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

Bill Allows Lawmakers To Intervene In Agency Rulemaking

Editorial: Legislators Must Let IRRC Do Its Job

Editorial: Lawmakers Try To Thwart Regulations

Alternative Energy

PA Wind Energy Seeks Long-Term Committed Partner

Op-Ed: Don’t Go With Green Energy At Expense Of The Poor

Editorial: The Green Ruse: Solar CO2

5 Things Truckers Should Know When Switching To Natural Gas

SEPTA Looking To Commuter Power Rail With Shale Gas

Biodiesel Conversion Drives Optimus Technologies

Awards & Recognition

Couple Win National Award For Restoring Woodland

3 Honored For Service To Mining Industry

Budget

Shale Executives Raise The Pressure Against Severance Tax

Drilling Coalition Reinforces Stand Again Higher Taxes

Drilling Industry Struggling For Its Competitive Survival

Op-Ed: New Energy Taxes Could Jeopardize Jobs In PA

Editorial: Expand Shale Gas Pact To Include Fair Taxation

Wolf Holding Out For Realistic Budget, May Be A While

Tax Protestors Greet Wolf In Connellsville

Wolf, Republicans Talking Budget, Not To Each Other

Solo Funding Bills Latest Budget Gambit

GOP Lawmakers Want To Give $3B In Lifelines

Wolf Warns Horse Racing May Shut Down Due To Impasse

Climate

EPA Encouraged By States’ Responses To Clean Power Plan

Obama Clean Power Climate Plan Under Attack By States

States Reliant On Fossil Fuels Sue Over Clean Power Plan

Obama Carbon Rules Face Lawsuits, Congressional Tests

Drinking Water

Cities Can Learn From Cost Of Water In Coatesville

Energy

Newest PUC Commissioner Know Gas, Sheep

PUC Blocks Utilities From Charging For Paper Bills

PA Wind Energy Seeks Long-Term Committed Partner

SEPTA Approves $18.3M In Energy-Efficient Tech

Braddock Lock & Dam Hydropower Project Off To Slow Start

Wood Energy Gives Back To Forests

Beaver Valley Coal Plant Closes, Won’t Switch To Natural Gas

Always Ways To Save On Energy Costs This Winter

FirstEnergy Plan To Ship Coal Waste Makes Headway

Groups Challenge FirstEnergy Permit For Waste In Fayette County

Coal Reserves: Unmined Or Unminable?

3 Honored For Service To Mining Industry

Improvements Underway At Ashley Miners’ Memorial Park

Environmental Education

Shaler Students Stencil Sewers To Combat Pollution

Audubon, Master Gardeners To Present Butterfly Program

Environmental Justice

DEP Environmental Justice Office To Examine Drilling Impact

Op-Ed: Don’t Go With Green Energy At Expense Of The Poor

Flooding

Luzerne Flood Authority Wants More On PennEast Pipeline Route

Dauphin County Flood Grant Application Revised

Allegheny Land Trust Acquires 26.7 Acres Of Floodplain

Forests

Couple Win National Award For Restoring Woodland

Fall Foliage Report: Last Weekend For Color Across PA

8 Spots For Fall Foliage In Southcentral PA

During Fall Foliage Season, Money Could Grow On Trees

EPA Background Now Helps Her Tend To Trees

New Label Aims To Conserve Wild Ginseng

Wood Energy Gives Back To Forests

Land Conservation

Allegheny Land Trust Acquires 26.7 Acres Of Floodplain

Mine Reclamation

Incomplete Sharp Mountain Reclamation Project To Wrap In June

Group Plans To Sue Over Alleged Clyde Mine Violations

Oil & Gas

PennLive Marcellus Series: PA Regulators Fail To Protect Environment

PennLive: DEP Reorganization Meant Less Oversight

PennLive: DEP Recordkeeping Needs To Improve State Officials Say

PennLive: DEP Aware Of Violations Years Before Fining Drillers

PennLive: DEP Not Reporting Full Results In Lab Tests

PennLive: Faulty DEP Reports Set Difficult Precedents For Communities

PennLive: How Drilling Impacted One Rural Community

PennLive: DEP Had Leeway To Go Easy On Shale Drillers

PennLive: Corbett’s DEP Secretary Tells EPA To Back Off

PennLive: Researcher Said DEP Hostile To Work On Drilling Impacts

PennLive: How Politicians, DEP Became Cozy With Drillers

PennLive: Officials Who Started, Ended Up Working For Energy Industry

PennLive: Regulators Caught Unprepared For Natural Gas Mother Lode

PennLive: What Is The Act 13 Drilling Law, Why You Should Care

PennLive: Can Chemical Tracers Help DEP Solve Contamination Cases?

PennLive: Resident With Contaminated Water Hopes For New Trial

PennLive: OSHA Inspects Less Than 3% of Drilling Sites In PA

PennLive: How PA Became Leading Gas Producer, What It Means

PennLive: Q&A With Marcellus Shale Coalition President

PennLive: Marcellus Shale Drilling Brings Economic Boost

PennLive: 7 Major Pipeline Projects In Pennsylvania

PennLive: Several Natural Gas Pipelines Planned For Midstate

PennLive: Guide To Slang From PA Shale Fields

PennLive Graphic: How DEP Operated Under Rendell, Corbett, Wolf

PennLive Graphic: How Does Fracking Work?

PennLive Graphic: Scenes From A Well Site

Column: PennLive Shale Bargain Series Reminder Of Price Of Vigilance

Trial Over Marcellus Well Discharge Delayed Until 2016

Marcellus Shale Coalition: Fact Checking Patriot-News Series

The Real Shale Bargain: Lowering Consumer Costs, Jobs, Improving Environment

DEP Environmental Justice Office To Examine Drilling Impact

2 House Dems, PennEnvironment Call For Stricter Drilling Regulations

PennEnvironment: Fracking Near Vulnerable PA Residents

Study Reveals Proximity Of Schools, Hospitals To Fracking

Bills Address Physician Access To Information In Drilling Law

Shale Executives Raise The Pressure Against Severance Tax

Drilling Coalition Reinforces Stand Again Higher Taxes

Drilling Industry Struggling For Its Competitive Survival

Op-Ed: New Energy Taxes Could Jeopardize Jobs In PA

Editorial: Expand Shale Gas Pact To Include Fair Taxation

Luzerne Flood Authority Wants More On PennEast Pipeline Route

Lawyers Say FERC Hinders Appeals On Pipeline Projects

Pipeline Worker Defends Gas Industry

PGW To Aggressively Replace Dangerous Old Natural Gas Lines

Citizens For A Healthy Jessup Appeals Zoning Decision

Power Plant Battle Pitts Jessup Against County

Invenergy’s Waste Plan Requires Air Monitoring

Lehigh Power Plant Similar To Invenergy’s Proposal

Regional vs Local Economy In Power Plant Debate

Invenergy: KOZ Was Not Condition Of Land Deal

Plant Would Create Own Power, Use 100K Gallons Of Water/Day

SEPTA Looking To Commuter Power Rail With Shale Gas

Energy Spotlight: Joe Horvath Energy Company PR

As Fracking Boom Spreads, Delaware Watershed Draws Line

Hess Seeks Buyers For Land In Utica Shale Basin

Natural Gas Companies Pounded By Low Prices

EQT Profit Plummets As Natural Gas Prices Stagnate

EQT Suspends Drilling In Some Areas Of PA, WV

EQT Focusing More On Utica Shale

EQT Has Great Hope For Drilling In Utica Shale

Public Participation

Why Won’t Wolf DEP Explain Firing Of Non-Political Staffer?

Recreation

During Fall Foliage Season, Money Could Grow On Trees

Officials Evaluate Condition Of Presque Isle Beaches

Army Corps Looking To Grow Presque Isle’s Gull Point

More Water Fountains For Schuylkill Trail

New Trailhead Coming To Lebanon Valley Rail Trail

Improvements Underway At Ashley Miners’ Memorial Park

Recycling/Waste

DEP Wants More On Lower Saucon Landfill Expansion Plans

17,000+ Cigarette Butts, 1 Toilet Along Lake Erie Shoreline

FirstEnergy Plan To Ship Coal Waste Makes Headway

Groups Challenge FirstEnergy Permit For Waste In Fayette County

Environmental Group Appeals Permit To Transport Coal Ash On Ohio

Watershed Protection

Saw Mill Run: Glimmers Of A Living Stream

Group Improving Susquehanna Tributary

Shaler Students Stencil Sewers To Combat Pollution

Letter: PA Shouldn’t Rush Into EPA Clean Water Rule

Delaware Riverwatch Report Oct. 16

Delaware Riverwatch Report Oct. 23

Ohio River’s Huge Algae Bloom A Warning For Water Suppliers

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Wildlife

Game Commission Using Prescribed Burn On 3,300 Acres

Bat Saving Work Gets Another $2.5 Million

Bat Week To Feature Bat House Build-A-Thon

Rabid Fox Bites Jogger In Lackawanna County

Audubon, Master Gardeners To Present Butterfly Program

Going Buggy? Increase In Some Insects Result Of Frost

Other

To Design Great Cities, Think Ambitiously

Editorial: No Chemistry In Federal Toxicity Bill

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10/26/2015