The Feds - New Administration

Articles and NewsClips about federal actions impacting Pennsylvania--

-- Bloomberg: US EPA Nominee Has Embraced Carbon Capture Injection Well Storage Technology

-- Inside Climate News: Environmental Activists Alarmed By Republican Admininstration’s Pikcs To Run EPA, DOE, Interior

-- Financial Times: How Oil ‘Wildcatters’ Ended Up In Charge Of Republican Administration’s Energy Policy

-- PA Capital-Star: ‘Drill, Drill, Drill:’ New Federal Energy Council Signals Incoming Republican Administration To Prioritize Energy Production 

-- National Review: Northeast Pennsylvania Needs Natural Gas - New Congress, New Federal Administration Should Overturn Delaware River Basin Commission Moratorium On Shale Gas Fracking - By Jason Adams  [PDF of Article]

-- WSJ: Republican Oil & Gas Donors Don’t Really Want To ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’  [PDF of Article]

-- ABC27/AP: Republican Administration Gave Interior Nominee One Directive For US Land - ‘Drill’

-- The Energy Age Blog: Oil Executive Chris Wright Tapped As US Energy Secretary Once Drank Fracking Fluid On Camera To Demonstrate It Wasn’t Dangerous

-- The Economist: New Republican Administration’s Natural Gas War Is About To Begin  [PDF of Article]

-- Politico: Republican Administration Plans To Resuscitate Dead Keystone XL Oil Pipeline

-- Utility Dive: Republican Administration Has Threatened Energy Efficiency, Weatherization Programs; What Happens Now?

-- Reuters: Gauging The Likely Republican Effect On US Energy, Power Sectors  [PDF of Article]

-- PennLive: PA Farm Industry Braces For Raids, Deportations Under Republican Administration

Other Fed NewsClips

-- EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Exxon And Hilcorp Shale Gas Drillers Settle Environmental Violations With Millions In Fines And Promised Air Quality Benefits

-- The Allegheny Front: Fairmont, WV Residents Press Agencies On Explosion, Fire At Oil & Gas Waste Processing Site Last Year Owned By PA Company

-- DEP Awards $2.55 Million In Federal Funding To Support 5 Local Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects   [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Major DEP Abandoned Mine Subsidence Report Project Set For Belle Vernon Area Impacting 230 Properties In Westmoreland County

-- PA Emergency Management Agency, Delaware River Basin Commission: Nov. 26 Hazard Mitigation Grant Funding Webinar, 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

-- Appalachian Voices: Statement On Request For $98 Billion In Federal Disaster Funding

-- EPA Launches New Initiative To Tackle PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Identify Emerging Contaminants In Water

-- EPA Accepting Comments On New Draft Framework To Advance Consideration of Cumulative Impacts On Communities  [PaEN]

-- DEP: Some Guidance Now Available To Apply For $396 Million In RISE PA Industrial Decarbonization Grants; Application Period Opens Early In 2025  [PaEN]  

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Will Fight Preliminary FERC Permit Granted For Proposed Susquehanna River Pump Storage Hydroelectric Project In York County  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline - Rachel McDevitt: FERC Gives Initial Approval To Contested Hydroelectric Pump Storage Project On Susquehanna River [PDF of article]

-- York Daily Record: Cuffs Run Gets Preliminary Permit For Massive Pump Storage Hydroelectric Project On Susquehanna River

-- York Dispatch: Susquehanna River Pump Storage Hydroelectric Project Gets Initial Federal Permit In York County

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Eaton Rolls Out New Energy Storage Battery System

-- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. 20 Webinar On Clean School Buses Funding For Pennsylvania, Noon to 1:00 p.m.

-- The Allegheny Front: New ClearWater Conservancy Conservation Education Center In Centre County Lands Federal, State Funding

-- PUC Commissioner Kathryn Zerfuss Appointed To EPA’s Farm, Ranch And Rural Communities Advisory Committee

-- EPA Announces National Strategy To Prevent Plastic Pollution

-- Lancaster Farming: What To Know About Coming Herbicide Label Changes

-- Warren Times: US Forest Service Notes Danger Of Dead ‘Zombie’ Trees After Leaf Fall

-- Federal Highway Administration, Fish & Wildlife Service Host Dec. 4 Online Pollinator Conservation And Transportation Symposium  [PaEN]

[Posted: November 24, 2024]


11/25/2024

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