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EPCAMR Awarded PennEast Community Connector Grant to Develop Underground Mine Map Prints for Wyoming Valley Municipalities

The PennEast Pipeline Company, LLC, out of Wyomissing, PA, awarded EPCAMR a $5,000 grant through the Community Connector Grant Program based on our recent application for funding to conduct a Wyoming Valley Underground Mine Mapping Education and Outreach Program for local municipalities, focusing on those downstream of the proposed pipeline project.…

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ARIPPA- Outstanding AMR Community Member Offers Grants through the Coalitions

By Anne Daymut, Watershed Coordinator-WPCAMR and Robert Hughes, EPCAMR Executive Director Organized in 1988 ARIPPA is a nonprofit association representing alternative energy generating plants that collectively produce between 3-5% of the electricity in the Pennsylvania-West Virginia region. For over two decades, coal refuse, has been used by ARIPPA member plants…

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