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Sunday NewsClips

A Beautiful Day For Some Fishing

Legislative Deadlock Looms Over PA Trout Season

Kiski, Conemaugh Mine Runoff Treatment Systems Clogged With Sediment

Editorial: Severance Tax Shibboleths

Champions Of The PA Wilds Award Winners Announced

So Big, So Green: Traveling The Wilds Of Pennsylvania

Facts Matter Cry Ralliers In Bethlehem’s March For Science

Op-Ed: Gas And Water(front) Don’t Mix Along Delaware

Public Invited To Lewisburg Tree Planting April 19

Landslides A Common Annoyance In Western PA, Blame Weather, Geology

Editorial: Pool Resources To Address Regional Landslides

Storm Expected Sunday Night, Warnings Of Flash Floods, Landslides In Western PA

Potentially Flooding Rains Expected For Central PA

Downed Power Line Ignites Major Armstrong County Brush Fire

Duquesne Light Rate Increase Would Hike Residential Bills By Nearly 9 Percent

PPL Enters Uncertain World Of Ratemaking In United Kingdom

Water Dance Erie Events Unites Artists, Conservationists

Tredway Trail To Add New Sights, With 1.5 Mile Expansion

Ground Breaks For Philly Greenway Along Fmr Conrail Heroin Hotspot

Sunday - The Feds

Op-Ed: Trump, Pruitt Waging War On Fuel Standards

Op-Ed: Trump’s Fuel Efficiency Rollbacks Are A Wrong Turn For PA

Editorial: Standards For Gas Efficiency Area Good For Business

Politics

Esack: House Republicans Booed For Gutting Bill Creating Redistricting Commission

AP-Scolforo: House Republicans Back Plan To Give Majority More Redistricting Power 

Air

EPA Threatens PA With Sanctions For Failing To Reduce Soot Pollution In Allegheny County

Environmental Defense Fund Launching Own Satellite To Measure Oil & Gas Methane Leaks

EPA Biofuel Waivers Undercut Trump’s Pledge To Farmers

Trump Orders Faster Issuance Of EPA Air Pollution Permits

Alternative Fuels

Compressed Natural Gas Station Opens In Allentown To Serve LANTA Buses

Council Advances Bill To Kill Philadelphia’s Electric Vehicle Parking Program

Op-Ed: Lawmakers Need To Level The Playing Field For PA’s Electric Driving Future

Awards & Recognition

Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Receives Governor’s Award For Excellence

Harrisburg Makes National Geographic Greenest Small City In The Country List

Laurel Highlands Shelter Project Gets $5,000 Grant In Somerset

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

Schneck: 15 Best Wildflower Spots In Pennsylvania

Budget

PA Supreme Court Hears Argument Over Natural Gas Impact Fees For Stripper Wells

Wolf Announces Affordable Housing Funding Supported By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees

Officials Worry Shortage of Game Wardens Could Lead To More Wildlife Crimes

John Arway Meets With PennLive.com Editorial Board

Editorial: Fish & Boat Boss Right To Press For Higher License Fees

Interior Reverses Proposal To Raise Some National Park Entry Fees

Chesapeake Bay

Bay Journal: States Collaborate On Implementation Plan For Conowingo Dam On Susquehanna

Bay Journal: States Will Have To Account For Climate Change In Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plans

Crable: Lancaster County Leaders To Take Charge Of Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Efforts

Op-Ed: What Does The Chesapeake Bay TMDL Midpoint Assessment Mean To You?

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Citizen Action

Volunteers Needed April 15 To Help Clean Plastic Pellets From Pocono Creek In Tannersville

Video: It Takes A Village To Clean Up Plastic Pellets In Pocono Creek, You Can Get Involved

Climate

Ed Perry, Retired Biologist, Delivers Global Warming Warning

EPA Issues First License Key To Climate-Friendly Coal Plants

Environmental Defense Fund Launching Own Satellite To Measure Oil & Gas Methane Leaks

Coal Mining

PJM Asks Feds To Address Utility Subsidy Requests For Aging Coal, Nuclear Plants

PJM Files Competing Capacity Market Reforms At FERC

DOE’s Perry Voices Doubt About FirstEnergy Generation’s Plea To Save Coal, Nuclear Plants

DOE May Not Declare A Power Grid Emergency After All To Save Coal, Nuclear Plants

Environmentalists Split On Letting Carbon-Free Nuclear Power Die

Op-Ed: Electricity Customers Want Competition

EPA Issues First License Key To Climate-Friendly Coal Plants

New Jersey Takes A Big Step Toward Renewable Energy, And Nuclear Gets Help

New Jersey Passes $300M-A-Year Rescue Of Nuclear Industry, Could Raise Electric Bills $41/Year

New Jersey Passes Bills With Nuclear Subsidies, 50% RPS, 2 GW Storage Target

New Jersey Lawmakers Finally Pass Nuclear Subsidy Bill

New Jersey Passes $300 Million-A-Year Rescue Of Nuclear Industry

Saving New Jersey’s Nuclear Plants Came At A Hefty Price

API: New Jersey Governor Should Say No To Nuclear Bailout, Protect Consumers

Frazier: FirstEnergy: If Feds Don’t Help Us, More Power Plants Will Close

Power Plant Owners Press Trump To Reject Bailout For Coal, Nuclear

Coal Exec Bob Murray On Big Oil: They’re Prostitutes

Compliance Action

Five Questions Likely To Flow From Water-To-Water Cases, Including EQT In PA

Delaware River

Delaware River Watershed Initiative Builds On Conservation Successes

Area Groups Partner To Protect Water Quality In Chester County

Delaware RiverKeeper April 13 RiverWatch Video Report

Drinking Water

Crable: DEP Orders Do Not Drink The Water Signs At Lancaster Church/Day Care Center

Earth Day

Films, Forums, Festivals: Guide To Penn State’s 2018 Earth Days

Earth Day 2018 In The Lehigh Valley

Economic Development

Energy Investors To Pittsburgh: To Save The Environment, Think About How To Make Money

Pennsylvania Cherry Will Invest $15M+ To Open New Hardwood Facility In Franklin County

Wolf Announces Grant To Pennsylvania Cherry To Create 42 New Jobs In Franklin County

U.S. House Hearing On Proposed Susquehanna National Heritage Area

Education

Frye: Brook Trout Trail Program To Examine Fisheries, Communication About Special Places

STEM Symposium Aims To Put Girls On Path To Success

Editorial: Engineering STEM Interest In Girls

Cabot Oil & Gas Completes Endowment Commitment To Lackawanna College

Riverlife President And CEO Stepping Down

Editorial: Vital Search For Leader of Carnegie Museums Of Pittsburgh

Emergency Response

Avoid Damage To Utilities When You Call Before You Dig

Irwin Considers Tax Incentives For Firefighters

Energy

Energy Investors To Pittsburgh: To Save The Environment, Think About How To Make Money

New Westmoreland Natural Gas Power Plant Tries To Hire Local

New Jersey Takes A Big Step Toward Renewable Energy, And Nuclear Gets Help

New Jersey Passes $300M-A-Year Rescue Of Nuclear Industry, Could Raise Electric Bills $41/Year

New Jersey Lawmakers Finally Pass Nuclear Subsidy Bill

New Jersey Passes $300 Million-A-Year Rescue Of Nuclear Industry

New Jersey Passes Bills With Nuclear Subsidies, 50% RPS, 2 GW Storage Target

Saving New Jersey’s Nuclear Plants Came At A Hefty Price

API: New Jersey Governor Should Say No To Nuclear Bailout, Protect Consumers

Frazier: FirstEnergy: If Feds Don’t Help Us, More Power Plants Will Close

Power Plant Owners Press Trump To Reject Bailout For Coal, Nuclear

Peoples Gas Seeking Rate Decrease, Cites Marcellus Shale Supply

PJM Asks Feds To Address Utility Subsidy Requests For Aging Coal, Nuclear Plants

PJM Files Competing Capacity Market Reforms At FERC

DOE’s Perry Voices Doubt About FirstEnergy Generation’s Plea To Save Coal, Nuclear Plants

DOE May Not Declare A Power Grid Emergency After All To Save Coal, Nuclear Plants

Environmentalists Split On Letting Carbon-Free Nuclear Power Die

Op-Ed: Electricity Customers Want Competition

New PJM Settlements Program Provides Members Better Market Signals

EPA Issues First License Key To Climate-Friendly Coal Plants

Editorial: Prevent Power Hacks

Energy Conservation

Energy Investors To Pittsburgh: To Save The Environment, Think About How To Make Money

LED Streetlights Coming To Philadelphia, Will They Mess With Our Sleep?

Farming

Penn State Extension: Threat Of Incidental Transfer Of Manure To Streams

Lehigh Valley Farmers Worry About Trade War, Weather

Bradford County Farmers Hit The Road To Reach Shoppers Before Amazon Does

PA Distributors Rescue Some Dairy Farms, Others Face Uncertain Future

Flooding

Crable: 1904 Ice Floe Swallowed Up Lancaster County Town Along Susquehanna

Forests

Pennsylvania Cherry Will Invest $15M+ To Open New Hardwood Facility In Franklin County

Wolf Announces Grant To Pennsylvania Cherry To Create 42 New Jobs In Franklin County

Bethlehem Residents Livid Over PennDOT’s Route 378 Tree Removal Project

Geologic Hazards

Officials Seek Emergency Funding For Route 30 Landslide In East Pittsburgh

Gov. Wolf Calls Route 30 Landslide Devastating In Pittsburgh

Displaced Neighbors Lament Loss From Landslide In Pittsburgh

AP: Collapsing Hillside Prompts Road Closure, Evacuations In Pittsburgh

Route 30 Collapses In East Pittsburgh Landslide, Will Be Closed For Months

Sudden Collapse Of Route 30 Prompts Evacuations, Closes Highway For Months

Video: Route 30 Collapse In Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Dealing With Record Year Of Landslides, 5 Times Over Budget

Editorial: A Closer Look At Route 30 Collapse In Pittsburgh

Green Infrastructure

Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Receives Governor’s Award For Excellence

Bay Journal: States Will Have To Account For Climate Change In Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plans

History - Environmental

Crable: 1904 Ice Floe Swallowed Up Lancaster County Town Along Susquehanna

Land Conservation

Esack: Lehigh Valley Senators Want Review Of Clean And Green Law

Conservation Groups: Cumberland Valley School District Effort To Take Over Farm Ethically, Legally Suspect

Kummer: You Can Watch As Valley Forge Burns 150 Acres Of Meadow

Littering/Illegal Dumping

Northumberland Conservation District Collects 2,400+ Waste Tires

PennDOT; Helpers Welcome At Great American Cleanup Events In Wayne, Pike Counties

Erie’s Spring Cleanup Collectors A Welcome Sight

Editorial: Picking Up After Others

Mine Reclamation

Wolf Announces $25M For Mining Site Cleanup, Including 4 Projects In Luzerne

Weatherly Gets $3M Grant For Mine Reclamation Project

DEP To Fund Filling Mine Voids Under Lackawanna College Building In Scranton

Frazier: DEP Announces $25M To Clean Up A Dozen Abandoned Coal Mine Sites

Pittsburgh Glass Works Launches Website On Coal Mine Fire Under Site

Editorial: Mine Subsidence One Of Northeast’s Grim Legacies From Coal Mining

Pollution From Abandoned Mine Kills Turtle Creek Trout Stocking Plans

Frye: Turtle Creek Won’t Get Stocked Trout, But Montour Run Will

Oil & Gas

PA Supreme Court Hears Argument Over Natural Gas Impact Fees For Stripper Wells

Wolf Announces Affordable Housing Funding Supported By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees

Cusick: Bill Would Weaken Environmental Standards On Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers

Frazier: Penn Twp Fracking Dispute Heads To Court On Environmental Rights Amendment

Hopey: Drilling Company Ends Involvement With Potter County Water Treatment Plant

Hopey: Drilling Wastewater Treatment Proposal Along Allegheny Appears To Be Dead

Clearfield Commissioners To Facilitate Public Meeting On Drilling Wastewater Injection Well

Coudersport Authority Revokes Permits On Drilling Wastewater Plant In Potter County

DEP Report: 2014 Data Shows Low Number Of Natural Gas Well Migration, Leak Issues

Company Searches For Stolen Seismic Testing Geophones In Monroeville

New Westmoreland Natural Gas Power Plant Tries To Hire Local

Cabot Oil & Gas Completes Endowment Commitment To Lackawanna College

Compressed Natural Gas Station Opens In Allentown To Serve LANTA Buses

Peoples Gas Seeking Rate Decrease, Cites Marcellus Shale Supply

Harrisburg Rally Demands End To Natural Gas Fracking In PA

Environmental Defense Fund Launching Own Satellite To Measure Oil & Gas Methane Leaks

EPA Biofuel Waivers Undercut Trump’s Pledge To Farmers

Coal Exec Bob Murray On Big Oil: They’re Prostitutes

Permitting

FERC, Interior, EPA, DOE Other Agencies Agree To Faster Infrastructure Permitting

Pipelines

Mariner East 1 Pipeline To Remain Out Of Service Until Late April

Phillips: Mariner East 2 Pipeline Opponents Offer $10K Reward For Info On Vandalism

Hopey: Mariner East 2 Pipeline Protesters’ Trees Cut In Huntingdon County

Op-Ed: Gov. Wolf Should Stop Cozying Up To Sunoco On Mariner East 2 Pipeline

PA School Employee Retirement Fund Cuts Buckeye Pipeline Holdings

Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Work To Resume In Dorrance In May

Trump Push To Shorten Gas Pipeline Reviews May Limit Public Input

Natural Gas Industry Urges Trump To Limit Clean Water Act Authority Of States Over Pipelines

Editorial: Prevent Power Hacks

Radiation Protection

New Jersey Takes A Big Step Toward Renewable Energy, And Nuclear Gets Help

New Jersey Passes $300M-A-Year Rescue Of Nuclear Industry, Could Raise Electric Bills $41/Year

New Jersey Lawmakers Finally Pass Nuclear Subsidy Bill

New Jersey Passes $300 Million-A-Year Rescue Of Nuclear Industry

Saving New Jersey’s Nuclear Plants Came At A Hefty Price

API: New Jersey Governor Should Say No To Nuclear Bailout, Protect Consumers

Frazier: FirstEnergy: If Feds Don’t Help Us, More Power Plants Will Close

Power Plant Owners Press Trump To Reject Bailout For Coal, Nuclear

PJM Asks Feds To Address Utility Subsidy Requests For Aging Coal, Nuclear Plants

PJM Files Competing Capacity Market Reforms At FERC

DOE’s Perry Voices Doubt About FirstEnergy Generation’s Plea To Save Coal, Nuclear Plants

DOE May Not Declare A Power Grid Emergency After All To Save Coal, Nuclear Plants

Environmentalists Split On Letting Carbon-Free Nuclear Power Die

Op-Ed: Electricity Customers Want Competition

Recreation

Laurel Highlands Shelter Project Gets $5,000 Grant In Somerset

2 Lehigh & Delaware Canal Charities Receive $180K Grant From William Penn Foundation

Butler-Freeport Trail Council Pitches In $2,500 For Better Gates

Kummer: Clogged With Muck, Shallow Schuylkill River Is Putting Rowing, Regattas At Risk

Hampton Park Sports Court Renovations To Be Completed By June

Pittsburgh Bike Share Program Expanding With New Stations

Public Meetings Planned On Raystown Lake Development

Flames Engulf Railroad Bridge On Enola Low Grade Trail In Lancaster County

Kummer: You Can Watch As Valley Forge Burns 150 Acres Of Meadow

Crable: How Lancaster Man Became One Of The Best Ultrathon Runners On Earth

Officials Pitch Ripley’s Aquarium In Poconos

National Park Service Plans Controlled Burns Saturday At Gettysburg Battlefield

Interior Reverses Proposal To Raise Some National Park Entry Fees

U.S. House Hearing On Proposed Susquehanna National Heritage Area

Recycling/Waste

Dropping Off Recycling In Erie?  Don’t Bag It

Renewable Energy

New Jersey Passes Bills With Nuclear Subsidies, 50% RPS, 2 GW Storage Target

Schuylkill River

Kummer: Clogged With Muck, Shallow Schuylkill River Is Putting Rowing, Regattas At Risk

Stormwater

Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Receives Governor’s Award For Excellence

Allentown Crew Plucks Ducks From Storm Drain

Susquehanna River

U.S. House Hearing On Proposed Susquehanna National Heritage Area

Crable: 1904 Ice Floe Swallowed Up Lancaster County Town Along Susquehanna

Watershed Protection

Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Receives Governor’s Award For Excellence

Bay Journal: States Collaborate On Implementation Plan For Conowingo Dam On Susquehanna

Bay Journal: States Will Have To Account For Climate Change In Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plans

Crable: Lancaster County Leaders To Take Charge Of Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Efforts

Op-Ed: What Does The Chesapeake Bay TMDL Midpoint Assessment Mean To You?

Volunteers Needed April 15 To Help Clean Plastic Pellets From Pocono Creek In Tannersville

Video: It Takes A Village To Clean Up Plastic Pellets In Pocono Creek, You Can Get Involved

Penn State Extension: Threat Of Incidental Transfer Of Manure To Streams

Kummer: Clogged With Muck, Shallow Schuylkill River Is Putting Rowing, Regattas At Risk

Area Groups Partner To Protect Water Quality In Chester County

Delaware River Watershed Initiative Builds On Conservation Successes

Delaware RiverKeeper April 13 RiverWatch Video Report

WITF Smart Talk: Is PA Water Clean?

John Arway Meets With PennLive.com Editorial Board

Allentown Crew Plucks Ducks From Storm Drain

Crable: 1904 Ice Floe Swallowed Up Lancaster County Town Along Susquehanna

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Wildlife

Volunteers Needed April 15 To Help Clean Plastic Pellets From Pocono Creek In Tannersville

Video: It Takes A Village To Clean Up Plastic Pellets In Pocono Creek, You Can Get Involved

Officials Worry Shortage of Game Wardens Could Lead To More Wildlife Crimes

John Arway Meets With PennLive.com Editorial Board

Editorial: Fish & Boat Boss Right To Press For Higher License Fees

Ed Perry, Retired Biologist, Delivers Global Warming Warning

WITF Smart Talk: Is PA Water Clean?

PA Statewide Opening Day Of Trout Season Kicks Off April 14

Outdoors: Young Anglers Can Fish For Trout This Weekend

News Angling Experience Awaits Veterans In Wyoming County

Huba: Outlook Awesome For Opening Of Trout Season Saturday

Frye: Brook Trout Trail Program To Examine Fisheries, Communication About Special Places

Frye: Memories Of Last Camping Season Stir Desire To Begin Another

Hayes: When Trout Season Opens, Anglers Cast A Line For Eco-Friendly Dinners

Schneck: PA Fly Fishing Museum Open House April 20-21

Pollution From Abandoned Mine Kills Turtle Creek Trout Stocking Plans

Frye: Turtle Creek Won’t Get Stocked Trout, But Montour Run Will

Schneck: What Was The Biggest Fish Caught In PA In 2017?

Schneck: Bald Eagle Soap Opera Heats Up At Hanover Nest

Osprey Nest Toppled In Wind At Lake Wallenpaupack, New One Planned

Fledgling Erie Bird Observatory Leaves Nest

Allentown Crew Plucks Ducks From Storm Drain

Wildlife Rescuers Face Tricky Situation In Catching Mallard In York County

Schneck: Will Heinz Wildlife Refuge In Philadelphia Open For Deer Hunting

Trump Officially Clipped The Wings Of Migratory Bird Treaty Act

Other

Avoid Damage To Utilities When You Call Before You Dig

Hurricanes

Federal Agencies Prepare To Wind Down Puerto Rico Power Restoration In May

Large Power Outage Affects 870,000 Customers Across Puerto Rico

Federal Policy

FERC, Interior, EPA, DOE Other Agencies Agree To Faster Infrastructure Permitting

Editorial: Prevent Power Hacks

Lehigh Valley Farmers Worry About Trade War, Weather

Trump Orders Faster Issuance Of EPA Air Pollution Permits

Risks Are Seen For Pruitt In Rush To Kill EPA Regulations

Top Government Ethics Official Demands EPA Investigate Pruitt’s Controversies

EPA Documents Question Justification For Pruitt’s Security Detail

Op-Ed: Demanding Duty Protecting EPA’s Pruitt At Disneyland

Interior Reverses Proposal To Raise Some National Park Entry Fees

Trump Officially Clipped The Wings Of Migratory Bird Treaty Act

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4/16/2018