April 2008
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Key groups in sewage dispute make progress over funding
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Patriot News
The bitter dispute between municipalities and the state over sewage treatment plant upgrades required under a multistate pact may have finally taken a positive step. Full Story |
Stalled Immigration Reform Causes Major PA Grower To End Labor-Intensive Food Production
4/6
A bitter crop sown in climate of fear
BY LAURA LEGERE, Time Tribune
One early morning last summer, 30 migrant workers walked onto Bruce Pallman’s South Abington strawberry fields and expertly pulled weeds from the rows. At the end of the day, they returned to Keith Eckel’s Newton Township farm — their home for the six-week harvest season — and Mr. Pallman had a tidy field. Full Story
4/2
Immigration Issues End a Pennsylvania Grower’s Season
By PAUL VITELLO
CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. — As in politics, timing is everything in tomatoes.
Finding and keeping the field hands who can pick 10,000 tomatoes a day during the hot months of August and September is no less a test of organizational traction than any get-out-the-vote drive. Full story
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Farm Bureau preaches patience to drivers
Intelligencer Journal
April 24, 2008
By TOM KNAPP, Staff
An inevitable occurrence on the roads in Lancaster County each summer is an increase in the number of slow-moving farm vehicles that can bog down traffic — and cause impatient motorists to attempt reckless maneuvers while trying to pass them. Full Story |
Week is a chance to focus on rural road safety
By JIM HOOK Senior writer
Public Opinion
April 21
Karlin Lynch is running the family farm near Warfordsburg, and he is working more land than his father ever did. He is also running with as much, or more, traffic than his father ever did -- a safety issue emphasized this week during Rural Roads Safety Week. Full Story |
Immigration Stalemate Leaves PA Farmers Struggling
PBS Online NewsHour
Alexis Matsui
April 18
While the Democratic presidential candidates and the presumptive GOP nominee debate the merits of their economic and national security plans, many of Pennsylvania's agriculture workers are frustrated by the lack of attention to an issue where the three differ very little: immigrant guest workers. Full Story |
Pa. Coalition Proposes Chesapeake Bay Clean-up Plan
John Vogel
American Agriculturalist
April 14, 2008
Earlier this year, many Pennsylvania municipal waste treatment plants were put on notice that they had to clean up their act, and meet much tougher clean water standards. Instead of biting the potentially huge local tax burden, they responded by suing the Department of Environmental Protection. Full Story |
Chesapeake Bay cleanup funding request is worthy
4/13/08
Williamsport Sun Gazette
A coalition of municipal farm and conservative groups made a fair proposal to the state regarding cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Full story
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Biodiesel industry hangs on
By Jim T. Ryan
Central Penn Business Journal
4/11/2008Central Pennsylvania's biodiesel industry has a faint pulse, but it's still alive.
Producers of the alternative fuel said they've found ways to hang on for several more months in hopes that prices for raw materials will continue to drop and the state Legislature will approve subsidy bills to help the industry stay afloat until it becomes profitable.
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As Bay Deadline Looms, Coalition Says ‘The Time to Act Is Now’
Charlene M. Shupp Espenshade
Lancaster Farming
Special Sections Editor
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The clock is ticking on the Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy and many groups across Pennsylvania are starting to feel the heat. State budget cuts, problems with the nutrient trading program and the flatlining of key conservation and municipal grant programs has placed the state in a precarious situation.Full Story
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Cleanup plan offered for Chesapeake Bay
$890 million sought to fund efforts
Thursday, April 10, 2008
BY DAVID DEKOK
The Patriot-News Hoping for help from the Rendell administration, five groups with a stake in the Chesapeake Bay cleanup appealed to the Legislature on Wednesday to appropriate $890 million over seven years to help pay for the work. Full Story |
Pa. Farm Bureau urges Legislature to pass biodiesel bills
By Jim T. Ryan
Central Penn Business Journal
4/2/2008
The Pennsylvania Farm Bureau today urged the Legislature and governor to pass and sign bills that will help farmers and the state's floundering biodiesel industry. Full Story |
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