{"id":11754,"date":"2014-04-23T08:10:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T12:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=11754"},"modified":"2014-04-23T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T16:24:26","slug":"state-announces-environmental-education-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=11754","title":{"rendered":"State announces environmental education grants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recipients include\u00a0the Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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\"Screen<\/a>HARRISBURG \u2013 Gov. Tom Corbett announced on Tuesday, April 22, that he is awarding $309,626 in environmental education grants to 111 schools, universities, nonprofit organizations, and conservation districts across Pennsylvania, including seven grants totaling more than $18,000 in Chester County.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach year, these grants are awarded to deserving organizations to educate Pennsylvanians about important environmental issues,\u201d Corbett said. \u201cTheir work plays in integral role in the preservation and enhancement of Pennsylvania\u2019s air, land and water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Grant recipients will use the funding for various initiatives, including farm field days, summer camps, exploratory learning activities, professional development and explanatory signage along watersheds. Through these initiatives, students, teachers, farmers and others will learn about a variety of environmental issues ranging from pollination, stormwater management, and hydroponics in agriculture, to Marcellus Shale and the Chesapeake Bay, among other topics, a news release from the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said.<\/p>\n

The Chester County recipients are the\u2028 Downingtown Area School District, \u00a0$3,000; the Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County, $3,000; \u2028Green Valleys Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Inc., $2,882; \u2028Urban and Rural Science Alliance, Inc., $2,975; \u2028Pennsbury Historic Preservation, Inc., $2,970; \u00a0\u2028Great Valley Nature Center, $2,500; and the \u2028Owen J. Roberts School District, $1,207.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese projects will use proven best management practices to educate Pennsylvanians about their environment,\u201d DEP Secretary E. Christopher Abruzzo said. \u201cFunding environmental education initiatives is an important part of fulfilling DEP\u2019s mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

The grant program was established by the Environmental Education Act of 1993, which mandates setting aside five percent of the pollution fines and penalties DEP collects annually for environmental education in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

For more information about environmental education, visit\u00a0www.dep.state.pa.us<\/a>\u00a0and click \u201cEnvironmental Education,\u201d or call 717-772-1828.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Recipients include\u00a0the Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County HARRISBURG \u2013 Gov. Tom Corbett announced on Tuesday, April 22, that he is awarding $309,626 in environmental education grants to 111 schools, universities, nonprofit organizations, and conservation districts across Pennsylvania, including seven grants totaling more than $18,000 in Chester County. \u201cEach year, these grants are awarded to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,4481,4023,4482,483,4483,1656,4484,4485],"class_list":["post-11754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-dep-secretary-e-christopher-abruzzo","tag-downingtown-area-school-district","tag-environmental-education-act-of-1993","tag-gov-tom-corbett","tag-green-valleys-association-of-southeastern-pennsylvania","tag-inc","tag-pennsbury-historic-preservation","tag-the-land-conservancy-for-southern-chester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}