{"id":143364,"date":"2022-08-01T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/better-parks-cleaner-rivers-how-pa-will-spend-a-generational-765-million-for-conservation-and-environmental-programs"},"modified":"2022-08-01T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:24:18","slug":"better-parks-cleaner-rivers-how-pa-will-spend-a-generational-765-million-for-conservation-and-environmental-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/better-parks-cleaner-rivers-how-pa-will-spend-a-generational-765-million-for-conservation-and-environmental-programs","title":{"rendered":"Better parks, cleaner rivers: How Pa. will spend a \u2018generational\u2019 $765 million for conservation and environmental programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/better-parks-cleaner-rivers-how-pa-will-spend-a-generational-765-million-for-conservation-and-environmental-programs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the state budget passed last week, Pennsylvania\u2019s conservation programs will receive a one-time, pandemic-related federal booster shot of $765 million for state parks, forests, streams, open space, farms, and home energy efficiency \u2014 an amount one environmental advocate called \u201cgenerational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The funding means three new state parks, one possibly in the Philadelphia region, as well as a new ATV park, though locations haven\u2019t been announced. The money, which is in addition to regular yearly budget funding, comes from the <a data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/american-rescue-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Rescue Plan<\/a> Act (ARPA), a $1.9 trillion federal economic stimulus bill signed by President Joe Biden last year as part of COVID-19 relief.<\/p>\n<p>The ARPA funds, combined with an additional $56 million from the state\u2019s Oil and Gas Lease Fund, and a $12 billion state surplus, mean that agencies routinely faced with declining or stagnant spending plans are suddenly getting a big lift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the state budget passed last week, Pennsylvania\u2019s conservation programs will receive a one-time, pandemic-related federal booster shot of $765 million for state parks, forests, streams, open space, farms, and home energy efficiency \u2014 an amount one environmental advocate called \u201cgenerational.\u201d The funding means three new state parks, one possibly in the Philadelphia region, as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}