCall: How Common Are Earthquakes In Eastern PA, Why Was The NJ Quake Felt So Far Away?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

NewsClips: -- MCall: Earth Day: Your Guide To Events, Cleanups In Lehigh Valley Area -- WHYY: Tree-Plantings And Trash Walks: Earth Day 2022 In Philly -- The Allegheny Front: Repelled By Trash, They Rappelled To Pick It Up At Pittsburgh’s Mt.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

CJ, a Junior from Swarthmore, Delaware County, will celebrate Earth Day on April 22 by leading a walk throughout Little Crum Creek Park while discussing aquatic macroinvertebrates and water quality. One such event is an educational “Park Walk” coordinated by Young Ambassador, CJ Chen.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

ARRI is a joint effort between OSMRE, state agencies including the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), industry partners, environmental organizations, academia, and landowners. Joining conservation and watershed groups in your local area is another great way to get involved.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2022

Related Articles: -- PA Resources Council Announces 2022 Household Chemical, Electronics Waste, Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Eastern, Western PA -- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful: Communities Celebrate Earth Day By Joining Pick Up Pennsylvania [Posted: April 19, 2022] PA Environment Digest FM and AM 1020 KDKA.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

We thank the many supporters over the past two decades who have helped PRC to serve more than 60,000 households, and we look forward to serving many more in communities across the state in the future.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

They did this though the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, long before the first Earth Day. Cynthia worked closely with Hilda to advance PRC’s mission to preserve scenic beauty and conserve natural resources. Uncommon leaders who made an exceptional contribution to conservation and environmental protection in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection last week announced a total of $632,897 in Environmental Education Grants have been awarded to 63 projects, 50 of which engage youth and adults living and/or working within environmental justice areas.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 30, 2022

Looking back, I did not think about environmental justice—I didn’t even know that term until college. I got involved with making sure my school was recycling, coordinating Earth Day rallies, helping create community gardens, and other things. That’s one of the most important aspects of environmental justice.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

Here are 134 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. And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

Of Education Honors Green Ribbon Schools, Including PA Schools In Butler County, Reading, Philadelphia [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: Rowan Elementary School Designated As Green Ribbon School -- Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons See First Egg Hatches Of The Season; Connection To Rachel Carson [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Peregrine Falcon (..)

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 20, 2022

The events under the shared banner of the Yours to Protect Weekend will highlight environmental threats to local natural areas and call on MPP candidates from all parties to make stronger environmental protections part of their election platforms. Protecting and Expanding Conservation Areas.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2022

While attending Albion College in Michigan, he helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970 and appeared on a CBS-TV prime-time special hosted by Walter Cronkite that was called Earth Day: A Question of Survival. Student concern and action did not stop on Earth Day. It was a life well lived.”

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 20, 2023

The events will highlight environmental threats to local natural areas that are increasing because of the actions of Ontario’s provincial government. They will call on MPPs, municipal leaders and MPs to make stronger environmental protection a key priority in their decisions. Exact times and dates vary by location.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

Of Agriculture Now Accepting Applications For Ag Conservation Research Grants; Ag Research Grants [PaEN] -- Agriculture Highlights Stroud Water Research Center Ag Conservation Research [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: State Invests $1.5 Upcoming Events -- Republican Herald: Hegins Twp. Upcoming Events -- Republican Herald: Hegins Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Both say the money has led to benefits for the public and conservation. The debate over benefits and drawbacks won’t end soon, especially as a new state bill aims to lift a moratorium on additional leases in forests managed by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The leases have earned the state $1.3

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Thank you one and all for your conservation leadership! 3 -- Op-Ed: Why Environmental Literacy Should Be Part Of Pennsylvania’s Education Standards - Anna R. The diversity, creativity and just the sheer number of projects and programs is truly amazing! This kind of leadership deserves our respect and the support by state lawmakers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The US Supreme Court seems to have appointed itself as a rogue Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to protect polluters rather than the public. The court’s conservative majority went so far as to ignore EPA science conducted during the conservative George W. Bush administration.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2025

As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people. -- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [Its Not A Suggestion] Click Here To View Or Print The Entire April 28 PA Environment Digest 189 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Stories You May Have (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2025

PA Trout Unlimited; PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Diversity - Equity - Inclusion (DEI) -- David Hess Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

I was a very young cat, just turned 14 years old, when 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Our exploits were documented by New York Times reporter Joseph Lelyveld in the second-to-last paragraph of a page one story on Earth Day in the next mornings paper.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2025

PA Master Naturalist Volunteer Fall Training In Allegheny, Butler, Cambria, Center/Huntingdon, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery, Westmoreland Counties Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education To Celebrate Earth Day With April 26 Naturepalooza 2025 In Philadelphia Brodhead Watershed Assn.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Labor Day is a good time to talk about an important topic: the impact of environmental protection on jobs. As illustrated by Trump’s comment, “job-killing regulations” has been a long-time meme among conservatives. In short, Labor Day and Earth Day don’t have to be at odds.

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