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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics

Here are NewsClips from around the state on all environmental topics, including General Environment, Budget, Marcellus Shale, Watershed Protection and much more.

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PaEN: Gov. Wolf Announces Winners of Governor’s Award For Environmental Excellence

R. Timothy Weston To Receive PA Bar Assn. Environmental & Energy Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award 

Game Commission Manager Lauren Ferreri Recognized For Conservation Achievements

Sunday NewsClips

AP-Levy: Debate Over Nuclear Power Hits Home In Rural Pennsylvania

House Leaders Moving Cautiously On Nuclear Power Rescue Bill

Maykuth: Are Tiny Nuclear Reactors The Path To A Carbon-Free Future?

As Levee Costs Grow In Williamsport, Next Stage Includes State Funding

Op-Ed: Pass A Natural Gas Severance Tax to Fund Infrastructure In PA - Gov. Wolf

PECO Tree Clearing Riles Residents In Bucks

Fort Indiantown Gap Begins Spring 2019 Prescribed Burn Season

Frye: Camping When Campfires Are Prohibited

Dietz: Game Commission Has Support In Its Battle Against Chronic Wasting Disease

Dietz: Game Commission Receives Credible Support In Its Battle Against Chronic Wasting Disease

Nesting Pair Of Eagles Returns To Presque Isle State Park

Trout Stocking, Birding Events To Soon Be Underway In Centre County

Sunday - Environmental Heritage

Remembering The Three Mile Island Accident: Concern, Confusion, Chaos

Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident: The Ultimate Out-Of-Body Experience

Go To Three Mile Island And Camp There: Reporter Gets Careers Lessons From Nuclear Accident

Sunday - National/International

Op-Ed: Rolling Back Portions Of Federal Clean Water Act Is A Bad Idea

Rescues, Evacuations As Floodwaters Breach Levees In Midwest

AP: W. S. Merwin, Prize-Winning Poet Of Nature, Dies At 91

Politics

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Air

PaEN: DEP To Discuss Draft Regs Controlling VOC [Methane] Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations At March 21 Advisory Board Meeting

PaEN: EQB Publishes Proposed Fine Particulate Matter Regulations For Comment, 3 Hearings Set

Sisk: Allegheny County Revises Order Against U.S. Steel After Company Updates Repair Timeline

New Allegheny County Order Would Speed Up Repairs To U.S. Steel Coke (Coal) Plant, Curtail Pollution

Allegheny Health Dept. Revises Order, U.S. Steel To Expedite Repairs At Coke (Coal) Plant

U.S. Steel Releases Photos Of Repairs At Clairton Coke Works After Fire

Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Appeal Of DEP Order Assigned To Erie EHB Judge

Shell Urges Trump White House To Tighten Methane Leak Rules

PA Environmental Council: Statement On Shell Support Of Methane Rules

Study: Blacks, Hispanics Bear The Burden Of Air Pollution

Op-Ed: EPA Must Stop Deadly Attack On Mercury, Air Toxics Standards

Alternative Fuels

PaEN: PUC Approves Duquesne Light Filing For Third-Party Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Op-Ed: Pennsylvania Needs To Do More To Support Electric Vehicles - NRDC

Reuters: EPA Unveils Plan To Allow Sales Of Higher Ethanol Gasoline

Phillips: Japan Looks Past Battery-Powered Electric Cars, Envisions A Hydrogen Society

Awards & Recognition

PaEN: Gov. Wolf Announces Winners of Governor’s Award For Environmental Excellence

PaEN: R. Timothy Weston To Receive PA Bar Assn. Environmental & Energy Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award

PaEN: Game Commission Manager Lauren Ferreri Recognized For Conservation Achievements

Pittsburgh Recognized As Starting Point For Lewis And Clark Expedition

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

PaEN: Agriculture Extends Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Area To Dauphin County

Schneck: Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Zone Expanded To Dauphin County

Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Zone Expands Into Central PA

March 21 Spotted Lanternfly Webinar Teaches About Permit, Species

PaEN: Business Owners: Do I Need A Spotted Lanternfly Permit Webinar March 21

Plant For Pollinators

PaEN: DEP/Health Announce New Statewide Tick Surveillance Program, Part Of A 5-Year Study Of Tickborne Illnesses In PA

Schneck: Tick Watch Under Way Across Pennsylvania By State

PA Collects Thousands Of Ticks For Study To Combat Lyme Disease

Tick Survey Planned For Erie County

PaEN: Tiadaghton Audubon: How The Fate Of The Florida Sparrow Impacts Pennsylvania, March 20, Wellsboro, Tioga County

Head Of Morris Arboretum Retiring After 42 Years, A Rare Tenure In Botanical World

Budget

PEMA, Local Officials Discuss How Restore PA Would Prevent Flood Damage, Help Disaster Survivors

Rep. Kaufer Asks Attorney General To File Injunction To Stop Luzerne Stormwater Fee

Sanitary, Stormwater Fee Bills Due To Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Today

Stormwater Fee, Possible Park & Lock Project Dominate Butler Twp. Meeting In Luzerne

PaEN: House Tourism & Recreation Committee Holds March 19 Info Meeting On PA Parks & Forests Foundation Infrastructure Needs Report

DCNR: Prince Gallitzin State Park, Cambria County, Needs $3.5 Million Of Infrastructure Work

DCNR Secretary Tours Potential Trail Site In Pittsburgh To Promote Restore PA

Delaware Canal State Park Needs $90 Million Worth Of Improvements

Editorial: State Parks Report Sounds Alarm

Why PA Residents Should Car Trump Wants To Cut Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funding 90%

PaEN: Choose Clean Water Coalition Pushing For More Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funding

Ohio Governor Wants Nearly $1 Billion For Lake Erie, Waterways

Budget - Federal

Trump Proposes Slashing EPA Budget By 31 Percent

Trump Budget Diverts Spending From EPA And Renewables Toward Border Wall

Feds Say Trump Budget Won’t Affect Parks Twp. Radioactive Waste Dump Cleanup

PaEN: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Opposed To Proposed 90% Cut In Federal Bay Funding

PaEN: Choose Clean Water Coalition Pushing For More Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funding

Environmentalists Slam Trump’s Proposal to Slash Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funds

Why PA Residents Should Car Trump Wants To Cut Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funding 90%

Editorial: Funding For Chesapeake Bay Again Proposed To Be Cut By Trump

AP: Trump Seeks Cuts For Cleanup Of Great Lakes, Other Waterways

AP: Wolf, 4 Other Great Lakes Governors Oppose Trump Plan To Cut Great Lakes Funding

Trump’s Energy Budget Makes Coal, Nuclear Priority Over Renewables

Trump Budget Again Seeks Deep Cuts To EPA, DOE Renewables Research

Cong. Smucker, Sen. Casey Affirm Support Of Chesapeake Bay Funding After Trump’s Proposed Cuts

EPA Union Denounces 2020 Budget, Calls On Congress To Fully Fund Agency - Philadelphia

Trump Budget Proposes Funds To Finish Lower Mon Locks & Dam Project

Chesapeake Bay

PaEN: PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Planning Steering Committee Meets March 22 To Hear Funding Workgroup Report

Lancaster Farming: DCNR Secretary Sees Riparian Buffer Progress

PaEN: Bay Journal Op-Ed: Healthy Trees, Forests Are Great Cure For What Ails Chesapeake Bay

PaEN: Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Offering: Small Watershed & Innovative Nutrient & Sediment Reduction Grants

PaEN: March 19 Penn State Water Insights Seminar Highlights Stroud Water Center's Research On Soil Health

Editorial: Lackawanna County Commissioners Must Lead On Stormwater

Why PA Residents Should Car Trump Wants To Cut Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funding 90%

Cong. Smucker, Sen. Casey Affirm Support Of Chesapeake Bay Funding After Trump’s Proposed Cuts

Editorial: Funding For Chesapeake Bay Again Proposed To Be Cut By Trump

Bay Journal: Look For Signs Of Spring Around The Chesapeake Bay Watershed

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Citizen Action

PaEN: DEP, Lycoming College Host Open House March 18 In Williamsport For Landowners, Municipalities Seeking To Work In Streams Impacted By Flooding

PaEN: Chesapeake Conservancy Seeking Volunteers To Identify, Collect Livestakes In Centre, Northumberland March 19, 24

Indoor Seeding For Gardeners Program Set At Mt. Pleasant Public Library

PaEN: Tiadaghton Audubon: How The Fate Of The Florida Sparrow Impacts Pennsylvania, March 20, Wellsboro, Tioga County

Climate

PaEN: DEP To Discuss Draft Regs Controlling VOC [Methane] Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations At March 21 Advisory Board Meeting

PaEN: Auditor General DePasquale Calls For State Action On Climate Change, Brace For New Costs

Auditor General DePasquale: We Cannot Rely On Federal Govt. On Climate Change

Auditor General: Climate Change Is An Environmental And Economic Crisis

Xian: Auditor General On Climate Change: Each Disaster Is A Hit To State Taxpayers

There’s A Sense We Have to Act Now On Climate Change Say Experts At Penn State

Shell Urges Trump White House To Tighten Methane Leak Rules

PA Environmental Council: Statement On Shell Support Of Methane Rules

PaEN: Senators Ask Colleagues To Sign On To Bipartisan Bill To Increase Renewable Energy Purchase By Utilities From 8% To 30% By 2030

Column: 3 Philly School Kids Are Striking Friday Because Grown-Ups Failed them On Climate

PaEN: PUC Approves Duquesne Light Filing For Third-Party Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Op-Ed: Pennsylvania Needs To Do More To Support Electric Vehicles - NRDC

NPR: It’s 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change

Allegheny Front: Meet An Organizer Of The Pittsburgh Youth Climate Strike

Students In PA, NJ Skipping Class To Urge Action On Climate Change

Column: 3 Philly School Kids Are Striking Friday Because Grown-Ups Failed Them On Climate

Youth Climate Strikes To Take Place In More Than 100 Countries

Letter: There Is A Bipartisan Path Forward On Climate Change

Letter: Anti-Climate Change Ad Is Dangerous

Op-Ed: It’s Time To Act On Climate Change - Bipartisan U.S. Senators

UN: Environment Is Deadly, Worsening Mess, But Not Hopeless

Gore: U.S. Getting Close To Political Shift On Climate Change

New Plan To Protect Lower Manhattan From Climate Change

Coal Mining

DOE’s Perry Says Federal Coal, Nuclear Bailout Not Dead, But Encourages States To Act

Op-Ed: EPA Must Stop Deadly Attack On Mercury, Air Toxics Standards

Compliance Action

Post-Gazette: DEP Strikes Deal With Diversified Gas & Oil On Plugging Or Restarting 1,412 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells

Sisk: Allegheny County Revises Order Against U.S. Steel After Company Updates Repair Timeline

New Allegheny County Order Would Speed Up Repairs To U.S. Steel Coke (Coal) Plant, Curtail Pollution

Allegheny Health Dept. Revises Order, U.S. Steel To Expedite Repairs At Coke (Coal) Plant

Court Decisions

PaEN: Commonwealth Court Clears The Way For Attorney General To Pursue Unfair Trade Practices Cases Against Chesapeake, Anadarko On Drilling Royalties, Payments

PaEN: Court: Injection Well Developer Does Not Need To Wait To Challenge A Local Zoning Decision Until It Has Permits For The Well

Deep Mine Safety

PaEN: Penn State To Host Eastern Collegiate Mine Rescue Contest March 30

Delaware River

PaEN: House Bill Would Give Either Senate Or House Environmental Committee A Veto Over Any DEP Groundwater Withdraw Regulations

Op-Ed: Our Beer Is Only As Good As Our Water

Delaware RiverKeeper March 15 RiverWatch Video Report

Drinking Water

PaEN: House Bill Would Give Either Senate Or House Environmental Committee A Veto Over Any DEP Groundwater Withdraw Regulations

Pittsburgh Water Authority Has Money To Replace Lead Service Lines For Free

Bagenstose: Military Moves Toward Treatment Study Of Willow Grove Base Water Contamination

PA American Water Invests $37 Million In Lackawanna County Water, Wastewater Infrastructure

PaEN: PUC Highlights Importance Of Safe Drinking Water During-- Fix A Leak Week

Earth Day

University Of Scranton Seeks Student Entries For Earth Day Essay Contest

Education

PaEN: Wildlife For Everyone Awards College Scholarships To 5 Students

PaEN: Penn State To Host Eastern Collegiate Mine Rescue Contest March 30

University Of Scranton Seeks Student Entries For Earth Day Essay Contest

PaEN: New Online Course Provides In-Depth Understanding Of Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience For Educators

PaEN: Registration Now Open For 25th Delaware River Sojourn June 14-22

PaEN: Allegheny Land Trust Releases Full Schedule of Environmental Education Activities, Events

Allegheny Front: Meet An Organizer Of The Pittsburgh Youth Climate Strike

Students In PA, NJ Skipping Class To Urge Action On Climate Change

Column: 3 Philly School Kids Are Striking Friday Because Grown-Ups Failed Them On Climate

Youth Climate Strikes To Take Place In More Than 100 Countries

Schneck: When Is The First Day Of Spring, Exactly?

Energy

Maykuth: $500 Million: That’s How Much Lawmakers Are Asking For To Rescue Nuclear Power Plants

Cusick: Rep. Mehaffie Talks Up His Nuclear Bailout Bill; Opponents Line Up To Trash It

Legere/Litvak: Nuclear Rescue Bill In PA Carries A $500 Million Price Tag

PLS Reporter: Skeptics Decry Bailout As Nuclear Advocates Roll Out Plan To Save State’s Nuclear Power Plants

Crable: Bill Introduced to Subsidize Nuclear Power In PA, Save Three Mile Island

Thompson: $500 Million Nuclear Power Rescue Bill Introduced In PA

Consumers Would Foot The Bill To Prop Up PA’s Ailing Nuke Plants Under House Proposal

Caruso: Lawmakers Skeptical Of Nuclear Rescue Proposal; Could Solar Panels, Wind Get The Job Done?

PA Lawmaker: State Crafted Nuke Subsidy Bill After DOE Said Not To Wait For Bailout

PA Bill Would Add Nuclear Power To Alternative Energy Lists

Reuters: PA Lawmaker Offers Bill To Save Nuclear Power Plants

AP-Levy: Fight Over Nuclear Plants Arrives At PA Capitol

Bailout Bill Proposed For Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant

NRDC: Pennsylvania’s First Nuclear Subsidy Bill Explained

Market Monitor Report: TMI Only Uneconomical Nuclear Plant In PA

Bloomberg: In America’s Shale Country, Nukes, Gas Are Duking It Out

Thyroid Cancer Study Re-Ignites Debate Over Three Mile Island Accident’s Health Effects

Cusick: Nuclear Watchdog Group Wants NRC To Investigate Safety Issue At Three Mile Island

Crable: PPL Blasts Proposal To Subsidize Nuclear Power, Save TMI From Closing

Op-Ed: Your Electricity Bill Could Increase To Rescue Nuclear Power Plants - PPL President

Op-Ed: Why Should Electric Customers Subsidize Nuclear Generation - PPL President

Op-Ed: Why Should Electric Customers Subsidize Nuclear Generation - PPL President

Editorial: PA Should Let Three Mile Island Close - Lancaster Paper

Editorial: Pennsylvania Should Let Three Mile Island Close - Lancaster

AP: Nuclear Industry Pushing For Fewer Inspections At Plants

Maykuth: Are Tiny Nuclear Reactors The Path To A Carbon-Free Future?

DOE’s Perry Says Federal Coal, Nuclear Bailout Not Dead, But Encourages States To Act

Ohio Weighs Nuclear Plant Bailout At FirstEnergy’s Urging, Will It Boost Renewables Too?

Op-Ed: It Sounds Crazy, But Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island Show Why Nuclear Power Is Inherently Safe

MSC: PA Leads Nation In Natural Gas Power Generation Growth

PA Accounts For 25 Percent Of U.S. Natural Gas Power Generation

Turkey Hill Dairy Now Powered By 100% Renewables

Solar Farm Could Power Westmoreland Wastewater Plant

$75 Million, 540 Acre Solar Farm Proposed In Conewago Township, York County

$75 Million, 80MW Solar Farm Gets Green Light In York County, Would Be Largest In PA

PJM Pushes FERC To Act On Capacity Market Rules, Citing Uncertainty, Confusion

PaEN: PUC Approves Duquesne Light Filing For Third-Party Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

PaEN: Vista Energy Marketing To Pay $52,700 Penalty To PUC In Door-To-Door Energy Sales Case

Maykuth: PUC Slaps Hefty Fine On Energy Firm For Employing Rapist As Door-To-Door Salesman In Bucks

Chambersburg Sells Bonds To Upgrade Electric System

Op-Ed: Transource Power Line Would Cost PA Electricity Customers $514M In Higher Rates

Some Peoples Gas Customers In Moon Might Not Get Service Back Until Monday

Phillips: Japan Looks Past Battery-Powered Electric Cars, Envisions A Hydrogen Society

Energy Conservation

Philadelphia Museum Of Art Swapping Out 11,000 Bulbs, Fixtures For LEDs

Environmental Heritage

PaEN: Feature - What We Owe To Pennsylvania’s Rachel Carson 

PaEN: Feature-- 40 Years Ago Pennsylvanians Woke Up To The Accident At Three Mile Island, March 28, 1979

PaEN: On March 27 Penn State Harrisburg Will Mark 40th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island Accident

WITF: Airing Of Three Mile Island Accident Documentary 40 Years Later March 26

WITF Smart Talk: Media Coverage Of TMI Accident Was Part Of The Story

WITF: Gov. Thornburgh Speaks 2 Days After TMI Partial Meltdown

Sisk: After TMI Accident, CMU Team Pitched The Idea Of Using Robots For Cleanup, It Was Just The Beginning

Thyroid Cancer Study Re-Ignites Debate Over Three Mile Island Accident’s Health Effects

2 Weeks Before Three Mile Island Accident, China Syndrome Movies Hits Theaters Depicting Reactor Accident

PaEN: PHMC: 18 New State Historical Markers Approved, Several Related To PA’s Environmental Heritage

Farming

PaEN: Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award To Recognize PA Farmer With $10,000 Prize

Farmers Urged To Apply For Leopold Farm, Forest Conservation Grants

PaEN: NRCS-PA Now Accepting Applications For Funding To Protect Wetlands, Farmland On Working Farms

PaEN: March 19 Penn State Water Insights Seminar Highlights Stroud Water Center's Research On Soil Health

PaEN: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Seeks Public Comments On Conservation Practice Standards

Philadelphia Releases RFP For Citywide Urban Agriculture Plan

Plant For Pollinators

Penn State Extension Agronomy Guide Is Farmer’s Bible

Flooding

PaEN: House Committee To Consider Bill Creating Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force March 18

Luzerne Flood Authority Seeks Support For Grants To Fund 2 Projects

Williamsport Levee Repair Costs Nearing $2 Million

PEMA, Local Officials Discuss How Restore PA Would Prevent Flood Damage, Help Disaster Survivors

Editorial: Lackawanna County Commissioners Must Lead On Stormwater

Forests

Wildfire Risk Increasing In Pennsylvania During Spring

PaEN: DCNR Now Accepting Applications For Volunteer Fire Company Wildfire Fighting Grants

Lancaster Farming: DCNR Secretary Sees Riparian Buffer Progress

PaEN: Chesapeake Conservancy Seeking Volunteers To Identify, Collect Livestakes In Centre, Northumberland March 19, 24

Editorial: State Parks Report Sounds Alarm

PaEN: Agriculture Extends Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Area To Dauphin County

Schneck: Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Zone Expanded To Dauphin County

Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Zone Expands Into Central PA

March 21 Spotted Lanternfly Webinar Teaches About Permit, Species

PaEN: Business Owners: Do I Need A Spotted Lanternfly Permit Webinar March 21

PaEN: DEP/Health Announce New Statewide Tick Surveillance Program, Part Of A 5-Year Study Of Tickborne Illnesses In PA

Schneck: Tick Watch Under Way Across Pennsylvania By State

PA Collects Thousands Of Ticks For Study To Combat Lyme Disease

Tick Survey Planned For Erie County

Busy Time For Maple Syrup Makers In Erie Region

Squirrels Are Damaging Some Maple Syrup Operations

Sweet Treat: PA Contributes To Maple Syrup Production

Schneck: What’s The Strangest Thing You’ve Found In The Woods?

Head Of Morris Arboretum Retiring After 42 Years, A Rare Tenure In Botanical World

Geologic Hazards

Big Sinkhole Opens In Route 322 Dauphin County

Grants & Funding

PaEN: Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award To Recognize PA Farmer With $10,000 Prize

Farmers Urged To Apply For Leopold Farm, Forest Conservation Grants

PaEN: Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Offering: Small Watershed & Innovative Nutrient & Sediment Reduction Grants

PaEN: NRCS-PA Now Accepting Applications For Funding To Protect Wetlands, Farmland On Working Farms

PaEN: DCNR Now Accepting Applications For Volunteer Fire Company Wildfire Fighting Grants

PaEN: Applications Now Being Accepted For Schuylkill Highlands Landscape Mini-Grants

Green Infrastructure

Lancaster Farming: DCNR Secretary Sees Riparian Buffer Progress

PaEN: Bay Journal Op-Ed: Healthy Trees, Forests Are Great Cure For What Ails Chesapeake Bay

PaEN: Chesapeake Conservancy Seeking Volunteers To Identify, Collect Livestakes In Centre, Northumberland March 19, 24

Editorial: Wolf Must Lock Down Funding For Codorus Creek Improvement Project In York

PaEN: DEP, Lycoming College Host Open House March 18 In Williamsport For Landowners, Municipalities Seeking To Work In Streams Impacted By Flooding

PaEN: March 19 Penn State Water Insights Seminar Highlights Stroud Water Center's Research On Soil Health

Clay Twp., Lancaster County, Seeks To Improve Stormwater Runoff

Sanitary, Stormwater Fee Bills Due To Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Today

Stormwater Fee, Possible Park & Lock Project Dominate Butler Twp. Meeting In Luzerne

Editorial: Lackawanna County Commissioners Must Lead On Stormwater

PEMA, Local Officials Discuss How Restore PA Would Prevent Flood Damage, Help Disaster Survivors

Hazardous Substances

PaEN: DEP: Soil Samples At A Park, Day Care Center In Palmerton, Carbon County Exceed Lead Standard

High Lead Levels Found In Soil Around Palmerton Day Care And In Borough Park

Pittsburgh Water Authority Has Money To Replace Lead Service Lines For Free

Bagenstose: Military Moves Toward Treatment Study Of Willow Grove Base Water Contamination

PaEN: Dept. Of Human Services Explores Use Of Medicaid Funds For Lead Exposure Prevention And Remediation Initiative

Lake Erie

AP: Wolf, 4 Other Great Lakes Governors Oppose Trump Plan To Cut Great Lakes Funding

Ohio Governor Wants Nearly $1 Billion For Lake Erie, Waterways

Land Conservation

Allegheny Land Trust Issues Call Of Urgency To Save County’s Green Spaces

PaEN: Allegheny Land Trust Releases Full Schedule of Environmental Education Activities, Events

PaEN: Applications Now Being Accepted For Schuylkill Highlands Landscape Mini-Grants

Crable: Rumors Swirl Around Sale Of Girl Scout Camp In Lancaster County

PaEN: Chestnut Hill Conservancy Protects 2 Properties In Philadelphia

PaEN: PA Land Trust Assn. Offers Guides On Land Conservation, Allowing Land Encroachments

Trump Signs Public Lands, Federal Land & Water Conservation Fund Reauthorization Bill

Trump Administration Moving To Ease Oil & Gas Drilling Restrictions In West

Littering/Anti-Dumping

PaEN: Keep PA Beautiful Engages Nearly 130,000 Volunteers To Remove Over 7.2 Million Pounds Of Trash In 2018

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Removes 7.2 Million Pounds Of Trash

College Groups To Participate In Spring Litter Cleanup In Washington County

WITF Smart Talk: Picking Up The Poconos Initiative

Williamsport: City-Wide Litter Sweeps To Take Place In Late April

Mine Reclamation

PaEN: Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Subsidence Control Project In Lackawanna County

Noncoal Mining

Bagenstose: Sen. Santarsiero: DEP Investigating Rockhill Quarry Records

Oil & Gas

Post-Gazette: DEP Strikes Deal With Diversified Gas & Oil On Plugging Or Restarting 1,412 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells

PaEN: DEP Reaches Settlement On Diversified Gas & Oil Abandoned Conventional Wells

Frazier: DEP Reaches $7M Agreement Over 1,400 Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells

Huba: DEP Reaches Settlement With Companies To Plug Abandoned Wells In Western PA

MSC: PA Leads Nation In Natural Gas Power Generation Growth

PA Accounts For 25 Percent Of U.S. Natural Gas Power Generation

PaEN: DEP To Discuss Draft Regs Controlling VOC [Methane] Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations At March 21 Advisory Board Meeting

Shell Urges Trump White House To Tighten Methane Leak Rules

PA Environmental Council: Statement On Shell Support Of Methane Rules

PaEN: House Environmental Committee Meets March 19 To Consider Bill Allowing Cross Unit Drilling Under Several Properties

PaEN: Commonwealth Court Clears The Way For Attorney General To Pursue Unfair Trade Practices Cases Against Chesapeake, Anadarko On Drilling Royalties, Payments

PaEN: Court: Injection Well Developer Does Not Need To Wait To Challenge A Local Zoning Decision Until It Has Permits For The Well

Some Peoples Gas Customers In Moon Might Not Get Service Back Until Monday

Film On Arctic Refuge Battle Set For Pittsburgh Screening

Litvak: Rice Energy/EQT Proxy Fight History Plays Out On Ohio Farms

Reuters: EPA Unveils Plan To Allow Sales Of Higher Ethanol Gasoline

Trump Administration Moving To Ease Oil & Gas Drilling Restrictions In West

Permitting

PaEN: DEP Posts 65 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In March 16 PA Bulletin

Personnel

Head Of Morris Arboretum Retiring After 42 Years, A Rare Tenure In Botanical World

Pipelines

PaEN: Attorney General, Delaware County DA Conducting Joint Investigation Into Mariner East Pipelines

Phillips: Attorney General, Delaware County DA Launch Criminal Investigation Into Mariner East Pipelines

AP-Levy: Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Mariner East 2 Pipeline

Maykuth: Attorney General Launches Criminal Investigation Into Mariner East Pipeline Project

Attorney General, Delaware County Have Joined Mariner East Pipeline Investigation

PA Attorney General Launches Investigation Into Mariner East Pipelines

Delaware County DA Launches Investigation Of Mariner East Pipeline

PaEN: 15 Senate, House Members Ask Gov. Wolf To Halt Mariner East Pipeline Operations Until Safety Protocols Are In Place

PaEN: Senators Killion, Dinniman Introduce Resolution Forming Senate/House Commission To Make Recommendations To Improve Pipeline Safety, Construction Practices

Op-Ed: First Trump, Then Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipeline Mess, No Wonder Republicans Are Scared

PA Landowners Ask U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Case

Sen. Dinniman, Rep. Friel Otten Form Pipeline Safety Caucus

PaEN: DEP Proposes Water Quality Certification For Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Project In Eastern PA

PaEN: Proposed Water Quality Certification Published For Columbia Case East & West Pipeline Project, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion Counties

The $1 Billion Gas Pipeline Project Dividing New York

Radiation Protection

Maykuth: $500 Million: That’s How Much Lawmakers Are Asking For To Rescue Nuclear Power Plants

Cusick: Rep. Mehaffie Talks Up His Nuclear Bailout Bill; Opponents Line Up To Trash It

Legere/Litvak: Nuclear Rescue Bill In PA Carries A $500 Million Price Tag

PLS Reporter: Skeptics Decry Bailout As Nuclear Advocates Roll Out Plan To Save State’s Nuclear Power Plants

Crable: Bill Introduced to Subsidize Nuclear Power In PA, Save Three Mile Island

Thompson: $500 Million Nuclear Power Rescue Bill Introduced In PA

Consumers Would Foot The Bill To Prop Up PA’s Ailing Nuke Plants Under House Proposal

Caruso: Lawmakers Skeptical Of Nuclear Rescue Proposal; Could Solar Panels, Wind Get The Job Done?

PA Lawmaker: State Crafted Nuke Subsidy Bill After DOE Said Not To Wait For Bailout

PA Bill Would Add Nuclear Power To Alternative Energy Lists

Reuters: PA Lawmaker Offers Bill To Save Nuclear Power Plants

AP-Levy: Fight Over Nuclear Plants Arrives At PA Capitol

Bailout Bill Proposed For Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant

NRDC: Pennsylvania’s First Nuclear Subsidy Bill Explained

Market Monitor Report: TMI Only Uneconomical Nuclear Plant In PA

Bloomberg: In America’s Shale Country, Nukes, Gas Are Duking It Out

Thyroid Cancer Study Re-Ignites Debate Over Three Mile Island Accident’s Health Effects

Cusick: Nuclear Watchdog Group Wants NRC To Investigate Safety Issue At Three Mile Island

Crable: PPL Blasts Proposal To Subsidize Nuclear Power, Save TMI From Closing

Op-Ed: Your Electricity Bill Could Increase To Rescue Nuclear Power Plants - PPL President

Op-Ed: Why Should Electric Customers Subsidize Nuclear Generation - PPL President

Op-Ed: Why Should Electric Customers Subsidize Nuclear Generation - PPL President

Editorial: PA Should Let Three Mile Island Close - Lancaster Paper

Editorial: Pennsylvania Should Let Three Mile Island Close - Lancaster

AP: Nuclear Industry Pushing For Fewer Inspections At Plants

Maykuth: Are Tiny Nuclear Reactors The Path To A Carbon-Free Future?

DOE’s Perry Says Federal Coal, Nuclear Bailout Not Dead, But Encourages States To Act

Ohio Weighs Nuclear Plant Bailout At FirstEnergy’s Urging, Will It Boost Renewables Too?

Op-Ed: It Sounds Crazy, But Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island Show Why Nuclear Power Is Inherently Safe

PJM Pushes FERC To Act On Capacity Market Rules, Citing Uncertainty, Confusion

Feds Say Trump Budget Won’t Affect Parks Twp. Radioactive Waste Dump Cleanup

Recreation

PaEN: House Tourism & Recreation Committee Holds March 19 Info Meeting On PA Parks & Forests Foundation Infrastructure Needs Report

DCNR: Prince Gallitzin State Park, Cambria County, Needs $3.5 Million Of Infrastructure Work

DCNR Secretary Tours Potential Trail Site In Pittsburgh To Promote Restore PA

Delaware Canal State Park Needs $90 Million Worth Of Improvements

Local Leaders Tour Bucks State Parks, Assess Needs

Editorial: State Parks Report Sounds Alarm

First Phase Of Ohiopyle Construction On Schedule To Be Completed By Memorial Day

Editorial: Friends Of Lackawanna Appeal Affirms Opposition To Keystone Landfill

PaEN: March 15 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

PaEN: Registration Now Open For 25th Delaware River Sojourn June 14-22

Hiker Rescued From Hillside Along Popular Trail Near Moraine State Park

DCNR Plans White-Water Release Into Tohickon Creek For Annual Boating Event In Bucks

March 15 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

Ski Areas In NE Flying High As Season Wraps Up

PaEN: DEP/Health Announce New Statewide Tick Surveillance Program, Part Of A 5-Year Study Of Tickborne Illnesses In PA
Schneck: Tick Watch Under Way Across Pennsylvania By State

PA Collects Thousands Of Ticks For Study To Combat Lyme Disease

Tick Survey Planned For Erie County

A Park That Makes Money?  Dilworth Park In Philadelphia Generated $2.5 Million In 2018

Hayes: Adaptive Sports Equipment Enables Outdoor Recreation For All

Ashley Residents Worried About Playground Plan

Stormwater Fee, Possible Park & Lock Project Dominate Butler Twp. Meeting In Luzerne

New Warrington Park To Offer App/Bluetooth Technology In Bucks County

Allegheny Twp OKs Money For Tredway Trail Expansion

Why Cyclists Feel Vulnerable In Philly’s Bike Lanes

Pittsburgh Recognized As Starting Point For Lewis And Clark Expedition

PaEN: Applications Now Being Accepted For Schuylkill Highlands Landscape Mini-Grants

Schneck: What’s The Strangest Thing You’ve Found In The Woods?

Crable: Extreme Adventurer: When Winter Weather Gets Rough, Ben Weaver Gets Going

Crable: Rumors Swirl Around Sale Of Girl Scout Camp In Lancaster County

York, Lancaster Counties Earn National Heritage Area Designation To Draw Tourists, Spur Economy

Trump Signs Public Lands, Federal Land & Water Conservation Fund Reauthorization Bill

Recycling/Waste

Recycling Today Highlights PRC’s Pop-Up Glass Recycling Initiative

Editorial: Pop-Up Recycling, PA Resources Council Helps Us Do The Right Thing

Sen. Yaw Tours Muncy Company Turns Out Drainage Pipes Made From Recycled Plastic

Millcreek Twp. Hauler Asks For Increased Fee To Cover Recycling Costs

Multi-Municipal Recycling Center May Move In Blair County

Logan Twp, Blair County To Apply For DEP Food Waste Recycling Grant

What Happens To The Flowers After The Philadelphia Flower Show Ends?

Editorial: Friends Of Lackawanna Appeal Affirms Opposition To Keystone Landfill

Renewable Energy

PaEN: Senators Ask Colleagues To Sign On To Bipartisan Bill To Increase Renewable Energy Purchase By Utilities From 8% To 30% By 2030

Turkey Hill Dairy Now Powered By 100% Renewables

Solar Farm Could Power Westmoreland Wastewater Plant

$75 Million, 80MW Solar Farm Gets Green Light In York County, Would Be Largest In PA

$75 Million, 540 Acre Solar Farm Proposed In Conewago Township, York County

Stormwater

PaEN: DEP, Lycoming College Host Open House March 18 In Williamsport For Landowners, Municipalities Seeking To Work In Streams Impacted By Flooding

Rep. Kaufer Asks Attorney General To File Injunction To Stop Luzerne Stormwater Fee

Sanitary, Stormwater Fee Bills Due To Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Today

Clay Twp., Lancaster County, Seeks To Improve Stormwater Runoff

Editorial: Lackawanna County Commissioners Must Lead On Stormwater

Superfund - Federal

PaEN: DEP: Soil Samples At A Park, Day Care Center In Palmerton, Carbon County Exceed Lead Standard

Susquehanna

PaEN: House Bill Would Give Either Senate Or House Environmental Committee A Veto Over Any DEP Groundwater Withdraw Regulations

Sustainability

PaEN: The Hershey Company Announces Action Plans To Protect, Restore Forests In Cocoa Growing Region

10th Annual Sustainability Conference Sparks In-Depth Conversation About Smart Cities In Pittsburgh

Wastewater Facilities

EPA OKs Plan To Stop Sewage Overflows From Allentown, Surrounding Municipalities

Sadsbury Twp, Chester County Sells Wastewater System

PA American Water Invests $37 Million In Lackawanna County Water, Wastewater Infrastructure

Editorial: ALCOSAN Overhaul Should Include Transparency

Watershed Protection

Lancaster Farming: DCNR Secretary Sees Riparian Buffer Progress

PaEN: Bay Journal Op-Ed: Healthy Trees, Forests Are Great Cure For What Ails Chesapeake Bay

Why PA Residents Should Car Trump Wants To Cut Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funding 90%

PaEN: March 19 Penn State Water Insights Seminar Highlights Stroud Water Center's Research On Soil Health

PaEN: DEP, Lycoming College Host Open House March 18 In Williamsport For Landowners, Municipalities Seeking To Work In Streams Impacted By Flooding

Rep. Kaufer Asks Attorney General To File Injunction To Stop Luzerne Stormwater Fee

Sanitary, Stormwater Fee Bills Due To Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Today

Clay Twp., Lancaster County, Seeks To Improve Stormwater Runoff

Stormwater Fee, Possible Park & Lock Project Dominate Butler Twp. Meeting In Luzerne

Editorial: Lackawanna County Commissioners Must Lead On Stormwater

Editorial: Wolf Must Lock Down Funding For Codorus Creek Improvement Project In York

Delaware RiverKeeper March 15 RiverWatch Video Report

Op-Ed: Our Beer Is Only As Good As Our Water

AP: Wolf, 4 Other Great Lakes Governors Oppose Trump Plan To Cut Great Lakes Funding

Ohio Governor Wants Nearly $1 Billion For Lake Erie, Waterways

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Wildlife

PaEN: Game Commission Manager Lauren Ferreri Recognized For Conservation Achievements

Hunters Gather In Jefferson County To Protest Deer Removal Plans

Hunters Protest Chronic Wasting Disease Deer Elimination Plan

Hunters Gather To Hear Speaker Opposed To Deer Removal In Blair County To Deal With CWD

Hunters, Hikers Debate Proposed Changes To PA Deer Hunting Season

Hayes: Old-Time Tradition May End With A Saturday Start To Deer Season

Letter: End Sunday Hunting Ban

Game Commission Sets March 25  Working Group Meeting

PaEN: Wildlife For Everyone Awards College Scholarships To 5 Students

Peregrine Falcons At Pitt’s Cathedral Of Learning Have 1st Egg Of Season

Why A Wounded Bald Eagle Couldn’t Be Saved At Centre Wildlife Care

Allegheny Front: Birders Make The Best Friends

Thomas: Tundra Swans Are A Treat For Those Lucky Enough To Catch Their Migration North - Western PA

How Middle Creek Wildlife Area Staff Count Snow Geese

Out-Of-Staters “Flock” To Middle Creek Wildlife Areas In March

Middle Creek Snow Geese Population May Be Near Peak With 150,000 Birds - Video

PaEN: Tiadaghton Audubon: How The Fate Of The Florida Sparrow Impacts Pennsylvania, March 20, Wellsboro, Tioga County

Nature Watch: Rare For Erie, Eurasian Wigeon Spotted Off Perry Monument

Bay Journal: Look For Signs Of Spring Around The Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Schneck: What’s The Strangest Thing You’ve Found In The Woods?

Schneck: 4.2 Million Trout On The Way, First First-Day March 23

Over 40 Ice Fishermen Rescued After Ice Floe Breaks Off In Lake Erie

Film On Arctic Refuge Battle Set For Pittsburgh Screening

PaEN: April 5 PA Wildlife Gala To Raise Money For Wildlife Conservation & Education

West Nile/Zika Virus

PaEN: DEP/Health Announce New Statewide Tick Surveillance Program, Part Of A 5-Year Study Of Tickborne Illnesses In PA

PA Collects Thousands Of Ticks For Study To Combat Lyme Disease

Tick Survey Planned For Erie County

Other

PaEN: PA Chamber’s Annual Environmental Conference & Trade Show April 23 In Hershey

The Manayunk Canal Almost Became The Manayunk Expressway In Philadelphia

 

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3/18/2019

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