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Former Sen. William Stewart Passes Away

Air

Editorial: Supreme Court: 2 Blows Against Liberty

Obama Seeks Tighter Rules On Methane From Oil, Gas Wells

U.S., Canada Agree To Cut Methane Emissions

U.S., Canada To Cut Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Wells

U.S., Canada To Cut Emissions From Existing Oil, Gas Wells

Methane Regs Could Mean Big Changes For Natural Gas Industry

Letter: Shale-Related Methane Emissions Continue To Drop

Letter: Time For PA To Combat Climate Change

Alternative/Renewable Energy

Interest Renewed In Offshore Wind Projects In Erie

Questions Over Solar Standards As Capacity Outpaces Utility Demand

Philly Council Members Wants Solar On Philly School Buildings

Solar Energy Industry Poised For Record-Setting Year

Awards & Recognition

Carol Collier Named To AICP College Of Fellows

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

Attacking Invasive Species Begins In The Classroom

Budget

Bumsted: Adolph Accuses Wolf Of Creating Budget Crisis

Adolph: No Meetings On Overdue Budget Since December

PLS: A Budget In 30 Days?  Some Think So

PA Agricultural Community Rallies To Support Funding

Budget Battle Forces PA Ag Programs To Plan Layoffs

PLS Video: Penn State Extension Warns Of Funding Crisis

Game Commission Cuts Project WILD Education Program

PA Wildlife, Outdoor Recreation Snag $33.5M In Federal Funds

Auditor General To Review Act 13 Drilling Fee Expenditures

Foundations To Converge On Philadelphia

Chesapeake Bay Commitments

Editorial: Supreme Court: 2 Blows Against Liberty

Climate

Methane Regs Could Mean Big Changes For Natural Gas Industry

Obama Seeks Tighter Rules On Methane From Oil, Gas Wells

U.S., Canada Agree To Cut Methane Emissions

U.S., Canada To Cut Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Wells

U.S., Canada To Cut Emissions From Existing Oil, Gas Wells

Letter: Shale-Related Methane Emissions Continue To Drop

Letter: Time For PA To Combat Climate Change

UN Climate Chief Expects 80-100 Signatures On Landmark Treaty

Compliance Action

State Warns Of High Lead In Spring Water Near Adamstown

SRBC Fines Cabot Again For Drilling Without Water Approvals

Steelton Receives Third Drinking Water Violation

Deep Mine Safety

New Books Revisits Sheppton Mine Disaster, Explores Mythology

Delaware River

Delaware Riverkeeper March 4 Riverwatch Video Report

Drinking Water

State Warns Of High Lead In Spring Water Near Adamstown

Flint’s Water Crisis Carries Echoes Of Erie

Steelton Receives Third Drinking Water Violation

Lead In Pittsburgh’s Drinking Water On The Rise

PA Comes Up Short On Funding For Lead Testing, Cleanup

Lehigh Authority Sues Allentown Over Water-Sewer Deal

Phipps, Pittsburgh Zoo Get Free Water Service

Economic Development

Secret Energy Strategy Could Transform NE PA

Education

Lackawanna Environmental Center Plans Kids Nature Program

Game Commission Cuts Project WILD Education Program

Attacking Invasive Species Begins In The Classroom

Grants Awarded To Gannon Environmental Science Dept.

Point Park U To Launch Environmental Journalism Program

Energy

Bruce Mansfield Power Plant Taken Offline Due To Prices

FirstEnergy Idles Western PA Coal Plant On Electric Prices

FirstEnergy’s New Conservation Plan Approved

Advocates Blame Law, Policy Change For People Without Heat

Berwick Nuclear Plant Gets Clean Bill Of Health

Energy Spotlight: Marty Richey, Nuclear Power Industry

Editorial: Nuclear Disposal Needed, But Not At Lake Huron

Jessup Council Paves Way For Natural Gas Power Plant

Editorial: Jessup Power Plant And Power Of Reason

Op-Ed: Develop PA’s Energy Infrastructure

FirstEnergy Installing Smart Meters In Erie

Secret Energy Strategy Could Transform NE PA

Foundation Seeking Miners’ Names For Wall Of Honor

More Electricity Generated By Natural Gas Than Coal

Alpha Coal Changes Course In Bankruptcy

Environmental Heritage

New Books Revisits Sheppton Mine Disaster, Explores Mythology

Flooding

Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority Has New HQ

Jermyn Gets Update On Flood Prevention Project

Forests

Spring Is Most Dangerous Time For Wildfires

Prescribed Burn At Fort Indiantown Gap

Fort Indiantown Gap Spring Burn Season

Without Rain Dauphin County Mountain Fire Will Burn

Crews Struggle To Contain Dauphin County Mountain Fire

Dauphin County Mountain Fire Under Control

Questions Remain About Gypsy Moth Spraying In Nuangola

Green Infrastructure

AP: EPA: Plan To Reduce Sewage Overflow In Pittsburgh Addresses Concerns

EPA Gives ALCOSAN More Time For Wet Weather Control Plan

EPA Tells ALCOSAN To Follow Plan To Reduce Sewer Overflows

Kansas City Model For Wet Weather Control Encouraged

Project Aims To Slow Inner City Erie Runoff

Hazardous Sites Cleanup

Military To Check For Water Contamination At 664 Sites, Including PA

Illegal Dumping/Litter Control

Volunteers Needed For March 19 Red Clay Valley Clean Up

Dump Site Cleaned Up By Benton Twp Workers

Lake Erie

Great Lakes Ice Cover Far Different From 2015

Land Conservation

Wissahickon Looks To Rezone To Boost Preservation Efforts

French Creek Properties Get Permanent Protection

Land Use Planning

Robinson Court Decision Could Be Big Win For Environmentalists

Zoning Protection Of Natural Resources At Issue In 2 Cases

Wissahickon Looks To Rezone To Boost Preservation Efforts

Mine Reclamation

$13.4M Project Will Remove Ehrenfeld Waste Coal Pile

Rosebud Gets $13M Mine Reclamation Contract

Oil & Gas

PA Supreme Court Hears Challenges To Act 13 Oil & Gas Act

PA Supreme Court Hears Challenge To Drilling Laws

PA Supreme Court Weighs Major Gas Drilling Laws

PA High Court Hears Issues On Oil, Gas Activity

Robinson Court Decision Could Be Big Win For Environmentalists

Jury Awards Dimock Couples $4.24M, Cabot Will Appeal

AP: PA Families Win $4.24M Verdict Against Gas Driller

Jury Awards $4.24M To 2 Families In Dimock Tainted Water Case

Jury Awards $4.24M To Dimock Families For Water Contamination

Families Win $4.24M Verdict Against Gas Driller

Jury Awards Last Dimock Plaintiffs $4.2M Over Well Contamination

Dimock Verdict Unlikely To Prompt Big Change In Drilling

Judge Dismisses Part Of Dimock Water Contamination Case

Closing Arguments Set In Dimock Water Contamination Case

SRBC Fines Cabot Again For Drilling Without Water Approvals

Sunoco Logistics Hails Completion Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline

Mariner East 1 Pipeline Delivering Shale Gas To World

Wolf Hails Shale Ethane Exports

Sunoco Begins 1st Exports Of Shale Ethane Via Marcus Hook

Environmentalists Target Philly Energy Hub Port Proposals

Philadelphia Fails To Find Common Ground On Energy Hub

FERC Has Never Rejected A Pipeline Plan

Landowners To Court: Don’t Let Sunoco Take Our Land

Lawmakers Review One Call Program For Buried Gas Lines

Maple Farm Owner Angry Over Senseless Removal Of Trees For Pipeline

Williams Delays Construction Of Constitution Pipeline

Constitution Pipeline Delayed, Hundreds Of Trees Cut Down

Constitution Pipeline Delayed By Lack Of NY Permit

TransCanada In Talks To Buy Columbia Pipeline Group

Drillers Dramatically Scale Back Well Operations

Drilling Cutback Reduces Money For Tourism

Obama Seeks Tighter Rules On Methane From Oil, Gas Wells

U.S., Canada Agree To Cut Methane Emissions

U.S., Canada To Cut Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Wells

U.S., Canada To Cut Emissions From Existing Oil, Gas Wells

Methane Regs Could Mean Big Changes For Natural Gas Industry

Letter: Shale-Related Methane Emissions Continue To Drop

Letter: Time For PA To Combat Climate Change

Jessup Council Paves Way For Natural Gas Power Plant

Editorial: Jessup Power Plant And Power Of Reason

Chester County Landfill Gas Used Instead Of Shale Gas

Op-Ed: Develop PA’s Energy Infrastructure

Southwest Counties Keep Faith With Shale Gas Industry

States, Gas Industry: Feds Do Not Have Power To Regulate Fracking

Boston Startup Sees Market For Frack Water

Gas Utility: House Explosion Isolated Incident

PA Drilling Rig Count Up By 3 This Week

Pittsburgh Gasoline Rises To $1.90/Gallon

Have Oil Prices Bottomed Out?

Who’s The Real Anti-Fracking Candidate: Clinton, Sanders?

Personnel

Carol Collier Named To AICP College Of Fellows

Recreation

Susquehanna River Island Cabins Can Stay For Now

Presque Isle Official Weigh Sand Options

Editorial: Presque Isle Needs More Money For Sand

Lehigh Canal Volunteer Work Changed Her Life

East Park Discovery Center Plan Presented In Philadelphia

Couple’s Campaign To Rescue Historic Appalachian Trail Hotel

Money Pouring In To Save Historic Appalachian Trail Hotel

Great Places To Take A Hike In Pennsylvania

Bike Sharing Safer Than Riding Personal Bike

Editorial: Get To Luzerne County’s Outdoor Gems

Pittsburgh Just Hired Some Goats

National Parks Can’t Cover Their Costs

Recycling/Waste

Erie Twp Asks Recyclers To Police Drop-Off Site

Anti-Landfill Group To Host Trash Forum

Stormwater Management

Project Aims To Slow Inner City Erie Runoff

Susquehanna River

Susquehanna River Island Cabins Can Stay For Now

Wastewater Treatment

AP: EPA: Plan To Reduce Sewage Overflow In Pittsburgh Addresses Concerns

EPA Gives ALCOSAN More Time For Wet Weather Control Plan

EPA Tells ALCOSAN To Follow Plan To Reduce Sewer Overflows

Kansas City Model For Wet Weather Control Encouraged

Lehigh Authority Sues Allentown Over Water-Sewer Deal

Watershed Protection

AP: EPA: Plan To Reduce Sewage Overflow In Pittsburgh Addresses Concerns

EPA Gives ALCOSAN More Time For Wet Weather Control Plan

EPA Tells ALCOSAN To Follow Plan To Reduce Sewer Overflows

Kansas City Model For Wet Weather Control Encouraged

Editorial: Supreme Court: 2 Blows Against Liberty

Trout To Boost Environmental Protection Of Maiden Creek

Great Lakes Ice Cover Far Different From 2015

Latest From The Chesapeake Bay Journal

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Wildlife

PA Wildlife, Outdoor Recreation Snag $33.5M In Federal Funds

Trout To Boost Environmental Protection Of Maiden Creek

Game Commission Cuts Project WILD Education Program

Prescribed Burn At Fort Indiantown Gap

Fort Indiantown Gap Spring Burn Season

Why The Game Commission Needs A Hunting License Increase

East Park Discovery Center Plan Presented In Philadelphia

Harmar Bald Eagles Produce First Egg

Harmar Eagles Lay Egg, Drawing Interest In 2 Nests

449 Raptors Pass Presque Isle Hawk Watch

Editorial: Closing Middle Creek Wildlife Area Shouldn’t Fly

Video: Bird Watchers Flock To Middle Creek Wildlife Area

Game Commission Q/A  About Closing Middle Creek

Ancient Sport Of Falconry Now A Modern Hobby

Crable: Wilderness Medicine Advocate Walks The Walk

Editorial: Hunting For Sunday Hunting Rationale

Zika Virus

6th Case Of Zika In PA Confirmed

Zika Outbreak: The More We Learn, The Worse Things Seem

Other

Soft Drinks, Hard Lobbying

Punxsutawney Phil May Have Been Right

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3/14/2016

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