Here are NewsClips from around the state on all environmental topics, including General Environment, Budget, Marcellus Shale, Watershed Protection and much more-- 

Op-Ed: DEP Needs Strong Leader

Air

8 Facts About Gas Industry’s Air Pollution

DEP, Shell Share Air Quality Plans For Shell Ethane Plant

Study Connects Emission Cuts To Reduction Of Early Deaths

Budget

Industry Warns Of Negative Impacts From Wolf’s Severance Tax

Rep. Harper Talks About Her Severance Tax Proposal For Pensions

Butler Candidates Differ Over Severance Tax, Drilling Fee

Op-Ed: Sever Wolf’s Natural Gas Severance Tax

Op-Ed: Fish & Boat Commission Seeking Tax Revenue

Independent Budget Report Contains Good Short-Term News

PA Fiscal Outlook Better For Now

Wolf: Revenue Surge Doesn’t Affect His Budget Recipe

Sen. Ward To Serve As Interim Appropriations Chair

Sen. Browne To Face Drunk-Driving Charge In Crash

Economic Development

Riverfront Parks Contribute To Boom In Development

Energy

Wolf’s Pick For PUC Chair Will Promote Energy-Savings

New PUC Chair Studied Law At Pitt

HBG Resident Named Chair Of PUC

PUC Enacts Gift Ban

Swarthmore Chooses Not To Divest From Fossil Fuel

FracFocus Upgrades Data On Oil & Gas Operations

Casey To Press For Safer Oil Train Railcars

Pipeline Expansion Could Bring More Shale Gas To Philly

Caverns Under Marcus Hook Refinery Take On New Importance

Special Parking Space For Electric Vehicles In Philly

2nd Electric Company Settles Polar Vortex Billing Claims

Philly Electric Supplier Gouged Users

Deadline Coming To Air Concerns About PPL Transmission Line

Supreme Court To Review Electricity Market Efficiency Rule

Feds To Review Malfunctions At Three Mile Island

Bloomberg: Decommissioning Old Nuclear Power Plants

Westinghouse Delivers 200 Tons Of Reactor Components

Talks Heat Up For 500 Talen Jobs In Allentown

PECO Energy Speeds Replacement Of Aging Natural Gas Lines

Forests

Brush Fire Risk High In Eastern PA, New Jersey

Large Brush Fire Sparks Near Campbell’s Ledge

Volunteers Battle Hemlock Wooly Adelgid

NE Crews Battle Brush Fires Throughout Region

Oil & Gas

Study: Trace Amounts Of Drilling Fluid Found In Water Wells

Study Links Foam In Water Wells To Shale Well Sites

Study Links Gas Drilling To Water Contamination In NE PA

Editorial: Fracking Must Never Cost Safe, Clean Water

DEP Oil & Gas Rule On Noise Pleases None

Industry Warns Of Negative Impacts From Wolf’s Severance Tax

Butler Candidates Differ Over Severance Tax, Drilling Fee

Op-Ed: Sever Wolf’s Natural Gas Severance Tax

John Baer: Campaign Giving Is A Gas, Gas, Gas

8 Facts About Gas Industry’s Air Pollution

DEP, Shell Share Air Quality Plans For Shell Ethane Plant

Most Welcome, Some Question Plans For Shell Cracker Plant

Most Welcome, Some Question Shell Ethane Plant

Op-Ed: Regulate Methane In Pennsylvania

In The Marcellus God Rush, Accidents Will Happen

The Monster Beneath The Marcellus Shale

State OKs Permits For Natural Gas Power Plant In Westmoreland

FirstEnergy Natural Gas Plant In Springdale

PECO Energy Speeds Replacement Of Aging Natural Gas Lines

Faced With Sunrise Pipeline Expansion, New Idea To Pool Resources

Grassroots Push To Block Keystone Pipeline’s Path

Fracktivist Permanently Barred From Cabot Drilling Sites

Forum Highlights Affects Of Marcellus Shale Drilling

Crude Oil Shipments By Rail To Eastern Refineries Hit New High

Oil Train Rules Leave Questions Unanswered

Editorial: Right Action On Oil Trains

Editorial: The Power Of Marcellus: Real & Impressive

Dunmore CNG Station Step Closer

Millions Wasted On Government’s Misuse Of Natural Gas

Energy Spotlight: Jaime Johnson

Chevron Lists More Marcellus Acreage

WPX Energy Sells More Marcellus Assets

FERC Rejects Environmentalists Appeal On Cove Point LNG Exports

Texas Legislature Acts To Stop Cities From Limiting Drilling

Mine Reclamation

Project To Remedy Coal Refuse Slurry Ponds Beside Trail

Recreation

Project To Remedy Coal Refuse Slurry Ponds Beside Trail

Riverlife: Downtown Improvements Along Allegheny River Trail

Rachel Carson Trail Challenge Pays Off For Most

Paddle Sport Symposium Held At Tom Ridge Center

Recycling/Waste

University Of Scranton Students Clean Up

Next Keystone Landfill Zoning Hearing Scheduled

Opponents Open New Arena In Landfill Fight

Pirates Giving Green-Conscious Towels To Guests

Vectors

DEP Begins Spraying For Gnats

Casey Wants More Tracking Of Lyme Disease In PA

Watershed Protection

Cancerous Tumor Confirmed On Susquehanna Smallmouth

DEP Weighs In On Cancerous Susquehanna River Bass

Op-Ed: Cancerous Bass In Susquehanna Warning Shot

Montgomery Conservation District Receives Watershed Grant

Award Sparks Discussion Of Dormont Stormwater Strategy

Fish & Boat Commission Adds 45 Streams To Wild Trout List

Riverfront Parks Contribute To Boom In Development

Latest From The Chesapeake Bay Journal

Wildlife

Cancerous Tumor Confirmed On Susquehanna Smallmouth

DEP Weighs In On Cancerous Susquehanna River Bass

Fish & Boat Commission Adds 45 Streams To Wild Trout List

Student Uses Stuffed Nittany Lion For DNA Sequencing

Presque Isle Introduces Group To Fly Fishing

Op-Ed: Fish & Boat Commission Seeking Tax Revenue

PA Man Cited In Deaths Of Bald Eagle, Blue Herons

Editorial: Listening To Buzz On Bees

Other

Weavertown Environmental’s Female CEO Doesn’t Think Of Gender

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5/11/2015