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Remembering The Quecreek Mine Rescue 16 Years Later 

How Environmental Outreach Efforts Are Targeting Philly Latinos; Most Interested In Climate Change

Environmentalists By Necessity In Old Steel Town Of Braddock

Sunday NewsClips

Mariner East 2 Pipeline Nears Completion In Berks County

Sauro: Mariner East 2 Pipeline Foe Gets 2-6 Months In Jail

Activists Nationally Trying To Get Huntingdon Woman Opposing Mariner East 2 Pipeline Out Of Jail

Luzerne Transit Receives 2 New CNG Buses

Natural Gas Services Company To Reopen Facility With More Than 200 Employees

Editorial: Infrastructure Progress Gas Industry’s Key To Future In State

Editorial: State Forests Do Well Amid Gas Drilling

Chester County Village Vacated For Nuclear Power Plant Is A Ghost Town

What You Can, Can’t Recycling In Lancaster - Video

Flooding Prompts Water Rescues, Music Festival Closures In Lehigh Valley

8 Kayakers Rescued From Conestoga River In Lancaster

Flood Warning In Montgomery County After Record Rain In Reading

Patton Residents Lucky Flooding Wasn’t Worse In Blair

Meeting, Public Survey On Grafius Run Flood Damage Proposed In Lycoming

AP: Year After Derailment, Hyndman Remains On Edge

DEP: Conditions Ripe For Spread Of West Nile Virus

West Nile Numbers Jumping

Mosquito Spray To Be Applied Monday In Ligonier

Mosquito Spraying In Luzerne County Set For Aug. 7

York County Leads State In Positive West Nile Virus Mosquito Samples

Pennsylvania Reports First Longhorned Tick

Wrightsville Recruits Millersville Prof, Student To Help Solve Mayfly Dilemma

In A First, American Avocet Spotted At Edinboro State University

Sunday - Wildfires

As Wildfires Rage, California Frets Over Future Of Greater Perils, Higher Costs

California Gov. Asks Feds For Wildfire Aid As State Battles 17 Blazes

Air

Pittsburgh’s Air Quality Better Than The Past, But Not Yet Clean

US Steel Fighting $1M Fine From Allegheny County For Clairton Pollution

Clean Air Activists Get Meeting With Allegheny County Executive

EPA Awards $100K Grant To Philadelphia To Monitor Fine Particulate Matter In The Air

EPA Proposes To Freeze Auto Emission Standards, Revoke California Vehicle Rules

Gov. Wolf: Trump Vehicle Fuel Economy RollBack Betrays PA Consumers, Workers

AP: States Vow To Continue Fight Against Trump’s Car Fuel Rules

Cong. Marino, DEP Differ On Trump’s Plan For Vehicle Efficiency Standards

Kummer: PA To Join 19 States In Suit Over Trump Plan To Rollback Vehicle Fuel-Efficiency Requirements

Op-Ed: Wolf Should Move Forward With Methane Regulations - Rep. Vitali

EPA To Keep And Defend Obama Smog Rule

Alternative Fuel

Harley Revs Up Rebellious Path With Electric Bikes

New UGI Filling Station Could Potentially Lower Your Natural Gas Bill

Awards & Recognition

PA Water Environment Assn. Honors Lancaster Area Sewer Authority Executive Director

Western PA Trees Make The Cut In Statewide Forestry Assn. Registry

Beautification

Volunteers Beautify Leechburg By Cleaning Up 2 Abandoned Properties, More To Come

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

New Invasive Longhorn Tick Species Confirmed In Pennsylvania

Kummer: PA Urged To Watch Pets, Livestock For Invasive Asian Tick

McKelvey: Invasive Asian Tick Discovered In Central PA, Brings Risks For People, Livestock

Asian Longhorn Tick Invades Pennsylvania

What You Need To Know About Invasive Asian Tick Found In Centre County

New Asian Tick In PA Could Cause Year-Round Problems

Girl Scout Builds Butterfly Garden For Loyalsock Middle School

Budget

Op-Ed: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It, Taxing PA’s Natural Gas Industry

Op-Ed: A Shale Gas Severance Tax?  Think Again (Again)

July State Revenue Collections $2.2 Billion, Up From 2017

U.S. Senate Votes Full $73M Funding For Chesapeake Bay Program

Chesapeake Bay

Pennsylvania Far Behind In Meeting Goals To Stop Chesapeake Bay Pollution

AP: We’re Literally Drowning In Pennsylvania’s Trash In Chesapeake Bay

Heavy PA Rains Sent Huge Plume Of Mud Down Susquehanna Into Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay Foundation On High Flows At Conowingo Dam

Crable: 2 Lancaster Farmers Share $641,000 In PennVEST Clean Water Grants

Laurel Spagnolo Named Director Of Giving At Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA

U.S. Senate Votes Full $73M Funding For Chesapeake Bay Program

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Climate

Op-Ed: Wolf Should Move Forward With Methane Regulations - Rep. Vitali

EPA Move To Weaken Carbon Rules Won’t Spur New Coal Power

Philadelphia Getting Hotter, Wetter, Snowier At The Same Time

Science Says: Record Heat, Fires Worsened By Climate Change

U.S. Supreme Court Bats Down Trump Admin. Bid To Halt Kids’ Climate Suit

In Rarity For Republicans, Cong. Fitzpatrick Pushes For Carbon Tax

Coal Mining

EPA Move To Weaken Carbon Rules Won’t Spur New Coal Power

Compliance Action

US Steel Fighting $1M Fine From Allegheny County For Clairton Pollution

Deep Mine Safety

Remembering The Quecreek Mine Rescue 16 Years Later

Coal Mine Accidents In PA Have Killed Hundreds [Actually Thousands] Of Miners

Delaware River

Trout, Environment Benefit From Schuylkill River Habitat Project

Delaware RiverKeeper Aug. 3 RiverWatch Video Report

Drinking Water

McKelvey: Can A Gas Company Stop This Drinking Water System From Going Down The Drain?

Editorial: Michigan Case Puts Spotlight On Drinking Water [PFAS]

USDA Announces $4 Billion Is Available For Water Infrastructure Project Grants

Economic Development

Shenango River Pollution From Old Sharon Factory Leads To Do Not Eat Fish Advisory - Part I

Sharon Tries To Revive Its Economy, But Old Factory’s Environmental Hazards Lurk - Part II

Allegheny County Prepares For Next Phase Of Redevelopment For Carrie Furnace Brownfield

Education

Awash In Information, Students Study Creek At Wilkes U. Camp

Girl Scout Builds Butterfly Garden For Loyalsock Middle School

Emergency Response

WITF Smart Talk: PA Firefighters In Western Wildfire Fight

Energy

PA Braces For Impact As Three Mile Island Nears Closure

Crable: Exelon Wants Peach Bottom Nuclear Plant To Run For Another 20 Years

NRC: Public Review Ready For Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant Extension

West Penn Power Had Most Major Outages Among PA Utilities In 2017

PUC Sets More Hearings On Electric Transmission Lines In Franklin, York Counties

National Fuel Gas Bills To Fall By More Than $2.25/Month

Op-Ed: Shale Gas Saving Pennsylvanians On Their Energy Costs

EPA Move To Weaken Carbon Rules Won’t Spur New Coal Power

States Say FERC Overstepped Its Bounds In PJM Capacity Market Order

California Policymakers Demand Wildfire Prevention While The State Burns

Energy Conservation

EPA Proposes To Freeze Auto Emission Standards, Revoke California Vehicle Rules

AP: States Vow To Continue Fight Against Trump’s Car Fuel Rules

Gov. Wolf: Trump Vehicle Fuel Economy RollBack Betrays PA Consumers, Workers

Cong. Marino, DEP Differ On Trump’s Plan For Vehicle Efficiency Standards

Kummer: PA To Join 19 States In Suit Over Trump Plan To Rollback Vehicle Fuel-Efficiency Requirements

Efficiency Advocates Fear Trump May Try To Roll Back Light Bulb Standards

Environmental Heritage

Remembering The Quecreek Mine Rescue 16 Years Later

16 Years Ago: Photo Gallery: Coal Miners Rescued In Quecreek, PA

Editorial: Identifying Remains Of 9/11 Victims Won’t Cease

Environmental Justice

Hopey: DEP Hires Pittsburgh Native As New Environmental Justice Director

Farming

Pennsylvania Far Behind In Meeting Goals To Stop Chesapeake Bay Pollution

Crable: 2 Lancaster Farmers Share $641,000 In PennVEST Clean Water Grants

New Invasive Longhorn Tick Species Confirmed In Pennsylvania

Girl Scout Builds Butterfly Garden For Loyalsock Middle School

NASCAR, Organic Food Make A Run Together In The Poconos

Flooding

Rising Creek Levels Cause Flash Flooding Throughout Centre County

Flash Flooding Reported In Franklin County

Flooding In Patton Prompts Evacuation In Blair County

Patton Residents In Blair Swamped By Flooded Creek

Patton Borough Seeks Funds After Flooding In Blair County

Volunteers Assist With Muncy Flood Cleanup

Murphy: PEMA: Flood Preparation Should Start With Getting Flood Insurance

Editorial: First Responders To The Rescue

Schneck: Flood Damage Minor In PA’s State Parks, Forests

Municipalities: Grass Clipping In Streets Clog Sewers, Cause Flooding In Lycoming

Sept. Meeting Could Be Next Step In Fix For Flooding In Latrobe, Derry Twp

Wilkes-Barre To Seek Approval For New Solomon Creek Flood Wall Contractor

Congress Authorizes 4-Month Extension Of National Flood Insurance Program

Forests

WITF Smart Talk: PA Firefighters In Western Wildfire Fight

Ligonier Firefighter Returns From Battling Wildfires In Western U.S.

New Invasive Longhorn Tick Species Confirmed In Pennsylvania

Kummer: PA Urged To Watch Pets, Livestock For Invasive Asian Tick

McKelvey: Invasive Asian Tick Discovered In Central PA, Brings Risks For People, Livestock

Asian Longhorn Tick Invades Pennsylvania

What You Need To Know About Invasive Asian Tick Found In Centre County

New Asian Tick In PA Could Cause Year-Round Problems

Western PA Trees Make The Cut In Statewide Forestry Assn. Registry

Michaux State Forest Sets Aug. 2 Hearing On Managing Forest

Geologic Hazards

Landslide Repair Prompts Detour In Ligonier Township

Grants/Funding

USDA Announces $4 Billion Is Available For Water Infrastructure Project Grants

Green Infrastructure

Philadelphia Completes Green Infrastructure Projects At Malcolm X Park

Hazardous Sites Cleanup

Georgia Company To Conduct Sharon, PA Site’s Environmental Cleanup

Land Conservation

Schneck: 2,500+ Acres Added to Public Recreation Lands In PA

500 Acres Of Blue Mountain Nearing Preservation, Public Access

Tracy Ridge Wilderness Area In Allegheny National Forest Has Some Good Friends

Schneck: New Interactive Map For Users Of Pennsylvania’s Public Lands

Land Recycling

Shenango River Pollution From Old Sharon Factory Leads To Do Not Eat Fish Advisory - Part I

Sharon Tries To Revive Its Economy, But Old Factory’s Environmental Hazards Lurk - Part II

Allegheny County Prepares For Next Phase Of Redevelopment For Carrie Furnace Brownfield

Littering/Illegal Dumping

Volunteers Beautify Leechburg By Cleaning Up 2 Abandoned Properties, More To Come

AP: No More “Filthadelphia”? City Tackles its Litter Problem

With County Help, Erie Schools To Toss 150 Waste Tires

Mine Reclamation

Why Some PA Streams & Rivers Are Orange, The Legacy Of Abandoned Mines

To Save PA Coal Mines, Officials Devised A Preposterous Plan: Build A 137-Mile Tunnel

Ohio River

AP: Ohio River Sanitation Commission Debates Dropping Water Pollution Standards

Oil & Gas

McKelvey: Can A Gas Company Stop This Drinking Water System From Going Down The Drain?

Water Quality Improves In Bradford County

Op-Ed: A Shale Gas Severance Tax?  Think Again (Again)

Op-Ed: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It, Taxing PA’s Natural Gas Industry

Op-Ed: Shale Gas Saving Pennsylvanians On Their Energy Costs

Op-Ed: Wolf Should Move Forward With Methane Regulations - Rep. Vitali

New UGI Filling Station Could Potentially Lower Your Natural Gas Bill

National Fuel Gas Bills To Fall By More Than $2.25/Month

Phillips: Trump’s Plan For LNG Exports May Not Have Much Impact In PA

Permitting

Western PA Counties Snag Funding For Water Pollution Prevention Education

Pipelines

Cusick: DEP, DCNR, DCED Criticize FERC Pipeline Approval Process

Legere: PUC Lifts More Limits On Mariner East 2 Pipelines

Phillips: PUC Allows Restart Of Construction Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline In Parts Of Chester County

Sauro: Mariner East 2 Pipeline Foe In Huntingdon County Must Post $25K For Release

Cusick: Mariner East 2 Pipeline Opponent Jailed, Fined In Huntingdon County

Mariner East 2 Pipeline Permit Appeals Dropped, But Opponents Still Strongly Resist Project

Huntingdon County Woman Jailed For Violating Court Order Opposing Mariner East 2 Pipeline

Sauro: Mariner East 2 Pipeline Foe In Huntingdon County Must Post $25K For Release

Op-Ed: Wolf Has Power To Stop Mariner East Pipeline, He Should Use It

Crable: After 4 Years Of Controversy: Atlantic Sunrise Gas Pipeline Finished In Lancaster County

Buckeye Pipelines, With Major Lehigh Valley Presence, To Launch Strategic Review

Climate, Project Need At Center Of FERC Pipeline Policy Review

State Dept. Gives New Keystone XL Pipeline Route Environmental OK

Public Participation

Michaux State Forest Sets Aug. 2 Hearing On Managing Forest

PUC Sets More Hearings On Electric Transmission Lines In Franklin, York Counties

Radiation Protection

PA Braces For Impact As Three Mile Island Nears Closure

Crable: Exelon Wants Peach Bottom Nuclear Plant To Run For Another 20 Years

NRC: Public Review Ready For Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant Extension

Holtec International Buying Exelon’s Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant, Speeding Decommissioning

Westinghouse Nuclear Emerges From Bankruptcy With New Owner

Trump’s Uranium Review Rattles Nuclear Utilities

Recreation

Schneck: Flood Damage Minor In PA’s State Parks, Forests

Schneck: A Grand Canyon In PA; 5,000+ Miles Of Trails, Other State Park, Forests Facts

Explore Schuylkill River, Schuylkill River Trail With New Website

Carbon County OKs Proposal To Move Delaware & Lehigh Trail

Allentown Citywide Trail Plan Moves Forward After Near-Decade Delay

Is New Darby Creek Trail A Sign Of Progress? Some Residents Think So

PennDOT Secretary Leader Lake Erie Cyclefest Ride

Aug. 3 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

Schneck: Highest Point In PA, Cradle Of Forestry, Other Little Known Facts From Our State Parks, Forests

Philadelphia Completes Green Infrastructure Projects At Malcolm X Park

Schneck: New Interactive Map For Users Of Pennsylvania’s Public Lands

Tracy Ridge Wilderness Area In Allegheny National Forest Has Some Good Friends

Rockslide Closes Enola Low Grade Rail Trail In Lancaster County

Boaters Beware: Safety Buoys Washed Away By Flooding At Safe Harbor, Holtwood Dams

Beautiful Weather Sent People To Lehigh River Where 11 Were Rescued Sunday

What Ricketts Glen Waterfalls Looked Like During Heavy Rains (Video)

Susquehanna Great Bend Sojourn Coming Up Aug. 10-12

Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta: Everything You Need To Know

Regatta Will Turn Pittsburgh Into City Of Championships

Pittsburgh Council Votes To Approve RIV Riverfront Public Access Zoning

Tentrr, The Airbnb Of Camping Comes To Pennsylvania

New Invasive Longhorn Tick Species Confirmed In Pennsylvania

Kummer: PA Urged To Watch Pets, Livestock For Invasive Asian Tick

McKelvey: Invasive Asian Tick Discovered In Central PA, Brings Risks For People, Livestock

Asian Longhorn Tick Invades Pennsylvania

What You Need To Know About Invasive Asian Tick Found In Centre County

New Asian Tick In PA Could Cause Year-Round Problems

Recycling/Waste

Penn Waste Attempts To Renegotiate Contracts Due To Recycling Markets Downturn

Wishful Recycling Caused This Crisis: Penn Waste, Others Push New Standards

To Recycle Or Not? New Guidelines Take Curbside Pickup Back To Basics

York Solid Waste Authority To Change Acceptable Materials At Recycling Drop-off

Stop ‘Wishful Recycling’ These Things Now In York County

Limits On Recycling Certain Plastics Upset Locals In Blair County

Lower Merion Twp Launches Text For Recycling Pickup In Montgomery

Editorial: Philadelphia Should Step Up Recycling

PA Resources Council Events Set For Safe Disposal Of TVs, Paints Other Household Waste

AG Shapiro, Sen. Baker Commend New Law On Disposal Of Prescription Drugs

Column: Plastic Straw Ban Supporters Speak Out

Renewable Energy

Lancaster’s Paradise Energy 3rd Largest Solar Firm In PA, 145th Nationally

Report: Community Solar Can Address Renewables Accessibility Gap

Schuylkill River

Trout, Environment Benefit From Schuylkill River Habitat Project

Sustainability

Sharpsburg, Etna, Millvale Form TriBoro EcoDistrict

NASCAR, Organic Food Make A Run Together In The Poconos

Wastewater Facilities

PA Water Environment Assn. Honors Lancaster Area Sewer Authority Executive Director

Editorial: Freeport Sewage Plant $110,000 Over Budget

USDA Announces $4 Billion Is Available For Water Infrastructure Project Grants

Watershed Protection

Pennsylvania Far Behind In Meeting Goals To Stop Chesapeake Bay Pollution

AP: We’re Literally Drowning In Pennsylvania’s Trash In Chesapeake Bay

AP: Maryland Officials Blame Trash From PA, NY For Ecological Crisis In Chesapeake Bay

Heavy PA Rains Sent Huge Plume Of Mud Down Susquehanna Into Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay Foundation On High Flows At Conowingo Dam

Crable: 2 Lancaster Farmers Share $641,000 In PennVEST Clean Water Grants

U.S. Senate Votes Full $73M Funding For Chesapeake Bay Program

Water Quality Improves In Bradford County

Awash In Information, Students Study Creek At Wilkes U. Camp

Western PA Counties Snag Funding For Water Pollution Prevention Education

Shenango River Pollution From Old Sharon Factory Leads To Do Not Eat Fish Advisory - Part I

Sharon Tries To Revive Its Economy, But Old Factory’s Environmental Hazards Lurk - Part II

AP: Ohio River Sanitation Commission Debates Dropping Water Pollution Standards

Trout, Environment Benefit From Schuylkill River Habitat Project

Delaware RiverKeeper Aug. 3 RiverWatch Video Report

Laurel Spagnolo Named Director Of Giving At Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA

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Wildlife

Hayes: Embattled Director Of Fish & Boat Commission To Retire

Murphy: John Arway To Hang Up His Gone Fishing Sign For Good

Frye: Fish & Boat Executive Director John Arway Retiring

Corps Of Engineers Horrified By Photos Of Man, Children Fishing Beneath Allegheny River Dam

North Versailles Fox 11th Rabid Animal In Allegheny County This Year

Crable: Eaglet Near Lancaster Latest Victim As Discarded Fishing Line Takes Deadly Toll

Abandoned Alligators Are On The Rise In Central PA

Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center Nursing Wildlife Back To Health

Venesky: Healing Waters Program Helping Veterans, Wild Brook Trout Recover Through Fishing

Schneck: New Interactive Map For Users Of Pennsylvania’s Public Lands

Crable: Birdwatching Platform To Open At Safe Harbor Dam In Lancaster County

Schneck: Wildwood Lake In Harrisburg Offers Prime ‘Hunting’ For Great Blue Heron (Video)

Frye: Green Herons Fascinating, Tool-Wielding Water Birds

Piping Plovers Point The Way To Nature’s Gift On Presque Isle

Crable: Lancaster County Residents Asked To Report Wild Turkey Sightings In August

Schneck: 2,500+ Acres Added to Public Recreation Lands In PA

500 Acres Of Blue Mountain Nearing Preservation, Public Access

West Nile/Zika Virus/Ticks

Kummer: West Nile Human Case Confirmed, State Fears More With Record Mosquitoes

AP: Officials Warn About West Nile Virus As Suspected Infection Tested

West Nile-Carrying Mosquitoes Widespread, PA Says In Warning

Drain Water Pools: West Nile Virus Reaches Record High In PA

West Nile Virus Detected In Penn Hills Man

Crable: Rain Means Big Upswing In Mosquitoes This Summer In Lancaster County

West Nile Virus Found In More Mosquito Samples In Dauphin County

Mosquito Spraying In 2 Lackawanna County Towns Set For Wednesday

Lackawanna West Nile Virus Program To Be Spraying For Mosquitoes This Week

As Humidity Climbs Again, Lehigh County Sprays For Mosquitoes

New Invasive Longhorn Tick Species Confirmed In Pennsylvania

Kummer: PA Urged To Watch Pets, Livestock For Invasive Asian Tick

McKelvey: Invasive Asian Tick Discovered In Central PA, Brings Risks For People, Livestock

Asian Longhorn Tick Invades Pennsylvania

What You Need To Know About Invasive Asian Tick Found In Centre County

Other

$1.1 Million Repair Planned To Prevent Montgomery Lock & Dam Failure

Wildfires

WITF Smart Talk: PA Firefighters In Western Wildfire Fight

Ligonier Firefighter Returns From Battling Wildfires In Western U.S.

Windy Conditions Threaten To Stoke Large Wildfires Burning In Northern California

AP: New Fires Erupt In Northern California; Homes Threatened

AP: Wildfires Barrel Toward Northern California Lake Towns Prompting 20,000 People To Flee

California Policymakers Demand Wildfire Prevention While The State Burns

Death Toll In Northern California Wildfire Rises To 5

Column: You Probably Won’t Read This Column About Biggest Problem In The World Right Now

3 Die-- 2 Children, Great Grandmother,  As Massive Northern California Fire Grows

Death Toll Up To 5 As Wildfires Consume Parts Of California

Terrifying California Wildfire Burns 500-Plus Structures

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8/6/2018