Harrisburg – Anthony S. Bartolomeo, the chairman of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, has been named to Governor Tom Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. The governor made the announcement as part of his 2011-12 budget address to the General Assembly in Harrisburg...
Trail, conservation, and tourism advocates have planned a day-long Laurel Highlands Summit to support the Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Initiative from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 4 at the Fred Rogers Center at St. Vincent College in Latrobe. The...
Harrisburg— The people have spoken: the Delaware River is Pennsylvania’s River of the Year for 2011. Chosen for the first time through a public vote, the Delaware bested five other candidates in an online contest that saw more than 10,000...
Contact: Bob Oltmanns Date: Nov. 5, 2010 Phone: (412) 721-0236 Email: [email protected] Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Environmental Council, a leading statewide environmental organization, today named Paul M. King, QEP, to the position of president and chief executive officer, succeeding Donald S. Welsh, who...
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council in partnership with the Pennsylvania American Water Company conducted a streamside tree planting project at the Pennsylvania American Water Company Property along Hillside Road, Trucksville on Nov. 5 PEC, Pennsylvania American Water Company staff and over 25...
Three PEC projects received funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). Check back soon for details on these exciting projects! Pennsylvania Environmental Council, $50,000 to lead the implementation of the Statewide Comprehensive Recreation Plan goal to...
Over 85 people turned out for the inaugural meeting of the new Laurel Highlands Conservation Coalition, a spin-off of the Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Initiative. Land conservancies, watersheds, Trout Unlimited chapters and other conservation and recreation groups turned out for...
Several local and regional conservation organizations have come together to create the Laurel Highlands Conservation Coalition, a four-county coalition of grass-roots conservation and environmental groups in Fayette, Westmoreland, Somerset and Cambria Counties. The purposes of the coalition will be to...
In celebration of its 40th Anniversary, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), has selected 40 Pennsylvanians under the age of 40 as recipients of its 40 Under 40 Awards. Recipients will be honored at PEC’s 40th Anniversary Celebration at the Civic...
Curbs along parking areas direct stormwater runoff into bioswales, which throughout the project area have been planted with 1,321 perenials, 24 shubs and 48 trees. The project beautifies the borough in the heart of Ohiopyle State Park while making parking more...
“An Evening for Pennsylvania’s Environment” – The Twentieth Annual Environmental Partnership Awards Dinner will be held on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 5:00pm at the Woodlands Inn & Resort, Rte 315, Wilkes-Barre, PA. Seven (7) recipients of the Environmental Partnership...
The Northeast Pennsylvania Environmental Partners (Northeast Office of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Northeast Pennsylvania Alliance, PPL Corporation, The Procter & Gamble Paper Products Company, Wilkes University, PA DEP and PA DCNR) are pleased to announce that Joanne Denworth of the...