Below, see a note from Jeff Dewey at PA DEP regarding this year’s funding announcement for the Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program. This year’s boundaries have been expanded to include portions of the Chesapeake Bay in Pennsylvania.
For the purposes of the CELCP program, Pennsylvania has included three sub-watersheds: namely, the Lower Susquehanna Watershed [...]
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CELCP funding program expands its boundaries
Nearly $1 billion diverted from environmental programs in 7 years
The folks at PA Environment Digest put together some stunning numbers on PA’s conservation budget over the past 7 years.
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From PA Environment Digest
$980 Million Diverted, Cut From Environmental Programs Over Last 7 Years
With the budget for 2009-10 now finalized we can now total up the score for environmental programs and it is not pretty– [...]
Stimulus funding for water infrastructure projects
Many of you are aware that the federal stimulus funding bill – The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) – includes provisions for improving energy use and supporting green building. But did you also know that it provides $4 billion to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and $2 billion to the Drinking Water [...]
