November 8, 2007

Presentation | Bell Site Presentation
A presentation and tour was made of PPL's Susquehanna Steam Electric Station recently installed low impact stormwater management system. Installed by LandStudies, Inc, this system of engineered infiltration trenches, bioswales, and vegetative buffers is now successfully managing the 255,000 gal per inch of rainfall that comes off the facility's south parking lot and reducing the peak runoff flowrate by over 50% (on average) for each modeled rainfall event.

The presentation consisted of:

• An overview of low impact stormwater management methods

• A summary of PPL's pre-installation stormwater management / erosion issues

• A design description for PPL's new stormwater management system; benefit$ over other management approaches

• A presentation of system installation photos

Also, at this meeting, an update was given on Pennsylvania's Energy Independence Strategy and Governor Rendell's plan to cut energy costs and stimulate Pennsylvania's economy.

PPL also discussed the preserve option of building an additional nuclear generating unit.

August 16, 2007

Tobyhanna Green Roof presentation

May 16 - 18, 2007
2007 Annual PAEP Conference: The Legacy of Rachel Carson - The State of the Environment in Pennsylvania
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Pollution Prevention Energy Efficiency Track: The Pollution Prevention Energy Efficiency track provided a forum for business and industry to meet face-to-face to discuss the implementation of pollution prevention and environmental improvement programs, exchange ideas about successful and unsuccessful environmental approaches and techniques, hear about new environmental initiatives and provide input to environmental programs.

The Legacy of Rachel Carson: Kicking off the conference tracks on Thursday was a panel discussion concerning environmental history in PA, Rachel Carson’s influence and environmental issues today.

Conference keynote speaker Devra Davis: Dr. Davis’s topic at lunch on Thursday was "Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution". Dr. Davis was a National Book Award Finalist for When Smoke Ran Like Water (2002, Basic Books) - a book centered on her hometown of Donora, PA where 20 residents died from inhaling toxic fumes over the course of four days in October, 1948. Davis directs the world’s first Center on Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Visit her website at http://www.whensmokeranlikewater.com.

May 08, 2007

Lightfair 2007 in NYC

May 01, 2007

The Impact of EPAct