The Feds

Articles and NewsClips about federal actions impacting Pennsylvania--

-- Federal Office Of Surface Mining Recognizes PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program With Appalachian States Regional Abandoned Mine Reclamation Award  [PaEN]

-- Western PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation: Penn State, Critical Green Concepts Seeking Acid Mine Drainage Samples To Evaluate For Rare Earth, Critical Mineral Production Potential  [PaEN]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: DEP Working To Repair Abandoned Mine Opening In Toby Creek, Luzerne County

-- WNEP: DEP Working To Fill Abandoned Mine Openings On Toby Creek

-- WNEP: DEP Monitoring Abandoned Mine Opening On Toby Creek, Luzerne County 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: New Abandoned Mine Subsidence Opening Causes Water Loss In Toby Creek Months After First Problems 

-- Citizens Voice: DEP Confirms Water Loss In Toby Creek Near Site Of April Abandoned Mine Subsidence

--  Baltimore Sun: EPA: Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Going In ‘Right Direction,’ Thanks Partly To Pennsylvania

-- Capital RC&D Hosts Oct. 18 Winter Feeding Pasture Walk In Newville, Cumberland County  [PaEN]

-- Tribune-Democrat: Safety Focus Of Conemaugh River Project To Clean Out River Channel In Johnstown’s West End

-- Dept. Of Labor & Industry: Temporary Disaster Unemployment Assistance Available For Tropical Storm Debby In Lycoming, Potter, Tioga, Union Counties

-- PA AG One Newsletter: USDA Encourages Ag Producers, Small Businesses, Residents To Prepare For Hurricane Helene  [PaEN]

-- EPA Now Accepting Applications For $965 Million To Fund Clean School Buses

-- US DOE: China Is Biggest Destination For US LNG Gas Exports; PA Shale Gas Industry Says We Have ‘Duty’ To Export Gas To China, Our Military, Economic Competitor  [PaEN]

-- The Guardian: Pennsylvania, 6 Other States Biggest Winners In Landmark Federal Clean Energy Funding

-- Beaver County Times Guest Essay: RiverWise Solar Energy Initiatives Have Potential To Save Communities, Schools, Municipalities $74 Million Generate 24.6 MW - By Daniel Rossi-Keen,  RiverWise

-- Observer-Reporter: Federal Grant To Power Up Battery Production At Weirton’s Form Energy

-- PublicNewsService.org: York, PA Hydropower Turbine Manufacturer Uses Federal Funding To Boost Jobs

-- EPA/AmeriCorps Launch Nationwide Environmental Justice Climate Corps

-- EPA Issues Consent Order To Max Environmental Technologies For Clean Water Act Violations At Yukon, Westmoreland County Facility; Virtual Listening Session Set For Oct. 9  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Stop Polluting Sewickley Creek, EPA Tells Max Environmental Yukon Landfill Operator

-- TribLive/AP: Federal Judge: Fluoride In Drinking Water Poses Enough Risk To Merit New EPA Action

-- The Allegheny Front: Should The Federal Govt. Support A Massive Recycling Plant In Erie That Will Make Plastics For Steelmaking?

-- AP: EPA Data Make It Hard To Know The Extent Of Contamination From Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- EPA Selects Landforce, PowerCorpsPHL For $13.9 Million Grant For Wood Reuse Workforce Development At Sites In Pittsburgh, Philadelphia  [PaEN]

-- Audubon Society Receives $274,000 Grant For Conservation Project In Delaware Watershed

Oil & Gas - National Debate

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Who’s Elected President Doesn’t Matter Much To The Oil/Gas Industry; Voting Based On Support, Embrace Of Petroleum Industry Is A ‘Poor’ Strategy - By Matt Silverman, Petroleum History Institute, Oil City, PA

-- Wall Street Journal Guest Essay: Kamala Harris’ Empty Promise On Fracking -- By Arthur Stewart, Cameron Energy [Spokesperson For PA Conventional Oil & Gas Industry That Continues To Routinely Abandon Wells]

-- Post-Gazette: Fetterman Says Fracking Won’t Be Deciding Issue In PA Presidential Race

-- PublicSource.org: Contenders In PA US Senate Race Shy From Risky Climate, Energy Stances While Courting Voters

Three Mile Island Restart

-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Fear, Hope Among Mixed Reactions As Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Plans To Restart

-- Energy Connects/Bloomberg: Microsoft To Pay Hefty Price For Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant ‘Clean’ Power

-- Politico: AI Revives ‘Zombie’ Nuclear Power Plants [Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart]

-- Bloomberg: Constellation CEO Says US Needs To Build Data Centers Near Power Plants, Without Transmission Line Issues  [Constellation Did Three Mile Island Deal With Microsoft]

-- PennLive Letter: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Should Not Reopen Until We Find A Solution For Nuclear Waste - By Herb Field [former editorial writer with Patriot-News]

-- Reuters: US Nuclear Plants Won’t Power Up Big Tech’s AI Ambitions Right Away [TMI Restart, Talen Susquehanna Station]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Three Mile Island Reactor Could Help Power Microsoft’s Pittsburgh Area AI Developments

[Posted: September 29, 2024]


9/30/2024

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