Articles and NewsClips about federal actions impacting Pennsylvania--

-- PA Receives $28.6 Million In Federal Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) Program Funding; Local AML/AMD Project Funding Application Period Open [PaEN]

-- EPA, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Award $22.4 Million To Support Innovative Nutrient & Sediment Reduction Projects In Chesapeake Bay Watershed; 8 Projects To Benefit PA  [PaEN]

-- Inside Climate News: The Chesapeake Bay Program Flunked Its 2025 Cleanup Goals, What Happens Next?

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal Forum: For The Chesapeake Bay, Federal Leadership Is Sorely Needed For 2025 And Beyond - By Ann Mills & Nancy Stoner

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster Clean Water Partners To Benefit From $1.5 Million In EPA/NFWF Grants

-- Capital RC&D To Hold July 30 Pasture Walk On Grazing Practices And New Temporary Fencing Program At The Voight Family Farms In Lebanon County  [PaEN] 

-- US Dept. Of Energy Awards Funding For Projects Repurposing Existing Energy Facilities, Including 4 In PA Promoting Reuse Of Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Mine Pools, Abandoned Mine Lands  [PaEN]

-- DEP Soliciting Bids For Plugging 20 Conventional, Abandoned Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells Owned By Pennzoil In The Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN]

-- House Passes Bill To Update PA Energy Development Authority To Better Leverage Available Federal Clean Energy Funding  [PaEN]  

-- PA Capital-Star: PA House Passes Bill To Allow State To Use Federal Funds For Clean Energy Development

-- Evangelical Environmental Network Action: Celebrates PA House Passage Of Legislation To Strengthen PA Energy Development Authority

-- WPost: Indiana County Coal Workers Feel Abandoned As Coal Plants Close In Pennsylvania; How Biden’s Promise To Coal Country Became A Warning For Democrats 

-- PPL Utilities, Kentucky Subsidiaries Collaborate With US DOE On Nuclear Power Plant Feasibility Study On Coal Power Plant Site

-- TribLive/AP: US Miners’ Union Head: Republican Effort To Block Silica Dust Rule ‘Attack’ On Workers

-- PA Capital-Star: US House Republicans Vote To Defund Enforcement Of Silica Dust Rule Protecting Miners

-- Utility Dive: Talen-Amazon Data Center Deal In PA Would Shift $140 Million In Transmission Costs To Utility Customers, AEP, Exelon Challenge Says

-- Utility Dive: Talen Energy Defends Amazon Interconnection Agreement At Nuclear Plant

-- The Allegheny Front - Julie Grant: 5 Takeaways From NTSB Investigation Of Norfolk Southern Train Derailment 

-- Post-Gazette: Decision Day Looms To Accept Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Settlement 

-- Post-Gazette: Group Rebuts EPA’s Claims About Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Response, Calls For ‘Thorough’ Investigation

-- Post-Gazette: NTSB: Failures And Miscommunication Plagued Response To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- Beaver County Times: NTSB Final Report: Norfolk Southern’s Actions Were ‘Unconscionable’

-- AP: NTSB Derailment Investigation Renews Concerns About Detectors, Tank Cars And Norfolk Southern

-- AP: NTSB Chair Says Norfolk Southern Interfered With Train Derailment Probe After Botching Vent And Burn Call

-- PA Capital-Star: NTSB: Norfolk Southern Burn Of Toxic Chemicals In Train Derailment Unnecessary

-- WESA/AP: NTSB: Norfolk Southern Botched Decision To Blow Open Vinyl Chloride Cars At Train Derailment

-- TribLive/AP: A Trackside Sensor Didn’t Catch Burning Rail Bearing Suspected In Norfolk Southern Train Derailment In Time, NTSB Says

-- Post-Gazette: NTSB Hosts Community Forum On Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- AP: Railroads Must Provide Details Of Hazardous Cargo Immediately After A Derailment Under New Rule

-- The Guardian: US Supreme Court Puts Hold On EPA Attempt To Reduce Pollution That Drifts Across States

-- NPR: US Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor’ Power Plant, Industrial  Air Pollution Reduction Plan

-- NRDC Blog: The US Supreme Court Ends Chevron Deference For Federal Agencies - What Now? 

-- PennFuture: Statement On US Supreme Court Overturning Chevron Doctrine

-- The Energy Age Blog: US Supreme Court Guts Federal Environmental Protections

-- WPost: What The US Supreme Court Chevron Decision Means For Environmental Rules

-- AP: US Supreme Court Weakens Federal Regulators, Overturning Decades-Old Chevron Decision

-- AP: US Supreme Court Strips SEC Of Critical In-House Proceedings Enforcement Tool, Requiring Instead The Right To A Jury Trial In Federal Court; Implications For Other Federal Agencies

-- Nearly $25 Million Federal Grant Awarded To Sharpsburg To Reconnect Town To Its Riverfront In Allegheny County  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Blighted Sharpsburg Brownfield Gets $25 Million Bump In Allegheny Shores Transformation

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Tiny Sharpsburg Gets $25 Million Federal Grant To Provide Access To A Riverfront Brownfield Redevelopment

-- Post-Gazette: Sharpsburg To Receive $25 Million Federal Grant To Connect To Its Riverfront

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: New Sharpsburg Riverside Development Will Be A Model For The Region 

-- US Senators Casey, Fetterman Announce $15 Million For Codorus Greenway Project In York  [PaEN]

-- WPSU Video: PA’s State Parks & Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

-- Altoona Mirror: Smokey Bear Celebrates 80 Years On Aug. 9 

[Posted: June 30, 2024]

7/1/2024