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PA Environment Digest Blog – Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful seeks volunteers to participate in Pick Up Pennsylvania as a way to celebrate National Public Lands Day September 26.  Traditionally, National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest single-day volunteer effort, meant to encourage environmental stewardship and build connections

ABC 17 – DAUPHIN COUNTY, PA (WPMT) — Dozens of people donned gloves and grabbed trash bags in efforts to keep Pennsylvania beautiful on Sunday for the second annual City Island & Susquehanna River Clean-up. The event aimed to teach younger generations to take care of their

Fox 43 – DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — Dozens of people donned gloves and grabbed trash bags in efforts to keep Pennsylvania beautiful on Sunday for the second annual City Island & Susquehanna River Clean-up. The event aimed to teach younger generations to take care of their environment. 

New Castle News – About 70 tires were collected from the banks and shallows of the Mahoning River in Lawrence County Saturday during a cleanup by the Friends of the Mahoning River.  The effort focused on a stream section between the Beyond Corporation LLC boat access area

WITF Live Inspired – Litter along Pennsylvania highways and in rural communities is a persistent problem that mars the state’s natural beauty and costs taxpayers millions of dollars.  A Pennsylvania Litter Research Study published in February by the Department of Environmental Protection and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation estimated

Trib Live – A new barge to collect trash on Pittsburgh rivers, Plastic Magnet 1, removed 82 tires and more than 4,800 pounds of plastic and other trash from the the Monongahela River during a recent river cleanup. Allegheny CleanWays is midway through a two-week sweep of

Connect FM – Pennsylvania – Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful is offering supplemental learning tools for in-class, virtual or homeschoolers through their Open Your Eyes to Litter series of five books. The books provide hands-on learning and are appropriate for grades K through six. Each book addresses the PA

PA Environment Digest Blog – Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful is offering supplemental learning tools for in-class, virtual or homeschoolers through their Open Your Eyes to Litter series of five books. The books provide hands-on learning and are appropriate for grades K through six.  Each book addresses the Department of

Penn Live Patriot News – After canceling its signature Pick Up Pennsylvania litter removal program in the spring in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful has relaunched the effort for the fall. But cautions and restrictions remain, and the organization is encouraging participants to observe local,

Next Pittsburgh -Pittsburgh officials and a local nonprofit are working together to aggressively tackle illegal dumping in the city. On Wednesday, a Pittsburgh City Council standing committee green-lighted a pact to allow Allegheny CleanWays to remove debris from chronic dumping sites that plague city neighborhoods. Under the measure,