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[Posted: April 2, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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Gov. Shapiro

-- Shapiro Announces Norfolk Southern Repaid PA Fire Departments, First Responders $1 Million  [PaEN]

Budget

-- WHYY - Rachel McDevitt: Acting DEP Secretary Pitches Permit Reform During Budget Hearing

Train Derailment

-- Shapiro Announces Norfolk Southern Repaid PA Fire Departments, First Responders $1 Million  [PaEN]

-- Dept. Of Health Establishes Community-Based Health Resource Network To Provide Long-Term Assistance To Residents Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Wants Norfolk Southern To Reimburse Farmers Who Lost Meat Sales After Train Derailment

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front: Questions Remain About Testing, Cleanup Of Streams After Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- Post-Gazette-Capitolwire.com - Robert Swift: PA Budget Hearing On Health Dept. Covers Train Derailment, Post-COVID Landscape

-- UnionProgress.com: Seven Weeks After Trail Derailment, Residents Struggle With The Unknown

-- TribLive: ‘Shell-Shocked’ East Palestine, Ohio Residents Seek Normalcy After Train Wreck

-- Courier Times: Delaware River Chemical Spill Includes Toxin Released In Norfolk Southern Train Derailment, The Latest On The Spill

-- Politics PA: Casey, Fetterman, Brown Introduce Rail Safety Legislation

-- Post-Gazette: EPA Waited Weeks After Train Derailment To Test For Dioxins, Residents, Advocates Demand More Transparency

-- CNN: CDC Team Studying Health Impacts Of Ohio Train Derailment Fell Ill For 24 Hours During Investigation Reporting Same Symptoms As Residents

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front: EPA Office Of Inspector General To Investigate Agency’s Response To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- AP: U.S. Justice Dept. Sues Norfolk Southern Over Train Derailment Environmental Damage

-- Politics PA: DOJ, EPA File Lawsuit Against Norfolk Southern For Unlawful Discharge Of Pollutants And Hazardous Substances At Train Derailment Site

-- TribLive Editorial: Norfolk Southern Lawsuits Are Necessary Enforcement Of Railroad’s Promises

Bucks County/Delaware River Chemical Spill

-- DEP Provides Update On 8,100 Gallon Spill From Bucks County Chemical Plant Affecting The Delaware River  [PsEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center On Bucks County Chemical Spill: We Need To Revisit Source Water Protection, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plans To Protect Our Share Water Resources  [PaEN]

Environment/Energy Issues

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Agriculture Announces Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Grants Now Becoming Available Thru County Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County

-- WHYY - Rachel McDevitt: Acting DEP Secretary Pitches Permit Reform During Budget Hearing

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Acting DEP Secretary Disappoints By Spouting Enviro Justice Nonsense

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: DEP Acting Secretary Negrin’s Flawed View Of ‘Climate Change’

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI]

-- Bipartisan House, Senate Members Introduce Legislation Establishing Real Community Solar Program To Help Address Home/Business Energy Spikes Caused By Volatile Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring Operations For Unknown Period

-- Beaver County Times: Expect ‘Continuous’ Flaring- Burning Off Natural Gas, Flammable Gases At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- BreatheProject.org /Reddit: March 31 Video Showing Shell Petrochemical Plant Still Flaring Natural Gas, Still Using Hose To Cool Barrel Tower Around Flare

-- WHYY: New PA Program Will Send Millions To Philly Area For Home Repairs And Weatherization

-- Game Commission Delivers Annual Report To Legislature 

-- Fish & Boat Commission Presents Annual Report To Legislature

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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-- 66 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.

Air

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring Operations For Unknown Period

-- Beaver County Times: Expect ‘Continuous’ Flaring- Burning Off Natural Gas, Flammable Gases At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- BreatheProject.org /Reddit: March 31 Video Showing Shell Petrochemical Plant Still Flaring Natural Gas, Still Using Hose To Cool Barrel Tower Around Flare

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S. Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant  [No Specifics Yet]

-- Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts April 19 Workshop On Local Air Quality Issues  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan

-- Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air  [PaEN]

-- 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI]

-- Guest Essay: Protect This Place - Fracking Threatens The Allegheny Plateau And Its Biodiversity - By Lisa C. Leib, Pittsburgh

-- Public Source: Braddock, Allegheny County - Imagining Environmental Justice For A ‘Sacrifice Zone’

-- Delco Times: Covanta To Hold Public Meeting To Outline Plans To Cut Air Emissions At Waste-To-Energy Facility

-- Bloomberg: Here’s How Much Top US Polluters Must Cut Methane Emissions To Avoid Fees

-- AP: U.S. Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal In 2022

Alternative Fuels

-- Scranton Times: Scranton School Board Approves Electric Bus Program

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Get $1.5 Million In DEP Grants For Electric Vehicles, Natural Gas Trucks

-- WHYY/AP: PA Lags Behind Other States In Luring Microchip, EV Factories

-- AP: Many Electric Vehicles To Lose Big Tax Credit With New Rules

Allegheny National Forest

-- Warren Times: 2023 Marks Centennial Of Allegheny National Forest 

Awards & Recognition

-- PA Society For Ornithology Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation June 9-19, Sign Up Now!  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: 2023 Marks Centennial Of Allegheny National Forest

-- Warren Times: Civilian Conservation Corps Honored On 90th Anniversary

-- Pike County Conservation District Releases 2022 Annual Report On Many Accomplishments With Local Partners 

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

-- PA Society For Ornithology Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation June 9-19, Sign Up Now!  [PaEN]

-- Beaver Times: Beaver County Master Gardeners: 6-Part Series -vAn Introduction To Environmental Field Studies - Native, Common, Invasive Species

-- PennLive: Time To Prepare For Spotted Lanternfly Season, What To Buy, How To Make Traps

-- LancasterOnline: Spotted Lanternflies Will Emerge In Central PA Soon, Here’s What To Expect

-- Manada Conservancy Hosts April 13 Workshop On Converting Traditional Landscapes Into A Pollinator Paradise In Dauphin County  [PaEN]

-- PA Sea Grant Program Now Has New Aquatic Invasive Species App  For Android Users

Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

-- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts April 5 Webinar On Justice40 - Bringing Energy Transition Benefits To Disadvantaged Communities  [PaEN]

Budget

-- WHYY - Rachel McDevitt: Acting DEP Secretary Pitches Permit Reform During Budget Hearing

Chesapeake Bay

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Agriculture Announces Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Grants Now Becoming Available Thru County Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County

-- Registration Open! 2023 Watershed Forestry Summit In Altoona   [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: $6 Million Game Commission/Ducks Unlimited Project Will Revive 1,600 Acres Of PA Wetlands

-- StateCollege.com: Centre County PA Senior Environmental Corps Provides Update On Water Sampling

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Log Rafts And Raftsmen Once Ruled The Susquehanna River

-- Utilizing Rainwater And Gravity: A Guide To Rain Gardens

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Citizen Action

-- Trail Mix Blog: Rachel Carson, A Pennsylvanian Sparked An Awakening - By Kent Jackson  [PaEN]

-- Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons Lay First Egg, Watch Live

-- PA Society For Ornithology Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation June 9-19, Sign Up Now!  [PaEN]

-- Western PA Conservancy Hosts April 18 Webinar On Helping Elk Creek Thrive In Erie County  [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring Operations For Unknown Period

-- Beaver County Times: Expect ‘Continuous’ Flaring- Burning Off Natural Gas, Flammable Gases At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- BreatheProject.org /Reddit: March 31 Video Showing Shell Petrochemical Plant Still Flaring Natural Gas, Still Using Hose To Cool Barrel Tower Around Flare

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S. Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant  [No Specifics Yet]

-- Guest Essay: Protect This Place - Fracking Threatens The Allegheny Plateau And Its Biodiversity - By Lisa C. Leib, Pittsburgh

-- Public Source: Braddock, Allegheny County - Imagining Environmental Justice For A ‘Sacrifice Zone’

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan

-- Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air  [PaEN]

-- 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI]

-- Delco Times: Covanta To Hold Public Meeting To Outline Plans To Cut Air Emissions At Waste-To-Energy Facility

-- York Dispatch: Residents Critical Of ‘PR Stunt’ For Public Meeting Amid Anger Over Modern Landfill Water Pollution

-- DEP Sets May 3 Hearing On Proposed NPDES Stormwater Permit For Rutter's Store Next To Old Crow Mitigation Wetland In Huntingdon County  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette/Johnstown Democrat: Mining Company, Some Landowners Pushing For New Coal Mine Near Johnstown, Cambria County

-- Observer-Reporter: Sinkhole From Abandoned Coal Mine Swallowing Pike Run In Daisytown, Washington County

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Disabled Vet Sues Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Destroying Home Water, Sewage [MDN: Energy Transfer Should Buy Him Out, If They Damaged His Property]

-- York Dispatch: Residents Worry As $2.1 Billion Hydro-Dam Project Begins Approval Process Along Susquehanna River

-- Ohio River Basin Alliance, ORSANCO Host Congressional Day On The Hill June 13 To Educate Members Of Congress On Needs Of Ohio River Basin   [PaEN]

-- UnionProgress.com: Litter League Games A Real Pick-Me-Up For Volunteers, Neighborhoods In Pittsburgh 

-- Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week April 15-23, Volunteers Needed!

-- TribLive: Linn Run Trout Study Results To Be Unveiled In Westmoreland County

-- StateCollege.com: Centre County PA Senior Environmental Corps Provides Update On Water Sampling

-- March 31 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- LebTown: Lebanon County Conservation District Seeks Volunteers To Help Plant 800+ Trees In Millcreek Twp. April 11-13

-- TribLive: Tree Planting Planned In Leetsdale, Allegheny County April 29, Volunteers Needed

-- TribLive: Fox Chapel To Host Planting Of 1,000 Tree Seedlings For Arbor Day Weekend In Allegheny County

-- DEP Posts 55 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 1 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

Climate

-- Bipartisan House, Senate Members Introduce Legislation Establishing Real Community Solar Program To Help Address Home/Business Energy Spikes Caused By Volatile Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan

-- BreatheProject.org: Pittsburgh Youth Climate Action Summit April 1

-- MCall Guest Essay: Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change - They Should Be

-- Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air  [PaEN]

-- 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Hosts May 22-23 Climate Solutions Symposium  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: A Conservative Argument For Clean Energy -- Follow The Market, Fossil Fuels Are No Bargain - By Dave Jenkins,  Conservatives For Responsible Stewardship    [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: What Happens At The End Of The Useful Life Of A Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facility?  PA Should Have Been Talking About The Same Thing With Oil/Gas Wells To Prevent Thousands Of Abandoned Wells

-- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts April 5 Webinar On Justice40 - Bringing Energy Transition Benefits To Disadvantaged Communities  [PaEN]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: DEP Acting Secretary Negrin’s Flawed View Of ‘Climate Change’

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI]

-- Scranton Times: Scranton School Board Approves Electric Bus Program

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Get $1.5 Million In DEP Grants For Electric Vehicles, Natural Gas Trucks

-- AP: Many Electric Vehicles To Lose Big Tax Credit With New Rules

-- Bloomberg: Here’s How Much Top US Polluters Must Cut Methane Emissions To Avoid Fees

-- AP: U.S. Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal In 2022

Coal Mining

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: Sinkhole From Abandoned Coal Mine Swallowing Pike Run In Daisytown, Washington County

-- Post-Gazette/Johnstown Democrat: Mining Company, Some Landowners Pushing For New Coal Mine Near Johnstown, Cambria County

-- AP: U.S. Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal In 2022

Compliance Action

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S. Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant  [No Specifics Yet]

-- DEP Took Action On 746 Permits, 96% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadline; Conducted 1,596 Inspections; Responded To 9 Environmental Emergencies Last Week

Conservation Districts

-- Help Wanted: Pike Conservation District Seeking Candidates For Executive Director

-- The Express: Clinton County Conservation District, Volunteers To Stock Kettle Creek With Trout

-- Pike County Conservation District Releases 2022 Annual Report On Many Accomplishments With Local Partners 

 Court Decisions

-- Scranton Times: State Appeals Court Overturns Damages Won By Homeowners In Lawsuit Against City Over Stormwater Flooding

-- Courier Times: County Court Orders Bucks County Farm To Stop Running ‘Solid Waste Facility’

DCNR

-- PA Director Of Outdoor Recreation Highlights Recreation Job Opportunities; 7 Regional Stakeholder Meetings Coming Up  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: PA Looks To Improve Its Outdoor Recreation Workforce Opportunities

-- DCNR: State Park Campgrounds, Overnight Lodging Open For 2023 Trout Season

-- DCNR Names Cody Miller New Park Manager For Chapman State Park

-- March 31 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Mountain Wildfire On Cumberland/York County Line Has Been Extinguished 

DEP

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring Operations For Unknown Period-- Beaver County Times: Expect ‘Continuous’ Flaring- Burning Off Natural Gas, Flammable Gases At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- BreatheProject.org /Reddit: March 31 Video Showing Shell Petrochemical Plant Still Flaring Natural Gas, Still Using Hose To Cool Barrel Tower Around Flare

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S. Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant  [No Specifics Yet]

-- DEP Provides Update On 8,100 Gallon Spill From Bucks County Chemical Plant Affecting The Delaware River  [PsEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center On Bucks County Chemical Spill: We Need To Revisit Source Water Protection, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plans To Protect Our Share Water Resources  [PaEN]

-- WHYY - Rachel McDevitt: Acting DEP Secretary Pitches Permit Reform During Budget Hearing

-- Observer-Reporter: Sinkhole From Abandoned Coal Mine Swallowing Pike Run In Daisytown, Washington County

-- Post-Gazette/Johnstown Democrat: Mining Company, Some Landowners Pushing For New Coal Mine Near Johnstown, Cambria County

-- DEP Sets May 3 Hearing On Proposed NPDES Stormwater Permit For Rutter's Store Next To Old Crow Mitigation Wetland In Huntingdon County  [PaEN]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: DEP Acting Secretary Negrin’s Flawed View Of ‘Climate Change’

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Acting DEP Secretary Disappoints By Spouting Enviro Justice Nonsense

-- DEP Blog: What You Should Know About Storage Tanks At Farms And Residential Properties

-- Courier Times: County Court Orders Bucks County Farm To Stop Running ‘Solid Waste Facility’

-- Marcellus Drilling News: PennFuture VP Ezra Thrush Joining DEP As Head Of Policy

-- DEP Took Action On 746 Permits, 96% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadline; Conducted 1,596 Inspections; Responded To 9 Environmental Emergencies Last Week

-- DEP Posts 55 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 1 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

Delaware River

-- Inquirer: Philly Mayor: Water Safe To Drink After Bucks County Chemical Spill: ‘Threat Has Passed’

-- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That?

-- DEP Provides Update On 8,100 Gallon Spill From Bucks County Chemical Plant Affecting The Delaware River  [PsEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center On Bucks County Chemical Spill: We Need To Revisit Source Water Protection, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plans To Protect Our Share Water Resources  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: Philly Water Safe To Drink Thru 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, But Monitoring Of Chemical Spill Continues

-- Courier Times: As Toxic Bucks County Spill Cleanup Continues, Tap Water Safe To Drink

-- WHYY: Delaware River Spill: Philadelphia Water Safe To Drink Through Monday Evening, Officials Announce

-- Inquirer: Philly Residents Now Advised Water Is Safe Through Monday Night Following Bucks County Spill

-- Courier Times: Maps, Timeline Of Bucks County Chemical Spill

-- WHYY: During Chemical Spill Philly Was Unable To Switch To Other Sources Of Water, Here’s Why That Matters

-- Courier Times: Delaware River Chemical Spill Includes Toxin Released In Norfolk Southern Train Derailment, The Latest On The Spill

-- Inquirer: EPA Doesn’t Require Safety Tests For Most Chemicals, Including 3 Spilled Into Delaware River Tributary

-- Inquirer: Bucks County Chemical Plant Involved In Spill Had Other Mishaps Over Last Decade

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Companies Have Discharged Millions Of Pounds Of Toxic Chemicals In Delaware River In Last 5 Years

-- WHYY: Philadelphia Officials Take Heat For Communications Over Water Contamination

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Philadelphia’s Water Contamination Was A Test Of City’s Response To A Crisis, It Failed

-- Courier Times: Environmentalists Worry Bucks County Chemical Spill Threatens Fish, Plant Life

-- Delaware RiverKeeper March 28 Update On Bucks County Chemical Spill

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Special Video Report On Bucks County Chemical Spill

-- Delaware RiverKeeper March 31 RiverWatch Video Report

-- Inquirer: Panic, Confusion Fuel Run On Bottled Water In Philly, Even In Areas Unaffected By Chemical Spill

-- Inquirer: These Philly High School Kids Are Trying To Clean The Schuylkill River - With Mussels 

-- Help Wanted: Berks Nature Land Stewardship Specialist; Watershed Education Fellowship  [PaEN]

-- Trenton Daily: Delaware River Alliance For Watershed Education Seeks Summer Fellowship Applicants

Drinking Water

-- Post-Gazette: PA Will Resume Program To Help Low-Income Households Pay Their Drinking Water, Wastewater Bills

Earth Day

-- Observer-Reporter: Earth Day Fundraiser Will Benefit Western PA School For The Blind

Economic Development

-- PA Director Of Outdoor Recreation Highlights Recreation Job Opportunities; 7 Regional Stakeholder Meetings Coming Up  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: PA Looks To Improve Its Outdoor Recreation Workforce Opportunities

-- DCNR: State Park Campgrounds, Overnight Lodging Open For 2023 Trout Season

-- Erie Times: Total Eclipse In April 2024 Could Draw 260,000 People To Erie County’s Biggest One-Day Tourist Event

-- WHYY/AP: PA Lags Behind Other States In Luring Microchip, EV Factories

-- NYT: British Report On Biodiversity, Economics Says Ignoring The Value Of Nature Threatens Humanity Itself

Education

-- Trail Mix Blog: Rachel Carson, A Pennsylvanian Sparked An Awakening - By Kent Jackson  [PaEN]

-- Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons Lay First Egg, Watch Live

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Agriculture Announces Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Grants Now Becoming Available Thru County Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: 2023 Marks Centennial Of Allegheny National Forest

-- Registration Open! 2023 Watershed Forestry Summit In Altoona   [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: These Philly High School Kids Are Trying To Clean The Schuylkill River - With Mussels 

-- Western PA Conservancy Hosts April 18 Webinar On Helping Elk Creek Thrive In Erie County  [PaEN]

-- PA Society For Ornithology Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation June 9-19, Sign Up Now!  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring Operations For Unknown Period

-- Beaver County Times: Expect ‘Continuous’ Flaring- Burning Off Natural Gas, Flammable Gases At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- BreatheProject.org /Reddit: March 31 Video Showing Shell Petrochemical Plant Still Flaring Natural Gas, Still Using Hose To Cool Barrel Tower Around Flare

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S. Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant  [No Specifics Yet]

-- Stroud Water Research Center On Bucks County Chemical Spill: We Need To Revisit Source Water Protection, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plans To Protect Our Share Water Resources  [PaEN]

-- BreatheProject.org: Pittsburgh Youth Climate Action Summit April 1

-- MCall Guest Essay: Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change - They Should Be

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: What Happens At The End Of The Useful Life Of A Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facility?  PA Should Have Been Talking About The Same Thing With Oil/Gas Wells To Prevent Thousands Of Abandoned Wells

-- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts April 5 Webinar On Justice40 - Bringing Energy Transition Benefits To Disadvantaged Communities  [PaEN]

-- New Planet Philadelphia Radio Show Coming April 7 On Consequential Environmental Stories In The News

-- Warren Times: Audubon Little Explorers Play ‘Animal Hide And Seek’ April 8

-- Pike County Tick Borne Diseases Task Force Offers Spring Tick Protection Tips

-- Manada Conservancy Hosts April 13 Workshop On Converting Traditional Landscapes Into A Pollinator Paradise In Dauphin County  [PaEN]

-- Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts April 19 Workshop On Local Air Quality Issues  [PaEN]

-- Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air  [PaEN]

-- 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Hosts May 22-23 Climate Solutions Symposium  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: A Conservative Argument For Clean Energy -- Follow The Market, Fossil Fuels Are No Bargain - By Dave Jenkins,  Conservatives For Responsible Stewardship    [PaEN]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Disabled Vet Sues Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Destroying Home Water, Sewage [MDN: Energy Transfer Should Buy Him Out, If They Damaged His Property]

-- Observer-Reporter: Sinkhole From Abandoned Coal Mine Swallowing Pike Run In Daisytown, Washington County

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Newsletter Highlights Beavers At Jennings Environmental Center, Aultmans Watershed Trash Cleanup April 29  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: Protect This Place - Fracking Threatens The Allegheny Plateau And Its Biodiversity - By Lisa C. Leib, Pittsburgh

-- Public Source: Braddock, Allegheny County - Imagining Environmental Justice For A ‘Sacrifice Zone’

-- DEP Blog: What You Should Know About Storage Tanks At Farms And Residential Properties

-- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That?

-- PA Director Of Outdoor Recreation Highlights Recreation Job Opportunities; 7 Regional Stakeholder Meetings Coming Up  [PaEN]

-- March 31 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- Help Wanted: Berks Nature Land Stewardship Specialist; Watershed Education Fellowship  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Penn State Expanding Weather Network, Offering Data That Could Help Areas Prepare For Floods

-- Utilizing Rainwater And Gravity: A Guide To Rain Gardens

-- Trenton Daily: Delaware River Alliance For Watershed Education Seeks Summer Fellowship Applicants

-- Ohio River Basin Alliance, ORSANCO Host Congressional Day On The Hill June 13 To Educate Members Of Congress On Needs Of Ohio River Basin   [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Bat Boxes Project Wins Pine-Richland Student’s Girl Scout Gold Award

-- Beaver Times: Beaver County Master Gardeners: 6-Part Series - An Introduction To Environmental Field Studies - Native, Common, Invasive Species

-- PA Sea Grant Program Now Has New Aquatic Invasive Species App  For Android Users

-- PennLive: Time To Prepare For Spotted Lanternfly Season, What To Buy, How To Make Traps

-- LancasterOnline: Spotted Lanternflies Will Emerge In Central PA Soon, Here’s What To Expect

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Log Rafts And Raftsmen Once Ruled The Susquehanna River

-- NorthcentralPA.com: Tiadaghton Audubon Society Plans Morning Bird Walks Throughout April, May

-- TribLive: Linn Run Trout Study Results To Be Unveiled In Westmoreland County

-- The Express: Clinton County Conservation District, Volunteers To Stock Kettle Creek With Trout

-- Western PA Conservancy: Latest Water Land Life Newsletter - Help Nature Thrive During Earth Month, All Year

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Where Has The Whip-Poor-Will Gotten To?

-- TribLive: First Pittsburgh Hays Bald Eagle Egg Hatched Sunday Afternoon

-- TribLive: 2nd Bald Eagle Egg Hatches In Pittsburgh Nest, Watch Online

-- Save The Date!  Wildlife For Everyone Foundation's Spring Celebration May 19, State College

-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Harbingers Of Spring

-- Penn State Extension: Woods And Wildlife News And Notes Newsletter

-- StateImpactPA: PA Considers Boosting Its Biodiversity And Cuteness With Reintroduction Of The American Marten

-- Williamsport Sun: Climate Change Alters The Human-Raptor Relationship - By Cornell Ornithology Lab

-- Erie Times: Total Eclipse In April 2024 Could Draw 260,000 People To Erie County’s Biggest One-Day Tourist Event

-- Bloomberg: Here’s How Much Top US Polluters Must Cut Methane Emissions To Avoid Fees

-- AP: U.S. Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal In 2022

Ohio/PA Train Derailment

-- Shapiro Announces Norfolk Southern Repaid PA Fire Departments, First Responders $1 Million  [PaEN]

-- Dept. Of Health Establishes Community-Based Health Resource Network To Provide Long-Term Assistance To Residents Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Wants Norfolks Southern To Reimburse Farmers Who Lost Meat Sales After Train Derailment

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front: Questions Remain About Testing, Cleanup Of Streams After Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- Post-Gazette-Capitolwire.com - Robert Swift: PA Budget Hearing On Health Dept. Covers Train Derailment, Post-COVID Landscape

-- UnionProgress.com: Seven Weeks After Trail Derailment, Residents Struggle With The Unknown

-- TribLive: ‘Shell-Shocked’ East Palestine, Ohio Residents Seek Normalcy After Train Wreck

-- Courier Times: Delaware River Chemical Spill Includes Toxin Released In Norfolk Southern Train Derailment, The Latest On The Spill

-- Politics PA: Casey, Fetterman, Brown Introduce Rail Safety Legislation

-- Post-Gazette: EPA Waited Weeks After Train Derailment To Test For Dioxins, Residents, Advocates Demand More Transparency

-- CNN: CDC Team Studying Health Impacts Of Ohio Train Derailment Fell Ill For 24 Hours During Investigation Reporting Same Symptoms As Residents

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front: EPA Office Of Inspector General To Investigate Agency’s Response To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- AP: U.S. Justice Dept. Sues Norfolk Southern Over Train Derailment Environmental Damage

-- Politics PA: DOJ, EPA File Lawsuit Against Norfolk Southern For Unlawful Discharge Of Pollutants And Hazardous Substances At Train Derailment Site

-- TribLive Editorial: Norfolk Southern Lawsuits Are Necessary Enforcement Of Railroad’s Promises

Bucks County/Delaware Chemical Spill

-- Inquirer: Philly Mayor: Water Safe To Drink After Bucks County Chemical Spill: ‘Threat Has Passed’

-- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That?

-- DEP Provides Update On 8,100 Gallon Spill From Bucks County Chemical Plant Affecting The Delaware River  [PsEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center On Bucks County Chemical Spill: We Need To Revisit Source Water Protection, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plans To Protect Our Share Water Resources  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: Philly Water Safe To Drink Thru 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, But Monitoring Of Chemical Spill Continues

-- Courier Times: As Toxic Bucks County Spill Cleanup Continues, Tap Water Safe To Drink

-- WHYY: Delaware River Spill: Philadelphia Water Safe To Drink Through Monday Evening, Officials Announce

-- Inquirer: Philly Residents Now Advised Water Is Safe Through Monday Night Following Bucks County Spill

-- Courier Times: Maps, Timeline Of Bucks County Chemical Spill

-- WHYY: During Chemical Spill Philly Was Unable To Switch To Other Sources Of Water, Here’s Why That Matters

-- Courier Times: Delaware River Chemical Spill Includes Toxin Released In Norfolk Southern Train Derailment, The Latest On The Spill

-- Inquirer: EPA Doesn’t Require Safety Tests For Most Chemicals, Including 3 Spilled Into Delaware River Tributary

-- Inquirer: Bucks County Chemical Plant Involved In Spill Had Other Mishaps Over Last Decade

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Companies Have Discharged Millions Of Pounds Of Toxic Chemicals In Delaware River In Last 5 Years

-- WHYY: Philadelphia Officials Take Heat For Communications Over Water Contamination

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Philadelphia’s Water Contamination Was A Test Of City’s Response To A Crisis, It Failed

-- Courier Times: Environmentalists Worry Bucks County Chemical Spill Threatens Fish, Plant Life

-- Delaware RiverKeeper March 28 Update On Bucks County Chemical Spill

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Special Video Report On Bucks County Chemical Spill

-- Delaware RiverKeeper March 31 RiverWatch Video Report

-- Inquirer: Panic, Confusion Fuel Run On Bottled Water In Philly, Even In Areas Unaffected By Chemical Spill

Emergency Response

-- Post-Gazette: Intense Winds Could Cause Widespread Power Outages, Downed Trees Around PA This Weekend

-- TribLive: Meteorologist: High Winds More Frequent Headache For Southwestern PA

-- PUC Offers Spring Storm Utility Safety Tips

-- TribLive: High Winds Down Trees, Wires: Power Outages Top 215,000 Customers In Western, Central PA

-- AP: Probe Of Reading Chocolate Factory Explosion Centers On Natural Gas Pipeline

-- TribLive/AP: PA Factory Explosion Survivor, On Fire, Fell Into Chocolate Vat That Saved Her Life, She Smelled Natural Gas For 30 Minutes Before Explosion

-- AP: All 7 Victims Of Reading Chocolate Factory Explosion Found

-- DEP Provides Update On 8,100 Gallon Spill From Bucks County Chemical Plant Affecting The Delaware River  [PsEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center On Bucks County Chemical Spill: We Need To Revisit Source Water Protection, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plans To Protect Our Share Water Resources  [PaEN]

-- PUC Concludes 2022 Pottstown Explosion Investigation Finding No Evidence Natural Gas Service Contributed To Deadly Event

-- WHYY: PUC: PECO Natural Gas Pipelines Did Not Cause Pottstown Home Explosion, Cause Remains Unknown 

-- Help Wanted: Berks Nature Land Stewardship Specialist; Watershed Education Fellowship  [PaEN]

-- Trenton Daily: Delaware River Alliance For Watershed Education Seeks Summer Fellowship Applicants

-- Observer-Reporter: Sinkhole From Abandoned Coal Mine Swallowing Pike Run In Daisytown, Washington County

-- DEP Took Action On 746 Permits, 96% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadline; Conducted 1,596 Inspections; Responded To 9 Environmental Emergencies Last Week

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 Urges Consumers To Contact Utilities About Payment Of Past-Due Or High Bills As Winter Moratorium Ends March 31

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- Marcellus Drilling News/Argus Media: Wild Swings In Natural Gas Price ‘Here To Stay For Foreseeable Future’

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Consultant Suggests Drillers Fight Low Natural Gas Prices By Choking Wells 50% [To Reduce Supply]

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs - No Change From Last Week: 24

-- Guest Essay: A Conservative Argument For Clean Energy -- Follow The Market, Fossil Fuels Are No Bargain - By Dave Jenkins,  Conservatives For Responsible Stewardship    [PaEN]

-- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts April 5 Webinar On Justice40 - Bringing Energy Transition Benefits To Disadvantaged Communities  [PaEN]

-- Bloomberg: Illinois Power Plant Firm Goes Bankrupt After PJM Imposes December Freeze Storm Penalties; PJM Fines May Reach $2 Billion For Widespread Power Plant Failures

-- TribLive: Gasoline Prices Down In PA While National Average Unchanged

-- AAA: PA Gasoline Price Average - $3.55, National Average $3.43

-- Cambridge, Ohio Gasoline Price: $3.05

National/International

-- WPost: Why Biden’s Oil Leasing Policies Upset Both Oil Companies, Environmentalists

-- Reuters: EU Extends Natural Gas Price Cap System To All EU Hubs

Energy

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- Exchange Monitor: Constellation: It Will Take Another $1.1 Billion To Decommission Three Mile Island Unit 1 Nuclear Power Plant

-- Guest Essay: A Conservative Argument For Clean Energy -- Follow The Market, Fossil Fuels Are No Bargain - By Dave Jenkins,  Conservatives For Responsible Stewardship    [PaEN]

-- Marcellus Drilling News/Argus Media: Wild Swings In Natural Gas Price ‘Here To Stay For Foreseeable Future’

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Consultant Suggests Drillers Fight Low Natural Gas Prices By Choking Wells 50% [To Reduce Supply]

-- Bipartisan House, Senate Members Introduce Legislation Establishing Real Community Solar Program To Help Address Home/Business Energy Spikes Caused By Volatile Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Putting Equity In Energy: Solar United Neighbors, Partners Celebrate Solar Program For Low-Income Homeowners In Allegheny County

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: What Happens At The End Of The Useful Life Of A Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facility?  PA Should Have Been Talking About The Same Thing With Oil/Gas Wells To Prevent Thousands Of Abandoned Wells

-- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts April 5 Webinar On Justice40 - Bringing Energy Transition Benefits To Disadvantaged Communities  [PaEN]

-- Bloomberg: Illinois Power Plant Firm Goes Bankrupt After PJM Imposes December Freeze Storm Penalties; PJM Fines May Reach $2 Billion For Widespread Power Plant Failures

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan

-- Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air  [PaEN]

-- 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Disabled Vet Sues Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Destroying Home Water, Sewage [MDN: Energy Transfer Should Buy Him Out, If They Damaged His Property]

-- AP: Probe Of Reading Chocolate Factory Explosion Centers On Natural Gas Pipeline

-- TribLive/AP: PA Factory Explosion Survivor, On Fire, Fell Into Chocolate Vat That Saved Her Life, She Smelled Natural Gas For 30 Minutes Before Explosion

-- AP: All 7 Victims Of Reading Chocolate Factory Explosion Found

-- PUC Urges Consumers To Contact Utilities About Payment Of Past-Due Or High Bills As Winter Moratorium Ends March 31

-- York Dispatch: Residents Worry As $2.1 Billion Hydro-Dam Project Begins Approval Process Along Susquehanna River

-- TribLive: Gasoline Prices Down In PA While National Average Unchanged

-- AAA: PA Gasoline Price Average - $3.55, National Average $3.43

-- Cambridge, Ohio Gasoline Price: $3.05

-- Bloomberg: Illinois Power Plant Firm Goes Bankrupt After PJM Imposes December Freeze Storm Penalties; PJM Fines May Reach $2 Billion For Widespread Power Plant Failures

-- Utility Dive: PJM Plans Capacity Auction Delays As It Develops Market Reforms To Bolster Resource Adequacy

-- Bloomberg: Here’s How Much Top US Polluters Must Cut Methane Emissions To Avoid Fees

-- AP: U.S. Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal In 2022

Energy Conservation

-- WHYY: New PA Program Will Send Millions To Philly Area For Home Repairs And Weatherization

Environmental Health

-- Trail Mix Blog: Rachel Carson, A Pennsylvanian Sparked An Awakening - By Kent Jackson  [PaEN]

-- Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons Lay First Egg, Watch Live

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring Operations For Unknown Period

-- Beaver County Times: Expect ‘Continuous’ Flaring- Burning Off Natural Gas, Flammable Gases At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- BreatheProject.org /Reddit: March 31 Video Showing Shell Petrochemical Plant Still Flaring Natural Gas, Still Using Hose To Cool Barrel Tower Around Flare

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S. Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant  [No Specifics Yet]

-- Guest Essay: Protect This Place - Fracking Threatens The Allegheny Plateau And Its Biodiversity - By Lisa C. Leib, Pittsburgh

-- Public Source: Braddock, Allegheny County - Imagining Environmental Justice For A ‘Sacrifice Zone’

-- Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air  [PaEN]

-- 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- Courier Times: PA Won’t Tell You If Dangerous Tick-Borne Disease Is In Your Neighborhood

-- Republican Herald: Mosquitoes, Ticks Highlighted In Presentation At Sweet Arrow Lake County Park

-- Pike County Tick Borne Diseases Task Force Offers Spring Tick Protection Tips

--TribLive: CDC Report: Tick-Borne Illness Babesiosis In Rise In Northeast US

Environmental Heritage

-- Trail Mix Blog: Rachel Carson, A Pennsylvanian Sparked An Awakening - By Kent Jackson  [PaEN]

-- Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons Lay First Egg, Watch Live

-- Warren Times: 2023 Marks Centennial Of Allegheny National Forest

-- Warren Times: Civilian Conservation Corps Honored On 90th Anniversary

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Log Rafts And Raftsmen Once Ruled The Susquehanna River

-- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Lenape Challenge April 29, Premier Adventure Race Experience  [PaEN]

Environmental Justice

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Public Source: Braddock, Allegheny County - Imagining Environmental Justice For A ‘Sacrifice Zone’

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Acting DEP Secretary Disappoints By Spouting Enviro Justice Nonsense

Farming

-- Agriculture Announces Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Grants Now Becoming Available Thru County Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Beaver Times: Beaver County Master Gardeners: 6-Part Series -An Introduction To Environmental Field Studies - Native, Common, Invasive Species

-- PennLive: Time To Prepare For Spotted Lanternfly Season, What To Buy, How To Make Traps

-- LancasterOnline: Spotted Lanternflies Will Emerge In Central PA Soon, Here’s What To Expect

Fish & Boat Commission

-- Fish & Boat Commission Presents Annual Report To Legislature

-- Fish & Boat Commission: Opening Day Of Trout Season Is April 1

-- Bradford Era:  Reminder: Fish & Boat Commission Accepting Applications For Sinnemahoning Creek Watershed Restoration Thru April 28

Flooding

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Penn State Expanding Weather Network, Offering Data That Could Help Areas Prepare For Floods

Forests

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: 2023 Marks Centennial Of Allegheny National Forest

-- Registration Open! 2023 Watershed Forestry Summit In Altoona   [PaEN]

-- March 31 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- LebTown: Lebanon County Conservation District Seeks Volunteers To Help Plant 800+ Trees In Millcreek Twp. April 11-13

-- TribLive: Tree Planting Planned In Leetsdale, Allegheny County April 29, Volunteers Needed

-- TribLive: Fox Chapel To Host Planting Of 1,000 Tree Seedlings For Arbor Day Weekend In Allegheny County

-- PennLive: Time To Prepare For Spotted Lanternfly Season, What To Buy, How To Make Traps

-- LancasterOnline: Spotted Lanternflies Will Emerge In Central PA Soon, Here’s What To Expect

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Mountain Wildfire On Cumberland/York County Line Has Been Extinguished

Game Commission

-- Game Commission Delivers Annual Report To Legislature

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: $6 Million Game Commission/Ducks Unlimited Project Will Revive 1,600 Acres Of PA Wetlands

-- Game Commission Releases 2022-23 Deer Harvest Estimates

-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: PA’s Deer Harvest Increased In 2022-23 Season, Trend Remains Stable

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

Grants/Funding

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Agriculture Announces Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Grants Now Becoming Available Thru County Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: $6 Million Game Commission/Ducks Unlimited Project Will Revive 1,600 Acres Of PA Wetlands

-- Bradford Era:  Reminder: Fish & Boat Commission Accepting Applications For Sinnemahoning Creek Watershed Restoration Thru April 28

-- NextPittsburgh: DEP Awards $3.7 Million To Support 22 Environmental Restoration Projects In Southwestern PA  [Jan. 2023 Awards]

-- Post-Gazette: PA Will Resume Program To Help Low-Income Households Pay Their Drinking Water, Wastewater Bills

-- WHYY: New PA Program Will Send Millions To Philly Area For Home Repairs And Weatherization

Green Infrastructure

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Agriculture Announces Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Grants Now Becoming Available Thru County Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County

-- Registration Open! 2023 Watershed Forestry Summit In Altoona   [PaEN]

-- Western PA Conservancy Hosts April 18 Webinar On Helping Elk Creek Thrive In Erie County  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: $6 Million Game Commission/Ducks Unlimited Project Will Revive 1,600 Acres Of PA Wetlands

-- LebTown: Lebanon County Conservation District Seeks Volunteers To Help Plant 800+ Trees In Millcreek Twp. April 11-13

-- TribLive: Tree Planting Planned In Leetsdale, Allegheny County April 29, Volunteers Needed

-- TribLive: Fox Chapel To Host Planting Of 1,000 Tree Seedlings For Arbor Day Weekend In Allegheny County

-- Bradford Era:  Reminder: Fish & Boat Commission Accepting Applications For Sinnemahoning Creek Watershed Restoration Thru April 28

-- Utilizing Rainwater And Gravity: A Guide To Rain Gardens

-- Manada Conservancy Hosts April 13 Workshop On Converting Traditional Landscapes Into A Pollinator Paradise In Dauphin County  [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: 2023 Marks Centennial Of Allegheny National Forest

-- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Lenape Challenge April 29, Premier Adventure Race Experience  [PaEN]

-- US Dept. Of Interior Proposes Conservation Leasing Plan To Improve Public Lands

-- Reuters: US Wants To Lease Public Lands For Conservation

Hazardous Substances

-- Trail Mix Blog: Rachel Carson, A Pennsylvanian Sparked An Awakening - By Kent Jackson  [PaEN]

-- Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons Lay First Egg, Watch Live

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring Operations For Unknown Period

-- Beaver County Times: Expect ‘Continuous’ Flaring- Burning Off Natural Gas, Flammable Gases At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- BreatheProject.org /Reddit: March 31 Video Showing Shell Petrochemical Plant Still Flaring Natural Gas, Still Using Hose To Cool Barrel Tower Around Flare

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S. Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant  [No Specifics Yet]

-- Guest Essay: Protect This Place - Fracking Threatens The Allegheny Plateau And Its Biodiversity - By Lisa C. Leib, Pittsburgh

-- Public Source: Braddock, Allegheny County - Imagining Environmental Justice For A ‘Sacrifice Zone’

-- Inquirer: Philly Water Safe To Drink Thru 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, But Monitoring Of Chemical Spill Continues

-- DEP Provides Update On 8,100 Gallon Spill From Bucks County Chemical Plant Affecting The Delaware River  [PsEN]

-- WHYY: Delaware River Spill: Philadelphia Water Safe To Drink Through Monday Evening, Officials Announce

-- Inquirer: Philly Residents Now Advised Water Is Safe Through Monday Night Following Bucks County Spill

-- Courier Times: Maps, Timeline Of Bucks County Chemical Spill

-- Courier Times: Delaware River Chemical Spill Includes Toxin Released In Norfolk Southern Train Derailment, The Latest On The Spill

-- Inquirer: Bucks County Chemical Plant Involved In Spill Had Other Mishaps Over Last Decade

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Special Video Report On Bucks County Chemical Spill

-- Inquirer: Panic, Confusion Fuel Run On Bottled Water In Philly, Even In Areas Unaffected By Chemical Spill

-- Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air  [PaEN]

-- 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells  [PaEN]

Help Wanted

-- Help Wanted: Pike Conservation District Seeking Candidates For Executive Director

-- Help Wanted: Berks Nature Land Stewardship Specialist; Watershed Education Fellowship  [PaEN]

Land Conservation

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Agriculture Announces Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Grants Now Becoming Available Thru County Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County

-- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Lenape Challenge April 29, Premier Adventure Race Experience  [PaEN]

-- Help Wanted: Berks Nature Land Stewardship Specialist; Watershed Education Fellowship  [PaEN]

-- US Dept. Of Interior Proposes Conservation Leasing Plan To Improve Public Lands

-- Reuters: US Wants To Lease Public Lands For Conservation

Lake Erie

-- PA Sea Grant Program Now Has New Aquatic Invasive Species App  For Android Users

Littering/Illegal Dumping

-- UnionProgress.com: Litter League Games A Real Pick-Me-Up For Volunteers, Neighborhoods In Pittsburgh 

-- MyChesCo.com: Join 39th Darby Creek Watershed Cleanup April 15

-- Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week April 15-23, Volunteers Needed!

Mine Reclamation

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Western PA Conservancy, Hedin Environmental Seeking Oxic Limestone Beds To Demonstrate Cleaning Methods  [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: Sinkhole From Abandoned Coal Mine Swallowing Pike Run In Daisytown, Washington County

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Newsletter Highlights Beavers At Jennings Environmental Center, Aultmans Watershed Trash Cleanup April 29  [PaEN]

Ohio River

-- Ohio River Basin Alliance, ORSANCO Host Congressional Day On The Hill June 13 To Educate Members Of Congress On Needs Of Ohio River Basin   [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Tree Planting Planned In Leetsdale, Allegheny County April 29, Volunteers Needed

-- TribLive: Fox Chapel To Host Planting Of 1,000 Tree Seedlings For Arbor Day Weekend In Allegheny County

Oil & Gas

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases Flaring Operations For Unknown Period

-- Beaver County Times: Expect ‘Continuous’ Flaring- Burning Off Natural Gas, Flammable Gases At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- BreatheProject.org /Reddit: March 31 Video Showing Shell Petrochemical Plant Still Flaring Natural Gas, Still Using Hose To Cool Barrel Tower Around Flare

-- Guest Essay: A Conservative Argument For Clean Energy -- Follow The Market, Fossil Fuels Are No Bargain - By Dave Jenkins,  Conservatives For Responsible Stewardship    [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: What Happens At The End Of The Useful Life Of A Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facility?  PA Should Have Been Talking About The Same Thing With Oil/Gas Wells To Prevent Thousands Of Abandoned Wells

-- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts April 5 Webinar On Justice40 - Bringing Energy Transition Benefits To Disadvantaged Communities  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: Protect This Place - Fracking Threatens The Allegheny Plateau And Its Biodiversity - By Lisa C. Leib, Pittsburgh

-- AP: Probe Of Reading Chocolate Factory Explosion Centers On Natural Gas Pipeline

-- TribLive/AP: PA Factory Explosion Survivor, On Fire, Fell Into Chocolate Vat That Saved Her Life, She Smelled Natural Gas For 30 Minutes Before Explosion

-- AP: All 7 Victims Of Reading Chocolate Factory Explosion Found

-- PUC Concludes 2022 Pottstown Explosion Investigation Finding No Evidence Natural Gas Service Contributed To Deadly Event

-- WHYY: PUC: PECO Natural Gas Pipelines Did Not Cause Pottstown Home Explosion, Cause Remains Unknown 

-- PUC Urges Consumers To Contact Utilities About Payment Of Past-Due Or High Bills As Winter Moratorium Ends March 31

-- Marcellus Drilling News/Argus Media: Wild Swings In Natural Gas Price ‘Here To Stay For Foreseeable Future’

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Consultant Suggests Drillers Fight Low Natural Gas Prices By Choking Wells 50% [To Reduce Supply]

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs - No Change From Last Week: 24

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Acting DEP Secretary Disappoints By Spouting Enviro Justice Nonsense

-- Marcellus Drilling News: DEP Acting Secretary Negrin’s Flawed View Of ‘Climate Change’

-- TribLive: Gasoline Prices Down In PA While National Average Unchanged

-- AAA: PA Gasoline Price Average - $3.55, National Average $3.43

-- Cambridge, Ohio Gasoline Price: $3.05

-- WPost: Why Biden’s Oil Leasing Policies Upset Both Oil Companies, Environmentalists

-- Reuters: EU Extends Natural Gas Price Cap System To All EU Hubs

-- Bloomberg: Here’s How Much Top US Polluters Must Cut Methane Emissions To Avoid Fees

Pipelines

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Disabled Vet Sues Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Destroying Home Water, Sewage [MDN: Energy Transfer Should Buy Him Out, If They Damaged His Property]

-- PUC Publishes Order Denying Petition By Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers To Reconsider Regulation Of Class One Natural Gas/Oil Pipelines

-- PUC Denies Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Petition To Reconsider Regulation Of Class One Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines [PaEN]

-- AP: Probe Of Reading Chocolate Factory Explosion Centers On Natural Gas Pipeline

-- TribLive/AP: PA Factory Explosion Survivor, On Fire, Fell Into Chocolate Vat That Saved Her Life, She Smelled Natural Gas For 30 Minutes Before Explosion

-- Reuters: Mountain Valley Natural Gas Pipeline’s Virginia Water Permits Survive Court Challenge

Permitting

-- WHYY - Rachel McDevitt: Acting DEP Secretary Pitches Permit Reform During Budget Hearing

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

-- DEP Sets May 3 Hearing On Proposed NPDES Stormwater Permit For Rutter's Store Next To Old Crow Mitigation Wetland In Huntingdon County  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette/Johnstown Democrat: Mining Company, Some Landowners Pushing For New Coal Mine Near Johnstown, Cambria County

-- DEP Took Action On 746 Permits, 96% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadline; Conducted 1,596 Inspections; Responded To 9 Environmental Emergencies Last Week

-- DEP Posts 55 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 1 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

Public Participation

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1  [PaEN]

-- DEP Sets May 3 Hearing On Proposed NPDES Stormwater Permit For Rutter's Store Next To Old Crow Mitigation Wetland In Huntingdon County  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette/Johnstown Democrat: Mining Company, Some Landowners Pushing For New Coal Mine Near Johnstown, Cambria County

-- DEP Posts 55 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 1 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

PUC

-- PUC Urges Consumers To Contact Utilities About Payment Of Past-Due Or High Bills As Winter Moratorium Ends March 31

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- PUC Concludes 2022 Pottstown Explosion Investigation Finding No Evidence Natural Gas Service Contributed To Deadly Event

-- WHYY: PUC: PECO Natural Gas Pipelines Did Not Cause Pottstown Home Explosion, Cause Remains Unknown 

-- AP: Probe Of Reading Chocolate Factory Explosion Centers On Natural Gas Pipeline

-- TribLive/AP: PA Factory Explosion Survivor, On Fire, Fell Into Chocolate Vat That Saved Her Life, She Smelled Natural Gas For 30 Minutes Before Explosion

-- PUC Publishes Order Denying Petition By Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers To Reconsider Regulation Of Class One Natural Gas/Oil Pipelines

-- PUC Denies Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Petition To Reconsider Regulation Of Class One Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Intense Winds Could Cause Widespread Power Outages, Downed Trees Around PA This Weekend

-- TribLive: Meteorologist: High Winds More Frequent Headache For Southwestern PA

-- PUC Offers Spring Storm Utility Safety Tips

-- Bipartisan House, Senate Members Introduce Legislation Establishing Real Community Solar Program To Help Address Home/Business Energy Spikes Caused By Volatile Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- Marcellus Drilling News/Argus Media: Wild Swings In Natural Gas Price ‘Here To Stay For Foreseeable Future’

-- Marcellus Drilling News/Argus Media: Wild Swings In Natural Gas Price ‘Here To Stay For Foreseeable Future’

-- Bloomberg: Illinois Power Plant Firm Goes Bankrupt After PJM Imposes December Freeze Storm Penalties; PJM Fines May Reach $2 Billion For Widespread Power Plant Failures

-- Utility Dive: PJM Plans Capacity Auction Delays As It Develops Market Reforms To Bolster Resource Adequacy

Radiation Protection

-- Exchange Monitor: Constellation: It Will Take Another $1.1 Billion To Decommission Three Mile Island Unit 1 Nuclear Power Plant

Recreation

-- PA Director Of Outdoor Recreation Highlights Recreation Job Opportunities; 7 Regional Stakeholder Meetings Coming Up  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: PA Looks To Improve Its Outdoor Recreation Workforce Opportunities

-- DCNR: State Park Campgrounds, Overnight Lodging Open For 2023 Trout Season

-- DCNR Names Cody Miller New Park Manager For Chapman State Park

-- March 31 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Lenape Challenge April 29, Premier Adventure Race Experience  [PaEN]

-- York Daily Record: See Hanover Trolley Trail Expansion Photos In York County

-- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County, Susquehanna Greenway Partnership Announce Trail System Wayfinding Survey

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Playgrounds More Than Recreation

Recycling/Waste

-- UnionProgress.com: Litter League Games A Real Pick-Me-Up For Volunteers, Neighborhoods In Pittsburgh 

-- UnionProgress.com: PA Resources Council’s Spring Zero Waste Events Aid Recycling, Composting

-- Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week April 15-23, Volunteers Needed!

-- Courier Times: County Court Orders Bucks County Farm To Stop Running ‘Solid Waste Facility’

-- Delco Times: Covanta To Hold Public Meeting To Outline Plans To Cut Air Emissions At Waste-To-Energy Facility

-- York Dispatch: Residents Critical Of ‘PR Stunt’ For Public Meeting Amid Anger Over Modern Landfill Water Pollution

Renewable Energy

-- Bipartisan House, Senate Members Introduce Legislation Establishing Real Community Solar Program To Help Address Home/Business Energy Spikes Caused By Volatile Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Putting Equity In Energy: Solar United Neighbors, Partners Celebrate Solar Program For Low-Income Homeowners In Allegheny County

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: What Happens At The End Of The Useful Life Of A Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facility?  PA Should Have Been Talking About The Same Thing With Oil/Gas Wells To Prevent Thousands Of Abandoned Wells

-- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI]

-- Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air  [PaEN]

-- 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: A Conservative Argument For Clean Energy -- Follow The Market, Fossil Fuels Are No Bargain - By Dave Jenkins,  Conservatives For Responsible Stewardship    [PaEN]

-- BreatheProject.org: Pittsburgh Youth Climate Action Summit April 1

-- MCall Guest Essay: Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change - They Should Be

-- Penn State Hosts May 22-23 Climate Solutions Symposium  [PaEN]

-- AP: U.S. Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal In 2022

Schuylkill River

-- Inquirer: These Philly High School Kids Are Trying To Clean The Schuylkill River - With Mussels 

Storage Tanks

-- DEP Blog: What You Should Know About Storage Tanks At Farms And Residential Properties

Stormwater

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- DEP Sets May 3 Hearing On Proposed NPDES Stormwater Permit For Rutter's Store Next To Old Crow Mitigation Wetland In Huntingdon County  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: State Appeals Court Overturns Damages Won By Homeowners In Lawsuit Against City Over Stormwater Flooding

Susquehanna River

-- The Susquehanna Greenway: A Corridor for Wildlife -  By Susquehanna Greenway Partnership   [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Log Rafts And Raftsmen Once Ruled The Susquehanna River

-- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County, Susquehanna Greenway Partnership Announce Trail System Wayfinding Survey

-- Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week April 15-23, Volunteers Needed!

Wastewater Facilities

-- Post-Gazette: PA Will Resume Program To Help Low-Income Households Pay Their Drinking Water, Wastewater Bills

Watershed Protection

-- DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21 [PaEN]

-- Agriculture Announces Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Grants Now Becoming Available Thru County Conservation Districts  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Sen. Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County

-- Registration Open! 2023 Watershed Forestry Summit In Altoona   [PaEN]

-- Western PA Conservancy Hosts April 18 Webinar On Helping Elk Creek Thrive In Erie County  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: These Philly High School Kids Are Trying To Clean The Schuylkill River - With Mussels 

-- Ohio River Basin Alliance, ORSANCO Host Congressional Day On The Hill June 13 To Educate Members Of Congress On Needs Of Ohio River Basin   [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: $6 Million Game Commission/Ducks Unlimited Project Will Revive 1,600 Acres Of PA Wetlands

-- LebTown: Lebanon County Conservation District Seeks Volunteers To Help Plant 800+ Trees In Millcreek Twp. April 11-13

-- TribLive: Tree Planting Planned In Leetsdale, Allegheny County April 29, Volunteers Needed

-- TribLive: Fox Chapel To Host Planting Of 1,000 Tree Seedlings For Arbor Day Weekend In Allegheny County

-- Bradford Era:  Reminder: Fish & Boat Commission Accepting Applications For Sinnemahoning Creek Watershed Restoration Thru April 28

-- Utilizing Rainwater And Gravity: A Guide To Rain Gardens

-- NextPittsburgh: DEP Awards $3.7 Million To Support 22 Environmental Restoration Projects In Southwestern PA  [Jan. 2023 Awards]

-- Trenton Daily: Delaware River Alliance For Watershed Education Seeks Summer Fellowship Applicants

-- Observer-Reporter: Sinkhole From Abandoned Coal Mine Swallowing Pike Run In Daisytown, Washington County

-- Williamsport Sun: Climate Change Alters The Human-Raptor Relationship - By Cornell Ornithology Lab

-- Delaware RiverKeeper March 31 RiverWatch Video Report

-- TribLive: Linn Run Trout Study Results To Be Unveiled In Westmoreland County

-- The Express: Clinton County Conservation District, Volunteers To Stock Kettle Creek With Trout

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Wildlife

-- Fish & Boat Commission: Opening Day Of Trout Season Is April 1

-- DCNR: State Park Campgrounds, Overnight Lodging Open For 2023 Trout Season

-- Game Commission Delivers Annual Report To Legislature 

-- Fish & Boat Commission Presents Annual Report To Legislature

-- Trail Mix Blog: Rachel Carson, A Pennsylvanian Sparked An Awakening - By Kent Jackson  [PaEN]

-- Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons Lay First Egg, Watch Live

-- PA Society For Ornithology Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation June 9-19, Sign Up Now!  [PaEN]

-- Game Commission Releases 2022-23 Deer Harvest Estimates

-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: PA’s Deer Harvest Increased In 2022-23 Season, Trend Remains Stable

-- Inquirer: These Philly High School Kids Are Trying To Clean The Schuylkill River - With Mussels 

-- Western PA Conservancy Hosts April 18 Webinar On Helping Elk Creek Thrive In Erie County  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: $6 Million Game Commission/Ducks Unlimited Project Will Revive 1,600 Acres Of PA Wetlands

-- The Susquehanna Greenway: A Corridor for Wildlife -  By Susquehanna Greenway Partnership   [PaEN]

-- Bradford Era:  Reminder: Fish & Boat Commission Accepting Applications For Sinnemahoning Creek Watershed Restoration Thru April 28

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Newsletter Highlights Beavers At Jennings Environmental Center, Aultmans Watershed Trash Cleanup April 29  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Bat Boxes Project Wins Pine-Richland Student’s Girl Scout Gold Award

-- TribLive: Linn Run Trout Study Results To Be Unveiled In Westmoreland County

-- TribLive: First Pittsburgh Hays Bald Eagle Egg Hatched Sunday Afternoon

-- TribLive: 2nd Bald Eagle Egg Hatches In Pittsburgh Nest, Watch Online

-- NorthcentralPA.com: Tiadaghton Audubon Society Plans Morning Bird Walks Throughout April, May

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Where Has The Whip-Poor-Will Gotten To?

-- StateImpactPA: PA Considers Boosting Its Biodiversity And Cuteness With Reintroduction Of The American Marten

-- Penn State Extension: Woods And Wildlife News And Notes Newsletter

-- Manada Conservancy Hosts April 13 Workshop On Converting Traditional Landscapes Into A Pollinator Paradise In Dauphin County  [PaEN]

-- Save The Date!  Wildlife For Everyone Foundation's Spring Celebration May 19, State College

West Nile/Zika Virus

-- Courier Times: PA Won’t Tell You If Dangerous Tick-Borne Disease Is In Your Neighborhood

-- Republican Herald: Mosquitoes, Ticks Highlighted In Presentation At Sweet Arrow Lake County Park

-- Pike County Tick Borne Diseases Task Force Offers Spring Tick Protection Tips

--TribLive: CDC Report: Tick-Borne Illness Babesiosis In Rise In Northeast US 

Opportunities

-- Help Wanted: Pike Conservation District Seeking Candidates For Executive Director

-- Help Wanted: Berks Nature Land Stewardship Specialist; Watershed Education Fellowship  [PaEN]

-- Trenton Daily: Delaware River Alliance For Watershed Education Seeks Summer Fellowship Applicants

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[Posted: April 2, 2023]

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