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-- Warren Times Guest Essay: Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Still Pose A Threat - By Amanda Veazey, Geologist, CSR Services, LLC, Crawford County

-- WESA/WPSU: Federal Funding Targets PA’s Abandoned Coal Mines, Economic Development

-- PA Interfaith Power & Light Volunteers Distributed Over 16,000 Trees In Pennsylvania; Fall Tree Planting Program Being Planned [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Chalfant Run Remediation Set As Transformation Of Former Churchill Country Club Continues

-- Warren Times - Josh Cotton: Volunteers, Western PA Conservancy Work To Stabilize Brokenstraw Creek Streambank

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Conodoguinet Creek In Cumberland County Focus Of New Citizen Science Water Quality Project

-- Circle Of Blue - Kyle Bagenstose: Billions Over Budget, Questions Swirl Over Philly’s ‘Green Fix’ For Sewers

-- Master Watershed Stewards, Erie Water Works, Ernst Conservation Seeds, Volunteers Team Up To Plant Native Meadow In Erie [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Supreme Court Will Consider Benefits Vs. Higher Costs In Private Ownership Of Water Utilities

-- WHYY: 30+ PA Schools Detected High Levels Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Their Drinking Water

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Push To Save Native Trout In PA Hampered By Stream Study Backlog

-- IRRC Approves Final Revised PUC Regulations Strengthening Rules For Intrastate Hazardous Liquids Pipelines; Gas Pipelines Fined Over $71 Million, Have Worst Compliance Record Of Any Industry, Including Criminal Charges [PaEN]

-- PUC To Hold July 15 Prehearing Conference On Future Of Venango Water Company, Related Companies As Follow-Up To Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill In Venango County [PaEN]

-- PUC: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Drops $100 Million From Last Year’s Record To $179.6 Million; Puts Hole In State, Local Budgets [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees Bring In $180 Million For 2023 On Lower Gas Price, Less Drilling

-- Observer-Reporter: Shale Gas Impact Fee Funds Plummet Due To Low Natural Gas Prices

-- The Energy Age Blog: Act 13 Shale Gas Impact Fee Drops $100 Million From Last Year’s Record, Even Though Gas Production Increased In 2023

-- TribLive: Natural Gas Well Impact Fee Allocations Drop; But ‘Every Little Bit Helps’

-- Marcellus Shale Coalition: Shale Gas Impact Fee Returns $180 Million [$100 Million Less Than Last Year]; Natural Gas Prices Drop $1.8 Billion In 2023, [Down From International Price Spikes Of 2022]

-- TribLive: North Huntingdon Twp Could Get Nearly $7,000 For Gas Rights Under Township Land In Westmoreland County

-- Observer-Reporter: Cecil Township Puts Off Hearing On Shale Gas Drilling Ordinance In Washington County

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: CNX Plan To Turn Mine Methane Gas Into Jet Fuel A ‘Win-Win’ Or Carbon Accounting ‘Gimmick’?

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Will Creating Hydrogen Hubs In PA Get Us Away From Fossil Fuels? But How To Do It, And Whether It’s Possible Are Open Questions

-- CNHInews: Advocates Urge True Clean Energy Approach For Hydrogen, Others Pine For PA’s Natural Gas

-- Utility Dive: NERC 2023 Report - Aging Coal Power Plants Are Increasingly Unreliable Due To Cycling Increases And Deferred Maintenance

-- Tribune-Democrat: PA’s Mine-Scarred Land Presents Challenges For Solar Development Despite Financial Incentives

-- Tribune-Democrat: Sites Other Than Farmland More Feasible For Solar

-- Tribune-Democrat/CNHInews: Solar Energy Ordinances, Regulations Vary Across Pennsylvania

-- Tribune-Democrat: Health Agencies Encourage Solar Panel Recycling

-- White House Releases Agency Climate Adaptation Plans To Build Climate Resilience

-- Reuters: Fossil Fuel Use, Emissions Hit Records In 2023, Report Says

-- Erie Times: EPA To Sample Soil Of Former Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Neighbors To Check For Toxic Pollutants

-- PA Coal Alliance: Coal Industry Supports 5,164 Jobs, $2.2 Billion Of Direct Economic Value

-- WNEP: Dozens Brought To Safety After Lackawanna Mine Tour Car Loses Power Underground

-- WHYY: Former Employees Remember Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, 5 Years Later: ‘This Is How I’m Gonna Die’

-- BeaverCountian.com: Shell Petrochemical Plant’s Sirens Caused Alarm In Beaver County; Company Took Nearly A Month To Address Middle-of-the-Night Alarms

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell Petrochemical Plant Explains Nighttime Fire Alarms At Beaver County Plant, Warns Sirens Will Sound Later This Week

-- KDKA: Shell Petrochemical Plant Holding Emergency Drill TODAY In Beaver County

-- The Hershey Company Updates Science-based Targets As It Advances Efforts To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

-- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Climate Change Is Making Heat Waves Like This Week’s More Common And Severe In PA

-- TribLive: Excessive Heat Warning Extended Thru Saturday

-- WHYY: Philly Declares First Heat Health Emergency Of The Year Amid Scorching Temps

-- Western PA Conservancy Protects 250 Acres To Safeguard Forestland, Water Quality In The French Creek Watershed, Venango County [PaEN]

-- Land Conservancy Of Adams County, Hugh & Nell Matthews Partner On 37+ Acre Conservation Easement [PaEN]

-- MCall: Lehigh County Preserved 400+ Farms, Here’s What The Future Holds

-- NextPittsburgh: Scenic Pittsburgh Opens City’s Newest Greenspace In The Hill District

-- Penn State: PA Private Forest Landowners Value Fire As Tool To Manage Woodlands

-- WHYY: Drexel Professor, Students Take A Deeper Look At Textile Waste

-- Inquirer Column: Philly Mayor’s Cleanup Efforts Are Speaking My Anti-Litter Love Language

-- Centre Daily Times: Have Fun At Summer Festivals, But Don’t Forget To Recycle

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Swarthmore’s Move To Ban Gas Leaf Blowers Gets Blowback, And Support

-- MCall: Hundreds Of Teens Gathered In The Lehigh Valley For National Youth Bike Summit

-- The Allegheny Front: Swissvale, First ‘Bird Town’ In Allegheny County Commits To Creating Bird-Friendly Community

-- LancasterOnline: Birders In Lancaster County Offer Trips And Tips

-- Republican Herald - Doyle Dietz: Young Wildlife Are Neither Lost Nor Abandoned, Merely Out On Their Own

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature: Determining The Sex Of A Bird Isn’t As Difficult As You May Think

-- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Spotted Lanternfly Nymphs Are Back, You Might Need A Shop Vac

-- LancasterOnline: Spotted Lanternflies Arrived In PA 10 Years Ago, Here’s What Experts Have Learned

-- Agriculture Secretary, Sen. Comitta Visit Chester County’s Jenkins Arboretum, Highlighting Bill To Protect Pollinators, Boost Agriculture [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension Is Celebrating Pollinator Week June 17-21! [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Freeport Post Office Adds Garden To Support Native Pollinators

-- The Allegheny Front/WHYY: Beekeeper At Delaware’s Winterthur Museum & Garden Wants You To Consider Raising Bees

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[Posted: June 23, 2024]

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