Environmental NewsClips - All Topics

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

Air

More Expensive Summer Gasoline May Go Away For Pittsburgh

Federal Appeals Court Threw Out Challenges To Mercury Limits

How Homer City Power Plant Is Cleaning Up Its Act

DTE Energy To Close Shenango Coal Coking Plant

DTE Will Shut Down Shenango Coal Coking Plant

Turning Bikes Into Smog-Sensing Machines

Alternative Energy

Germany’s Push For Renewable Energy Studied By PEC

Editorial: Let Sunshine (Solar Power) Back In

New Natural Gas Filling Station In Lehigh County

Wind, Solar Tax Credits Could be Trouble For Refineries

Budget

Wolf’s Office: $1 Billion Tax Bill Will Pass In Upcoming House Vote

PLS: Budget Impasse May, Possibly Be Over This Weekend

Lawmakers Said To Consider State Income Tax Hike

How Are Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees Spent Locally, Good Question

Franklin Twp Supervisors Spend Drilling Fees On Road Repairs

Drilling Impact Fees Used To Renovate Susquehanna County Courthouse

Green Efforts Could Hit Snag In PA Budget

Op-Ed: Proposed Budget Bill Isn’t Giveaway For Drillers

Budget Bickering Continues With No End In Sight

House Debate On PA Pension Changes Ends Abruptly

PLS: Budget Impasse To Enter Its Most Critical 24-Hour Period

Wolf, Allies Test House GOP Resolve Against Tax Increase

A Look At Budget Plan In Legislature

House GOP Eyes Interim Budget If Tax Plan Lacks Support

GOP Leaders Give Wolf 24 Hours To Find Votes For Taxes

Budget Impasse Headed Toward Some Sort Of Resolution

Gov,, Leaders Want Full Budget, Not Stopgap

Budget Talks Interesting But Yield No Deal

Dems Casts Turzai As Villain In Budget Gridlock

Free-Market Groups Targets Slush Funds Buried In Budget Plan

PLS: 1 Budget Bill Advances, Big Questions Still Linger

House Signals Start Of New Fight In 5-Month Budget Showdown

Wolf, House Rs Hopeful For A Budget This Week

End To Budget Impasse A Step Closer

Could This Be The Week For Budget?

Editorial: Fiscal Code Pollution

Allegheny Land Trust Forced To Borrow Amid Budget Impasse

Is 2015 Worst Year In PA Political History?

Climate

How Paris Climate Accord Will Address PA’s Issues

How Homer City Power Plant Is Cleaning Up Its Act

Op-Ed: Pittsburgh Is Fighting Climate Change

Op-Ed: Paris To Earth: Act Locally Within A Global Framework, John Dernbach

Unusually Warm Weather Could Be Bad For Trees

Mother Nature Being Fooled By Unusual Warmth

Allegheny Forest Opening Snowmobile Trails With No Snow

Ski Resorts Waiting On Colder Weather

Record Warm Great For Consumers, Painful For Energy Companies

Historic Pact To Slow Climate Change Celebrated

196 Counties Approve Historic Climate Agreement

Climate Accord Is Healing Step, If Not A Cure

Climate Accord Signal To Industry To Go Green

Leaders Move To Convert Paris Climate Pledges Into Action

Winners, Losers In Paris Climate Pact

BBC: Global Climate Deal In Summar

Editorial: Sweeping Climate Accord Now Requires Action

Editorial: Climate Accord: Pig In A Poke

Nuclear Power Still A Viable Option

El Nino Keeps Air Warm, Snow Removal Budgets Cool

Ski Resorts Waiting On Colder Weather

Education

Audubon: Strawberry Mansion’s Secret Lake Kids Paradise

Lending Labs Help Local Science Students

Energy

Record Warm Great For Consumers, Painful For Energy Companies

Heating Costs Expected To Be Lower This Winter

Energy Fair Takes Over Valley View Gym

Op-Ed: Time Is Right To Develop Philadelphia As Energy Hub, Rendell

Natural Gas Power Plant Planned For Lackawanna County

Barges Diversify In Western PA As Coal Shipments Drops

Editorial: Halt Coal Scam

Nuclear Power Still A Viable Option

Peach Bottom Reactor Shut Down To Fix Leak

Montana Coal Plant Slashes Value 87 Percent

Reaction Isn’t Glowing To Cumberland County Power Line

Federal Energy Efficiency Rule Touted As Biggest In History

Farm Activities

New 40-Acre PPL Substation Concerns Farmers

Flooding

Wilkes-Barre Ups Funding Requests In Flood Control Projects

Forests

Unusually Warm Weather Could Be Bad For Trees

Land Conservation

Allegheny Land Trust Forced To Borrow Amid Budget Impasse

New 40-Acre PPL Substation Concerns Farmers

Mine Reclamation

Jeanesville Mine Fire Could Be Headed Toward Tresckow

Mine Sites, Prisons, Pet Projects Live On In Federal Budget

Mining

Discharge Plan Mobilizes Residents Against LCT Mine Proposal

Oil & Gas

Pipeline Task Force: Pipeline Projects Need Better PR

How Are Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees Spent Locally, Good Question

Franklin Twp Supervisors Spend Drilling Fees On Road Repairs

WV Hare Krishnas Try To Reconcile Drilling, With Simple Life

Murrysville Gas Drilling Debate Continues

New Natural Gas Filling Station In Lehigh County

Natural Gas Prices Fall To Lowest Level Since 2002

PA Bats Receiving High-Tech Protection From Natural Gas Industry

CNX Gas Agrees To Settlement Over Water Withdrawals

Natural Gas Power Plant Planned For Lackawanna County

Coming Soon: Gasoline Less Than $2/Gallon

Gasoline Prices Continue Plunge To New Lows

More Expensive Summer Gasoline May Go Away For Pittsburgh

Wind, Solar Tax Credits Could be Trouble For Refineries

Congress Passes Bill To End Crude Oil Export Ban

Oil Export Ban In Final-Stage Budget Talks In Congress

Don’t Count On Oil Rally If Crude Oil Export Ban Lifted

Repeal Of Crude Oil Ban Expected To Benefit Economy

Bloomberg: Ending Oil Export Ban Might Make Imports Rise

Oil/Gas Producer Magnum Hunter Files For Bankruptcy

Recreation

Ski Resorts Waiting On Colder Weather

Allegheny Forest Opening Snowmobile Trails With No Snow

Dallas Twp. Aims To Restore 2 Parks

Recycling/Waste

New Philly Spokesdog Opposes Improper Pet Waste Disposal

Wilkes-Barre Extends Yard Waste Collection

Watershed Protection

Parasites, Chemicals Likely Causes Of Bass Illness In Susquehanna

Study Finds Likely Causes For Mutant Bass In Susquehanna

Herbicides, Parasites Likely Causes Of Susquehanna Bass Decline

Susquehanna Bass Hit By Herbicides, Hormones

Editorial: Susquehanna River Impaired

DEP Testing Flawed, No Danger Of Radioactivity In Western PA Creek

Initiative To Assess Best Practices For Protecting Delaware

Erie County Rain Barrel Art Project Progressing

New Philly Spokesdog Opposes Improper Pet Waste Disposal

EPA Broke Law Using Social Media To Push Water Rule

Editorial: EPA Propaganda, Caught Wet-Handed

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Water Quantity

CNX Gas Agrees To Settlement Over Water Withdrawals

Wildlife

Parasites, Chemicals Likely Causes Of Bass Illness In Susquehanna

Study Finds Likely Causes For Mutant Bass In Susquehanna

Herbicides, Parasites Likely Causes Of Susquehanna Bass Decline

Susquehanna Bass Hit By Herbicides, Hormones

Keeping Asian Carp From Great Lakes Appears Stymied

Study: Prediction Of Water-Fouling Algae Growth In Lake Erie

Great Lakes Cleanup Program To Get $300M In Federal Budget

PA Bats Receiving High-Tech Protection From Natural Gas Industry

Audubon’s Annual Christmas Bird Count Starts Dec. 26

PA Major Player In Audubon Christmas Bird Count

Presque Isle Audubon Seeks Christmas Bird Count Volunteers

Audubon: Strawberry Mansion’s Secret Lake Kids Paradise

Hanover Bald Eagle Nest Cam Live-Streaming Again

Look In On The Conowingo Eagle Nest Cam

Fish Frenzy At Huntsdale Hatchery

Click Here: The Letort: A Limestone Legacy Benefits Letort, Central PA Conservancy

Other

Philly Loses Control Of Highway Billboards

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12/21/2015

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