{"id":24,"date":"2015-11-02T21:32:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T21:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2016-04-03T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T17:14:57","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Over two hundred <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Pennsylvania college and university students will attend the PA Power Dialog to engage in meaningful dialog with state regulators, legislators and peers about the federal Clean Power Plan and its implementation in Pennsylvania. The Dialog is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagreencolleges.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">PERC<\/a>) and organized by a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/planning-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">planning team<\/a> that includes Dickinson College, Millersville University, Penn State University, Ursinus College, Villanova University and Widener University School of Law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>When<\/strong><\/span>: Monday, April 4th, 2016, 9:00 am &#8211; 4:00 pm <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Where<\/strong><\/span>: State Museum of\u00a0Pennsylvania, 300 North Street, Harrisburg, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Who&#8217;s Coming<\/strong><\/span>: 200+ students and faculty from Allegheny College, Bucknell University, Dickinson College, Elizabethtown College, Gettysburg College, Messiah College, Millersville University, Moravian College, Penn State University, Shippensburg University, Susquehanna University, Swarthmore College, Ursinus College and Widener University Commonwealth Law School.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The <strong>Clean Power Plan<\/strong> is a set of new rules established\u00a0by the US EPA in August 2015 for electric power plants that are\u00a0designed to reduce climate changing carbon emissions. \u00a0The Plan allows each state, including Pennsylvania, flexibility to establish its own implementation plan for meeting\u00a0the federal standards. The PA DEP is in the process of developing a State Implementation Plan for Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/draft-program\/\">program<\/a> will include a keynote talk by DEP Secretary John Quigley, student panels to share student work and viewpoints, a panel of state regulators and legislators to discuss opportunities and challenges for implementing the Clean Power Plan, and small group roundtable discussions. A variety of educational resources are provided <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/pa-teaching-resources\/\">here<\/a> for participants to prepare themselves for a productive dialog.<\/p>\n<p>Participation is open to students who are enrolled in a participating course at a PA college or university, or are members of a participating student group. To learn how your course or student group can participate, go <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/to-participate\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The PA Power Dialog is one of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/overview-2\/\">a number of state-wide dialogs<\/a> being coordinated by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over two hundred Pennsylvania college and university students will attend the PA Power Dialog to engage in meaningful dialog with state regulators, legislators and peers about the federal Clean Power Plan and its implementation in Pennsylvania. The Dialog is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) and organized by a planning team that includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1611,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/papowerdialog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}