PEC’s Harrisburg Dinner is just over a week away! Having attended the dinner over my 17-year tenure at PEC, along with coordinating the dinner for the last four, I can’t help but start to get excited for April 19’s annual...
The 2016 National Bike Summit & Women’s Forum is the premier bicycle advocacy event of the year. Hosted annually in Washington D.C., the Summit has shown real impact in leveraging increased investments in bicycling at the federal, state, and local...
Pennsylvania’s long-standing budget impasse came one step closer to an end yesterday when Governor Wolf announced that he will not stand in the way of supplemental appropriation legislation passed by the General Assembly. The Governor did, however, convey his intention...
On March 8, PEC officially held the first of six regional watershed group workshops as part of a statewide initiative aimed at building local capacity for stewardship. Funded in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s...
PEC welcomes Lynn Conrad, Executive Director of the Rail-Trail Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania, as the second author in its guest blog series. It’s the beginning of March, the time of year when the Rail-Trail Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania decides where...
Hosted by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, the quarterly Northeast Pennsylvania Trail Forum was held Feb. 12 at the Bear Creek Reserve, just southwest of Wilkes-Barre. Every four months the Trail Forum meets at a new location in upstate Pennsylvania to...
PEC’s work in building the Circuit trail network just received a huge boost! Thanks to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), three trail projects for segments of the East Coast Greenway have been funded in Chester, Morrisville,...
I am pleased to have the opportunity to share “The German Energiewende: Informing Pennsylvania’s Clean Energy Policy,” the final paper culminating from my travel and research in Germany in the fall of 2015. This work was funded by the American...
Yesterday (Jan. 19), Governor Wolf announced that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will be advancing a series of measures to control methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. Methane is very much at the forefront of national awareness...
As the cold weather of the winter season blows across Pennsylvania, you may be reminded of that drafty window or leaky door you’ve been meaning to fix. If your 2016 resolution is to make your home more comfortable, whether you...
On Dec. 8, PEC partnered with the Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies, in coordination with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), to host “Untapped Potential: A Briefing on Hydroelectricity in Pennsylvania.” This invitation-only meeting...
A recent article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review highlighted some of the lessons learned from my recent travels in Germany studying energy policy. I’d like to offer my thanks to the Trib’s David Conti for helping us to open the conversation...