Important headline articles from this week’s PA Environment Digest--

-- StateImpactPA/Rachel McDevitt: In Boost For Environmental Rights, PA Supreme Court Rules Drilling Revenue From State Forests Must Be Used For Conservation

-- TribLive Editorial: PA Supreme Court Is Right To Protect Oil & Gas Fund

-- ScrantonT Editorial: State Is Steward Of Public Land, Not A Developer

-- Gov. Wolf: Highlights Need For State Parks To Be Welcoming To All In Penn’s Parks For All Initiative  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Quarterly: The Perfect Antidote, Appreciation Of Nature is Soaring And The Recreation Business Is Booming

-- PennLive: Third Crew Of DCNR Wildfire Fighters Heads West, This Time To Idaho

-- WITF Smart Talk: Forest Fires Rage Across The Western U.S., How Vulnerable Is PA To Wildfire Risk?

-- Health, DEP, DCNR: Prevalence Of Ticks In Pennsylvania Is High, Take Steps To Prevent Tick Bites And Tick-borne Diseases  [PaEN]

-- DCNR: Accepting Application For ATV, Snowmobile Grants Starting August 2

-- Trout Unlimited: Urges Congress To Pass Good Samaritan Legislation To Promote  Cleaning Up Abandoned Mines Without Assuming Liability - Watch Hearing Here

-- CBF: Freshwater Mussels Could Help Clean Up Pennsylvania's Rivers, Streams  [PaEN]

-- Fish & Boat Commission: Awards Grants For Sinnemahoning Watershed Restoration Projects In Cameron, Elk, Potter and McKean Counties

-- WHYY: Delaware County DA Announces Criminal Charges In Brookhaven Fuel Spill

-- StateImpactPA/John Hurdle: DEP To Propose Limits On PFAS Family Of Chemicals That It Says Balance Coast And Public Health

-- PennVEST: Invests $97 Million In Clean Water Infrastructure, Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction Projects In 19 Counties [PaEN]

-- Wolf: Announces Availability Of Low-Interest Loans For Survivors Of Devastating July Flooding  [PaEN]

-- WBTimes Editorial: Flood Management Strategies Need To Evolve, Especially With Impacts Of Climate Change

-- MCall: Bucks County Tornado Was An EF3, Among 7 Confirmed So Far In PA, NJ From Thursday’s Storms

-- TribLive: Weather Service Confirms EF1 Tornado Hit Along Fayette-Westmoreland Border

-- AltoonaM Editorial: Natural Gas Drillers Put Their Industry Over Your Health 

-- SW PA Environmental Health Project: Siri Lawson, Warren County, And Her Story Of Dealing With Health Impacts From Drilling Operation, Wastes - Part 1

-- SW PA Environmental Health Project: Siri Lawson, Warren County, And Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater - Part 2

-- Public Herald: Ohio Operates A Radioactive Industry Off The Record From PA, Ohio Oil & Gas Drilling Waste - Part 1

-- Public Herald: Investigation Uncovers Ohio Is ‘Illegally’ Building Radioactive Mountains, Affecting 26 Waterways From PA, Ohio Oil & Gas Drilling Waste - Part 2

-- Ohio River Valley Institute: Poll Finds PA Voters Want Tougher Regulation Of Natural Gas Drilling Wastes; Support Community Regulation Of Drilling; Favor Clean Energy Sources  [PaEN]

-- DEP: To Require Radiological Testing Of Leachate At Landfills, Including Those Accepting Drilling Wastes; Does Not Include Additional Testing Of Drilling Wastewater  [PaEN]

-- Sen. Muth, Rep. Innamorato: Call On DEP To Close Loopholes In Regulation Of Oil & Gas Industry Waste As Hazardous Waste

-- Delaware RiverKeeper: Aug. 18 Webinar- Radioactivity In Fracking - Too Hot To Handle With Scientist/Author Justin Nobel [PaEN]

-- Ohio Capital Journal: Feds And States Not Taking Radioactivity From Fracking Seriously, Environmental Group Says

-- NRDC: Regulation Is Too Weak For Radioactive Oil And Gas Drilling Wastewater Other Waste  [PaEN]

-- FracTracker Alliance: Releases Digital Atlas Showing The Impacts Of Natural Gas Development In Lycoming Creek Watershed  [PaEN]

-- AP: Forgotten Oil & Gas Wells Linger, Leaking Toxic Chemicals  [PA Included]

-- Natural Resources Defense Council: Millions Of Leaky And Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells Are Threatening Lives And The Climate  [PA Included]

-- PG/Anya Litvak: Getting Paid To Reduce Methane Emissions From Old Coal Mines, CNX Shows How

-- PG/Anya Litvak: A Waste Coal-Burning, Crypto-Mining Pirate Ship Sets Sale In PA

-- Sen. Comitta, Rep. Herrin: Discuss RGGI Investments Act, Climate Change During Online Program [PaEN]

-- WESA: Casey Wants To Revive Civilian Conservation Corps To Address Climate Change

-- PG Editorial: Climate Change Is Driving Extreme Floods, Wildfires And Heat.  Will The World Meet The Moment?

-- PA Cap-Star: What Can PA Learn From A Washington State Community’s Transition Away From Fossil Fuels?

-- Inquirer: Andrew Maykuth: Utilities Disconnect 116,000 PA Households After State Lifts Moratorium On Pandemic Shutoffs

-- Keep PA Beautiful: Invites Residents To Partner With Municipalities To Adopt A Road Or Area To Help Reduce Litter And Associated Cleanup Costs  [PaEN]

-- WTAJ: Illegal Dumping Reports Show Major Increase Within Last Year

-- YorkDR: In Face Of Devastating Blight, One York County Chestnut Tree Might Hold Key To Species Survival

-- TreeVitalize Pittsburgh: Now Accepting Applications For Spring 2022 Tree Plantings Until Oct. 15 - Contact Jeff Bergman at 412-586-2396 or jbergman@paconserve.org

-- PA Society For Ornithology: Inaugural Breeding Bird Blitz Raised $10,645 For Bird Conservation, Doubling Fundraising Goal  [PaEN] 

-- TribLive/Mary Ann Thomas: State To Remove Peregrine Falcon From Threatened Species List

-- Marcus Schneck: Northern Goshawk Headed To Endangered Species Status In PA

-- ReadingE: Songbird Death Event Still Has No Answers:  Updated Game Commission Advisory

-- WHYY: The Lenape Native Americans Seek A Return Home To PA: ‘We Just Want To Be Welcomed Back’

-- PennDOT: Transportation Revenue Options Commission Submits Report To Gov. Wolf, General Assembly

8/2/2021