The Pennsylvania Environmental Council will host a nighttime group bike ride on Saturday, April 16. The ride will wind through Center City beginning at 8 p.m. Meeting location will be the intersection of 25th Street and Spruce Street. LED light arrays...
Blawnox officials are banking on the borough’s riverfront property to draw visitors and boost the town’s economy. The borough has joined the Allegheny River Town Program, a two-year initiative that the Pennsylvania Environmental Council sponsors. So far, the council has...
Gov. Tom Wolf made his promised veto of House Bill 1327 a reality Friday, sending the disapproved Fiscal Code bill back to the House of Representatives. The Fiscal Code bill serves as the spending and policy roadmap for the budget...
Those who use the Rails to Trails hiking and biking trail will soon be able to enjoy a new picnic area being built in a hemlock grove just off the trail parking lot on East Broad Street in Hazleton. Bob...
NEWPORT TWP. — Residents of Newport Township and the surrounding areas came together on Saturday to make sure Pennsylvania stays beautiful. About 20 volunteers met at the township municipal building to kick off Newport’s contribution to the Keep America Beautiful...
*Article by PEC President Davitt Woodwell and Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp. Speaking to a petroleum industry audience in Houston recently, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said, “we can and we must do more to reduce methane emissions...
NEWPORT TWP. — Mattresses. Children’s toys. Books. Those are just some of the items strewn around the wooded areas of Newport Township. The 17.2-square mile township includes the communities of Alden Station, Glen Lyon, Lee, Newport Center, Sheatown and Wanamie,...
We are very excited to shine the Circuit Spotlight on our very own Patrick Starr! When Patrick is not leading statewide programming at Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) and helping to make future connections to the Circuit Trails, you can find...
HARRISBURG – New limits proposed for gas pipelines are whipping up a controversy that reveals rifts among environmentalists critical of the state’s approach to regulating the drilling industry. A 48-member task force created by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf released a...
A slowly expanding system of hiking and biking trails is doing more than connecting Pennsylvanians with each other, trail advocates argue. The trails system offers the potential for that connection plus revitalization, preservation and celebration within communities and regions, according...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection have recommended steps for regulatory action to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania, the second largest producer of natural gas...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calls it an “aquatic staircase.” Every dozen miles or so, the water in the Allegheny, Ohio and Monongahela rivers trips over a dam and falls several feet into a lower channel. The man-made cascades...