Stephanie
Wein
Water and Conservation Advocate, PennEnvironment
Started on staff: 2011
B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Skidmore College
Stephanie helps run PennEnvironment’s Clean Water and Conservation programs, working on campaigns to get lead out of drinking water, defend the Clean Water Act and protect our pollinators. Stephanie lives in Philadelphia, where she enjoys cycling and cooking.
Posts by Stephanie Wein
Pennsylvania State House passes bipartisan measure to protect state’s wildlife habitat
On Tuesday the Pennsylvania House voted to 129-72 pass House Resolution 87. This bipartisan resolution will help to protect Pennsylvania's critical animal habitats and determine the location of wildlife corridors.
Release: Bipartisan effort to protect wildlife habitat introduced in Pennsylvania State House
STATEMENT on Sunday, March 26th bottled water advisory in Philadelphia
Risks to Philly drinking water show hazards of industrial water pollution
New report outlines key ways to reconnect nature through wildlife corridors
PHILADELPHIA -- As biodiversity in Pennsylvania and around the globe continues to decline, a new report highlights key projects that are working to reconnect nature through “wildlife corridors.” The report from PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center offers examples of how human-made barriers that hinder species migration and travel can be modified to allow animals to safely traverse through natural corridors between habitats, and could be replicated here in Pennsylvania. The report comes as a bipartisan measure to connect habitat awaits action in the Pennsylvania legislature. At the federal level, the recent passage of the “INVEST in America Act” (HR 3684) by Congress would provide the funds to build overpasses and tunnels so that wildlife can cross roads. The case studies in this report could be replicated in Pennsylvania