Articles and NewsClips about federal actions impacting Pennsylvania--

-- NRCS-Pennsylvania Announces Sign-Up For Conservation Easement Programs  [PaEN]

-- USDA NRCS-PA: Farm Conservation Funding Opportunities For FY 2025

-- US Forest Service Watershed Forestry Team Hosts Webinar On Riparian Forest Buffer Success And Innovation Begins Oct. 10  [PaEN]

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Receives Grant To Rehab De Sale Passive Mine Drainage Treatment System;  Participates In WV Mine Drainage Conference; Learn More About Datashed.org  [PaEN]

-- EPA Proposes To Expanding Public Access To Information On More Than 100 PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ To Support Pollution Prevention Efforts

-- The Guardian: EPA PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Drinking Water Standard Under Attack From Drinking Water Utilities

-- WTAE: National Weather Service Lowers Height Of Flood Stage Level On Ohio River At Pittsburgh To Provide Earlier Warning Of Flooding

-- Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Now Accepting Applications For EPA Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grants In EPA Region 3  [PaEN]

-- Mon Valley Clean Air Fund Sets 3 Outreach Sessions Starting Oct. 9 In Allegheny County Communities Affected By US Steel Clairton Coke [Coal] Plant Fire [PaEN] 

-- EPA Announces Availability Of $30 Million To Help Small, Rural Communities Protect Drinking Water, Local Waterways

-- Federal Pipeline Safety Agency Increases Grants To State With Pipeline, Underground Gas Safety Programs [PA PUC Receive $2.6 Million In Base Grant In 2023]

-- AP: Court Appeal Delays $600 Million Class Action Settlement Payments In Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- Scientific American: Power-Thirsty AI Turns To Mothballed Nuclear Power Plants, Is That Safe? [TMI Restart]

-- Nature: Nuclear Power For AI - What It Will Take To Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Safely

-- MCall: Talks Could Bring Amazon Data Center To Lehigh Valley At Site Of Electric Plant And Fmr Portland Generating Station

-- US Energy Information Administration: Data Center Owners Turn To Nuclear As Potential Electricity Source

-- No False Solutions PA Coalition: 2nd Carbon Dioxide Leak Reported At ADM Carbon Capture Plant In Illinois, Delay In Notifying Public  Should Give PA Pause On Carbon Capture Storage  [PaEN]

-- Inside Climate News: Carbon Capture Monitoring Well Leaking In Illinois; Most Residents Found Out When The World Did, Failed To Follow Emergency Procedures

-- Washington Post: US Supreme Court Refuses To Block EPA Limits On Oil & Gas Methane, Power Plant Mercury Pollution

-- The Guardian/ProPublica: EPA Will Withdraw Approval Of Chevron Plastic-Based Fuels Likely To Cause Cancer

-- StateCollege.com: Adam Smith, US Fish & Wildlife Service Biologist, Named Outstanding Coldwater Conservationist Professional By PA Council Of Trout Unlimited

[Posted: October 6, 2024]

10/7/2024