Crisci Associates is a Harrisburg-based government affairs firm whose clients include Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations. Click Here for latest PA Capitol NewsClips & News (Daily Subscriber Email 2:00) Like PA Capitol News on Facebook. Below is a list of ballot measures relating to environmental issues in Pennsylvania. by PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center. Natural resources. An update on environmental issues in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Clean Water Referendum (1988) July 23, 2020.
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Read Weekly PA Environment Digest. I served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection from 2001 to 2003, Executive Deputy at DEP from 1995 to 2001, as staff to the PA Senate Environmental Committee and various positions in the former Department of Environmental Resources, working on environmental issues for over 40 years. Pennsylvania is known for its many hills, plateaus, mountains and valleys. Philadelphia, PA – The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to pass the Great American Outdoors Act, a historic conservation bill that will permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) at $900 million annually and provide $9.5 billion over five years to fix maintenance problems that are plaguing our public lands in Pennsylvania and across the nation. Ballotpedia staff have tracked no ballot measures relating to natural resources in Pennsylvania Environment. FairDistrictsPA: Fix Our Broken Redistricting Process [Posted: July 26, 2020] PA Environment Digest We’re closer to adopting a new consciousness for today’s world, that our lives are made richer if surrounded by more nature, rather than more extracted resources." The report comes as Congress is set to vote tomorrow on a major spending bill that includes an additional $11 billion for water infrastructure.Philadelphia, PA— Amid a growing recognition of the crisis of plastic pollution, industry has touted a process marketed as “chemical” or "advanced" recycling—which claims to break plastic down into its component molecules to be made into new plastic—as a solution to the plastic crisis.Philadelphia, PA – The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to pass the Great American Outdoors Act, a historic conservation bill that will permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) at $900 million annually and provide $9.5 billion over five years to fix maintenance problems that are plaguing our public lands in Pennsylvania and across the nation.
With a final vote of 310-107, and having already passed the U.S. Senate, the bill garnered considerable bipartisan support in the House and now heads to the President’s desk.
Follow PA Capitol News on Twitter. Pennsylvania had 1,678 facilities regulated under the Clean Air Act in 2014.More than 43 percent of Pennsylvania's emissions came from the electric power sector in 2013, followed by 24 percent from the transportation sector.Pennsylvania received $984,917 in PILT payments in 2015.As of 2013, the federal government owned 2.1 percent of all land in Pennsylvania—over 617,000 acres.Pennsylvania produced 1.22 thousand barrels of crude oil and around 12 million cubic feet of natural gas in 2014.Ballotpedia staff have tracked no ballot measures relating to natural resources in PennsylvaniaPennsylvania spent $710.5 million on environmental and natural resources departments in fiscal year 2015.In 2014, Pennsylvania parks had 9 million total visits, which generated $395.6 million in visitor spending.The table below lists the 12 endangered and threatened animal species in the state. According to the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, use of 67 trails, parks and natural areas around the state spiked as much as 200 percent during March and April over the same period a year ago.