Here are 117 stories from the PA Environment Digest about hundreds of individuals, businesses, farmers, schools, local governments, students of all ages, nonprofit groups and organizations just like you honored for doing great things to protect and restore our environment in every corner of the Commonwealth during 2014.  Will we find YOU on this list in 2015?

Friends Of The Wissahickon Names Sarah West As Volunteer Of The Year

PRC West Recognized For Contribution To Clean Pittsburgh Commission

Agriculture Celebrates Recycling 1.8 Million Pounds Of Pesticide Containers

Schuylkill River Named Pennsylvania’s 2014 River Of The Year

Redbank Valley In Western PA Is 2014 Trail Of The Year

PA Volunteers Receive Top Honors At Keep America Beautiful National Conference

2014 Pennsylvania Parks & Forests Foundation Award Winners Announced

Keep PA Beautiful Receives Top Honors At National KAB Conference

Historic And Museum Commission Announces New Historic Markers

Winners Of PRC Lens On Litter Photo Contest Announced

Natural Lands Trust Lauds East Bradford Township For Open Space Initiatives

Philipsburg Water Plant Receives Presidents Award From Partnership For Safe Water

Sewickley Watershed Association Salutes Local Westmoreland Conservation Leaders

PA Parks & Forests Foundation Honors Award Winners May 6

PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Recognizes Award Winners

Andrew Heath Receives PA Recreation & Park Society Presidential Citation

DCNR Recognizes City Of Easton With Green Park Award

Liberty Property Trust Receives EPA Energy Star Partner Award

Saint-Gobain Receives Energy Star Partner Award From EPA

Moon Area H.S. Wins Can-Do Can Recycling Challenge In Allegheny County

Gov. Corbett Announces 2014 Environmental Excellence Award Winners

PA Resources Council Receives Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award

EPA: Philadelphia 9th In U.S. With Most Energy Star Green Buildings

Robindale Energy Services Earns Governor’s Award For Environmental Excellence

Jim Seif Receives Lifetime Achievement Award, Manko, Gold Wins Sustainability Award

PEC Western Pennsylvania Award Winners, Caren Glotfelty Lifetime Achievement Award

High Construction Company Wins EPA Energy Star Building Competition

York Water Company Joins Partnership For Safe Water Treatment Program

PA Resources Council Celebrates 75 Years Of Protecting The Environment

PROP: Lackawanna Elementary School Winner Of GreenSylvania Award

Gray’s Woods, Park Forest Schools Win Centre Plastic Bag Recycling Challenge

ClearWater Conservancy Honored For River Cleanup Program

Op-Ed: Sen. Ray Musto, A Legacy Of Environmental Leadership

American Farmland Trust Honors 2 Berks Ag Land Preservation Board Members

Clean Pittsburgh Commission Announces Winners Of The Bob Awards

PA Land Trust Assn. Honors Lancaster County For Commitment To Land Preservation

Caren Glotfelty Honored With 2014 PA Parks & Forests Legacy Award

Winners Of Protect Our Watersheds Art Contest Announced By PA American Water

PA American Water Announces Winners Of Stream Of Learning Scholarships

Rep. Godshall Honored By PA Chapter National Assn. Of Water Companies

DEP, DCNR Announce Bicycle Friendly Business Designation

Susquehanna Greenway Partnership Announces Photo Contest Winners

PA Wilds Partnership Honors Small Business, Individual Champions

Caren Glotfelty To Receive PA Environmental Council Lifetime Achievement Award

Phipps Center For Sustainable Landscapes Earns Net Zero Energy Certification

AMR Community Leader Jim Resh Retires From Indiana Conservation District

Northeast U.S. Forestry Group Honors DCNR Forester Mark Lewis

DEP's Logan Honored As Finalist For Financial Executive Of The Year

DEP Staff Recognized For Response to I-81 Tanker Fire & Spill

Attorney Harry Klodowski Nominated For President Of Air & Waste Management Assn.

Philadelphia Housing Authority Wins Award For Green Norris Apartments Housing

Schuylkill River Celebration Highlights PA Rivers Month Activities

Delaware County High School Team Claims State Envirothon Honors

Hershey Company Recognized For Sustainability Efforts In Newsweek Green Rankings

PA Ranks 6th In U.S. For International Coastal Cleanup Volunteers

Ephrata Water Plant Completes 3rd Phase Of Partnership For Safe Water

PA American Water Plants Among Those Receiving National Recognition

Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Sponsor Film On 50th Anniversary Of Wilderness Act

Pennsylvania Logger Wins National Logging Competition In Vermont

Sen. Solobay Congratulates Keep PA Beautiful, FITS Program For Cleanup Efforts

Keep PA Beautiful: Winners Of Great American Cleanup Of PA Video Contest

EPA’s Regina Poeski Wins Prestigious Award For Protecting Wetlands

Lancaster Receives Sustainable Community Certification From PA Municipal League

20th PA Rivers Conservation And Fly Fishing Youth Camp A Success

Franklin Kury To Receive Ralph Abele Conservation Heritage Award July 14

PROP Honors St. Hubert's High School With Waste Watcher's Award

DEP Employees Honored With Secretary’s Excellence Awards

Paddle Without Pollution Wins National Green Paddle For Conservation Award

5 Pennsylvania Farms Receive Clean Water Farm Awards

Congratulations To Bert Schwartz, 20 Years With The PA Resources Council

Special Photo Exhibit Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of Federal Wilderness Act In Warren

iConservePA.org Video: Smokey Bear’s 70th Birthday

White House, EPA Announce Winners Of Presidential Environmental Education Awards

PA Environmental Council Honors Caren Glotfelty, Sen. Ted Erickson

PA Coal Alliance Recognizes Companies Going Beyond Regulatory Standards

Historic Marker Placed For Game Commission Conservation Training School

EPA Presents President’s Environmental Youth, Environmental Ed Awards To 2 In PA

Brodhead Watershed Assn To Celebrate 25th Anniversary, Receives PPL Grant

Recyclebank Celebrates 10 Years, 1.5 Billion Pounds Of Waste Recycled In 2013

Northeast PA Environmental Partners Announce 2014 Award Winners

Westmoreland Conservation District Presents Conservation Awards

Air Products Again Recognized On Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

DEP Citizens Advisory Council Recognizes Pat Lupo, OSB Of Erie

Westmoreland Land Trust: 5 Years Of Preserving Open Space

DEP Commends Underground Mining Industry For Safety

Exelon Recognized For Corporate Sustainability Performance

EPA Awards Excellence In Site Reuse Award To Lehigh Gap Nature Center

Little Buffalo Building Honors Roger Fickes, Former State Parks Director

Pittsburgh’s Point State Park Named One Of 30 Great Places In America

EPA Honors 2 PA Manufacturers With Energy Star Award

Keep PA Beautiful Announces 2014 Tire War Champion In Central Pennsylvania

Friends Of Tom Ridge Environmental Center Honor Naturalist Jerry McWilliams

Brodhead Watershed Assn. Recognizes Monroe Conservation District Staff

PA Parks & Forest Foundation To Showcase Photo Contest Winners Nov. 12

Calvin Ernst, Ernst Conservation Seeds, Honored By Penn State, Atlantic Seed Association

Women And Their Woods Initiative Receives NE Environmental Partnership Award

Allegheny County Private Forest Owner Recognized With PA Tree Farm Of Year

Centre County Honors 60 Green Businesses, Schools And Organizations

86-Year Old Hawk Mountain Volunteer Selected As Disney Conservation Hero

EPA Names 19 2014 Green Power Leaders, 2 From Pennsylvania

PittMoss Development, LLC Honored For Innovation By PA Recycling Markets Center

Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Recognizes 8 With Environmental Awards

New Fossil Discovered By DCNR's Geologic Survey Staff

Williamsport Drinking Water Treatment Plant Earns Presidents Award

Video: Howard Zahniser Honored On 50th Anniversary Of Wilderness Act By His Son

Pick It Up, PA Public Service Announcement Wins National Award

John Dawes Recognized With Federal Office Of Surface Mining ECHO Award

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12/29/2014