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Bumsted: Revived Shale Tax Could Have Legs

Growing Greener Funding In Bradford, Lycoming, Union Counties

Drilling Communities Reap Benefits Of Housing Grants

Letter: Notable Voices Calling For Drilling Moratorium

Protestors Rally Against Navy Yard Oil Plan

Investments In Renewable Energy On The Rise

Editorial: Climate Thugs, Colluding AGs

More Than 50 Volunteers Clean Up South Scranton

Go Native At Kings Gas Environmental Ed Center

Harrisburg’s Newest Peregrine Falcons Get Banded

Trout Unlimited Chapter Reflects, Girds For Future

Swift: Budget Deadline Nearing Fast

Air

PA Expands Particulate Monitoring As Feds Find High Levels

Why Can’t Pittsburgh Get Its Act Together On Air Quality?

Op-Ed: Air Pollution From Gas Drilling Requires Action

Crable: State Grants Perdue Crucial Air Permit In Lancaster

DEP Gives Final Nod To Controversial Soybean Crushing Plant

DEP Approves Controversial Lancaster Soybean Plant

Editorial: We Need To Work To Improve Lancaster’s Poor Air Quality

Air Sampling For Keystone Landfill Health Study Complete

Allegheny Front: Air Quality Monitor You Check Out At The Library

Tree Pollen Count Very High

Alternative Energy

More Electric Car Charging Stations Popping Up In NE

Wind Turbines Balloon In Size, Generate Profit

Awards & Recognition

Perkiomen, Phoenixville Students Awarded For Schuylkill Protection Efforts

Tree Plantings At Root Of Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Award

Google Doodle Celebrates Scranton Native Jane Jacobs

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

Lake Erie Funding Distributed To Track Invaders, Fight Algae

Budget

Quigley: Contentions Regulations For Gas Industry Sensible

Wolf’s Proposed Severance Tax Among Nation’s Highest

Editorial: New Severance Tax, Drilled By Wolf

Lebanon County Awards $90K In Marcellus Shale Grants

Climate

Op-Ed: Climate Denial A Form Of Fraud

Editorial: Cost Of UN Climate Accord

Compliance Action

Talen Energy Pays Nearly $1M For 2005 Martins Creek Ash Spill

EPA Slaps Company With Largest Ever Superfund Penalty

Delaware River

Delaware RiverKeeper April 29 RiverWatch Video Report

Drinking Water

Perkiomen, Phoenixville Students Awarded For Schuylkill Protection Efforts

Tri-County Water Authority Moves Forward With System Repairs

Q/A: How Safe Is Philly’s Water?

Capital Region Water Makes Pitch For Infrastructure Grants

Lehigh Authority: Money Needed For Infrastructure Improvements

Drought

PA Has Been Abnormally Dry This Year

Economic Development

AP Fact Check: Bringing Coal Jobs Back To Appalachia

Shell: Beaver Cracker Plant Strong, Robust Project

Editorial: Foundations Helped Rebuild Pittsburgh After Industrial Collapse

Education

Envirothon Has Common Lesson For Local Schools

Repetition, Humor Get Children Curious About STEM

Schuylkill River Towns Wild Edibles Tour For Kids May 14

Audubon PA Students Released 1,500 Ladybugs For Earth Day

Annual Butterfly Release Held At NE Elementary School

From Trash Pit To Amphibian Oasis, Kings Gap EE Center

Baby Peregrine Falcons At Rachel Carson Building Banded

Energy

FERC OKs Gas Pipeline To Serve New Shamokin Dam Power Plant

Officials Want To Convert Former State Prison Into Power Plant

Wolf Energy Advisor Nominated To PUC

Wolf Nominates David Sweet For PUC

AP Fact Check: Bringing Coal Jobs Back To Appalachia

PPL Generation Rates To Drop This Summer

Judge To PGW: Stop Robocalling Customers With Unpaid Bills

Groups Press Duquesne Light For LED Program Costs

DOE Researchers See Pittsburgh’s Progress On District Energy

Drones Give FirstEnergy Quick, Easy Look At Plants

Jessup Takes First Step Toward Land Use Law Revisions

Energy Conservation

Groups Press Duquesne Light For LED Program Costs

Take The Ultimate Home Energy Quiz

Federal Superfund

EPA Slaps Company With Largest Ever Superfund Penalty

Flooding

Duryea Flood Project Completion End In Sight

Scranton Resident Wants Fix For Underground Stream

Forests

Sen. Alloway Tree Event Plants For A Better Future

Sons Preserve Mother’s Memory By Bringing Trees To Suburbs

Poconos Wildfire Fully Contained

Poconos Sixteen Mile Fire Almost Completely Contained

Officials Hope To Stave Off New Gypsy Moth Invasion

State Prepares For Gypsy Moth Season

Pennsylvania: Get Ready For Loud, Large Cicadas

Agriculture Department: Leafminer Reported In Lancaster County

Green Buildings/Sustainability

New Temple Library To Get Huge Green Roof

Lake Erie

Lake Erie Funding Distributed To Track Invaders, Fight Algae

Land Conservation

Crable: Lancaster County Conservancy Returns To Its Roots

Haas Estate In Villanova To Be Preserved As Public Garden

Land Use Planning

Google Doodle Celebrates Scranton Native Jane Jacobs

Jessup Takes First Step Toward Land Use Law Revisions

Litter/Illegal Dumping

Plymouth Residents Participates In Great American Cleanup Of PA

Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Held In Luzerne County

Mine Reclamation

Earth Conservancy Receives Land Reclamation Grant

Oil & Gas

Drillers Growing Leery Of PA Rules Leaders Tell Legislators

Rep. Krueger-Braneky Rips Legislators For Blocking Drilling Regs

PA Trout: Tell Legislators Let Drilling Rules Move Forward

House Committee Votes To Block Updated Drilling Rules

House Panel Votes To Block Drilling Regulations

PLS Reporter: House Starts Process to Scuttle Drilling Regs

Quigley: Contentions Regulations For Gas Industry Sensible

Alliance Of Moms Criticize Efforts To Block Drilling Regs

Murrysville Models Drilling Rules On State Proposal

Gas Well Venting Causes Big Alarm In Armstrong County

PA Expands Particulate Monitoring As Feds Find High Levels

Op-Ed: Air Pollution From Gas Drilling Requires Action

Editorial: PA Senate Puts Energy Into Pandering

Wolf’s Proposed Severance Tax Among Nation’s Highest

Editorial: New Severance Tax, Drilled By Wolf

Groups Sue EPA On Handling, Disposal Of Drilling Waste

Erie Senator Calls For Fracking Ban

Judge: No Remedy When Driller Fails To Develop Wells

Energy Spotlight: Corey Young

Shell: Beaver Cracker Plant Strong, Robust Project

PGW Said Secret Bonus Plan Wasn’t A Secret

Judge To PGW: Stop Robocalling Customers With Unpaid Bills

Scientists Worried Oklahomans Got Wrong Message On Quakes

Fracking Now Accounts For Two-Thirds Of Nation’s Natural Gas

Rice Energy Production Climbs, Profits Slump

EQT Signs $407M Deal With Statoil For Gas Rights In WV

Lawsuit Targets Misrepresentation Of Gasoline Prices

Pittsburgh Gasoline Hits $2.38/Gallon

Pipelines

Allegheny Front: Pipeline Explosion Stokes Worries About Safety

AP: Possibly Flawed Welds Cited In PA Pipeline Blast

PA Pipeline Explosion: Evidence Of Corrosion Found

Report: Corrosion May Be A Factor In Pipeline Explosion

Corrosion Found On Texas Eastern Pipeline That Exploded

Some Displaced By Westmoreland Pipeline Blast Cleared To Return

6 Of 9 Families Return After Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion

Pipeline Blast Victim Upgraded From Critical To Fair

Residents, Gas Firm Shift Focus To Recovery After Pipeline Explosion

AP: Pipelines Drained, Feds Investigating Cause Of Explosion

No Cause Found Yet In Westmoreland Gas Explosion

Answers Elusive In Westmoreland Pipeline Explosion

Highway Damaged By Pipeline Blast Still Being Fixed

Crable: Natural Gas Pipeline That Exploded Runs Thru Lancaster

Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Gets FERC Green Light

FERC OKs Gas Pipeline To Serve New Shamokin Dam Power Plant

NJ Landowners Sue To Stop PennEast Pipeline Surveyors

Recreation

3 PA State Parks Make Top Mid-Atlantic Parks List

10 Gorgeous PA State Parks Worth The Drive

Schuylkill River Heritage Area Generates $590M Annually

200+ Entrants Enter 10 Mile Creek Canoe & Anything That Floats Race

Schneck: Graffiti Removed From Popular Boulder Outcropping

Heritage Valley Trail Celebrating Past And Future

Pittsburgh May Upgrade Railroad Crossing In South Side Bike Trail

Bicyclists Getting One Sweet Ride Across Schuylkill

Hiking Trail Diversion Completed On Presque Isle

Moon Lake Park Bike Trail Damaged By Timbering

Philly To Acquire Bridge Over Schuylkill For Bike, Ped Trail

Petition Against Parking In Philly Bike Lane Racks Up Signatures

Crable: FERC Order Shows Holtwood Park Was To Stay In Public Use

Crable: Residents Vent Anger Over Holtwood Park Closure

Hikers Protest Holtwood Dam Land Closure In Lancaster

Rallying To Save Kelly’s Run And Holtwood Park

Talen Energy Unapologetically Closes Lancaster Park

Editorial: Promising Path Lies Ahead For Holtwood Dam Park

Improvements In Store For Ryerson Station State Park

Group Hunts Mushrooms In Ryerson Station State Park

Editorial: Reduce National Park’s Deferred Work

Recycling/Waste

Disposing Of Old Electronics Tough Under PA Law

Get Rid Of Hazardous Household Waste Saturday In York

Erie Electronics, Tire Collection Set For Saturday

Talen Energy Pays Nearly $1M For 2005 Martins Creek Ash Spill

Groups Sue EPA On Handling, Disposal Of Drilling Waste

Air Sampling For Keystone Landfill Health Study Complete

Trash Talking: The Life Of A Garbageman

Renewable Energy

Collier Encourages Residents, Businesses To Go Solar

Wind Turbines Balloon In Size, Generate Profit

Schuylkill River

Perkiomen, Phoenixville Students Awarded For Schuylkill Protection Efforts

Schuylkill River Towns Hosts 2 Programs In Phoenixville

Susquehanna River

Swimming Up The Susquehanna With American Shad

Wastewater Treatment Facilities

Capital Region Water Makes Pitch For Infrastructure Grants

Workers Scramble To Plug Leak At Bucks Water Plant

Watershed Protection

Lake Erie Funding Distributed To Track Invaders, Fight Algae

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Wildlife

Swimming Up The Susquehanna With American Shad

Fish & Boat Commission Awards Cabela’s Kayak Fishing Package

From Trash Pit To Amphibian Oasis, Kings Gap EE Center

Baby Peregrine Falcons At Rachel Carson Building Banded

Schneck: Game Commission Looking For Volunteers To Count Osprey Nests

York Bald Eagle Nest Hosts Two Babies

Congressional Tribute For Bison Roaming Lehigh Valley

Pennsylvania: Get Ready For Loud, Large Cicadas

Wildlife Impact On Crop Fields Reviewed

Agriculture Department: Leafminer Reported In Lancaster County

Zika Virus

Allegheny County Reports 3rd Known Zika Case

Mosquito Surveillance Starts With West Nile, Zika Concerns

How To Protect Yourself, Your Baby From Zika Virus

Pirates Scrap Puerto Rico Series Amid Zika Concerns

Pitt Teaming Up With Brazil On Zika Research

OraSure Developing Rapid Zika Test

Other

Preserving The Memory Of Flight 93 Victims

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5/9/2016