{"id":126370,"date":"2024-01-05T20:21:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T01:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126370"},"modified":"2024-01-05T20:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T01:21:22","slug":"freeman-announces-175000-environmental-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126370","title":{"rendered":"Freeman announces $175,000 environmental grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, Jan. 5 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The Wildlands Conservancy today was awarded a $175,000 Growing Greener grant by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, announced state Rep. Robert Freeman.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will be used for a dam removal and stream restoration project on the Bushkill Creek in the City of Easton in Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCleaning up Pennsylvania\u2019s streams and rivers requires strategic, collaborative community efforts at multiple levels. Achieving a collective impact is the essential role Growing Greener projects play,\u201d said Freeman, D-Northampton.<\/p>\n<p>Established over 25 years ago, Growing Greener remains the largest single investment of state funds in Pennsylvania&#8217;s history to address Pennsylvania&#8217;s critical environmental concerns of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Growing Greener has helped to slash the backlog of farmland-preservation projects statewide; protect open space; eliminate the maintenance backlog in state parks; clean up abandoned mines and restore watersheds; provide funds for recreational trails and local parks; help communities address land use; and provide new and upgraded water and sewer systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nTom Andrews<br \/>\nHouse Democratic Communications Office<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Jan. 5 \u2013\u00a0The Wildlands Conservancy today was awarded a $175,000 Growing Greener grant by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, announced state Rep. Robert Freeman. The funding will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freeman announces $175,000 environmental grant<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Freeman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}