by Earth Conservancy | May 7, 2016 | Community, Education, Greenspace
Earth Conservancy was pleased to receive a environmental education grant for $2,996 from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to assist in development of its wayside exhibit at the Askam Borehole AMD Treatment System. Design work is already...
by Earth Conservancy | May 6, 2016 | Community, Education
Earth Conservancy had the chance to talk about its work to mitigate acid mine drainage on Friday, May 6th, with hundreds of students at Dr. David W. Kistler Elementary School in Wilkes-Barre. Check out some of the excellent AMD-inspired poems they put...
by Earth Conservancy | Apr 29, 2016 | Community, Education
Despite the damp and the chill, hundreds of area students turned out to celebrate Earth Day along the Susquehanna in Nesbitt Park on April 29, 2016. At EC’s station, we discussed our ongoing work to treat acid mine drainage in local waterways –...
by Earth Conservancy | Sep 9, 2015 | Reclamation
On September 9, 2015, Earth Conservancy hosted a press event to announce $400,000 in Brownfields Cleanup grant awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for reclamation of Bliss Bank, Phase II. On hand was the EPA Regional Administrator Shawn Garvin, as...
by Earth Conservancy | Aug 19, 2015 | Community, Education, Greenspace
This August, Earth Conservancy received a $1,200 AML/AMD Reclamation award from ARIPPA to help support the development of a wayside exhibit at its Askam Borehole AMD Treatment System in Hanover Township. The project will work with staff from EPCAMR and students from...
