| Pennsylvania is a crossroads state, the northern | | | | increasingly scarce resource. And the only way to |
| side of the Mason-Dixon line. Philadelphia, in the | | | | keep the greens green is with kilos of toxic |
| east, is part of the sprawling Northeast Atlantic | | | | chemicals. The Pennsylvania Department of |
| Coast megalopolis which runs from DC to Boston. | | | | Environmental Protection recently directed one of |
| On the West, Pittsburgh is part of the so-called | | | | the state's most prominent environmental |
| Rust Belt, the Industrial Midwest. In between is an | | | | groups-the Pennsylvania Environmental Council-to |
| expansive agricultural zone, home to the Amish as | | | | produce a guide for green golf course |
| well as much of this country's agriculture. | | | | development and maintenance, a survey released |
| Environmental concerns have increased in | | | | this month to the public. |
| Pennsylvania along with the rest of the United | | | | With input from an environmental consultant, the |
| States, and auto recycling and salvage is a | | | | guide promises to be of use to local government |
| significant component of all that. Here's the latest | | | | and green-minded course developers around the |
| environmental and recycling news from the | | | | country. Among its most valuable ideas is the use |
| Quaker State. | | | | of native vegetation to reduce water usage, a |
| Recycling Improves in Pittsburgh | | | | strategy used by homeowners everywhere now. |
| The famous steel city, Pittsburgh has made the | | | | They also outline ways to preserving floodplains, |
| jump from heavy industry to high tech-some of | | | | streams, creeks and other watershed areas |
| the most innovative technology in the world | | | | often damaged by courses. |
| comes from Western PA's big city and its | | | | Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor Passes |
| universities. Still, despite all this invention and | | | | Environmental Review |
| creativity, Pittsburgh has been somewhat behind | | | | Three Mile Island has been synonymous with |
| in terms of recycling. The Pennsylvania Resources | | | | nuclear disaster ever since a partial meltdown in |
| Council aims to change that. | | | | 1979 created the nation's closest nuclear power |
| The PRC is a longstanding environmental | | | | close call. No new nuclear plants have opened |
| organization in Ohio, one of the state's biggest | | | | since, though several have begun construction in |
| advocates for recycling and other ecological | | | | recent years. With new management, the |
| programs. They have recently deployed a | | | | environmental activist bugaboo still operates |
| program to simplify and promote recycling in the | | | | today. |
| city called "Zero Waste Pittsburgh." Among the | | | | As part of the renewal process of its 20 year |
| most innovative features: recycling audits for | | | | permit, the plant submitted to an environmental |
| businesses and homeowners, and recycling for | | | | review from the federal Nuclear Regulatory |
| common hazardous materials like Cathode Ray | | | | Commission this year, and was given a clean bill of |
| Tube monitors and TVs, other electronics and | | | | health this month. The permitting process rolls |
| compact fluorescent light bulbs. | | | | along, expected to be finished by the time their |
| State, Activists Join Forces to Turn Golf Green | | | | current permit expires in 2014, but Pennsylvania |
| Golf courses have been anathema to | | | | residents are glad to know things are safer at |
| environmental activists for years. The sprawling | | | | Three Mile Island. |
| links consume inordinate levels of water, an | | | | |