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Solarize Delco, a nonprofit solar education and advocacy organization serving Delaware County, has launched a community grant program to help local nonprofit organizations go solar with grants to cover 50% of the costs of installation up to $20,000 per organization.
The Defense Department has stopped once-routine reviews that even wind projects on private land need to pass, jeopardizing a power source that could help meet skyrocketing demand.
Two new walking trails have opened this spring in Delaware County and a 7.2 mile “cycling corridor” along Chester Pike will be opened May 30 to add to the county’s inventory of opportunities to get out of our cars and into the great outdoors.
Join hundreds of concerned Pennsylvanians virtually on Thursday, May 28, for Pennsylvania’s largest annual citizen lobby day for a cleaner future! The best part is, you don’t have to travel to Harrisburg, you can do it right from your couch.
The Brandywine Conservancy, which owns the Brandywine Museum of Art where the Wyeth family’s paintings are on permanent exhibit, has announced a $100 million expansion that will include a second museum, hundreds of acres of new public gardens and 10 miles of walking and biking trails.
MIPC LLC, which operates the Chelsea aviation fuel tank farm in Aston, has temporarily relocated a Bethel family living near the farm’s western fenceline due to “vapor intrusion” into the house. It is evaluating a second home for the same issue.
CRCQL announces its 6th annual ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DAY MARCH & Caravan, happening THIS Saturday May 2 at 11:30AM. Caravan means those of you who cannot walk the 2.5-mile march route can drive in your cars behind the marchers.
The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Green Amendments For the Generations have filed a petition to intervene in a lawsuit the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has brought against the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The DHS brought the suit after DEP notified ICE that it could not operate two large warehouse facilities in Berks and Schuylkill Counties as immigrant detention centers without making needed modifications and securing multiple state and local approvals to address concerns about drinking water, wastewater, environmental, health, safety, and fire suppression.
The state House has passed two bills intended to help the state and local governments grapple with the impacts of data centers, as communities across the commonwealth continue to deal with the proliferation of the sprawling computer farms.
