Delaware County Environmental Clearinghouse
Welcome to the Delaware County Environmental Clearinghouse. This website, sponsored and operated by the League of Women Voters of Delaware County, provides information about environmental matters in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Contact us.
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Featured Stories
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Environmental justice communities press Feds over $3 billion in stalled funding
Plaintiffs are continuing to press the Trump administration in federal court to restore $3 billion in grant funding for environmental and climate justice programs that would benefit underserved communities, as a Sept. 30 deadline nears.
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Good News: Drought Watch ends in Delco
Due to above average rainfall in the last three months, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has upgraded Delaware County from “drought watch” to “normal.” Three other counties were also upgraded to normal and six counties, including Chester County, were upgraded from “warning” to “watch.”
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Father of PA Constitution’s environmental rights amendment dies at 89
On August 16, 2026, former state Sen. Franklin L. Kury, author of the Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution, passed away at the age of 89. The amendment guarantees the people of Pennsylvania the right to clean air, pure water and preservation of natural, scenic and historic sites.
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Upper Darby approves comprehensive lead remediation ordinance
Upper Darby Township has passed a comprehensive ordinance creating a Lead Poisoning Prevention and Lead Hazard Control program to reduce childhood lead exposure in the township’s older housing. The ordinance addresses lead-based paint hazards in properties built before 1978 when lead-based paint was banned in the United States.
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Delco data center proposed for Trainer, Lower Chi
A commercial real estate developer is looking at a 24-acre site at the Congoleum plant in Trainer and Lower Chichester for a possible data center, the first time a proposed center has come up in Delaware County since data centers became controversial due to environmental and electric grid concerns.
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Gov. Shapiro signs data center executive order but critics say it falls short
Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order that makes his voluntary guardrails for data centers mandatory. The new order distances the governor from project developers after months of mounting pressure to take action. “Starting today, (artificial intelligence) data center developers who want to do business in our commonwealth must respect our communities and abide by these stringent requirements,” Shapiro said. “And if they can’t agree to do that, well, they should stop considering Pennsylvania a home for their project.”
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Mozino developer willing to sell in ‘ballpark’ of $8 million
Rockwell Development Group owner Greg Lingo told the Upper Darby Township Council and a group of about 140 residents Wednesday night that he would be willing to sell the 15-acre woodland to the township and conservationists for “in the ballpark of $8 million.”
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Organization of the Month: Radnor EAC focuses on native plants, bees and butterflies
The Radnor Township Environmental Council is focusing this year on promoting native plants and encouraging residents to plant milkweed to nurture monarch butterflies, a very endangered species, as well as on various energy projects.
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Mozino Tract defenders call for Upper Darby Council to save the 15-acre forest
About 60 Upper Darby residents turned out to a public forum Aug. 3 to demand that the township council reject a mixed- use zoning ordinance that would permit the development of 143 housing units on the last undeveloped, forested area in Upper Darby.
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DEP: I-95 industrial corridor air quality wasn’t bad from January to May
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Delaware County Planning Department representatives reported that air particulate matter pollution was fairly low along the I-95 industrial corridor from January to May of this year.
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Concern persists as former Three Mile Island nuclear plant progresses toward 2027 restart
The former Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County is meeting milestones in its relicensing process and on track to begin producing electricity again by the middle of next year, federal regulators said. But many residents raised questions during a recent public meeting about emergency preparedness and environmental reviews,
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Tech giants, not grassroots groups, behind pro-data center ads running in PA
The 30-second ads, which feature B-roll of a family cooking together, a nurse and a business owner, are a near-carbon copy of ads playing across TV and social media in at least six other states. They all attempt to counter common critiques of data centers, including their enormous demand for water, energy, land and relatively low levels of job creation compared to the tax breaks they receive.
Events
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Latest News
What happened to Pennsylvania’s hydrogen hubs? — PA Capital-Star 10-15-26
Trump trying to stop new offshore wind farm already up and running — Canary Media 10-15-26
Residents in North Central PA fighting to revive Tioga River, nearly dead from 200 years of mine runoff — Capital & Main 10-12-26
Lycoming data center fight focuses on PA Constitution’s environmental amendment — PA Capital Star 10-05-26
Trump Administration is revamping rules to make it easier to build nuclear power plants — Canary Media 09-30-26
Take Action
Listing of an action alert here does not imply endorsement by the League of Women Voters.
Urgent: Ask your state senators to vote yes on HB 2380: only a few legislative days left — Sierra Club
Comment now on proposed repeal of roadless rule in national forests — Sierra Club
Tell Congress to pass the Big Oil Profits Tax Act — League of Conservation Voters
Save the birds too – many species disappearing — Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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