Articles and NewsClips about federal actions impacting Pennsylvania--
Work For PA!
-- Gov. Shapiro Signs Executive Order To Fill Critical Public Service Vacancies In PA By Recruiting Talented, Experienced Federal Employees, Streamlining Hiring Process
-- WESA: PA Says Hundreds Of Fired Federal Workers Have Applied For State Jobs
-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Receives Over 80 Applications In First Week Of Job Portal Aimed At Laid-Off Federal Workers
-- TribLive: Employees Cut By Feds Could Get PA, Allegheny County Jobs
-- PA Capital-Star: Shapiro Signs Executive Order Aimed At Attracting Federal Employees
Environmental Health
-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation: Being Outside In Nature Can Relieve Stress, Improve Mood, Lowers Your Blood Pressure
-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Nature As A Healer
-- WESA: Stressed By Current Events? Instead Of Unplugging, A Pittsburgh Psychology Researcher Says-- Lean In
EPA Deregulation For Industry
-- EPA Launches Biggest Deregulation Action For Industry In US History, 'Driving A Dagger Straight Into The Heart Of The Climate Change Religion,’ Unleashing The American Energy Industry [PaEN]
-- EPA Pulls Back Regulations Setting Methane Emission Limits, Regulating Wastewater From Oil & Gas Operations, Risk Management Rule At Petrochemical Plants [PaEN]
-- Clean Air Council: EPA To Reverse Life-Saving Finding Carbon Pollution Is Endangering Public Health By Driving Climate Change [PaEN]
-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: EPA Deregulation Bombshell A Blow To The Chesapeake Bay [PaEN]
-- Evangelical Environmental Network: EPA Announces Plan To Put Pollution Before Our Health [PaEN]
NewsClips
-- WHYY- Susan Phillips: Former Regulators Say EPA’s Planned Rollbacks Would Reverse 50 Years Of Environmental Progress
-- Post-Gazette Editorial: As Washington Unwinds Its Commitments, State And Local Governments Will Have To Step Up
-- Republican Herald Editorial: One-Sided Discussions On Issues Don’t Promote True Progress, EPA Visit Was Not A 'Roundtable Discussion,' But A 'Rally' For Natural Gas In Delaware River Basin [PaEN]
-- Bloomberg Opinion Editor: EPA Decided Protecting The Environment Is Just Too Much
-- AP: EPA Head Says He’ll Roll Back Dozens Of Environmental Regulations, Including Rules On Climate Change
-- AP: A Breakdown Of Major EPA Deregulatory Moves Around Water, Air, Climate
-- E&E News/Politico: EPA Launches Assault On Environmental Regulations
-- Environmental Defense Fund: EPA’s Deregulation Plan Will Increase Pollution In Daily Lives
-- NYT: EPA Declares ‘Greatest Day Of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’
-- The Guardian: EPA To Reconsider Whether Greenhouse Gases Cause Harm Amid Climate Rollbacks
-- Bloomberg: President Mounts Sweeping Attack On Pollution, Climate Rules
-- The Guardian: President’s Environmental Rule-Shredding Will Put Lives At Risk, Ex-EPA Democrat, Republican Heads Say
-- Reuters: EPA Moves To Unwind Over Two Dozen US Air, Water Regulations
-- Utility Dive: EPA Aims To Roll Back Power Sector Regulations In Broad Deregulatory Push
-- Bloomberg: US Considers Emergency Powers To Restart Closed Coal Power Plants
-- Erie Times/Reuters: EPA To Roll Back Regulations On Power Plant Emissions, Tailpipe Pollution
-- Utility Dive: EPA Aims To Roll Back Power Sector Regulations In Broad Deregulatory Push
-- Reuters: EPA Plans To Give Dirty US Coal-Fired Power Plants A Reprieve On Soot
New Federal Administration
-- Republican Herald Editorial: One-Sided Discussions On Issues Don’t Promote True Progress, EPA Visit Was Not A 'Roundtable Discussion,' But A 'Rally' For Natural Gas In Delaware River Basin [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette Editorial: As Washington Unwinds Its Commitments, State And Local Governments Will Have To Step Up
-- Financial Times: US DOE Secretary Says US Shale Can ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ At Low Oil, Gas Prices; Industry Says No
-- Grist: Federal Pipeline Safety Agency Withdraws Proposed Rules To Prevent Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Releases In Response To President’s Executive Order
-- EPA Withdraws Update Of Regulations On Testing Chemicals Under The Toxic Substances Control Act
-- Bloomberg: US Considers Emergency Powers To Restart Closed Coal Power Plants
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: CNX Resources [Again] Pauses Involvement In Remaining Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Projects Amid Federal Policy Uncertainty
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Future Of National Energy Technology Lab In Pittsburgh’s Backyard In Doubt
-- Reuters: US DOE Secretary Says Global Warming A Side Effect Of Modern Economy; Vows to End Climate Policies To Promote Fossil Fuels At Oil/Gas Industry Conference
-- NYT: US Energy Secretary Pledges To Reverse Focus On Climate Change At Oil/Gas Conference, Climate Change A ‘Side Effect’ Of Building The Modern World
-- Reuters: US Supreme Court Rejects Republican State Efforts To Block Democratic State Lawsuits Against Major Oil Companies For Deceiving The Public About The Role Of Fossil Fuels In Climate Change
-- The Guardian: Environmental Groups Sound New Alarm As Fossil Fuel Lobby Pushes For Immunity From Climate Damage Lawsuits
-- Wall Street Journal Editorial: ‘This North American Trade War Is The Dumbest In History, And We Were Being Kind’ [PDF of Article]
Federal Funding Cuts, Freeze
-- Environmental Council Of The States, Other State Organizations Write Congress About The Importance Of Federal Funding To State Agencies Implementing Federal Programs [PaEN]
-- PA Council Of Trout Unlimited: Millions In Trout Unlimited Watershed Projects Improve The Environment, Local Economies Across The US; Federal Funding Freeze, Office Closures, Staff Cuts 'Sacrificing Our National Conservation Legacy' [PaEN]
-- Pocono Record - Brian Whipkey: Trout Unlimited Officials Worry Over Potential Impacts From Reduced Federal Funding In PA [PDF of Article]
-- Marcellus Drilling News: Anti-Drilling Trout Unlimited Crying Over $180 Million In Frozen Federal Funds [PDF of Article]
-- WESA: PA Says Hundreds Of Fired Federal Workers Have Applied For State Jobs
-- National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Responds To Termination Of Critical USDA Local Farm To School, Child Care Food Purchase Program [PaEN]
-- Beaver Times: USDA To Cut $36.7 Million From Local Food Purchase Assistance In PA
-- National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: USDA Staffing Cuts Hurt Farmers And Rural Communities; Staffing Chaos Has Reigned
-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Poll - Chesapeake Bay Watershed Cleanup Faces Unprecedented Federal Upheaval; Restoring The Bay Is Now MORE Of A Priority [PaEN]
-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: What’s the State Of Bay Restoration 50 Days Into the New Administration?
-- The Hill: Farmers Sue USDA Over President’s Freeze Of Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency Funding [They Already Made Purchases]
-- Washington Times: New EPA Chief Sets Out To Slash The Agency’s Budget By 65%: ‘We Don’t Want The Extra Money And We Don’t Need It’
-- MCall Guest Essay: PA Must Protect Citizen’s Health By Removing Lead Water Pipes - By Food & Water Watch
-- Inquirer: EPA Pulls Back $700,000 Grant To Overbrook Environmental Education Center As Part Of Federal Cuts
-- PennLive: Federal Cuts Force Shutdown Of Campgrounds, Beaches, Recreation Areas At Popular Raystown Lake (Huntingdon County), Tioga-Hammond, Cowanesque Lakes (Tioga County) [Local Recreation Economy To Take A Hit]
-- WITF/WPSU: Raystown Lake Federal Recreation Area Cancels Campground Reservations Amid Federal Job Cuts, Hiring Freeze
-- Rails To Trails Conservancy: US DOT Has Frozen Trails, Biking Improvements Funding; Act Now To Make Decision Makers Know How Important This Funding Is
-- MCall Guest Essay: Musk’s Reckless Business Model Imperials Our National Parks - By John Plonski
-- The Hill: President Eyes 30% Payroll Reduction At National Park Service
-- Frederick News-Post: FEMA Cancels In-Person, Most Virtual National Fire Academy Training For First Responders In Emmitsburg, MD, Disrupting Training
-- York Daily Record: DOGE Closure Of National Fire Academy In Emmitsburg, MD Alarms York County Fire Chiefs
-- EPA Cancels 400+ More Unnecessary, Wasteful Environmental Justice, DEI Grants Saving Americans $1.7 Billion
-- MCall: Lehigh Valley Transportation, Climate Projects In Limbo Due To Federal Funding Uncertainty
-- NYT: EPA Plans To Close All Environmental Justice Offices
-- EPA Terminates $20 Billion In National Clean Investment Fund And Clean Communities Investment Accelerator Grants [National Clean Fund + Clean Communities Hubs]
-- The Guardian: Federal Judge Demands ‘Some Kind Of Evidence’ Of Wrongdoing From EPA To Halt Climate Grants; Issues Restraining Order Pending New Filings
-- Utility Dive: Federal Inflation Reduction Act Funding Freeze Has Put ‘Many’ Clean Energy Projects On Pause
-- WNEP: NOAA/Weather Service To Cut More Than 1,000 Jobs On Top Of Firing Nearly All New Employees Last Month
-- Financial Times: Insurers Warn That US Weather Agency Mass Firings Will Hit Climate Risk Data
-- WPost: Federal Judge Orders Federal Agencies To Offer Jobs Back To Fired Probationary Workers In Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury, Veterans Affairs
-- AP: 2 Federal Judges In Mass Firings Cases Order President’s Administration To Rehire Probationary Workers For Now
Federal Buildings
-- York Dispatch: DOGE Lists York County USGS Water Science Center Among Lease Cancellations
-- AP: Hundreds Of Federal Offices Could Begin Closing This Summer At DOGE’s Behest, Internal Records Show
[Posted: March 16, 2025]
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