Montrell, a candidate in the Elect To Conserve special election on www.iConservePA.org wants to protect water quality in Pennsylvania.

The Miller Family farm in Adams County takes its responsibility to protect its watershed and the Chesapeake Bay seriously by installing best management practices to prevent nutrients and sediments running off the land.

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The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay announcedCindy Adams Dunn, a Deputy Secretary with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, isthis year's winner of its Environmental Leadership Award. The award is given each year in honor of Fran Flanigan, former executive director of the Alliance.

The PA Land Trust Association is now accepting workshop proposals for the 2009 annual Pennsylvania Land Conservation Conference to be held May 7-9 in State College. The conference theme is "Connecting Communities To Creeks."

The York and Adams County Conservation Districts are offering their residents 55, 60 or 80 gallon rain barrels to help protect watersheds by reducing the amount of stormwater getting into local streams.

The Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania Municipal Committee is sponsoring two meetings-- one in Pittsburgh on October 20 and one in the east in Wrightsville on October 31 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Both meetings will be held in Certified Green buildings with building tours included in the day’s events.

The Commonwealth Finance Agency this week approved grants and loans to support Pennsylvania's agriculture industry and tourism.

The Department of Environmental Protection this week announced the formation of two stakeholder groups to help the agency develop the grant and financial assistance programs for businesses and consumers adopted in July as part of Special Session House Bill 1 (DePasquale-D-York).

To honor Child Health Day, U.S. EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection and Environmental Education is launching a campaign to educate middle and high school students about climate change, its effects on children’s health, and actions teens can take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and become Climate Ambassadors in their communities.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced new additions to its Climate Leaders Program this week, including one Pennsylvania company--EmpireCLSi n Philadelphia.

The Public Utility Commission announced it will hold a special en banc hearing focused on the current and future wholesale electricity markets on October 23 in Hearing Room 1, Keystone Building, Harrisburg starting at 12:30 p.m.

Over 600 students in grades K through 12 across the Commonwealth tapped into their creativity and designed posters that spread the word about the importance of renewable energy.

A new PPL Utilities landfill gas-to-energy generation facility was approved this week by the Department of Environmental Protection.

The federal Economic Stimulus Bill HR1424, more commonly referred to as "The Bailout," brought with it incentives for renewable energy production that will have apositive impact on the deployment of biomass and waste-to-energy conversiontechnologies.

Gov. Rendell will convene a statewide summit of local government, community, religious, labor and volunteer leaders on October 14 to develop strategies to help Pennsylvanians stretch their heating resources so that they can stay warm all winter.

The Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center will host an Agricultural Plastics Economic Development Forum on November 6 in Harrisburg, with support from the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollutinon Control and Conservation Committee.

Results of collaborative research on Pennsylvania's Deer Management Program conducted by the Game Commission and U.S. Geological Survey’s Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Pennsylvania StateUniversity were recently published in the scientific journalsBehavioral EcologyandThe Journal of Wildlife Management.

The Fish and Boat Commission Board voted this week to pursue acquisition of three properties in Erie County in order to enhance public fishing opportunities..

The 38th North American Symposium on Bat Research will be held in Scranton on October 22-25 and will feature a teacher education workshop on the final day of the Conference.

Homeowners can help protect themselves from the expected record-high heating costs this winter by inspecting their home heating equipment and by following simple, effective energy conservation measures, according to the Department of Environmental Protection.

On October 4 the Dauphin County Conservation District, in partnership with the Wiconisco Creek Restoration Association, conducted a half-day tour of the Wiconisco Creek watershed in upper Dauphin County to show off the accomplishments of dedicated volunteers and agencies.