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Transition - Governor
-- Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater [PaEN]
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Dimock Clean Drinking Water Plea Suggests New PA Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations By Energy Companies, Advocates Say
-- AP: Shapiro Taps Longtime Aides For Top Jobs In Governor’s Office
-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Gov.-Elect Shapiro Choses Jennifer Selber, AG Crime Staffer, As General Counsel
-- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: Shapiro Names Uri Monson, Budget Secretary, Larry Hailsham Executive Deputy Chief Of Staff
-- Post-Gazette: Michelle Henry, Shapiro’s Successor For Attorney General Is No Stranger To The Big Stage
-- PA Municipal League Envision 2032 Recommendations In 7 Key Topics, Including Healthy, Sustainable Communities
-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Wolf Leaves Office With Few Regrets, No Grudges
-- PennLive: Five Things You May Not Know About Gov. Wolf
Transition - Senate/House
-- PA Capital-Star: Control Of State House Hangs On 3 Allegheny County Special Elections
-- AP: House Republicans Sue Over Special Election In Battle For House Majority
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Legislative Reference Bureau Opinion Says Neither Party Has A PA House Majority [May Only Count Living Members]
-- City & State PA: Legislative Agency Says Democrats Lack A Majority In The PA House
-- Erie Times: House Leadership War Sets Ugly Tone For PA’s Next Legislative Session
-- WESA: Slugfest In Harrisburg As Democrats, Republicans Fight Over Control Of PA House
-- AP: PA House Democrats Move To Take Power, Schedule 3 Special Elections; Republicans Protest Moves
-- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: Dispute Over PA House Special Elections, Control Likely Heading To Court
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PA House’s Unprecedented Power Struggle Shows No Let Up In The Drama Surrounding It
-- City & State PA: Tug Of War For Control Of State House Intensifies
-- Sen. Ward Announces Staff Appointments For Office Of Senate President Pro Tempore
-- Sen. Pittman Announces Staff For The Majority Leader’s Office
Environment & Energy Issues
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Inside The 14-Year Battle To Secure A Water Line For Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’ [Dimock, Susquehanna County]
-- Post-Gazette/CapitolWire.com: Sen Baker To Reintroduce Bill To Require Universal Lead Testing For Young Children
-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Appoints Four New Board Members
-- Politics PA: PA Congressman Thompson Named Chair Of U.S. House Agriculture Committee
Top 10 Headlines From Harrisburg Last Week -----------------------------------
Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else--
-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week [PaEN]
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-- 64 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN]
-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students And Adults [PaEN]
-- This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues [PaEN]
Check Calendars For Events Near You!
-- Check The Calendars For Events Near You: PA Parks & Forests Foundation’s Events webpage and DCNR’s Calendar of Events.
DEP ADVISORY: “Due to the upcoming change in [Governor’s] administration, DEP executive staff have asked that all advisory committee meetings slated for January and February be rescheduled to March.”
Air
-- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN]
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final-Omitted Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- EPA: Registration Open For Virtual Hearing On Supplemental Rule To Cut Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Operations [Jan. 10-11]
-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas To Power Vehicles [PaEN]
-- Erie Times: Erie Coke (Coal) Fails To Show Up In Court On Environmental Charges, What’s Next?
-- Ohio River Valley Institute Dec. 12 Webinar: Mapping A Clean Energy Transition For Southwest PA [PaEN]
-- NPR: U.S. Wants To Slash Carbon Emissions From Power Plants, Natural Gas Is In The Way
Alternative Fuels
-- WHYY: PA Announces Money To Help Get Dirty Diesel Trucks Out Of High-Traffic Communities
-- WESA: Pittsburgh Startup Says Its Tech Will Let Electric Vehicles Go The Distance Without Recharging
Awards & Recognition
-- PA Environmental Professionals Recognize Fmr DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell, Lorie Erb & Bog Turtle Recovery Program [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna River North Branch Vying For 2023 PA River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Perkiomen Creek Finalist For Pennsylvania’s 2023 River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Philly Voice: Schuylkill River Among 4 Nominees For PA’s 2023 River Of The Year
-- Inquirer: Schuylkill River, Perkiomen Creek Competing For 2023 PA River Of The Year
Biodiversity/Invasive Species
-- Agriculture Secretary Highlights Partnerships Protecting Pennsylvania’s Economy, Environment From Invasive Species Damage [PaEN]
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- PA Sea Grant Announces $1.07 Million Investment In Six Projects To Address Critical Aquatic Ecosystem, Watershed Challenges; Next Proposal Round Opens Jan. 5 [PaEN]
-- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Dec. 13 Webinar On Managing Invasive Species & Overgrown Landscapes With Goats [PaEN]
-- PA/NJ Chapter American Chestnut Foundation Update: April 1 Spring Growers Meeting; PA Farm Show Outreach; Spring/Summer Internships
-- Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Study Shows Climate Change Threatens North American Wildflowers [PaEN]
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Wildflowers Starved For Sunlight By Tree Reaction To Climate Change: New Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Study
-- WESA: Climate Change Is Threatening North America’s Wildflowers, Carnegie Museum Research Shows
-- PA Firefly Festival Update: Register For 2023 PA Firefly Festival Ticket Lottery
-- Williamsport Sun - Katie Bohen: New Clues About How Carbon Dioxide Affects Bumblebee Reproduction
Chesapeake Bay
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: Local Agriculture Operator Mark Heller Making A Difference [PaEN]
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update: Eels In The Classroom; Vote For Conestoga River As River Of The Year; Lancaster Resident Honored For Environmental Justice Work
-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships Blog: Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund A Success Story In Pennsylvania - By Emily Baldauff, Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer [Keystone Fund website ]
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Citizen Action
-- Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater [PaEN]
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9 [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 50 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In The Dec. 10 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Shale Coalition Video: Time To Build Natural Gas Pipelines, Power Plants And More
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking [PaEN]
-- AP: Delaware River Basin Commission Limits Fracking Waste In Delaware River Watershed
-- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Delaware River Basin Commission Bans Fracking Wastewater From Watershed
-- WHYY: Delaware River Basin Commission Votes To Ban Fracking Wastewater Discharges
-- Courier Times/Pocono Record: Water And Fracking - What The Delaware River Basin Commission Bans, Allows Under New Rules
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Comparing How The Delaware River Basin Commission And The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Address Shale Gas Industry Wastewater
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Dimock Clean Drinking Water Plea Suggests New PA Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations By Energy Companies, Advocates Say
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Inside The 14-Year Battle To Secure A Water Line For Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’ [Dimock, Susquehanna County]
-- Environmental Health News: Waste From 8 PA Shale Gas Drilling Sites Using PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Shipped To At Least 97 Sites For Reuse And Disposal [23 Million Gallons Of Waste, 30,390 Tons Of Solid Waste]
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Charges Of Illegal Disposal Of Drilling Wastewater In Dunkard Creek, Greene County Brought Against Wastewater Hauler [2011]
-- Observer-Reporter: Greene County DA Conducting Criminal Investigation Of East Dunkard Water Authority For Distributing Contaminated Drinking Water
-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas To Power Vehicles [PaEN]
-- Green Rock Energy Partners Acquires PA South Hills Renewable Gas Production Facility
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: Local Agriculture Operator Mark Heller Making A Difference [PaEN]
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update: Eels In The Classroom; Vote For Conestoga River As River Of The Year; Lancaster Resident Honored For Environmental Justice Work
-- Delaware RiverKeeper: 2023 Watershed Congress Set For March 25
-- Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education To Permanently Preserve 24-Acre Forest In Philadelphia [PaEN]
-- Pocono Heritage Land Trust Seeks Partner To Protect 755-Acre Camp Trexler In Monroe County From Development [PaEN]
-- WeConservePA: Brandywine Conservancy Helps Preserve 14+ Acres Of Historic Chester County Family Farm
-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Residents Protect Forests From Development Using Conservation Easements, Working With Berks Nature
-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships Blog: Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund A Success Story In Pennsylvania - By Emily Baldauff, Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer [Keystone Fund website ]
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Trail Towns Poised To Capitalize On Increasing Access, Popularity Of Rails-To-Trails
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: ‘Generational Changing’ Investments Poised To Remake Western PA’s Trails System
-- PA Forestry Assn./Ned Smith Center For Nature & Art Release 6th Discovering PA's Forest Heritage Video - PA Forest Fire Towers [PaEN]
-- Wilkes-Barre Times: ‘Trees For Troops’ Encourages Donating Christmas Trees To Service Members
-- WHYY: FarmerJawn Is Expanding Their Agriculture Access Vision Into Chester County
-- Ohio River Valley Institute Dec. 12 Webinar: Mapping A Clean Energy Transition For Southwest PA [PaEN]
-- PA Solar Center Hosts Entertaining Dec. 16 Webinar Uncovering Probably True Solar Stories With Tor 'Solar Fred' Valenza [PaEN]
-- Inquirer: 13 States Are Protesting Philadelphia-based Vanguard Group’s Support Of Cleaner Energy To Fight Climate Change
-- Inquirer: Philadelphia-based Vanguard Quits Clean Energy Group After 13 Republican States Complain
-- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Vanguard Pulls Out Of International Climate Initiative, Angering Environmentalists
Climate
-- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN]
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final-Omitted Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- Scranton Times: 73-Acre Proposed Solar Farm To Produce Electricity In Scranton
-- Ohio River Valley Institute Dec. 12 Webinar: Mapping A Clean Energy Transition For Southwest PA [PaEN]
-- WHYY: PA Announces Money To Help Get Dirty Diesel Trucks Out Of High-Traffic Communities
-- WESA: Pittsburgh Startup Says Its Tech Will Let Electric Vehicles Go The Distance Without Recharging
-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas To Power Vehicles [PaEN]
-- PA Solar Center Hosts Entertaining Dec. 16 Webinar Uncovering Probably True Solar Stories With Tor 'Solar Fred' Valenza [PaEN]
-- University Of Pittsburgh Now Accepting Submissions For Sustainability Challenge, $300,000 To Be Given To Implement Winning Proposal [PaEN]
-- Inquirer: 13 States Are Protesting Philadelphia-based Vanguard Group’s Support Of Cleaner Energy To Fight Climate Change
-- Inquirer: Philadelphia-based Vanguard Quits Clean Energy Group After 13 Republican States Complain
-- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Vanguard Pulls Out Of International Climate Initiative, Angering Environmentalists
-- RMI: The Business Case For New Fossil Gas Power Plants Is Shrinking
-- Marcellus Shale Coalition Video: Time To Build Natural Gas Pipelines, Power Plants And More
-- EPA: Registration Open For Virtual Hearing On Supplemental Rule To Cut Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Operations [Jan. 10-11]
-- Inside Climate News: New Book By Annie Proulx Shows Us How To Fall In Love With Wetlands; Serve As Vital Carbon Sinks [Bartram’s Garden, Philadelphia ]
-- NPR: U.S. Wants To Slash Carbon Emissions From Power Plants, Natural Gas Is In The Way
-- Financial Times: Solar Energy Boom Will See Sunshine Surpass Coal For Power In 5 Years, IEA Says
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Proposals For Hydrogen Hub In Appalachia Have Great Potential, But Challenges Ahead
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: How Hydrogen Hubs May Point Way To Clean Energy Transition
-- Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Study Shows Climate Change Threatens North American Wildflowers [PaEN]
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Wildflowers Starved For Sunlight By Tree Reaction To Climate Change: New Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Study
-- WESA: Climate Change Is Threatening North America’s Wildflowers, Carnegie Museum Research Shows
-- AP: New Abnormal: Climate Disaster Damage ‘Down’ To $268 Billion
-- Financial Times: COP15: U.N. Warns Of The Cost Of ‘Humanity Treating Nature Like A Toilet’
-- WPost: Big Oil Talks Clean Energy Transition, But Perpetuates Petroleum U.S. House Documents Say
Coal Mining
-- DEP Invites Comments On Transfer Of Ownership Of Little Blue Run Residual Waste Disposal Impoundment In Beaver County [PaEN]
-- AP: EPA Head Visits West Virginia City That Had 10-Year Boil Water Advisory
Compliance Action
-- DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Well Leak In Cambria County Sparks Overhaul Of Monitoring Efforts
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: DEP Says Leaks, Spill Damage Continue At Cambria County Gas Storage Site That Leaked For Weeks
-- WJAC: DEP: Investigation Into Cambria County Storage Area Natural Gas Leak Revealed ‘Numerous Violations’ By Company
-- Tribune-Democrat: DEP Orders Gas Company To Take Mitigation Steps After Storage Area Natural Gas Leak; Incident Brought 10 Violations, State Says
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: DEP Orders Equitrans To Take Action On Natural Gas Storage Area Release
-- Bloomberg: Pennsylvania Says Many Violations Seen At Site Of Natural Gas Storage Area Leak
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Dimock Clean Drinking Water Plea Suggests New PA Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations By Energy Companies, Advocates Say
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Inside The 14-Year Battle To Secure A Water Line For Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’ [Dimock, Susquehanna County]
-- Erie Times: Erie Coke (Coal) Fails To Show Up In Court On Environmental Charges, What’s Next?
-- PUC Approves $48,000 Refund To Sunoco Pipeline On A Penalty It Paid For Mariner East Pipeline Construction Violations [PaEN]
-- DEP Took Action On 751 Permits, 97% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,444 Inspections; Responded To 6 Environmental Emergencies Last Week
Conservation Districts
-- Warren Times: Warren County Conservation District Accepting Applications For College Scholarships
Dam Safety
-- Citizens Voice: Laurel Run Dam Removal Will Address Safety, Ecology Issues, DCNR Says
DCNR
-- DCNR Blog: Gaining Leadership Skills With Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps - Now Hiring - By: Bri Geiner, Crew Member, 2022 Harrisburg Young Adult Crew [PaEN]
-- DCNR Bureau Of State Parks Environmental Education Activities, Professional Development, Much More
-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships Blog: Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund A Success Story In Pennsylvania - By Emily Baldauff, Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer [Keystone Fund website ]
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Trail Towns Poised To Capitalize On Increasing Access, Popularity Of Rails-To-Trails
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: ‘Generational Changing’ Investments Poised To Remake Western PA’s Trails System
-- WeConservePA: DCNR Secretary Joins Local Officials To Dedicate New Martic Forge Trestle Bridge In Lancaster County
-- Citizens Voice: Laurel Run Dam Removal Will Address Safety, Ecology Issues, DCNR Says
-- DCNR: Governor’s Advisory Council For Hunting, Fishing & Recreation Meets Dec. 15
-- PA Forestry Assn./Ned Smith Center For Nature & Art Release 6th Discovering PA's Forest Heritage Video - PA Forest Fire Towers [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna River North Branch Vying For 2023 PA River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Perkiomen Creek Finalist For Pennsylvania’s 2023 River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Philly Voice: Schuylkill River Among 4 Nominees For PA’s 2023 River Of The Year
-- Inquirer: Schuylkill River, Perkiomen Creek Competing For 2023 PA River Of The Year
-- PA Environmental Council: Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Mini Grant Applications Due Dec. 14
-- Williamsport Sun: Cherry Springs State Park Offering Dark Skies Programs In December
-- WeConservePA: DCNR Forest Fridays - Happy National Mutt Day
-- Dec. 9 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]
-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Appoints Four New Board Members
DEP
-- Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater [PaEN]
-- DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions [PaEN]
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: DEP Says Leaks, Spill Damage Continue At Cambria County Gas Storage Site That Leaked For Weeks
-- WJAC: DEP: Investigation Into Cambria County Storage Area Natural Gas Leak Revealed ‘Numerous Violations’ By Company
-- Bloomberg: Pennsylvania Says Many Violations Seen At Site Of Natural Gas Storage Area Leak
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking [PaEN]
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN]
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final-Omitted Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Dimock Clean Drinking Water Plea Suggests New PA Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations By Energy Companies, Advocates Say
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Inside The 14-Year Battle To Secure A Water Line For Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’ [Dimock, Susquehanna County]
-- Environmental Health News: Waste From 8 PA Shale Gas Drilling Sites Using PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Shipped To At Least 97 Sites For Reuse And Disposal [23 Million Gallons Of Waste, 30,390 Tons Of Solid Waste]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Transfer Of Ownership Of Little Blue Run Residual Waste Disposal Impoundment In Beaver County [PaEN]
-- WHYY: PA Announces Money To Help Get Dirty Diesel Trucks Out Of High-Traffic Communities
-- PA Environmental Professionals Recognize Fmr DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell, Lorie Erb & Bog Turtle Recovery Program [PaEN]
-- DEP: Drought Watch Remains In Effect For Carbon, Luzerne, Northampton, Potter, Schuylkill Counties [PaEN]
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9 [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 50 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In The Dec. 10 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
-- DEP Took Action On 751 Permits, 97% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,444 Inspections; Responded To 6 Environmental Emergencies Last Week
Delaware River
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking [PaEN]
-- AP: Delaware River Basin Commission Limits Fracking Waste In Delaware River Watershed
-- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Delaware River Basin Commission Bans Fracking Wastewater From Watershed
-- WHYY: Delaware River Basin Commission Votes To Ban Fracking Wastewater Discharges
-- Courier Times/Pocono Record: Water And Fracking - What The Delaware River Basin Commission Bans, Allows Under New Rules
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Comparing How The Delaware River Basin Commission And The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Address Shale Gas Industry Wastewater
-- Delaware RiverKeeper Dec. 9 RiverWatch Video Report
-- Delaware RiverKeeper: 2023 Watershed Congress Set For March 25
-- MCall Guest Essay: Climate Change Threatens Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge, The Time To Protect Them Is Now - By John Plonski
DRBC
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking [PaEN]
-- AP: Delaware River Basin Commission Limits Fracking Waste In Delaware River Watershed
-- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Delaware River Basin Commission Bans Fracking Wastewater From Watershed
-- WHYY: Delaware River Basin Commission Votes To Ban Fracking Wastewater Discharges
-- Courier Times/Pocono Record: Water And Fracking - What The Delaware River Basin Commission Bans, Allows Under New Rules
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Comparing How The Delaware River Basin Commission And The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Address Shale Gas Industry Wastewater
-- Delaware RiverKeeper Dec. 9 RiverWatch Video Report
Drinking Water
-- Observer-Reporter: Greene County DA Conducting Criminal Investigation Of East Dunkard Water Authority For Distributing Contaminated Drinking Water
-- Environmental Health News: Waste From 8 PA Shale Gas Drilling Sites Using PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Shipped To At Least 97 Sites For Reuse And Disposal [23 Million Gallons Of Waste, 30,390 Tons Of Solid Waste]
-- EPA Proposes Rule On Reporting Of PFAS Data Thru Toxics Release Inventory
-- EPA Issues Guidance To States To Reduce Harmful PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Pollution
-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: PA American Water Customers Will See Higher Water (14.5%) , Sewer (39.1%) Bills Starting In January [Rate Increases Outpace Inflation]
-- AP: EPA Head Visits West Virginia City That Had 10-Year Boil Water Advisory
Drought
-- DEP: Drought Watch Remains In Effect For Carbon, Luzerne, Northampton, Potter, Schuylkill Counties [PaEN]
Economic Development
-- PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Reports - Households Using Natural Gas Will See A Significant Increase In Heating Bills [PaEN]
-- RMI: The Business Case For New Fossil Gas Power Plants Is Shrinking
-- Marcellus Shale Coalition Video: Time To Build Natural Gas Pipelines, Power Plants And More
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Proposals For Hydrogen Hub In Appalachia Have Great Potential, But Challenges Ahead
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: How Hydrogen Hubs May Point Way To Clean Energy Transition
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Trail Towns Poised To Capitalize On Increasing Access, Popularity Of Rails-To-Trails
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: ‘Generational Changing’ Investments Poised To Remake Western PA’s Trails System
-- DCNR Blog: Gaining Leadership Skills With Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps - Now Hiring - By: Bri Geiner, Crew Member, 2022 Harrisburg Young Adult Crew [PaEN]
-- Inquirer: 13 States Are Protesting Philadelphia-based Vanguard Group’s Support Of Cleaner Energy To Fight Climate Change
-- Inquirer: Philadelphia-based Vanguard Quits Clean Energy Group After 13 Republican States Complain
-- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Vanguard Pulls Out Of International Climate Initiative, Angering Environmentalists
-- WESA: Pittsburgh Startup Says Its Tech Will Let Electric Vehicles Go The Distance Without Recharging
Education
-- DCNR Blog: Gaining Leadership Skills With Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps - Now Hiring - By: Bri Geiner, Crew Member, 2022 Harrisburg Young Adult Crew [PaEN]
-- DCNR Bureau Of State Parks Environmental Education Activities, Professional Development, Much More
-- DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Well Leak In Cambria County Sparks Overhaul Of Monitoring Efforts
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking [PaEN]
-- Courier Times/Pocono Record: Water And Fracking - What The Delaware River Basin Commission Bans, Allows Under New Rules
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Comparing How The Delaware River Basin Commission And The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Address Shale Gas Industry Wastewater
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- Bob Donnan Blog: What It’s Like To Live Next To A Shale Gas Well Pad While It’s Flaring Natural Gas
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9 [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Reports - Households Using Natural Gas Will See A Significant Increase In Heating Bills [PaEN]
-- Canary Media Guest Essay: LNG Natural Gas Exports Hurt Americans By Driving Home Heating Costs To Record Highs
-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Dropped For 3rd Consecutive Quarter Over 2021; PA Hub Natural Gas Price Increased 94.7% Over Last Year [PaEN]
-- Power For Tomorrow: The Impact Of Natural Gas Price Spikes On Electricity Prices
-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas To Power Vehicles [PaEN]
-- RMI: The Business Case For New Fossil Gas Power Plants Is Shrinking
-- Marcellus Shale Coalition Video: Time To Build Natural Gas Pipelines, Power Plants And More
-- PA Environmental Professionals Recognize Fmr DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell, Lorie Erb & Bog Turtle Recovery Program [PaEN]
-- University Of Pittsburgh Now Accepting Submissions For Sustainability Challenge, $300,000 To Be Given To Implement Winning Proposal [PaEN]
-- Warren Times: Warren County Conservation District Accepting Applications For College Scholarships
-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Eagle Scout Goes Deep To Pull 1-Ton Dumpster, Mobile Home From Conestoga River In Lancaster County
-- Perkiomen Creek Finalist For Pennsylvania’s 2023 River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Inquirer: Schuylkill River, Perkiomen Creek Competing For 2023 PA River Of The Year
-- Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education To Permanently Preserve 24-Acre Forest In Philadelphia [PaEN]
-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships Blog: Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund A Success Story In Pennsylvania - By Emily Baldauff, Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer [Keystone Fund website ]
-- Women For A Healthy Environment Dec. 9 Online PA Healthy School Summit - Recharging For A New Era In Environmental Health. 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
-- Ohio River Valley Institute Dec. 12 Webinar: Mapping A Clean Energy Transition For Southwest PA [PaEN]
-- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Dec. 13 Webinar On Managing Invasive Species & Overgrown Landscapes With Goats [PaEN]
-- The Nature Conservancy-PA Dec. 13 Webinar: Species Of The Allegheny Front Landscape. Noon to 12:45 p.m.
-- PA Solar Center Hosts Entertaining Dec. 16 Webinar Uncovering Probably True Solar Stories With Tor 'Solar Fred' Valenza [PaEN]
-- PA Sea Grant Announces $1.07 Million Investment In Six Projects To Address Critical Aquatic Ecosystem, Watershed Challenges; Next Proposal Round Opens Jan. 5 [PaEN]
-- Delaware RiverKeeper: 2023 Watershed Congress Set For March 25
-- Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Study Shows Climate Change Threatens North American Wildflowers [PaEN]
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Wildflowers Starved For Sunlight By Tree Reaction To Climate Change: New Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Study
-- WESA: Climate Change Is Threatening North America’s Wildflowers, Carnegie Museum Research Shows
-- PA/NJ Chapter American Chestnut Foundation Update: April 1 Spring Growers Meeting; PA Farm Show Outreach; Spring/Summer Internships
-- Stroud Water Research Center Dec. 7 Exploring Our Hidden Waters - An Evening Of Film, Imagery, Storytelling - In-Person 6:30 p.m.
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Trail Towns Poised To Capitalize On Increasing Access, Popularity Of Rails-To-Trails
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: ‘Generational Changing’ Investments Poised To Remake Western PA’s Trails System
-- Inside Climate News: New Book By Annie Proulx Shows Us How To Fall In Love With Wetlands; Serve As Vital Carbon Sinks [Bartram’s Garden, Philadelphia ]
-- Williamsport Sun: Cherry Springs State Park Offering Dark Skies Programs In December
-- PA Forestry Assn./Ned Smith Center For Nature & Art Release 6th Discovering PA's Forest Heritage Video - PA Forest Fire Towers [PaEN]
-- WeConservePA: DCNR Forest Fridays - Happy National Mutt Day
-- PA Firefly Festival Update: Register For 2023 PA Firefly Festival Ticket Lottery
-- Republican Herald: Animals Perish When Fire Destroys Building At Red Creek Wildlife Center In Schuylkill County
-- MCall/Reading Eagle: Fire Kills Animals At Red Creek Wildlife Center In Schuylkill County, Main Building Destroyed
-- Republican Herald: Red Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center To Reopen In Temporary Location Following Fire
-- Williamsport Sun: Tiadaghton Audubon Society - Individuals Wanted To Help With Christmas Bird Count
-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Examining Why A Buck Has Antlers And Not Horns
-- The Nature Conservancy - PA/DE: 2022 Impact Report
-- AP: New Abnormal: Climate Disaster Damage ‘Down’ To $268 Billion
-- Help Wanted: Shippensburg University Center For Land Use & Sustainability
Emergency Response
-- DCED Sets Dec. 14 Hearing On Federal Disaster Grant Funding Plan For Bedford, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, York Counties [PaEN]
-- WHYY: Philly’s Flood-Prone Eastwick Neighborhood Will Finally Get Custom Emergency Alerts
-- DEP Took Action On 751 Permits, 97% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,444 Inspections; Responded To 6 Environmental Emergencies Last Week
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Electric Utilities In PA Monitoring Grid Infrastructure In Wake Of North Carolina Attacks
-- AP: New Abnormal: Climate Disaster Damage ‘Down’ To $268 Billion
6th Oil/Natural Gas Price Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables
[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]
-- PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Reports - Households Using Natural Gas Will See A Significant Increase In Heating Bills [PaEN]
-- PennLive: Customers Going To Pay More For Electric, Natural Gas In Central PA
-- Altoona Mirror: PA Homeowners Could See Heating Oil Prices Increase 45% This Winter
-- Williamsport Sun: Home Heating Oil Prices Remain High In Region, Winter Costs Uncertain
-- PUC Approves 10.6% Increase In Natural Gas Rates By Valley Energy, Bradford County [PA’s #3 County In Natural Gas Production]
-- PUC To Investigate Proposed 9.2% Natural Gas Rate Increase By National Fuel Gas
-- PUC Rejects Proposed Settlement With Columbia Gas Over 2019 House Explosion In Washington County
-- PUC Approves A Partial Settlement To Increase Natural Gas Rates For Columbia Gas 4.6%
-- PUC Approves 6.8% Increase In Electric Rates For Citizens’ Electric Company Of Lewisburg
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Natural Gas Price Up 95%; New Shale Gas Wells Up 42%
-- Williamsport Sun: PA Natural Gas Price Up 95%, New Wells Up 42%
-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Dropped For 3rd Consecutive Quarter Over 2021; PA Hub Natural Gas Price Increased 94.7% Over Last Year [PaEN]
-- Baker Hughes PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Same As Last Week - 22
-- Financial Times: Biden Adviser Calls Refusal Of U.S. Shale Oil/Gas Investors To Ramp Up Drilling And Collect Dividends Instead ‘Un-American’
-- Power For Tomorrow: The Impact Of Natural Gas Price Spikes On Electricity Prices
-- Marcellus Drilling News: Marcellus/Utica Drillers (All Gas Drillers) Had Fantastic Third Quarter Earnings
-- Reuters: U.S. Natural Gas Futures Jump 5% On Colder Forecasts For Late December
-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Surge As Winter Blast Stokes Demand [Watch PA Prices Increase]
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Publicly Traded Shale Gas Producers Haven’t Increased Pace Of Drilling In Spite Of Higher Prices; New Report Says Privately Owned Drillers Are
-- Canary Media Guest Essay: LNG Natural Gas Exports Hurt Americans By Driving Home Heating Costs To Record Highs
-- U.S. EIA: Natural Gas Prices To Increase Even More In December Due To Winter Demand, Rising LNG Exports
-- AAA: Gasoline Prices Nationally Lower Than A Year Ago - But Not In PA
-- TribLive: OPEC+ Oil Production Cuts, Russian Price Cap Could Disrupt Falling Gasoline Prices
-- Reuters: Oil Price Falls Close To 2022 Lows On Economic Worries, Easing Supply Fears
National/International
-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Should Stay Elevated To Attract LNG
-- Financial Times: Europe Cuts Natural Gas Demand By A Quarter To Shed Reliance On Russia
-- Bloomberg: Europe Can Ride Out Natural Gas Crunch This Winter And Next, French Energy Distributor Says
Energy
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Dimock Clean Drinking Water Plea Suggests New PA Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations By Energy Companies, Advocates Say
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Inside The 14-Year Battle To Secure A Water Line For Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’ [Dimock, Susquehanna County]
-- Scranton Times: 73-Acre Proposed Solar Farm To Produce Electricity In Scranton
-- Ohio River Valley Institute Dec. 12 Webinar: Mapping A Clean Energy Transition For Southwest PA [PaEN]
-- PA Solar Center Hosts Entertaining Dec. 16 Webinar Uncovering Probably True Solar Stories With Tor 'Solar Fred' Valenza [PaEN]
-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas To Power Vehicles [PaEN]
-- PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Reports - Households Using Natural Gas Will See A Significant Increase In Heating Bills [PaEN]
-- PennLive: Customers Going To Pay More For Electric, Natural Gas In Central PA
-- PUC Approves 10.6% Increase In Natural Gas Rates By Valley Energy, Bradford County [PA’s #3 County In Natural Gas Production]
-- PUC To Investigate Proposed 9.2% Natural Gas Rate Increase By National Fuel Gas
-- PUC Rejects Proposed Settlement With Columbia Gas Over 2019 House Explosion In Washington County
-- PUC Approves A Partial Settlement To Increase Natural Gas Rates For Columbia Gas 4.6%
-- PUC Approves 6.8% Increase In Electric Rates For Citizens’ Electric Company Of Lewisburg
-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Dropped For 3rd Consecutive Quarter Over 2021; PA Hub Natural Gas Price Increased 94.7% Over Last Year [PaEN]
-- Williamsport Sun: PA Natural Gas Price Up 95%, New Wells Up 42%
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Natural Gas Price Up 95%; New Shale Gas Wells Up 42%
-- Power For Tomorrow: The Impact Of Natural Gas Price Spikes On Electricity Prices
-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Surge As Winter Blast Stokes Demand [Watch PA Prices Increase]
-- RMI: The Business Case For New Fossil Gas Power Plants Is Shrinking
-- Marcellus Shale Coalition Video: Time To Build Natural Gas Pipelines, Power Plants And More
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Proposals For Hydrogen Hub In Appalachia Have Great Potential, But Challenges Ahead
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: How Hydrogen Hubs May Point Way To Clean Energy Transition
-- Altoona Mirror: PA Homeowners Could See Heating Oil Prices Increase 45% This Winter
-- Williamsport Sun: Home Heating Oil Prices Remain High In Region, Winter Costs Uncertain
-- AAA: Gasoline Prices Nationally Lower Than A Year Ago - But Not In PA
-- Inquirer: 13 States Are Protesting Philadelphia-based Vanguard Group’s Support Of Cleaner Energy To Fight Climate Change
-- Inquirer: Philadelphia-based Vanguard Quits Clean Energy Group After 13 Republican States Complain
-- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Vanguard Pulls Out Of International Climate Initiative, Angering Environmentalists
-- Bob Donnan Blog: What It’s Like To Live Next To A Shale Gas Well Pad While It’s Flaring Natural Gas
-- Canary Media Guest Essay: LNG Natural Gas Exports Hurt Americans By Driving Home Heating Costs To Record Highs
-- Financial Times: Europe Cuts Natural Gas Demand By A Quarter To Shed Reliance On Russia
-- Bloomberg: New England Power Grid Operator May Ask Residents To Curb Energy Use In Extreme Cold
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Guttman Family Transitions Energy Business To Be Employee Owned
-- WESA/NPR: Someone Shot At Electricity Substations In North Carolina, Knocking Out Power For 45,000+
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Electric Utilities In PA Monitoring Grid Infrastructure In Wake Of North Carolina Attacks
-- AP: U.S. Power Grid Has Long Faced Terror Threat
-- USA Today: North Carolina Electric Substation Attack A ‘Wake-Up Call’ In Latest Nationwide Infrastructure Threat
-- The Guardian: Attacks On Power Stations In Oregon, Washington States Raise Fears For U.S. Electric Grid
-- NPR: U.S. Wants To Slash Carbon Emissions From Power Plants, Natural Gas Is In The Way
-- Financial Times: Solar Energy Boom Will See Sunshine Surpass Coal For Power In 5 Years, IEA Says
Energy Conservation
-- PA Environmental Council Podcast: Counties Can Apply For Whole Home Repair Funding, Including Energy Efficiency Upgrades
Environmental Health
-- Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater [PaEN]
-- DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions [PaEN]
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: DEP Says Leaks, Spill Damage Continue At Cambria County Gas Storage Site That Leaked For Weeks
-- WJAC: DEP: Investigation Into Cambria County Storage Area Natural Gas Leak Revealed ‘Numerous Violations’ By Company
-- Bloomberg: Pennsylvania Says Many Violations Seen At Site Of Natural Gas Storage Area Leak
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking [PaEN]
-- AP: Delaware River Basin Commission Limits Fracking Waste In Delaware River Watershed
-- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Delaware River Basin Commission Bans Fracking Wastewater From Watershed
-- WHYY: Delaware River Basin Commission Votes To Ban Fracking Wastewater Discharges
-- Courier Times/Pocono Record: Water And Fracking - What The Delaware River Basin Commission Bans, Allows Under New Rules
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Comparing How The Delaware River Basin Commission And The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Address Shale Gas Industry Wastewater
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN]
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Dimock Clean Drinking Water Plea Suggests New PA Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations By Energy Companies, Advocates Say
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Inside The 14-Year Battle To Secure A Water Line For Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’ [Dimock, Susquehanna County]
-- Environmental Health News: Waste From 8 PA Shale Gas Drilling Sites Using PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Shipped To At Least 97 Sites For Reuse And Disposal [23 Million Gallons Of Waste, 30,390 Tons Of Solid Waste]
-- Bob Donnan Blog: What It’s Like To Live Next To A Shale Gas Well Pad While It’s Flaring Natural Gas
-- WHYY: Hazardous Waste Storage Areas At Former Philadelphia Refinery Site Could Close Within A Year
-- Women For A Healthy Environment Dec. 9 Online PA Healthy School Summit - Recharging For A New Era In Environmental Health. 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
-- Post-Gazette/CapitolWire.com: Sen Baker To Reintroduce Bill To Require Universal Lead Testing For Young Children
-- EPA Proposes Rule On Reporting Of PFAS Data Thru Toxics Release Inventory
-- EPA Issues Guidance To States To Reduce Harmful PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Pollution
Environmental Justice
-- AP: EPA Head Visits West Virginia City That Had 10-Year Boil Water Advisory
EPA
-- Erie Times: Erie Coke (Coal) Fails To Show Up In Court On Environmental Charges, What’s Next?
-- AP: EPA Head Visits West Virginia City That Had 10-Year Boil Water Advisory
-- EPA Proposes Rule On Reporting Of PFAS Data Thru Toxics Release Inventory
-- EPA Issues Guidance To States To Reduce Harmful PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Pollution
-- EPA: Registration Open For Virtual Hearing On Supplemental Rule To Cut Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Operations [Jan. 10-11]
-- NPR: U.S. Wants To Slash Carbon Emissions From Power Plants, Natural Gas Is In The Way
Farming
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: Local Agriculture Operator Mark Heller Making A Difference [PaEN]
-- Politics PA: PA Congressman Thompson Named Chair Of U.S. House Agriculture Committee
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update: Eels In The Classroom; Vote For Conestoga River As River Of The Year; Lancaster Resident Honored For Environmental Justice Work
-- Lancaster Farming: Farmers Face New Realities In Stormwater Management
-- WHYY: FarmerJawn Is Expanding Their Agriculture Access Vision Into Chester County
-- York Daily Record: New PA Farm Show Milkshake Flavor Coming [Spoiler - Orange Cream]
-- Agriculture Secretary Highlights Partnerships Protecting Pennsylvania’s Economy, Environment From Invasive Species Damage [PaEN]
-- DEP Notice Extending NPDES General Permit For Aquatic Animal Production Facilities To March 2, 2024
-- Williamsport Sun - Katie Bohen: New Clues About How Carbon Dioxide Affects Bumblebee Reproduction
Flooding
-- DCED Sets Dec. 14 Hearing On Federal Disaster Grant Funding Plan For Bedford, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, York Counties [PaEN]
-- WHYY: Philly’s Flood-Prone Eastwick Neighborhood Will Finally Get Custom Emergency Alerts
-- AP: New Abnormal: Climate Disaster Damage ‘Down’ To $268 Billion
Forests
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Trail Towns Poised To Capitalize On Increasing Access, Popularity Of Rails-To-Trails
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: ‘Generational Changing’ Investments Poised To Remake Western PA’s Trails System
-- PA Forestry Assn./Ned Smith Center For Nature & Art Release 6th Discovering PA's Forest Heritage Video - PA Forest Fire Towers [PaEN]
-- Wilkes-Barre Times: ‘Trees For Troops’ Encourages Donating Christmas Trees To Service Members
-- DCNR Blog: Gaining Leadership Skills With Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps - Now Hiring - By: Bri Geiner, Crew Member, 2022 Harrisburg Young Adult Crew [PaEN]
-- DCNR: Governor’s Advisory Council For Hunting, Fishing & Recreation Meets Dec. 15
-- PA/NJ Chapter American Chestnut Foundation Update: April 1 Spring Growers Meeting; PA Farm Show Outreach; Spring/Summer Internships
-- Dec. 9 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]
-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Appoints Four New Board Members
-- WeConservePA: DCNR Forest Fridays - Happy National Mutt Day
Geologic
-- DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Well Leak In Cambria County Sparks Overhaul Of Monitoring Efforts
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: DEP Says Leaks, Spill Damage Continue At Cambria County Gas Storage Site That Leaked For Weeks
-- WJAC: DEP: Investigation Into Cambria County Storage Area Natural Gas Leak Revealed ‘Numerous Violations’ By Company
-- Tribune-Democrat: DEP Orders Gas Company To Take Mitigation Steps After Storage Area Natural Gas Leak; Incident Brought 10 Violations, State Says
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: DEP Orders Equitrans To Take Action On Natural Gas Storage Area Release
-- Bloomberg: Pennsylvania Says Many Violations Seen At Site Of Natural Gas Storage Area Leak
Grants/Funding
-- DCED Sets Dec. 14 Hearing On Federal Disaster Grant Funding Plan For Bedford, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, York Counties [PaEN]
-- PA Environmental Council: Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Mini Grant Applications Due Dec. 14
-- University Of Pittsburgh Now Accepting Submissions For Sustainability Challenge, $300,000 To Be Given To Implement Winning Proposal [PaEN]
-- PA Sea Grant Announces $1.07 Million Investment In Six Projects To Address Critical Aquatic Ecosystem, Watershed Challenges; Next Proposal Round Opens Jan. 5 [PaEN]
-- WHYY: PA Announces Money To Help Get Dirty Diesel Trucks Out Of High-Traffic Communities
-- PA Environmental Council Podcast: Counties Can Apply For Whole Home Repair Funding, Including Energy Efficiency Upgrades
Green Infrastructure
-- Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education To Permanently Preserve 24-Acre Forest In Philadelphia [PaEN]
-- Pocono Heritage Land Trust Seeks Partner To Protect 755-Acre Camp Trexler In Monroe County From Development [PaEN]
-- WeConservePA: Brandywine Conservancy Helps Preserve 14+ Acres Of Historic Chester County Family Farm
-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Residents Protect Forests From Development Using Conservation Easements, Working With Berks Nature
-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships Blog: Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund A Success Story In Pennsylvania - By Emily Baldauff, Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer [Keystone Fund website ]
-- Perkiomen Creek Finalist For Pennsylvania’s 2023 River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna River North Branch Vying For 2023 PA River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Philly Voice: Schuylkill River Among 4 Nominees For PA’s 2023 River Of The Year
-- Inquirer: Schuylkill River, Perkiomen Creek Competing For 2023 PA River Of The Year
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: Local Agriculture Operator Mark Heller Making A Difference [PaEN]
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update: Eels In The Classroom; Vote For Conestoga River As River Of The Year; Lancaster Resident Honored For Environmental Justice Work
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Trail Towns Poised To Capitalize On Increasing Access, Popularity Of Rails-To-Trails
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: ‘Generational Changing’ Investments Poised To Remake Western PA’s Trails System
-- DCNR Blog: Gaining Leadership Skills With Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps - Now Hiring - By: Bri Geiner, Crew Member, 2022 Harrisburg Young Adult Crew [PaEN]
-- PA Environmental Council: Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Mini Grant Applications Due Dec. 14
-- MCall Guest Essay: Climate Change Threatens Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge, The Time To Protect Them Is Now - By John Plonski
-- The Nature Conservancy - PA/DE: 2022 Impact Report
Hazardous Substances
-- Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater [PaEN]
-- DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Well Leak In Cambria County Sparks Overhaul Of Monitoring Efforts
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: DEP Says Leaks, Spill Damage Continue At Cambria County Gas Storage Site That Leaked For Weeks
-- WJAC: DEP: Investigation Into Cambria County Storage Area Natural Gas Leak Revealed ‘Numerous Violations’ By Company
-- Tribune-Democrat: DEP Orders Gas Company To Take Mitigation Steps After Storage Area Natural Gas Leak; Incident Brought 10 Violations, State Says
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: DEP Orders Equitrans To Take Action On Natural Gas Storage Area Release
-- Bloomberg: Pennsylvania Says Many Violations Seen At Site Of Natural Gas Storage Area Leak
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking [PaEN]
-- AP: Delaware River Basin Commission Limits Fracking Waste In Delaware River Watershed
-- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Delaware River Basin Commission Bans Fracking Wastewater From Watershed
-- WHYY: Delaware River Basin Commission Votes To Ban Fracking Wastewater Discharges
-- Courier Times/Pocono Record: Water And Fracking - What The Delaware River Basin Commission Bans, Allows Under New Rules
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Comparing How The Delaware River Basin Commission And The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Address Shale Gas Industry Wastewater
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN]
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Dimock Clean Drinking Water Plea Suggests New PA Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations By Energy Companies, Advocates Say
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Inside The 14-Year Battle To Secure A Water Line For Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’ [Dimock, Susquehanna County]
-- Environmental Health News: Waste From 8 PA Shale Gas Drilling Sites Using PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Shipped To At Least 97 Sites For Reuse And Disposal [23 Million Gallons Of Waste, 30,390 Tons Of Solid Waste]
-- Bob Donnan Blog: What It’s Like To Live Next To A Shale Gas Well Pad While It’s Flaring Natural Gas
-- Women For A Healthy Environment Dec. 9 Online PA Healthy School Summit - Recharging For A New Era In Environmental Health. 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
-- WHYY: Hazardous Waste Storage Areas At Former Philadelphia Refinery Site Could Close Within A Year
-- Post-Gazette/CapitolWire.com: Sen Baker To Reintroduce Bill To Require Universal Lead Testing For Young Children
-- EPA Proposes Rule On Reporting Of PFAS Data Thru Toxics Release Inventory
-- EPA Issues Guidance To States To Reduce Harmful PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Pollution
Help Wanted
-- Help Wanted: Shippensburg University Center For Land Use & Sustainability
Land Conservation
-- Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education To Permanently Preserve 24-Acre Forest In Philadelphia [PaEN]
-- Pocono Heritage Land Trust Seeks Partner To Protect 755-Acre Camp Trexler In Monroe County From Development [PaEN]
-- WeConservePA: Brandywine Conservancy Helps Preserve 14+ Acres Of Historic Chester County Family Farm
-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Residents Protect Forests From Development Using Conservation Easements, Working With Berks Nature
-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships Blog: Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund A Success Story In Pennsylvania - By Emily Baldauff, Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer [Keystone Fund website ]
-- DCNR Blog: Gaining Leadership Skills With Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps - Now Hiring - By: Bri Geiner, Crew Member, 2022 Harrisburg Young Adult Crew [PaEN]
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: Local Agriculture Operator Mark Heller Making A Difference [PaEN]
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update: Eels In The Classroom; Vote For Conestoga River As River Of The Year; Lancaster Resident Honored For Environmental Justice Work
-- PA Environmental Council: Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Mini Grant Applications Due Dec. 14
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Trail Towns Poised To Capitalize On Increasing Access, Popularity Of Rails-To-Trails
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: ‘Generational Changing’ Investments Poised To Remake Western PA’s Trails System
-- MCall Guest Essay: Climate Change Threatens Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge, The Time To Protect Them Is Now - By John Plonski
-- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Dec. 13 Webinar On Managing Invasive Species & Overgrown Landscapes With Goats [PaEN]
-- Natural Lands Names Karen Wallace Vice President Of Finance
-- The Nature Conservancy - PA/DE: 2022 Impact Report
Land Recycling
-- WHYY: Hazardous Waste Storage Areas At Former Philadelphia Refinery Site Could Close Within A Year
Lake Erie
-- PA Sea Grant Announces $1.07 Million Investment In Six Projects To Address Critical Aquatic Ecosystem, Watershed Challenges; Next Proposal Round Opens Jan. 5 [PaEN]
Oil & Gas
-- Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater [PaEN]
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9 [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Well Leak In Cambria County Sparks Overhaul Of Monitoring Efforts
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: DEP Says Leaks, Spill Damage Continue At Cambria County Gas Storage Site That Leaked For Weeks
-- WJAC: DEP: Investigation Into Cambria County Storage Area Natural Gas Leak Revealed ‘Numerous Violations’ By Company
-- Tribune-Democrat: DEP Orders Gas Company To Take Mitigation Steps After Storage Area Natural Gas Leak; Incident Brought 10 Violations, State Says
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: DEP Orders Equitrans To Take Action On Natural Gas Storage Area Release
-- Bloomberg: Pennsylvania Says Many Violations Seen At Site Of Natural Gas Storage Area Leak
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking [PaEN]
-- AP: Delaware River Basin Commission Limits Fracking Waste In Delaware River Watershed
-- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Delaware River Basin Commission Bans Fracking Wastewater From Watershed
-- WHYY: Delaware River Basin Commission Votes To Ban Fracking Wastewater Discharges
-- Courier Times/Pocono Record: Water And Fracking - What The Delaware River Basin Commission Bans, Allows Under New Rules
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Comparing How The Delaware River Basin Commission And The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Address Shale Gas Industry Wastewater
-- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN]
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final-Omitted Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Dimock Clean Drinking Water Plea Suggests New PA Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations By Energy Companies, Advocates Say
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Inside The 14-Year Battle To Secure A Water Line For Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’ [Dimock, Susquehanna County]
-- Environmental Health News: Waste From 8 PA Shale Gas Drilling Sites Using PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Shipped To At Least 97 Sites For Reuse And Disposal [23 Million Gallons Of Waste, 30,390 Tons Of Solid Waste]
-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas To Power Vehicles [PaEN]
-- Green Rock Energy Partners Acquires PA South Hills Renewable Gas Production Facility
-- PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Reports - Households Using Natural Gas Will See A Significant Increase In Heating Bills [PaEN]
-- PennLive: Customers Going To Pay More For Electric, Natural Gas In Central PA
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Natural Gas Price Up 95%; New Shale Gas Wells Up 42%
-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Dropped For 3rd Consecutive Quarter Over 2021; PA Hub Natural Gas Price Increased 94.7% Over Last Year [PaEN]
-- Power For Tomorrow: The Impact Of Natural Gas Price Spikes On Electricity Prices
-- Baker Hughes PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Same As Last Week - 22
-- Financial Times: Biden Adviser Calls Refusal Of U.S. Shale Oil/Gas Investors To Ramp Up Drilling And Collect Dividends Instead ‘Un-American’
-- Marcellus Drilling News: Marcellus/Utica Drillers (All Gas Drillers) Had Fantastic Third Quarter Earnings
-- Reuters: U.S. Natural Gas Futures Jump 5% On Colder Forecasts For Late December
-- Bloomberg: EU Natural Gas Price Cap Spat Worsens As 12 Nations Urge Lower Ceiling
-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Surge As Winter Blast Stokes Demand [Watch PA Prices Increase]
-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Should Stay Elevated To Attract LNG
-- U.S. EIA: Natural Gas Prices To Increase Even More In December Due To Winter Demand, Rising LNG Exports
-- RMI: The Business Case For New Fossil Gas Power Plants Is Shrinking
-- Marcellus Shale Coalition Video: Time To Build Natural Gas Pipelines, Power Plants And More
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Proposals For Hydrogen Hub In Appalachia Have Great Potential, But Challenges Ahead
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: How Hydrogen Hubs May Point Way To Clean Energy Transition
-- Altoona Mirror: PA Homeowners Could See Heating Oil Prices Increase 45% This Winter
-- Williamsport Sun: Home Heating Oil Prices Remain High In Region, Winter Costs Uncertain
-- AAA: Gasoline Prices Nationally Lower Than A Year Ago - But Not In PA
-- Reuters: Oil Price Falls Close To 2022 Lows On Economic Worries, Easing Supply Fears
-- TribLive: OPEC+ Oil Production Cuts, Russian Price Cap Could Disrupt Falling Gasoline Prices
-- Bob Donnan Blog: What It’s Like To Live Next To A Shale Gas Well Pad While It’s Flaring Natural Gas
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Publicly Traded Shale Gas Producers Haven’t Increased Pace Of Drilling In Spite Of Higher Prices; New Report Says Privately Owned Drillers Are
-- Canary Media Guest Essay: LNG Natural Gas Exports Hurt Americans By Driving Home Heating Costs To Record Highs
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Charges Of Illegal Disposal Of Drilling Wastewater In Dunkard Creek, Greene County Brought Against Wastewater Hauler [2011]
-- Observer-Reporter: Greene County DA Conducting Criminal Investigation Of East Dunkard Water Authority For Distributing Contaminated Drinking Water
-- WHYY: Hazardous Waste Storage Areas At Former Philadelphia Refinery Site Could Close Within A Year
-- EPA: Registration Open For Virtual Hearing On Supplemental Rule To Cut Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Operations [Jan. 10-11]
-- NPR: U.S. Wants To Slash Carbon Emissions From Power Plants, Natural Gas Is In The Way
-- Financial Times: Europe Cuts Natural Gas Demand By A Quarter To Shed Reliance On Russia
-- Bloomberg: Europe Can Ride Out Natural Gas Crunch This Winter And Next, French Energy Distributor Says
-- WPost: Big Oil Talks Clean Energy Transition, But Perpetuates Petroleum U.S. House Documents Say
Pipelines
-- PUC Approves $48,000 Refund To Sunoco Pipeline On A Penalty It Paid For Mariner East Pipeline Construction Violations [PaEN]
-- Bloomberg: Biden Backs Adding Manchin Energy Bill Permitting Provisions To Must-Pass Defense Measure
-- The Guardian: Environmental Leader Urge Democrats To Drop Manchin Energy Deregulation Bill
-- Reuters: Keystone Pipeline Shut Down After 588,000 Gallon Oil Spill In Kansas
Permitting
-- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Transfer Of Ownership Of Little Blue Run Residual Waste Disposal Impoundment In Beaver County [PaEN]
-- DEP Notice Extending NPDES General Permit For Aquatic Animal Production Facilities To March 2, 2024
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 50 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In The Dec. 10 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
-- DEP Took Action On 751 Permits, 97% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,444 Inspections; Responded To 6 Environmental Emergencies Last Week
-- Bloomberg: Biden Backs Adding Manchin Energy Bill Permitting Provisions To Must-Pass Defense Measure
-- The Guardian: Environmental Leader Urge Democrats To Drop Manchin Energy Deregulation Bill
Public Participation
-- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 50 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In The Dec. 10 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
-- DCED Sets Dec. 14 Hearing On Federal Disaster Grant Funding Plan For Bedford, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, York Counties [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Transfer Of Ownership Of Little Blue Run Residual Waste Disposal Impoundment In Beaver County [PaEN]
-- EPA: Registration Open For Virtual Hearing On Supplemental Rule To Cut Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Operations [Jan. 10-11]
-- EPA Proposes Rule On Reporting Of PFAS Data Thru Toxics Release Inventory
-- EPA Issues Guidance To States To Reduce Harmful PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Pollution
PUC
-- PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Reports - Households Using Natural Gas Will See A Significant Increase In Heating Bills [PaEN]
-- PennLive: Customers Going To Pay More For Electric, Natural Gas In Central PA
-- Williamsport Sun: Home Heating Oil Prices Remain High In Region, Winter Costs Uncertain
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Natural Gas Price Up 95%; New Shale Gas Wells Up 42%
-- PUC Approves 10.6% Increase In Natural Gas Rates By Valley Energy, Bradford County [PA’s #3 County In Natural Gas Production]
-- Williamsport Sun: PA Natural Gas Price Up 95%, New Wells Up 42%
-- PUC To Investigate Proposed 9.2% Natural Gas Rate Increase By National Fuel Gas
-- PUC Rejects Proposed Settlement With Columbia Gas Over 2019 House Explosion In Washington County
-- PUC Approves A Partial Settlement To Increase Natural Gas Rates For Columbia Gas 4.6%
-- PUC Approves 6.8% Increase In Electric Rates For Citizens’ Electric Company Of Lewisburg
-- PUC Modifies Settlement With PECO Energy Regarding Improper Electric Service Terminations
-- PUC Seeks Comment On Proposed Settlement With Duquesne Light On Inadvertent Release Of Customer Information
-- PUC Approves $48,000 Refund To Sunoco Pipeline On A Penalty It Paid For Mariner East Pipeline Construction Violations [PaEN]
-- WESA/NPR: Someone Shot At Electricity Substations In North Carolina, Knocking Out Power For 45,000+
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Electric Utilities In PA Monitoring Grid Infrastructure In Wake Of North Carolina Attacks
-- AP: U.S. Power Grid Has Long Faced Terror Threat
-- USA Today: North Carolina Electric Substation Attack A ‘Wake-Up Call’ In Latest Nationwide Infrastructure Threat
-- The Guardian: Attacks On Power Stations In Oregon, Washington States Raise Fears For U.S. Electric Grid
-- Canary Media Guest Essay: LNG Natural Gas Exports Hurt Americans By Driving Home Heating Costs To Record Highs
-- Bloomberg: New England Power Grid Operator May Ask Residents To Curb Energy Use In Extreme Cold
-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: PA American Water Customers Will See Higher Water (14.5%) , Sewer (39.1%) Bills Starting In January [Rate Increases Outpace Inflation]
Recreation
-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships Blog: Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund A Success Story In Pennsylvania - By Emily Baldauff, Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer [Keystone Fund website ]
-- PA Environmental Council: Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Mini Grant Applications Due Dec. 14
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Trail Towns Poised To Capitalize On Increasing Access, Popularity Of Rails-To-Trails
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: ‘Generational Changing’ Investments Poised To Remake Western PA’s Trails System
-- DCNR Blog: Gaining Leadership Skills With Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps - Now Hiring - By: Bri Geiner, Crew Member, 2022 Harrisburg Young Adult Crew [PaEN]
-- DCNR Bureau Of State Parks Environmental Education Activities, Professional Development, Much More
-- WeConservePA: DCNR Secretary Joins Local Officials To Dedicate New Martic Forge Trestle Bridge In Lancaster County
-- Dec. 9 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]
-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Appoints Four New Board Members
-- Centre Daily Times: Amid ‘Convoluted Mess,’ Additional Funding Released For Whitehall Road Regional Park
-- Post-Gazette: Some Pittsburgh Council Members Question Plans For Parks Tax
-- NextPittsburgh: 7 Of Our Favorite Overlooked Parks In Pittsburgh
-- MCall Guest Essay: Climate Change Threatens Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge, The Time To Protect Them Is Now - By John Plonski
-- Perkiomen Creek Finalist For Pennsylvania’s 2023 River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna River North Branch Vying For 2023 PA River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Philly Voice: Schuylkill River Among 4 Nominees For PA’s 2023 River Of The Year
-- Inquirer: Schuylkill River, Perkiomen Creek Competing For 2023 PA River Of The Year
Recycling/Waste
-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas To Power Vehicles [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Transfer Of Ownership Of Little Blue Run Residual Waste Disposal Impoundment In Beaver County [PaEN]
Regulations
-- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More [PaEN]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN]
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final-Omitted Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- Dec. 10 PA Bulletin: Final Regulations Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities
Renewable Energy
-- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas To Power Vehicles [PaEN]
-- Green Rock Energy Partners Acquires PA South Hills Renewable Gas Production Facility
-- Scranton Times: 73-Acre Proposed Solar Farm To Produce Electricity In Scranton
-- Ohio River Valley Institute Dec. 12 Webinar: Mapping A Clean Energy Transition For Southwest PA [PaEN]
-- PA Solar Center Hosts Entertaining Dec. 16 Webinar Uncovering Probably True Solar Stories With Tor 'Solar Fred' Valenza [PaEN]
-- Erie Times: Giant Windmill Blades Being Stored In Erie For New York Windmill Farm
-- Inquirer: 13 States Are Protesting Philadelphia-based Vanguard Group’s Support Of Cleaner Energy To Fight Climate Change
-- Inquirer: Philadelphia-based Vanguard Quits Clean Energy Group After 13 Republican States Complain
-- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Vanguard Pulls Out Of International Climate Initiative, Angering Environmentalists
-- Financial Times: Solar Energy Boom Will See Sunshine Surpass Coal For Power In 5 Years, IEA Says
-- WPost: Big Oil Talks Clean Energy Transition, But Perpetuates Petroleum U.S. House Documents Say
Schuylkill River
-- Philly Voice: Schuylkill River Among 4 Nominees For PA’s 2023 River Of The Year
-- Inquirer: Schuylkill River, Perkiomen Creek Competing For 2023 PA River Of The Year
-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Residents Protect Forests From Development Using Conservation Easements, Working With Berks Nature
Stormwater
-- Lancaster Farming: Farmers Face New Realities In Stormwater Management
Susquehanna River
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna River North Branch Vying For 2023 PA River Of The Year [PaEN]
Sustainability
-- University Of Pittsburgh Now Accepting Submissions For Sustainability Challenge, $300,000 To Be Given To Implement Winning Proposal [PaEN]
Wastewater Facilities
-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: PA American Water Customers Will See Higher Water (14.5%) , Sewer (39.1%) Bills Starting In January [Rate Increases Outpace Inflation]
Watershed Protection
-- Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking [PaEN]
-- AP: Delaware River Basin Commission Limits Fracking Waste In Delaware River Watershed
-- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Delaware River Basin Commission Bans Fracking Wastewater From Watershed
-- WHYY: Delaware River Basin Commission Votes To Ban Fracking Wastewater Discharges
-- Courier Times/Pocono Record: Water And Fracking - What The Delaware River Basin Commission Bans, Allows Under New Rules
-- Bob Donnan Blog: Comparing How The Delaware River Basin Commission And The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Address Shale Gas Industry Wastewater
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna River North Branch Vying For 2023 PA River Of The Year [PaEN]
-- Philly Voice: Schuylkill River Among 4 Nominees For PA’s 2023 River Of The Year
-- Inquirer: Schuylkill River, Perkiomen Creek Competing For 2023 PA River Of The Year
-- Inquirer: Schuylkill River, Perkiomen Creek Competing For 2023 PA River Of The Year
-- Delaware RiverKeeper: 2023 Watershed Congress Set For March 25
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: Local Agriculture Operator Mark Heller Making A Difference [PaEN]
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update: Eels In The Classroom; Vote For Conestoga River As River Of The Year; Lancaster Resident Honored For Environmental Justice Work
-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Eagle Scout Goes Deep To Pull 1-Ton Dumpster, Mobile Home From Conestoga River In Lancaster County
-- Lancaster Farming: Farmers Face New Realities In Stormwater Management
-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships Blog: Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund A Success Story In Pennsylvania - By Emily Baldauff, Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer [Keystone Fund website ]
-- Stroud Water Research Center Dec. 7 Exploring Our Hidden Waters - An Evening Of Film, Imagery, Storytelling - In-Person 6:30 p.m.
-- Inside Climate News: New Book By Annie Proulx Shows Us How To Fall In Love With Wetlands; Serve As Vital Carbon Sinks [Bartram’s Garden, Philadelphia ]
-- PA Sea Grant Announces $1.07 Million Investment In Six Projects To Address Critical Aquatic Ecosystem, Watershed Challenges; Next Proposal Round Opens Jan. 5 [PaEN]
-- Delaware RiverKeeper Dec. 9 RiverWatch Video Report
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Wildlife
-- PA Environmental Professionals Recognize Fmr DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell, Lorie Erb & Bog Turtle Recovery Program [PaEN]
-- Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
-- DCNR: Governor’s Advisory Council For Hunting, Fishing & Recreation Meets Dec. 15
-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships Blog: Keystone Recreation, Park & Conservation Fund A Success Story In Pennsylvania - By Emily Baldauff, Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer [Keystone Fund website ]
-- Republican Herald: Animals Perish When Fire Destroys Building At Red Creek Wildlife Center In Schuylkill County
-- MCall/Reading Eagle: Fire Kills Animals At Red Creek Wildlife Center In Schuylkill County, Main Building Destroyed
-- Republican Herald: Red Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center To Reopen In Temporary Location Following Fire
-- Williamsport Sun: Tiadaghton Audubon Society - Individuals Wanted To Help With Christmas Bird Count
-- PA Sea Grant Announces $1.07 Million Investment In Six Projects To Address Critical Aquatic Ecosystem, Watershed Challenges; Next Proposal Round Opens Jan. 5 [PaEN]
-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Examining Why A Buck Has Antlers And Not Horns
-- Citizens Voice - Trail Mix: Canada Geese Splashdown In Sugarloaf Twp. Pond
-- Williamsport Sun - Katie Bohen: New Clues About How Carbon Dioxide Affects Bumblebee Reproduction
-- Inside Climate News: New Book By Annie Proulx Shows Us How To Fall In Love With Wetlands; Serve As Vital Carbon Sinks [Bartram’s Garden, Philadelphia ]
Opportunities
-- Help Wanted: Shippensburg University Center For Land Use & Sustainability
-- Natural Lands Names Karen Wallace Vice President Of Finance
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[Posted: December 11, 2022]
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