The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
has awarded more than $2.55 million to improve air quality in communities
through cleaner fuel transportation infrastructure. The 2024 Alternative Fuel
Incentive Grant (AFIG) funding to municipalities and businesses will fund clean
school ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded $19,640,380 for the environmental restoration of eight abandoned mine lands (AML) projects as part of the Abandoned Mine Lands and Acid Mine Drainage Grant Program . ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded $24 million to reduce pollution and restore local streams, rivers, and lakes in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. DEP awarded grants through the 2025 Countywide Action Plan (CAP) Implementation Grants to county teams ...
Harrisburg, PA – Building on the Shapiro Administration’s goal to ensure every community has equal access to environmental protections the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced grant awards totaling $600,000 to 12 community organizations across Pennsylvania through the ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
will host a public hearing to take testimony from the public regarding an
application by Orchard BJK Company, LLC (Orchard) out of Wyomissing, PA for a
Water Obstruction and Encroachment permit for the proposed Pocono Mountains
Corporate ...
Harrisburg, PA – Last week in PennLive, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley praised Governor Josh Shapiro’s commitment to ensuring Pennsylvania operates at the speed of 21st century business by modernizing the state’s permitting process while remaining ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection (DEP) has awarded more than $2.5 million for six projects to restore
abandoned mine lands and clean streams affected by abandoned mine
drainage as a part of the Abandoned Mine Lands and Acid Mine Drainage
Grant Program . ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has reduced its permit backlog by 75 percent since November 1, 2023 – and has completely eliminated the backlog for oil and gas permits. ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced today that 10 projects, totaling $402,021, aimed at protecting and restoring the Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone would be funded through grants. The 112-mile Delaware Estuary coastal zone is in Bucks, Delaware, and ...
Meadville, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) awarded Coastal Zone Grants totaling more than $288,000 to seven projects in the state’s Northwest region. The grants, which are aimed at protecting and restoring the Lake Erie Coastal Zone, will be used toward projects that ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Drought Task Force has announced that the counties of Adams, Allegheny, Beaver, Bucks, Butler, Carbon, Chester, Clearfield, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Indiana, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Montgomery, ...
Wilkes-Barre, PA - The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP) will host a public meeting to answer questions from the public with
concerns regarding the Blythe Recycling and Demolition Site (BRADS) in Blythe
Township, Schuylkill County. The meeting will take place from 6:00 to ...
Wilkes-Barre, PA - The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will host a public meeting to answer questions from the public regarding operations at five Schuylkill County facilities that have been the subject of public interest over the past several months. The meeting will take ...
Vowinckel, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) continues to address the problem of orphan oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania, plugging a well in Clarion County that contaminated a local family’s drinking water. ...
Vowinckel, PA – On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), will plug an abandoned gas well that has contaminated a local family’s water supply. ...
Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley joined host Bill Flanagan and Lauren Parker of Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. on Our Region’s Business on WPXI to give an update on DEP’s permit modernization updates. ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has declared a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day for fine particulate matter for Monday, October 21, 2024, in the Liberty-Clairton Area of Allegheny County, which includes Clairton City, Glassport Borough, Liberty Borough, ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will host a public hearing to take testimony from residents regarding an application by Panther Creek Power Operating, LLC for a Title V Operating Permit renewal regarding its facility in Nesquehoning, Carbon County. The ...
Pittsburgh, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has secured $1.62 million from Cyprus Amax Minerals Company (Cyprus) to address legacy pollution and will use the money for projects to benefit the environment in Washington County. DEP will be accepting public input to further ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded more than $3.4 million in grants to projects to improve water quality and fish and wildlife habitat throughout Pennsylvania’s part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and other watersheds. ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is hosting listening sessions to get public feedback on two $129 million programs that will help homeowners lower their energy costs. The Home Efficiency Rebate and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate programs will ...
Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley joined the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank to announce new grant availability for non-profit organizations helping to fight hunger in Pennsylvania. Grants up to $50,000 are available to non-profit ...
Today, Governor Josh Shapiro
and Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley
launched a new grant program aimed at plugging orphaned oil and gas wells
throughout the state. This initiative supports the Shapiro Administration’s
commitment to reducing ...
Williamsport, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is announcing that a temporary repair has been completed to a ruptured sewage line, stopping the release of raw sewage near the Eastern Snyder County Regional Authority’s (ESCRA) sewage treatment plant in Selinsgrove, Snyder ...
Williamsport, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is responding to an ongoing sewage line rupture near the Eastern Snyder County Regional Authority’s (ESCRA) sewage treatment plant in Selinsgrove, Snyder County. The ruptured sewage pipe is releasing raw sewage into Penns ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has declared a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day for ozone for Saturday, September 14, 2024, in the Philadelphia Area, which includes the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia. ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has secured a $1.96 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop Pennsylvania-specific outreach and education materials to help communities build out clean, renewable energy projects. ...
This week, the Shapiro Administration
secured $76,406,474 in federal funding from the Biden-Harris Administration to
address the plugging of orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells, advancing its
ongoing efforts to protect public health, reduce methane emissions that
contribute to climate change, ...
Williamsport, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Mosquito-Borne Disease Program will be conducting a truck-mounted ultra-low volume (ULV) mosquito control operation on September 3, 2024, in Lycoming County in the following areas: ...
Williamsport, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will hold a public conference to accept comments and questions for a land use change for two mined sites in Goshen Township, Clearfield County. ...
Williamsport, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Mosquito-Borne Disease Program will be conducting a truck mounted ultra-low volume (ULV) mosquito control operation on August 28, 2024, in Tioga County in the following areas: ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has declared a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day for ozone for Wednesday, August 28, 2024, in the Philadelphia Area, which includes the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia. ...
Harrisburg, PA – Governor Josh Shapiro and the Shapiro Administration are reaffirming their commitment to the people of Western Pennsylvania affected by the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, with a long-term plan to monitor water resources for any impacts from the accident and the vent and burn.
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has declared a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day for ozone for Tuesday, August 27, 2024, in the Philadelphia Area, which includes the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and the Pittsburgh Area, ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Shapiro Administration and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) today announced a new registered apprenticeship program to train workers to plug oil and gas wells, helping to protect the environment and public health while providing workers with in-demand skills and family-sustaining ...
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has made nearly $1 million available for projects that will promote environmental education and stewardship across Pennsylvania. Many of last year’s awardees also supported people in environmental justice communities , communities composed ...
Williamsport, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Mosquito-Borne Disease Program will be conducting a truck mounted ultra-low volume (ULV) mosquito control operation on August 22, 2024, in Tioga County in the following areas: ...
Williamsport, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Mosquito-Borne Disease Program will be conducting a truck mounted ultra-low volume (ULV) mosquito control operation on August 20, 2024, in Tioga County in the following areas: ...
Williamsport, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Mosquito-Borne Disease Program will conduct a truck mounted ultra-low volume (ULV) mosquito control operation in Lycoming County, in portions of South Williamsport Borough and Armstrong Township in the vicinity of the ...
Norristown, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Mosquito-Borne Disease Program will be conducting a truck mounted ultra-low volume (ULV) mosquito control operation on August 21, 2024, in Delaware County in the following areas: ...