PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2022

pounds of waste each day – that’s 1,600 pounds a year. Since much of this waste is in some way recyclable, a typical resident of Pennsylvania has the potential to keep more than a half ton of waste from entering landfills each and every year. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the average American produces 4.4

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

Wondering how you can help celebrate Earth Day this year? Extra judging points are also awarded to those who conduct a litter clean-up and submit photographic proof of their efforts—think Earth Day! The deadline for entries is October 31. Thousands of photos have been submitted over the years depicting Litterbugs at work.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

This vital process gathered crucial data across six key areas: residents attitudes towards litter and community image, existing litter prevention programs, community and beautification leaders, current waste and recycling policies, past and ongoing community revitalization efforts, and active volunteer groups.

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2024

Written by Samantha Nordstrom The SSC Officers enjoyed tabling at the Fort Collins Earth Day Festival at Civic Center Park on April 20, and at Colorado State’s Annual Earth Day Celebration by the Lory Student Center on April 22. on Earth Day, April 22. on Earth Day, April 22. to 5:00 p.m

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments, and recycled loan repayments from previous PennVEST funding awards. Click Here for a list of projects funded and the PennVEST announcement.

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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 24, 2023

. -- House Hearing Today: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- April 24 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- WTAJ: ClearWater Conservancy Celebrates Earth Day With Annual Watershed Cleanup Day In Centre County (..)

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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

APRIL 25, 2025

Shapiro's 'Lightning' Energy Plan To Lower Energy Costs, Create Jobs, Protect Pennsylvania From Global Energy Instability [PaEN] -- DEP Partners With PennTAP And Catalyst Connection On RISE PA Industrial Decarbonization Grant Program To Reduce Energy Costs, Create Jobs Across PA [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project Launches AirView Public, New App (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In April, she hosted her own Earth Day cleanup, Frederick and her group of volunteers fervently collected over 300 bags of trash and almost 30 tires! Monthly, Means holds a recycling collection and a fall hard -to-recycle event for Wharton and surrounding townships, providing residents an opportunity to recycle.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

On March 13, the ClearWater Conservancy announced individuals, families, and groups are invited to register for the 29th annual Watershed Cleanup Day and help at more than 50 cleanup sites around Centre County. The event will be held during Earth Day weekend on Saturday, April 12 from 8:00 a.m.

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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 21, 2022

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s Fayette County affiliate formed in 1995 by a group of local volunteers, with support from the Fayette County Recycling Office. With continued support from the County Recycling Office, the affiliate responsibilities will migrate to a shared staffed position.

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Earth 911

APRIL 22, 2024

Tune in to a special Earth Day 2024 episode about accelerating the path to a. The post Earth911 Podcast: Mapping A Smart Path To The Circular Economy At The Ellen MacArthur Foundation REMADE Conference appeared first on Earth911.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2024

Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Announces Mimi Joy Cooper As Recycling Coordinator CleanWater Conservancy: Volunteers Needed For 28th Annual Watershed Cleanup Day April 20 In Centre County Allegheny County Conservation District Offering Gardeners Free Soil Lead Screening PA Resources Council Launches New What's Up Watershed?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

. -- Concerned Residents, Advocates Call On DEP For The Opportunity To Comment On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Potter County [PaEN] -- Tribune-Democrat: DEP Reaches Deal With Equitrans On Underground Natural Gas Storage Area Order -- Environmental Health Project Blog: Importance Of Keeping A Health Diary When Living Near (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 6, 2024

On Earth Day Weekend April 20, ClearWater Conservancy , Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority , and the Spring Creek Watershed MS4 Partnership hosted the 28th Annual Watershed Cleanup Day, and it was a huge success!

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 29, 2024

For decades, we have been told that the only way to fix this problem was to improve recycling. Unfortunately, evidence shows that recycling doesn’t work. We have all seen that throw-away plastics clog and poison our oceans, rivers and cities.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

More Than 100 Volunteers Clean Up 30 Miles Of River Banks In Huntingdon, Blair Counties [PaEN] -- PA Resources Council Offers Free Statewide Recycling Webinar On Earth Day, April 22 [PaEN] [Posted: April 16, 2024] PA Environment Digest Related Articles: -- Little Juniata River Assn.:

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2023

Steel’s Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant - By Mayor & Council Member of Clairton City -- DEP Blog: Air Quality Awareness Week: Particulate Matter 101 -- PPL Electricity Price To Compare To Drop June 1 For Customers Who Don’t Shop For Suppliers -- Altoona Mirror: Blair Conservation District Offering $1.6

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2024

Here are 113 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

JULY 31, 2023

Scranton Tomorrow engages with over 1,000 volunteers to implement projects, including planting and maintaining seasonal flowers in downtown sidewalk planters, annual cleanups, urban landscape projects, educational outreach, and recycling events and most recently installing a Pocket Park in the City of Scranton.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I grew up fishing and hunting with my dad and brothers, and the first Earth Day in 1970 sparked my interest in environmental issues,” he recalled. progress on sustainable development since the 1992 Earth Summit. Every time I put our recycling bin on the curb, I’m reminded of that.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2022

The GIANT Company’s Reduced Emissions Program , developed in partnership with GreenPrint , help support local environmental improvement projects at the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education in York and the Centre County Recycling Center for Earth Day. Education has always been part of this Authority’s mission.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2022

The PA Resources Council , partners host four Traveling Glass Recycling Bin locations in Allegheny and Mercer counties during May. PRC provides a free recycling service that rotates through a variety of locations in western Pennsylvania. PRC’s Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Program is sponsored by Owens-Illinois, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2024

Individuals, families, and groups are invited to register for the 28th annual CleanWater Conservancy Watershed Cleanup Day in Centre County. The event will be held during Earth Day weekend on Saturday, April 20 from 8 a.m. Many sites are along roads but not major highways.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2023

. -- Selinsgrove: 12 volunteers from Susquehanna University, led by the Susquehanna Greenway Partnership, collected 130 pounds of trash from along Penns Creek and the creekside parks of Selinsgrove.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 10, 2022

Earth Day is just around the corner and CBA President, Jim Goetz, is helping out at his community clean ups. They want you to think the cause of plastic pollution is litterers, rather than the millions of tonnes of throwaway plastic that these companies put on the market every year.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

And only a small percentage actually gets recycled. Electronic “waste” is full of stuff that can be re-used, but we humans throw away more than 50 million tons of electronic waste every year. What a waste! Why not find out about buying refurbed goods? Click Here to sign up for regular updates from the Association.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

PA Trout Unlimited 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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2023

Passes Ban On Single-Use Plastic Bags; 16th Municipality In PA To Pass A Ban -- TribLive: Aspinwall Cleans Up Through ‘Green Streets’ Program -- TribLive: Leechburg Recycling Center Volunteers Carry Heavy Burden -- Beaver County Times: Earth Day Celebrated At Sisters Of St.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

Withdraws Request To EPA To Be Considered In Compliance With Federal Air Quality Standards -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Work Continues On Luzerne Abandoned Mine Subsidence; Second Hole Opens In Swoyersville -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Second Hole Opens From Abandoned Mine Subsidence In Swoyersville -- WNEP: Crews Repair Abandoned Mine Subsidences In Luzerne County, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2024

-- WGAL: UGI Gas Utilities Checking Gas Lines As Precaution After East Coast Earthquake: If You Smell Gas, Evacuate Immediately Grants -- ReImagine Appalachia Applauds EPA’s $500 Million Grant To Appalachian Community Capital To Stimulate Green Energy Investments In Low-Income Rural Communities Affected By Fossil Fuel Industry’s Decline [PaEN] Upcoming (..)

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Adult Category -- 1st Place ($500 prize): Richard Oberndorf, Wexford , “Teach Your Babies to Respect Our Waterways!” -- 2nd Place ($250 prize):Nancy Furbee, Sewickley , “Barreling Along to Remove Trash on the Shenango” -- 3rd Place ($100 prize): Carye Bye, Pittsburgh , “Happy un-Earth Day!”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

Materials are recycled or safely managed.” PRC has worked to protect resources for future generations through environmental education, recycling, waste diversion programs, anti-litter campaigns and other initiatives. At each event, a certified contractor processes the materials for proper disposal. FM and AM 1020 KDKA.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 National- $3.58

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