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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB/QB: BNET) announced today that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) issued a final and full Water Quality Management Permit for Bion's micro-aerobic livestock waste treatment facility located at the Kreider Dairy Farm in Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The full WQMP replaces the 'Water Quality Management Experimental Permit' issued by the PA DEP to Bion prior...
NEW YORK, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB/QB: BNET) today announced that PA Senate Bill 1263 Section 1764F has been included in the budget recently signed by Governor Tom Corbett. The fiscal code amendment calls for "a review of the cost, environmental, recreational and public health and safety impact and other benefits realized by the Commonwealth and Municipalities from reductions of water quality impairment from nutrients in major...
NEW YORK, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB/QB: BNET) announced today that on Friday, June 1, the Company proposed to the Pennsylvania Nutrient Trading Stakeholder Group an alternative to the current strategy of sector-allocated nitrogen reductions to meet EPA Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements. Based on the recent RTI International analysis, Nutrient Credit Trading for the Chesapeake Bay: An Economic Study, prepared for the...
NEW YORK, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB/QB: BNET) announced today that its Vice Chairman, Ed Schafer, former US Secretary of Agriculture and two-term Governor of North Dakota, and Ron Kreider, CEO of Kreider Farms, were guest speakers at a press conference held by the Healthy Waters Coalition and the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) on March 6, 2012. Video of the entire conference is available on YouTube (all...
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The state departments of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, in collaboration with American Farmland Trust (AFT), plan to celebrate the partnership that has led to nutrient reductions for the Chesapeake Bay watershed. AFT will host an event to donate to DEP and the Department of Agriculture 4,023 nitrogen credits earned by five farmers from Lancaster, Clinton and Northumberland counties who participated in AFT's Best Management...
UMD Study Advises State on Creation of 'Nutrient Trading Market'Financially rewarding farmers for using the best fertilizer management practices can simultaneously benefit water quality and help combat climate change, finds a new study by the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER).The researchers conclude that setting up a "trading market," where farmers earn financial incentives for investing in eco-friendly techniques, would result in a...
Despite Significant Progress, State Acknowledges More Work is Ahead HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger today stressed the state's commitment to help restore the Chesapeake Bay, saying looming federal pollution reduction requirements necessitate a workable, cost-effective plan to meet these challenges, which his department has prepared. "To be sure, Pennsylvania has reduced the amount of pollution we're putting...
NEW YORK, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has published a policy memorandum titled "Nutrient Trading --The Missed Opportunity." The document is available on the Company's website at: http://bionpa.com/docs/Nutrient%20Trading%20&%20Cost%20Containment-Sept%202010.pdf. This memorandum demonstrates that the Susquehanna watershed is unique in several critical ways: Its excess nitrogen loading derives primarily from livestock waste...
KINGWOOD, Texas, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Envirogen Technologies, Inc. (Envirogen) announced today that system construction has begun under a contract with the Borough of Ashland (Ashland, Penn.) to design and deliver a fluidized-bed bioreactor (FBR) system for nutrient removal at the Borough's wastewater treatment plant. Funded in part by an Innovative Technologies grant under the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (PA-DEP) "Growing Greener" program, the new system will...
Conservation District, Government Leaders Will Offer Tips on Nutrient Trading HARRISBURG, Pa., April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A webinar to be held from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Friday, April 16, will provide producers and business leaders with information about Pennsylvania's nutrient trading program and other conservation practices. "Each of us has a shared responsibility to protect Pennsylvania's natural resources as well as the national treasure in our backyard - the Chesapeake Bay,"...
