by Jane Richey | Apr 25, 2013 | Agenda 21
On Friday, representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, an industry advocacy group, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will seek to reduce the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions by 25...
by Jane Richey | Apr 22, 2013 | Agenda 21
Wind energy installations almost doubled in Pennsylvania last year, but the industry still provides only about 1 percent of the state’s electricity, far behind Iowa, Texas and others. Pennsylvania now ranks 16th in the nation in wind power, with 1,430 megawatts,...
by Jane Richey | Apr 19, 2013 | Agenda 21
A conservation easement is initiated with the donation of a part of the “bundle of rights” that are normally accepted as part of ownership of all property. This benefaction, held by a public or private land conservation organization, creates an encumbrance or “deed...
by Jane Richey | Apr 19, 2013 | Agenda 21
Two Northampton County farms are among nearly 20 in the state that will be protected from development under a Department of Agriculture program, the department announced this afternoon. The Pennsylvania Agriculture Land Preservation Board said Joel and Shirley...
by Jane Richey | Apr 17, 2013 | Agenda 21
The Pennsylvania Game Commission board approved its largest land acquisition in Luzerne County in 50 years on Monday by acquiring more than 3,600 acres in Bear Creek and Buck townships. The property includes three tracts totaling 3,684 acres. Two tracts in the rural...
by Jane Richey | Apr 8, 2013 | Agenda 21
The divestment campaign began last October, when a student group, called the Brown Divest Coal Campaign, asked the university to stop investing in coal. “We believe that our university should not be profiting from an industry as dangerous and outdated as coal,...
