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[Posted: April 2, 2023] PA Environment Digest
Senate/House ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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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