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Allentown Joins 51 Counties, Cities, Towns Calling For Renewal Of Growing Greener
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The Renew Growing Greener Coalition this week applauded the City of Allentown for supporting a resolution calling for the renewal of Growing Greener, the state’s primary source of funding to help local communities preserve open space and farmland, protect water quality, provide parks and recreation, and clean up abandoned mines. Growing Greener is a bipartisan program established in 1999 under Gov. Tom Ridge and later expanded by Govs. Schweiker and Rendell.
Since its establishment, Growing Greener has created a tremendous legacy of success, preserving more than 25,000 acres of Pennsylvania’s family farmland, conserving more than 21,000 acres of threatened open space, adding 26,000 acres to state parks and forests, and restoring over 16,000 acres of abandoned mine lands.
This list of the 52 local governments passing resolutions supporting the renewal of Growing Greener are in addition to the 190 organizations in the Coalition:
-- Cities: Allentown joins the City of Philadelphia, Carbondale;
-- Counties: Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Philadelphia, Pike, Somerset, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Washington, Westmoreland and Wyoming;
-- Townships: Athens Township, Bradford County, Benton Township, Lackawanna County, Covington Township, Lackawanna County, Elmhurst Township, Lackawanna County, Franklin Township, Chester County, Glenburn Township, Lackawanna County, Greenfield Township, Lackawanna County, Hamilton Township, Monroe County, New Milford Township, Susquehanna County, North Coventry Township, Chester County, Noxen Township, Wyoming County, Radnor Township, Delaware County, Ransom Township, Lackawanna County, Salford Township, Montgomery County, Scott Township, Lackawanna County, Spring Brook, Lackawanna County, Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Thornhurst Township, Lackawanna County, Troy Township, Bradford County;
-- Boroughs: Apollo Borough, Armstrong County, Archbald Borough, Lackawanna County, Athens Borough, Bradford County, Clarks Summit Borough, Lackawanna County, Jessup Borough, Lackawanna County, Moscow Borough, Lackawanna County, New Milford Borough, Susquehanna County, Nicholson Borough, Wyoming County, Rome Borough, Bradford County, Stroudsburg Borough, Monroe County, Taylor Borough, Lackawanna County, Tunkhannock Borough, Wyoming County; and
-- SEDA COG Council of Governments.
For more information, visit the Renew Growing Greener website.
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4/11/2011 |
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