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Groundhog Day Feb. 2 Schedule Of Events In Punxsutawney [No, Not The State Budget Mess]

Sunday NewsClips

AP: Legislature’s Huge GOP Majorities Could Test A Wolf Veto

Op-Ed: Let’s Complete Trails On Both Banks Of Mon River

Editorial: Don’t Waste Scranton Sewer Sale Proceeds

Snyder County Conservation District Receives DCNR Grant

Delaware RiverKeeper Jan. 27 RiverWatch Video Report

Crable: Teens Prosecuted For Spray-Painting Tower At Governor Dick Park

Can Federal Ban On Lead In Ammunition, Sinkers Protect Wildlife?

Saegertown Wildlife Center Offers First Responder Class

Frye: Wild Trout To Get Attention

Western PA’s Improving Environment Attracts Growing Number Of Eagles

Crable: Trump Named For Moth, Crab After Harry Potter Heroes

The Feds - Sunday

In America’s Heartland: Discussing Climate Change Without Saying Climate Change

Farmers In Westmoreland County Wary Of Trump Trade Moves

Federal Policy

U.S. Senate Committee To Vote Next Friday On Pruitt Nomination To EPA

Casey Says Time To Focus On Infrastructure

Op-Ed: 55 Years Later, PA’s Rachel Carson’s Words Ring True Today

Franklin County Communities Want MS4 Stormwater Rules Curbed

Trump Team Plans Big Cuts At EPA

AP: Official: Trump Wants To Slash EPA Workforce, Budget

AP: Trump Administration Moving To Delay 30 Environmental Regulations

Trump Vows To Cut Regulations By 75% Or More

Advisor: Trump Might Revisit Environmental Rules Going Back Decades

Trump Issues Temporary Media Blackout At EPA, Freezes Grants

Trump Orders EPA Contract Freeze, Media Blackout

AP: Trum Orders Media Blackout At EPA

Trump Tells EPA To Freeze All Grants, Contracts

Reuters: EPA Aims To End Trump’s Freeze On Contracts, Grants Friday

EPA Science Under Scrutiny By Trump Political Staff

EPA: Political Staff Won’t Interfere With Science

Trump’s New EPA Transition Team Draws From Oil Industry Groups

What’s Up With Trump And The EPA?

Trump Environmental Review, Pipeline Memorandums

Trump Revives Keystone Pipeline Rejected By Obama

Trump Signs Orders Advancing Keystone, Dakota Pipelines

There Was Way Less To Trump’s Pipeline Order Than Anybody Thought

Oil, Gas Industry: Trump’s Position On Pipelines Is 2-Edged Sword

Trump Gives Pipeline Industry A Boost, But Leaders Warn Against Complacency

Barletta Lauds Trump’s Action On Pipelines

U.S. Senate Committee Indefinitely Delays Votes On Energy, Interior Nominees

Why The Ethanol Industry Should Fear Trump

Trump’s Regulatory Freeze Halts 4 Rules Aimed At Improving Energy Efficiency

National Park Service Apologizes For Tweets Showing Poor Inaugural Turnout

Badlands National Park Tweet On Climate In Defiance Of Trump

WSJ: Trump Aims To Reverse Obama’s Climate Agenda

Trump Backs Off Plans To Scrub Climate Pages From EPA Website

Rogue Twitter Accounts Spring Up To Fight Trump On Climate

Green Energy Features Big Among Trump’s Top 50 Infrastructure Projects

California Aims For 40% Reduction In Greenhouse Gases By 2030

Allegheny River (River Of The Year)

Allegheny River, Montour Trail Hailed For Drawing Attention to State’s Natural Assets

Freeport Involved In Developing Kayaking Water Trail Along Allegheny River

Alternative Fuels

More Lancaster Gasoline Stations Selling Cleaner Fuel

Why The Ethanol Industry Should Fear Trump

Editorial: Perdue’s Biofuel Boondoggle

Awards/Recognition

Allegheny River, Montour Trail Hailed For Drawing Attention to State’s Natural Assets

Celebrating 60 Years Of Crawford County Conservation District

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

AP: Study: Asian Carp In Lake Erie, Michigan & Ontario

Budget

Thompson: Wolf’s Challenge: How To Balance Budget Without Broad Tax Increase

AP: Grim New Forecast Sees Nearly $3B Budget Gap In PA

Independent Report Shows PA Revenues Down Yet Again

AP: Wolf To Consolidate Health, Aging, Drug, Human Services Agencies

PA Budget Crunch: Wolf Wants To Merge 4 Departments

Murphy: Wolf To Propose Consolidating 4 Agencies Into 1

Revenue From Drilling Impact Fees Expected To Fall Again This Year

Washington County Commissioner To HBG: Keep Act 13 Impact Fee

Wolf To Push Again For Severance Tax On Natural Gas Industry

McKelvey: Harrisburg Revs Up For Natural Gas Severance Tax Fight

New Year, Another Round Of Natural Gas Severance Tax Proposals, Nothing For Environment

Editorial: Natural Gas Severance Tax A Nonstarter

Bay Journal: PA Lawmakers Proposed Water Fee To Raise Cleanup Funds

Crable: EPA Pick Says He Will Support, Enforce Chesapeake Bay Cleanup, More Funding

Trump Team Plans Big Cuts At EPA

AP: Official: Trump Wants To Slash EPA Workforce, Budget

Crable: State Parks Increase Fees For Camping, Swimming, Add Transaction Fees

Chesapeake Bay

Bay Journal: PA Lawmakers Proposed Water Fee To Raise Cleanup Funds

Crable: EPA Pick Says He Will Support, Enforce Chesapeake Bay Cleanup, More Funding

Editorial: PA, Lancaster County Need To Do Their Part To Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

DCNR Awards $80K Grant To ClearWater Conservancy To Improve Water Quality

Crable: More Trees Will Be Planted Along Lancaster Streams Thanks To Grants

Video: Water Quality Of The Susquehanna River Is Everyone’s Concern

Franklin County Communities Want MS4 Stormwater Rules Curbed

Editorial: Farm Pollution And Youthfulness Of Lancaster County

Latest From The Chesapeake Bay Journal

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Climate

Thompson: Legislature Adds A Climate Change Caucus

PA Dems Organizing Against Attacks On Climate Interests

Delaware Estuary Scientists Fear Trump Actions Will Accelerate Sea-Level Rise

TreeVitalize Grants Help Tree Planting Projects Grow In Luzerne County

Climate Change: Is Pennsylvania The New Alabama?

Casey Calls For More Marches, Activism During Climate Speech

U.N. Ambassador Talks Climate Change At Wilkes U

WSJ: Trump Aims To Reverse Obama’s Climate Agenda

Trump Backs Off Plans To Scrub Climate Pages From EPA Website

CDC’s Canceled Climate Change Conference Back On

Rogue Twitter Accounts Spring Up To Fight Trump On Climate

Green Energy Features Big Among Trump’s Top 50 Infrastructure Projects

California Aims For 40% Reduction In Greenhouse Gases By 2030

Coal Mining

Mining Permit In Ryerson Station State Park Halted By EHB

Consol Prohibited From Mining Near Ryerson Station State Park

Wyoming Proposal Would Require Utilities To Use Fossil Fuels

Compliance Action

Twp Leaders Cite Yukon Industrial Waste Facility In Westmoreland

Conservation Districts

Celebrating 60 Years Of Crawford County Conservation District

Deep Mine Safety

Video Pays Tribute To Knox Mine Disaster Survivor

Delaware River

Delaware Basin Measures Its Progress In Protecting Water Supplies

Delaware Estuary Scientists Fear Trump Actions Will Accelerate Sea-Level Rise

Delaware Riverkeeper, PennDOT Clash Over Bridge Replacement In Bucks

Delaware River Watershed Weekly-Jan. 27

Drinking Water

Delaware Basin Measures Its Progress In Protecting Water Supplies

AP: Butler Elementary School Closed Due To Lead In Water

$500M Pittsburgh Water Authority Capital Projects Means Higher Rates

Drought

Drought: Dramatic Improvement Nationwide, Not Here

Economic Development

Letter: Natural Gas Driving Manufacturing’s Revival In PA

Report: Appalachian Region Could Support 4 More Ethane Plants

U.S. Solar Industry Employs More People Than Oil, Coal & Gas Combined

Officials Envision New Life For Riverfront Site Of SCI Pittsburgh

Rodale To Sell Properties In Emmaus, Centralize Employees

Education

EPCAMR, Schools Helping NE PA Trout Population

EPCAMR Project Provides Insight Into Wild Trout In Laurel Run

Gannon U Plans Environmental Research Center In Warren County

Emergency Response

Lawmakers Out To Reverse Decline In Number Of First Responders

Energy

Federal Heating Help Outpaces Last Year’s Need

Power Surge In Brookville Fries Computers, Appliances, Siding

Call To Shutdown Beaver Valley, Other Nuclear Plants Over Defective Parts

Wyoming Proposal Would Require Utilities To Use Fossil Fuels

Energy Conservation

Trump’s Regulatory Freeze Halts 4 Rules Aimed At Improving Energy Efficiency

Environmental Heritage

Video Pays Tribute To Knox Mine Disaster Survivor

Farming

Editorial: PA, Lancaster County Need To Do Their Part To Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

Editorial: Farm Pollution And Youthfulness Of Lancaster County

Forests

DCNR Awards $80K Grant To ClearWater Conservancy To Improve Water Quality

Crable: More Trees Will Be Planted Along Lancaster Streams Thanks To Grants

Stroud Water Research Center Awarded DCNR Tree Planting Grant

TreeVitalize Grants Help Tree Planting Projects Grow In Luzerne County

One Of Pennsylvania’s Largest Oak Trees Topples

Green Infrastructure

Philly Water Dept: Year In Review Pt. 2: Big Year For Philly Water Stewards

Land Conservation

Massive Land Deal Protects Kelley’s Run In Lancaster

Mine Reclamation

EPCAMR Project Provides Insight Into Wild Trout In Laurel Run

Oil & Gas

Revenue From Drilling Impact Fees Expected To Fall Again This Year

Washington County Commissioner To HBG: Keep Act 13 Impact Fee

Wolf To Push Again For Severance Tax On Natural Gas Industry

McKelvey: Harrisburg Revs Up For Natural Gas Severance Tax Fight

New Year, Another Round Of Natural Gas Severance Tax Proposals, Nothing For Environment

Editorial: Natural Gas Severance Tax A Nonstarter

Report: PA Drilling Companies Plan 29% Increase In New Wells Over 2016

Murrysville Reaches Consensus On Shale Drilling Rule

Editorial: Economic Cost Of Fracking

Senate Panel Approves Royalty Bills (Again)

Some Landowners See Gas Royalty Checks Diminish With Collapse In Prices

Letter: Natural Gas Driving Manufacturing’s Revival In PA

Lycoming Company: Texas Driller Reneged On $1.7 Million

Report: Appalachian Region Could Support 4 More Ethane Plants

Editorial: Ensure Full National Gas Royalty Payments

Pittsburgh Gasoline Prices Fall Again

Pipelines

Crable: 32 Lancaster Landowners Holding Out On Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline

Crable: Lancaster Farmland Trust Sues Farm Owner For Allowing Gas Pipeline

FERC Pushes Back Timeline For PennEast Pipeline Again

Federal Decision On PennEast Pipeline Delayed Again

Contentious PennEast Pipeline Hits Another Snag

Alternative Route For PennEast Pipeline Floated In Bucks County

Middletown Mariner East 2 Pipeline Critics Welcome Risk Study

Crable: Lack Of Quorum At FERC Could Delay Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline

Resignation At FERC Threatens To Delay Pipeline Projects

Pipeline CEO: Change Approach To Get Infrastructure Built

Op-Ed: Pipeline Buildout A Must For PA Agriculture

Trump Environmental Review, Pipeline Memorandums

Trump Revives Keystone Pipeline Rejected By Obama

Trump Signs Orders Advancing Keystone, Dakota Pipelines

There Was Way Less To Trump’s Pipeline Order Than Anybody Thought

Keystone XL Pipeline Sents New Application To Trump

Oil, Gas Industry: Trump’s Position On Pipelines Is 2-Edged Sword

Trump Gives Pipeline Industry A Boost, But Leaders Warn Against Complacency

Barletta Lauds Trump’s Action On Pipelines

Radon

Early Childhood Education/National Radon Action Month

Recreation

Allegheny River, Montour Trail Hailed For Drawing Attention to State’s Natural Assets

Mining Permit In Ryerson Station State Park Halted By EHB

Consol Prohibited From Mining Near Ryerson Station State Park

AP: Laurel Mountain Ski Resort Reopens Over A Decade

Crable: State Parks Increase Fees For Camping, Swimming, Add Transaction Fees

Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

Freeport Involved In Developing Kayaking Water Trail Along Allegheny River

Schuylkill River Trail Set To Reopen Following Construction

Philly Mayor, Council Clash Over Terms Of Rebuild Program

Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy Connects Trails In Allegheny County

Crowd Balks At Swamp Creek Trail Study In Montgomery County

Hearts Content National Scenic Area In Allegheny National Forest

National Park Service Apologizes For Tweets Showing Poor Inaugural Turnout

Badlands National Park Tweet On Climate In Defiance Of Trump

Recycling/Waste

Wilkes-Barre Commercial Recycling Reports Due By Feb. 17

Meeting Focuses On Trash Mgmt. In Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Fulton Counties

Twp Leaders Cite Yukon Industrial Waste Facility In Westmoreland

Renewable Energy

Bucks Engineers Pair Wind With Water With New Turbine

Great Lakes Could Get First Offshore Wind Farm

Green Energy Features Big Among Trump’s Top 50 Infrastructure Projects

U.S. Solar Industry Employs More People Than Oil, Coal & Gas Combined

Stormwater Management

Franklin County Communities Want MS4 Stormwater Rules Curbed

Susquehanna River

Residents Share Their Favorite Memories Of Susquehanna River

Video: Water Quality Of The Susquehanna River Is Everyone’s Concern

Wastewater Facilities

Backyard Hole In Scranton Grows As Lawsuit Over It Proceeds

Some Scranton Sewer Customers Received Erroneous Bills

Alcosan Allocates $1M For Low-Income Families’ Sewer Bills

Watershed Protection

Bay Journal: PA Lawmakers Proposed Water Fee To Raise Cleanup Funds

Crable: EPA Pick Says He Will Support, Enforce Chesapeake Bay Cleanup, More Funding

Video: Water Quality Of The Susquehanna River Is Everyone’s Concern

Editorial: PA, Lancaster County Need To Do Their Part To Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

DCNR Awards $80K Grant To ClearWater Conservancy To Improve Water Quality

Crable: More Trees Will Be Planted Along Lancaster Streams Thanks To Grants

Stroud Water Research Center Awarded DCNR Tree Planting Grant

Franklin County Communities Want MS4 Stormwater Rules Curbed

Editorial: Farm Pollution And Youthfulness Of Lancaster County

EPCAMR, Schools Helping NE PA Trout Population

EPCAMR Project Provides Insight Into Wild Trout In Laurel Run

Delaware Basin Measures Its Progress In Protecting Water Supplies

Philly Water Dept: Year In Review Pt. 2: Big Year For Philly Water Stewards

Massive Land Deal Protects Kelley’s Run In Lancaster

Officials Envision New Life For Riverfront Site Of SCI Pittsburgh

Delaware River Watershed Weekly-Jan. 27

Latest From The Chesapeake Bay Journal

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Wildlife

AP: Study: Asian Carp In Lake Erie, Michigan & Ontario

EPCAMR, Schools Helping NE PA Trout Population

EPCAMR Project Provides Insight Into Wild Trout In Laurel Run

Sportsmen, Wildlife Benefit From Local Conservation Groups’ Fundraising

Frye: More Big Trout In More Places

Fish Commission Adds 6 Waters To Popular Keystone Select Trout Program

Residents Share Their Favorite Memories Of Susquehanna River

Video: Water Quality Of The Susquehanna River Is Everyone’s Concern

Pennsylvania’s Deer Are A Hearty Bunch

Poisoned Bald Eagle In Lancaster Lives To Fly Again

Schneck: 14 Facts About Squirrels In Pennsylvania

Schneck: Coyotes In PA: Closer Than You Think, Much Closer

 

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