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

-- WITF Smart Talk: PA Environmental Defense Foundation Takes Lawmakers To Court For Money Meant For Conservation Efforts

-- DEP: To Propose Regulations Allowing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Across PA  [PaEN]

-- New Penn State Study: Shows Road Dumping Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Has Little Dust Suppression Benefit, Contains Pollutants Harmful To Human Health, Agriculture, Aquatic Life    [PaEN]

-- Now On Demand: Webinar- Radioactivity In Fracking - Too Hot To Handle With Scientist/Author Justin Nobel  [PaEN]

-- House Environmental Committee Fails To Discuss Poor Compliance, Record $55 Million In Penalties Imposed On Natural Gas/Hazardous Liquid Pipelines In Last 5 Years  [PaEN]

-- DEP: Collects $85,000 Penalty For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations In Blair, Cumberland, Juniata, Lebanon Counties  [PaEN]

-- PUC: Seeks Comments On Proposed Changes To Safety Regulations For Customer-Owned Natural Gas Pipeline System Service Lines  ​[PaEN]

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: PA Among Stingiest States In Spending On Parks 7 Rec: Study

-- StateImpactPA: DCNR’s 25-Year Plan For State Parks Stresses Need To Address Effects Of Climate Change

-- Latest PA Greenhouse Gas Inventory Shows Increase In Emissions For 2nd Consecutive Year; Decrease In Electricity Generation, Transportation Sectors  [PaEN]

-- New Franklin & Marshall Poll Results--

-- 62 percent believe Pennsylvania should do more to address climate change

-- More believe climate change is causing problems now than in June- 59 percent

-- 39 percent personally experience problems related to climate change, up from 33 percent in June

-- 71 percent believe elementary and high schools should teach children about climate change

-- WITF Smart Talk: Landmark Report Points Directly To Fossil Fuels As The Cause Of Extreme Weather Changes

-- WESA: Rural PA Communities Are Already Feeling Effects of Climate Change, But A Climate Activist Says It’s Not Too Late

-- Land Health Institute: Switching The Narrative: Who Is Responsible For Stopping Climate Change?

-- PA Cap-Star: Study: Trusted Messengers Can Move The Needle On Republican Climate Change Acceptance 

-- WESA: After Sighting Black Smoke, Flames, Environmental Groups Ask Authorities To Address Air Pollution At U.S. Steel Plant In Braddock, Allegheny County

-- WESA-The Allegheny Front: Proposed Coal Mine In Allegheny County Hits Roadblock At Township Meeting

-- PG - Anya Litvak: Coal Company’s Plan For Large Allegheny County Mine Gets Unwelcome Greeting At First Public Meeting

-- ErieT: EPA Hits Erie Coke [Coal] Plant With $1 Million Superfund Lien To Recoup Cleanup Costs; Amount Likely To Grow

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Excavation Of Radiological Waste Delayed By 1 Year At Nuclear Site In Parks Township, Armstrong County

-- PA Resources Council: September Schedule Of Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Locations In Allegheny, Mercer Counties  [PaEN]

-- ErieT Guest Essay: Erosion Along Lake Erie Bluffs A Cause For Major Concern

-- DEP: Latest Environmental Justice Update Newsletter

-- CourierT: Is Your Trout Fishing In Trouble?  Saving The State Tree May Be The Answer

-- WeConservePA: Legal Opinion - Conservation Qualifies For American Rescue Plan Funds

-- PA Heritage Magazine: The Man For The Moment: Tom Ridge And The 9/11 Inflection Point

-- PA Heritage Magazine: PA State Police Col. Paul J. Evanko’s Field Notes From 9/11

-- PG: 15 Miles From Flight 93 Crash, Visitors Find A Happy Ending At Quecreek Mine Rescue Site

-- ErieT: Early History of Presque Isle State Park And Old Erie: 10 Things Every Visitor Should Know

-- CentreDT: Legacy Day Puts Focus On Civilian Conservation Corps History In PA

8/23/2021