The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) today released a new report, Building Green: Overcoming Barriers in Philadelphia, that identifies obstacles to green building in Philadelphia and recommends solutions to dissolving those barriers. The report identified the lack of political will and...
Seven winners were honored at the Pennsylvania Environmental Council’s (PEC) 2008 Philadelphia Sustainability Awards held Monday, March 3 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. More than a dozen “sustainability innovators” were finalists for the awards presented at a ceremony held during...
Harrisburg, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Environmental Council today urged support for a credit trading program that enables wastewater plants and farmers to get the help they need for reducing nutrients to cleanup the Chesapeake Bay watershed. “We believe that nutrient...
The University of Scranton’s newest and most environmentally friendly building will be the site of a Sustainability lecture that is linked to a national initiative on global warming. “The Climate Change Roadmap for Pennsylvania” will be the topic of discussion...
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council will make presentations about the Climate Change Roadmap for Pennsylvania at seven programs about global warming on Jan. 30 and 31 as part of Focus the Nation (FTN), a national grassroots effort to raise awareness about...
Golf courses have the potential to become more “green” – on their greens and in everything they do — if they use an interactive, on-line “Green Toolbox” that is being developed by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) and LandStudies, Inc.,...
Philadelphia, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Environmental Council was awarded $74,900 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Delaware Estuary Watershed Grants Program in support of ecological restoration along the Delaware Riverfront in Northeast Philadelphia. The Council’s project will develop plans...
Johnstown, Pa. – Brian Hill, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), will discuss how global warming could impact Pennsylvania and what Pennsylvania should be doing to address climate change Wednesday, October 17 at 7:00 p.m., in room 138...
Harrisburg, Pa. – Julie McMonagle, Director of the Northeast Regional Office of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, told the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee of its plans to expand the Cleanup Our American Lands and Streams...
Lancaster, Pa. – A unique partnership of conservation groups and local corporations is combining forces to improve water quality in the Conestoga River and address climate change globally. A forested riparian buffer was planted Saturday along a tributary to the Little...
Pennsylvania needs a more aggressive approach to global warming based on a new report that shows an alarming increase in how many miles the average person is driving, according to Brian Hill, President of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. Sprawling development...