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Republican/Democratic Endorsements:

Scott Wagner Wins Republican Endorsement For Governor

Jeff Bartos Wins Republican Endorsement For Lt. Governor

Lou Barletta Wins Republican Endorsement For U.S. Senate

AP: PA Republicans Endorse Candidates Identified With Trump

Murphy: Republicans Throw Backing To Wagner-Bartos In Governor’s Race

Murphy: Wagner: Winning Republican Endorsement Is The First Big Step

Scott Wagner Wins Republican Endorsement For Governor

House Speaker Turzai Withdraws From Republican Governor’s Race Before Endorsement Vote

Letter Urging Speaker Turzai To Stay In The House To Elect Republicans

Wagner Wins Republican Endorsement For Governor, Turzai Suspends Campaign

State Political Parties Endorse Barletta, Casey In U.S. Senate Race

Thompson: Democrats Coronate Wolf, Casey, Leave Lt. Governor’s Race Open

PA Democrats Name Indiana County Lawyer Jack Hanna Interim Chair

Editorial: Filling State Democratic Party Chair’s Vacancy

Politics

AP-Scolforo, Levy: Democrats See Partisanship In Republican Voting Districts Map

Republican Congressional Map See As Negotiations’ Starting Point

Erie Lawmakers Praise, Pan New Congressional District Map

New Congressional District Map Could Change Political Landscape

Senate, House Republican Leaders Submit Revised Congressional District Plan To Wolf

AP: House, Senate Republican Leaders Unveil Revised Gerrymandered District Map

Thompson: Republican Legislative Leaders Submit New Congressional Map

Esack/Olson: Republican Lawmakers Send New Congressional Map To Wolf, Cuts Out Some Candidates

PA  Supreme Court’s Gerrymandering Opinion Seen As Groundbreaking 

AP-Levy: Republican Leaders May Use Informal Process To Get New Congressional Map To Governor By Deadline

AP: PA Supreme Court Justices Explain Decision In Gerrymandering Case

Thompson: PA Supreme Court Issues Opinions In Congressional Redistricting Case 

Wagner Leads Republican Straw Polls For Governor Ahead Of Endorsement Meeting

Sunday NewsClips

House Environmental Majority Chair Rep. John Maher Won’t Seek Re-Election

Op-Ed: Lawmakers Out Of Excuses: Pass The Severance Tax

Editorial: Battle Lines Drawn Over Natural Gas Severance Tax

Editorial: PA Politics Of Stagnation

Pike County’s Groundwater Generally Meets Standards

Flood Watch: Philly Area Could See A Whole Month’s Worth Of Rain

Water Rescuers Train To Save Lives

Great American Cleanup Of PA Registration Now Open

Longwood Gardens, Delaware Valley University Pathway To Horticulture Degree

Camp Cadet Applications Available For Students In Clarion, Clearfield, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean, Indiana Counties

Lancaster Students Compete In STEM Contests At Tech Conference

Air

Air Quality Still A Challenge In Pittsburgh

Court Orders EPA To Rule On CT Air Pollution Petition Involving PA Power Plant

Judge’s Order Could Force Trump’s EPA To Sanction PA Coal Plant

Awards & Recognition

DCNR Ranger Wins Keep America Beautiful National Award

Meadville Earns PA Municipal League Sustainable Community Gold Certification

PA American Water Accepting Entries For Protect Our Watersheds Art Contest

Anthracite Coal Marks 250th Anniversary: Hard Coal Still Has Modern Uses

AP: Anthracite Marks Its 250th Anniversary

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

Feds Allocate $17.5 Million To Combat Spotted Lanternfly In PA

USDA Announces $17.5M In Emergency Funding To Fight Spotted Lanternfly

Crable: New $19.1M In State, Federal Money To Try To Stop Spotted Lanternfly

Kummer: PA Nets $175M To Fight Invasive Spotted Lanternfly

Budget

Bay Journal-Morelli: PA Senate Approves Bay Funding Bill Without The Funding 

Legere: DEP Proposes To Double Gas Drilling Permit Fees 

Op-Ed: With New Budget, Wolf Must Champion The Environment, Joe Minott

McKelvey: Bump In Environmental Protection Budget Does Little To Stem Legacy Of Cuts

Schneck: Wolf Aims For Bigger Lyme Disease Battle In Proposed Budget

Republicans Oppose Wolf’s Latest Attempt At Natural Gas Severance Tax

Editorial: Extraction Tax On Natural Gas Long Overdue

PA Farm Bureau Concerned About Some Wolf Budget Proposals

AP: Highlights Of Gov. Wolf’s 4th State Budget Proposal

AP: Text Of Gov. Wolf’s 2018 Budget Address

Gov. Wolf’s 2018-19 Budget Winners And Losers

AP-Levy: Wolf Aims For Smooth Landing For Election-Year Budget 

Wolf To Reaffirm Commitment To Education, Skills Training In New Budget

Feds Allocate $17.5 Million To Combat Spotted Lanternfly In PA

USDA Announces $17.5M In Emergency Funding To Fight Spotted Lanternfly

Chesapeake Bay

Bay Journal-Morelli: PA Senate Approves Bay Funding Bill Without The Funding

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Climate

Report Says Green, Sustainable Infrastructure Can Result In Billions In Benefits To Cities

EPA’s Pruitt Asks Whether Global Warming Necessarily Is A Bad Thing

AEP Carbon Reduction Plan Calls For 8+ GW Of Renewable Energy

Coal Mining

Letter: Future Is Renewable Energy, Not Coal

Anthracite Coal Marks 250th Anniversary: Hard Coal Still Has Modern Uses

AP: Anthracite Marks Its 250th Anniversary

Coal Demand Uptick And Tax Law Show Promise For Consol Energy

Coal Production Improving, Still Behind 2017 Levels

Most PJM States Oppose PJM’s Capacity Repricing Proposal

DOE Weighing Emergency Aid For Some Coal Power Plants

Conservation Districts

Applications Now Being Accepted For Lancaster County Youth Conservation School

Delaware River

Feb. 9 Delaware RiverKeeper RiverWatch Video Report

Drinks For The Delaware Raises Money For Clean Water

Drinking Water

Pittsburgh Water Authority Could Sever Water Subsidy For 2 Neighborhoods

PA American Water Accepting Entries For Protect Our Watersheds Art Contest

Lawmakers Considering Bill To Require Lead Testing In Schools

Bethlehem Authority To Let PennEast Pipeline On Its Land Under $1.7 Million Deal

Deal Reached To Bring PennEast Pipeline Thru Bethlehem Watershed

Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Worries Water Utilities

Education

PA American Water Accepting Entries For Protect Our Watersheds Art Contest

Applications Now Being Accepted For Lancaster County Youth Conservation School

Phipps Conservatory Unveils Tropical Forest Cuba Landscape Exhibit

Energy

Editorial: Landfill Gas Plant At Keystone Can’t Justify Dump Growth

Franklin County Groups Question Transource Power Line Project

Op-Ed: Transource Power Line In Southern York County Is Needed

PUC Approves High-Voltage Transmission Line In Bedford, Somerset Counties

Crable: DEP Proposes 4th Draft Of New Brunner Island Power Plant Water Permit

WITF Smart Talk: Is TMI Closing An Opportunity For Renewables?

Exelon To Close New Jersey Nuclear Plant A Year Ahead of Schedule

U.S. EIA: Low Prices, Rising Production To Boost Gas Generation Thru 2050

New Jersey Senate Delays Hearing On Nuclear Subsidy Bill

Most PJM States Oppose PJM’s Capacity Repricing Proposal

DOE Weighing Emergency Aid For Some Coal Power Plants

Environmental Heritage

Anthracite Coal Marks 250th Anniversary: Hard Coal Still Has Modern Uses

AP: Anthracite Marks Its 250th Anniversary

Farming

Crable: Lancaster’s Largest Farms May Get New Anti-Pollution Regulations

Lancaster’s Farmland Helps Power Local Economy

Feds Allocate $17.5 Million To Combat Spotted Lanternfly In PA

USDA Announces $17.5M In Emergency Funding To Fight Spotted Lanternfly

Flooding

Blair County Hazard Mitigation Group IDs Flood Insurance Savings

Forests

DCNR Ranger Wins Keep America Beautiful National Award

DCNR Provides Help For Forest Landowners Selling Timber, Preparing Mgmt Plans

Schneck: Wolf Aims For Bigger Lyme Disease Battle In Proposed Budget

Experts: Deer Ticks Will Rebound Quickly After Cold Weather

Feds Allocate $17.5 Million To Combat Spotted Lanternfly In PA

USDA Announces $17.5M In Emergency Funding To Fight Spotted Lanternfly

Crable: New $19.1M In State, Federal Money To Try To Stop Spotted Lanternfly

Kummer: PA Nets $175M To Fight Invasive Spotted Lanternfly

Green Infrastructure

Report Says Green, Sustainable Infrastructure Can Result In Billions In Benefits To Cities

Vandergrift Gets Growing Greener Grant For Permeable Sidewalks, Planting Trees

Growing Greener

Vandergrift Gets Growing Greener Grant For Permeable Sidewalks, Planting Trees

Hazardous Sites Cleanup

Pottstown’s Pollock Park To Get Environmental Cleanup

Land Conservation

Brookfield Renewable Donates 500 Acres To Lancaster County Conservancy

Drinks For The Delaware Raises Money For Clean Water

Littering/Illegal Dumping

Spring Community Cleanup Events In PA Can Get Free Supplies

Mine Reclamation

Knapp: West Branch Of Susquehanna Supports Fine Trout Fishery

Oil & Gas

Legere: DEP Proposes To Double Gas Drilling Permit Fees

Republicans Oppose Wolf’s Latest Attempt At Natural Gas Severance Tax

Op-Ed: Lawmakers Out Of Excuses: Pass The Severance Tax

Editorial: Extraction Tax On Natural Gas Long Overdue

Fmr Freeport Golf Course May Be Site Of 200 Gas Wells, 200 Houses

Frazier: Pittsburgh Suburbs Decide As Fracking Comes Near: Welcome, Or Resist?

Hopey: Neighbors Use Novel Constitutional Argument To Try To Cap Shale Gas Drilling

Carr: Environmental Group Opposes Monroeville’s Rules On Oil & Gas Activity

Study: Radioactivity Found In Stream Sediment Where Drilling Wastewater Treated

U.S. EIA: Low Prices, Rising Production To Boost Gas Generation Thru 2050

Pipelines

Legere: DEP Fines Mariner East II Pipeline $12.6 Million, Allows Work To Resume

Cusick: Sunoco Resume Work On Mariner East II Pipeline, Pays $12.6 Million Fine

AP-Scolforo: Massive Mariner East II Pipeline Project To Resume, Fined $12 Million

Crable: DEP Fines Mariner East II Pipeline $12.6M, Allows Construction To Continue

DEP Levies Historic $12.6 Million Penalty Against Mariner East II Pipeline

Sauro: DEP Hands Mariner East II Pipeline Historic Fine

Mariner East II Pipeline Foes Say A 2015 Blast Points To Risks

Hurdle: Mariner East II Pipeline Critics Don’t Trust DEP, Sunoco Agreement

Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline Appeals DEP Suspension Of Construction

Phillips: Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline Appeals DEP Stop Work Order

Sen. Dinniman Promotes Crowd-Funding For Mariner East II Pipeline Risk Assessment

Crable:Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Construction Means Short-Term Money For Lancaster Businesses

Allegheny Front: How Pipelines Are Changing The Dynamics Of PA Forests

Are Pipelines To Blame For Decline In Hellbenders?

Letter: Laurel Pipeline Reversal Bad For Consumers

PennEast Pipeline Seeks Eminent Domain, Plus U.S. Marshals To Protect Workers

PennEast Pipeline Begins Filing Eminent Domain Lawsuits Against Landowners

Bethlehem Authority To Let PennEast Pipeline On Its Land Under $1.7 Million Deal

Deal Reached To Bring PennEast Pipeline Thru Bethlehem Watershed

AP: PennEast Proposal To Use State Land For Gas Pipeline Rejected By NJ AG

Trump Tax Cuts Results In Requests To FERC To Cut Pipeline Rates

Trump’s Buy American Mandate On Pipeline Projects Has Vanished

Radiation Protection

Study: Radioactivity Found In Stream Sediment Where Drilling Wastewater Treated

WITF Smart Talk: Is TMI Closing An Opportunity For Renewables?

Exelon To Close New Jersey Nuclear Plant A Year Ahead of Schedule

New Jersey Senate Delays Hearing On Nuclear Subsidy Bill

Energy Tax Credits Included In U.S. Senate Budget Deal

Recreation

DCNR Ranger Wins Keep America Beautiful National Award

PennDOT, DCNR Project To Revamp Ohiopyle Rankles Some Residents, Businesses

Frye: State Forest Wild Areas Offer Beauty, Solitude And Quiet

Presque Isle State Park Seeks Lifeguard Applicants

Presque Isle Snow Day Celebrates Winter At State Park

Feb. 9 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

Experts: Deer Ticks Will Rebound Quickly After Cold Weather

Hayes: Ice Trail, Go Forest Skating At South Park In Allegheny County

Pottstown’s Pollock Park To Get Environmental Cleanup

Recycling/Waste

Editorial: Landfill Gas Plant At Keystone Can’t Justify Dump Growth

Regulations

What CEOs Still Want From Trump: A Deregulation Wishlist

Renewable Energy

WITF Smart Talk: Is TMI Closing An Opportunity For Renewables?

University Area Joint Authority Opens Largest Solar Array On Municipal Land In PA

Brookfield Renewable Donates 500 Acres To Lancaster County Conservancy

Bethlehem Authority To Let PennEast Pipeline On Its Land Under $1.7 Million Deal

Wind Energy Proposal Scaled Back In Bethlehem Watershed

Letter: Future Is Renewable Energy, Not Coal

AEP Carbon Reduction Plan Calls For 8+ GW Of Renewable Energy

Most PJM States Oppose PJM’s Capacity Repricing Proposal

Susquehanna River

Crable: DEP Proposes 4th Draft Of New Brunner Island Power Plant Water Permit

Twp. Officials: Evicted Susquehanna River Islander is Harassing Us

Knapp: West Branch Of Susquehanna Supports Fine Trout Fishery

I Won’t Quit Fighting For Susquehanna River Island Despite Twp Lawsuit

Sustainability

Meadville Earns PA Municipal League Sustainable Community Gold Certification

Report Says Green, Sustainable Infrastructure Can Result In Billions In Benefits To Cities

Wastewater Facilities

University Area Joint Authority Opens Largest Solar Array On Municipal Land In PA

Attorney General: No Fraud Found In Scranton Sewer Sale’s $5.3M In Professional Fees

Watershed Protection

Bay Journal-Morelli: PA Senate Approves Bay Funding Bill Without The Funding

Crable: Lancaster’s Largest Farms May Get New Anti-Pollution Regulations

Crable: How Clean Are the Streams And Rivers In Lancaster County?

Vandergrift Gets Growing Greener Grant For Permeable Sidewalks, Planting Trees

Crable: DEP Proposes 4th Draft Of New Brunner Island Power Plant Water Permit

Study: Radioactivity Found In Stream Sediment Where Drilling Wastewater Treated

Feb. 9 Delaware RiverKeeper RiverWatch Video Report

Philadelphia Greases Light Poles With Hydraulic Fluid, Not Crisco To Prevent Pole Climbing

Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Worries Water Utilities

EPA, Army Corps Push Back Implementation Of Waters Of The U.S. Rule

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Wildlife

Pittsburgh National Aviary Video: From Our Eagles To Yours On Super Bowl Win

Hayes: Fish & Boat Commission Fishing For Funding Advice

Schneck: Snow Goose Numbers Explode At Middle Creek Wildlife Area

Crable: 50,000 Snow Geese Return To Middle Creek Wildlife Area

Crable: Snow Geese Returning Early To Middle Creek Wildlife Area

Forests For The Chesapeake Bay: The Rugged Ruffed Grouse: Heartbeat Of Our Winter Forests

Game Commission Webinar Feb. 15: Grouse Management In The Age Of West Nile Virus

Juniata Valley Audubon Uses Tech To Count Birds In Annual Bird Count

Editorial: New Hope For Erie Bird Research

Are Pipelines To Blame For Decline In Hellbenders?

Marianna Outdoorsmen Seek Purchase of Property On Ten Mile Creek To Assure Access

Knapp: West Branch Of Susquehanna Supports Fine Trout Fishery

AP: For Many, Call Of Ice Fishing Is Irresistible

AP: Members Of Congress Want 1-Year Deadline For Asian Carp Plan

Research: Chronic Wasting Disease In Deer May Pose Risk To Humans

Keeping Deer Out Of The Garden Is Tough, Here Are Some Tricks

Crable: NRA Great American Outdoor Show Expects 200,000 Visitors In Harrisburg

West Nile/Zika Virus

Schneck: Wolf Aims For Bigger Lyme Disease Battle In Proposed Budget

Experts: Deer Ticks Will Rebound Quickly After Cold Weather

Other

AP: Erie Breaks Winter Season Snowfall Record

CEO Of Carnegie Museums Of Pittsburgh Stepping Down

Hurricanes

Puerto Ricans Grab Machetes, Shovels To Help Restore Power

Cong. Perry Joins Effort To Aid Victims Of Hurricanes In Puerto Rico

Federal Policy

What CEOs Still Want From Trump: A Deregulation Wishlist

EPA’s Pruitt Asks Whether Global Warming Necessarily Is A Bad Thing

DOE Weighing Emergency Aid For Some Coal Power Plants

Energy Tax Credits Included In U.S. Senate Budget Deal

Court Orders EPA To Rule On CT Air Pollution Petition Involving PA Power Plant

Judge’s Order Could Force Trump’s EPA To Sanction PA Coal Plant

Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Worries Water Utilities

EPA, Army Corps Push Back Implementation Of Waters Of The U.S. Rule

Trump Tax Cuts Results In Requests To FERC To Cut Pipeline Rates

Trump’s Buy American Mandate On Pipeline Projects Has Vanished

Trump To Pull Nomination Of Top Environmental Advisor

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2/12/2018