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*  [11/11/2024] Protect PT, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Appeal DEP Permits For CNX Slickville Natural Gas, Shale Gas Wastewater Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County
*  [11/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 2 to 8 - 8,800 Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; Failure To Comply With Plugging Order; Spills, Releases, Gas Leaks
*  [11/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 9
*  [11/11/2024] DEP Chesapeake Bay Healthy Waters Partnership Update Highlights Grant Opportunities; Local Projects; Progress Reducing Pollution Loads
*  [11/4/2024] Pennsylvania Declares Drought Conditions In 35 Counties -- Berks, Schuylkill Counties In Drought Warning, 33 In Drought Watch
*  [11/4/2024] DEP Discovers Wastewater Release At Bear Lake Properties Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Warren County During Routine Inspection
*  [11/4/2024] Bradford Era: 7-Part Series Details Concerns Residents Of Cyclone, McKean County Have With Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well
*  [11/4/2024] Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations: Similar Action In 2023 Resulted In $10 Million Settlement
*  [11/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 26 to Nov. 1 - No Attempt To Contain, Cleanup Injection Well Spill; Gas Storage Area Well Release; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [11/4/2024] DEP Invites Comments On New Air Pollution Permit For Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant In Washington County; Plant Suffered Major Explosion, Fire In 2022
*  [11/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 2
*  [11/4/2024] Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. 12
*  [11/4/2024] Joint Meeting Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board Nov. 12 On Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Reductions; Hydrogen Hubs
*  [11/4/2024] DEP Holds Nov. 14 Public Meeting On 5 Schuylkill County Facilities-- Natural Soil Products, Liberty Soils, Summit Anthracite (Stavola) Mining Site, Rausch Creek Mining Site, CES Landfill
*  [11/4/2024] DEP To Hold Nov. 19 Public Meeting On Blythe Recycling & Demolition Site Landfill Permit Renewal In Schuylkill County
*  [11/4/2024] DEP To Hold Dec. 10 Hearing On A State Air Quality Implementation Plan Amendment For Holcim Solutions & Products Plant In Westmoreland County
*  [11/4/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Hazardous Sites Agreement With Venango County On Cleaning Up Unlined Landfill Site
*  [11/4/2024] DEP Awards $18.9 Million To 126 Municipalities To Support Local Recycling Programs
*  [10/28/2024] Widener Law Emeritus Professor John Dernbach Receives American Bar Association Distinguished Achievement Award In Environmental Law And Policy
*  [10/28/2024] Environmental, Health Groups Submit Petition To Environmental Quality Board For More Protective Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells For Schools, Daycares, Hospitals, Buildings, Drinking Water Wells, Surface Water
*  [10/28/2024] DEP Plugs Conventional Gas Well Orphaned By The Well Owner That Contaminated A Clarion County Family's Drinking Water Well; Conventional Well Owners Continue To Abandoned Their Wells - 814 Violations So Far In 2024 - 2 New Plugging Grant Programs
*  [10/28/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 19 to 25 - DEP Abandoned Conventional Well Violations Top 814; Conventional Owner Ignores Order; Gas Leaks & Spills
*  [10/28/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 26
*  [10/28/2024] Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Down To 12, Lowest In More Than 17 Years; Community Support Drops; Big Hole In DEP Budget
*  [10/28/2024] EDF: New Report Shows 22% Growth In PA's Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Mitigation Industry In 3 Years
*  [10/28/2024] DEP Extends Air Quality Permits For Temporary Operation Of Shell Petrochemical Plant; No Schedule Posted Yet For Considering Full Title V Air Quality Permit
*  [10/28/2024] DEP Now Accepting Qualified Professional Bids As Part Of SPEED Permit Review Program
*  [10/28/2024] US Dept. Of Interior Announces Approval Of Another $244 Million In Funding To Pennsylvania For Cleaning Up Legacy Pollution From Abandoned Mine Lands; Local Mine Reclamation Grants Due To DEP Nov. 8
*  [10/28/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Total Maximum Daily Nutrient Load Plans For Muddy Run, Union County; Deer Creek, York County
*  [10/21/2024] Reclaimed Abandoned Coal Mine Land In Clinton County Dedicated In Memory Of Joe Schueck, DEP Hydrologist With PA's Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program
*  [10/21/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 5 to 18 - Conventional Well Owners Issued 767 Violations For Abandoning Their Wells - So Far, More Than Double Number In 2019; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells
*  [10/21/2024] DEP Begins Accepting Applications For New Methane Reduction Grants To Plug Conventional Oil, Gas Wells Oct. 16
*  [10/21/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 12
*  [10/21/2024] DEP Secures $1.62 Million Payment For American Zinc & Chemical Site Natural Resource Damage In Washington County; Invites Comments On Settlement
*  [10/21/2024] DEP Awards $3.4 Million To Support 12 Local Projects To Improve Water Quality, Fish & Wildlife Habitat In 8 Counties
*  [10/21/2024] DEP Invites Comments At 4 Public Input Sessions To Help Develop PA Home Energy Rebate Programs Starting Oct. 15
*  [10/7/2024] DEP Begins Accepting Grant Applications Oct. 9 To Plug Orphan Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners
*  [10/7/2024] DEP Advisory Group To Hear How DEP Proposes To Implement New Federal Methane Reduction Rule For Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Wells, Infrastructure Oct. 10
*  [10/7/2024] DEP Issues Violations To 7 Shale Gas Drillers For Failure To Submit Monthly Waste Generation, Disposal, Production Reports - 1 Company For 3 Years; 2 More Drillers Fail To Disclose Fracking Chemicals
*  [10/7/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 - Five More Abandoned Shale Gas Well Violations; Failure To Disclose Fracking Chemicals; Failure To Report Waste Generation & Disposal; Lawnmower Causes Conventional Pipeline Gas Leak
*  [10/7/2024] Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Oct. 16 In-Person Program In Waynesburg, Greene County On Protecting Public Health, Resources From Shale Gas Development
*  [10/7/2024] No Decision Posted Yet From DEP On Whether Flare Gas Chemical Makeup, Volume At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Is Confidential Business Information
*  [10/7/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 5
*  [10/7/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 8 On Hydrogen Hubs, Data Centers, Food Processing Residuals, PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Regulation
*  [10/7/2024] House Environmental Committee Moves Solar Energy Facility Decommissioning Best Practices; Food Processing Waste Bills
*  [10/7/2024] PennFuture: Lawmakers Move Bill To Require Clean Solar Energy Facilities To Have Bonds; But Fail To Have Adequate Plugging Bonds For Dirty Oil & Gas Wells Leaving Taxpayers To Pick Up The Cost
*  [10/7/2024] 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
*  [10/7/2024] DEP Sets Nov. 4 Hearing On Renewal Of Air Quality Permit For Panther Creek Coal Waste-Fired Power Plant In Carbon County
*  [10/7/2024] DEP Sets Oct. 28 Meeting/Hearing On Renewal Of Hazardous Waste Permit For Keystone Cement In Northampton County [Updated]
*  [10/7/2024] DEP Chesapeake Bay Healthy Waters Newsletter Highlights Funding Opportunities; County Clean Water Projects; Accomplishments
*  [10/7/2024] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Food Waste Reduction Grants To Help Fight Hunger
*  [9/30/2024] Physicians For Social Responsibility PA’s Dr. Ned Ketyer Shares Summary Of Studies Of Shale Gas Development Impacts On Human Health
*  [9/30/2024] 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
*  [9/30/2024] DEP Issues Violations To 3 Shale Gas Drillers For Failing To Report Fracking Chemicals, Including At EQT’s Lumber Well Pad In Greene County
*  [9/30/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 21 to 27 - Gas Storage Areas Wells Leaking; Failure To Comply With Orders, Failure To Report Fracking Chemicals; Bubbling Conventional Pipeline Leak
*  [9/30/2024] DEP: Comments Due Oct. 21 On New 16-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline Being Built In Springfield, Troy, West Burlington & Granville Townships, Bradford County
*  [9/30/2024] PA GreenGov Council 2024 Sustainability Week Features 5 Webinars Starting Oct. 7
*  [9/30/2024] DEP: Temporary Repair To Sewage Pipeline Stops Sewage Release Into Penns Creek, Susquehanna River In Snyder County
*  [9/30/2024] DEP Sets Oct. 28 Hearing On Renewal Of Hazardous Waste Permit For Keystone Cement In Northampton County
*  [9/30/2024] DEP Invites Comments At Oct. 30 Hearing On Harrisburg/York Air Quality Maintenance Plan For Fine Particulate
*  [9/30/2024] DEP To Hold Nov. 13 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For American Craft Brewery Facility In Lehigh County
*  [9/30/2024] DEP Sets Nov. 13 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Martins Creek Gas/Oil-Fired Power Plant In Northampton County
*  [9/23/2024] PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Recognize Kristina Thompson & PennDOT District 5-0 With Walter Lyon Award; Former DEP Secretary David Hess With Karl Mason Award
*  [9/23/2024] PA Coal Alliance Members Recognized For Mine Reclamation And Employee Safety
*  [9/23/2024] Cecil Township, Washington County Posts Proposed Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads Of 2,500 Feet From Homes, Businesses; 5,000 Feet From Schools, Hospitals; Nov. 4 Hearing, Meeting Set
*  [9/23/2024] Environmental Health Project: State Dept. Of Health Progress On Implementing Recommendations After Pitt Health Studies Show Impacts From Shale Gas Development ‘Extremely Limited’
*  [9/23/2024] Del-Chesco United For Pipeline Safety: Texas Explosion Shows Communities In PA With Energy Transfer's Mariner East Pipeline And Other Pipelines Are Vulnerable To The Same Unmitigated Risk From Unsecured Pipeline Valves
*  [9/23/2024] Exploding Water Well Shed Triggers DEP Investigation Of 59+ Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Cyclone, McKean County; Highlights Limits On Providing Temporary Water For Well Owners Impacted
*  [9/23/2024] Homeowner Complaint Results In DEP Emergency Plugging Of A Penn Resources, Inc. Conventional Oil Well Leaking Gas, Oil, Wastewater In McKean County
*  [9/23/2024] DEP Discovers Wastewater Spill From Conventional Oil/Gas Well That Could Be Seen From Google Earth In Armstrong County As A Result Of A Complaint
*  [9/23/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 14 to 20 - Seeing Conventional Wastewater Spill From Google Earth; Emergency Well Plugging; Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Leaking Gas Well Next To Baseball Field
*  [9/23/2024] Protect PT: Westmoreland Landfill Surrenders Air Quality Permit For An Evaporator System To Dispose Of Leachate Wastewater Impacted By Shale Gas Drilling Waste
*  [9/16/2024] Cecil Township Supervisors Direct Solicitor To Prepare Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads By At Least 2,500 Feet; Another Hearing, Vote Expected Nov. 4
*  [9/16/2024] WESA: New Freeport, Greene County Residents File Lawsuit Against EQT Gas Drilling Company Over Contaminated Water Supplies
*  [9/16/2024] Southwestern PA Community, Health Organizations To Hold Sept. 17 Online Press Event - One Year After Pitt Shale Gas Health Impacts Studies And The Failure To Fulfill Essential Promises Made To Residents
*  [9/16/2024] DEP Finds Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Sprayed & Leaked 12,600+ Gallons For Nearly 3 Hours In Gilmore Twp., Greene County
*  [9/16/2024] DEP Reports Subsurface Release Of An Estimated 1,000 Gallons Of Wastewater At Hebron Gas Storage Field Conventional Well In Hebron Twp., Potter County; Water Supplies Impacted, Report Well Problems To DEP Near This Facility
*  [9/16/2024] DEP Issues Violation To Apex Energy (PA) LLC For Failure To Submit List Of Fracking Chemicals For 37 Shale Gas Wells Over 6 Years In Westmoreland County
*  [9/16/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 7 to 13 - 12,600+ Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Release; 1,000 Gallon+ Subsurface Conventional Wastewater Spill; 28+ Abandoned Wells; Stray Gas Investigation In Elk Viewing Area
*  [9/16/2024] DEP Declares 21 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Owned By Schreiner Oil & Gas Inc. Abandoned, Not Plugged In Erie, McKean Counties
*  [9/16/2024] Senate Hearing: Landowner Concerns About Liability For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells May Be Impediment To Plugging Leaking Wells; Need To Make Plugging Programs More Effective To Deal With ‘Growing Problem’
*  [9/16/2024] Groundbreaking Initiative Using Drones To Locate Orphan, Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania Kicks Off
*  [9/16/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 14
*  [9/16/2024] Environmental Quality Board Approves Proposed Stream Redesignations For Public Comment; Votes Down Motion To Decouple Truck Emission Standards From California In 2 Years
*  [9/16/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Draft PA Great Lakes Water Management Program 5-Year Report
*  [9/9/2024] Abandoned Well Citizen Expert Laurie Barr, University Of Pennsylvania Prof. Jennifer Wilcox Recognized On The Grist 50 List
*  [9/9/2024] We Remember Sept. 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy
*  [9/9/2024] Environmental Health Project: CNX Resources Claims Shale Gas Drilling Poses No Public Health Risks Are ‘Misleading, Irresponsible, Dangerous’
*  [9/9/2024] Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Sept. 24 Program In Washington County On Increasing Setbacks From Oil & Gas Infrastructure
*  [9/9/2024] Independent Fiscal Office Reports 2nd Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Dropped To Lowest Level Since 2020; Number Of PA Drilling Rigs Drop By Nearly 25% In 2 Weeks As A Result Of Drillers Trying To Raise The Price Of Gas
*  [9/9/2024] US Dept. Of Interior Approves $76.4 Million To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania; 1,234 Violations For Abandoning Conventional Wells In Last 20 Months
*  [9/9/2024] Environmental Defense Fund, Moms Clean Air Force To Hold Public Meetings In 3 Northwest PA Counties On A Project To Test New Methods Of Locating Abandoned Conventional Oil, Gas Wells
*  [9/9/2024] Source Of 19-Day-Old Oil Discharge Into Allegheny River In Venango County Still A Mystery; Recreators Asked To Avoid The Area
*  [9/9/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 31 to Sept. 6 - Mystery Oil Leak Into Allegheny River; Holes In Shale Gas Casing; 65 Days Late In Plugging Conventional Well
*  [9/9/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 7
*  [9/9/2024] Center for Coalfield Justice Blog: Update On Underground Longwall Coal Mining In Greene, Washington Counties; Next DEP Report On Longwall Impacts Due… Soon
*  [9/9/2024] DEP Sets Oct. 10 Hearing On Proposed Interim Hazardous Sites Cleanup Response At The Vallimont Site In Erie County
*  [9/9/2024] DEP Invites Comments On 2 Proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Agreements On Gryphin Coatings, Inc. Site In Philadelphia
*  [9/9/2024] DEP Accepting Applications For Coastal Zone Grants In Delaware Estuary, Lake Erie Coastal Zones
*  [9/2/2024] Sept. 19 Webinar: A Year Later: Have Leaders Addressed Health Concerns From Natural Gas Development Raised In University Of Pittsburgh Public Health Studies?
*  [9/2/2024] DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board Meets Sept. 5 On Strategies To Prevent Well Abandonments; Injection Well Primacy; Tracking Water Contamination; Other Topics
*  [9/2/2024] Range Resources Shale Gas Water Pipeline Suffers Blowout In Washington County
*  [9/2/2024] 9-Year-Old Drives Tractor Into Conventional Well Causing Gas Leak
*  [9/2/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 24 to 30 - Water Pipeline Blowout; 9-Year-Old Hits Conventional Gas Well; 5 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells
*  [9/2/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 31
*  [9/2/2024] DEP To Test Drinking Water In PA Within 1 Mile Of Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Site For Next 10 Years After EPA Confirms Remediation Is Complete
*  [9/2/2024] Environmental Quality Board Meets Sept. 10 On Proposed Stream Redesignations, Laboratory Fee Review
*  [9/2/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Sept. 10 On Hydrogen, Food Processing Residuals
*  [9/2/2024] DEP Releases 2023 Annual Report On Chesapeake Bay Watershed Celebrating Accomplishments Of Counties, Communities, State And Local Leaders
*  [9/2/2024] DEP Publishes Updated PAG-02 NPDES Stormwater General Permit
*  [8/26/2024] Eureka Resources Shuts Down Standing Stone Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility; DEP Wastewater, Waste Violations Continue From Feb. 2023
*  [8/26/2024] Marcellus Drilling News: Eureka Resources Plans To Close/Sell 2 Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Plants In Williamsport: Not Enough Wastewater Volume To Keep Plants Open
*  [8/26/2024] Eureka Resources Request To Terminate Its Water Quality Permit For A Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility In Dimock, Susquehanna County Approved By DEP
*  [8/26/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 17 to 23 - Failure Of Casing During Fracking; 46 Day Delay In Water Compliant Notice; Closing 3 Wastewater Treatment Facilities; 40 More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [8/26/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 24
*  [8/26/2024] DEP Designates Renewal Of Marcus Hook Terminal Air Quality Permit Subject To Environmental Justice Enhanced Public Participation; Stormwater Permit Also Pending
*  [8/26/2024] DEP Bans Sale Of Teclast Electronics Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
*  [8/19/2024] DEP Issues Violations To 16 Owners Of 5,374 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells For Failing To Submit Annual Production, Waste Generation/Disposal, Well Integrity Reports
*  [8/19/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 10 to 16 - Failure To File Critical Annual Report Violations Sent To Owners Of 5,300+ Conventional Wells; Failure To Fix Leaking Wells
*  [8/19/2024] US Dept. Of The Interior Announces Pennsylvania Eligible For Up To $152.6 Million In Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [8/19/2024] DEP To Hold Information Sessions On New Orphan Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Grant Program Aug. 26, 27 & 30
*  [8/19/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 17
*  [8/19/2024] CNX: 'Natural Gas Development Is Safe And Poses No Public Health Risks,' Based On CNX Air Quality Monitoring From 14 Sites, Most For Just 4 To 24 Weeks
*  [8/19/2024] DEP To Introduce SPEED Permit Review, Joint Chapter 105 Permit Pilot Programs
*  [8/19/2024] DEP Invites Comments On A Proposed $1.3 Million Cost Recovery Action At The Pool Doctor, Beaver Alkali Products Site In Beaver County
*  [8/19/2024] DEP To Hold Sept. 3 Hearing On Proposed Change Of Land Use On 2 Coal Mining Sites In Clearfield County
*  [8/19/2024] New EPA Evaluation Shows Pennsylvania Made New Funding Commitments To Clean Up Chesapeake Bay Watershed, But Did Not Meet 2023 Cleanup Targets
*  [8/19/2024] Environmental Hearing Board Assesses $65,766.68 Penalty Against Venango County Man For Willfully Failing To Comply With DEP Order For Violations Of The Dam Safety & Encroachments Act
*  [8/19/2024] DEP Now Accepting Applications For 2025 Environmental Education Grants
*  [8/12/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 3 to 9 - Diversified Prod LLC Fails To Comply With Order To Plug Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; 700 Abandoned Conventional Well Violations
*  [8/12/2024] Erie Times: How PA's Oil & Gas Industry Continues To Illegally Dump Wastewater On Roads Across The State
*  [8/5/2024] DEP Issues Violations To D & B Gas Prod LLC For Abandoning, Not Plugging 110 Conventional Gas, Coalbed Methane Wells In Indiana County; Total Abandonment NOVs 697 In 2024
*  [8/5/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 27 to August 2 - 120 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; 3rd Pipeline Construction Spill; 1,260 Gallon Conventional Oil Spill
*  [8/5/2024] PA US Sen. Casey Cosponsors Bill To Find, Clean Up Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Improve Detection, Plugging Tech
*  [8/5/2024] Eureka Resources Request To Terminate Its Water Quality Permit For A Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility In Dimock, Susquehanna County Approved By DEP
*  [8/5/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 3
*  [8/5/2024] Appalachian Voices Urges Congress To Reject Proposed Changes To Federal Energy Permitting That Reduces Opportunities For Communities To Challenge Projects; Bill Clears US Senate Committee
*  [8/5/2024] DEP Awards $15+ Million In PA Electric Grid Resilience Grants To Prevent, Shorten Power Outages In Rural Electric Systems; Fall Grant Round Planned
*  [8/5/2024] DEP Awards $2.3 Million To Schools, Businesses, Local Governments Switching To Zero- Or Low-Emission Vehicles; Now Accepting Applications
*  [8/5/2024] DEP To Hold Aug. 26 Hearing On Mining/Water Quality Permits For Proposed Maggie Lynn Underground Limestone Mine in Washington County
*  [8/5/2024] DEP Names Nathan Houtz Acting Deputy Secretary For Active & Abandoned Mine Operations; Sharon Hill Named Acting Director Bureau of Mining
*  [7/29/2024] Feature: Rock - Water - Air: The Quecreek Mine Rescue 22 Years Later
*  [7/29/2024] No One Warned A Cameron County Family Their Water Well Was Contaminated By A Seneca Resources Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Rupture
*  [7/29/2024] Shell Petrochemical Plant Asks DEP To Classify Chemical Makeup, Flow Rate Of Gases Going To Be Burned Off By Flares, Air Pollution Sources, Control Equipment Operating At The Plant Confidential Business Information
*  [7/29/2024] DEP Requiring Any Facility Operating Under A Temporary Title V Air Plan Approval For More Than 12 Months To Submit a Title V Operating Permit On Or Before Nov. 25, 2024
*  [7/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 20 to 26 - Abandoned Well Violations To Owner Of 727 Conventional Wells ‘Returned To Sender,’ More Wastewater Pipeline Spills; 2nd Attempt To Plug Shale Gas Well
*  [7/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 27
*  [7/29/2024] Shapiro Administration Secures $396.1 Million In Federal Funding To Cut Carbon Pollution From Industries, Create Jobs
*  [7/29/2024] DEP To Hold Aug. 28 Hearing On Water Quality Permit For Rustic Ridge Ridge #1 Coal Mine 1,452 Acre Expansion In Fayette, Westmoreland Counties
*  [7/29/2024] DEP Sets Aug. 29 Hearing On Stormwater Permit For Blue Ridge Real Estate’s Proposed Truck Terminal, Warehouse In Kidder Twp., Carbon County
*  [7/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 13 to 19 - Pipeline Construction Spill; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Order
*  [7/22/2024] DEP Sets Aug. 21 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Equitrans LP Compressor Station In Union Twp., Washington County
*  [7/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 20
*  [7/22/2024] DEP To Post Information Soon On New SPEED Permit Review Program Enacted As Part Of State Budget
*  [7/15/2024] House, Senate Send Bill Authorizing Geologic Sequestration Of Carbon Dioxide To The Governor
*  [7/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 6 to 12 - Double Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Failure; 19 + 12 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Draining Water Impoundment By Spraying
*  [7/15/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Water Encroachment Permit For A Beech Resources, LLC Project To Construct 3 Pipelines On A Right-of-Way Impacting An Exceptional Value Stream, EV Wetlands In Lycoming County
*  [7/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 13
*  [7/15/2024] State Health Plan Identified Oil & Gas Development As Health Risk Last Year; Environmental Health Indicators Map Is Now Available To Show Potential Risks Near You
*  [7/15/2024] The Derrick: PUC To Hold Second Hearing July 15 On Venango Water Company [Impacts Continue From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Contamination Of Water Supply]
*  [7/15/2024] Now On Demand: PublicSource.org - Learn The Story Behind The Story - EQT's Gas Play In Pennsylvania, West Virginia
*  [7/15/2024] Sen. Culver: US EPA Installs Air Quality Monitors Around Wilburton Coal Bank Fire In Columbia County
*  [7/15/2024] DEP Sets Aug. 14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County
*  [7/15/2024] DEP To Hold Aug. 14 Hearing On Title V Air Quality Permit For the IPSCO Koppel Tubular LLC Facility In Beaver County
*  [7/15/2024] Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Sustainable Community Development Network Hosts Aug. 6 Climate Action Planning - Resources And Funding Opportunities Webinar; Guide To Tools & Funding
*  [7/15/2024] Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 -- Three Mile Island
*  [7/8/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Discuss Carbon Sequestration-Hydrogen Hub Pipelines; Critical/Rare Earth Mineral Recycling At July 9 Meeting
*  [7/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 29 to July 5 - Lots Of Conventional Wells Venting Gas; 12 + 6 More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [7/8/2024] DEP Issues Air Quality Permit For Frontier LNG Gas Facility In Clinton County
*  [7/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 6
*  [7/8/2024] DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Title V Air Quality Permit Application Complete, Now Posted On DEP's Website; Comment Period Opening Soon
*  [7/8/2024] DEP Approves Final Land Recycling Cleanup Report For Shell Petrochemical Plant Site In Beaver County
*  [7/8/2024] WTAE: Can You Drink Water From Roadside Springs?
*  [7/8/2024] DEP Invites Comments At Hearings On Aug. 7 On RACT III Air Quality Permits For Owens Brockway Glass Plant 18 & Plant 19 In Jefferson County
*  [7/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 22 to 28 - 12 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order
*  [7/1/2024] DEP Soliciting Bids For Plugging 20 Conventional, Abandoned Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells Owned By Pennzoil In The Allegheny National Forest
*  [7/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 29
*  [7/1/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Revised Oil & Gas Erosion & Sediment Control General Permit (ESCGP-4)
*  [7/1/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permits For Installation Of A 5.8 Million Gallon Gasoline/Naphtha Storage Tank At The United Refining Company Refinery In Warren, PA
*  [7/1/2024] Comments Invited By DEP On Renewal Of Air Quality Permit For American Refining Group Facility In Bradford, McKean County
*  [7/1/2024] DEP Reviewing Shell Petrochemical Plant Title V Air Quality Operating Permit Application For Administrative Completeness
*  [7/1/2024] PA Receives $28.6 Million In Federal Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) Program Funding; Local AML/AMD Project Funding Application Period Open
*  [7/1/2024] Instead Of Fines, DEP Agrees To PA American Water Cleanup Of Silt In Roaring Brook, Lackawanna River; Creating Fish Habitat, Natural Enhancements Worth $300,000
*  [6/24/2024] State Budget: Growing Greener Coalition Urges Lawmakers To Support $80 - $100 Million Healthy Outdoors For All Program; Contact Your Legislator
*  [6/24/2024] State Budget: PA Environmental Council Sends Budget, Policy Recommendations To PA House, Senate Members
*  [6/24/2024] DEP To Hold July 2 Virtual Hearing On PA General Energy Project To Construct 3.7 Miles Of Shale Gas, Water Pipelines Thru Exceptional Value, High Quality, Wild Trout Streams In Lycoming County
*  [6/24/2024] PUC To Hold July 15 Prehearing Conference On Future Of Venango Water Company, Related Companies As Follow-Up To Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill In Venango County
*  [6/24/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 15 to 21 - More Failed Shale Gas Well Plugs; Landslides; Venting Gas; Injection Well Issue?
*  [6/24/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 22
*  [6/24/2024] DEP Hearing, Special Comment Period Notices For Projects In Jefferson (Solar), Lehigh (Warehouse), Lycoming (Gas Pipeline) and York (Air Permit) Counties
*  [6/17/2024] House Committee Reports Out Bills To Ban Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Prohibit Use Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals’ In Consumer Products
*  [6/17/2024] House Hearing: Shapiro Administration Supports Bill Banning Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater, Prohibiting Its Use As Coproduct Under Residual Waste Regulations
*  [6/17/2024] House Hearing: Penn State Expert Says ‘Pennsylvania Should Ban Road Spreading Of Oil & Gas Wastewater;’ Contaminants Exceed Health, Environmental Standards
*  [6/17/2024] House Hearing: Penn State Center For Dirt & Gravel Road Studies Says Road Spreading Oil & Gas Wastewater Is Not An Effective Dust Suppressant, Does Not Meet Environmental Testing Standards
*  [6/17/2024] House Hearing: Protect PT - Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater ‘Is Disproportionately Responsible For Negative Impacts On Human Health,’ Especially From Radioactive Radium
*  [6/17/2024] House Hearing: On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater - ‘We Studied This For Nearly 30 Years And The Conclusions Are The Same - The Wastewater Contains Harmful Contaminants’
*  [6/17/2024] House Hearing: PA State Assn. Of Township Supervisors Opposes Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Saying It’s Only Affordable Option For Dust Suppression [Plain Water Works Just As Well]
*  [6/17/2024] House Hearing: Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Trade Groups Oppose Bill Banning The Road Dumping Their Wastewater Saying It’s ‘Effective And Safe’
*  [6/17/2024] PA Environmental Council Supports Bill To Ban Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [6/17/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 8 to 14 - Abandoned Conventional Well Violations Now Top 512, Equaling All Of 2023
*  [6/17/2024] DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Must Be In Compliance With PA Environmental Laws & Regulations To Be Eligible For New Federally-Funded Well Plugging Grants
*  [6/17/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 15
*  [6/17/2024] House Committee Approves Bill Giving PA Energy Development Authority Ability To Use Federal Climate, Clean Energy Funding
*  [6/17/2024] PA Energy Development Authority Launches $1.8 Million Financing Program To Help Local Governments Make Energy Efficiency Upgrades
*  [6/17/2024] DEP To Hold July 15 & 16 Hearings On Phasing Out Stage II Gasoline Vapor Recovery Systems
*  [6/17/2024] DEP Establishes A Customer Experience Management Advisory Council To Put Customer Service Front And Center For Agency Leadership
*  [6/17/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed 41 Acre Expansion Of Pioneer Crossing Landfill In Berks County
*  [6/17/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Waste Permit Renewal For Kelly Run Landfill In Allegheny County
*  [6/17/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Plan Approval For IRG Erie Plastic Recycling Facility
*  [6/10/2024] House Environmental Committee Hearing On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater Set For June 10; A Voting Meeting On Bill To Ban Road Dumping June 11
*  [6/10/2024] Better Path Coalition: DEP Removes Co-Product Category From Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Reporting Database; Well Owners Continue To Fail To Report How They Dispose Of Their Waste
*  [6/10/2024] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets June 13 On Migration Of Waste From Injection Wells; E&S Permitting; Federal Plugging Programs; Updated Conventional Waste Regs; Financial Assurance To Prevent Well Abandonment
*  [6/10/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 1 to 7 - 38 Conventional Wells Evaluated For Plugging; Spills; Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order; Failure To Notify DEP Of 121 Conventional Well Owner Transfers
*  [6/10/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 8
*  [6/10/2024] Independent Fiscal Office Reports Drop In PA Shale Gas Production From 4th Quarter
*  [6/10/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets June 11 To Hear About Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub, Ag-Grid Energy, More On Electronics Waste Recycling
*  [6/10/2024] Pennsylvania Eligible For Third Installment Of $244.7 Million In Federal Funding To Support Abandoned Mine Reclamation
*  [6/10/2024] US Dept. Of The Interior Awards $28.67 Million To PA To Revitalize Abandoned Mine Lands, Create Jobs Under AMLER Program
*  [6/10/2024] Center For Coalfield Justice: Cause Of Omnis Bailey Coal Waste Processing Plant Fire In Greene County Unknown
*  [6/10/2024] DEP Sets July 10 Hearing On Portland Power Plant Air Quality Permit In Northampton County
*  [6/10/2024] July 10 Public Hearing Set By DEP On Air Quality Permit For Hazleton Generation Power Plant In Luzerne County
*  [6/10/2024] DEP To Hold July 10 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Omnova Solutions Plant In Schuylkill County
*  [6/10/2024] 400+ Pennsylvanians Participate In Virtual Citizen Lobby Day For Action On Climate Solutions, Gov. Shapiro's Energy Plan
*  [6/10/2024] Reminder: DEP To Host June 20 Hearing On Proposed Monroe County Warehouse Project
*  [6/10/2024] Allegheny County Conservation District Receives $30,000 DEP Environmental Education Grant
*  [6/10/2024] DEP Bans Sale Of Cocopar Electronics Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
*  [6/3/2024] DEP Chesapeake Bay Update: PA's Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Receives National Recognition For Collaboration, Partnerships
*  [6/3/2024] Lt. Governor, Acting DEP Secretary Highlight Potential Of Solar Power On Abandoned Mine Lands At Beaver County Site; Issued New Report On Solar Potential Of Mined Lands
*  [6/3/2024] DEP Issues Request For Information For Clean Energy Generation, Storage Projects On State-Owned Abandoned Mine Lands; Webinar June 10
*  [6/3/2024] Keystone Energy Efficiency Program Announces KEEP Home Energy Loan Contractor Training Events Starting June 4
*  [6/3/2024] Week 10: Illegal Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues Unabated On Paved, Dirt Roads, Before It Rains, It Doesn’t Matter In Warren County
*  [6/3/2024] DEP Disapproves Final Cleanup Report On Dozens Of Chemicals At The American Refining Group Bradford Refinery In McKean County For Not Meeting Cleanup Standards
*  [6/3/2024] The Derrick: PUC Judge Orders 7 Rhodes Estate Water Companies To Secure Counsel For Hearings On Their Future [More Fallout From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill In Venango County]
*  [6/3/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 25 to 31 - Shale Wastewater Pipeline Spill; Drill Cuttings Violations; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [6/3/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 1
*  [6/3/2024] Penn State Research Traced Radioactive Radium In Freshwater Mussels To Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [6/3/2024] Protect PT Hosts 4 Virtual Workshops On How To Protect Yourself If You Live Near Shale Gas Facilities Starting June 11
*  [6/3/2024] Group Against Smog & Pollution Report Finds Allegheny County Health Dept. Air Quality Permit Backlog Getting Worse; DEP Making Progress
*  [6/3/2024] DEP Extends Temporary Air Quality Permits For Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Shell Said It Will Submit Full Title V Air Permit Application By June 21 Deadline
*  [6/3/2024] DEP Adds Jamestown Canyon Virus To West Nile Virus Mosquito Monitoring Program For 2024
*  [6/3/2024] News From PA House & Senate
*  [5/27/2024] Gas Industry, Sen. Bartolotta Seek Legislation To Eliminate Environmental Hearing Board Appeals Of DEP Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities
*  [5/27/2024] Damascus Citizens: Do You Live In An Oil & Gas Wastewater Disposal Facility? Public Roads In 84 Municipalities In PA, One County In NY Are Being Used As Disposal Areas For Wastewater
*  [5/27/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 18 to 24 - 3 Abandoned, Plugged Shale Gas Wells Still Leaking Gas; 480 Abandoned Conventional Well NOVs
*  [5/27/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 25
*  [5/27/2024] DEP Issues Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit To PA Well Development LLC In Young Twp., Jefferson County
*  [5/27/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Waste Transfer Permit For 5 Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells Owned By Bear Lake Properties In Warren County
*  [5/27/2024] Guest Essay: Oil & Gas Industry Waste And Radioactive Drinking Water In Pennsylvania
*  [5/27/2024] DEP Announces Award Of $980,256 To Support 56 Local Environmental Education Projects; New Grant Round Opens In August
*  [5/27/2024] PA Assn. Of Conservation Districts Awarded Nearly $37,000 To Support 21 District Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Projects
*  [5/27/2024] Game Commission, DEP Held Live Peregrine Falcon Online Banding Event At Rachel Carson Building
*  [5/27/2024] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants
*  [5/27/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Hazardous Sites Cleanup Consent Order For Berkley Products Company Plant Site In Lancaster County
*  [5/27/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Stronghold Digital Mining Direct Air Carbon Capture Project At Scrubgrass Plant Site In Venango County
*  [5/27/2024] PA Bulletin Public Notices
*  [5/20/2024] DEP Imposed $2.2 Million In Penalties Against Shale Gas Drilling, Pipeline Companies In 2023 For Violations Dating Back To 2018
*  [5/20/2024] Rep. Vitali To Introduce Bill Banning The Disposal Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater By Dumping It On Public Roads; Rep. Causer To Introduce Bill Legalizing It
*  [5/20/2024] Illegal Wastewater Dumping Continues, Even on Mothers Day, Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners’ Campaign Of Intimidation Of Senate Witness; Now Dumping Before It Rains, On Paved Roads
*  [5/20/2024] National Energy Technology Lab, University Of Pittsburgh Say Oil & Gas Wastewater Can Be Major Source Of Lithium For Rechargeable Battery Production
*  [5/20/2024] Environmental Hearing Board Clears Away More Attempts By Olympus Energy To Block Shale Gas Permit Appeal By Protect PT In Westmoreland County; Olympus Fails To Provide Info On PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Use
*  [5/20/2024] The Derrick: PUC To Hold May 21 Prehearing On Future Of Venango Water Company; Water Source Contaminated By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill
*  [5/20/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 11 to 17; Lots Of Spills Week; 3 More Abandoned Shale Well NOVs; Well Shut In To Prevent Frack-Out
*  [5/20/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 18
*  [5/20/2024] Penn State Extension May 30 Webinar On Landowner Role In Conventional Orphaned, Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
*  [5/20/2024] DEP: $5 Million In Grants Recommended To Support Mitigation Projects In Beaver County Related To Shell Petrochemical Plant Environmental Violations + Shell Paid Total Penalties Of $7,606,027.75
*  [5/20/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Redesignation Of Beaver Area For Sulfur Dioxide Attainment; Hearing Set June 18
*  [5/20/2024] DEP Sets June 18 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Flexsys America Monongahela Plant In Washington County
*  [5/20/2024] DEP Invites Comments On RACT Modification To Title V Air Quality Permit For Seward Coal Waste Power Plant In Indiana County
*  [5/20/2024] DEP Awards $5.67 Million In Federal Funding To Support Local Abandoned Mine Reclamation, Mine Water Treatment, Subsidence Control Projects; Next Grant Applications Due June 3, Sept. 23
*  [5/20/2024] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Act 167 County Stormwater Management Planning
*  [5/20/2024] DEP Invites Submission Of Water Quality Data To Be Part Of Stream Redesignation Evaluations In Berks, Bucks, Centre, Forest, Greene, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Westmoreland Counties
*  [5/20/2024] DEP To Hold June 20 Hearing On Stormwater Permit For A 92+ Acre Commercial Development In Tunkhannock Twp., Monroe County
*  [5/20/2024] DEP Accepting Comments On Intent To Deny Stormwater Permit For Commercial Development In Benner Twp., Centre County
*  [5/13/2024] We’ve Heard This Before: ‘We’re Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs’ - A Brief Review Of Pennsylvania’s Conservation History
*  [5/13/2024] Keep PA Beautiful’s Young Ambassador Program Recognized With Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence; Students Can Apply Now
*  [5/13/2024] Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Announces Litter Hawk Youth Award Program Winners
*  [5/13/2024] Moody & Associates Study Finds Discharge Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater To The Ground Surface ‘Not A Viable Management Practice'; Supports Ban On Road Dumping; Onsite Disposal
*  [5/13/2024] Two Months: Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Surround The Home Of A Senate Witness Who Opposes The Illegal Practice
*  [5/13/2024] DEP To Propose Changes To Coproduct Determination Process In Residual Waste Regulations; Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Tried To Use This Process To Legalize Road Dumping Their Wastewater
*  [5/13/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 11
*  [5/13/2024] DEP Invites Comments, Sets Hearings On Air Quality Permits For 3 Power Plants-- Clearfield County- Shawville; Montour County- Montour; Venango County- Scrubgrass
*  [5/13/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Presentations On Electronic, Food Processing Waste, Air Quality Regs At May 14 Meeting
*  [5/13/2024] DEP Water Resources Committee To Review Proposed Spill Notification Regulation, Final Triennial Review Of Water Quality Standards May 16
*  [5/13/2024] Reworld, Goodwill Keystone Area Introduce Free Electronic Waste Recycling In 22 Central, Southeast Pennsylvania Counties
*  [5/13/2024] DEP Accepting Applications For 2023 Recycling Performance Grants Thru Dec. 31
*  [5/6/2024] PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host May 29 Webinar On Understanding Gov. Shapiro's New Energy/Climate Plans
*  [5/6/2024] Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Says It’s A ‘Terrific Lie’ To Say It Is Responsible For Abandoning Thousands Of Wells; Industry To Change Definition So They Can Avoid Responsibility
*  [5/6/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 27 to May 3 - Hunting Abandoned Quaker State Wells; Conventional Well Dumpster Fire; Multiple Water Withdrawal Violations
*  [5/6/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 4
*  [5/6/2024] DEP Launches Pilot Program In 10 Counties To Speed Up Processing Chapter 102 Erosion & Sedimentation Permits Starting May 1
*  [5/6/2024] Senate Republicans Pass Bill Authorizing An Authority To Take Over Permitting Large-Scale Energy Projects; Eliminating Public Comment; Waiving Any Regulation; Providing Immunity From Prosecution; Barbers Reviewing Permits?
*  [5/6/2024] Chesapeake Bay Model Estimates Decline In Nutrient, Sediment Pollution; PA, 4 Other Jurisdictions Did Not Meet 2023 Reduction Targets For Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sediment
*  [5/6/2024] Delaware River Basin Commission, PEMA, Other Partners Make Available Flood Loss Reduction Assistance Resources For Local Officials
*  [5/6/2024] EPA Issues Consent Order To MAX Environmental Technologies To Ensure Compliance With Hazardous Waste Rules At Westmoreland County Facility
*  [5/6/2024] DEP: New Location For May 21 Meeting/Hearing On The Renewal Of The Air Quality Permit For Covanta Municipal Waste Combustion Units In Montgomery County
*  [5/6/2024] DEP Invites Comments At May 29 Hearing On Blythe Recycling and Demolition Landfill Permit Renewal In Schuylkill County
*  [4/29/2024] Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcons See First Egg Hatches Of The Season; Connection To Rachel Carson
*  [4/29/2024] Witness At Senate Hearing On Oil & Gas Wastewater Road Dumping Reports Her Home Has Been Surrounded By Dumping; Dumping Again On The Upswing In 2024
*  [4/29/2024] DEP Reports ZERO Shale Gas Well Permits Under Review; DEP May Have Only 20% Of The Revenue Needed To Fund Its Oil & Gas Regulation Program
*  [4/29/2024] Clean Air Council/Sierra Club: PA Falling Behind In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Bonding; Burden Falls On Taxpayers
*  [4/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 20 to 26 - 2 Venting Shale Gas Wells; 16 More Conventional Abandoned Well Violations, 1 Shale Gas Well Abandonment
*  [4/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 27
*  [4/29/2024] DEP Awards $2.9 Million For Clean Diesel Transportation To Improve Air Quality
*  [4/29/2024] Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn./DEP Publish New Go Solar And Save Toolkit For Schools
*  [4/29/2024] DEP Invites Comments On A Proposed Declaration Of An Exceptional Air Pollution Event Due To 2023 Wildfire Smoke Impacts
*  [4/29/2024] Comments Invited By DEP On Stronghold Digital Mining Panther Creek Power Plant Title V Air Quality Permit Renewal
*  [4/29/2024] DEP Sets May 16 Public Conference To Accept Comments On Rosebud Mining Permit For Cherry Tree Mine In Clearfield, Indiana Counties
*  [4/29/2024] DEP, DCNR, Agriculture, Fish Commission, Local Partners Celebrate Turtle Creek Watershed Stream Restoration, Investments, Water Quality Improvements
*  [4/29/2024] DEP Releases Final Land Application Of Manure Supplement To Manure Management For Environmental Protection Manual
*  [4/29/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Waste Permit For Keystone Landfill In Lackawanna County
*  [4/22/2024] Gov. Shapiro Honors 22 Projects With Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence; Awards Dinner April 30
*  [4/22/2024] Attorney General Henry Files Charges Against Shell Falcon Pipeline For Failure To Report Drilling Issues That Caused Industrial Waste, Potential for Water Pollution
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: The Case For An Immediate, Total Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: Penn State Expert: ‘No More Research That Needs To Be Done’ To Justify A Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: First-Hand Account Of Health, Environmental Impacts From Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater - ‘Inhaling Oil & Gas Wastewater 24-Hours A Day’
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: 3.5 Million Gallons Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Dumped On PA Public Roads Since DEP’s ‘Moratorium’ On Dumping Started 6 Years Ago
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: DEP Still Evaluating The Data On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Asks Public To Report Road Dumping
*  [4/22/2024] April 25 Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Advisory Council Meeting Features Discussion Of Dumping Wastewater On Public Roads; Well Plugging Grant Programs; Regs. Limiting Methane Pollution From Wells
*  [4/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 13 to 19 - Oil & Gas Well Owners Actively, Repeatedly Ignoring DEP Notices Of Violation; 12 Abandoned Wells
*  [4/22/2024] Commonwealth Court Affirms EHB Ruling Sen. Muth Lacks Standing To Appeal A DEP Permit For Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility
*  [4/22/2024] Protect PT Hosting April 30 Webinar On How Your Municipality Can Protect Itself From The Dangers Of Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells
*  [4/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 20
*  [4/22/2024] DEP: Next Round Of Growing Greener Plus Grants Will Open April 22
*  [4/22/2024] Federal Office Of Surface Mining Awards PA $21.4 Million In Abandoned Mine Reclamation, Economic Revitalization Grant
*  [4/22/2024] Penn State Extension To Host Agricultural Conservation Conference June 4-6 In State College
*  [4/22/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Stream Evaluation Reports In Chester, Fulton, Greene, Lancaster, Lycoming, Sullivan Counties; Including Loyalsock Creek
*  [4/22/2024] DEP Invites Comments At June 10 Hearing On RACT 3 Air Quality Permit For Pixelle Specialty Solutions Paper Making Plant In York County
*  [4/22/2024] Bills On Governor's Desk
*  [4/15/2024] Act 14: Little Known State Law Gives Municipalities, Counties First Chance To Comment On DEP Permits Before Applications Are Submitted; Critical First Step In Public Involvement
*  [4/15/2024] DEP Issues $1.1 Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Gas From The Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area In Cambria County
*  [4/15/2024] Westmoreland County-Based Protect PT Calls For Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; CAC Member Asks For DEP Response
*  [4/15/2024] The Derrick: State Intervenes In Venango Water Case [Fallout Continues From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill]
*  [4/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 6 to 12 - Rain Causes Multiple Landslides; Ignored Request To Clean Up Spill; Venting Gas
*  [4/15/2024] New Penn State Study Shows Continuous Radioactive Radium Exposure From Oil & Gas Wastewater Poses A Threat To Aquatic, Human Health As It Accumulates In Aquatic Species
*  [4/15/2024] Environmental Hearing Board Allows 2nd Appeal Of Tri-County Landfill Permit To Move Forward Over Threats Posed By Birds, Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste
*  [4/15/2024] Better Path Coalition Hosts April 19 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing With Justin Nobel On His New Book About Radioactive Waste From The Oil & Gas Industry
*  [4/15/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed CNX Midstream Double 24-Inch, 14 Mile Long Gas Pipelines In Westmoreland County
*  [4/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 13
*  [4/15/2024] CNX Completing $20 Million Fresh Water Pipeline To Serve Future Shale Gas Drilling, And Potentially Local Communities As An Alternative To The Westmoreland Municipal Authority
*  [4/15/2024] CNX Expands Air Pollution Monitoring To More Shale Gas Well Pads, Compressor Stations Under The Collaborative Agreement With State
*  [4/15/2024] DEP Sets May 29 Hearing On Wheelabrator Municipal Waste Combustion Facility Air Quality Permit In Bucks County
*  [4/15/2024] PA Energy Development Authority Launches Keystone Energy Efficiency Program To Lower Electricity Costs For Homeowners & 4 Unit Residences
*  [4/15/2024] EPA Sets First-Ever National Drinking Water Standard For PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Drinking Water; PA State MCL Will Change
*  [4/15/2024] DEP Bans Sale Of Eyoyo Electronics Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
*  [4/8/2024] Spotlight PA: Little Information Made Public About Free Water Testing Ordered As Part Of Mariner East Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Settlement To Criminal Charges By Attorney General
*  [4/8/2024] DEP Reports Only 1 Shale Gas Well Permit Under Review Drastically Reducing The Revenue Needed To Run Its Entire Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
*  [4/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 30 to April 5 - 19 Abandoned Well Violations; Venting Gas; Spills; No Containment; Erosion BMP Failures
*  [4/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 6
*  [4/8/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets April 9 On ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Proposal; DEP Guidance On Building Pipelines
*  [4/8/2024] US Dept. Of Interior Announces $244 Million In Abandoned Mine Reclamation Funding For Pennsylvania; Local Grants Available
*  [4/8/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Guidance Setting Closure Requirements For Aboveground, Underground Storage Tanks
*  [4/8/2024] DEP, Keystone Landfill Sign Consent Order With $575,000 Penalty To Immediately Begin Mitigating Landfill Odors In Lackawanna County
*  [4/8/2024] DEP To Hold May 21 Meeting/Hearing On Renewal Of Air Quality Permit For Covanta Municipal Waste Combustion Units In Montgomery County
*  [4/1/2024] Republican Rep. Causer Blames DEP Database For Showing Conventional Oil & Gas Owners Abandoning, Not Plugging Their Wells; Industry Wants To Redefine Owner Responsibility For Their Abandoned Wells
*  [4/1/2024] DEP: 89% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Well Integrity Reporting For 34,455 Wells In 2023
*  [4/1/2024] DEP: 86% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Waste Disposal, Production Reporting For 33,505 Wells In 2023
*  [4/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 23 to 29 - Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells, Waste Injection Wells; Failure To Stop Gas Venting
*  [4/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 30
*  [4/1/2024] DEP Issues Air Quality Permits For Keystone, Conemaugh, Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plants Including Previously Announced Shutdown Dates
*  [4/1/2024] Save Carbon County Files Lawsuit In Philadelphia Court Against Stronghold Digital, DEP, Governor, PUC Over Cryptocurrency Operations At Panther Creek Power Plant
*  [4/1/2024] Mountain Watershed Assn. Files Appeal Of DEP Decision Not To Accept Unsuitable For Mining Petition Covering 11,000 Acres In Westmoreland County
*  [4/1/2024] DEP, PennDOT, Keep PA Beautiful Encourage Everyone ‘Pick Up Pennsylvania’ During Spring Litter Cleanup
*  [4/1/2024] EPA Kicks Off Pennsylvania Brownfields Conference In State College
*  [4/1/2024] Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Reports The Number Of Methane Contaminated Water Supplies From Oil & Gas Drilling Is Up ‘Across The Board,’ ‘Not A Good Trend’
*  [3/25/2024] DEP: Shale Gas Drilling Resulted In 54 Incidents Of New Wells Interfering With Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Water Wells Or Other Shale Gas Wells In Last 8 Years
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Pursuing Federal Funding To Further Define Human Health Impacts Of Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [3/25/2024] Spring Road Dumping Season Underway As Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Get Rid Of Their Wastewater
*  [3/25/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 16 to 22 - Truck Rollover; 12 More Abandoned Wells; Failure To Submit Annual Reports; Another Chewed Wastewater Line Leaking
*  [3/25/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 23
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Notified Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County It Can No Longer Operate Under An Air Quality Construction Permit And Has 120 Days To Submit A Full Title V Air Quality Permit Application
*  [3/25/2024] Sen. Comitta, Sen. Santarsiero, Rep. Otten, Rep. Abney To Introduce Gov. Shapiro’s Energy, Climate Initiatives
*  [3/25/2024] Penn State Extension Hosts April 25 Webinar On PA Countywide Clean Water Action Plan Public Engagement Strategies
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Strategy For Prioritizing Development Of Total Maximum Daily Load Watershed Plans From 2024-2032
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Sets April 29 Hearing On Stormwater Permit For Arcadia Develop Corp. Industrial Project In Northampton County
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Will Hold May 2 Hearing On Stormwater Permit For Maiden Creek Warehouse Project In Berks County
*  [3/25/2024] DEP To Hold April 23 Hearing On Jessop Steel Air Quality Permit For Washington County Facility
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Issued Conventional Oil & Gas Operators 663 Violations For Abandoning, Not Plugging Wells In Last 15 Months; 392 In 2024 Alone
*  [3/18/2024] Gov. Shapiro Unveils Cap-And-Invest PA Climate Emissions Reduction Initiative To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants; Update Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards To Diversify Electric Generation, Improve Reliability
*  [3/18/2024] Gov. Shapiro Joins Industry, Labor, Environmental, Consumer Leaders To Highlight New Energy Plan To Create Jobs, Lower Costs For Pennsylvanians
*  [3/18/2024] EPA: Pennsylvania One Of 45 States, MSAs To Submit Priority Climate Action Plans As Part Of $5 Billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program
*  [3/18/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To General Air Quality Permit Authorizing Coal Mine Methane Flares
*  [3/18/2024] Shapiro Marks Plugging 200th Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Well: These Companies Will Do Anything To Avoid Paying For Plugging; It’s Not Okay Some In The Legislature Are Shielding Them; Text Well Locations
*  [3/18/2024] DEP Cites Conventional Oil & Gas Well Operators For Abandoning, Not Plugging 140 More Wells Last Week; Total Now 380 Wells This Year
*  [3/18/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 9 to 15 - Home Explosion; 140 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Methane In Water Supply; Porcupine Causes Wastewater Spill
*  [3/18/2024] DEP Issues Violation To Blackhill Energy, LLC Shale Gas Driller For Contaminating Groundwater, 3 Water Supplies With Methane In Springfield Twp., Bradford County
*  [3/18/2024] The Derrick: Public Utility Commission Starts Investigation Into Possible Order For Another Utility To Permanently Acquire Venango Water Company Impacted By Conventional Oil Well Spill
*  [3/18/2024] DEP Issues Violation To CNX Gas Company For Withdrawing Over 1.8 Million Gallons Of Water For Fracking For 22 Days Without Permission
*  [3/18/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 16
*  [3/18/2024] Mountain Watershed Assn. Will Install Warning Signs Around Wastewater Outfall Of MAX Environmental Technologies Yukon Facility In Sewickley Creek, Westmoreland County
*  [3/18/2024] DEP Sets April 17 Hearing On Alternatives For Dealing With PFAS 'Forever Chemical' Contamination At The Newberry Twp. PFC Site In York County
*  [3/18/2024] Huntingdon Daily News: Coalition To Save Old Crow Wetlands Appeals DEP Permit For New Rutters Store In Smithfield Twp.
*  [3/18/2024] DEP Environmental Justice Update Highlights Governor’s New STEM Fellowship; Grant Deadlines; May 14 Environmental Justice Advisory Board Meeting
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Imposed $422,365 In Penalties On 14 Conventional Oil & Gas Well Operators In 2023 For Abandoning Wells, Spills, Venting Gas; 93 Operators Cited For Abandoning 271 Wells
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Declares 101 Medina Res Dev Co. LLC Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned, Not Plugged In Crawford, Erie Counties
*  [3/11/2024] New Reporting On The Uncontrolled Impacts Of Shale Gas Industry: The ‘Poisons Are Still Going Through My System;’ Roar, Fire From Gas Flares; Nothing Has Changed In 15 Years
*  [3/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 2 to 8 - 119 Conventional Well Abandonment Violations; Pipeline Land Slips; Ignored Orders
*  [3/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 9
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets March 19 On Drinking Water Supply Impacts From Drilling; New Financial Assurance Strategies To Prevent Abandonment; Draft Spill Policy; Injection Well Primacy; Much More
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Reports Progress On Permitting Reform; Reduces Permit Backlog By 41%
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Newsletter Highlights Community Projects; Hazardous Sites Cleanup; Upcoming Events
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Publishes Appeal Notice For 2023 Consent Order With Stronghold Digital Mining On Removal Of Coal Ash, Imposing $28,800 Penalty At Waste Coal Power Plant In Venango County
*  [3/11/2024] DEP: All Counties Now Back To Normal Status, All Drought Watches, Warnings Lifted
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Draft NPDES General Permit For Discharges Of Stormwater Associated With Construction Activities (PAG-2)
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Chesapeake Bay Update: Conservation District 2023 Accomplishments; Grants Coming Up; County Accomplishments; Much More
*  [3/11/2024] PA Environmental Professionals Host April 24 Webinar On Protecting PA’s Aquatic Ecosystems from Thermal Discharges In An Era of Climate Change
*  [3/4/2024] DEP: Oil & Gas Regulatory Program Will Be In The Red By Fall; All Sectors Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program No Go; Update On Permitting Reform
*  [3/4/2024] DEP Testimony Provides Overview Of Budget Request, Progress On Permitting, Environmental Justice, Infrastructure Investments, PFAS, Watershed Cleanup, Climate, Clean Energy Initiatives
*  [3/4/2024] PA Environmental Groups: New PUC Rules, DEP Guidance Victory For Increased Safety In Pipeline Construction And Operation
*  [3/4/2024] 40 Individuals File Appeals, Most Handwritten, Of DEP’s Permit For Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County
*  [3/4/2024] Incomplete Application For CNX Midstream Slickville Fracking Wastewater, Natural Gas Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County Withdrawn By DEP
*  [3/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 2
*  [3/4/2024] Latest DEP Inspection Shows No Progress By Petro Erie In Cleaning Up The Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill That Contaminated The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply In Venango County 7 Months Ago
*  [3/4/2024] DEP: Clay-Like Material Polluting Marsh Creek Is Not Bentonite From Mariner East Pipeline Construction, But Naturally Occuring; Sunoco Cleanup Operation Finished
*  [3/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 24 to March 1 - 11 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Field Of Leaking Wells; Voluntary Plugging; No Cleanup Progress In Reno Spill
*  [3/4/2024] Chemstream Chemical Maker Agrees To Disclose Information About Its Proprietary Chemicals Used In Natural Gas Drilling
*  [3/4/2024] Guest Essay: The Conventional Oil And Gas Industry Isn't Taking Responsibility For Their Wells
*  [3/4/2024] PA Utility Law Project March 15 Webinar On Impacts Of LNG Gas Exports On Energy Costs For Pennsylvania Families; LNG Export Capacity To Double, Even With Permit Pause
*  [3/4/2024] Bloomberg: Gov. Shapiro Calls On Biden To Keep Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Export Facilities Short
*  [3/4/2024] IFO Reports 2023 PA Natural Gas Production Up 1.0% Over 2022, Thanks To Strong Q4 Production; Fewest New Wells Drilled In Last Decade
*  [3/4/2024] Environmental Quality Board Meets March 12 On Land Recycling Program Cleanup Standards For More PFAS Chemicals; Revised Standard For Lead; Rulemaking Petition For Fletcher Run, Greene County By CONSOL Coal
*  [3/4/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets March 12 On Cryptocurrency, Electronic Waste Recycling, ARCH 2 Hydrogen Hub
*  [3/4/2024] Choose Clean Water Coalition, Partners Release Newest PA Clean Water Legislative Briefing Book - Water Quality Issues, Legislative & Funding Solutions
*  [3/4/2024] EPA Announces Funding For New Superfund Cleanup Projects In Jefferson, Luzerne, Montgomery Counties
*  [3/4/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Consent Agreement Related To Purchasing A Portion Of Ridge Run PFAS Contamination Site In Bucks County
*  [3/4/2024] Comments Invited On DEP Consent Agreements On Purchasing Parts Of The Topton Hazardous Site In Berks County
*  [3/4/2024] DEP Bans Sale Of MTM Trading LLC (Tagital) Electronic Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
*  [2/26/2024] Penn State: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Fails To Meet Beneficial Reuse Recommendations For Use As A Dust Suppressant
*  [2/26/2024] Citizen Complaint Leads DEP To Breakout Of Mariner East Pipeline Drilling Mud That Contaminated The Lake At Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County; Sunoco Pipeline Starts Cleanup
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Publishes Final Guidance On Environmental Consideration In Using Trenchless Technology To Construct Natural Gas, Other Pipelines
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Issues Chapter 105 Permit Correcting Violations By PA General Energy In Constructing The Shawnee Water Intake On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County
*  [2/26/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 24
*  [2/26/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 17 to 23 -- 7 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Defective Casing From 2018; Mariner Pipeline Drilling Mud Breakout; Additional Shell Air Penalties; Water Supply Investigation
*  [2/26/2024] DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Pays Additional $2,671,044.75 In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order
*  [2/26/2024] Western PA Residents Comment After A Year Of Shell Petrochemical Plant Operations
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Environmental Justice Office Taking Lead In Developing $8 Million Monsanto PCB Penalty Community Fund As Part Of $100 Million Settlement
*  [2/26/2024] Protect PT Hosts Feb. 27 Online Lunch & Learn With Laurie Barr About Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Recommends 6 Major Legislative Proposals Be Adopted As Part Of 2024 PA Climate Action Plan
*  [2/26/2024] DEP: No Applicants Have Asked For Their Money Back Yet Under The PAyback Permit Review Money Back Guarantee Program
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Posts Updated List Of Technical Guidance In Development To Promote Public Involvement
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Declares 57 Industrial Plants Meet Air Quality RACT Rules; Hearing Set For April 12
*  [2/26/2024] New DEP Tools: Energy Funding, Assistance Finder Tool Available For Environmental Justice Communities, Organizations; Equitable Climate Action Program Development Tool
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Set To Receive $2 Billion+ In Federal Funds Over Next Decade+ For Oil & Gas Well Plugging, Clean Energy, Climate Resiliency, Clean Water
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets Feb. 20 To Review 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment, PA Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Climate Action Plan
*  [2/19/2024] DEP: Interim Report On A Full Year Of Sampling Finds No Evidence Of Contamination In Western PA Related To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
*  [2/19/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 10 to 16 - 31 More Conventional Abandoned Well NOVs - 103 For Year; Pipeline Land Slips; Water Supply, Stray Gas Complaints
*  [2/19/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 17
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Approves PennEnergy Resources 1.5 Million Gallon/Day Water Withdrawal For Shale Gas Drilling From Big Sewickley Creek In Beaver County
*  [2/19/2024] Marcellus Drilling News: National Fuel Gas Lawsuit Alleges Fraud, Counterfeit Parts Used At Natural Gas Compressor Stations
*  [2/19/2024] Comments Invited On Mariner East II Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Chapter 102 Permit Amendment For An Area In West Goshen Twp., Chester County
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Sets March 20 Hearing [If Requested] On Air Quality Permit Change For The Eastern Gas Transmission Punxsutawney Compressor Station In Jefferson County
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Invites Comments On MarkWest Project To Expose 4 Natural Gas Pipelines For 5,500+ Feet Ahead Of Longwall Mining In Donegal Twp., Washington County
*  [2/19/2024] Public Comments Invited On State Air Quality Plan Amendment For PEI Power Corp Natural Gas-fired Power Plant In Lackawanna County
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Hosts March 4 Hearing On Proposed Core5 Warner Road Warehouse Project In Pocono Twp., Monroe County
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Encina Plant For Chemically Recycling Plastics In Northumberland County
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Section 902 Act 101 Local Recycling Implementation Grants
*  [2/12/2024] Gov. Shapiro’s Proposed 2024-25 Budget Includes DEP Permit Modernization Initiative, Expands PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Testing; Expands DCNR Trails Program, PA Outdoor Corp
*  [2/12/2024] Keep PA Beautiful Announces Recipients Of 2023 Volunteer And Community Partners Awards
*  [2/12/2024] Just 14 Days: PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 27 to Feb. 9 -- More Abandoned Conventional, Shale Gas Wells; Spills, Venting Gas, Contaminated Water Supplies
*  [2/12/2024] DEP Begins Emergency Project To Plug Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Scott Twp., Allegheny County; DEP Tried To Get Well Operators To Stop The Leaks For Nearly 9 Years
*  [2/12/2024] Guest Essay: DEP Ignored Abandoned Wells During Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permitting Process
*  [2/12/2024] DEP OKs Cameron Energy Applications For Plugging 3 Orphan Conventional Wells Under Blanket Bond Increase Waiver Program; Denied 1 Plugged Well Leaking Crude Oil
*  [2/12/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 10
*  [2/12/2024] PA Utility Law Project, Public Citizen Host Feb. 16 Webinar Exploring The Impact Of LNG Natural Gas Exports On Pennsylvania Families
*  [2/12/2024] Environmental Hearing Board Narrows, But Allows Protect PT Appeal Of Shale Gas Well Permit Renewals In Westmoreland County To Move Forward
*  [2/12/2024] Liberty Twp., Citizens Group Appeal EHB Decision On Permit For Tri-County Landfill In Mercer County Over Threats Posed By Birds, Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste
*  [2/12/2024] PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund, PA League Of Women Voters Oppose Senate Bill Abrogating Final Rule Reducing Carbon Pollution From Power Plants [RGGI]
*  [2/12/2024] PJM Reports Natural Gas Power Plants Were Over Half The Forced Outages During Winter Storm Gerri In January; Special Procedures Used For Gas Generators Raised Questions About Market Impacts
*  [2/12/2024] WPCAMR: Watershed Groups Statewide Can Qualify For Quick Response Mine Drainage Treatment System, Watershed Restoration Project Repair Funding
*  [2/12/2024] DEP: Commonwealth Court Issues Order Appointing PA American Water Company Receiver For East Dunkard Water System Authority In Greene County Due To Compliance Issues
*  [2/12/2024] DEP Hosts March 12 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Holcim Solutions & Products US, LLC Facility, Westmoreland County
*  [2/5/2024] DEP Issues Equitrans Midstream Violation For Not Plugging 19 Abandoned Conventional Wells At The Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field In Greene County; Conflicts With Coal Mining
*  [2/5/2024] Protect PT: Commonwealth Court Vacates Penneco Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit, Remanding It To Plum Boro For Additional Fact Finding In Allegheny County
*  [2/5/2024] The Derrick: Aqua Pennsylvania Continues To Operate The Water System Serving The Village Of Reno After A Conventional Well Wastewater Release Contaminated Its Water Supply Last July In Venango County
*  [2/5/2024] What’s That Pink Stuff Spilled At Apex Energy Shale Gas Well Pad In Salem Twp., Westmoreland County?
*  [2/5/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 3
*  [2/5/2024] Environmental Quality Board Meets Feb. 13 On Land Recycling Program Cleanup Standards For More PFAS Chemicals, Revised Standard For Lead, Rulemaking Petition For Fletcher Run, Greene County By CONSOL Coal
*  [2/5/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Feb. 13 To Discuss Guidance Limiting Impacts Of Pipeline Construction; Pipelines Needed For Carbon Sequestration, Hydrogen; Electrification
*  [2/5/2024] DEP Assesses $73,153 Penalty On 2 Contractors Building A Rutter's Store In Blair County For Water Quality Violations; Exactly The Kind Of Violations A Citizen Group Was Afraid Of
*  [2/5/2024] DEP Issues Contractor Permit To Construct Rutter’s Store In Huntingdon County; The Same Contractor Penalized $73,153 By DEP For Failing To Comply With Permit In Blair County
*  [1/29/2024] Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science
*  [1/29/2024] DEP To Require Unconventional Shale Gas Operators To Disclose Chemicals Used In Drilling, Fracking Operations Earlier In Well Drilling Process Thru PPC Emergency Plan Changes
*  [1/29/2024] DEP Extends Deadline Of First Methane Pollution Report From Oil & Gas Facilities To June 1, 2024
*  [1/29/2024] 5 Months Later, Roulette Oil & Gas Still Has Not Resolved Violations For Abandoning A Shale Gas Well Without Plugging It In Potter County
*  [1/29/2024] XTO Energy Begins Plugging First Of 4 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells At Butler County Well Pad
*  [1/29/2024] 66 Months Later, DEP Worked With Conventional Well Owner, But Multiple Spills At A Well Site Have Still Not Been Cleaned Up; No Protections In Place For Operators Or Taxpayers
*  [1/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 20 to 26 - 15 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Revolution Pipeline Land Slip; Brief Compressor Fire; Crypto Mining? What's That Pink Stuff?
*  [1/29/2024] Marcellus Drilling News: DEP Approves Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County [Jan. 26 Inspection Found Gas Bubbling From Well]
*  [1/29/2024] Environmental Hearing Board Denies Liberty Twp., Citizens Group Appeal Of DEP Tri-County Landfill Permit Over Threats Posed By Birds, Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste In Mercer County
*  [1/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 27
*  [1/29/2024] DEP Drought Update: Clinton & Franklin Counties Remain In Drought Warning; 6 Counties In Drought Watch; 8 Counties Return To Normal Status
*  [1/29/2024] Bay Journal: Abandoned Mine Land Getting Makeover In Northeastern PA
*  [1/29/2024] Mountain Watershed Assn. Files Petition To Designate Parts Of Donegal Township Unsuitable For Coal Mining In Westmoreland County
*  [1/29/2024] DEP Awards $573,000 To 10 Projects To Protect Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone; $268,000 To 5 Projects To Protect Lake Erie Coastal Zone
*  [1/29/2024] Environmental Hearing Board Denies Lackawanna Energy Center Power Plant Motion To Dismiss Boro Of Jessup’s Appeal Of DEP Air Permit
*  [1/29/2024] If Requested, DEP Will Hold Feb. 28 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Keystone Station Coal-Fired Power Plant In Armstrong County
*  [1/29/2024] DEP Will Hold A Hearing Feb. 28, If Requested, On Air Quality Permit For Conemaugh Coal-Fired Power Plant In Indiana County
*  [1/29/2024] DEP, If Requested, Will Hold Feb. 28 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Homer City Generation Station In Indiana County
*  [1/29/2024] PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Host Feb. 15 Webinar On Evaluating Ecological Risk Under PA's Land Recycling Program
*  [1/22/2024] DEP Awards $101.1 Million In Federally-Funded Grants To Support Local Abandoned Mine-Related Restoration; Deadline For Next Round Of Grants Feb. 19
*  [1/22/2024] DEP Hosts In-Person, Virtual Q/A Sessions On Applying For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Mitigation Grants In Beaver County
*  [1/22/2024] DEP Releases Final Guidance On Environmental Considerations In Using Trenchless Technology To Construct Natural Gas, Other Pipelines
*  [1/22/2024] 4 Months Later, XTO Energy, Inc. Said They Will Plug 4 Shale Gas Wells DEP Found To Be Abandoned And Not Plugged In September
*  [1/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 13 to 19; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; 4 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Freshwater Pipeline Break; Ice & Snow
*  [1/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 20
*  [1/22/2024] DEP Awards $1.28 Million In Grants For Alternative Fuels Charging Stations, Clean Fuel Vehicles
*  [1/22/2024] DEP Extends Deadline For Comments On Proposed Grant Program To Reduce Industrial Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions To Jan. 29
*  [1/22/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Guidance Manual For Permitting New Commercial Hazardous Waste Treatment & Disposal Facilities
*  [1/22/2024] DEP Sets Feb. 21 Meeting/Hearing On Proposed Expansion Of Pierson Rheems Quarry In Donegal Creek Watershed, Lancaster County
*  [1/22/2024] Michael A. Braymer Appointed DEP Chief Counsel
*  [1/22/2024] Trout Unlimited: Bipartisan Abandoned Mine Cleanup 'Good Samaritan' Bill Reported Unanimously From US Senate Committee
*  [1/22/2024] PA Cong. Thompson, Deluzio Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Provide Flexibility To States Implementing The Federal Conventional Orphan Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
*  [1/15/2024] Interim DEP Secretary Shirley Tells Citizens Advisory Council Priorities Of Permitting Reform, Environmental Justice, Customer Service, Moving Forward
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Issued At Least 512 Violations To 95 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In 2023; 10 Shale Gas Operators Issued NOVs For Abandoning Wells
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Issued Record 6,860 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators In 2023-- Nearly 52% More Than In 2021; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues
*  [1/15/2024] 2023 Shale Gas Operator Compliance Report: 1,310 Violations; Explosions; Pad Fire, Evacuation; Uncontrolled Gas Venting; Frack-Outs; Polluting Water Supply; Spills; Pipeline Crashing Thru A Home; More
*  [1/15/2024] Environmental Hearing Board Allows Protect PT Appeal Of Olympus Shale Gas Well Permits In Westmoreland County To Proceed; Olympus Was Trying To Deprive Protect PT Of Its Rights
*  [1/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 4 to 12 - 9 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Cleanup Continues; Pipeline Land Slips
*  [1/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 13
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Project To Replace Abandoned Natural Gas Storage Wells In Greene County Due To Coal Mining
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Reviewing Equitrans Act 2 Soil Cleanup Report On Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Conventional Well That Failed Venting 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In Cambria County
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Issued Air Quality Permit For Leachate Evaporation System At Westmoreland Landfill With Special Radiation Monitoring Due To The Disposal Of Shale Gas Drilling Waste
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Sets Feb. 27 Hearing On Helix Ironwood Gas-Fired Power Plant Air Quality Permit Renewal, Lebanon County
*  [1/15/2024] EPA Awards $3 Million Grant To DEP To Support Development Of Climate Action Plan, Grant Program To Reduce Emissions In Heavy Industry; Public Input Needed By Jan. 22
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Awards $39.6 Million In Grants To Replace Aging Diesel Fleets With Zero-Emission Vehicles From VW Settlement Funding
*  [1/15/2024] Still Time To Register! PA Recycling Markets Center’s PA ReMaDE Conference Jan. 18-19
*  [1/15/2024] Interns Wanted: Departments Of Environmental Protection, Conservation & Natural Resources, Agriculture - Deadline Feb. 16
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Announces Over $12 Million In Watershed Restoration, Stormwater Infrastructure Grants Funded In-Part By Mariner East Pipeline Penalties, Federal American Rescue Plan Funding
*  [1/8/2024] DEP: Shale Gas Operator Found Responsible For Water Supply Contamination After Investigation Documents Chemical Contamination Spread Across 3 Townships In Greene County
*  [1/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 30 to Jan. 3 - Saga Of Plugging Nancy 13; Conventional Well Emission Offsets; Venting Since June; Still No Well Integrity Reports
*  [1/8/2024] Saga Continues For DEP Trying To Get A Conventional Operator To Plug Warren County Well Venting Gas Since At Least 2018
*  [1/8/2024] Zefiro Methane Corp To Begin Monitoring Abandoned Conventional Wells For Plugging To Create Emission Offsets
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Accepting Project Applications For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County Environmental Mitigation Community Fund
*  [1/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 6
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Disapproves Land Recycling Risk Assessment For Dozens Of Chemicals At American Refining Group Refinery In Bradford, McKean County
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Reviewing Act 2 Cleanup Reports For Trainer Refinery, Delaware County; Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery
*  [1/8/2024] PA Lung Association: High Levels Of Cancer-Causing Radon Gas Detected In 40% of PA Homes; Test Kits Available At No Charge In Priority ZIP Codes
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Chesapeake Bay Update: Funding Opportunities, Projects Supported; County Clean Water Updates; Much More!
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Accepting Applications For 2023 Reimbursement For Waste Host Municipality Inspectors
*  [1/8/2024] Applications Now Being Accepted For DEP County Recycling Coordinator Grants
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Discuss The PFOA/PFOS ‘Forever Chemical’ Drinking Water Standard, Hydrogen Hubs In PA At Jan. 9 Meeting
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Sets Feb. 13 Hearing On Hazardous Sites Cleanup Plan For Newberry Twp. PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Contamination Site In York County; Levels Exceed DEP Drinking Water MCL
*  [1/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 23 to 29 - Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Wastewater Releases; Conventional Wells Venting Gas
*  [1/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 30
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Invites Comments On A Permit For A Portion Of The NFG Midstream Covington 16-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline In Tioga County
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Reviewing Final Act 2 Land Recycling Cleanup Report For Dozens Of Chemicals At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Issues Request For Information To Help Develop Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Grant Program For Industrial Sector
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Seeking Applicants To Provide Air Quality Small Business Technical Assistance
*  [1/1/2024] Southwest PA Commission Hosts Jan. 8 Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Workshop, In-Person & Virtual
*  [12/25/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 16 to 22 - 46% More Conventional NOVs; More Abandoned Wells; Conventional Well Fire; Shale Gas Venting, Spills, Plugging Mess
*  [12/25/2023] Conventional Oil Well Storage Tanks Burn In McKean County, 6 Local Fire Companies Respond
*  [12/25/2023] CNX Resources Begins Disclosing General Information On Fracking Chemicals, Air Monitoring Results Online At 2 Shale Gas Well Pads
*  [12/25/2023] Oil & Gas Facilities Self-Reported 13,432,713 Tons Of Air Pollution In PA In 2022; 101,741,616 Tons Total Since 2012
*  [12/25/2023] AP: Drilling Under Pennsylvania's 'Gasland' Town Has Been Banned Since 2010, It's Coming Back
*  [12/25/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 23
*  [12/25/2023] Project InnerSpace Launches Cross-Collaborative Future of Oil/Gas Well-Based Geothermal In Pennsylvania Study
*  [12/25/2023] PA Enviro Groups File Appeal For Removal Of Coal Ash 'Mountain’ At Stronghold Digital Mining Scrubgrass Cryptocurrency Power Facility In Venango County
*  [12/25/2023] Franklin County Joins Clinton, York Counties In Drought Warning Status; 26 Water Supplies Ask For Water Conservation
*  [12/25/2023] Federal Office Of Surface Mining Awards PA $300,000 To Update Abandoned Mine Land Inventory
*  [12/25/2023] DEP Environmental Justice Update: Comments On Revised EJ Permit Review Policy; Funding & Comment Opportunities; Much More
*  [12/25/2023] Governor’s Office Releases List Of DEP, Other Agency Permits Included In PAyback Permit Fee Refund Program And Review Deadlines
*  [12/25/2023] DEP Invites Comments, Sets Feb. 8 Hearing On RACT 3 Air Quality Permit For Magnesita Refractories Facility In York County
*  [12/18/2023] Former Employees Of Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Company Ask For Criminal Investigation Of Eureka And An Audit Of DEP Over Alleged Workplace, Environmental Violations
*  [12/18/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 9 to 15 - 500 Conventional Abandoned Well Violations; 25 Days Of Shale Gas Water Withdrawals Without Permission; Wastewater Pipeline Spill
*  [12/18/2023] EPA/DOE Award DEP $44.4 Million To Plug Active, Conventional Oil & Gas Wells To Stop Leaking Methane
*  [12/18/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 16
*  [12/18/2023] House Hearing: Shapiro Administration Supports Expanding Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards; Renewables Lower Energy Costs; Increase Grid Reliability; More Work Needed To Improve Gas Reliability
*  [12/18/2023] PUC, DEP: PA Reached 1 Gigawatt Of Installed Solar Generation, Enough To Power A City The Size Of Pittsburgh With In-State Solar
*  [12/18/2023] House Passes Bill Requiring Registration Of Cryptocurrency Mining Operations, Impact Study
*  [12/18/2023] Carbon County Residents Urge DEP To Deny Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. Request To Burn Tires To Fuel Its Cryptocurrency Mining Operation At The Panther Creek Power Plant
*  [12/18/2023] Final State Budget Bills Passed, Go To The Governor
*  [12/18/2023] DEP 2024 Advisory Committee, Board Meeting Schedule Now Available
*  [12/18/2023] DEP Issues Violation Notice Against Keystone Landfill For Failure To Control Odors In Lackawanna County
*  [12/18/2023] DEP Bans Sale Of Wiltronic Corp (IVIEW) Electronic Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
*  [12/18/2023] Senate, House Release 2024 DEP, DCNR, Agriculture Agency Budget Hearing Schedule
*  [12/11/2023] Marcellus Drilling News: Senate Republican Leaders Urge DEP To Withdraw Environmental Justice Policy Saying They Lack Statutory Authority, And Out-of-State Groups Not Actual Residents Express EJ Concerns
*  [12/11/2023] DEP Expects $44 Million To Plug Conventional Wells Leaking Methane; $76 Million For 2nd Year Of Federal Conventional Abandoned Well Plugging Program
*  [12/11/2023] DEP Plugs 132 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells So Far; DEP Issued 499 NOVs For New Conventional Well Abandonments So Far In 2023
*  [12/11/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 2 to 8 -- 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Restore Shale Gas Pad; No Progress In Spill Cleanups
*  [12/11/2023] Roulette Oil & Gas LLC Withdraws Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Application In Potter County
*  [12/11/2023] DEP Sets Jan. 23 Hearing On Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Frazer Compressor Station In Chester County
*  [12/11/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 9
*  [12/11/2023] Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter Natural Gas Production Down 0.5% Over 3rd Quarter 2022, But Increased Over Last 12 Months
*  [12/11/2023] PennEnvironment, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Sue Styropek USA To Stop Plastic Pollution In Raccoon Creek, Ohio River In Beaver County
*  [12/11/2023] PA Senate Hearing Focuses On Minimizing Risk And Harm In Development Of PA’s Hydrogen Infrastructure
*  [12/11/2023] Hydrogen Tax Credit Changes, Riparian Buffers, Light Pollution On House Environmental Committee Agenda For Dec. 13
*  [12/11/2023] DEP Invites Comments At Jan. 9 Hearing On Jessop Steel, LLC Air Quality Permit In Washington County
*  [12/11/2023] Hearing Set For Jan. 23 On DEP Air Quality Permit For The Cleveland Cliffs Plate Facility In Chester County
*  [12/4/2023] DEP- EQT Settlement Agreement Allows Fracking To Resume From 2 Shale Gas Well Pads In Area Impacted By Frack-Out In New Freeport, Greene County; Does Not Address Water Supply Issues Of Residents
*  [12/4/2023] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Dec. 5 On Methane Reduction Program; Spill Policy; Chapter 78 Update; Certified Inspector Program; Injection Well Primacy
*  [12/4/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 25 to Dec. 1 - 13 More Abandoned Conventional Well NOVs; Failure To Report Water Supply Impact In July
*  [12/4/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 2
*  [12/4/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed CNX Midstream Project To Expose Natural Gas, Water Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Mining Damage In Washington County
*  [12/4/2023] Shapiro Administration Provides Update On Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Response 9 Months After Derailment
*  [12/4/2023] DEP, Local Partners To Hold 5 Outreach Sessions For Input Into Priority Climate Action Plan Initiatives Starting Dec. 4
*  [12/4/2023] PennFuture, Clean Air Council, Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund File Appeal Of Commonwealth Court’s Ruling Refusing To Allow Them To Intervene In RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Case
*  [12/4/2023] DEP Sets Jan. 16 Hearing On East Penn Manufacturing Plant Air Quality Permit In Berks County
*  [12/4/2023] DEP Awards $19.3 Million In 2024 County Clean Water Action Plan Chesapeake Bay Implementation Grants
*  [12/4/2023] DEP: Clinton & York Counties In Drought Warning, Westmoreland Added To Drought Watch, 13 Counties Remain In Drought Watch
*  [12/4/2023] EPA Region 3 Awards Nearly $387 Million For Clean Water, Drinking Water Infrastructure Upgrades In Pennsylvania
*  [11/27/2023] The Derrick: DEP: Little Headway In Reno Oil Well Wastewater Cleanup In Venango County
*  [11/27/2023] The Daily Item Guest Essay: State Senator Calls Natural Gas infrastructure Public Health And Safety Bill 'Stupid'
*  [11/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 18 to 24 - 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; 2nd Spill At Same Shale Gas Pad This Month; Village Of Reno Wastewater Cleanup Slow Going
*  [11/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 25
*  [11/27/2023] Shapiro Administration Announces Appeal Of RGGI Rejection To PA Supreme Court To Preserve Authority For Future Governors
*  [11/20/2023] Shapiro Administration Now Accepting Nominations For 2024 Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence
*  [11/20/2023] State Dept. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts From Natural Gas Development
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Issued At Least 472 Violations To 90 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators; 20 NOVs To 10 Shale Gas Operators For Abandoning Their Wells Without Plugging Them So Far In 2023
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Issues Record 5,653 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators So Far In 2023; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues
*  [11/20/2023] Shale Gas Operators On Track To Have More Violations In 2023 - Frozen Gas Infrastructure; Explosion; Pad Fire; Uncontrolled Gas Venting; Frack Outs; Major Spills; Pipeline Crashing Thru A Home Highlight 2023 So Far
*  [11/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 11 to 17 -- 37 Conventional Abandoned Wells; 1,260+ Shale Gas Spill; 1,000 Gallon Conventional Oil Spill In State Park; Rager Mtn Gas Storage Still Not Cleaned Up
*  [11/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 18
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Danco Industries Petroleum Contaminated Wastewater Treatment Facility In Venango County
*  [11/20/2023] Beaver County Residents Call For Accountability, Emergency Preparedness After Dozens Of Malfunctions, Pollution From Shell Petrochemical Plant
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For 400MW Solar Energy & Battery Storage Project On Reclaimed Abandoned Mine Land In Clearfield County
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Collects $62,475 Penalty From Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill Under Agreement To Correct Violations, Improve Environmental Protections At The Facility
*  [11/20/2023] DEP: Part Of $39,100 Penalty Imposed For Waste Violations Related To Implosion Of Smokestacks At Former Cheswick Power Plant In Allegheny County Will Benefit Community
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Accepting Comments On Two Proposed COAs Involving The Easton Road PFC And Cross Keys PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Contamination Sites In Bucks County
*  [11/20/2023] DEP: Penalties Collected From Air Pollution Violations At Webco's Oil City Facility Funds Local Park Projects In Venango County
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Sets Dec. 18 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Waste Tire Fuel At Panther Creek Power Plant In Carbon County
*  [11/20/2023] New PAyback Permit Fee Refund Program At DEP Covers Permits, Authorizations Submitted After Nov. 1
*  [11/13/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - November 4 to 10 - Eight More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Venting Gas; Improper Plugging, Failed To Restore Well Pads
*  [11/13/2023] Environmental Health Project: Gov. Shapiro Must Acknowledge Health Risks Of Natural Gas Development And Take Meaningful Action To Protect The Public
*  [11/13/2023] Physicians For Social Responsibility PA: Gov. Shapiro's Announcement With CNX Does Not Go Far Enough In Protecting Public Health And The Environment From Natural Gas Development
*  [11/13/2023] TribLive Editorial: Is Shapiro's Voluntary Agreement With CNX The Right Move For Gas Well Safety? 'We Do Not Trust Foxes To Guard Henhouses'
*  [11/13/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 11
*  [11/13/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Columbia County Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Compressor Station Air Quality Permit And Will Hold A Hearing Dec. 19 - If One Is Requested
*  [11/13/2023] DEP To Hold Last 3 Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
*  [11/13/2023] National Environmental Justice Art Campaign - We Refuse To Die - Launching In Pittsburgh Area
*  [11/13/2023] DEP Extends Deadline For Submitting Concept Papers For PA Grid Resilience Funding To Nov. 14
*  [11/13/2023] DEP Sets 2nd Hearings Dec. 11 On NPDES Stormwater Permits For Two Warehouse Projects In Lowhill Twp., Lehigh County
*  [11/6/2023] House Committee Hearing On Increasing Safety Setback Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities Heard About First-Hand Citizen Experiences On Health Impacts; From Physicians On Health Studies; The Gas Industry On Job Impacts
*  [11/6/2023] Sen. Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Called Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment ‘Stupid’
*  [11/6/2023] Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes
*  [11/6/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 - Fire At PA General Energy Shale Gas Well Pad; 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Replugging Shale Gas Well
*  [11/6/2023] Attorney General Henry Announces Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2018 Natural Gas Explosion That Destroyed Home In Greene County
*  [11/6/2023] Marcellus Drilling News: Mariner East 2X Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Being Repaired After Dent Discovered In Chester County During Maintenance Check
*  [11/6/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 4
*  [11/6/2023] University Of Pittsburgh Studies Of Shale Gas Development Health Impacts To Be Discussed At Nov. 14 Joint Meeting Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board
*  [11/6/2023] PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov. 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
*  [11/6/2023] Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force Issues Report On The Best Ways To Increase Exports Of PA's Natural Gas; Minority Report Rebuts Need For LNG Facility, Outlines Impacts
*  [11/6/2023] Protect PT Holds Nov. 11 Workshop On Living Near Shale Gas In Westmoreland County
*  [11/6/2023] PUC Issues Emergency Order To PA American Water To Operate Troubled East Dunkard Water Authority In Greene County; Lawsuit Filed Alleging Water Tainted By Mine Drainage, Shale Gas Operations
*  [11/6/2023] Commonwealth Court Declares RGGI ‘Invalid Tax’ And Enjoins DEP, EQB From Enforcing Its Provisions
*  [11/6/2023] EQB Invites Comments On Proposed Site-Specific Mercury Standard Related To York County Landfill; Dec. 5 Virtual Hearing
*  [11/6/2023] PA Watershed Groups Engaged 8,000 Volunteers Contributing Over 44,500 Hours; 35,000+ People Involved In Projects, Education, Hikes, Other Events; Planted 30,000 Trees in 2022
*  [11/6/2023] CBF's Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership: Last Year's Winners Of The Mira Lloyd Dock Diversity Award Work On Completing Environmental Projects
*  [11/6/2023] DEP Sets Dec. 7 Hearing On York County Solid Waste Authority Resource Recovery Facility Air Permit
*  [10/30/2023] DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec. 8, On Medical Leave; Jessica Shirley Named Interim Acting Secretary
*  [10/30/2023] House Environmental Committee To Hold Oct. 30 Hearing On Bill Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Shale Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Infrastructure Based On Latest Science, Grand Jury Report
*  [10/30/2023] PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov. 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
*  [10/30/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 21 to 27 -- Plugging 100th Well Tough Going; 30 Abandoned Conventional Wells Confirmed To 1 Operator
*  [10/30/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 28
*  [10/30/2023] DEP 2024 Water Quality Report Shows 28,820 Miles Of Streams With Impaired Water Quality In PA (34%) - An Increase From 27,886 In 2022
*  [10/30/2023] Chesapeake Bay Foundation: As Miles Of Water Quality Impaired Streams Increase, CBF Sees Opportunities And Momentum In Pennsylvania
*  [10/30/2023] Deadline Change: DEP Accepting Applications For Next Round Of Local Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project Grants Until Nov. 8
*  [10/30/2023] Large Heating Oil Spill In Cumberland County Highlights A Hole In Storage Tank Act, Availability Of Voluntary Underground Tank Leak Cleanup Insurance
*  [10/30/2023] DEP Adds Details On The 3 Upcoming Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
*  [10/30/2023] DEP Invites Counties To Apply For Mosquitoborne Disease Control Grants
*  [10/30/2023] PA Chapter Of American Fisheries Society Hosts Online Student Career/Jobs Program Nov. 9
*  [10/30/2023] Senate Appropriations Reports Out ‘Stream Cleaning’ Bills
*  [10/30/2023] Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills On Garage Drain Water Disposal, Crematory Operating Temperatures
*  [10/23/2023] Gov. Shapiro: We Need Stronger Laws To Deal With The ‘Corporate Greed’ That Let Oil & Gas Operators Get Away With Abandoning Wells For Far Too Long
*  [10/23/2023] DEP Adds 3 More Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
*  [10/23/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 14 to 20 - 6 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Conventional Gas Migration Incident; Inactive Shale Gas Wells
*  [10/23/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 21
*  [10/23/2023] Senate Committee Briefing Finds No Definition Or Standard For ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Natural Gas; PA Producers Already Below One RS Threshold
*  [10/23/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Nov. 2 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including Shale Gas Drilling In Loyalsock, Pine Creek Exceptional Value Watersheds
*  [10/23/2023] House Committee Reports Out Cryptocurrency Mining Bill Without Permit Moratorium; Resolution To Encourage Geothermal Energy From Abandoned Mine Pools; Hearing On Gas Facility Setbacks Oct. 30
*  [10/23/2023] Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov. Shapiro, Let's Hold Them Accountable - Support The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
*  [10/23/2023] PEMA Now Accepting Letters Of Interest For FEMA Flood Mitigation & Building Resilient Infrastructure And Communities Grant Programs
*  [10/23/2023] DEP Awards Over $3.8 Million In Federal Section 319 Grants To 15 Projects To Restore Watershed Health
*  [10/23/2023] DEP Drought Update: York Remains In Drought Warning; 14 Counties Remain In Drought Watch; 6 Counties Return To Normal
*  [10/23/2023] DEP Responds To Oil Spill In Conodoguinet Creek; PA American Water Company Shuts Water Intake, Customers Asked To Conserve Water In Cumberland County
*  [10/23/2023] Encina Fort Union LLC Withdraws Stormwater Permit Application For A Facility That Chemically Recycles Waste Plastics In Northumberland County After It Could Not Respond To Major Deficiencies In 4 Months
*  [10/23/2023] DEP Bans Sale Of Trexonic Electronic Products For Not Complying With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
*  [10/16/2023] Vice Chair Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council Asks DEP To Report On University Of Pittsburgh Study That Found At Least 800,000 Tons Of Oil & Gas Production Waste Sent To Landfills Was Unaccounted For In One Year
*  [10/16/2023] DEP Reports Shale Gas Operations Sent Over 138,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2022 - Over 911,000 Cubic Feet Since 2017
*  [10/16/2023] Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Still Fighting To Make Road Dumping Its Wastewater Legal; DEP Introduces Concepts Of A ‘Life Insurance Policy’ For Plugging Wells; Certified 3rd Party Inspectors
*  [10/16/2023] The Derrick: Permanent Alternate Water Supply Being Considered For Village Of Reno, Venango County After Contamination By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill
*  [10/16/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging
*  [10/16/2023] DEP Invites Comments At Nov. 14 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Marcus Hook Terminal In An EJ Area, Delaware County
*  [10/16/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 14
*  [10/16/2023] Better Path Coalition: Oct. 18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure
*  [10/16/2023] Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. 16 Webinar On Lawsuit Challenging Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [10/16/2023] DOE Awards Natural Gas-Based Hydrogen Hub In Western PA, Renewable/Nuclear Power-Based Hydrogen Hub In Eastern PA; Reactions
*  [10/16/2023] DEP Extends Public Comment Period On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy To Nov. 30; Will Schedule Additional Hearings
*  [10/16/2023] DEP Collects $500,000 In Penalties From DC Ambler Properties In Montgomery County For Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act Violations
*  [10/16/2023] DEP Accepting Applications For $16 Million In PA Grid Resilience Funding; Nov. 1 Deadline
*  [10/16/2023] EEN Action - Evangelical Environmental Network Delivered Over 51,000 Signatures To Gov. Shapiro In Support Of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
*  [10/16/2023] Impacto Media: Rich Negrin, Está Creando Un Ejército De Guerreros Ambientales [DEP Secretary Rich Negrin Is Forming An Army Of Climate Warriors]
*  [10/16/2023] Drexel University Environmental Collaboratory Oct. 26 Student-Focused Fireside Chat With DEP Secretary Rich Negrin
*  [10/16/2023] DEP Invites Students Age 9-14 To Submit Entries In Student Radon Poster Contest
*  [10/9/2023] House Unanimously Passes Bill Against Lawsuits Aimed At Silencing Citizen Critics And Dampening Public Participation
*  [10/9/2023] DEP Updates Location Of Scranton Public Hearing On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
*  [10/9/2023] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 10 To Introduce New Executive Director Ian Irvin; Discuss DEP Issues Generally
*  [10/9/2023] Repsol Gas USA Issued Violation For Denying DEP Right To Document Damaged Shale Gas Well Casing During Investigation Of Uncontrolled Gas Venting In Bradford County
*  [10/9/2023] DEP Issues Violation To CNX Gas Company For Unauthorized Water Withdrawals For 17 Days From Beaver Run Reservoir In Westmoreland County
*  [10/9/2023] Petro Erie Inc. Again Claims It Lacks The Financial Ability To Comply With DEP’s 2nd Order To Cleanup Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill That Contaminated The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply In Venango County
*  [10/9/2023] Environmental Hearing Board Will Hear Key Arguments On Appeal By A Washington County Family Alleging Shale Gas Drilling Contaminated Their Water Supply With PFAS And Other Chemicals
*  [10/9/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 -- Company Tries To Limit DEP Investigation; Unauthorized Water Withdrawals; Can’t Pay For Reno Cleanup; Venting Gas Wells; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [10/9/2023] DEP Invites Comments On PA General Energy Constructing 3 Shale Natural Gas, Water Pipelines Thru Exceptional Value, High Quality, Wild Trout Streams In Lycoming County
*  [10/9/2023] DEP Now Accepting Comments On 2 Proposed Olympus Energy Water Withdrawal Structures At Beaver Run Reservoir To Support Shale Gas Development In Westmoreland County
*  [10/9/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 7
*  [10/9/2023] The Allegheny Front: Three Rivers Waterkeeper Citizen Monitoring Finds Plastics Maker Styrenics LLC Discharging Plastic Nurdles Into Ohio River, Threatens Lawsuit To Stop Them
*  [10/9/2023] Maryland's Conowingo Pay For Success Program Funding Now Available In PA’s Susquehanna River Watershed For Projects To Reduce Nutrient Pollution
*  [10/9/2023] PA Clean Water Academy Releases 2 New Courses On Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration, 2024 Integrated Water Quality Report Viewer
*  [10/9/2023] Environmental Quality Board, DEP Invite Comments On Changes To Water Quality Standards & Water Quality Toxics Management Strategy; Hearing Nov. 14
*  [10/9/2023] DEP Sets Nov. 13 Hearing On Water Permits For River Pointe Warehouse Project In Northampton County
*  [10/2/2023] Pennsylvania Receives Federal Appalachian States Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Award For Clearfield County Mine Reclamation, Trail Enhancement Project
*  [10/2/2023] DEP Updates Times Of 2 Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy To Accept Comments In Erie, Philadelphia
*  [10/2/2023] Gov. Shapiro’s Work Group Concludes A Cap-And-Invest Carbon Pollution Regulation Program Would Be Optimal Approach To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions From Power Plants; Scale Up Solar Energy
*  [10/2/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 23 to 29; More Abandoned Wells; Oil & Gas Doesn’t Typically Issue NOVs For ‘Routine’ Venting Of Natural Gas, Will Air Quality Under New Regs?
*  [10/2/2023] Environmental Health Project: How DEP Issues Permits For Shale Gas Facilities Without Considering Cumulative Impacts - How New Facilities Will Add To Existing Pollution Loads And Impact The Area
*  [10/2/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Title V Air Quality Permit For Eastern Gas Transmission Compressor Station In Westmoreland County At Oct. 31 Hearing
*  [10/2/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 30
*  [10/2/2023] Member Of Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Briefs DCNR Advisory Council On Siting Of Shale Gas Well Pad On State Forest Land To Accommodate Taking Gas From Private Land In Tioga County
*  [10/2/2023] Guest Essay: DEP Should Invest $33.6 Million In New Federal Funding Wisely To Plug Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Not Reward The Industry For Bad Behavior
*  [10/2/2023] Save The Date! PA Recycling Markets Center’s PA ReMaDE Conference Jan. 18-19
*  [9/25/2023] Senators Santarsiero, Comitta To Introduce Bill Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Shale Natural Gas Drilling Sites From 500 To 2,500 Feet, Based On Latest Science
*  [9/25/2023] DEP Issues NOVs To Roulette Oil & Gas LLC For Abandoning Another Conventional Well In Potter County; Roulette Applying For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit
*  [9/25/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 16 to 22 - 2nd Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad? 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Order
*  [9/25/2023] Petro Erie, Inc. Appeals 2nd DEP Order Requiring The Operator To Restore The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply Contaminated By A Spill Of Conventional Oil Well Wastewater In Venango County
*  [9/25/2023] DEP Hears Concerns, Some Support From Water Resources Committee On Draft Reg. On Reporting Unauthorized Spills, Releases
*  [9/25/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 23
*  [9/25/2023] Clean Air Council, FracTracker Alliance Sept. 28 Webinar Updates Public On Efforts To Reduce Methane, Other Air Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry Infrastructure - Shale Gas & Conventional Wells
*  [9/25/2023] DEP To Increase Monitoring, Develop Surface Water Standard For PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' After Study Shows 76% Of Streams, Rivers Contained At Least One Of These Chemicals
*  [9/25/2023] DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water Leading Shale Gas Operators To Use Contaminated Water In Fracking Operations; DEP Doesn’t Require Routine PFAS Testing
*  [9/25/2023] DEP: York County Moved To Drought Warning; 19 Counties Still In Drought Watch
*  [9/25/2023] DEP Invites Comments At Oct. 25 Hearings On NPDES Stormwater Permits For Two Warehouse Projects In Lowhill Twp., Lehigh County
*  [9/25/2023] Register Now! PA Statewide Watershed Conference Oct. 29-30 In Altoona
*  [9/25/2023] Celebrate Riparian Buffers Month In October! With Penn State Extension, Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, Penn State Agriculture & Environment Center
*  [9/25/2023] DEP Announced $38.76 Million In Funding For 6 Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects In 5 Counties; Next Round Of Applications Due Dec. 2
*  [9/25/2023] DEP Publishes Final Air Quality General Permit For Installation Of Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares
*  [9/25/2023] DEP Starts Air Monitoring Study Near Rausch Creek Coal Waste-fired Electric Generation Facility, Schuylkill County In Response To Citizen Concerns In An EJ Area
*  [9/25/2023] DEP Blog: Abandoned Coal Mine Reforestation Initiatives Healing The Land
*  [9/25/2023] EPA And Lincoln University Expand Partnership To Include Department Of Environmental Protection
*  [9/25/2023] DCNR Publishes Final List Of 82 Changes To PA Native Wild Plant Classification List
*  [9/25/2023] PA Natural Heritage Program Spotlights Conservation Genetics; Rare Plant Mysteries; Be A Good Bee Collaborator; Old Growth Forest Field Work; Moth List Updates
*  [9/25/2023] House Environmental Committee Meets Sept. 26 On Cryptocurrency Mining Moratorium Bill
*  [9/18/2023] DEP Publishes Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy Changing Permit Review Process; Opens Comment Period Setting 9 Public Hearings
*  [9/18/2023] Petro Erie, Inc. Says It Lacks The Financial Ability To Comply With DEP’s Order To Clean Up Conventional Oil Well Wastewater That Contaminated The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply; Will Taxpayers Be Stuck With Cleanup Costs Again?
*  [9/18/2023] Oil & Gas Industry Spills, Releases Created Over 575 New Brownfield Sites So Far In Pennsylvania, With More Every Week
*  [9/18/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 9 to 15; First Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad? Another Leaking Equitrans Storage Well; Plugging Grant Twp. Injection Well
*  [9/18/2023] Environmental Health Project Finds Results ‘Very Concerning’ From University Of Pittsburgh Studies Showing Links Between Natural Gas Development And Lymphoma Cancer, Worsening Asthma Conditions, Lower Birth Weights
*  [9/18/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 16
*  [9/18/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Section 401 Water Quality Certification For A Texas Eastern Pipeline Project Going Under The Schuylkill River In Chester, Montgomery Counties
*  [9/18/2023] Shapiro Administration Secures $100 Million From Monsanto Related To PCB Contamination That Damaged PA Waterways
*  [9/18/2023] Pennsylvania Coal Alliance Recognizes Companies For Safety, Reclamation
*  [9/11/2023] We Remember Sept. 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy
*  [9/11/2023] KDKA: Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Crashes Into, Thru Westmoreland County Home And A Loophole In State Law That Doesn’t Regulate Gathering Pipelines For Safety
*  [9/11/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 2 to 8; Equitrans Issued NOVs For Failing To Provide DEP Inspectors Access To Facilities As Requested
*  [9/11/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 9
*  [9/11/2023] DEP: Preliminary Test Results Not Indicative Of Stray Gas Migration Cause Of Plum Boro Home Explosion In Rustic Ridge Allegheny County
*  [9/11/2023] PUC: No Evidence Public Utility Natural Gas Equipment Caused 2022 Hialeah Dr. Home Explosion In Plum Boro, Allegheny County
*  [9/11/2023] DEP Provides Oil & Gas Advisory Board With Updates On Well Plugging Financial Assurance; Pitt Health Studies; Funding Options For Program; Civil Penalty Policy
*  [9/11/2023] Republican Rep. Krupa Introduces HB 1656 To Ban Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Wells To Protect The Public From Radioactive, Toxic Materials
*  [9/11/2023] Independent Fiscal Office Reports 2nd Quarter Natural Gas Production Increased 0.3% Over Prior Year; Dramatic Slowdown In Drilling New Shale Gas Wells Taking Hold
*  [9/11/2023] DEP Hosts Sept. 29 Online Training On New Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Guidance
*  [9/11/2023] Legal Victory Puts Hellbender Back On Track For Federal Endangered Species Protection
*  [9/11/2023] GreenGov Council, Penn State Sustainability Hosts 2023 Commonwealth Sustainability Week Oct. 2-6
*  [9/4/2023] DEP Expands Environmental Justice Protections With Updated Policy, Improved Mapping Tool; Enhanced Permit Reviews Start Sept. 16
*  [9/4/2023] Scranton Times Editorial: Give Teeth To DEP Environmental Justice Policy
*  [9/4/2023] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Sept. 12 On Environmental Justice Policy; DEP Customer Service Initiatives; Risks With Carbon Capture, Sequestration
*  [9/4/2023] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Sept. 5 On Proposed Permit Fee Changes; Well Plugging Financial Assurances To Prevent Abandonments; Environmental Justice Policy; Injection Well Primacy
*  [9/4/2023] Between The Lines Podcast: Pediatrician Dr. Ned Ketyer Explains The Results Of New Studies Of The Health Impacts Of Natural Gas Development On Children And Adults
*  [9/4/2023] The Center Square: State Dept. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results
*  [9/4/2023] DEP Responds To Emergency Notification Of Uncontrolled Venting Of Natural Gas For Over 10.5 Hours From A Repsol Oil Shale Gas Well; Temporary Evacuation Order Issued In Bradford County
*  [9/4/2023] EQT Shale Gas Wastewater Truck Rolls Over Spilling More Than 4,600 Gallons Of Wastewater In Lycoming County
*  [9/4/2023] Do Not Consume Water Advisory Lifted In Village Of Reno; Petro Erie, Inc. Barely Begins Cleanup Of Conventional Oil Wastewater Spill Site That Contaminated The Water Supply In Venango County
*  [9/4/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 26 to Sept. 1-- Uncontrolled Venting Of Shale Gas Well; 4,600 Gallon Spill Of Shale Gas Wastewater; Cleanup Of Conventional Oil Wastewater Spill Barely Begins
*  [9/4/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 2
*  [9/4/2023] PUC Safety Division Continues Investigation Into Deadly House Explosion In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
*  [9/4/2023] DEP Awards $2.9 Million In Grants To Schools, Businesses, Local Governments To Switch To Zero- Or Low-Emission Vehicles; Next Round Of Applications Due Dec. 15
*  [9/4/2023] Public Health Watch: Black Water - How Industry Fights Controls On Manganese, A Little-Known Drinking Water Contaminant; Beaver County Community Impacted
*  [9/4/2023] DEP Invites Comments On NPDES Water Quality Permit Renewal For Modern Landfill, York County At Hearing On Oct. 4
*  [9/4/2023] DEP To Host Sept. 12 Public Meeting On Bishop Tube Hazardous Site Cleanup Plan In Chester County
*  [9/4/2023] PA Senate Republicans Pass 2 Fiscal Code Budget Bills - But It Doesn’t Matter
*  [8/28/2023] Lawsuit Filed Against General Assembly, Governor Challenges Constitutionality Of Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Harm Caused By Abandoning Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [8/28/2023] Petro Erie, Inc. Appeals DEP’s July Field Order To Clean Up Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill Contaminating Village Of Reno’s Water Supply In Venango County; 2nd Appeal May Be Coming
*  [8/28/2023] DEP Finds 2 More Petro Erie, Inc. Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Tanks With A Pipe Leading To A Discharge Area In A Ditch In Sugarcreek Boro, Venango County
*  [8/28/2023] Equitrans Determined Leak Of Over 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas From Cambria County Storage Facility Was Caused By Corrosion In Conventional Gas Well Casing
*  [8/28/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 19 to 25 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Gas Frack-Out; More Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Equitrans Cleanup Continues
*  [8/28/2023] Republican Rep. Krupa To Introduce Bill To Ban Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Wells To Protect The Public From Radioactive, Toxic Materials
*  [8/28/2023] Republican Herald Editorial: Health Depends On Regulation Of Oil & Gas Development
*  [8/28/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 26
*  [8/28/2023] Shapiro Administration Secures Methane Detectors For Neighborhood In Plum Boro, Allegheny County Where Home Exploded
*  [8/28/2023] 15 Western PA Environmental Organizations Call On Gov. Shapiro To Implement RGGI
*  [8/28/2023] DEP Now Accepting Applications For $2.6 Million In PA Clean Diesel Grants
*  [8/28/2023] PA Agriculture Energy Efficiency Rebate Program Now Accepting Applications
*  [8/28/2023] DEP Begins Accepting Applications For Coastal Zone Grants Aug. 28
*  [8/28/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Supplement To Manure Management For Environmental Protection Guidance For Animal Manures And Agricultural Process Wastewater
*  [8/28/2023] DEP: Drought Watch Remains For 20 Counties, Lifted For 47 Counties
*  [8/21/2023] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Studies Find Shale Gas Wells Can Make Asthma Worse; Children Have An Increased Chance Of Developing Lymphoma Cancer; Slightly Lower Birth Weights
*  [8/21/2023] State Dept. Of Health Apologizes For Not Listening To Communities Suffering Health Impacts From Shale Gas Development; New Health Study Results ‘Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’
*  [8/21/2023] Post-Gazette Editorial: Who Pays For Natural Gas Development’s Harm? Pennsylvania Should Acknowledge The Clear Fact That Fracking Has Hurt People, Specifically Children
*  [8/21/2023] The Derrick: DEP Issues Order To Petro Erie, Inc. To Restore Village Of Reno Water System, Cleanup Contamination Caused By Its Conventional Well Wastewater Release; 1 Month Without Clean Water
*  [8/21/2023] DEP Investigating Other Possible Sources Of Methane As Part Of Response To Plum Borough Home Explosion, Including Nearby Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
*  [8/21/2023] Public Utility Commission Safety Investigation Ongoing Following Deadly House Explosion In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
*  [8/21/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 12 to 18; DEP Orders Restoration Of Water Supply; Conventional Wells Abandoned; Leaking Methane, Fluids
*  [8/21/2023] DEP, SRBC Invite Comments On New Permits For PA General Energy Shawnee Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal On The Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County After Failure To Comply With Its First Permit
*  [8/21/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 19
*  [8/21/2023] DEP Grants Variance From Containment Standard For 10 Aboveground Storage Tanks At American Refining Refinery In Bradford, McKean County
*  [8/21/2023] New DEP Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy, Definition Of Environmental Justice Areas Effective Sept. 16; Public Comments Accepted Thru Oct. 29
*  [8/21/2023] Now On Demand: Shaping The Pennsylvania Clean Energy & Efficiency Workforce Future Webinar
*  [8/21/2023] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Environmental Education Grants; New Teaching Green Resources
*  [8/21/2023] Penn State Extension: Solar Law Symposium Aug. 23 On Gridscale Solar Energy Facilities
*  [8/14/2023] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Will Release Results Of Shale Gas Development Health Impact Study On Aug. 15 In Washington County
*  [8/14/2023] Mayor Of Sugarcreek Asks For Donations To Refill Village Of Reno Water Tank After Contamination In Venango County; Emergency Water Distribution Resumes; Contamination From Conventional Oil Wastewater Tanks Suspected
*  [8/14/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 5 to 11; Routine Venting Of Conventional Wells, Shale Gas Wells; Major Conventional Spills; Pipeline Subsidence
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Extends Comment Period On Proposed Roulette Oil/Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Clara Twp., Potter County To Sept. 7
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Accepting Comments On 2 Major Olympus Energy/Hyperion Midstream Natural Gas, Water Pipeline Projects Impacting EV, HQ Streams, Wetlands In Westmoreland County
*  [8/14/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 12
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Extends Current ESCGP-3 Oil & Gas Erosion Control General Permit Without Changes Thru Jan. 2025
*  [8/14/2023] Hold Erie Coke Accountable Calls On EPA, DEP, Erie County & City To Form Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Community Working Group On Site Cleanup, Revitalization
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Starts Taxpayer-Funded Hazardous Sites Cleanup Process For American Biodiesel Site In Erie County; Hearing Sept. 21
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Stream Evaluation Reports For 3 Streams In Monroe/Carbon; Susquehanna; Berks/Lehigh/Montgomery Counties
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Extends Water Quality Data Submission Deadline For Brodhead Creek, Monroe County
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Total Maximum Daily Load Water Quality Plan For Alder Run Headwaters, Erie County
*  [8/7/2023] New Penn State Study: Brine Water Pumped From Played-Out Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Used As Dust Suppressants, Winter Road Treatments Exceed Environmental, Health Standards, Just Like Conventional Oil & Gas Brine Water
*  [8/7/2023] Guest Essay: Take A Deep Breath! Now Think What You Just Inhaled. If You Live Along A Dirt Road You Could Be Inhaling Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [8/7/2023] DEP Investigates Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Leak As Possible Source Of Village Of Reno Water Supply Contamination In Venango County; Customers Under Do Not Consume Advisory For 2+ Weeks
*  [8/7/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 29 to August 4; More Abandoned, Leaking Wells, Reno Water Supply Contamination; Rager Mtn. Natural Gas Storage Area Spills
*  [8/7/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 5
*  [8/7/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Section 401 Water Quality Certification For Equitrans To Replace Abandoned Natural Gas Storage Wells In Greene County Due To Coal Mining
*  [8/7/2023] DEP Sets Sept. 19 Meeting/Hearing On Air Permit For Expansion Of Marcus Hook Terminal’s Ethane Chilling Capacity In Delaware County
*  [8/7/2023] DEP Publishes Final Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Analysis Technical Guidance
*  [7/31/2023] DEP Signs $660,000 Penalty Agreement With Sunoco To Resolve More Violations During The Construction Of Mariner East Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline In 9 Counties; Penalties Now Total Nearly $31 Million Just From DEP
*  [7/31/2023] Comments Submitted On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Potter County By Save Our Streams PA Show Principals Have Been Involved In Abandoning 8 Previous Injection Wells
*  [7/31/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 15 to 22; 8 More New Conventional Well Abandonments
*  [7/31/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 22 to 28
*  [7/31/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 29
*  [7/31/2023] DEP, Agriculture, DCNR Release Pennsylvania’s 2022 Chesapeake Bay Annual Progress Report
*  [7/31/2023] DEP: Drought Watch Remains In Place Across Pennsylvania
*  [7/31/2023] DEP Environmental Justice Newsletter: Latest On EJ Staff Additions; Available Grants; EJ Webinars; And Much More!
*  [7/31/2023] American Rivers, Partners Begin Removal Of Oakland Dam, Largest Dam Removal In PA, On North Branch Susquehanna River In Susquehanna County
*  [7/31/2023] DEP Accepting Applications For Environmental Education Grants Starting Aug. 1
*  [7/31/2023] Stroud Water Research Center, Partners Host 7-Part, Online Expanding Meaningful Environmental & Watershed Literacy With Geospatial Tools Workshops Starting Sept. 28
*  [7/24/2023] Marcellus Drilling News/The Allegheny Front: University Of Pittsburgh Study Finds At Least 800,000 Tons Of Fracking Waste Sent To Landfills Unaccounted For In One Year; Oil & Gas Waste Adds To Radiation Accumulation In Stream Sediments
*  [7/24/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 22
*  [7/24/2023] Governor’s Regulatory Agenda: DEP To Propose Annual Permit Fee For Unconventional Shale Gas Operations; Updated Waste, Other Regulations Covering Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Coming
*  [7/24/2023] Steering Committee Releases Protocol To Allocate $5 Million Penalty Fund Related To The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
*  [7/17/2023] DEP Secretary Negrin To Citizen Activists: ‘We Don’t Represent Chevron, We Don’t Represent Shell And I’ve Made That Absolutely Clear-- We’re Holding Those Leaders Accountable’
*  [7/17/2023] DEP Held July 13 Local Steering Committee Meeting For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Community Fund
*  [7/17/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 8 to 14; Failed Shale Gas, Conventional Well Plugging; Leaking Conventional Wells
*  [7/17/2023] DEP: Risk Assessment Did Not Prove Chemicals Polluting Soil & Groundwater At American Refinery Group’s Bradford Petroleum Refinery Met Safe Environmental Cleanup Standards
*  [7/17/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 15
*  [7/17/2023] DEP Invites Comments On CNX Midstream Project To Expose Natural Gas, Water/Wastewater Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Coal Mining Damage In Greene County
*  [7/17/2023] EQB No Longer Has Statutory Authority To Change Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding Amounts To Help Prevent 400 to 600 New Well Abandonments A Year; Adopts Proposed Changes To Water Quality Standards For Comment
*  [7/17/2023] PA Eligible To Apply For $76.4 Million In Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; Conventional Operators Still Abandoning Wells
*  [7/17/2023] DEP Posts Draft Final Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Analysis; Will Discuss At Agricultural Advisory Board Meeting July 18
*  [7/17/2023] MethaneSAT-EDF Successfully Test Methane Detection Technology To Be Used To Document Methane Emissions From Onshore Natural Gas Production In North America
*  [7/17/2023] Marcellus Drilling News: Do Oil & Gas Drillers Owe Taxpayers Royalties For Oil & Gas Under Roads, Streets, Bridges And Other Taxpayer-Owned Land?
*  [7/17/2023] DEP Blog: Do You Know What’s Below? Gasoline Stations And Aging Underground Storage Tanks In Pennsylvania
*  [7/17/2023] DEP Secretary Introduces Bevin Ann Buchheister As New Acting Deputy Secretary For Water Programs
*  [7/17/2023] PA Mine Map Atlas Has Served State Since The Quecreek Mine Rescue In Somerset County
*  [7/17/2023] Feature: Rock - Water - Air: A Personal Account Of The 2002 Quecreek Mine Rescue
*  [7/10/2023] House Passes $45.5 Billion State Budget Including Funding For More Staff At DEP; Shapiro To Veto Voucher Funding Wanted By Republicans; Bill Must Still Be Signed In Senate To Be Presented To The Governor
*  [7/10/2023] Community Demands Accountability From EQT Natural Gas On 1-Year Anniversary Of Greene County Frack-Out Incident; Families Still Without Clean Water; No DEP Investigation Results
*  [7/10/2023] KDKA Investigation: Washington County Family Says Energy Transfer/MarkWest Natural Gas Processing Plants Turned A Peaceful Farm Into A Nightmare
*  [7/10/2023] DEP Rejects MarkWest Act 2 Cleanup Notification For 10,000 Gallon Natural Gas Condensate Spill At Compressor Station In Robinson Twp., Washington County, Notice Is Re-sent
*  [7/10/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Shale Gas Well Emergency Response, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plan Guidance
*  [7/10/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 1 to 7; New Brownfield Cleanups; Shale Gas Well Plugging Picks Up; New Conventional Well Abandonments
*  [7/10/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 8; New Brownfield Cleanups Increase
*  [7/10/2023] DEP Sets Aug. 23 Hearing On Title V Air Quality Permit Revisions For Artemas Natural Gas Compressor Station In Bedford County
*  [7/10/2023] DEP: Drought Task Force Maintains Drought Watch Status For All Of Pennsylvania
*  [7/3/2023] Senate Overwhelmingly Confirms Richard Negrin As Secretary Of DEP
*  [7/3/2023] House Democratic Leadership Blocks Environmental Committee Action On Bills Increasing Safety Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities, Cryptocurrency Permit Moratorium
*  [7/3/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 24 to 30 - Radiation Levels Prompt Shale Gas Wastewater Tank Decontamination; Replugging Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
*  [7/3/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 1
*  [7/3/2023] Environmental Quality Board Meets July 11 To Consider Changes To Water Quality Standards; DEP Reports Law Limiting Its Authority To Change Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding May Be Unconstitutional
*  [7/3/2023] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets July 11 On Programs To Promote Use Of Electric Vehicles; Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Analysis
*  [7/3/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Air Quality General Permit For Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares
*  [7/3/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Cryptocurrency Power Generation Facility By Diversified Production, LLC At A Shale Gas Well In Elk County
*  [7/3/2023] House Environmental Committee Hears Progress Report On Cleaning Up PA’s Portion Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [7/3/2023] Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement At 40: Perspectives On Pennsylvania From Former DEP Secretary, EPA Region 3 Administrator Jim Seif
*  [7/3/2023] DEP Starts Accepting Applications For Next Round Of Federally-Funded Abandoned Mine Reclamation Grants For Locally-Sponsored Projects July 3
*  [7/3/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Individual Stormwater Permit For 4,000 Acre ‘Conservation’ Housing Development Next To Hickory Run State Park In Carbon County
*  [7/3/2023] DEP Soliciting Extensions Of Expired Vouchers For Driving PA Forward’s Onroad Cleaner Diesel Vehicle Rebate Program
*  [7/3/2023] DEP Extends Application Period, Increases Rebate Amounts And Expands Healthy Electrified Commercial Kitchen Rebate Program To Restaurants
*  [7/3/2023] DEP Announces Award Of $16.3 Million In Local Act 101 Recycling Grants To 80 Municipalities
*  [7/3/2023] Registration Open! PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals 2023 Annual Conference Sept. 20-22 In State College
*  [7/3/2023] PA Bulletin Public Notices
*  [6/26/2023] 3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station
*  [6/26/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 17 to 23 - Federal Well Plugging Project & Dimock Area Shale Gas Well Inspections; Leaking Plugged Conventional Wells; Frack Out Investigation
*  [6/26/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 24
*  [6/26/2023] House Environmental Committee Holds June 27 Meeting On Bills Increasing Setback Distances From Natural Gas Infrastructure, 2-Year Moratorium On Cryptocurrency Air Permits
*  [6/26/2023] Senate Committee Meets June 26 To Consider Nomination Of Richard Negrin As DEP Secretary; Energy Information Office, Electric Billing Legislation
*  [6/26/2023] DEP To Hold July 25 Hearing On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Potter County
*  [6/26/2023] Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills Letting Polluters Decide When To Report Spills And CO2 Injection Well Primacy By Party-Line Votes
*  [6/26/2023] Senate Republicans Pass Bill To Significantly Narrow The Grounds For Appealing DEP Environmental Permit Actions
*  [6/26/2023] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants Starting June 30
*  [6/19/2023] Citizens Advisory Council Presentations Highlight New Center Of Environmental Excellence At DEP To Improve Permitting Efficiency, Deliver Best In Class Service, Share Results; Environmental Justice; More
*  [6/19/2023] Casey, Fetterman Announce $5.5 Million In Federal Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Wells In The Allegheny National Forest
*  [6/19/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 10 to 16 -- Leaking Conventional Wells; 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Using Tape To Repair Containment Liner
*  [6/19/2023] Robinson Twp., Washington County Seeks Answers To Cleanup Of MarkWest Liberty Midstream 10,000 Gallon Spill Of Natural Gas Condensates After Company Sends Notice To Wrong Municipality
*  [6/19/2023] DEP Invites Comments On MarkWest Liberty Midstream Project To Expose 1 Mile+ Of 2 Natural Gas Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Coal Mining Damage In Washington County
*  [6/19/2023] DEP Finds PA General Energy Installed Its Shawnee Water Withdrawal On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek At Sizes Larger Than Authorized By Its SRBC, DEP Permits
*  [6/19/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 17
*  [6/19/2023] Bay Journal: Satellites, Drones, Special Cameras Join The Fight Against Methane/VOC Pollution From Oil/Gas Wells, Petrochemical Plants, Landfills, Coal Mines In Pennsylvania
*  [6/19/2023] Volunteers Needed! Falcon Watch & Rescue Rachel Carson Building Harrisburg
*  [6/19/2023] DEP Declares Statewide Drought Watch, Recommends Voluntary Water Conservation
*  [6/19/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Advises Water Withdrawal Permit Holders To Review Low Flow Water Restrictions And Begin Planning For Alternative Operations
*  [6/19/2023] DEP Posts Solicitation For Bids To Plug 23 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Injection Wells Owned By ARG Resources, Inc. And Pennzoil Company In Elk County
*  [6/12/2023] House Committee Reports Out Bill Requiring The Evaluation Of Cumulative Impacts Of Some New Pollution Sources On Communities Already Burdened By Pollution; And Other Bills
*  [6/12/2023] Republicans, Shale Gas Industry Oppose House Bill Requiring The Evaluation Of Cumulative Impacts Of Some New Pollution Sources On Communities Already Burdened By Pollution
*  [6/12/2023] MarkWest Liberty Midstream Files To Clean Up 10,000 Gallon Natural Gas Condensate Spill Caused By December’s Winter Storm Elliot Freeze In Washington County
*  [6/12/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 3 to 9: Plugged Conventional Well Frack-Out; 10 More NOVs For Abandoning Conventional Wells
*  [6/12/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 10
*  [6/12/2023] Better Path Coalition: June 22 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing With Laurie Barr On Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Wells
*  [6/12/2023] Inside Climate News: Abandoned Conventional Oil/Natural Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens, Other Harmful Pollutants In PA, Study Shows
*  [6/12/2023] Federal Court Declines To Prohibit PA Environmental Hearing Board From Hearing Appeals Of DEP Permits Issued For Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline Project
*  [6/12/2023] Residents, Environmental Groups Rally Against Shell Petrochemical Plant's Pollution In Beaver County
*  [6/12/2023] Senate Environmental Committee Info Session On Carbon Capture Discusses Job Potential; Reaching Net-Zero Carbon Goal; Impacts/Risks Of The Technology; PA’s Poor Track Record In Regulating Pipelines, Oil & Gas Industry
*  [6/12/2023] New Analysis: PA's RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants Will Cut Consumer Energy Costs, Increase Federal Investments In PA
*  [6/12/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Assess Abandoned Mine Pollution In Moshannon Creek Watershed With DEP Grant
*  [6/12/2023] DEP Hosts June 21 Hearing On Proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Response For The Boyertown Landfill PFAS Contamination Site, Montgomery County
*  [6/12/2023] Senate Republicans Pass Bill Taking ‘Protection’ Out Of The Name Of Department Of Environmental Protection; But DEP Doesn’t Have To Change Its Signs Until They Wear Out
*  [6/12/2023] Citizens Voice Editorial: ‘Protection’ Still Core Of DEP’s Job
*  [6/5/2023] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets June 13 To Hear Acting DEP Secretary Negrin Outline His Vision For Changing DEP; Enforcement, Customer Service Strategies; Permit Review Changes; Environmental Justice Plans; More
*  [6/5/2023] DEP Moves To Enforce Order To Plug 4 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells Leaking Methane In Allegheny County Owned By Michael Harju & Economy Natural Gas, Inc.
*  [6/5/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 27 to June 2 -- Conventional Operators Fail To Start Plugging, Fail To Cleanup Spills; More NOVs For Abandoning Wells
*  [6/5/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 3
*  [6/5/2023] Independent Fiscal Office Reports PA Natural Gas Production Peaked In 4th Quarter 2021
*  [6/5/2023] House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities
*  [6/5/2023] House Environmental Committee Meets June 6 To Consider Bills On Environmental Impact Reports; Cryptocurrency Operations; Clean Hydrogen
*  [6/5/2023] DEP: Large Wildfire In Nova Scotia Contributed To Air Quality Action Day Wednesday, May 31 In Lehigh Valley, Southeast PA, Susquehanna Valley
*  [6/5/2023] U.S. Dept. Of The Interior Announces Availability Of $244.7 Million In Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding To PA For Abandoned Mine Reclamation
*  [5/29/2023] House Bill Introduced To Create Veterans Entering The Sustainability Sector Workforce Incentive Program
*  [5/29/2023] Conventional Oil/Gas Industry Bothered By DEP Records Showing They Receive NOVs For Abandoning An Average Of 561 Oil/Gas Wells A Year
*  [5/29/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 20 to 26; DEP Issues More NOVs For Conventional Well Abandonments
*  [5/29/2023] Democrats On House Environmental Committee Report Out Bill To Help Prevent The Routine Abandonment Of 561 Conventional Oil/Gas Wells A Year
*  [5/29/2023] Citizens Voice Editorial: Renew Bonds To Close, Cleanup Conventional Oil, Gas Wells
*  [5/29/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 27
*  [5/29/2023] Warren Times Editorial: Keeping A Natural Lifeline Pure With Environmental Rights Amendment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Industry]
*  [5/29/2023] Observer-Reporter Editorial: Court Drills Down On Environment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Industry]
*  [5/29/2023] DEP Signs Consent Order Including $10 Million In Penalties, Local Payments With Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County To Resolve Air Quality Violations; Plant To Restart May 24
*  [5/29/2023] EPA/DEP: Eastman Chemical Resins, Inc. To Pay $2.4 Million Penalty For Multiple Environmental Violations In Allegheny County
*  [5/29/2023] DEP Awards $7.8 Million In Federal Funding To Support Local Mine Reclamation, Mine Drainage Treatment Projects; Next Round Of Applications Due Aug. 25
*  [5/29/2023] Reminder: Deadline To Apply For DEP Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grants June 23
*  [5/22/2023] Olympus Energy Shale Gas Driller Expresses Fear Municipalities Will Use Their DEP Compliance Record With Hundreds Of Violations To Help Make Local Land Use Decisions On Oil & Gas Infrastructure Projects
*  [5/22/2023] Citizens Voice Editorial: PA Supreme Court Reaffirms Environmental Quality Is A Right Not A Luxury In Shale Gas Drilling Ruling
*  [5/22/2023] House Environmental Committee Meets May 23 To Consider Bills To Help Prevent The Routine Abandonment Of 561 Conventional Oil/Gas Wells A Year; Authorize Streambank Fencing
*  [5/22/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 13 to 19: Struggle To Plug Tatonka Oil Co. LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well
*  [5/22/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 20
*  [5/22/2023] Environmental Groups Launched Effort May 4 Asking For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities, So Far No Response
*  [5/22/2023] Zefiro Methane Corp. Acquires PA-Based Plants & Goodwin Well Plugging Firm To Create Methane Emission Offsets
*  [5/22/2023] House Environmental Committee Holds May 22 Hearing On Hydrogen Hubs & Climate Change
*  [5/22/2023] State Agencies Hold Small Business Resources Fair May 17 In Beaver County To Help Community Recover From Impacts Of Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
*  [5/22/2023] Governor’s Invasive Species Council Celebrates Pennsylvania Native Species Day At North Creek Nurseries, Chester County
*  [5/15/2023] DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County
*  [5/15/2023] Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations
*  [5/15/2023] PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp., Indiana County
*  [5/15/2023] Penn State Shale [Gas] Network Workshop Features Acting DEP Secretary Richard Negrin May 18-19 In State College
*  [5/15/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 6 to 12; Equitrans Gas Storage Area Issued New NOVs
*  [5/15/2023] DEP: Seneca Resources Ignores NOVs On DCNR Shale Gas Well Pad Cleanup For 7 Months & Counting; Citizen Complaint Finds Homeowner Well Venting Gas; Multiple Tanker Truck Spills
*  [5/15/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment May 13
*  [5/15/2023] Triumph Township, Warren County Advertising For 100,000 Gallons Of ‘Salt Brine’ To Dump On Township Roads
*  [5/15/2023] Republicans On Senate Environmental Committee Report Out Bills To Narrow Grounds For Appealing DEP Actions, Stream Cleaning, Take ‘Protection’ Out Of The Dept. Of Environmental Protection
*  [5/8/2023] Center For Coalfield Justice: Nearly 11 Months Since An EQT Shale Gas Well Frac-Out Left Residents Near New Freeport, Greene County Without Clean Water; DEP’s Investigation Not Complete
*  [5/8/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 29 to May 5; Major Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; 6 More Abandoned Well NOVs
*  [5/8/2023] Citizen Complaint, Company Report Results In DEP Inspection Finding 63,000 Gallon Wastewater Spill At Seneca Resources Shale Gas Well On State Game Lands In Elk County; More Leaks, Spills
*  [5/8/2023] Attorney General Henry Charges 2 With Criminal Risking Catastrophe Charges Related To Work On Natural Gas Pipeline In Lawrence County; Pipelines Have Worst Environmental Compliance Record In PA
*  [5/8/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 6
*  [5/8/2023] Environmental Groups Circulate Petition Asking Dept. of Health, University Of Pittsburgh For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [5/8/2023] DEP Environmental Justice: State Dept. of Health, CDC Launch Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
*  [5/8/2023] Earthworks Submits Video Evidence To DEP Of More Air Pollution Violations By Gas Flares At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
*  [5/8/2023] Senate Environmental Committee Meets May 10 On Bills To Narrow Grounds For Appealing DEP Actions, ‘Stream Cleaning,’ Renaming DEP To The Dept. Of Environmental Services
*  [5/8/2023] 2 Senate Committees Meet May 8 To Run Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Waive Any Permitting Requirement, Add Cost, Time To Regulatory/Permitting Bureaucracy
*  [5/8/2023] Gov. Shapiro Receives State Agency Reports On Permitting, Next Step Is To Set Money-Back Permit Review Times
*  [5/8/2023] AP: Audit Says Senate, House Expense Account Surplus Jumped To Record $261 Million In FY 2022 After Record Spending
*  [5/8/2023] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets May 9 For Updates On Federal Infrastructure Projects; Act 54 Report On Damage From Coal Mining; Carbon Capture; Hydrogen Hub
*  [5/8/2023] DEP Set To Hold May 17 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Covanta Waste-To-Energy Facility In Chester, Delaware County
*  [5/8/2023] DEP To Host May 31 Public Meeting On Proposed Waste Transfer Station In Luzerne County
*  [5/8/2023] New Recycling Materials Markets Database Hopes To Connect Recyclers With End Users Of Their Materials
*  [5/8/2023] PA Recycling Markets Center Hosting June 8 Battery Recycling Markets Summit In Bethlehem
*  [5/1/2023] DEP, DCNR, Guests Honored Franklin Kury, Author Of PA Environmental Rights Amendment, With Dedication In Rachel Carson Building
*  [5/1/2023] House Hearing: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells
*  [5/1/2023] EDF: Pennsylvania Has 55,000 Oil/Gas Wells At High Risk Of Being Abandoned; 51,000 Wells At Risk Of Being Transferred To Low Solvency Owners; Current Conventional Well Owners Abandon 561 Wells A Year, On Average
*  [5/1/2023] Guest Essay: Conventional vs Unconventional Oil & Gas Wells - Not As Different As You Might Think
*  [5/1/2023] House Committee Meets May 2 On Bill To Restore Authority To Review Conventional Oil/Gas Well Plugging Bonding Amounts; Help Prevent Routine Abandonment Of An Average Of 561 Wells A Year
*  [5/1/2023] Republican Herald Editorial: Implement Reforms For Natural Gas Drilling, Fracking
*  [5/1/2023] Delaware River Basin Commission Clarifies New Regulations On Oil/Gas Fracking Wastewater Bans Road Spreading, Disposal From Conventional Wells
*  [5/1/2023] DEP Tentatively Sets May 18 Online Public Conference On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Clara Twp., Potter County; Opponents Again Call For Robust Public Participation Process
*  [5/1/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 22 - 28; Conventional Wells Venting Gas; Shale Gas Well Pad Spills
*  [5/1/2023] Citizen Complaint Results In Finding 2 Abandoned Conventional Wells Owned By Prosperity Oil Co. Continuing To Vent Natural Gas In Washington County
*  [5/1/2023] Chesapeake Appalachia: DEP Inspections Find Violations For Spills, Releases, Continuing Defective Casing/Cementing At Shale Gas Well Pads In Bradford, Susquehanna Counties
*  [5/1/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 29
*  [5/1/2023] NRDC: U.S. Dept. Of Transportation Denies Special Permit For Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail From A Proposed Bradford County LNG Plant; Shipping By Truck Still Allowed
*  [5/1/2023] Eyes On Shell Reports Shell Petrochemical Plant Fenceline Monitors Found Benzene Emissions Above Toxic Substances Limits; No Timeline For Restarting Plant; DEP Issued Another NOV For Air Violations
*  [5/1/2023] Senate Environmental Committee Holds May 1 Hearing On Electric Grid Reliability Looking At Natural Gas, Other Generation Failures During Winter Storm Elliot In December
*  [5/1/2023] House Environmental Committee Sets May 1 Hearing On Cryptocurrency And Climate Change; Background Brief
*  [5/1/2023] DEP Posts Soil, Water Sampling Results Related To Monitoring PA For Impacts From Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
*  [5/1/2023] DEP To Hold May 17 Meeting/Hearing On Rausch Creek Mining Project In Schuylkill County
*  [5/1/2023] Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bill To Remove ‘Protection’ From The Name Of The Department Of Environmental Protection
*  [4/24/2023] Independent Regulatory Review Commission Approves Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations
*  [4/24/2023] PA Supreme Court Upholds DEP’s Authority To Protect Public Resources, Playgrounds From Adverse Impacts Of Shale Gas Well Operations; Do Not Mistake This Win For Adequate Protection
*  [4/24/2023] Concerned Residents, Advocates Call On DEP For The Opportunity To Comment On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Potter County
*  [4/24/2023] House Environmental Committee Sets April 24 Hearing On Plugging Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; New Bill Restores Authority To Increase Conventional Well Bonding
*  [4/24/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 15 to 21; 10 Abandoned Well NOVs; New Crude Oil Leak; Defective Casing/Cementing
*  [4/24/2023] Citizen Complaint Results In Discovery Of An Unreported Crude Oil Spill Affecting Over 2,400 Feet Of Stream At A Cameron Energy Conventional Well Site In Forest County
*  [4/24/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 22
*  [4/24/2023] Scranton Times Editorial: Local Leaders, DOT Must Stop Plant In Wyalusing, Bradford County From Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail Or Truck Or Both To Philadelphia
*  [4/24/2023] Intense, Bright White Light From The Shell Plastics Plant Turns Night Into Day For Many Neighbors Of The Beaver County Plant
*  [4/24/2023] CBF: Proposed Settlement Of Lawsuit Against EPA For Failing To Hold Pennsylvania Accountable For Meeting Chesapeake Bay Water Pollution Reduction Goals Focuses On Actions In 7 PA Counties
*  [4/24/2023] Ohio River Basin Alliance Responds To Listing Of Ohio River As America's 2nd Most Endangered River In The Nation; Lehigh River On The List Too
*  [4/17/2023] Inside Climate News: Gov. Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment
*  [4/17/2023] Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas; Same Facility Plagued Community With Blowdowns 3 Times A Day, 7 Days A Week For Nearly 10 Years Until Criminal Charges Brought Against CNX
*  [4/17/2023] DEP/Equitrans Settlement: DEP, Preempted By Federal Law, Withdraws Order, Closes NOVs Against Equitrans For Cambria County Natural Gas Storage Leak Releasing 1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas
*  [4/17/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 8 to 14; Shale Gas Drillers Create New Brownfields, 8 Wells Found With Defective Casing/Cementing
*  [4/17/2023] How Chesapeake Appalachia Created Another New Shale Gas Brownfield In Bradford County; Timberline Energy Plugs Its Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Venango County
*  [4/17/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 15
*  [4/17/2023] Independent Regulatory Review Commission Meets April 20 On Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations
*  [4/17/2023] The Express: Bechtel Corp Announced It Will Discontinue Development Of The 1,000 MW Natural Gas-Fired Renovo Energy Center In Clinton County
*  [4/17/2023] DEP Issues Three More Air Quality Violations To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Related To Emergency Flaring, Exceeding 12-Month Air Pollution Limits
*  [4/17/2023] Chesapeake Bay Journal: Proposed Encina Pyrolysis Chemical Plant To Break Down Plastic Waste Into Benzene, Toluene, Xylenes Proposed For Susquehanna River Shoreline In Northumberland County
*  [4/17/2023] Shapiro Administration Announces Commitment To Fight Climate Change Under New EPA Climate Grant Program
*  [4/17/2023] City & State PA: PA Energy Summit May 11 In Pittsburgh, Featuring Keynote Speaker Acting DEP Secretary Negrin
*  [4/17/2023] Environmental Quality Board Approves Radiological Health Fee Increases, Final Stream Redesignations, Noncoal Mining Regs
*  [4/10/2023] House Bill Would Expand Safety Zones Around Oil/Gas Wells, Infrastructure To Reduce Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts As Recommended By AG Shapiro’s Grand Jury Report
*  [4/10/2023] New University Of Chicago Medical Study Connects Natural Gas Development In PA To Real, Serious Human Health Outcomes And Should Be A Call To Action For Policy Makers
*  [4/10/2023] Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads, Just Like In PA
*  [4/10/2023] Moms Clean Air Force: Strong Proposed EPA Petrochemical Plant Rules Are One Step Closer To Reality; Shell Petrochemical Plant Covered By Separate Proposed Rule
*  [4/10/2023] PennWest University California To Host April 13 In-Person/Online Program Ask The Expert: Environmental Disasters On Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
*  [4/10/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 1 to 7; Leaking Gas Well On State Game Lands #87 Fixed
*  [4/10/2023] DEP Inspection Finds Two Repsol Oil & Gas Shale Gas Wells Venting Natural Gas To Atmosphere, Defective Well Casing/Cementing In Susquehanna County; Violations Continue From May 2017
*  [4/10/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8
*  [4/10/2023] Local Officials, Residents, Advocacy Groups Call On DEP To Conduct A Robust Public Participation Process For Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Applications
*  [4/10/2023] PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Mercury, Air Toxics Safeguards For Coal-Fired Power Plants
*  [4/10/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Title V Air Quality Permit For Monessen Coke (Coal) Plant, Westmoreland County
*  [4/10/2023] PA SolarCenter Hosts April 21 Webinar Update On PA Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, Community Solar Legislation + Review 2021-22 AEPS Compliance Report
*  [4/10/2023] DEP To Hold Hearings April 24 On Water Quality Permits For Two Warehouse Projects In Monroe County
*  [4/10/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Total Maximum Daily Load Water Quality Plan For Johnston Run, Franklin County
*  [4/10/2023] Environmental Quality Board Meets April 11 To Consider Radiological Health Fee Increases, Final Stream Redesignations, Noncoal Mining Regs
*  [4/10/2023] DEP Bans Sale Of Chuwi Electronic Products For Not Complying With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Program Broken
*  [4/3/2023] DEP Starts Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Section 319, SMCRA Mine Reclamation, Pipeline Penalty Projects, Stormwater Planning, Watershed Restoration Grant Applications April 21
*  [4/3/2023] DEP Sets May 3 Hearing On Proposed NPDES Stormwater Permit For Rutter's Store Next To Old Crow Mitigation Wetland In Huntingdon County
*  [4/3/2023] Shapiro Announces Norfolk Southern Repaid PA Fire Departments, First Responders $1 Million
*  [4/3/2023] DEP Update On 8,100 Gallon Spill From A Bucks County Chemical Plant Affecting The Delaware River [March 26]
*  [4/3/2023] Stroud Water Research Center On Bucks County Chemical Spill: We Need To Revisit Source Water Protection, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plans To Protect Our Share Water Resources
*  [4/3/2023] 22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells
*  [4/3/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands
*  [4/3/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1
*  [3/27/2023] DEP Offers 10 Point Plan To Improve Permit Reviews; Climate/Energy Work Group Co-Chairs Announced; Work Group Formed To Prevent New Oil & Gas Well Abandonments
*  [3/27/2023] House Budget Hearing: Acting DEP Secretary Outlines His Views On Environmental Justice, Announces Fernando Treviño As Special Deputy For Environmental Justice
*  [3/27/2023] DEP Acting Secretary Wants To Encourage A Culture Of Being User-Friendly At DEP And Used The Train Derailment Response As An Example
*  [3/27/2023] DEP Acting Secretary Negrin: All Climate Change Is Local - We Are Guardians Of Our Neighborhoods, We Are To Act In Service To Our Neighbors
*  [3/27/2023] DEP Projects Over $1.5 Million Deficit In Account Funding Oil & Gas Regulation Program In FY 2023-24
*  [3/27/2023] DEP Budget Testimony: Increasing Permitting Efficiency, Cleaning Up Legacy Pollution, Investing In Communities, Holding Companies Accountable
*  [3/27/2023] Former DEP Secretaries Invited To Share Their Experiences Protecting Pennsylvania's Environment With Acting Secretary Negrin
*  [3/27/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 18 to 24; Continuing Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; 6 More New Well Abandonments
*  [3/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 25
*  [3/27/2023] Guest Essay: Shell Petrochemical Plant Off To A Bad- And Dangerous- Start In Beaver County
*  [3/27/2023] Shapiro Administration Announces Long-Term Presence In Beaver County To Assist Residents Affected By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
*  [3/27/2023] PA Senate Hearing: Norfolk Southern CEO: Ignition Of Rail Cars Following Ohio Trainwreck Was A 'Success'
*  [3/27/2023] Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen -- Like With Natural Gas Infrastructure Today
*  [3/27/2023] DEP: Norfolk Southern Gives Notice On Starting Next Phase Of Cleanup At Site Of 2022 Trail Derailment In Harmar Twp., Allegheny County
*  [3/27/2023] DEP Sets May 10 Hearing On Perdue AgriBusiness Plant NOx/VOC RACT 3 Air Quality Plan In Lancaster County
*  [3/27/2023] DEP Releases 2022 Progress Report On Improving Water Quality In PA’s Portion Of The Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [3/27/2023] Coalition To Save Old Crow Wetland: Rutter's Development Threatens Old Crow Mitigation Wetland In Huntingdon County
*  [3/20/2023] Hearings Start March 21 For DCNR, DEP, Agriculture FY 2023-24 Budget Requests
*  [3/20/2023] Marcellus Drilling News: New Fortress Energy Reapplying For Wyalusing LNG Natural Gas Plant Permits In Bradford County
*  [3/20/2023] U.S. DOT Misses Deadline To Suspend Rule Allowing Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail, Including A Proposal In PA
*  [3/20/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 11 to 17; Fracking 2 Wells Interfered With Another Shale Gas Well In Westmoreland County
*  [3/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 18
*  [3/20/2023] Environmental Health Project: 75% Of Hazardous Waste Accepted At MAX Environmental Yukon Facility In Westmoreland County Comes From Shale Gas Industry; Sludge Proposed To Be Delisted As Hazardous Waste
*  [3/20/2023] Equitrans/DEP In Discussions To Resolve EHB Appeal Of DEP’s Order To Fix Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Area Conventional Access Wells
*  [3/20/2023] DEP To Submit Letter Of Intent To EPA As Early As This Week For Primacy To Regulate Underground Injection Wells
*  [3/20/2023] PA Business Groups Urge EPA To Speed Up Approval Of State Primacy Applications For Injection Well Regulation
*  [3/20/2023] Federal Court Rules Challenge To DEP Air Quality Permit For Adelphia Natural Gas Pipeline Quakertown Compressor Station May Go Forward
*  [3/20/2023] Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Permits For Transco Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline In Luzerne, Monroe Counties
*  [3/20/2023] Shell Petrochemical Plant Had 3-Hour Emergency Flaring Event To Burn Off Flammable Gases In Beaver County
*  [3/20/2023] DEP To Hold Hearing April 24 On I-80-115 C-1 Site/ Pocono Mountains Corporate Center North Waterhouse Site In Monroe County
*  [3/20/2023] DEP To Hold March 29 Informal Conference On Proposed Strongstown Coal Mine In Indiana, Cambria County
*  [3/20/2023] Keep PA Beautiful Young Ambassadors Conducting Pick Up Pennsylvania Community Improvement Events
*  [3/20/2023] PA Resources Council Announces 2023 Collection Events Schedule For E-Waste, Tires, Household Chemicals For Allegheny, Delaware Counties
*  [3/13/2023] Gov. Shapiro’s Budget Proposes Major Initiative To Speed Up DEP Permit Reviews/ Inspections; Double Oil & Gas Fund Investment In State Parks/Forests Infrastructure
*  [3/13/2023] The Guardian: One Of The Worst Global Methane Leaks In 2022 Was In PA - Equitrans In Cambria County; Routine Abandonment, Non-Compliance Of Conventional Gas Wells
*  [3/13/2023] Scranton Times Editorial: Lower Boom On Natural Gas Leaks, Audit Abandoned Gas Well Capping
*  [3/13/2023] DEP Methane Overflight Research Study Resulted In Voluntary Reductions In Oil & Gas, Landfill Facilities; Coal Industry Uncooperative
*  [3/13/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 4 to 10; Big Week For Spills
*  [3/13/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 11
*  [3/13/2023] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets March 13 To Hear Updates On Regulation Of Natural Gas Storage Areas, Chapter 78 Regs; Federal Well Plugging Program, Carbon Capture, Hydrogen Development
*  [3/13/2023] Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bill Allowing General Assembly To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing
*  [3/13/2023] DEP Posts Updated List Of Technical Guidance In Development To Promote Public Involvement
*  [3/13/2023] Pennsylvania State Actions Responding To Ohio/PA Train Derailment - Week Of March 6
*  [3/13/2023] House Democratic & Republican Policy Committees Hold March 14 Joint Hearing On Impact Of Ohio/PA Train Derailment In Beaver County
*  [3/13/2023] Norfolk Southern CEO To Appear March 20 Before PA Senate Committee To Answer Questions About Ohio/PA Train Derailment; Committee Subpoenas Documents
*  [3/13/2023] DEP Hosting 6 Regional Engagement Sessions On Climate Action For Environmental Justice Communities Starting April 5
*  [3/13/2023] DEP Receives $29.35 Million In Federal Funding To Support Abandoned Mine Land Economy Revitalization
*  [3/6/2023] Bay Journal: PA Conventional Gas Wells Routinely Abandoned, Left Unplugged
*  [3/6/2023] PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: It’s Time To Hear Bold Leadership On Oil & Gas In Gov. Shapiro’s Budget Address
*  [3/6/2023] PA Environmental, Energy Advocates Call On Shapiro Administration To Maximize Federal Investments Under Inflation Reduction, Bipartisan Infrastructure Laws
*  [3/6/2023] Better Path Coalition, FracTracker Alliance Release Pennsylvania Is Worth Protecting, A Visual Reminder Of The People, Places & Natural Resources Worth Protecting From Environmental Devastation, Climate Change
*  [3/6/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 25 to March 3; More Well Plugging Sites Inspected
*  [3/6/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 4
*  [3/6/2023] Independent Fiscal Office Reports 4th Quarter 2022 Natural Gas Production Decreased 1.6%; Average Price Increased By 82.5% Compared To Last Year
*  [3/6/2023] Senate Committee Votes 9-1 To Issue A Subpoena To Compel CEO Of Norfolk Southern To Appear At March 8 Hearing On Train Derailment; 2nd Subpoena Expected Next Week For Documents
*  [3/6/2023] DEP’s Healthy Waters PA Partnership Progress Update: Funding Opportunities, Actions, County Clean Water Plan Implementation
*  [3/6/2023] DEP Clean Water Academy Releases New Course On Evaluating Legacy Sediments & Stream Restoration Using Oil Creek, York County As Case Study
*  [3/6/2023] Senate Committee Meets March 6 On Bill Prohibiting Elected Officials In Local Governments From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Combat Climate Change
*  [3/6/2023] Senate Committee Meets March 8 To Consider Bill Allowing General Assembly To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing
*  [2/27/2023] In Memoriam: Walter N. Heine, PA Deputy For Mines, First Director Of Federal Office Of Surface Mining
*  [2/27/2023] Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Failed To File Annual Production/Waste Generation Reports For 61,655 Wells; Attorney General Continues Investigation Of Road Dumping Wastewater
*  [2/27/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 18 to 24; First Violations Noted At New Well Plugging Sites
*  [2/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 25
*  [2/27/2023] Scranton Times Editorial: Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Abandoned Responsibility
*  [2/27/2023] DEP Air Quality Committee To Hear Presentation On Methane Emissions Monitoring Overflight Study Of 91 Oil & Gas Facilities, Coal Mines, Landfills On March 9
*  [2/27/2023] Pennsylvania State Actions Last Week On Ohio/PA Train Derailment
*  [2/27/2023] DEP Extends Deadlines To Apply For Agriculture Energy Efficiency Rebates; Electrification Of Truck Fleets Pilot Program Grants
*  [2/20/2023] DEP Issued 754 Notices Of Violation For Defective Oil & Gas Well Casing, Cementing, The Fundamental Protection Needed To Prevent Gas Migration, Groundwater & Air Contamination, Explosions
*  [2/20/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 11 to 17
*  [2/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 18
*  [2/20/2023] DEP Approves Permits For Transcontinental Gas Regional Energy Access Expansion Pipeline Project in Luzerne, Northampton, Bucks, Chester, Monroe Counties
*  [2/20/2023] Better Path Coalition Hosts Feb. 21 Webinar On DEP's Federally-Funded Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
*  [2/20/2023] Gov. Shapiro Lays Out Serious Concerns Regarding Norfolk Southern’s Incident Management After Meeting With Beaver County Officials
*  [2/20/2023] Gov. Shapiro Announces Pennsylvania Will Conduct Independent Water Sampling Following Ohio/PA Train Derailment
*  [2/20/2023] Two PA Senate Committees To Hold Hearings On Ohio/PA Train Derailment: Emergency Preparedness- Feb. 23; Transportation- Feb. 27 - Public Invited To Submit Questions To Transportation
*  [2/20/2023] Groups Urge DEP To Temporarily Halt Operations At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; File 2nd Notice Of Intent To Sue For Air Pollution Violations
*  [2/20/2023] Center For Coalfield Justice Feb. 28 Webinar On Protecting Your Health And Property From Damage Caused By Coal Mining
*  [2/20/2023] EPA: Capital Region Water Authority Agrees To Make Upgrades To Wastewater Treatment For Harrisburg Area
*  [2/20/2023] DEP Climate Change Committee To Discuss Scope Of Next Climate Impacts Assessment Report, Climate Action Plan Feb. 21
*  [2/20/2023] York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network: 100,000+ Pro-Life Evangelicals Support Strong Oil & Gas Facility Methane Limits
*  [2/13/2023] Natural Gas Industry Tells House They Want Faster Permit Reviews, But Didn’t Say They Don’t Use 40% Of The Well Permits They Get From DEP; Industry Practices Keep Energy Prices High
*  [2/13/2023] DCED Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Feb. 16 Meeting Agenda Includes Discussion Of Poor Compliance Record Of Industry, Status Of Regulations Updates, Challenge To VOC/Methane Regs
*  [2/13/2023] Ohio/PA Train Derailment, Pipeline Explosions, Uncontrolled Releases Put Spotlight On Public Health, Safety Threats Posed By Petrochemical, Natural Gas Industrial And Pipeline Infrastructure In PA
*  [2/13/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 4 to 10 - 12 NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
*  [2/13/2023] Inside Climate News: DEP Took 9 Days To Inspect Natural Gas Liquids Plant That Caught Fire On Christmas Day In Washington County
*  [2/13/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 11
*  [2/13/2023] Marcellus Drilling News: Shale Gas Companies Play ‘Dirty Pool’ By Reactivating Expired Leases By Claiming They Are Part Of Back-dated Pooling Declarations
*  [2/13/2023] PUC Approves 48.9% Increase In Natural Gas Charges By Leatherstocking Gas Company In Susquehanna & Bradford Counties-- The Heart Of Shale Gas Drilling In PA
*  [2/13/2023] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Updates From Oil & Gas, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Programs Feb. 14
*  [2/6/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 28 to Feb. 3
*  [2/6/2023] Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue Shell Chemical For Air Pollution Violations At Its Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
*  [2/6/2023] Fish & Boat Commission Takes No Separate Enforcement Action In The Valley Brook Country Club Pesticide Runoff Case That Killed 122,586 Fish In Chartiers Creek, Washington County
*  [2/6/2023] Gov. Shapiro Issues Order Directing Agencies To Set Deadlines For Permit Reviews, Requires Money-Back Guarantee If Deadlines Not Met; A Similar Program Started At DEP In 1995
*  [2/6/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Stream Redesignation Reports On Slab Cabin Run, Centre County And Lycoming Creek, Lycoming County
*  [2/6/2023] DEP/PROP: Study Shows Growth in K-12 Students' Recycling Knowledge; 1988 Recycling Law Updates Needed
*  [2/6/2023] Senate Appropriations Committee Sets Agency Budget Hearing Schedule
*  [1/30/2023] Natural Gas Industry, Senate Republicans Launch Effort To Unleash The Industry, Reduce Regulation, Call For Automatic Approval Of Permits, Limit Public Comments
*  [1/30/2023] House Republicans Name Advocate For Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Rep. Martin Causer Chair Of House Environmental Committee
*  [1/30/2023] DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Feb. 16
*  [1/30/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 21 to 27
*  [1/30/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 28
*  [1/30/2023] DEP Issues Revised Air Quality General Permit For Natural Gas, Oil-Fired Small Combustion Units Up To 100 Million Btu/Hour; Benefits Oil & Gas Industry
*  [1/30/2023] DEP Releases Bid Solicitation To Plug 19 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Forest County All At Taxpayer Expense
*  [1/30/2023] Senate Republicans Urge Gov. Shapiro To Take Steps ‘Immediately’ To Repeal Final Reg. Limiting Carbon Pollution From Power Plants [RGGI]
*  [1/30/2023] DEP Releases Final 2022 Pennsylvania State Water Plan, Digital Atlas Of Water Resources And Use
*  [1/30/2023] DEP Chesapeake Bay Update: Results Of PA In The Balance Ag Conference; Leadership Change At DEP, State Conservation Commission; Grants Announced; Much More
*  [1/30/2023] DEP Invites Comments On New Post-Construction Stormwater Management Manual
*  [1/30/2023] Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership To Use Growing Greener Grant To Improve Stormwater Management At Congregation Adath Jeshurun In Elkins Park, Montgomery County
*  [1/30/2023] DEP Bans Sale Of Electronic Devices Made By AWOW Tech For Not Complying With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Program Broken
*  [1/23/2023] What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Gov. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?
*  [1/23/2023] Feature: 60 Years Of Fracking, 20 Years Of Shale Gas: Pennsylvania’s Oil & Gas Infrastructure Is Hiding In Plain Sight
*  [1/23/2023] DEP 2021 Oil & Gas Program Annual Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Received A Record 610 Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
*  [1/23/2023] DEP Releases 2 More Bid Solicitations To Plug 43 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Clarion County All At Taxpayer Expense, Industry Doesn’t Pay A Dime
*  [1/23/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 14 to 20
*  [1/23/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 21
*  [1/23/2023] York Daily Record Guest Essay: Low Blow By PA Lawmakers - Playing Politics With Kids Abused By Clergy, Harmed By Polluters
*  [1/23/2023] DEP: Drought Watch Lifted For All Counties, Hydrologic Conditions Normal Statewide
*  [1/23/2023] Keep PA Beautiful Wants You To Fight Dirty! Register Now For Pick Up Pennsylvania Litter Cleanup
*  [1/23/2023] WeConservePA Webinar: March 28 - Responding To Emerging Threats To Water Quality In The Poconos
*  [1/23/2023] Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Diesel Mining Equipment Bill, Postpones Resolution On Restart Of Keystone XL Pipeline
*  [1/16/2023] Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Nominate Rich Negrin For DEP, Retain Cindy Dunn At DCNR and Russell Redding At Agriculture
*  [1/16/2023] DEP Announces Award Of More Than $19 Million In Growing Greener Plus Grants To Support 82 Local Watershed Restoration Projects
*  [1/16/2023] Environmental Quality Board Publishes Final Reg. Setting PFOA/PFOS Drinking Water Standard And The First MCL Developed By DEP
*  [1/16/2023] DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5 Hours From Its Revolution Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County
*  [1/16/2023] Fish & Boat Commission Investigation Of Pollution From PA General Energy Natural Gas Development Construction Site On Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek Results In Settlement Agreement
*  [1/16/2023] DEP Releases 2 More Bid Solicitations To Plug 38 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Venango County At Taxpayer Expense; Average Cost To Plug $95,000
*  [1/16/2023] Ohio River Valley Institute Report Shows Diversified Energy, Owner Of Over 22,500 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In PA, May Be Financially Insolvent
*  [1/16/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 7 to 13
*  [1/16/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 14
*  [1/16/2023] Better Path Coalition Outlines Needed Environmental, Climate Policy Changes For Incoming Shapiro Administration
*  [1/16/2023] DEP: 47 Coal Mine Reclamation Projects Covering 977 Acres At A Cost Of $123 Million Now In Active Construction
*  [1/16/2023] Senate Republicans Pass Proposed Constitutional Amendment Giving General Assembly Unilateral Power To Veto Regulations, With No Oversight
*  [1/16/2023] DEP, Health Joined By Lung Cancer Survivor To Encourage Home Radon Testing; Winners Of Student Radon Poster Contest Announced
*  [1/16/2023] Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Files Citizen Suit Against York County Landfill For Federal Clean Water Act Violations, Including PFAS Contamination
*  [1/16/2023] FracTracker Alliance Hosts Jan. 17 Webinar On Exploring Oil & Gas Industrialization Impacts On Watersheds
*  [1/9/2023] Guest Essay: Counties, PEMA Need To Include A Complete Vulnerability Assessment Of All Natural Gas Facilities In State, County Hazard Mitigation Emergency Plans
*  [1/9/2023] DEP Releases Bid Solicitations To Plug 46 Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Armstrong, Washington Counties At Taxpayer Expense
*  [1/9/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 31 to Jan. 6
*  [1/9/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 7
*  [1/9/2023] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 10 To Hear Overview Of Stream Redesignation Process, Including High Quality, Exceptional Value Streams; But What About Protection?
*  [1/9/2023] Chesapeake Bay Foundation's 2022 State Of The Bay Score Unchanged, States Must Focus On Agriculture, Stormwater Pollution
*  [1/9/2023] Chesapeake Bay Commission Names Anna Killius New Executive Director
*  [1/9/2023] DEP Rescinds Function-Based Aquatic Resource Compensation Protocol For Mandatory Mitigation Under Chapter 105 For Reevaluation
*  [1/2/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industry Has Record Year: Cost, Criminal Convictions Up; $3.1 Million In Penalties Collected; Record Number Of Violations Issued; Major Compliance Issues Uncovered; Evidence Of Health Impacts Mounts
*  [1/2/2023] DEP Report Finds: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Routinely Abandon Wells; Fail To Report How Millions Of Gallons Of Waste Is Disposed; And Non-Compliance Is An ‘Acceptable Norm’
*  [1/2/2023] Observer-Reporter: Explosion, Fire At Energy Transfer’s Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Plant Burned For Nearly 11 Hours On Christmas Day In Smith Twp., Washington County
*  [1/2/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 24 to 30
*  [1/2/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [1/2/2023] DEP Accepting Applications For County Recycling Coordinator Grants Beginning Jan. 2
*  [1/2/2023] Judicial Update: Limits To Environmental Hearing Board Authority To 'Cure' DEP Permit Actions
*  [12/26/2022] Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Navy Veterans Patrick & Helen Robinson Relate Their 7-Year Struggle Dealing With Impacts Of Mariner East Pipeline Construction In Indiana County, And They Continue
*  [12/26/2022] Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Cambria County Family Sues Sunoco After 3 Years Of Dealing With Damage To Home, Well, Septic System, Property From Mariner East Pipeline Construction
*  [12/26/2022] Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Families Affected By Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ In Greene County Have A Little Happier Holiday Thanks To Water Donated By Center For Coalfield Justice
*  [12/26/2022] Republican Herald Editorial: Gas Industry Appeased Too Long
*  [12/26/2022] Concerned Health Professionals Of PA Ask Health Professionals To Sign Letter Urging Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Protect Public Health, Environment From Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industry
*  [12/26/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 17 to 23
*  [12/26/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/26/2022] League Of Women Voters, Partners Host Jan. 12 Webinar On LNG Natural Gas Export Terminal Safety
*  [12/26/2022] PJM Interconnection ‘Possibility Of Rotating Customer Outages Is Real’ - A Mix Of Power Plants In The System Are ‘Not Performing’ - Filing DOE Emergency Power Request [Request Ended]
*  [12/26/2022] UGI Asks Natural Gas Customers To Conserve Energy Use Due To Regional Natural Gas Supply Constraints [Request Ended]
*  [12/26/2022] U.S. Attorney: Families Might Be Eligible For Crime Victims’ Compensation For Hardships Caused By The Indictment Of Former Erie Coke (Coal) Plant For Environmental Crimes
*  [12/26/2022] CBF: Federal Court Vacates FERC Conowingo Power Dam License, Offering New Chance For Chesapeake Bay Protections
*  [12/26/2022] York Conservation District: Residents To Benefit From Better Stormwater Plans, Faster Permit Approvals
*  [12/26/2022] Appalachian Voices: Final FY2023 Federal Budget Includes STREAM Act, Abandoned Mine Land Economic Program Increase, Not Black Lung Benefits
*  [12/26/2022] PA Trout: Federal STREAM Mine Reclamation Act Advocacy At National Wild Trout Symposium Highlights Trip West
*  [12/26/2022] National Assn. Of Conservation Districts Applauds Strong Conservation Investments In Final Federal Spending Bill
*  [12/26/2022] DEP Announces Award Of Coastal Zone Grants For Delaware Estuary, Lake Erie
*  [12/19/2022] Better Path Coalition: 65 Organizations, Businesses, 2,700+ Individuals Petition Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Ban Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [12/19/2022] DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County Sets New Drilling, Water Supply Protection Standards, Imposes $444,000 Penalty
*  [12/19/2022] Republican Herald/Scranton Times Editorial: DEP Professes Unwarranted Faith In Shale Gas Drillers
*  [12/19/2022] AG Shapiro: Free Water Evaluations Begin For Homeowners Affected By Construction Of Mariner East 2 Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
*  [12/19/2022] DEP Assesses $600,000 Penalty For Illegal Disposal Of Over 1,800 Truck Loads Of Oil & Gas Waste Drill Cuttings In Fayette County
*  [12/19/2022] Citizen Complaints Result In DEP Issuing PA General Energy More Violations At Loyalsock Creek Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
*  [12/19/2022] DEP Issues Notice Of Violation To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Quality Violations In Sept. - Oct.
*  [12/19/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 10 to 16
*  [12/19/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/19/2022] Presentations Now Available From Shale Gas & Public Health Conference In Nov. Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health
*  [12/19/2022] EPA Accepts Final DEP Oil/Gas Facility VOC/Methane Emission Limits Regulations For Review, Stops Imposition Of Federal Highway Funding, Other Sanctions
*  [12/19/2022] Now On Demand: Group Against Smog & Pollution Webinar: What The Donora PA Smog Disaster Can Teach Us 74 Years Later
*  [12/19/2022] CNX Unveils Appalachia-Focused Vision For The Future, Promoting New Natural Gas Development, Use - ‘Produce It Here. Use It Here - First’
*  [12/19/2022] DEP Awards $12.2 Million In Grants To Support 34 County Clean Water Action Plans In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [12/19/2022] Schuylkill County Floodplain Restoration Project Wins National Recognition
*  [12/19/2022] DEP Publishes 2023 Meeting Dates For Advisory Committee And Boards
*  [12/12/2022] DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions
*  [12/12/2022] Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
*  [12/12/2022] DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More
*  [12/12/2022] Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
*  [12/12/2022] Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek
*  [12/12/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9
*  [12/12/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/12/2022] Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Dropped For 3rd Consecutive Quarter Over 2021; PA Hub Natural Gas Price Increased 94.7% Over Last Year
*  [12/12/2022] PA Environmental Professionals Recognize Fmr DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell, Lorie Erb & Bog Turtle Recovery Program
*  [12/12/2022] DEP: Drought Watch Remains In Effect For Carbon, Luzerne, Northampton, Potter, Schuylkill Counties
*  [12/12/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Transfer Of Ownership Of Little Blue Run Residual Waste Disposal Impoundment In Beaver County
*  [12/12/2022] PA Bulletin Public Notices
*  [12/5/2022] Incoming Shapiro-Davis Administration Names Members Of Environment/Energy Transition Advisory Committee
*  [12/5/2022] AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To A Criminal Charge Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County
*  [12/5/2022] DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov.
*  [12/5/2022] EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Republicans Vote Against
*  [12/5/2022] DEP Preparing To Plug The Next 198 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells With Federal Funding
*  [12/5/2022] DEP: Schedule For Updating Conventional Oil & Gas Environmental, Waste Regulations Will Be Up To Gov. Shapiro
*  [12/5/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 26 To Dec. 2
*  [12/5/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/5/2022] DEP Withdraws Final Manganese Water Quality Standard Regulation Ending Rulemaking; Existing Standard Remains In Place
*  [12/5/2022] DEP Invites Comments On NPDES Water Quality Permit Renewal For Little Blue Run Coal Ash Disposal Area In Beaver County
*  [12/5/2022] Bay Journal: EPA Says PA’s Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan Falls Short, Again
*  [12/5/2022] DEP Accepting Applications For Food Recovery Infrastructure Grants
*  [11/28/2022] EQB To Meet Nov. 30 To Consider Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
*  [11/28/2022] EDF Blog: What A Catastrophic Natural Gas Leak In Pennsylvania Means For Our Climate And Health
*  [11/28/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 19 To 25
*  [11/28/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/28/2022] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Hear Updates On Chapter 78 Regulation Changes; Federal Abandoned Well Plugging Program Dec. 1
*  [11/28/2022] FracTracker Alliance Announces 7 Winners Of 2022 Community Sentinel Award For Environmental Stewardship; Including PA’s Laurie Barr
*  [11/28/2022] Beaver County Residents And Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign
*  [11/28/2022] Environmental Groups Appeal DEP's 18-Month Extension Of Air Quality Permit For Construction Of Renovo Energy Center Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant In Clinton County
*  [11/28/2022] FracTracker Alliance Releases 4th Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Susquehanna River Basin - Towanda & Schrader Creek Watersheds
*  [11/28/2022] FracTracker Alliance: Lycoming Creek Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Lycoming County
*  [11/28/2022] NRDC Blog: How Clean Is Pennsylvania’s New Hydrogen Subsidy? It’s Up To The Feds
*  [11/28/2022] Chesapeake Bay Foundation: PA's Latest Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan Lacks Credible Water Pollution Reduction Strategies, Sustained Funding
*  [11/28/2022] Penn State Center For Critical Minerals Develops New Process To Extract Rare Earth Oxides From Abandoned Mine Drainages, Sludges
*  [11/28/2022] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Medium, Heavy-Duty Zero Emission Vehicle Fleet Grants
*  [11/28/2022] Penn State Extension Hosts Dec. 14 Webinar On Streamside Tree Planting Effectiveness
*  [11/28/2022] PA Bulletin Public Notices
*  [11/21/2022] UPDATED: After 14 Days, Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Apparently Been Successful
*  [11/21/2022] Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June
*  [11/21/2022] Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land
*  [11/21/2022] DEP Assesses $200,000 In Penalties For Drilling Wastewater Spills By CNX In Greene County
*  [11/21/2022] Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar
*  [11/21/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Cryptocurrency Data Mining Operation On Shale Gas Well Pad In Elk County
*  [11/21/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Replacement Projects Affecting Cambria, Fayette, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lebanon Counties
*  [11/21/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18
*  [11/21/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities
*  [11/21/2022] IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA
*  [11/21/2022] Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard
*  [11/21/2022] Environmental Health Project Calls Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Good First Step
*  [11/21/2022] U.S. Dept. Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years
*  [11/21/2022] EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide
*  [11/21/2022] DEP To Hold Virtual Public Conference Dec. 7 On Expansion Of Tunnel Ridge, LLC Underground Coal Mine In Washington County
*  [11/21/2022] DEP Provides Notice Of Using Coal Ash As Fill For Solar Energy Facility At Scrubgrass Generating Company, Venango County
*  [11/21/2022] Celebrating The Seneca Nation’s Efforts To Strengthen The Next Generation Of Freshwater Stewards
*  [11/14/2022] What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Gov. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?
*  [11/14/2022] Guest Essay: Stop Giving Handouts To Natural Gas Industry, Make Them Clean Up Their Own Messes And Protect Public Health
*  [11/14/2022] Guest Essay: Our Leaders Need To Stop Negotiating With The Fossil-Fuel Industry Behind Closed Doors And Protect Public Health And Our Children
*  [11/14/2022] Observer-Reporter: Ongoing Water Donation Drive Helping Dozens Of Greene County Families Who Haven’t Had Clean Drinking Water Since June Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site
*  [11/14/2022] NEW FEATURE: Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 5 To 11
*  [11/14/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/14/2022] DEP Issues Revised Chapter 102 Permit For Mariner East II Pipeline Post Construction Stormwater Management BMPs In Delaware County
*  [11/14/2022] Reuters: Williams Urges FERC To Approve Regional Energy Access Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion Affecting 6 Counties In PA
*  [11/14/2022] FracTracker Alliance, Clean Air Council, Other Groups Hosting Nov. 14 Webinar On Protected Zones: Setbacks From Oil & Gas Facilities In California, Colorado, PA
*  [11/14/2022] DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee Meets Nov. 17 On Draft DEP Stormwater Management Manual Update; Proposed Triennial Review Of Water Quality Standards
*  [11/7/2022] Gov. Wolf Signs Bill Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Again Fails To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding; Fails To Report On Bonding Petitions; Or Issue Conventional Drilling Compliance Report
*  [11/7/2022] DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [11/7/2022] Protect PT Hosts 4-Part Online Living Near Shale Gas Community Training Workshops Starting Nov. 10 - Documenting Complaints
*  [11/7/2022] On-Demand Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood
*  [11/7/2022] Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Implementing Farm Conservation Practices In Pennsylvania Will Result In $352.5 Million In Economic Benefits, Support 3,457 Jobs A Year
*  [11/7/2022] DEP Reports On 2021-22 Farmers’ Efforts To Improve Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [11/7/2022] Pennsylvania Awarded $244.9 Million In Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding For Abandoned Mine Reclamation
*  [11/7/2022] Federal Office Of Surface Mining Awards PA $26.63 Million For Mine Reclamation Projects Related To Economic Development
*  [11/7/2022] EQB Meets Nov. 15 On Final Radiation Safety, NPDES Compliance Schedule Regulations; Brodhead Creek Rulemaking Petition
*  [11/7/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board Hold Joint Meeting Nov. 15
*  [11/7/2022] DEP Hosts Dec. 7 Hearing On Proposed NPDES Permit For A Sewage Discharge Into Swiftwater Creek, An Exceptional Value Stream In Monroe County
*  [10/31/2022] DEP: PA General Energy Cited For More Water Pollution Violations, Blocking The Whole Width Of Loyalsock Creek At Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
*  [10/31/2022] Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group: Potential Impacts Of Shale Gas Development Forest Fragmentation On Tioga State Forest Birds
*  [10/31/2022] Bill Goes To Governor Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Senate, House Again Fail To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding
*  [10/31/2022] DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/31/2022] A Study Finding Microplastics In 100% Of Exceptional Value, High Quality, Class A Trout Streams Sampled In PA Is Disturbing To Wildlife Advocates
*  [10/31/2022] Scranton Times/Republican Herald Editorial: Legislators Like Plastics, Expect More
*  [10/31/2022] Penn State Research: PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Persist Through Wastewater Treatment, May Enter Crops
*  [10/31/2022] DEP Tours Kettle Creek Stream Restoration Project, Highlights Clinton County Clean Water Action Plan Progress
*  [10/31/2022] DEP Invites Submission Of Water Quality Data For Stream Redesignation Evaluations In Columbia, Franklin, Fulton, Greene Counties
*  [10/31/2022] DEP To Host Dec. 1 Public Meeting, Hearing On Proposed MAX Yukon Hazardous Waste Landfill No. 7 In Westmoreland County
*  [10/31/2022] Clean Air Council Appeals DEP Waste Permit Exemption For Plastics Processing Facility In Northumberland County
*  [10/31/2022] DEP Urges Residents To Recycle Household Goods, Clothing Which Make Up 10% Of Municipal Waste Stream; Launches Circular Merchant Platform App
*  [10/31/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Substantial Changes To Radon Mitigation Standards Guidance
*  [10/31/2022] PennTAP: Get A Free Pollution Prevention & Energy Efficiency Assessment For Your PA Manufacturing Business
*  [10/24/2022] Federal Office Of Surface Mining Recognizes DEP Anthracite Outdoor Adventure - Bear Valley Mine Reclamation Project In Northumberland County With National Award
*  [10/24/2022] Nominations Now Being Accepted For 2023 Governor’s Award For Environmental Excellence
*  [10/24/2022] NO SPECIAL PROTECTION: The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek In Lycoming County Is Dammed And Damned
*  [10/24/2022] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Has No Exclusion Zones For Water Withdrawals From Any Streams, Including EV Or HQ Streams Subject To Water Quality Antidegradation Rules
*  [10/24/2022] DEP/SRBC Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/24/2022] TribLive Editorial: State Fines Should Be Higher Than Tax Cuts To Penalize Environmental Leaks
*  [10/24/2022] Republican Herald Editorial: State Lawmakers Should Adopt Rules That Preclude State Taxpayers From Subsidizing Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry
*  [10/24/2022] Republican Herald Editorial: Dangerous Course For Oil & Gas Well Emissions, Obstructionists Should Get Out Of The Way
*  [10/24/2022] DEP: Drought Watch Remains In Effect For 20 Counties, Lifted For 16 Counties
*  [10/24/2022] DEP Sets Nov. 30 Virtual Hearing On Interim Response To Keim Street DCE Hazardous Site Cleanup In Montgomery County
*  [10/24/2022] DEP Reinstates Sales Of Electronic Devices By 3 Manufacturers Now In Compliance With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law
*  [10/17/2022] EQB Adopts Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; And A First-Ever State MCL For PFOS/PFOA
*  [10/17/2022] DEP: Shell, Pipeline Contractor Assessed $670,000 Penalty For Falcon Ethane Pipeline Construction Violations In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties
*  [10/17/2022] Conservation Groups Urge DEP To Deny Transco Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Thru Exceptional Value, High Quality Watersheds In Luzerne, Monroe Counties
*  [10/17/2022] DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/17/2022] IRRC Sends Order Laying Out Formal Reasons For Disapproving The Final EQB Manganese Reg; EQB/DEP Now Have 40 Days To Decide How To Proceed
*  [10/17/2022] DEP Begins Accepting Applications For $103.4 Million In Abandoned Mine Reclamation Grants Starting Oct. 24
*  [10/17/2022] Chesapeake Bay Executive Council Elects EPA Administrator As Chair, Starts Discussion On Steps Needed For States To Get Closer To Meeting 2025 Pollution Reduction Milestones
*  [10/17/2022] DEP, Local Officials Kick Off 2022-23 Local Climate Action Program, 62 Municipalities Participating
*  [10/17/2022] Still Time To Register For 2022 Statewide Litter Summit In Lancaster Nov. 1-2
*  [10/10/2022] DEP Issued NOVs To Conventional Oil & Gas Companies For Abandoning 55 Wells Without Plugging Them During September Alone, A Dramatic Increase In New Well Abandonments
*  [10/10/2022] Fall Visitors To Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Areas Urged To Report Illegal Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
*  [10/10/2022] DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 Since 2016
*  [10/10/2022] Environmental Groups Raise Serious Compliance Issues With Olympus Energy-- Over 600 Violations On 13 DEP Permits-- In Comments On Proposed Shale Gas Drilling Pad In Allegheny County
*  [10/10/2022] DEP Collects $147,250 Penalty From Rice Drilling B LLC For Erosion & Sedimentation Violations In Greene County; DEP Found Rice Had Hundreds Of Other Violations, Including Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
*  [10/10/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/10/2022] DEP Adds Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. 12 EQB Agenda
*  [10/10/2022] EPA: Most States, Including Pennsylvania, Did Not Meet 2-Year Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Milestones
*  [10/10/2022] Chesapeake Bay Foundation 2022 State Of The Chesapeake Blueprint Report Finds Restoration Efforts Are Off Track
*  [10/10/2022] Bay Journal: With 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goal Out Of Reach, Region Plans For What's Next At Oct. 11 Executive Council Meeting
*  [10/10/2022] DEP Provides PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Healthy Waters Partnership Update
*  [10/10/2022] Register Now For NFWF Virtual Chesapeake Bay Agricultural Networking Forum & Listening Sessions Starting Nov. 8
*  [10/10/2022] Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay States To Get Millions For Climate-Smart Farm Practices
*  [10/10/2022] DEP Awards $3 Million To Restore Watersheds Statewide By Reducing Water Pollution
*  [10/10/2022] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Small Business Advantage Grants For Natural Resource Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Pollution Prevention Projects
*  [10/10/2022] Recycling Program, Managing Electronics Waste On DEP Citizens Advisory Council Agenda For Oct. 18
*  [10/10/2022] DEP, Partners Join In Luzerne County Litter Cleanup, Call On Pennsylvanians To Help Pick Up Pennsylvania This Fall
*  [10/10/2022] DEP Environmental Ed Update: Grant Applications Due Soon; Student Radon Poster Contest; 60th Anniversary Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
*  [10/10/2022] PA Sea Grant, DEP Host Oct. 25 PA Lake Erie Forum Webinar On Climate Hazard Mitigation & Climate Migration
*  [10/3/2022] DEP Issues 2 NOVs Against PA General Energy For Water Pollution Discharges Into The Loyalsock Creek From Gas Pipeline/Water Withdraw Construction In Lycoming County
*  [10/3/2022] DEP/Susquehanna River Basin Commission Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/3/2022] DEP Posts First Invitation For Bids For Plugging 79 Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Allegheny, Butler, McKean, Potter Counties Under Federally-Funded Program
*  [10/3/2022] Final Reg. Reducing Methane From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities NOT On Environmental Quality Board Agenda For Oct. 12; Will Consider Final PFOS/PFOA MCL Rule
*  [10/3/2022] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Cooking In Healthy Electrified Commercial Kitchens Rebate Program; 3 Cooking In Energy Efficient Kitchens Webinars
*  [10/3/2022] DEP Blog: Is Your Clean Fill Really Clean? Be Aware Of ‘Dirty Dirt’
*  [10/3/2022] DEP Awards 4 Grants Totaling $2.9 Million To Replace Old Diesel With Clean-Energy Vehicles
*  [9/26/2022] DEP Tells Citizens Advisory Council Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Still Does Not Meet Residual Waste Regulations; Remains Illegal
*  [9/26/2022] Penn State Research Links Groundwater Contamination To Areas Of Unconventional Shale Gas And Conventional Oil And Gas Drilling
*  [9/26/2022] Study: Industry Data Shows Hazardous Air Pollutants Are ‘Ubiquitous’ In The Natural Gas Transmission System; More Justification For Robust Leak Prevention Programs
*  [9/26/2022] DEP Finalizing First Bid Packages To Plug 249 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Under New Federal Taxpayer Funded Well Plugging Program
*  [9/26/2022] U.S. Dept. Of Interior Notified DEP A Republican Bill Allowed To Become Law In July May Block Funding For New Federal Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
*  [9/26/2022] House Committee Fails To Address $70 Million In Penalties On Natural Gas Pipelines Or Real Concerns Of People Living Near Gas Production & Distribution Facilities
*  [9/26/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
*  [9/26/2022] DEP Interviews EJ Champion James Rebarchak In Latest Environmental Justice Newsletter
*  [9/26/2022] DEP Inviting Stakeholders To Participate In PAG-13 NPDES General Permit For Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) Workgroup
*  [9/26/2022] DEP Finalizes Hazardous Site Cleanup Plan For Bishop Tube Site In Chester County
*  [9/26/2022] PennTAP Hosts Nov. 3 Webinar On Local Climate Action Planning With Penn State & Partners
*  [9/26/2022] Pennsylvania Receives $240 Million In Water Infrastructure Funding Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
*  [9/19/2022] DEP Celebrates 60 Years Of Scientist, Writer, Pennsylvania Native Rachel Carson’s Literary Work 'Silent Spring'
*  [9/19/2022] DEP, Fish & Boat Commission Investigate Multiple, Continuing Water Pollution Discharges From PGE Natural Gas Pipeline Construction Site On Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County
*  [9/19/2022] Rare Eastern Hellbender Habitat In Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County Harmed By Sediment Plumes From Pipeline Crossings, Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Construction Projects
*  [9/19/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
*  [9/19/2022] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Recruiting Families In Southwest PA For Study Of Childhood Cancer, One Of 3 Studies Of Potential Health Impacts Linked To Shale Natural Gas Development
*  [9/19/2022] Inquirer Guest Essay: DEP Needs To Evaluate Health Impacts Of Evaporating Leachate From A Westmoreland Landfill Accepting Shale Gas Drilling Waste
*  [9/19/2022] American Lung Association Report Details Health And Environmental Impacts Of Fuel-Burning Appliances At Home
*  [9/19/2022] IRRC Votes 4 To 1 To Disapprove A Final Manganese Water Quality Standard Regulation DEP Said Would Protect Public Health
*  [9/19/2022] Drought Watch Remains In Place For 36 Counties, DEP Asks For Continued Voluntary Water Conservation
*  [9/19/2022] USGS: Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Continued To Decline In 2018-2020
*  [9/19/2022] Chester Water Authority Petitions DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board To Hold Hearings On Water Affordability
*  [9/19/2022] PennFuture Names Former DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell President & CEO
*  [9/19/2022] PA Awarded $25.4 Million In Federal Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Funding
*  [9/19/2022] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Agriculture Energy Efficiency Rebates
*  [9/19/2022] DEP Bans Sale Of Electronic Devices Made By 4 Manufacturers Not Complying With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law
*  [9/19/2022] PennEnvironment, PA Resources Council Host Sept. 21 Webinar On A Plan To Reduce Waste, Improve Recycling Efforts, And Meet Modern Waste Challenges
*  [9/12/2022] DEP To Host Sept. 13 Virtual Roundtable To Celebrate The 60th Anniversary Of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Publication
*  [9/12/2022] We Remember Sept. 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy
*  [9/12/2022] Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Companies Accelerating Pace Of Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them Threatening To Put PA’s Taxpayer-Funded Well Plugging Program Even Further Behind
*  [9/12/2022] Exceptional Value Water Quality Designation, State Forest Land, River Honors Were Not Enough To Protect Loyalsock Creek From Natural Gas Drilling & Pipelines In Lycoming County
*  [9/12/2022] Natural Gas, Hazardous Liquids Pipelines Are NOT Required To Carry Insurance Or Show They Can Pay For Damages If They Explode, Leak Or Kill Someone
*  [9/12/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
*  [9/12/2022] DEP Begins Hazardous Site Investigation Into Contaminants Left At Former Erie Coke (Coal) Plant In Erie
*  [9/12/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Sept. 20 To Hear Waste Program Overview, State Water Plan Update And Discuss A Transition Paper For Incoming Governor
*  [9/12/2022] Bay Journal: States/EPA Agree To New Plan For More Nutrient, Sediment Reductions In Chesapeake Bay Watershed To Make Up For Conowingo Dam
*  [9/12/2022] DEP Announces Larger Rebates For Electric Vehicles; $3.4 Million For Installation Of 54 Fast Vehicle Chargers
*  [9/5/2022] Only 15 Out Of 256 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Who Abandoned Wells Without Plugging Them Were Fined By DEP; Small Penalties No Deterrent To Future Abandonments
*  [9/5/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Reported Spreading 977,671 Gallons Of Untreated Drilling Wastewater On PA Roads In 2021
*  [9/5/2022] DEP: Wastes Generated By The New Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program Will NOT Be Exempt From Hazardous Waste Regulations, Unlike Wastes From Active Wells
*  [9/5/2022] Penn State To Hold Cancer And The Environment Symposium Sept. 29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included
*  [9/5/2022] DEP Declares Drought Watch for 36 Counties, Asks For Voluntary Water Conservation; First Since 2020
*  [9/5/2022] Environmental Hearing Board Rules Renovo Energy Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Limits On Sulfur Dioxide, VOC Emissions Set Too High
*  [9/5/2022] Senate Committee Meets Sept. 7 On Letter To IRRC Disapproving A Final Manganese Water Quality Standard Protecting Public Health
*  [8/29/2022] Creating New Brownfields: Oil & Gas Well Drillers Notified DEP They Are Cleaning Up Soil & Water Contaminated With Chemicals Harmful To Human Health, Aquatic Life At 272 Locations In PA
*  [8/29/2022] Bay Journal: New Abandoned Wells - More Concerns Emerge Over Pennsylvania’s Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [8/29/2022] U.S. Dept. Of Interior Awards PA $25 Million In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funding From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
*  [8/29/2022] DEP To Hold Oct. 5 Virtual Hearing On Proposed Transco Natural Gas Pipeline Regional Energy Access Expansion Project In Eastern PA
*  [8/29/2022] DEP Invites Comments On 2 Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Impoundments By Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC In Washington County
*  [8/29/2022] EPA To Hold Aug. 30 Hearing On Proposed Drilling Wastewater Injection Well In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
*  [8/29/2022] DEP Invites Public Input On Strengthening PA's Electric Grid Against Extreme Weather Events At Aug. 31 Virtual Meeting
*  [8/29/2022] Guest Essay: God Created Us To Do Good Works - A Safe Climate And Healthy Environment Must Be Part Of That
*  [8/29/2022] DEP, Partners Showcase Stream Restoration Projects In Fishing Creek Watershed, Lancaster County
*  [8/29/2022] DEP, Williamsport Authority, PA Rural Water Assn., Lycoming County Highlight Importance Of Source Water Protection To Clean Drinking Water
*  [8/29/2022] DEP Accepting Applications For Coastal Zone Grants Starting Aug. 29
*  [8/29/2022] DEP Hosts Sept. 27 Webinar On Applying For Environmental Education Grant Funding
*  [8/29/2022] DEP Sets Oct. 4 Hearing On Brunner Island Power Plant Title V Air Quality Permit Located In York County
*  [8/22/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Want To Rewrite Penn State Study Showing Their Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads Is Bad For Human Health, Environment
*  [8/22/2022] DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Driller Compliance Review Will Go Back At Least 5 Years; Whether It Will Be Public Document Not Decided
*  [8/22/2022] Inside Climate News: Q/A With Eliza Griswold Pulitzer Winning Author Of Deep Dive Into Fracking In PA, How Extractive Industries ‘Gut’ Communities
*  [8/22/2022] Independent Fiscal Office Reports Decline In PA Natural Gas Production For 2nd Quarter In A Row For First Time; But An Increase In New Wells Drilled
*  [8/22/2022] DEP Suspending Enforcement Of Certain Vapor Leak Monitoring For Small Gasoline Storage Tanks In Philadelphia, Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley Areas
*  [8/22/2022] New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Bill Signed Into Law; PA Groups React
*  [8/22/2022] Climate Wire: New Federal Climate, Energy Law Includes New $700 Million Grant Program To Mitigate Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [8/22/2022] Pennsylvania Allowances Removed From Sept. 7 Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Auction
*  [8/22/2022] Environmental, Watershed Groups Appeal Stormwater Permit For Proposed Swiftwater Solar Project In Monroe County
*  [8/22/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Electric Grid Resilience Plan At Aug. 31 Virtual Meeting
*  [8/22/2022] DEP To Hold Virtual Hearings On Proposed Expansions Of 3 Deep Coal Mines In Greene County
*  [8/22/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Draft State Water Plan Update
*  [8/22/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Draft NPDES General Permit For Discharges Of Stormwater Associated With Industrial Activity (PAG-03)
*  [8/22/2022] DEP Now Accepting Recycling Implementation Grant Applications, Deadline Oct. 28
*  [8/15/2022] PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Aug. 18 On Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater; Methane Regs, Conventional Regs, Well Plugging, More
*  [8/15/2022] Environmental Health Project: Setback Distances And The Regulations We Need To Protect Public Health From Oil & Gas Facilities
*  [8/15/2022] Guest Essay: Investments In Clean Pennsylvania Air, Land And Water Will Pay Off For Decades
*  [8/15/2022] EQB Approves Final Reg. Setting Manganese Toxics Water Quality Standard, RACT For Major Sources Of Nitrogen Oxides
*  [8/15/2022] DEP Sets Virtual Hearings On Consol Harvey Mine, Enlow Fork Underground Coal Mine Expansions In Greene County
*  [8/8/2022] Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Drilling: An Industrial Machine Moving Across The PA Countryside Leaving Behind Big Liabilities & Spreading Pollution Everywhere It Goes
*  [8/8/2022] AG Shapiro: Energy Transfer/Sunoco Convicted Of Criminal Charges Related To Construction Of Mariner East 2 & Revolution Natural Gas/Liquids Pipelines In PA
*  [8/8/2022] Sunoco Fails To Meet July 1 Cleanup Deadline For Mariner East Pipeline Spill In The Lake At Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County
*  [8/8/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Over 14 Miles Of 16-Inch & 24-Inch Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Project In Susquehanna County
*  [8/8/2022] DEP Inviting Stakeholders To Participate In Workgroups On New Federal Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
*  [8/8/2022] TribLive Guest Essay: EPA Must Address Natural Gas Leaks That Are Harming Our Children
*  [8/8/2022] Environmental Health Project: Asthma And Air Pollution From Natural Gas Drilling/Facilities
*  [8/8/2022] Republicans On House Committee Disapprove Final Reg. To Reduce VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities Risking $500 Million In Federal Highway Funds
*  [8/8/2022] Pennsylvania Eligible To Apply For Its 2nd $244.9 Million Federal Grant To Clean Up Abandoned Mines Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
*  [8/8/2022] DEP Hosts Aug. 24 Virtual Hearing On Consol Bailey Coal Mine Expansion In Greene County
*  [8/8/2022] DEP Collects $100,000 Penalty From Harsco Corp. For Improperly Disposing Of 375,618 Tons Of Metal Slag In Armstrong County
*  [8/8/2022] PennDOT, DEP, State Police, DCED, Keep PA Beautiful Call On Pennsylvanians To ‘Fight Dirty’ In New Anti-Litter Campaign; Litter Summit Nov. 1-2
*  [8/1/2022] Gov. Wolf Announces Evaluation Of How DEP Regulates Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling & The Industry’s Compliance With Environmental Safeguards
*  [8/1/2022] Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?
*  [8/1/2022] Environmental Health Project Profile: Dr. John Stolz, Duquesne University - Monitoring Impact Of Shale Gas Extraction On Private Water Wells, Groundwater In SW PA
*  [8/1/2022] 16 Oil & Gas Facility Spill, Soil, Water Contamination Cleanups Under Act 2 Land Recycling Program During July
*  [8/1/2022] Penn State Study: Potential Pollution Caused By Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Makes It Unsuitable For A Dust Suppressant, Washes Right Off The Road Into The Ditch
*  [8/1/2022] House Committee Meets Aug. 2 To Disapprove Final Reg. Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Blocking The Rule Will Mean Loss Of Federal Highway Funds
*  [8/1/2022] Appalachian Voices: Bipartisan STREAM Act Passes U.S. House To Address Long-Term Mine Drainage Cleanup
*  [8/1/2022] PennDOT, DEP Highlight Commitment To Clean Transportation By Sheetz, Pittsburgh Clean Cities, PPL; Update On Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding
*  [8/1/2022] Electrification Coalition Applauds PA For Submitting Plan To Build EV Charging Infrastructure Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
*  [8/1/2022] Pennsylvania, 18 U.S., Canadian Jurisdictions Push Ahead With Action Plan For 100% Electrification Of Medium, Heavy-Duty Vehicles By 2050
*  [8/1/2022] EQB Meets Aug. 9 On Final Reg. Setting Manganese Toxics Water Quality Standard, RACT For Major Sources Of Nitrogen Oxides
*  [8/1/2022] DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board Meets Aug. 18 In Johnstown To Hear From Communities In Southwest PA
*  [8/1/2022] Latest DEP Chesapeake Bay Update: DEP Sees Significant Increases In Large Area Farm BMP Implementation
*  [8/1/2022] DEP Posts Updated Non-Regulatory Agenda Of Technical Guidance In Development
*  [8/1/2022] DEP Opens Next Round Of Environmental Education Grants Aug. 1
*  [7/25/2022] Special Feature - 20th Anniversary Of Quecreek Mine Rescue Celebrated In Somerset County
*  [7/25/2022] Gov. Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions
*  [7/25/2022] DEP Concerned About Impact Of New Law Blocking Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding On New Federal Well Plugging Funds, Regulating Waste Injection Wells
*  [7/25/2022] IRRC Unanimously Approves Part I Of Final Reg. Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Shale Gas Facilities; DEP Moves To Avoid Federal Highway Funding Sanctions
*  [7/25/2022] DEP Partnering With 15 Engineering Firms To Design Mine Reclamation Projects To Be Funded By Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
*  [7/25/2022] DEP Submits Final Pennsylvania Chesapeake Bay Watershed Plan To EPA With New State Funds Supporting Partners’ Progress
*  [7/25/2022] Guest Essay: PA Budget's Historic Investments In Clean Water Is A Watershed Moment
*  [7/25/2022] DEP Hosts Aug. 4 Hearing On Proposed Water Quality Permit To Construct Rutter's Convenience Store In Antis Twp., Blair County
*  [7/25/2022] DEP To Hold 2 Hearings On Air Quality Permit For Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill Leachate Evaporation System
*  [7/18/2022] 20th Anniversary Of Quecreek Mine Rescue To Be Celebrated In July 22-23 In Somerset County
*  [7/18/2022] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets July 25 To Hear Presentation On Penn State Study On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [7/18/2022] Bradford Era: 24-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline Ruptures, Explodes In McKean County Causing Wildfire; Force Majeure Declared In 2 States
*  [7/18/2022] EQB: DEP Continues Review Of Oil & Gas Well Bonding Petitions; Conventional Oil & Gas Methane Reg Coming Soon; Approves Municipal Waste Recycling General Permit
*  [7/18/2022] Republicans On House Committee Approve Letter To IRRC Sets Up Disapproval Of Final Oil & Gas Facility Methane Reduction Reg. Risking Millions In Federal Highway Funds
*  [7/18/2022] DEP Issues Final NPDES General Permit For Combined Sewer Overflows, Extends Stormwater Discharge General Permit
*  [7/18/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Public Water System Capability Enhancement Strategy
*  [7/18/2022] DEP Demonstrates Oil Recovery System At Berwick Seep Hazardous Sites Cleanup Project In Columbia County
*  [7/18/2022] Guest Essay: Gov. Wolf, Don’t Give Money To The Oil Industry
*  [7/11/2022] Final State Budget Includes Nearly $700 Million In Funding To Support Local And State Environmental, Recreation Infrastructure Projects!
*  [7/11/2022] Environmental Groups Host July 13 State Budget Briefing Webinar
*  [7/11/2022] Gov. Wolf Now Has To Decide To Hold Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable, Or Create A $5.1 Billion Cleanup Liability For Taxpayers
*  [7/11/2022] PA Environmental Council: Without A Veto Of HB 2644, PA's Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Problem May Be All But Permanent
*  [7/11/2022] DEP Issues 20% More NOVs To Oil & Gas Well Drillers For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In 2nd Quarter
*  [7/11/2022] PA Environmental Council/Environmental Defense Fund + 12 Other Groups: HB 2644 Unjustifiably Limits Bonding For Oil & Gas Wells, Risks Eligibility For Federal Well Plugging Funds
*  [7/11/2022] Evangelical Environmental Network Urges Senate To Vote Against The HB 2644 Subsidy & Bailout For Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers - ‘Stop Rewarding Industry For Not Being Responsible’
*  [7/11/2022] At The Request Of The Natural Gas Industry, House, Senate Give Final Approval To Bill Prohibiting Communities From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
*  [7/11/2022] Commonwealth Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Pausing PA’s RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants
*  [7/11/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets July 19 To Hear Presentations On Carbon Capture/Sequestration, Chapter 105 Regulatory Changes
*  [7/11/2022] DEP Holds Aug. 14 Hearing On Changes To Brunner Island Power Plant Air Quality Permit, York County
*  [7/11/2022] July 20 DEP Public Meeting On Changes To Brush Valley Mine Underground Coal Mining Area & Subsidence Control Plan, Indiana County
*  [7/11/2022] DEP To Hold July 20 Public Meeting On Changes To Barrett Mine Underground Coal Mine Area & Subsidence Control Plan, Indiana County
*  [7/11/2022] DEP, Professional Recyclers Group Highlight Student Winners Of Earth Week Poster And Video Contest
*  [7/11/2022] House Committee Meets July 11 On Letter To IRRC Opposing Final Oil & Gas Facility Methane Reduction Regulation
*  [7/4/2022] Take Action Now! State Budget Isn’t Done! - Help Bipartisan Lawmakers, Wildlife, Farm, Environmental, Recreation Groups Working To Get Growing Greener III Funding
*  [7/4/2022] Ramez Ziadeh Takes Over As Acting Secretary Of DEP
*  [7/4/2022] Bay Journal: Penn State Study: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread On Pennsylvania Roads Bad For Health, Land
*  [7/4/2022] Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
*  [7/4/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Change To United Refining Company Air Quality Permit Adding Emission Limit For Sulfur Dioxide In Warren
*  [7/4/2022] DEP To Recommend Fee Increase For Erosion & Sediment Control Permits To EQB July 12
*  [7/4/2022] DEP Chesapeake Bay Office Update: Farm Conservation Tax Credit Applications; York County Better Farms, Clean Water Field Day; Join Mifflin County Riparian Rangers!
*  [7/4/2022] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants
*  [7/4/2022] DEP Accepting Applications For Electric Cargo Handling Grants To Reduce Air Pollution
*  [7/4/2022] DEP Teaching Green: Environmental Education Grant Program Expanding
*  [6/27/2022] Bipartisan Group Of Lawmakers, Hunters, Anglers, Farm, Environmental, Recreation Groups All Working Together, Down To The Wire, To Bring Home A Win On Growing Greener III Funding
*  [6/27/2022] Governor's Adult, Youth Advisory Councils For Hunting, Fishing & Conservation Urge Lawmakers To Support Growing Greener III Environmental Funding
*  [6/27/2022] Chesapeake Bay Program Released Results Showing PA Achieved Only 22% Of 2025 Nitrogen Reduction Goal, 45% of Sediment, 48% Of Phosphorus
*  [6/27/2022] Who’s Protecting Taxpayers? House Republicans Pass Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
*  [6/27/2022] New General Assembly-Mandated General Permit Allows Unconventional Oil & Gas Liquid Waste Processing Facilities To ‘Pop-Up’ Within 300 Feet Of You Without Notice
*  [6/27/2022] Independent Fiscal Office Projects Up To $24.3 Million Growth In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Collected In 2023; Lowest Ever Effective Tax Rate Of 0.6%
*  [6/27/2022] 20th Anniversary Of Quecreek Mine Rescue To Be Celebrated In July In Somerset County
*  [6/27/2022] DEP Energy Conservation & Energy Efficiency Programs Can Help Your Business Respond To Rising Energy Costs As Energy Markets Spike
*  [6/27/2022] House Republicans Move Bill Conflicting With Federal Stormwater Requirements, Could Cost PA $7 Million In Federal Funding
*  [6/27/2022] House Republicans Pass Bill Giving IRRC Veto Over Final Regulations; Stacking The IRRC
*  [6/20/2022] Who’s Protecting Taxpayers? House To Take Up Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
*  [6/20/2022] EQB Adopts Part I Of Reg. Reducing Oil & Gas VOC/Methane Emissions; 80% Of Methane Emissions Come From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; IRRC Considers July 21
*  [6/20/2022] Post-Gazette Editorial: PA Republican Lawmakers Poised To Cost PA Billions In Highway Funding At Behest Of Oil & Gas Industry
*  [6/20/2022] PUC Distributes $234 Million In 2021 Revenue From Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee; Represents Lowest Effective Tax Rate On Natural Gas Companies On Record - IFO
*  [6/20/2022] DEP Hosts June 28 Hearing On Benner Twp. PFAS Hazardous Site Cleanup Investigation In Centre County
*  [6/20/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Update June 21 On Oil & Gas Advisory Board Activities; Discuss Legacy Issues Report; Transition Paper
*  [6/20/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Advance Restoration Plan For Trout Run Watershed, Erie County
*  [6/20/2022] Old Lycoming Township, DEP Highlight Local Recycling Efforts, Illegal Dumping Prevention
*  [6/20/2022] PA Dept. Of Agriculture Temporarily Suspends Requirement For 2% Biodiesel For Out-Of-State Fuel Sold In PA In Response To Rolling Outages Of Diesel Fuel
*  [6/13/2022] Lawmakers From Both Parties, Advocates, DCNR Secretary Highlight Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity To Fund Local Water Cleanup, Recreation, State Park & Forest Safety & Maintenance Projects
*  [6/13/2022] On-Site Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Waste Disposal Plans Making Hundreds Of Drilling Sites Waste Dumps
*  [6/13/2022] Senate Hearing: Body Of Evidence Is 'Large, Growing,’ ‘Consistent’ And 'Compelling' That Shale Gas Development Is Having A Negative Impact On Public Health; PA Must Act
*  [6/13/2022] House Republicans Side With Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers, Against Taxpayers, To Continue Pre-1985 Exemption From Well Bonding, Prevent Any Increase In Plugging Bond Amounts
*  [6/13/2022] Senate Republicans, At Request Of Natural Gas Industry, OK Bill To Take Away Protections In Erosion & Sedimentation Permitting For Oil & Gas Activities
*  [6/13/2022] At The Request Of Natural Gas Industry, Senate Republicans Report Out Bill To Prohibit Communities From Moving To Clean, Cheaper Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
*  [6/13/2022] Hearing Board Denies Sen. Muth Standing As Legislator To Appeal DEP Permit For Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Plant In Susquehanna County; Individual Standing Still Pending
*  [6/13/2022] DEP Releases Final Guidance On Handling Radioactive Waste From Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Operations
*  [6/13/2022] AG Shapiro Charges Energy Corporation Of America/Greylock, 2 Employees With Environmental Crimes Involving Leaks At Oil & Gas Well Sites In Clearfield, Greene Counties
*  [6/6/2022] DEP Advises 18 Municipalities Where Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Occurring The Practice Is Illegal And Considered Waste Disposal
*  [6/6/2022] Who Is Protecting Taxpayers? House Committee Meets June 7 On Bills To Preempt Any Increase In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding Amounts, Give Away Plugging Contracts With No Regard For Cost
*  [6/6/2022] Senate Committee Meets June 8 On Bills To Change Erosion & Sedimentation Permitting For Oil & Gas Activities, Deep Mine Safety Requirements
*  [6/6/2022] EQB Meets June 14 On Revised Final Regulation Reducing Methane Emissions From Just Unconventional (Shale Gas) Wells, Facilities; Working On Conventional Reg.
*  [6/6/2022] DEP Helps Environmental Ed Shine Bright At Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn. 29th Annual Junior Solar Sprint
*  [6/6/2022] PennVEST, DEP Accepting Comments On Clean Water, Drinking Water Federal Revolving Fund Use Plans, Including Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding
*  [6/6/2022] DEP Sets Voting Meetings, Hearing On Elements To State Water Plan Update For Delaware, Great Lakes, Ohio Regional Water Committees
*  [6/6/2022] 20th Anniversary Of Quecreek Mine Rescue To Be Celebrated In July In Somerset County
*  [5/30/2022] Tell Your Legislator NOW To Set Aside $500 Million From Federal American Rescue Funds To Support Local Environmental, State Park & Forest Projects
*  [5/30/2022] New Penn State Study Finds Runoff From Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Dumped On Unpaved Roads Contains Pollutants That Exceed Human-Health, Environmental Standards
*  [5/30/2022] DEP Federal ‘Orphan’ Well Plugging List Includes 7,300 Active Conventional Wells With Identified Owners; DEP Says Cost Recovery A Priority
*  [5/30/2022] Independent Fiscal Office Reports Lowest Quarterly Natural Gas Production In PA Since 4th Quarter Of 2020, First Decrease In Production Growth Since 2018
*  [5/30/2022] Gov. Wolf Announces DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell To Depart July 2, Names Ramez Ziadeh Acting Secretary
*  [5/30/2022] DEP/Small Business Development Center EMAP Business Environmental Assistance Program Receives National Recognition
*  [5/30/2022] Streambank Stabilization Project At Shirk Farms, Snyder County Highlights Importance Of Farm Conservation Practices To Improving Water Quality
*  [5/30/2022] Warren Conservation District 'Save The Rain' Educational Workshop Highlights How Rain Barrels Help Reduce Pollution
*  [5/30/2022] Allegheny College Creek Connections Involves 40 Middle School Students In Stream Quality Assessment, Crawford County
*  [5/23/2022] Guest Essay: Funding Crucial For The Future Of Clean Water In Pennsylvania
*  [5/23/2022] Federal Office Of Surface Mining Awards PA $26.63 Million For Mine Reclamation Projects Related To Economic Development
*  [5/23/2022] DEP, DCNR, PennDOT Employees Recognized With Governor’s Award For Excellence For Environmental Projects
*  [5/16/2022] Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads
*  [5/16/2022] Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest
*  [5/16/2022] Guest Essay: PA's Low-Producing Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Are Leaking Too Much Methane, The Industry Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Trash
*  [5/16/2022] Sen. Casey, DEP Highlight Importance Of Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding To Address Abandoned Mine Reclamation In Visit To Northumberland County
*  [5/16/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To NPDES General Permit PAG-06 - Combined Sewer System Overflow Discharges
*  [5/16/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Regional OTC Nitrogen Oxide Standards For Waste Combustors
*  [5/16/2022] DEP Reschedules Environmental Quality Board Meetings June Thru October
*  [5/16/2022] DEP Announces Local Climate Action Training Provided To 121 More Municipalities; Apply Now For Training
*  [5/9/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Dispose Of Drill Cuttings By ‘Dusting’ - Blowing Them On The Ground, And In The Air Around Drill Sites
*  [5/9/2022] Post-Gazette: DEP Evaluating Whether To Resubmit Oil & Gas Methane Rule To EQB To Address Concerns About A Separate Conventional Oil & Gas Rule
*  [5/9/2022] Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Deregulate Oil & Gas Industry, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Open State Forests To Drilling, Withdrawn From RGGI
*  [5/9/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets May 18 To Hear Presentation On DEP’s Expanded Conventional Abandoned Well Plugging Program
*  [5/9/2022] CBF Blog: Acid Mine Drainage - The Legacy Of Coal Mining A Key Source Of Harm To Pennsylvania's Headwaters
*  [5/9/2022] Bay Journal: EPA Ramps Up Clean Water Inspections After PA's Plan Fails To Meet Chesapeake Bay Water Pollution Reduction Goals
*  [5/9/2022] EPA Announces $40 Million From Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding For Chesapeake Bay Restoration; PA Receives $5.59 Million+
*  [5/9/2022] USDA Announces Additional $22.5 Million In Chesapeake Bay Restoration Funding
*  [5/9/2022] April State Revenues Highest Ever Collected - $1.8 Billion Higher Than Estimates; Never Been A Better Time To Invest In Local Conservation Projects
*  [5/9/2022] DCNR: Never Been A Better Time To Invest In State Park, Forest Infrastructure Improvements, Local Conservation Projects
*  [5/9/2022] Lisa Daniels Now Serving As DEP’s Acting Deputy For Water Programs Overseeing Chesapeake Bay, Other Water-Related Initiatives
*  [5/9/2022] DCNR, Agriculture Join Chesapeake Bay Commission Members At Planting In Lancaster County To Highlight Role Of Stream Buffers; Learn How To Buffer Your Stream
*  [5/9/2022] DEP Holds May 25 Virtual Public Conference Meeting On LCT Energy Rustic Ridge #1 Underground Coal Mining Permit, Westmoreland County
*  [5/9/2022] Environmental Quality Board Meets May 18 On Vanadium Standard, Coal Refuse Disposal Regulations
*  [5/9/2022] Republican ‘Sandbox Permit’ Legislation Would Allow Agencies, Permit Applicants To Permanently Waive And Replace Any Regulatory Requirement With Minimal Public Review
*  [5/2/2022] 15 Projects Recognized With 2022 Governor's Awards For Environmental Excellence
*  [5/2/2022] DEP Now Accepting Applications For $17.9 Million In Growing Greener Plus, Section 319 Water Quality Improvement Grants
*  [5/2/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Total Maximum Daily Load Plan For Little Buffalo Creek, Union County
*  [5/2/2022] DEP: Latest Penn State Report On Environmental Impact Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater Will Have ‘Immediate,’ ‘Large,’ ‘Intense’ Impact In PA, Nationally
*  [5/2/2022] DEP: Draft Updates Coming To Regs. On Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Disposal As Early As July; Waste Reporting Changes Invited
*  [5/2/2022] Financial Assurance, Plugging Regulations To Be Reviewed To Prevent New Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Plugging Program
*  [5/2/2022] DEP: Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Prompting Review Of On-Site Disposal Options For Oil & Gas Well Plugging Wastes; Radioactive Waste Disposal
*  [5/2/2022] DEP Not Seeing Uptick In Oil & Gas Drilling; Expects $8 Million Deficit In Funding Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
*  [5/2/2022] Physicians For Social Responsibility Release 8th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings On Risks, Harms Of Fracking And Oil & Gas Infrastructure
*  [5/2/2022] House Republicans Move Solar, Wind Bonding Bill; Fail To Plug The $1.8 Billion Hole In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding; Opposed Regs Making Natural Gas Pipelines Safer, Reducing Methane Emissions
*  [5/2/2022] PA Coal Industry, Unions File Lawsuit In Attempt To Block Final RGGI Regulation; Hearing May 2 On Republican Lawsuit
*  [4/25/2022] Attorney General’s Office Reported To Be Investigating Conventional Oil & Gas Operators For Illegally Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater
*  [4/25/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Continued To Illegally Road Dump Over 580,000 Gallons Of Drilling Wastewater In 2021
*  [4/25/2022] DEP To Host Online Information Event On Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program April 28
*  [4/25/2022] DEP Formally Publishes Notice Of Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipeline Marsh Creek State Park Lake Restoration Plan Approval
*  [4/25/2022] DEP Update On United Refining Company Naphtha Storage Tank Roof Failure In Warren
*  [4/25/2022] Guest Essay: Seize The Rare Opportunity To Resolve Toxic Mine Drainage
*  [4/25/2022] EPA: State Plan To Clean Up PA's Part Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed Lacks Funding To Meet Water Pollution Reduction Goals
*  [4/25/2022] PennVEST Invests $199 Million In 13 Water Infrastructure Projects In 11 Counties
*  [4/25/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Total Maximum Daily Load Watershed Plans In Adams, Centre Counties
*  [4/25/2022] DEP Announces $30.5 Million Recycling Implementation Grants To 157 Municipalities
*  [4/25/2022] Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful: Communities Celebrate Earth Day By Joining Pick Up Pennsylvania
*  [4/25/2022] EQB Final Rule Published In PA Bulletin Reducing Carbon Pollution From Power Plants [RGGI]
*  [4/25/2022] DEP Showcases City Of Reading’s Local Climate Action For Earth Day; Apply Now For Local Climate Assistance Program
*  [4/25/2022] DEP Announces Award Of $632,897 In Environmental Education Grants To Support 63 Projects Across The State
*  [4/25/2022] House Environmental Committee To Hold April 25 Info. Meeting On Republican Package Of Bills Attempting To Address Local Flooding
*  [4/18/2022] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Has Spill Reporting, Funding For Well Plugging; Permit Fees; Carbon Capture; New Regs On April 25 Agenda
*  [4/18/2022] UPDATED with Agenda/Location/Remote Access: DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets April 21 On Conventional Drilling Issues
*  [4/18/2022] DEP, Others Recommend Ways To Strengthen PUC Regulations On Natural Gas, Hazardous Liquids Pipeline Safety; Oil, Gas, Pipeline Industry, Unions Oppose New Rules
*  [4/18/2022] New Ohio River Valley Institute Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owner Diversified Energy Lacks Resources To Plug Wells, Including 22,507 Wells In PA
*  [4/18/2022] Environmental Health News: Public Health In PA Ignored During Fracking Rush - Report
*  [4/18/2022] DEP Signed 2 Consent Agreements With PBF Petroleum Terminal On The Schuylkill River In Philadelphia For Storage Tank, Clean Streams Law Violations; Penalties Total $1,050,000
*  [4/18/2022] DEP Begins Accepting Growing Greener Plus, EPA Section 319 Watershed Grants April 22
*  [4/18/2022] DEP Urges Public To Report Missing Portable Nuclear Gauge That Was Secured In A Vehicle Stolen In Philadelphia
*  [4/18/2022] PennDOT, DEP Support Petition On Issuing A PUC Policy Statement On Electric Utility Rate Design For Electric Vehicle Charging
*  [4/18/2022] DEP Promotes Agricultural Energy Efficiency Rebate Program At Dries Orchards, Northumberland County
*  [4/18/2022] PA GreenGov Initiatives Lower State Government Energy Use By More Than $8 Million In 3 Years
*  [4/18/2022] DEP/DCNR/Game Commission: First Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcon Egg Hatched!
*  [4/11/2022] Quarterly Report: DEP Issued 77 Notices Of Violations To Conventional Drillers, 8 To Shale Gas Drillers For Attempting To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them
*  [4/11/2022] DEP Approves Sunoco's Mariner East Pipeline Marsh Creek State Park Lake Restoration Plan
*  [4/11/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Lackawanna Energy Center Gas-Fired Power Plant In Lackawanna County At May 25 Hearing
*  [4/11/2022] DEP Appeals Commonwealth Court Order Blocking Publication Of Final RGGI Regulation
*  [4/11/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Presentations On Draft Environmental Justice Policy Changes, Environmental Education Update April 19
*  [4/11/2022] Penn State Extension Hosts Water Cooler Talk On Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances April 13 Webinar
*  [4/11/2022] 6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: Number Of New Natural Gas Wells Drilled In First Quarter Declined By Over 25% In PA Compared To 2021, 2020
*  [4/4/2022] DEP Blog: Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Brings Streams, Rivers Back To Life
*  [4/4/2022] Casey, Cartwright Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Fund Abandoned Mine Treatment O&M Costs
*  [4/4/2022] Chesapeake Bay Foundation Welcomes Increased Funding For Chesapeake Bay In Proposed Federal FY 2023 Budget
*  [4/4/2022] State Museum Of PA, DEP Host April 8 Webinar On The Rachel Carson Building’s Peregrine Falcons
*  [4/4/2022] Dog Whistle: House Republicans Move Bill Saying DEP Permit Applicants Are Always Right; Ignores Environmental Justice Concerns; Adds More Bureaucracy
*  [3/28/2022] Farm Conservation Excellence Grants Expanded To Seven Counties, $5 Million Awarded
*  [3/28/2022] Governor’s Office Posts Updated Agency-By-Agency Agenda Of Regulations In Development
*  [3/28/2022] DEP Hosts March 28 Webinar On Draft Environmental Justice Policy Changes
*  [3/28/2022] DEP Promotes Environmental Education, Showcases Riverbend Environmental Education Center In Montgomery County
*  [3/28/2022] Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance Invites Farmers To Participate In Cover Crop Research; Upcoming Field Days In July; Farm Planting Guides
*  [3/28/2022] 6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: U.S. - European Commission Agreement Calls For Reducing Demand For All Natural Gas And Accelerating Deployment Of Clean Energy Measures
*  [3/21/2022] Environmental Quality Board Approves Final Rule Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations; Conventional Drillers Oppose
*  [3/21/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Technical Guidance On Trenchless Pipeline Construction
*  [3/21/2022] Kurt Klapkowski Serving As DEP Acting Deputy Secretary For Oil & Gas Management
*  [3/21/2022] DEP, PennDOT Encourage Everyone To Join Litter Cleanup Events And ‘Pick Up Pennsylvania’
*  [3/21/2022] DEP: Deer Tick Virus Detected At Popular Iroquois Trail In Wyoming County
*  [3/21/2022] Rescheduled: Senate Committees Will Now Hold March 29 Hearing On Economic Impacts Of DEP Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants
*  [3/14/2022] PA Supreme Court To Decide If The Owner Of Mariner East Pipelines - Sunoco/Energy Transfer - Must Pay Attorneys Fees In Legal Challenges They Lost To Citizens Or Will Taxpayers
*  [3/14/2022] DEP Celebrates $30 Million In Low-Interest Loans For High-Impact Commercial Energy Efficiency Projects
*  [3/14/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Environmental Justice Policy For Permit Reviews, 3 Virtual Hearings Set
*  [3/14/2022] DEP Names Justin Dula Acting Director For Environmental Justice
*  [3/14/2022] DEP Announces $2.99 Million In Growing Greener Grants to Support 12 Water Cleanup Projects In Southwest PA; Apply Now For Grants
*  [3/14/2022] Senate Committees To Hold March 21 Hearing On Economic Impacts Of DEP Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants
*  [3/14/2022] Appalachian Voices: Congress Misses Another Opportunity To Tackle Ongoing Cost Of Acid Mine Drainage
*  [3/7/2022] 12 Unconventional Shale Gas Drillers Issued DEP Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them At 35 Well Pads In 17 Counties
*  [3/7/2022] DEP Budget Hearing: 40% Of Unconventional Natural Gas Well Permits Issued By DEP Were Not Used By Drillers
*  [3/7/2022] Senate Budget Hearings: PA’s Experience With New Pipeline Construction Shows State Laws Not Strong Enough To Prevent Environmental Damage, Protect Public Safety
*  [3/7/2022] DEP Budget Testimony: Significant Investments In Environmental Cleanup, Improving Permit Review Times, Holding Polluters Responsible, Relief To Those Harmed By Pollution
*  [3/7/2022] Gov. Wolf Announced PA Received $26.5 Million In Federal Funding For DEP’s Traditional Mine Reclamation Program
*  [3/7/2022] DEP Experiencing Computer Database, Application Outages; They’re Working On It
*  [3/7/2022] Environmental Quality Board Meets March 15 To Consider Final Rule Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
*  [3/7/2022] Deadline Extended: DEP Accepting Applications For Agriculture Energy Efficiency Rebate Program
*  [3/7/2022] Register Now For 2022 Shale Network Workshop In State College May 12-13
*  [3/7/2022] Senators Yaw, Yudichak Request Independent Fiscal Office To Audit Modeling Done By DEP To Justify Final RGGI Regulations Reducing Carbon Pollution From Power Plants
*  [3/7/2022] PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0; True Energy Independence
*  [2/28/2022] Budget Briefing: Senate, House Budget Hearings Should Talk About Once-In-A-Generation Investments In Cleaning Up The Environment; Oil & Gas Program At A Crossroads
*  [2/28/2022] New Abandoned Wells: DEP Records Show Abandoning Oil & Gas Wells Without Plugging Them Is Pervasive In Conventional Drilling Industry; Who Is Protecting Taxpayers?
*  [2/28/2022] New Abandoned Wells: 256 Conventional Oil & Gas Companies Issued NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
*  [2/28/2022] New Abandoned Wells: 60 Conventional Oil & Gas Companies Issued 10 NOVs Or More For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In One Year
*  [2/28/2022] IFO Reports Natural Gas Production Increased 6.8% In 2021
*  [2/28/2022] Environmental Quality Board Accepting Comments On Proposed PFOA/PFOS Maximum Contaminant Level
*  [2/28/2022] DEP Sets Virtual Regional State Water Plan Update Hearings For March 11
*  [2/28/2022] Keep PA Beautiful Affiliates, Partners Collect Over 2 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste, 29,900 Tires, 100,000 Pounds Of Household Chemicals In 2021
*  [2/28/2022] DEP OKs Coal Ash Use For Structural Fill To Build Data Mining Operation At Coal Waste-Fired Scrubgrass Power Plant In Venango County
*  [2/28/2022] DEP Request For Information On Proposed Medium/Heavy-Duty Zero Emission Vehicle Grant Program
*  [2/21/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Pay Only $46,100 Of The $10,600,000 It Costs DEP To Regulate That Industry; Taxpayers May Be Asked To Pay The Difference
*  [2/21/2022] Growing Greener Coalition: Action Needed On Bipartisan Growing Greener III Proposals To Address Critical Water Quality, Recreation, Green Infrastructure Needs
*  [2/21/2022] Bay Journal: Billions On The Way From Feds To Attack Abandoned Coal Mine Problems - #1 Water Pollution Problem In PA
*  [2/21/2022] DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets Feb. 22 To Hear About Federal Clean Energy Funding Opportunities, Climate Change & Public Health
*  [2/21/2022] Join PA Resources Council, DEP In Litter Prevention Campaigns
*  [2/21/2022] Interns Wanted: DEP & DCNR Offering Paid Summer Internship Positions
*  [2/14/2022] Gov. Wolf’s Environmental Budget Builds On Bipartisan Support For $450 Million Conservation Allocation From Federal ARP Funds; Increases DEP Staff To Manage Historic Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding
*  [2/14/2022] Gov. Wolf Announced PA Received The Initial $244.9 Million From The Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law To Clean Up Abandoned Mine Lands
*  [2/14/2022] DEP To Prohibit Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers With Unresolved Environmental Violations From Getting Conventional Well Plugging Contracts; 133 Companies Interested In Doing Well Plugging Work
*  [2/14/2022] Representative Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drillers Compares Their History In PA To The Holy Bible - But He Left Out Some Parts
*  [2/14/2022] Protect PT Hosts Feb. 15 Webinar On Proposed Increase In Oil & Gas Well Bond Amounts To Protect Taxpayers From Paying To Plug Wells Conventional, Unconventional Drillers Abandon
*  [2/14/2022] DEP Awards $250,000+ In Grants To Protect Lake Erie Coastal Zone
*  [2/14/2022] DEP Awards $574,974 In Grants To Protect Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone
*  [2/14/2022] Environmental Hearing Board Strengthens DEP’s Clean Streams Law Complaint Investigation Process
*  [2/14/2022] DEP Invites Comments On A Proposed Denial Of NPDES Permit For 20MW Solar Energy Project In Erie County
*  [2/14/2022] EDF: PA Receives First $25.3 Million For Electric Vehicle Charging Investments From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - Equals Jobs & Cleaner Air For PA
*  [2/14/2022] Scott Perry No Longer DEP Deputy For Oil & Gas Management
*  [2/7/2022] Gov. Wolf Proposes $450 Million Growing Greener III Initiative Funded By Federal American Rescue Plan; Bipartisan Support Building For Conservation Allocation
*  [2/7/2022] General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole
*  [2/7/2022] DEP To Report $4.7 Million, 17.6% Deficit, In Funding Oil & Gas Regulatory Program To EQB Feb. 15; Conventional Drillers Only Pay 0.4% Of Their Regulatory Costs
*  [2/7/2022] DEP Announces $4.7 Million In Growing Greener Watershed Restoration Grants In Southcentral PA
*  [2/7/2022] DEP Receives First $25 Million From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law For Plugging Oil & Gas Wells Abandon By Conventional Drillers
*  [2/7/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Update On PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Cleanup Initiatives Feb. 15
*  [2/7/2022] USGS: PA Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network Finds 64% Of Wells Exceed Radon Standard, 36% Manganese, 32% Iron
*  [2/7/2022] DEP To Hold March 8 Virtual Hearing On Sunoco Pipeline Mariner East II Pipeline Erosion & Sedimentation Permit For Marsh Creek Lake Remediation, Chester County
*  [2/7/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Sunoco Pipeline LNG Pumping Station Air Permit In West Goshen Twp., Chester County
*  [2/7/2022] AP: DEP Files Lawsuit Against Reference Bureau To Publish Final RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Regulations; PA Could Lose Air Pollution Reductions, $283 Million
*  [2/7/2022] DEP Posts Update To Non-Regulatory Agenda Showing Status Of Technical Guidance In Development
*  [2/7/2022] PA Environmental Council: In Case You Missed It In January
*  [2/7/2022] House Environmental Committee To Hold Feb. 7 Information Meeting On DEP’s Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program For Wells Abandon By Conventional Drillers
*  [1/31/2022] Witnesses Unanimously Support Allocating American Rescue Plan Funding For Farm Conservation Projects At House Committee Meeting; Rep. Metcalfe Calls It ‘Welfare’
*  [1/31/2022] PA State Government Has Refused To Pay Stormwater Management Fees To Local Authorities Designed To Meet Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Obligations
*  [1/31/2022] Chesapeake Bay Journal: EPA Declares 'No Confidence' In Cleanup Plan For Conowingo Dam Due To Lack Of Funding, Gives States 60 Days To Respond
*  [1/31/2022] Chesapeake Bay Foundation Commends EPA For Strong Stance In Meeting Chesapeake Bay 2025 Cleanup Goals
*  [1/31/2022] DEP Announces More Than $1.7 Million In Growing Greener Grants To Fund Local Water Clean Up Projects In Northwest PA
*  [1/31/2022] DEP Announces $245,000 Growing Greener Grant For Kinney Run Watershed Improvements, Columbia County
*  [1/31/2022] PA Resources Council, Partners Receive Growing Greener Grant For Delaware County Stormwater Management Project
*  [1/31/2022] Federal Office Of Surface Mine Reclamation Awards PA $25 Million For Mine Reclamation With Environmental, Economic, Recreation, Solar Energy Benefits
*  [1/31/2022] DEP To Conduct Hazardous Waste Site Investigation At Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Site In Erie
*  [1/31/2022] DEP Recognizes Winners Of 2021 Radon Student Poster Contest
*  [1/31/2022] York Conservation District Hosts March 4 Manure Management Plan Workshop; DEP Conducting Farm Compliance Inspections
*  [1/31/2022] Republicans Move Bills Out Of Senate Committee To Redefine Water Pollution, Sell Off State Clean Energy Credits
*  [1/24/2022] DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds
*  [1/24/2022] IFO: 2021 Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue $233.8 Million; Still Short Of 2018 Revenue Of $251.8 Million
*  [1/24/2022] DEP Announces $3.5 Million In Watershed Restoration Project Funding For Southeast PA
*  [1/24/2022] Penn State To Survey Farmers In 14 Counties On Their Use Of Conservation Practices
*  [1/24/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Changes To NPDES General Permit For Stormwater Discharges - PAG-03
*  [1/24/2022] DEP: Public Urged To Take Precautions - Deer Tick Virus (DTV) Detected At High Levels In Clearfield County Park
*  [1/24/2022] House Committee To Hold Info. Meeting Jan. 24 On Bill To Use Some American Rescue Plan Funding To Clean Up Water Pollution
*  [1/24/2022] Senate Committee Set To Meet Jan. 25 On Bills To Redefine Water Pollution, Prohibit State From Owning Clean Energy Credits; Hold Hearing On Stormwater Fees
*  [1/24/2022] Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events
*  [1/17/2022] DEP 2022 Water Quality Report Shows 27,886 Miles Of Streams With Impaired Water Quality In PA (33%) - An Increase From 25,468 In 2020
*  [1/17/2022] Two Bipartisan Bills Just Sitting In Senate Waiting To Address Record Number Of Water Quality Impaired Streams Reported In 2022
*  [1/17/2022] DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years
*  [1/17/2022] DEP Proposes New, Limited General Permit For Processing, Beneficial Use Of Oil & Gas Liquid Wastes; No Chemical Concentration Limits Or Public Review Of Individual Permit Uses Are Included
*  [1/17/2022] DEP Opportunity To Bid On Plugging 7 Orphan Oil & Gas Wells In Warren County
*  [1/17/2022] Bay Journal: PA Contends Its New Cleanup Plan Will Meet Chesapeake Bay Goals
*  [1/17/2022] DEP Accepting Applications For Host Municipality Inspectors Reimbursements
*  [1/17/2022] EQB Invites Comments On 2 Proposed Regulations: NPDES Water Quality Compliance Schedule; Municipal Waste Rural Transfer Facility Permit-By-Rule
*  [1/17/2022] EPA: West Penn Power To Pay $610,000 Penalty In Federal-State Settlement Over Coal Ash Landfills Discharge Violations In Allegheny, Washington Counties
*  [1/10/2022] DEP Draft Rule Does Not Ban Road Spreading Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Industry Objects To Waste Reporting Provisions
*  [1/10/2022] Sign Better Path Coalition Petition: DEP - Keep ALL Oil & Gas Wastewater Off Our Roads!
*  [1/10/2022] Better Path Coalition Presents Jan. 12 Webinar On Road Spreading Drilling Wastewater, Why Hasn't It Stopped?
*  [1/10/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drillers Press DEP To Reduce Environmental Safeguards For Drilling And Treat Them The Same As Wind, Solar Energy Facilities
*  [1/10/2022] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial: West Deer Twp. Stands Up To Natural Gas Interests
*  [1/10/2022] Chester County Residents Protest Mariner East Pipeline Construction
*  [1/10/2022] DEP Announces How Pennsylvania Will Meet Its 2025 Pollution Reduction Goals in Chesapeake Bay Watershed; All Counties On Board
*  [1/10/2022] EPA Points To Lack Of Dedicated Farm Cost Share Program As Major Gap In PA's Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan
*  [1/10/2022] Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Pennsylvania Far Behind Where It Needs To Be In Meeting 2025 Chesapeake Bay Milestones
*  [1/10/2022] DEP Water Resources Committee Meets Jan. 20 To Hear Presentation On 2022 Draft Integrated Water Quality Report
*  [1/10/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 18 On Food Waste To Renewable Energy, Radon
*  [1/10/2022] Environmental Quality Board Proposes Delisting MAX Environmental Technologies Sludge Filter Cake As Hazardous Waste; 3 Virtual Hearings Set
*  [1/10/2022] Reminder: Register Now For Virtual PA Lake Erie Environmental Forum Jan. 25
*  [1/3/2022] DEP Lists 84 Townships As ‘Waste Facilities’ Where Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Has Been Disposed Of By Road Spreading; Municipalities Need To Do Their Due Diligence
*  [1/3/2022] DEP Invites Public To Submit Data For Stream Evaluations In Berks, Clearfield Counties
*  [1/3/2022] DEP Sets Jan. 26 Hearing On Permits For LCT Energy Rustic Ridge #1 Mine Fayette, Westmoreland Counties
*  [12/20/2021] Millions Of Gallons Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread Illegally On Dirt Roads, Companies Fail To Comply With DEP Waste Regulations
*  [12/20/2021] Better Path Coalition Report: How To Close The Loophole Allowing Uncontrolled Road Spreading Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater & Fix Oil and Gas Waste Reporting System
*  [12/20/2021] DEP Issues Revised Erosion Control Permits For PA Pipeline/Mariner East Pipeline Segments In Chester, Delaware Counties
*  [12/20/2021] Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay Program Figures Show PA Led Region In 2020 Cleanup Progress
*  [12/20/2021] Gov. Wolf Announces $17.4 Million To Improve Local Water Quality In 33 Counties In The Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [12/20/2021] Penn State Plans Survey Of Farm Conservation Practices In 14 PA Counties Starting In January
*  [12/20/2021] DEP Hosts 8th Round Of State Water Plan Regional Committee Meetings Starting Jan. 11
*  [12/20/2021] DEP Outlines Recommendations For Changing Act 101 And Electronics Waste Recycling Laws To Make Them More Effective At Dec. 16 Advisory Committee Meeting
*  [12/20/2021] DEP Posts 2022 Schedule For Advisory Committee, Board Meetings; Remote Attendance Options Will Continue To Be Available
*  [12/20/2021] DEP, PA Sea Grant, Partners Host Virtual PA Lake Erie Environmental Forum Jan. 25
*  [12/20/2021] House Republicans Pass Bill Making Fundamental Changes In Clean Streams Law, Letting Companies Decide When To Report Spills
*  [12/20/2021] EPA Announces Plans To Use Funds From Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill To Expedite Cleanup At 3 Superfund Sites In Berks, Delaware, Montgomery Counties
*  [12/13/2021] Sunoco/Mariner East Pipeline To Pay $4 Million In Damages And Restore Lake At Marsh Creek State Park Polluted By A Spill In Chester County
*  [12/13/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Mariner East Pipeline Erosion & Sedimentation Renewal Permits For Rights Of Way In 15 Counties
*  [12/13/2021] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Blacklick Creek AMD Treatment Facility, Cambria & Indiana Counties
*  [12/13/2021] DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Dec. 16 On Road Spreading Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Other Issues
*  [12/13/2021] Bay Journal: Massive Aid On Way To Plug Pollution From Oil, Gas Wells In Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Act
*  [12/13/2021] Citizens Voice Editorial: Gas Industry Has Succeeded Coal & Railroad Industries In Making PA General Assembly A Nearly Wholly-Owned Subsidiary
*  [12/13/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Stream Evaluation Report Covering 85 Class A Wild Trout Waters In 31 Counties
*  [12/13/2021] DEP Now Accepting Applications For County Recycling Coordinator Grants
*  [12/6/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Proposal To Accept Delegation From EPA To Regulate Air Emissions From Certain Landfills In PA; Jan. 6 Hearing Set
*  [12/6/2021] DEP Posts Permits Automatically Triggering Use Of Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy
*  [12/6/2021] DEP’s Environmental Justice Newsletter Spotlights EJ Champion Rashida Lovely From Scranton
*  [12/6/2021] PA Supreme Court: UGI Can Be Held Liable For Taking Natural Gas Rights Around A Tioga County Natural Gas Storage Field To Form A Proposed 3,000 Acre Buffer
*  [11/29/2021] State Releases First-Ever Litter Action Plan, Calls For Universal Access To Trash Disposal, Recycling, Extended Producer Responsibility, New Anti-Litter Funding
*  [11/22/2021] EQB Accepts Petitions For Study To Increase Oil & Gas Well Bonding; DEP Has $15 Per Well Available In Bonds To Plug Conventional Wells
*  [11/22/2021] Marcellus Shale Coalition Challenges EQB Authority To Increase Bond Amounts For Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; DEP Has $15 Per Well Available In Bonds To Plug Conventional Wells
*  [11/22/2021] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Reschedules Hearing To Dec. 2 On Proposed Fee Change To Encourage Use Of AMD Impacted Waters, SRBC/DEP Letter Of Understanding
*  [11/22/2021] DEP Advisory Committee Supports Adopting Science-Based Water Quality Criteria For Toxic Manganese To Protect Public Health, Environment And No Change In Point Of Compliance For The Standard
*  [11/22/2021] House Republicans Move Bills Amending State Constitution To Invalidate Actions By The Executive Branch To Cement One-Party Rule Of State Government
*  [11/22/2021] DEP Releases Guidelines For Recycling In Your Community Booklet On America Recycles Day
*  [11/15/2021] Bay Journal: Dirt Roads & Drilling Wastewater - Dustup Rises Over Health Issues
*  [11/15/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Mariner East II Pipeline Chapter 102 Permit Application In Delaware County
*  [11/15/2021] PG Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Can’t Solve The Climate Crisis Alone - But The World Can’t Solve The Climate Crisis Without Pennsylvania
*  [11/15/2021] DEP Presents First Draft Of Revised Environmental Justice Policy To Advisory Group
*  [11/15/2021] DEP: New NPDES General Permit For 1-5 Acre Projects Affecting Stormwater Now Available
*  [11/15/2021] DEP: Opportunity To Bid On Mine Drainage Treatment Project In Schuylkill County
*  [11/15/2021] DEP & PennDOT Seek Volunteers To Pick Up Pennsylvania To Benefit Streams, Rivers, and Lakes
*  [11/15/2021] Republicans On House Committee Report Out Resolution To Kill Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Regulation
*  [11/8/2021] U.S. House Sends Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill To Biden’s Desk, Includes Largest-Ever Investment In Cleaning Up Abandoned Coal Mines - PA’s #1 Water Pollution Problem
*  [11/8/2021] DEP: Opportunity To Bid On Mine Reclamation Project In Clearfield County
*  [11/8/2021] DEP To Hold Dec. 13 Hearing [If Needed] On RACT II Air Quality Plan For Montour Power Station, Montour County
*  [11/8/2021] DEP Blog: The Time Is Now To Re-Tune Commercial Buildings To Minimize Energy Consumption
*  [11/8/2021] DEP Suspends Enforcement Of California Heavy-Duty Diesel Emissions Control Program; Federal Standards Will Still Apply
*  [11/8/2021] DEP Sets Jan. 7 Deadline For Clean Diesel Grants Through Driving PA Forward Program
*  [11/8/2021] DEP Awards $9.5 Million In Fast Charging, Hydrogen Fueling & Marine And Rail Freight Movers Grants Under Driving PA Forward
*  [11/8/2021] DEP Hosts Dec. 2 Webinar For First-Time Applicants For DEP Grants
*  [11/1/2021] Guest Essay: Communities Should Invest Federal American Rescue Plan Funds In Conservation
*  [11/1/2021] DEP Healthy Waters Newsletter Highlights Profiles Of 40 Clean Water Funding Programs, Local Clean Water Leadership
*  [11/1/2021] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project In Luzerne County
*  [11/1/2021] DEP Invites Comments On How To Calculate Medium-Specific Standards For Lead In Land Recycling Program Cleanups
*  [10/25/2021] Going, Going, Gone... Senate, House Have Little Time To Act On Funding For Local Flood Prevention, Watershed Restoration, Recreation Projects
*  [10/25/2021] How The Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Industry Eliminated Any Restrictions On The Disposal Of Millions Of Gallons Of Its Wastewater On PA’s Dirt & Gravel Roads
*  [10/25/2021] EQB Adopts Proposed Regulation Setting Compliance Schedules For Communities With Combined Sewer Overflow Problems
*  [10/25/2021] DEP: Draft Stream Evaluation Report In Tohickon Creek Watershed, Bucks County Available For Public Comment
*  [10/25/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To NPDES General Permit For Testing Of Tanks & Pipelines
*  [10/25/2021] Opportunity To Bid On Plugging Abandoned Well In Potter County
*  [10/25/2021] Nov. 4 Susquehanna River Basin Commission Hearing On Proposed Fee Schedule Change To Encourage Use Of AMD Impacted Waters, SRBC/DEP Letter Of Understanding
*  [10/18/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Notification Requirements For Spills, Discharges Threatening To Pollute Streams; Response To Bills Changing Definition Of Water Pollution
*  [10/18/2021] WARNING Issued: Do Not Eat Fish From Neshaminy Creek Watershed In Bucks, Montgomery Counties Due To High Levels Of PFOS Contamination
*  [10/18/2021] Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Critical Of DEP For Working With Penn State On Independent Studies Of Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater They Had Been Aware Of Since August, 2020
*  [10/18/2021] DEP Awards Over $4.1 Million To 13 Projects Statewide To Restore the Health Of Local Watersheds
*  [10/18/2021] DEP Extends Deadline For Accepting Applications For Section 902 Recycling Implementation Grants To Oct. 29
*  [10/18/2021] Proposed DEP Regulation Would Require 22% Of Passenger, Light Duty Vehicle Fleet Offered For Sale In PA Be Zero Emission Vehicles Starting In 2025
*  [10/18/2021] DEP Sets Nov. 17 Hearing [If Needed] On RACT II Air Quality Plan For The Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant, Indiana County
*  [10/18/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Three Rivers Aggregates, LLC’s Surface Mine Permit Application In Lawrence County
*  [10/18/2021] RECOVERED: DEP, State Police Urge Public To Report Missing Portable Nuclear Gauge In Clinton County Area
*  [10/18/2021] Pilot Project Paves Roadway In Ridley Creek State Park With Recycled Plastic/Asphalt In Delaware County
*  [10/18/2021] DEP Blog: Teaming Up To Battle Invasive European Frog-Bit
*  [10/18/2021] DEP Teaching Green: Will Education Standards Still Eliminate EE? Radon Poster Contest, Education Grants, Success Stories
*  [10/11/2021] DEP Invites Companies Involved In All Aspects Of Oil & Gas Well Plugging To Take A Survey
*  [10/11/2021] Independent Fiscal Office Estimates Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue To Increase By Nearly $75 Million In 2022
*  [10/11/2021] EQB Meets Oct. 19 On Proposed Regulation Setting Compliance Schedules For Communities With Combined Sewer Overflow Problems
*  [10/11/2021] DEP Sets Oct. 27 Meeting/Hearing On Centre Lime & Stone Company Mining Permit Perry County
*  [10/11/2021] DEP Accepting Applications For County Mosquito-borne Disease Control Grants Starting Oct. 15
*  [10/11/2021] Republicans On House Environmental Committee Report Out Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When To Report Spills
*  [10/11/2021] House Committee Sets Oct. 25 Hearing On Biosolids Permit Revisions
*  [10/11/2021] PA Bulletin
*  [10/4/2021] Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Bay Executive Council Fails To Hold Pennsylvania Accountable For Its Water Pollution Cleanup Commitments [PA’s #2 Water Pollution Problem]
*  [10/4/2021] Senate Committee Reports Out Bipartisan Bill Allocating $500 Million In American Rescue Fund Monies For Local Environmental Improvement, Recreation Projects
*  [10/4/2021] Chesapeake Bay Foundation Applauds Senate Action On Bill To Allocate $500 Million To Fund Local Growing Greener Projects, Establish Clean Streams Fund
*  [10/4/2021] Scranton Times Editorial: Use $500 Million In American Rescue Fund Cash To Fully Fund Growing Greener
*  [10/4/2021] DEP’s September Healthy Waters Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Update
*  [10/4/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Alternative Restoration Plan For Baken Creek Watershed, Perry County
*  [10/4/2021] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project In Clarion County
*  [10/4/2021] DEP: Potential For Environmental Impacts From Spills Or Leaks Of Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Materials Is Real; Health Dept. Not Aware Of All Chemicals In Oil & Gas Wastewater Making Risk Assessment Difficult
*  [10/4/2021] Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Told A Federal Court Sunoco Cannot Hide Risk Assessment Data For Its Mariner East 2 Pipeline
*  [10/4/2021] DEP Terminates Proposed Beech Hollow Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant's Air Quality Permit In Washington County At Company’s Request
*  [10/4/2021] DEP Sets Nov. 3 Hearing [If Needed] On RACT II Air Quality Plan For Coal-Fired Keystone-Conemaugh Power Plant, Indiana County
*  [10/4/2021] DEP Announces $3 Million In Grants For Cleaner Truck, Bus Fleets Under The Driving PA Forward Grant Program
*  [10/4/2021] PA Energy Development Authority Meets Oct. 5 To Discuss Green Bank Proposal
*  [9/26/2021] DEP Sets Virtual Nov. 9 Hearing On Proposed Cleanup Plan For Bishop Tube Hazardous Waste Site In Chester County [Hazardous Sites Cleanup Funding Goes Off Fiscal Cliff This Year]
*  [9/26/2021] House Committee Meets Sept. 27 On Bill To End Rulemaking, Public Participation During Certain Declared Emergencies
*  [9/20/2021] DEP Blog: Cambria County Coal Waste Reclamation Project Wins National Award [Federal Mine Reclamation Fee Expires This Month]
*  [9/20/2021] Environmental Groups Submit Rulemaking Petitions To Environmental Quality Board Asking For Full-Cost Bonding For Oil & Gas Well Plugging
*  [9/20/2021] DEP: Dedicates Public Drinking Water System To Leacock Township, Lancaster County
*  [9/20/2021] DEP Accepting Applications For Agriculture Energy Efficiency Rebate Program
*  [9/20/2021] Environmental Quality Board Meets Sept. 21 To Consider Air Quality, Hazardous Waste Regulations, Other Items
*  [9/20/2021] Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Resolution Killing Final Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Regulations
*  [9/13/2021] DEP Fails To Address Loophole That Continues To Allow Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater; Members Of Public Register Their Opposition To All Road Dumping
*  [9/13/2021] DEP Sets Oct. 13 Hearing [If Needed] On RACT II Air Quality Plan For Keystone Station Coal-Fired Power Plant, Armstrong County
*  [9/6/2021] After More Than A Decade Of Warnings Significant Funding Was Needed, Floods Are Again Devastating Pennsylvania
*  [9/6/2021] Hurricane Ida: DEP Storm And Flood Recovery Fact Sheets And Information
*  [9/6/2021] Groups Gathering Support For Letter Urging DEP, Gov. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 Million Gallons Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Dumped On PA Roads
*  [9/6/2021] Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater; Radiation Monitoring Of Drilling Wastes; More On DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Agenda Sept. 9
*  [9/6/2021] Independent Regulatory Review Commission Votes To Approve The Final RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Regulation Covering Power Plants
*  [9/6/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Chapter 105 Alternatives Analysis Guidance
*  [9/6/2021] DEP Invites Comments On South Branch Conewago Creek Watershed TMDL Plan In Adams County
*  [9/6/2021] DEP Launches Nation’s 2nd State-Led Climate Leadership Academy, With More Than 150 Enrolled
*  [9/6/2021] DEP Holds Virtual Hearing Sept. 22 On Air Quality Permit Renewal For Covanta Waste-To-Energy Facility In Delaware County
*  [9/6/2021] DEP Approves Methods For Land Application Of Food Processing Residual Waste From Clinton County Meat Processor
*  [8/30/2021] DEP Proposes Policy On Prioritizing Review Of Oil & Gas Erosion & Sediment Control General Permits
*  [8/30/2021] DEP Issues Final Guidance On Underground Coal Mining Adjacent To Unconventional Gas Wells
*  [8/30/2021] DEP Chesapeake Bay Implementation: 7 Conservation Districts Awarded $2.98 Million In Conservation Excellence Grants; Juniata County Farm Wins Sustainability Award
*  [8/30/2021] Guest Essay: Deadline Looms For State, Federal Officials To Save PA And Chesapeake Bay
*  [8/30/2021] DEP Accepting Applications For Coastal Zone Grants Beginning August 30
*  [8/30/2021] Environmental Quality Board Publishes Final Chapter 91 & 92 Water Quality Permit Fee Increase Regulation
*  [8/23/2021] New Penn State Study Shows Road Dumping Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Has Little Dust Suppression Benefit, Contains Pollutants Harmful To Human Health, Agriculture, Aquatic Life
*  [8/23/2021] DEP To Propose Regulations Allowing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Across PA
*  [8/23/2021] DEP Collects $85,000 Penalty For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations In Blair, Cumberland, Juniata, Lebanon Counties
*  [8/23/2021] DEP: $1 Million In Small Business Grants Available For Farm Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Pollution Prevention Projects; Funding Source Goes Off Fiscal Cliff This Year
*  [8/16/2021] DEP Forming New PA Energy Storage Consortium; Stakeholder Meeting Sept. 28
*  [8/16/2021] Sen. Muth, Rep. Friel Otten: One Year After Mariner East Pipeline Spill 33 Acres Of Marsh Creek State Park Lake Is Still Off Limits, No Remediation Done
*  [8/16/2021] DEP Collects $140,000 Penalty From ETC Northeast Field Services For Pipeline Construction Violations In Beaver County
*  [8/16/2021] DEP Blog: Illegal Dumping Carries More Than A Price Tag, It Can Spread Disease, Water Contamination
*  [8/9/2021] House Republicans Now Want To Take Away All DEP’s Application Fee Revenue To Further De-Fund Environmental Protection Programs
*  [7/26/2021] DEP Teaching Green Newsletter: Education Grants Opening Sept. 10, Examples Of Environmental Ed Projects, Professional Development, Lots Of Other Resources
*  [6/7/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 505 More Permit Reviews, 1,741 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [6/7/2021] Dept. Of Health, DCNR, DEP Remind Pennsylvanians To Watch Out For Ticks, Related Diseases
*  [6/7/2021] PennVEST, DEP Invite Comments On Proposed Intended Use Plans For Federal Clean Water, Drinking Water Funds
*  [6/7/2021] Good Samaritan Proposal To Treat Abandoned Mine Drainage In Stewart Twp., Fayette Country
*  [6/7/2021] DEP Approves Keystone Landfill Expansion In Lackawanna County; Recommends Change In Law Requiring Host Municipality To Agree To Expansions
*  [6/7/2021] DEP: Olympus Energy Natural Gas Driller Fined $175,000 For Water Quality Violations In Allegheny County
*  [6/7/2021] DEP Publishes Section 401 Water Quality Certification For Revolution Pipeline In Western PA
*  [6/7/2021] DEP Names Erin Wells Director Northwest Regional Office
*  [5/30/2021] DEP Highlights Local Water Quality Improvement Projects Cleaning Up Chesapeake Bay Watershed; Updates On Other County, Partner Accomplishments
*  [5/30/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 928 More Permit Reviews, 1,724 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [5/30/2021] Bay Journal: PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In Mosquito Spray, PA DEP Orders Mosquito Programs To Stop Using Clarke’s Anvil 10+10 Pesticide
*  [5/30/2021] House Republicans Pass Bill Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Wastewater, Rolling Back Environmental Protection Standards
*  [5/30/2021] House Republicans Pass Bill Creating Office Of The Repealer Of Regulations
*  [5/30/2021] Senate Republicans Pass Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Require Private Review Of Permits, Not Tell Public Why Regulations Changes Being Proposed
*  [5/30/2021] Senate Committee Approves Bill Promoted By Privately-Owned Water Companies To Set Up Publicly-Owned Water/Wastewater Systems For Takeovers
*  [5/30/2021] Senate Democrats, AG Shapiro Announce Legislation To Address Issues Raised In Grand Jury Report On Natural Gas Fracking
*  [5/30/2021] Biden's First Budget Makes Significant Investments In Abandoned Coal Mine Reclamation, Community Economic Development Efforts
*  [5/30/2021] U.S. House Committee OKs Bipartisan Bills To Prevent Expiration Of Federal Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program, Expand Economic Development Opportunities
*  [5/30/2021] Proposed Biden Budget Makes Historic Investments In EPA Programs To Support States, Environmental Justice, Science, Reverses Years Of Declining Budgets
*  [5/30/2021] Chesapeake Bay Foundation Praises Biden Proposed Budget Giving Chesapeake Bay Program Full Funding
*  [5/30/2021] PA Receives $3.9 Million EPA Grant For Water Quality Improvement Projects In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [5/30/2021] DEP Invites Comments On TMDL Water Quality Plan For Laurel Hill Creek Watershed, Somerset County
*  [5/30/2021] Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Air Quality Permit For Proposed Natural Gas Power Plant In Clinton County
*  [5/24/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 631 More Permit Reviews, 1,968 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [5/24/2021] IRRC Approves Final Chapter 91 & 92 Water Quality Permit Fee Increases
*  [5/24/2021] Senate Appropriations Meets May 24 On Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, End Public Participation During Emergencies And More
*  [5/24/2021] Senate Agriculture, Local Government Committees Hold May 25 Hearing On Utility Scale Solar Development
*  [5/24/2021] DEP Opportunity To Bid On Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project In Indiana County
*  [5/24/2021] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Section 902 Recycling Implementation Grants
*  [5/24/2021] DEP Hosts June 2 Virtual Hearing On Hercules Cement Application For Quarry Expansion In Northampton County
*  [5/17/2021] DEP Releases PA Clean Energy Industry Workforce Development Gap Analysis Showing How Best To Support Continued Job Growth
*  [5/17/2021] DEP Completes Over 101,000 Inspections During Pandemic Office Closure; Processed Over 41,000 Permits
*  [5/17/2021] DEP Invites Comments On TMDL Water Quality Plan For Carpenters Run Watershed In Lycoming County
*  [5/17/2021] DEP Awards $3.4 Million+ To Support Cleaner Fuel Transportation Projects To Improve Air Quality, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
*  [5/17/2021] Opportunity To Bid On Plugging 6 Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells In Venango County
*  [5/10/2021] Gov. Wolf Recognizes DEP’s Jill Whitcomb, Heidi Kunka For Their Efforts To Restore Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Combat Climate Change
*  [5/10/2021] DEP: June 16 Virtual Hearing On Mariner East Pipeline Water Quality Permit Changes In Chester County Related To Marsh Creek Lake Spill
*  [5/10/2021] DEP Posts Final-Form Reg. Cutting Carbon Pollution From Power Plants For 2 Advisory Committee Meetings
*  [5/10/2021] Gov. Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9° F Warmer by Midcentury, Precipitation To Increase, Targets Areas to Reduce Risk
*  [5/10/2021] DEP Processes Nearly 41,000 Permits During Pandemic Closure - 93% On Time
*  [5/10/2021] House OKs 4 Bills On Killing Regulations By Doing Nothing; Shielding Law Violators; Mandating Private Review Of DEP Permit Applications
*  [5/10/2021] PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Oppose House Bills Curtailing Regulations, Permitting Programs Protecting Environment & Public Health
*  [5/3/2021] DEP: 16 Counties Begin Countywide Clean Water Action Plans To Improve Water Quality In PA Part Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [5/3/2021] On Transparency: What If The Senate And House Had To Adopt Laws Like DEP Adopts Regulations?
*  [5/3/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 784 More Permits, 1,824 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [5/3/2021] Senate Republicans Report Out Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Repeal Regs Because They Have Too Many Words, Shield Law Breakers, And More
*  [5/3/2021] DEP Opportunity To Bid On Mine Reclamation Project In Clearfield County
*  [5/3/2021] DEP: Westmoreland Landfill, County Hauling Will Pay $25,000 Penalty, $25,000 In Lieu Of Penalty For Waste Transportation Violations
*  [4/26/2021] Earth Day 2021: Celebrating Our Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania
*  [4/26/2021] South Fayette Conservation Group, DEP To Dedicate Gladden Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Plant In Allegheny County; Federal AML Funding To Expire
*  [4/26/2021] Gov. Wolf Announces $459,823 In Grants To Support Local Environmental Education Projects Across The State
*  [4/26/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 953 More Permits, 1,907 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [4/26/2021] Senate Committee Meets April 27 To Consider Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Repeal Regs Because They Have Too Many Words, Shield Law Breakers, And More
*  [4/26/2021] House Republican Introduces ‘You’re On Your Own’ Emergency Declaration Bill
*  [4/26/2021] Republicans On House Committee OK Bills Killing Regulations By Doing Nothing; Shielding Law Violators; Mandating Private Review Of DEP Permit Applications
*  [4/26/2021] Republicans On House Committee OK Bill Setting Up Office Of The Repealer To Recommend Repeal Of Existing Regulations
*  [4/26/2021] Senate Republicans To Gov. Wolf: We Will Reject Any Nominees To PUC Until You Withdraw Your Executive Order Joining RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [4/26/2021] PA Senate, House Lawmakers Announce 2021-22 Legislative Coal Caucus To Support Coal Mining Industry
*  [4/26/2021] DEP Provides March/April Update On PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Progress
*  [4/26/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Total Maximum Daily Load Plan For Brush Valley Creek In Northumberland County Covering Sediment Pollution
*  [4/26/2021] Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
*  [4/19/2021] DEP Blog: Tips For A Greener Earth Week And Beyond
*  [4/19/2021] DEP Accepting Applications For Growing Greener Plus, EPA Section 319 Watershed Restoration, Protection, Mine Reclamation Grants Starting April 22
*  [4/19/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 722 More Permits, 2,034 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [4/19/2021] PA Grade Crude (Oil) Development Advisory Council Meets April 22 On Draft Conventional Drilling Rules; Update On Road-Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater Study
*  [4/19/2021] House Committee Meets April 20 To Consider Bills Killing Regulations By Doing Nothing; Shielding Law Violators; Mandating Private Review Of DEP Permit Applications
*  [4/19/2021] House Committee Meets April 20 On Bill Setting Up Office Of The Repealer To Recommend Repeal Of Existing Regulations ‘Defying A Common Sense Approach To Government’
*  [4/19/2021] EPA, DEP: May 4 Virtual Meeting Set To Take Comments On Proposed Settlement With American Zinc Recycling On Its Palmerton, Carbon County Facility
*  [4/19/2021] DEP Begins 2021 Black Fly Suppression Program
*  [4/19/2021] DEP Accepting Applications For Calendar 2020 Act 101 Recycling Performance Grants
*  [4/19/2021] DEP Issues Report Assessing PA's Energy Storage Capacity For A Cleaner, More Resilient Electric Grid
*  [4/12/2021] DEP: Seward Generating Coal-Waste Power Plant To Pay $108,000 Penalty For Air Pollution Control Act Violations In Indiana County
*  [4/12/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 865 More Permits, 2,122 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [4/12/2021] Republicans Introduce Bill Saying DEP Permit Applicants Are Always Right, Eliminates Public Comments; Add Other Bills To Their Environmental Agenda
*  [4/12/2021] Senate Republicans Introduce Bill To Let Companies Decide When To Report Spills That Pollute Receiving Streams, Harm Public Health
*  [4/12/2021] Op-Ed: Pennsylvania's Environmental Protection Must Be Strengthened
*  [4/12/2021] Senate Committee Meeting Provides Overview Of Chesapeake Bay Restoration Efforts
*  [4/12/2021] Senate, House Environmental Committees Set Joint April 27 Hearing On Alternative Onlot Septic Systems & Land Development Planning
*  [4/12/2021] States Can Apply For New $67 Million Sewer Overflow, Stormwater Reuse Grants From EPA
*  [4/12/2021] DEP Hosts 5th Round Of Regional State Water Plan Meetings Starting April 13
*  [4/12/2021] DEP: Draft Strategy For PA’s Coastal Resources Management Available For Public Comment
*  [4/12/2021] DCNR, DEP Begin Plugging 12 Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells In Cornplanter State Forest, Forest County
*  [4/5/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 807 More Permits, 2,014 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [4/5/2021] DEP Hosts 5th Round Of Regional State Water Plan Meetings Starting April 13
*  [4/5/2021] DEP: Proposed Metal Bank Superfund Site Hazardous Sites Cleanup Settlement Includes $950,00 For Natural Resource Damage Restoration
*  [4/5/2021] DEP Accepting Applications For County Recycling Coordinator, Host Municipality Inspector Grants
*  [4/5/2021] DEP Blog: Eating Fish You Catch Is Good For Your Health, Here Are Tips For Doing It Safely
*  [4/5/2021] Interns Wanted/Help Wanted: Six Different Organizations, Agencies Have Openings To Fill
*  [3/29/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 745 More Permits, 1,887 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [3/29/2021] DEP, EPA, DOJ Reach $1.9 Million Agreement With Chesapeake Appalachia For Failure To Identify, Protect Wetlands At 76 Gas Well Drilling Sites
*  [3/29/2021] DEP Issues Discharge Permit With PFAS Limits To Montgomery County Air National Guard Base
*  [3/22/2021] DEP Finishes One Year Working Remotely Thru Pandemic: 703 More Permits, 2,062 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [3/22/2021] U.S. House Hearing On Reauthorizing Federal Abandoned Mine Lands Program: We Don’t Deserve To Wait Any Longer For Clean Streams, Diversified Economies
*  [3/22/2021] Citizens Advisory Council Sets April 8 Hearing On Latest DEP Act 54 Report On Surface Damage Caused By Underground Coal Mining
*  [3/22/2021] Rachel Carson Falcons Lay First Eggs; 18-Year Old Male Falcon Perishes; Bald Eagle Egg Hatches
*  [3/22/2021] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Project To Plug Abandoned Well In Allegheny County
*  [3/22/2021] DEP: $1.8 Million Available In Low-Interest Loans For High-Impact Energy Efficiency Projects
*  [3/22/2021] DEP Accepting Comments On 64 Applications For General Permit Coverage For Processing, Reuse Of Liquid Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
*  [3/22/2021] Environmental Lawyer Joel Burcat Now Writes Environmental Thrillers Featuring DEP Assistant Counsel As Main Character
*  [3/15/2021] Sen. Browne Urges DCNR To Monetize Its Assets; Questions Continued Need For DEP’s Dedicated Environmental Funds
*  [3/15/2021] PA Members Of Congress Introduce Bipartisan Bills To Reclaim Abandoned Mine Lands, Create Jobs
*  [3/15/2021] U.S. House Subcommittee On Energy & Mineral Resources To Hold March 18 Hearing On Restoring Abandoned Mine Lands
*  [3/15/2021] Bay Journal: What Will It Take To Clean Up Abandoned Mine Land In Chesapeake Bay Watershed? - Part I
*  [3/15/2021] DEP: 2nd Round Of PFAS Sampling At 114 Public Water System Sites: 65% No PFAS, None Of Sites Above Federal Limits
*  [3/15/2021] DEP Announces Equity Principles To Guide Investments Thru Proposed Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
*  [3/15/2021] DEP To Hold Public Input Sessions On Environmental Justice Policy Revision March 22, 31
*  [3/15/2021] Governor’s Office Posts Updated Agency-By-Agency Agenda Of Regulations In Development
*  [3/15/2021] DEP Posts Update To Non-Regulatory Agenda Showing Status Of Technical Guidance In Development
*  [3/15/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 795 More Permits, 2,407 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [3/15/2021] GreenPort Users! Who Access DEP, DCNR And Agriculture Applications
*  [3/15/2021] Keep America Beautiful Recognizes DEP And PennDOT With National Partnership Awards
*  [3/15/2021] House Committee Meets March 16 On Bill To Exempt Restaurants That Bottle & Sell Water From Safe Drinking Water Act
*  [3/15/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed TMDL Plan For Plum Creek Watershed, Blair County
*  [3/15/2021] DEP To Hold April 15 Virtual Hearing On Tri-County Landfill Water Quality Permit, Mercer County
*  [3/15/2021] Registration Now Open For 2021 Shale Network Workshop May 13-14
*  [3/8/2021] Environmental Quality Board Meets March 16 On Final Water Quality Permit Fee Increases
*  [3/8/2021] DEP Order Requires Payment Of $125,000 Penalty For Latest Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline Construction Violations In Beaver County
*  [3/8/2021] Independent Fiscal Office Reports PA Natural Gas Production Increased 3.9% In 2020 Over 2019; Impact Fee, Permit Fee Revenue Takes Hit
*  [3/8/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 946 More Permits, 2,170 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [3/8/2021] DEP Hosts April 6 Virtual Hearing On Hazardous Sites Cleanup Of Fmr McKees Rocks Landfill, Allegheny County
*  [3/1/2021] House Budget Hearing Fails To Address A Single Critical Budget Issue Faced By DEP Or DCNR
*  [3/1/2021] DEP Budget Testimony: DEP Works Through The Pandemic, Public Demands Action To Address Climate Change
*  [3/1/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 698 More Permits, 1,762 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [3/1/2021] DEP Collects $497,000, Fish & Boat Commission Collects $25,855 In Penalties For Latest Violations Involving Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction In Lebanon County
*  [3/1/2021] Republicans On House Committee OK Letter Disapproving Of Proposed EQB Changes To Chapter 105 Regulations
*  [3/1/2021] DEP/U.S. Dept. Of Justice Invite Comments On Proposed American Zinc Consent Decree For Facility In Palmerton, Carbon County
*  [2/22/2021] DEP Chesapeake Bay Implementation Plan Update: 86% Of Phase 3 Milestones Are On Track
*  [2/22/2021] Environmental Groups, DEP Agree To Open Public Comment Period On 49 Previously Approved Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment & Storage Facility Permits
*  [2/22/2021] Songbirds' Reproductive Success Reduced By Natural Gas Pipeline Compressor Noise
*  [2/22/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 702 More Permits, 1,696 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [2/22/2021] IRRC Recommends EQB Consider Adding More Environmental Protections To Carbon Pollution Reduction Reg. Covering Power Plants; Delay Implementation 1 Year
*  [2/22/2021] DEP Blog: Ten Tools Pennsylvania Is Using To Address Climate Change
*  [2/22/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Alternative Restoration Plan For Hammer Creek Headwaters In Lebanon County, Upstream Of Speedwell Forge Lake
*  [2/22/2021] Stroud Water Research Center Study Points To Warmer Streams As Threat To Mayflies, Not Oxygen Deprivation
*  [2/15/2021] Citizens Advisory Council Feb. 16 Meeting: DEP’s Hazardous Sites Cleanup Funding Goes Off Fiscal Cliff This Year In Face Of PFAS Cleanup Needs
*  [2/15/2021] DEP: Range Resources Pays $294,000 Penalty For Delaying The Plugging Of 42 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In 8 Counties
*  [2/15/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 755 More Permits, 1,979 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [2/15/2021] DEP Invites Comments On TMDL For Licking Creek Watershed In Franklin County
*  [2/8/2021] State, Local Partners Made Record Progress In 2nd Year Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan
*  [2/8/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 575 More Permits, 2,100 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [2/8/2021] DEP Lifts Drought Advisories Statewide, Hydrologic Conditions Return To Normal
*  [2/8/2021] Republicans On Senate Environmental Committee Approve Letter Urging IRRC To Disapprove Reg. Reducing Carbon Pollution From Power Plants
*  [2/8/2021] Op-Ed: A Realistic Climate Agenda For Pennsylvania
*  [2/8/2021] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Clinton County
*  [2/8/2021] DEP Newsletter Provides Updates On Environmental Justice Issues Statewide
*  [2/1/2021] CBF: Growing Greener Grants Are Win-Win For Local Environment And Economies
*  [2/1/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 796 More Permits, 1,902 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [2/1/2021] DEP Issues Final General Permit For Natural Gas-Fired Combined Heat & Power Facilities
*  [1/25/2021] 26 More Counties Take The Lead In Developing Local Clean Water Action Plans In PA Portion Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [1/25/2021] PA State Team Guiding The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Meets Jan. 26 To Hear Update On State, County Water Cleanup Efforts
*  [1/25/2021] DEP, Partners Provide Progress Report On First Phase Of Chesapeake Bay Implementation Plan To EPA; New DEP Guide To Permitting For Watershed Projects
*  [1/25/2021] Bay Journal: Can Chesapeake Bay Region Dredge Its Way Out Of Conowingo Dam Problem?
*  [1/25/2021] DEP To Release Initial Version Of Chapter 102 Erosion & Sedimentation ePermitting System
*  [1/25/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 674 More Permits, 1,597 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [1/25/2021] DEP Cancels 2021 Recycling Implementation Grant Round Because General Assembly Took $50 Million From Recycling Fund To Balance State Budget
*  [1/25/2021] DEP Blog: Helping Eels And Mussels Is Improving Water Quality In The Susquehanna River And Chesapeake Bay
*  [1/25/2021] Senate Republicans Add Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Shield Violators From Enforcement To Environmental Agenda
*  [1/25/2021] Senate Republicans Want To Mandate Private Contractor Permit Reviews, Eliminating DEP’s Review On Behalf Of The Public
*  [1/25/2021] DEP Renews General Permits For 27 Facilities In 5 Counties To Process/Reuse Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
*  [1/18/2021] Bay Journal: States Mull Legislative Action On Conservation Proposals Under Shadow Of COVID
*  [1/18/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 663 More Permits, 1,903 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [1/18/2021] Citizens Coal Council Urges DEP To Protect Communities, Streams From Longwall Coal Mining Damage
*  [1/18/2021] New DEP Air Quality Permit Fees Effective January 16
*  [1/18/2021] House Republicans Want To Mandate Private Contractor Permit Application Reviews, Eliminating DEP’s Review On Behalf Of The Public
*  [1/18/2021] DEP Sets Feb. 17 Virtual Hearing On New Coal Refuse Disposal Facility To Discharge Into An Already Water Quality Impaired Stream In Somerset County
*  [1/18/2021] DEP Teaching Green: Benscreek Canoe Club, Partners Provide Johnstown Area Youth With Outdoor Experiences
*  [1/18/2021] DEP Publishes Final Management Of Fill Technical Guidance
*  [1/18/2021] Penn State Extension, DEP To Host 8-Part Farm Energy Day Webinars; Offer New Farm Utility Bill Analysis Service
*  [1/18/2021] DEP Renews General Permits For 27 Facilities In 11 Counties To Process/Reuse Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
*  [1/11/2021] CBF: If PA Does Not Meet Its Obligations To Cleanup Its Water Pollution, The Chesapeake Bay Will Never Be Safe; CBF Will Not Back Off Lawsuit
*  [1/11/2021] Chesapeake Bay Foundation Reports Bay Health Down Slightly, But There Is Hope
*  [1/11/2021] DEP Lifts Drought Watch, Warning For 20 Counties; Three Counties Remain On Drought Watch
*  [1/11/2021] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 19 To Hear Presentations On Damage Caused By Underground Coal Mining; Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Issues
*  [1/11/2021] Public Invited To Comment On DEP Report Showing 40% Of Streams Are Damaged By Underground Coal Mining
*  [1/11/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 553 More Permits, 1,311 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [1/11/2021] DEP Extends Comment Period On Stream Evaluation Reports In Carbon, Delaware Counties
*  [1/11/2021] Public Invited To Submit Comments On Changes To DEP General Permit For Stormwater Associated With Mining Activities
*  [1/11/2021] 38 Environmental Groups Urge DEP To Deny PennEast Pipeline Permits In Advance Of Jan. 13 DEP Hearing
*  [1/11/2021] DEP Names Jim Miller Southwest Regional Office Director; John Holden Acting Director Of Northwest Regional Office
*  [1/4/2021] DEP Announces Award Of $34 Million In Growing Greener Grants To Fund 149 Community-Driven Local Water Cleanup Projects Across PA
*  [1/4/2021] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 297 More Permits, 1,149 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [1/4/2021] DEP Sets Feb. 3 Virtual Public Hearing On Mine Reclamation Project In Westmoreland County
*  [1/4/2021] DEP Sets Jan. 13 Virtual Hearing On Chapt. 102/105 Permits For Phase I PennEast Pipeline Project
*  [1/4/2021] DEP Approves Tri-County Landfill’s Municipal Waste Landfill Application In Mercer County
*  [12/28/2020] National Assn. Of Abandoned Mine Land Programs Honors DEP's Brian Bradley
*  [12/28/2020] DEP Hosts 6 Regional Public Hearings On 2022 State Water Plan Update Jan. 6
*  [12/28/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 853 More Permits, 1,705 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [12/28/2020] DEP Posts 2021 Schedule Of Advisory Committee, Board Meetings
*  [12/28/2020] Op-Ed: Keep Pennsylvania’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative On Track
*  [12/28/2020] Op-Ed: DEP Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Is Not About Climate Change
*  [12/28/2020] Op-Ed: PA Needs More Jobs, RGGI Will Create Them By Investing In Energy Efficiency
*  [12/21/2020] DEP Provides Update On Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Efforts; New Stormwater Manual Coming; Next State Team Meeting Jan. 26
*  [12/21/2020] DEP Projects Nearly 70% Drop In Revenue Supporting Oil & Gas Drilling Regulatory Program Due To Downturn In Industry; Health Impacts Study Report Due This Month
*  [12/21/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 921 More Permits, 2,013 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [12/21/2020] Clean Power PA Coalition: 95% Of Commenters At EQB Hearings On Proposed Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Regulation Supported The Proposal
*  [12/21/2020] New Poll: 64% Of Pennsylvania Voters Support PA Joining Multi-State Transportation Climate Initiative
*  [12/21/2020] 2021 PA Climate Impact Assessment: 13% Increase In Extremely Heavy Precipitation Events By 2050; DEP Advisory Committee Discusses Draft Impact Report, Climate Action Plan Dec. 22
*  [12/21/2020] DEP: CrossAmerica Partners To Pay $125,000 Penalty For Violations At 18 Underground Storage Tank Facilities In SE PA
*  [12/21/2020] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For National Fuel Gas FM 100 Natural Gas Pipeline Project In Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, McKean, Potter Counties
*  [12/21/2020] DEP Publishes Final, Revised General Permit For Beneficial Use Of Liquid Waste From Fracking Oil & Gas Wells
*  [12/21/2020] Op-Ed: Damaged Three Mile Island Reactor Cleanup Needs To Be Fully Funded
*  [12/14/2020] Highlights Publishing Foundation Receives $116,000 Grant To Support Boyds Mills Net Positive Energy Project In Wayne County
*  [12/14/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 855 More Permits, 2,027 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [12/14/2020] Energy Transfer Partners Files Appeal Of DEP Order To Keep Natural Gas Out Of Unstable Section Of Revolution Pipeline That Exploded In 2018
*  [12/14/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Energy Transfer Partners Erosion & Sedimentation Permits For Revolution Pipeline Slope Failure Fixes
*  [12/14/2020] DEP Sets Jan. 13 Virtual Hearing On Chapt. 105 Waterways Permit For Phase I PennEast Pipeline Project
*  [12/14/2020] DEP Settles With Keystone Landfill In Lackawanna County For In-Lieu Of Penalty Project Over Water Pollution Caused By Leachate
*  [12/14/2020] PA Energy Development Authority Provides $1.7 Million In Grants To 11 Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency Projects
*  [12/14/2020] DEP Hosts Dec. 15 Webinar On Transitioning To New ePermitting System For Oil & Gas Well Permits
*  [12/7/2020] 90% Of PA Voters Want Senate, House To Provide More Funding For Critical Environmental, Conservation Programs; That Didn’t Happen In 2020
*  [12/7/2020] EQB Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To The Basic Chapter 105 Waterways Permit Regulations
*  [12/7/2020] DEP Extends Deadline To Submit CAFO Farm Annual Reports, Permit Fee To Feb. 15
*  [12/7/2020] DEP Starts Draft Conventional Oil & Gas Regulations Thru Development Process; Draft Regs Available
*  [12/7/2020] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Hear Update On Permit Fees v. Expenses; Oil & Gas Health Studies; Natural Gas Storage Fields; Reg. Update Dec. 16
*  [12/7/2020] DEP Advisory Committee To Discuss Final PFOS/PFOA/PFAS Soil, Water Cleanup Standards Dec. 16
*  [12/7/2020] Bay Journal: How EPA, State Environmental Regulators Loosened Pollution Reins During Early Days Of COVID Pandemic
*  [12/7/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 341 More Permits, 1,052 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [12/7/2020] State Environmental Agency Assn. Led By DEP Secretary McDonnell Meets With Biden EPA Transition Team
*  [11/30/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 686 More Permits, 2,052 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [11/23/2020] $201,977,000 Diverted From Environment, Energy Funds To Balance FY 2020-21 State Budget
*  [11/23/2020] Senate Republicans Send Bill Rolling Back Environmental Protection Standards For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling To Governor
*  [11/23/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 597 More Permits, 1,673 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [11/23/2020] DEP Lifts Drought Watch In 10 Counties, 20 Remain On Watch And 3 On Warning
*  [11/23/2020] DEP Provides $6 Million+ To 8 Counties To Support Local Water Quality Improvement In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [11/23/2020] DEP November Newsletter Updates Chesapeake Bay Program Implementation
*  [11/23/2020] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Luzerne County
*  [11/23/2020] DEP Awards Over $26.8 Million In Recycling Grants To 127 Municipalities; Applications Now Being Accepted For New Grant Round
*  [11/16/2020] DEP Orders Energy Transfer Partners To Keep Natural Gas Out Of Unstable Sections Of Revolution Pipeline That Exploded In 2018
*  [11/16/2020] House Environmental Committee Meets Nov. 17 On Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When They Report Spills
*  [11/16/2020] EQB Meets Nov. 17 On Stream Redesignations, Mining Water Supply Replacement Regulations
*  [11/16/2020] Joint Meeting Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board Nov. 17
*  [11/16/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 623 More Permits, 1,935 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [11/16/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Stream Evaluation Reports In Carbon, Delaware Counties
*  [11/16/2020] DEP Survey Invites Opinions On How To Attract A More Diverse Range Of First-Time Grant Applicants
*  [11/16/2020] DEP Issues $266,987 Penalty Against Luzerne County Man For Violations At Waste Tire Site
*  [11/16/2020] DEP Sets Dec. 10 Virtual Hearing If Needed On RACT II Air Quality Plan For INDSPEC Chemical, Butler County
*  [11/9/2020] Environmental Quality Board Invites Public Comments On Proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants Consistent With RGGI; 10 Virtual Public Comment Sessions Set
*  [11/9/2020] Bay Journal: Added Cleanup For Pollution Behind Conowingo Dam Will Cost $53 Million/Year, Who Will Pay For It?
*  [11/9/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 879 More Permits, 2,161 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [11/9/2020] Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay Commission - 40 Years Of Collaborative Cleanup
*  [11/9/2020] DEP Provides Notice Of Appeal Rights On Section 401 Approval For Leidy South Gas Pipeline Project In Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Wyoming Counties
*  [11/9/2020] DEP: Penalty Agreement Calls For Grand Central Landfill To Clean Up Illegal Dump Site In Northampton County
*  [11/9/2020] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Electric Cargo Handling, Marine & Rail Freight Movers Grant Programs
*  [11/2/2020] DEP Adds One County To Drought Watch, Bringing Total To Thirty
*  [11/2/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 737 More Permits, 2,088 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [11/2/2020] DEP Posts Final, Amended NPDES General Permit For Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
*  [11/2/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Section 401 Water Quality Certification Nationwide Permit Renewal Conditions
*  [11/2/2020] Nov. 9 DEP Virtual Meeting/Hearing On Biosolids Amendment To Surface Mining Permit In Fulton, Huntingdon Counties
*  [11/2/2020] Next Penn State Energy Law & Policy Webinar Nov. 6 Focuses On Legal Environment Surrounding DEP’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Proposal
*  [10/26/2020] DEP Accepting Applications For Farm Conservation Planning Grants In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [10/26/2020] DEP October Newsletter Updates Chesapeake Bay Program Implementation
*  [10/26/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 946 More Permits, 1,572 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [10/26/2020] DEP Climate Committee Meets Oct. 27 To Discuss Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Outline of Impacts Assessment, List Of GHB Reduction Strategies
*  [10/26/2020] DEP Invites Data On Water Quality For Watersheds In Adams/Franklin, Susquehanna Counties
*  [10/26/2020] DEP Withdraws Proposed Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy For Reworking
*  [10/26/2020] In Memoriam: J. Dixon Earley, Former Chief Engineer For DEP
*  [10/19/2020] Draft Conowingo Dam Watershed Implementation Plan Calls For An Additional 6.41 Million Pounds Of Nitrogen Reductions In PA; Comment Period Open
*  [10/19/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 548 More Permits, 1,228 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [10/19/2020] House Republican COVID Economic Stimulus Package Includes A ‘Deemed Approved’ Environmental Permit Approval Process
*  [10/19/2020] CANCELED: House Environmental Committee Meets Oct. 20 On Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When They Report Spills
*  [10/19/2020] Op-Ed: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Suing EPA Will Benefit Pennsylvanians And Other Others Who Value Clean Water
*  [10/19/2020] DEP: Westmoreland Landfill To Pay $59,000 Penalty To Address Multiple Violations
*  [10/19/2020] State Treasurer Torsella Establishes Keystone Green Bank Partnership To Support Clean Energy Projects
*  [10/19/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Air Permit For 2 Natural Gas-Fired Power Blocks At Renovo Energy Center, Clinton County
*  [10/12/2020] DEP: Columbia Gas Will Pay $156,000 Penalty For Pipeline Construction Violations In Greene County
*  [10/12/2020] 28 Environmental Organizations Demand DEP Revoke Mariner East Pipeline Permit For Lebanon County Spills
*  [10/12/2020] New Trees Are Healing North Harford Maple Farm From Abandoned Constitution Natural Gas Pipeline Clearcut In Susquehanna County
*  [10/12/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 872 More Permits, 2,594 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [10/12/2020] DEP Awards $4.9 Million In EPA Section 319 Grants To 23 Watershed Restoration Projects; $3 Million Still Available
*  [10/12/2020] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 20 To Hear Update On PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Cleanup Efforts
*  [10/12/2020] Senate Republicans Pass Bill Changing Membership Of DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee To Favor The Senate, House
*  [10/12/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Divers Volunteer Time To Clean Up Presque Isle Waters In Erie
*  [10/5/2020] DEP Settlements Impose Total Of $427,650 In Penalties On EQM For Pipeline Construction Violations in Greene, Washington, Westmoreland Counties
*  [10/5/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 633 More Permits, 1,815 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [10/5/2020] Governor’s Office Posts Updated Agency-By-Agency Regulatory Agenda
*  [10/5/2020] Senate Committee Meets Oct. 6 On Bills Prohibiting New Regulations, Meetings Of Advisory Committees During An Emergency And Repeal Existing Regulations By Resolution, Not Law
*  [10/5/2020] Senate Appropriations Meets Oct. 5 To Consider Bill Changing Membership Of DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee To Favor The Senate, House
*  [9/28/2020] DEP Collects $736,000 From TransCo For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Violations In 9 Counties
*  [9/28/2020] DEP OKs Permit Changes For Mariner East 2 Pipeline In Delaware, Chester Counties
*  [9/28/2020] Grant Twp., Indiana County Moves To Dismiss Lawsuit Against It By DEP Over Drilling Waste Injection Well
*  [9/28/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 758 More Permits, 1,404 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [9/28/2020] Reminder! DEP Will NOT Accept Old General Information Permit Form After Sept. 30
*  [9/28/2020] Gov. Wolf Vetoes Bill Taking Away DEP’s Authority To Adopt A Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [9/28/2020] House Environmental Committee Holds Sept. 30 Info Meeting On Bill Redefining Spills, Discharges To Streams As No Longer Pollution
*  [9/28/2020] DEP Sets Third Round Of Virtual Meetings For State Water Plan Regional Advisory Committees In October
*  [9/28/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Water Quality Assessment Methodology For 2022 Integrated Water Quality Report
*  [9/21/2020] DEP Reports Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Had Nearly Twice The Violations Of Shale Gas Wells; DEP To Develop New Conventional Drilling Regs
*  [9/21/2020] Independent Regulatory Review Commission Approves Final DEP Air Quality Fee Increase Regulation
*  [9/21/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 685 More Permits, 1,650 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [9/14/2020] CBF, Other States To File Lawsuit Against EPA Over Failure To Hold Pennsylvania, NY Accountable For Not Meeting Clean Water Obligations
*  [9/14/2020] DEP Chesapeake Bay Office Sept. Newsletter Provides Update On PA Watershed Plan Implementation
*  [9/14/2020] Bay Journal: Are Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals Out Of Reach? Most Of The Problem, By Far, Is Pennsylvania
*  [9/14/2020] Bay Journal: COVID-19 Disrupts Local Efforts To Cleanup Streams And Rivers In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [9/14/2020] DEP Expands Drought Watch To 18 Counties, Declares Drought Warning For Potter County
*  [9/14/2020] Senate Environmental Committee Hearing Pits Mining Industry Against Water Suppliers On Manganese Standard
*  [9/14/2020] Senate Republicans Cut Off Debate, Pass Bill Taking Away DEP’s Authority To Adopt A Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants; Bill Goes To Governor
*  [9/14/2020] Senate Republicans Report Out Bills Killing Regulations By Doing Nothing, Shielding Violators From Penalties
*  [9/14/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 576 More Permits, 1,491 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [9/14/2020] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Receives $2 Million DEP Grant For Cleanup Of Mine Drainage Going Into Tioga River In Tioga County
*  [9/14/2020] DEP Environmental Justice Champion Of Community Involvement: Bobby Hughes, EPCAMR
*  [9/14/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Changes To Guidance Under Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact & Sustainable Water Resources Agreement
*  [9/14/2020] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Environmental Education Grants
*  [9/14/2020] DEP EJ News: Addressing Racial Justice & Inclusion At DEP
*  [9/14/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: DEP Employees Join Effort To Fight Invasive Water Chestnut
*  [9/7/2020] Ehrenfeld Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project In Cambria County Wins National Recognition; Renewal Of Federal Reclamation Fee Needed Now
*  [9/7/2020] DEP Receives $25 Million From Feds For Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Economic Development Projects
*  [9/7/2020] Op-Ed: Federal Abandoned Mine Reclamation Trust Fund Can Be Reauthorized
*  [9/7/2020] Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills Taking Away DEP’s Authority To Adopt A Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [9/7/2020] Senate Appropriations Meets Sept. 8 To Move Bills Taking Away DEP’s Authority For Carbon Pollution Reduction Programs, Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing
*  [9/7/2020] PA Environmental Council: Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage In PA: A Story Map
*  [9/7/2020] EPA, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Award Record $18 Million For Projects In Chesapeake Bay Watershed; $7.46 Million In PA
*  [9/7/2020] CBF-PA: 8 PA Counties To Add Buffers, Advance Their Clean Water Plans With EPA/NFWF Grant
*  [9/7/2020] EPA/NFWF Grant Awarded To Chesapeake Conservancy For Precision Conservation In PA
*  [9/7/2020] EPCAMR/Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. Each Receive $50,000 EPA/NFWF Grants To Cleanup Area Waterways
*  [9/7/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 744 More Permits, 1,526 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [9/7/2020] We Remember September 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy
*  [9/7/2020] EPA Awards $62.9 Million To PA In Clean Water Revolving Loan Funds
*  [9/7/2020] Lancaster Clean Water Partners Hold Virtual Annual Partners Meeting Sept. 11
*  [9/7/2020] Lancaster Clean Water Partners Scholar Spotlight: Marcy Hostetler, Teacher, Volunteer
*  [9/7/2020] DEP Provides Notice Of Appeal Rights On Permits For Adelphia Gateway Natural Gas Pipeline Project
*  [8/31/2020] Mariner East Pipeline Can Resume Construction In Chester County Under Temporary Supercedeas Granted By Environmental Hearing Board
*  [8/31/2020] 31 Environmental, Conservation Groups Demand DEP Revoke Mariner East Pipeline Permits
*  [8/31/2020] New Analysis: Over 200 Shovel-Ready Community Solar Projects Await Action On Bipartisan Legislation
*  [8/31/2020] DEP And PennDOT Seek Volunteers For ‘Pick Up Pennsylvania’ Litter Campaign
*  [8/31/2020] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Commends DEP Staff For Working Thru COVID-19 Pandemic
*  [8/31/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 674 More Permits, 1,681 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [8/31/2020] DEP Permit Applicants Advised To Start Using Updated General Information Form Immediately
*  [8/31/2020] Federal Court Rejects EPA Approval Of PA Pollution Limits On Coal-Fired Power Plants
*  [8/31/2020] DEP Accepting Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Conemaugh River Crossing, Compressor Station Replacement Projects
*  [8/31/2020] DEP Accepting FY 2021 Coastal Zone Grants Thru October 19
*  [8/31/2020] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Clearfield County
*  [8/31/2020] Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Applications Due To DEP Dec. 11
*  [8/31/2020] Shippensburg, Dickinson Join Statewide Partnership To Address Climate Change
*  [8/24/2020] DEP Posts Proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Regulations Covering Power Plants 4 Weeks Before Sept. 15 EQB Meeting
*  [8/24/2020] DEP Local Climate Action Program Helps Community Leaders Address Climate Change In 139 Municipalities
*  [8/24/2020] DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee Holds Virtual Meeting Aug. 25 On Outlines Of 2021 Climate Impacts Assessment & Climate Action Plan
*  [8/24/2020] Report: Clean Energy Is A Leading Creator Of New Quality Jobs In Pennsylvania
*  [8/24/2020] DEP Assesses $355,000 Penalty On Sunoco For 2018, 2019 Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations
*  [8/24/2020] Legislators Issue Call For Revocation Of Mariner East Pipeline Permits In Chester County
*  [8/24/2020] DEP: CNX Gas Company Agrees To Pay $175,000 Penalty For Uncontrolled Methane Leaks At The Shaw Well In Westmoreland County
*  [8/24/2020] IFO Reports PA Natural Gas Production Increased 2.8% In Second Quarter Over Last Year, But Over 31% Drop In New Producing Wells
*  [8/24/2020] DEP Declares Drought Watch For 16 Northcentral, Western PA Counties; First Since 2016-17
*  [8/24/2020] Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Chesapeake Bay Executive Council Didn't Deal With Elephant In The Room - Pennsylvania
*  [8/24/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 676 More Permits, 1,660 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [8/24/2020] DEP Reports 8 More Counties With Mosquitoes Testing Positive For West Nile Virus
*  [8/24/2020] Agenda Added - House Environmental Committee To Hold Aug. 24 Hearing On Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [8/24/2020] Agenda Added - Senate Environmental Committee Holds Aug. 25 Hearing On Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [8/24/2020] Senate Environmental Committee To Hold Sept. 9 Hearing On Setting Proposed Toxic Substances Standard For Manganese In Water
*  [8/24/2020] DEP Opportunity To Bid On Mine Reclamation Projects In Clearfield, Elk Counties
*  [8/24/2020] News & Views Newsletter Now Available From The Dept. Of Environmental Protection
*  [8/17/2020] Mariner East Pipeline Drilling Stopped Indefinitely At Site Of Leak Into Marsh Creek State Park Lake, Chester County; Pipeline Company Will Be Held Accountable
*  [8/17/2020] Clean Air Council: Another Spill From Construction Of Sunoco's Mariner East II Pipeline In Chester County
*  [8/17/2020] CBF Assesses State Progress On Restoring Chesapeake Bay - PA Is Not On Track To Meet 2025 Goals
*  [8/17/2020] DEP Invests $3.7 Million To Help Farmers Plan, Install Best Management Practices In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [8/17/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 582 More Permits, 1,713 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [8/17/2020] House Environmental Committee To Hold Aug. 24 Hearing On Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [8/17/2020] Senate Environmental Committee Holds Aug. 25 Hearing On Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [8/17/2020] EPA Finalizes Methane Emission Standards For Oil & Gas Industry; Does Not Affect DEP Methane Proposal
*  [8/17/2020] DEP Chesapeake Bay Office Newsletter Provides Update On PA Watershed Plan Implementation
*  [8/17/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Revised NPDES General Permit For Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
*  [8/17/2020] DEP Publishes New Policy On Replacement, Restoration Of Private Water Supplies Impacted by Unconventional Drilling Operations
*  [8/17/2020] PA Energy Development Authority Accepting Applications For Energy Project Restart Grants
*  [8/17/2020] DEP: Chestnut Valley Landfill To Play $25,000 Penalty In Fayette County
*  [8/10/2020] CBF Blog: Why Is The Health Of Pennsylvania Streams Important For The Chesapeake Bay?
*  [8/10/2020] Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay Year Of The Woman: Marylou Barton, Lancaster County
*  [8/10/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 734 More Permits, 1,575 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [8/10/2020] DEP Reports 3 More Counties With Mosquitoes Testing Positive For West Nile Virus
*  [8/10/2020] PA Assn. For Sustainable Agriculture New Report On Managing Agricultural Lands For Clean & Safe Water
*  [8/10/2020] DEP To Hold Aug. 25 Virtual Informal Conference On Glacial Sand & Gravel Mining Permit In Lawrence County
*  [8/10/2020] Local Sewage Enforcement Officer Exams Rescheduled To September 28
*  [8/3/2020] Bay Journal: One-Third Of Pennsylvania Waterways Have Impaired Water Quality
*  [8/3/2020] EPA Finds PA Did Not Meet Targets For Reducing Water Pollution In Chesapeake Bay Watershed Area; Must Identify Funding Sources For 2020-21
*  [8/3/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 577 More Permits, 1,549 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [8/3/2020] DEP Unconventional Drilling Well Permit Fee Increase Effective August 1
*  [8/3/2020] Sen. Costa Introduces Bill To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants, Protect Communities, Workers Already Affected By Changing Energy Economy
*  [8/3/2020] Sen. Yaw Critical Of DEP Climate Consultant For Belonging To A Group That Endorsed DEP Carbon Pollution Reduction Program
*  [8/3/2020] Bay Journal Forum: Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Is In Jeopardy, If EPA Is Unwilling To Act, We Will
*  [8/3/2020] Green Infrastructure Program Takes Root In City Of Lancaster
*  [8/3/2020] Chesapeake Bay Foundation Bringing Silvopasture To Pennsylvania
*  [8/3/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed TMDL Plans For Watersheds In Adams, Bedford Counties
*  [8/3/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Summer Is The Season For Stream Maintenance To Avoid Flood Of Problems
*  [8/3/2020] Fish & Boat Commission Proposes Update To Royalties For Sand, Gravel Dredged From Rivers In PA
*  [8/3/2020] DCED Announces $1.042 Million To Clean Up Fmr Industrial Sites In Berks, Bucks, Montgomery Counties
*  [7/27/2020] DEP: CNX Gas Pays $310,000 Penalty For Violations During, After Pipeline Construction In Washington County
*  [7/27/2020] Bay Journal: Fix For PA's Sewage Overflow Pollution - Worst In U.S. - Neither Quick Nor Easy
*  [7/27/2020] Lancaster County Clean Water Partners Provide Update On Implementing Clean Water Action Plan
*  [7/27/2020] Sign Up For New PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Newsletter
*  [7/27/2020] EQB Proposes To Adopt Manganese Water Quality Toxic Standard Protective Of Public Health
*  [7/27/2020] EQB Approves Final Air Quality Fee Increase, Proposed Revisions To Chapter 105 Permitting Regs
*  [7/27/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 582 More Permits, 1,392 More Inspections Since Last Week; Not Accepting New Reg Suspension Requests
*  [7/27/2020] DEP Told Citizens Advisory Council No Decisions Yet On How To Decommission Damaged Unit 2 At Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant
*  [7/27/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Mining Program Brought 1,000s Of Old Mine Maps Into Digital Age
*  [7/27/2020] Pennsylvania Reports First Human Case of West Nile Virus In 2020
*  [7/27/2020] DEP Climate Consultant Did Not Authorize The Use Of Its Name On A Letter Supporting DEP’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Proposal
*  [7/27/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Record-Setting High Water Levels In Great Lakes
*  [7/27/2020] DEP Ends Review Of Elcon Hazardous Waste Treatment Plant Application In Bucks County
*  [7/27/2020] DEP Awards $2.1 Million In Grants For Cleaner Fuel Vehicle Projects To Improve Air Quality, Address Climate Change
*  [7/27/2020] DEP Small Business Advantage Energy Efficiency, Pollution Reduction, Conservation Grant Program Now Open
*  [7/27/2020] PA Energy Development Authority To Meet Aug. 4 On 2020 PEDA Energy Development Plan
*  [7/27/2020] Report: Senators Baker, Yaw, Scarnati Request To Withdraw From Lawsuit Challenging Delaware River Basin Commission Gas Drilling Prohibition
*  [7/20/2020] CBF Calls For Greater Investments To Reduce Water Pollution As Number Of Impaired Streams Increases In PA
*  [7/20/2020] Sen. Yaw Plans To Introduce Bill To Fund On-Farm Conservation Measures Thru State Conservation Commission, Conservation Districts
*  [7/20/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 770 More Permits, 1,560 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [7/20/2020] Pennsylvania, 14 States, DC Sign MOU To Zero Out Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Trucks By 2050
*  [7/20/2020] Agenda Added: House Environmental Committee To Hold Hearing July 21 On Proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [7/20/2020] EPA Provides $3.84 Million For Pennsylvania Efforts To Reduce Ag-Related Pollution In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [7/20/2020] POWR Hosts Virtual Workshops For Watershed Groups: Aug. 6 & 11 - Central PA/Susquehanna
*  [7/20/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: What Are Harmful Algal Blooms And What Should You Do About Them?
*  [7/13/2020] New DEP Analysis Shows Capping Carbon Pollution From Power Plants Would Save Hundreds Of Lives And Billions of Dollars
*  [7/13/2020] PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Urge House Members To Oppose HB 2025 Taking Away DEP’s Authority To Adopt Carbon Pollution Reduction Programs
*  [7/13/2020] Diverse Group Of Businesses, Nonprofits Calls For Strong Carbon Pollution Reduction Program To Grow Energy Efficiency, Renewable Industries
*  [7/13/2020] Ceres Business, Investor Group Urges House To Oppose HB 2025 Because It Would Harm PA’s Ability To Enact Economy-Friendly Carbon Reduction Policies
*  [7/13/2020] PA Nuclear Energy Group Says HB 2025 A Distraction From Energy Policies That Reduce Carbon Pollution
*  [7/13/2020] U.S. EIA: Renewable Energy Will Generate More Electricity Than Coal In 2020, 2021
*  [7/13/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 597 More Permits, 1,402 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [7/13/2020] Applicants For Oil & Gas ESCGP-3 Permits Must Submit Applications Thru DEP’s ePermitting System Effective Sept. 9
*  [7/13/2020] EQB Holds Virtual Meeting July 21 On Final Air Quality Fee Increase, Proposed Revisions To Chapter 105 Permitting Regs
*  [7/13/2020] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Holds Virtual Meeting On Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning July 21
*  [7/13/2020] DEP Posts Update To Non-Regulatory Agenda Showing Status Of Technical Guidance In Development
*  [7/13/2020] Pennsylvania Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Team Virtual Meeting July 20
*  [7/13/2020] DEP Starts Next Round Of Virtual River Basin Committee Meetings This Week On State Water Plan Update
*  [7/13/2020] Joint Conservation Committee Issues Recommendations On Supporting Coal Refuse-Fired Power Plants
*  [7/13/2020] CBF Applauds U.S. House Increase In FY 2021 Funding For Chesapeake Bay Program
*  [7/13/2020] AG Shapiro Joins 15 Other States, EDF Asking Court To Require EPA To Set Methane Pollution Standards For Existing Oil & Gas Operations
*  [7/13/2020] Businesses, Community Members Launch The Pledge To Defend Our Pocono Waters Campaign
*  [7/13/2020] DEP Invites Information Submissions For Stream Redesignation Evaluations In The Allegheny River Watershed
*  [7/13/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed TMDL Plan For Watershed In Adams County
*  [7/13/2020] PA Clean Water Academy: Learn More About Streamside Buffers
*  [7/13/2020] Turkey Hill Clean Water Partnership Recognized With National Sustainability Award From Innovation Center For U.S. Dairy
*  [7/6/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: How To Protect Your Home Watershed And Why You Should
*  [7/6/2020] U.S. House Passes Infrastructure Bill Including Abandoned Mine Reclamation Initiatives, And Extension Of Federal Reclamation Fee
*  [7/6/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 475 More Permits, 1,656 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [7/6/2020] House Republicans List Bill Taking Away DEP’s Authority To Enact A Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants For A Vote This Week
*  [7/6/2020] New Data Released On Flood Risk Of Every Home In U.S. Due To Climate Change Impacts; 370,200 More Properties In PA At Substantial Risk
*  [7/6/2020] DEP Launches Next Round Of Local Climate Action Program, New Webpage
*  [7/6/2020] National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: U.S. House Select Committee Recommendations On Climate Provides Path For Climate Resilient Agriculture
*  [7/6/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed TMDL For Watershed In Lehigh County
*  [7/6/2020] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Allegheny County
*  [7/6/2020] Pittsburgh Cosponsors U.S. Conference Of Mayors Resolution Calling On Cities To Divest From Fossil Fuel Industries
*  [7/6/2020] DEP Offers First-Come, First-Served Fast Charging, Hydrogen Fueling Grants Under Driving PA Forward
*  [7/6/2020] DEP Completes Hazardous Sites Cleanup Response At Pool Doctor-Beaver Alkali Products, Beaver County
*  [6/29/2020] DEP Sets Virtual Meeting Schedule For State Water Plan Statewide Regional Advisory Committees
*  [6/29/2020] AG Shapiro: Grand Jury Finds Pennsylvania Failed To Protect Citizens During Natural Gas Fracking Boom
*  [6/29/2020] Reactions/Comments: Grand Jury Report On Regulatory Failures During Natural Gas Fracking Boom
*  [6/29/2020] Senate Virtual Hearing Covers Familiar Ground On Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants; DEP Expects No Delay In Implementation With Extension
*  [6/29/2020] Gov. Wolf Gives DEP Until September To Submit Carbon Pollution Emissions Reduction Plan For Power Plants To EQB
*  [6/29/2020] PA Treasurer Torsella Calls On U.S. Supermarkets To Reduce Emissions Of Pollutants More Harmful Than CO2
*  [6/29/2020] Op-Ed: Energy Conservation Is Conservative
*  [6/29/2020] DEP Climate Advisory Committee Meets June 30 On Latest PA Greenhouse Gas Inventory Showing Slight Increase In CO2 Emissions In 2017
*  [6/29/2020] DEP Launches Permit Application Upload Form To Expand Online Permit Application Submissions
*  [6/29/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 621 More Permits, 1,164 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [6/29/2020] CBF Blog: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Invests $2.6 Million In 710,000 Trees, Clean Water, Jobs, Economic Comeback
*  [6/29/2020] Renewing Your Driver’s License Or Vehicle Registration? Make A $3 Contribution To Keystone Tree Fund
*  [6/29/2020] House Environmental Committee To Hold Hearing July 21 On Proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [6/29/2020] DEP Awards Over $434,000 In Environmental Education Grants To Benefit Youth, Adults Statewide
*  [6/29/2020] DEP Invites Comments On 2 TMDL Watershed Plans In Berks, Chester, Lancaster Counties
*  [6/29/2020] Environment & Energy NewsClips
*  [6/22/2020] CANCELED FOR JUNE 22: Bill Taking Money From Farmers For Conservation Work At The Time They Need It Most To Be Considered By House Committee June 22
*  [6/22/2020] IRRC Unanimously Approves EQB Regulation Increasing Unconventional Gas Well Drilling Permit Application Fee
*  [6/22/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 645 More Permits, 1,494 More Inspections Since Last Week; DEP To Open Electronic Permit Application Dropbox
*  [6/22/2020] Senate Environmental Committee To Hold Virtual Hearing On DEP’s Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Proposal June 23
*  [6/22/2020] Joint Conservation Committee Meets June 23 On Impact Of Carbon Pollution Reduction Program On Coal Waste Power Plants
*  [6/22/2020] House Committee Meets June 23 On Bill To Add Member To DEP Mining & Reclamation Advisory Board
*  [6/22/2020] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Projects In Blair, Somerset Counties
*  [6/15/2020] Senate Republicans Move Bills To Block Regulations Because They Have Too Many Words; Promote Expensive 3rd Party Permit Reviews
*  [6/15/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 638 More Permits, 1,680 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [6/15/2020] New Online Storymap Shares Tips, Shows Benefits Of Improving Water Quality In PA's Part Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [6/15/2020] EQB Meets June 16 To Consider Recommendation To Delist Waste As Hazardous Waste From 2 Processing Facilities
*  [6/15/2020] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Discuss Keep PA Beautiful Litter Study, Food Waste Recycling June 16
*  [6/15/2020] DEP: Construction Starts On Mine Drainage Treatment Plant On Chartiers Creek In Allegheny County; Federal Funding For Projects Like This Due To Expire
*  [6/15/2020] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Fayette County
*  [6/8/2020] House Committee To Consider Bill Taking Away DEP’s Authority To Enact Carbon Pollution Reduction Programs For Power Plants June 9
*  [6/8/2020] House Environmental Committee Meets June 10 On Bill Exempting A 1,600 Ton/Day Garbage Processing Plant From DEP Waste Regulations
*  [6/8/2020] Republican Senate Committee Set To Consider Bills On June 10 To Block Regulations Because They Have Too Many Words; Promote 3rd Party Permit Reviews
*  [6/8/2020] Target DEP: Republican Senate Bill Would Block All Regulations, Shut Down Citizen Advisory Committee Meetings During A Declared Emergency
*  [6/8/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 914 More Permits, 1,677 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [6/8/2020] PA Envirothon Week: More Than 300 High School Students Take The Natural Challenge
*  [6/8/2020] PennVEST, DEP Invite Comments On Clean Water/Drinking Water Funding Intended Use Plans
*  [6/1/2020] New PEC Podcast: Fmr Gov. Tom Ridge On Conservatives Being Out Of Touch On The Environment
*  [6/1/2020] 5 Month FY 2020-21 Budget Bills Now Law, Hard Decisions Deferred
*  [6/1/2020] Senate Republicans Move Bill Out Of Committee To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing
*  [6/1/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 484 More Permits, 1,212 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [6/1/2020] Bay Journal: PA To Get Biggest Share Of $6 Million EPA Giving Chesapeake Bay States To Cut Farm Runoff
*  [6/1/2020] In Memoriam: George J. Miller, Former Chairman, Chief Judge Of The Environmental Hearing Board
*  [5/25/2020] Senate Committee Meets May 27 To Consider Republican Bill To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing
*  [5/25/2020] Gov. Wolf Vetoes Republican Bill Blocking Environmental, Other Regulations
*  [5/25/2020] Senate, House Republicans Anticipate Action On FY 2020-21 Budget; Likely To Continue Cutting Environmental Funding
*  [5/25/2020] House Republicans Moving Bill To Reallocate Keystone Fund, Damage Vitality Of PA’s Outdoor Economy
*  [5/25/2020] PA Land Trust Assn. Urges House Members To Oppose HB 2004 Reallocating Keystone Fund
*  [5/25/2020] Rails-To-Trails Conservancy Urges Opposition To HB 2004 Putting Funding For Trails In Jeopardy Just When People Need Them Most
*  [5/25/2020] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Votes Against Moving Proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants To EQB
*  [5/25/2020] POSTPONED: Senate Environmental Committee Meets May 21 On Resolution Calling On DEP To Cease All Work On Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [5/25/2020] Sen. Yaw: NY/NJ Rejection Of PA Natural Gas Pipeline Aids Foreign Producers, At Same Time Governor Wants To Join RGGI
*  [5/25/2020] EQB Invites Comments On Regulations Controlling VOCs/Methane From Existing Oil, Gas Operations
*  [5/25/2020] Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Other States Give Notice To EPA Of Intent To Sue Over Failure To Hold PA, NY Accountable For Meeting Bay Cleanup Milestones
*  [5/25/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 537 More Permits, 1,582 More Inspections Since Last Week
*  [5/25/2020] DEP Invites Public, Businesses, Local Governments To Rate Their Experience With The Agency During The Pandemic Shutdown
*  [5/25/2020] DEP Awards $9.6 Million To Support 145 Food Waste Reduction Projects
*  [5/25/2020] Bills On Governor's Desk
*  [5/25/2020] Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule [Updated]
*  [5/18/2020] House Republicans Give Final Approval To Bill Blocking Environmental, Other Regulations; Next Stop The Governor’s Desk
*  [5/18/2020] TRCP Blog: PA Sportsmen, Women Urge Lawmakers Not To Abandon Job-Creating Conservation Projects
*  [5/18/2020] CFA Extends Deadline To Apply For Act 13 Watershed Restoration, Mine Reclamation, Sewage, Flood Mitigation, Recreation Grants
*  [5/18/2020] DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 1,343 More Permits, 3,317 More Inspections Over Last Week
*  [5/18/2020] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Holds Virtual Meeting May 19 On Carbon Pollution Reduction Program
*  [5/18/2020] PA AFL-CIO Encourages Caution In Consideration Of PA RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [5/18/2020] EDF Analysis Finds PA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Are Double Previous Estimate
*  [5/18/2020] Independent Regulatory Review Commission Reschedules Meeting On Final Unconventional Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase To June 3
*  [5/18/2020] DEP Invites Comments On New General Permit For Natural Gas-Fired Combined Heat And Power Facilities
*  [5/18/2020] DEP Teaching Green Environmental Education Success Stories
*  [5/11/2020] Inquirer.com Editorial: Bad Timing For Harrisburg's Anti-Environmental Efforts
*  [5/11/2020] Op-Ed: Conservation District Week, Time To Reflect On The Real Economic, Environmental Benefits Of Districts
*  [5/11/2020] DEP Works Through Pandemic: 506 More Permits, 1,576 More Inspections Over Last Week
*  [5/11/2020] DEP, Health Provide Guidance For Flushing Water Systems In Buildings Closed During COVID-19 Pandemic
*  [5/11/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Air Quality In PA, How To Be Air Aware
*  [5/11/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Hidden Factors When Considering COVID-19-Related Air Quality Improvements
*  [5/11/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Burning Household Trash Can Harm Your Family, Neighbors And The Environment
*  [5/11/2020] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Recreational Fires And Air Quality
*  [5/11/2020] New PA Poll: 72% Of Pennsylvania Voters Say It's Important Their Electricity Comes From Energy Not Creating Carbon Emissions
*  [5/11/2020] PEC Blog: Watershed Conservation And Landscape Painting En Plein Air
*  [5/11/2020] DEP Accepting Comments On Kwiatkowski Landfill Hazardous Cleanup Site, Lawrence County
*  [5/4/2020] 11 PA Fishing, Hunting Groups Urge Lawmakers To Oppose Freeze On Local Farm Conservation, Environmental Restoration Project Funding
*  [5/4/2020] Lancaster Clean Water Partners: Proposed Environmental Funding Freeze Would Be ‘Devastating’ To Lancaster’s Economy, Clean Water Efforts
*  [5/4/2020] May 3-9 County Conservation Districts Week Overshadowed By Lawmaker Efforts To Freeze, Shutdown Conservation District Funds
*  [5/4/2020] PA State Grange Farm Organization Opposes Proposed Freeze On Conservation District, Local Farm, Restoration Project Funding
*  [5/4/2020] PA Parks & Forests Foundation Urges Lawmakers To Oppose Freeze On Recreation, Conservation Funding Addressing Imminent Health Threats, Help Economy Recover
*  [5/4/2020] PA Municipal Authorities Assn, 19 Waste Authorities Oppose Proposed Freeze On Recycling Funding
*  [5/4/2020] April State Revenue $2.2 Billion, 49.7% Less Than Anticipated; Estimated $395.3 Million Due To COVID-19
*  [5/4/2020] Reinvestment Fund Accepting SBA Paycheck Protection Program Applications From Clean Energy Companies, Organizations
*  [5/4/2020] DEP Works Through Pandemic: 2,881 Permits, 5,525 Inspections, 42 Emergencies
*  [5/4/2020] Changes Made To DEP Food Infrastructure Grant Program To Help Charitable Food System; Deadline Moved To May 8
*  [5/4/2020] DEP: Non-flushable Items Cause Problems In Sewer Systems, 'Flushable' Wipes Are NOT Flushable
*  [5/4/2020] PA American Water Recommends Building Operators, Schools Flush Pipes To Maintain Water Quality
*  [5/4/2020] Gov. Wolf: Planting A Tree, Vegetables, Native Plants Will Give Us Hope
*  [5/4/2020] Penn State Master Gardener: Victory Garden Reinvented! Webinar Series Thru June 16
*  [5/4/2020] GreenGov Council: 3% Drop In State Govt. Energy Use; Renewable Energy Purchases Offset 40% Of Energy Load
*  [5/4/2020] Senate Passes Bill Making It Easier To Consider Alternative On-Lot Septic Systems In Local Sewage Planning
*  [5/4/2020] Senate Committee Reports Out Bill Eliminating Mandatory Public Reporting On Mine Subsidence Damage Caused By Underground Coal Mining
*  [5/4/2020] Bill To Control Overuse Of Fertilizer On Turf Reported Out Of Senate Committee
*  [5/4/2020] NRCS Extends Deadline For Conservation Innovation Grants To June 29
*  [5/4/2020] Agriculture Outlines Process For Accepting Applications For Farm Conservation Excellence Grant Program In Lancaster, York Counties
*  [5/4/2020] Alliance For Aquatic Resource Monitoring Hosts Webinars: Water Quality & Policy May 7; Clean Up Efforts & Role Of Monitoring May 21
*  [5/4/2020] PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts May 13 Webinar On Attracting Media Coverage For Your Activities & Initiative
*  [5/4/2020] DEP Begins Technical Review Of Keystone Landfill Expansion Application In Lackawanna County
*  [4/27/2020] House Republicans Pass Bill Blocking Environmental Regulations; Likely Going To Governor
*  [4/27/2020] House Republicans Pass Bill To Freeze Funding For County Conservation Districts, Local Parks, Farm Conservation, Watershed Restoration Projects; Will Hurt Local Economies
*  [4/27/2020] PA Conservation District Assn.: House Republican Effort To Freeze Funding For County Conservation Districts Will Shut Them Down, Hurt Local Economies
*  [4/27/2020] PA Environmental Council: Almost All Funds Targeted By Republican Freeze Support Local Environmental, Conservation Efforts
*  [4/27/2020] 18 Senate Republicans Ask Gov. Wolf To Withdrawn His Executive Order Asking DEP To Establish A Carbon Pollution Reduction Program For Power Plants
*  [4/27/2020] Modeling For Carbon Pollution Reduction Proposal Shows 180M Ton Reduction In CO2, 3% Increase In Electric, Coal Use Drops Either Way
*  [4/27/2020] DEP Announces Projected Climate Change Impacts Report To Support Planning For Pennsylvania’s Future
*  [4/27/2020] DEP Program Helps 20 Communities Develop Local Climate Action Plans
*  [4/27/2020] Amazon/The Nature Conservancy Right Now Climate Fund Commits $10 Million To Family Forest Carbon Program In PA, Appalachians
*  [4/27/2020] Shippensburg University Hosted Virtual Campus Climate Commitment Signing Event
*  [4/27/2020] More Funding Provided For Federal COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program For Nonprofits, Small Businesses
*  [4/27/2020] DEP Posts Guidelines For Emergency Land Application Of Milk
*  [4/27/2020] PennVEST Provides $116 Million To Fund 16 Water Infrastructure Projects In 13 Counties
*  [4/27/2020] Op-Ed: Earth Day 1970 Changed My Life
*  [4/27/2020] Earth Day 2020 – Bringing Pennsylvanians Together Even Though We’re Apart
*  [4/27/2020] DEP’s Blog: Earth Day 50 PA: DEP Staff Reflections
*  [4/27/2020] DEP’s Blog: By Acting On Climate, We Help Make Every Day Earth Day
*  [4/27/2020] DEP’s Blog: Peregrine Falcons Soar In PA As Earth Day Celebrates 50 Years
*  [4/27/2020] Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA Urges DEP To Enforce All Environmental Laws
*  [4/27/2020] DEP’s Blog: When April Showers Bring More Than May Flowers - Like Stormwater
*  [4/27/2020] DEP Begins 2020 Black Fly Control Program In 35 Counties
*  [4/27/2020] April News & Views Newsletter Now Available From DEP
*  [4/27/2020] DEP Approves Permit For Underground Injection Well For Drilling Wastewater In Allegheny County
*  [4/27/2020] DEP Receives Good Samaritan Act Proposals To Plug 2 Abandoned Wells In Wyoming, Venango Counties
*  [4/27/2020] DEP Invites Comments On TMDL For Stream In Bedford County
*  [4/20/2020] DEP Will Continue To Enforce Environmental Laws; 10 COVID-19 Related Waivers Granted
*  [4/20/2020] Rep. Metcalfe 'Demands' DEP Stand Down On Environmental Regulations During COVID-19 Shutdown
*  [4/20/2020] House Republicans Find A New Way To Stop Environmental Regulations
*  [4/20/2020] DEP Fines Range Resources $198,920 For Air Quality Violations In Washington County
*  [4/20/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Water Quality Certification For National Fuel Gas Pipeline Project In Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk McKean, Potter Counties
*  [4/20/2020] DEP Proposes Changes To General Permit Allowing Beneficial Use Of Oil & Gas Liquid Waste To Develop Or Frac Oil & Gas Wells
*  [4/13/2020] Analysis: Conservative Republicans Want To Freeze Funding For Local Parks, Trails, Farm Conservation, Mine Reclamation, Recycling
*  [4/13/2020] 72 DEP And 9 DCNR Employees Will No Longer Be Paid After April 10
*  [4/13/2020] DEP Issues New Guidance On Inspections, Permit Enforcement, Waivers Of Permit, Regulatory Provisions During COVID-19 Pandemic
*  [4/13/2020] PennVEST Board Approves Up To $450 Million In Financial Aid To PA Hospitals
*  [4/13/2020] The Last Line Of Environmental Defense Is You - Report Environmental Problems
*  [4/13/2020] Keep PA Beautiful Urges Residents To Report Illegal Dumping Thru New Report It Webpage
*  [4/13/2020] DEP Expresses Serious Concerns About Rapid Decontamination Of Damaged Unit 2 Reactor At Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant
*  [4/13/2020] DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Air Quality Advisory Committee Hold Virtual Joint Meeting April 23 On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Proposal
*  [4/13/2020] DCNR, Partners Announce Riparian Forest Webinar Series; PA Clean Water Academy Posts Buffer Webinars
*  [4/13/2020] Independent Fiscal Office Projects $2.7 Billion To $3.9 Billion Reduction In Revenues Over Current, Next Fiscal Year
*  [4/13/2020] Republicans On House Committee Report Out Bill Again Trying To Emasculate Environmental Protection Efforts In PA
*  [4/13/2020] Lancaster Clean Water Partners Choose Team To Lead Implementation Of Action Plan To Reduce Nitrogen, Phosphorus Pollution
*  [4/13/2020] Bay Journal: PA Initiative To Convert 10,000 Acres Of Lawns Into Meadows, Forests
*  [4/13/2020] DEP Settlement With CNX For E&S Violations In Greene, Washington Counties Yields $180,000 Streambank, Fish Habitat Project
*  [4/13/2020] DEP Extends Deadline For Host Municipal Inspector Grant Applications
*  [4/6/2020] State Won’t Pay 9,000 Employees After April 10 To Reduce State Spending
*  [4/6/2020] PA Capitol & COVID-19 Report: PA Could See $4 Billion+ Deficit; Revenue Down $294.6M In March
*  [4/6/2020] PA Envirothon Cancels 2020 Pennsylvania State Envirothon Competition; Working On Natural Challenges
*  [4/6/2020] DEP Developing Guidance On Case-By-Case Enforcement Waivers; Urges Citizens To Report Environmental Problems
*  [4/6/2020] DEP Reports Conducting 1,750 Inspections, Investigations From March 16-31
*  [4/6/2020] Allegheny County Health Dept. Air Pollution Enforcement Not Impact By Temporary EPA Enforcement Policy
*  [4/6/2020] Post-Gazette: PA Faces New Wave Of Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [4/6/2020] House Committee Meets April 6 On Bill To Give Regulated Entities Control Of Agency Actions On Permits, Policy Guidance; Already Violating COVID-19 Only Legislation Intent
*  [4/6/2020] Deadline Extended To Apply For DEP Food Recovery Infrastructure Grant
*  [4/6/2020] DEP Sets Virtual Hearing April 17 [If Needed] On Proposed Air Quality Infrastructure Plan Revisions
*  [4/6/2020] DEP: Emergency Work To Stabilize Hillside Affecting Abandoned Mine Land In Allegheny County To Begin
*  [3/30/2020] Bay Journal: Coronavirus Causing Loss Of Critical Farm Conservation BMP Installation & Design, Tree Planting; Slamming State Budgets, Nonprofits
*  [3/30/2020] DEP Extends Deadline To Apply For New Section 902 Recycling Implementation Grants To May 22
*  [3/30/2020] Nuclear Energy Institute Advises DOE Coronavirus Could Interrupt Nuclear Power Plant Refueling Operations, Including 4 Plants In PA
*  [3/30/2020] DEP Revokes Drilling Waste Injection Well Permit In Grant Twp., Indiana County After Environmental Rights Amendment Court Ruling
*  [3/30/2020] Feature- 41 Years Ago Pennsylvanians Woke Up To A Much Different World Too -- The Accident At Three Mile Island
*  [3/23/2020] NEW UPDATE: On Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response Information For Pennsylvania
*  [3/23/2020] ALL DEP Offices Statewide Are Closed Until March 31
*  [3/23/2020] DEP Cancels Hearings On Land Recycling Cleanup Standard Changes, Including PFAS, Lead; Comments Can Be Submitted Online
*  [3/23/2020] April DEP Hearings CANCELED On Mariner East II Pipeline Erosion, Water Encroachment Permits In Chester, Delaware Counties
*  [3/23/2020] April 2 DEP Hearing On Air Permits For Sunoco Terminal In Delaware County CANCELED
*  [3/23/2020] DEP Expands Use Of Online Tools, Conference Calls To Hold Public Meetings, Hearings
*  [3/23/2020] PA Municipal Authorities Assn. Provides Coronavirus Guidance To Members To Keep Essential Water, Wastewater Facilities Operating
*  [3/23/2020] Penn State Extension: Why Drinking Water Is Considered Safe From Coronavirus Pandemic
*  [3/23/2020] Be Careful What You Flush: Avoid Toilet Paper Alternatives With Onlot Septic Systems
*  [3/23/2020] PA American Water Warns Against Flushing Sanitizing, Flushable Wipes
*  [3/23/2020] Penn State Extension Has Canceled All Public Education Programs, Events Statewide Thru May 15
*  [3/23/2020] Delaware RiverKeeper Urges Public Agencies To Extend Public Comment Periods, Delay Decisions On Key Projects
*  [3/23/2020] Cong. Cartwright Asks Congressional Leaders To Reject Coal Industry Call To Suspend Federal Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fee, Black Lung Tax
*  [3/23/2020] PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Opens Online Teaching Environmental Ed At Home Resource Page
*  [3/23/2020] POSTPONED -DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Air Quality Advisory Committee Hold Online Meeting April 2 On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Proposal
*  [3/23/2020] NRCS-PA Accepting Regional Conservation Partnership Proposals
*  [3/23/2020] Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership: When It Comes To Protecting Streams, What's In A Name Matters
*  [3/23/2020] Bay Journal: Smart Ponds Creating A Splash In Field Of Green Stormwater Control
*  [3/23/2020] Don’t Let The Changing Season Spring Your Riparian Buffer Out Of The Ground; Growing Great Buffers Video Series
*  [3/23/2020] Penn State Extension: Cover Crops, Double Crops And Cost Considerations
*  [3/23/2020] 2020 Chesapeake Watershed Forum Call For Presentation Proposals
*  [3/23/2020] DEP Posts Final General Permit For Beneficial Use Of Post-Consumer Oyster Shells In Delaware Estuary
*  [3/16/2020] Keep PA Beautiful Suspends Pick Up Pennsylvania Thru The End Of April, Will Pick Up In May & June
*  [3/16/2020] DEP Accepting Bids For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects In Allegheny, Clearfield, Fayette Counties
*  [3/16/2020] Latest Teaching Green Environmental Education Newsletter Available From DEP
*  [3/16/2020] CANCELED: DEP Has Scheduled 3 Hearings On Mariner East II Pipeline Erosion, Water Encroachment Permits In Chester, Delaware Counties
*  [3/16/2020] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Adelphia Pipeline Project
*  [3/16/2020] Rebates Still Available For Purchase Of Alternative Fuel Vehicles
*  [3/9/2020] DEP Senate Budget Hearing: DEP - Coal-Fired Power Plants Are Closing Without RGGI, We Have To Confront This Issue, Help Workers, Communities
*  [3/9/2020] DEP Approves Allegheny Mineral Limestone Mine Permit In Lawrence County
*  [3/2/2020] DEP Budget Hearing: Republicans Propose Funding Hazardous Sites Cleanup By Taking Funds Away From Recycling; Oppose Wolf Climate Initiatives
*  [3/2/2020] DEP Budget Testimony: Gov. Wolf’s Budget Request Means Cleaner Water, Healthier Air, Remediated Land
*  [3/2/2020] WILD About Falcons Educator Workshop April 9, Middle Creek Wildlife Area, Lebanon County
*  [2/24/2020] House Holds Hearings With DEP, DCNR Feb. 24 On A Budget Request That Primarily Repairs Damage Done Last Year; Promises More
*  [2/24/2020] Pennsylvania Launches Keystone Mesonet One-Stop Shop For Displaying Weather, Environmental Data
*  [2/24/2020] DEP Fines Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill $24,000 To Resolve Waste Violations; Drilling Waste Impacts On Leachate
*  [2/24/2020] DEP Issues Permits To Sunoco For Changes To Mariner East II Pipeline Construction In Blair, Perry Counties; 2nd Pipeline In Berks County
*  [2/24/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Adelphia Gateway Natural Gas Pipeline Project Erosion & Sedimentation Permit
*  [2/17/2020] EQB Sets 3 Public Hearings On Proposed Changes To Land Recycling Program Regulations Setting First PFOS/PFOA/PFAS Cleanup Standards
*  [2/17/2020] DEP Northcentral Region Hosts DEP Connects With Agriculture Program Feb. 24 In Williamsport
*  [2/17/2020] DEP Starts Work To Extinguish Dolph Mine Fire, Reclaim Abandoned Mine In Lackawanna County
*  [2/10/2020] Gov. Wolf’s Budget Proposal Repairs Damage To Environmental Funding Done Last Year; Proposes Additional Funding For FY 2020-21
*  [2/10/2020] Growing Greener Coalition: Tremendous Backlog Of Environmental Infrastructure Needs Demand Much Higher Levels Of Investment By State
*  [2/10/2020] StateImpact PA: DEP To Receive 36% Less Federal Mine Reclamation Funding This Year
*  [2/10/2020] Budget Background: Where Did The $2.93 Billion In Environmental Funding The General Assembly Diverted Or Cut Go?
*  [2/10/2020] Republicans On House Environmental Committee Disapprove Final EQB Triennial Water Standards Reg. Because DEP Didn’t Fill Out Regulatory Analysis Form Properly
*  [2/10/2020] Senators Yudichak, Argall, Yaw To Introduce Resolution Directing Joint Conservation Committee To Study Impacts Of Joining RGGI On Coal Waste Cogeneration
*  [2/10/2020] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Contract To Provide Mine Drainage Treatment System O&M
*  [2/3/2020] Budget Repeat: Gov. Wolf Vows To Continue His Fight For Restore PA Infrastructure, Environmental Funding Proposal
*  [2/3/2020] PA Chesapeake Bay Phase III WIP State Team Hears Implementation Off To Fast Start
*  [2/3/2020] EPA Letter To Congress: We Remain Committed To Restoring, Protecting Chesapeake Bay; Bay TMDL Does Not Bind The States
*  [2/3/2020] Bay Journal: EPA Intends To Achieve 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals, But Assurances Fail To Mollify Concerns Over PA Cleanup
*  [2/3/2020] Chesapeake Bay Foundation Preparing To Sue EPA Over Lack Of Enforcement Over PA Progress In Cleanup Plan
*  [2/3/2020] DEP Provides Funding To 8 Southcentral Counties To Support Implementation Of Local Nonpoint Water Pollution Reduction Measures
*  [2/3/2020] DEP To Unveil Draft Regs To Participate In RGGI, Capping Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants, Feb. 13 At Advisory Committee Meeting
*  [2/3/2020] Agenda Added: House Committee Hearing Feb. 5 On Bill To Take Away DEP’s Authority To Enact Any Program To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
*  [2/3/2020] Senate Hearing: DEP - No Decision Made On Joining Regional Transportation Climate Initiative Reducing Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emissions
*  [2/3/2020] DEP Accepting Applications For Clean Transportation Grants Under Driving PA Forward Program
*  [2/3/2020] Updated Agenda Now Available Showing Technical Guidance DEP Is Working On
*  [2/3/2020] Independent Regulatory Review Commission Approves Final Triennial Water Quality Standards, Stream Designation Regulation
*  [2/3/2020] PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosting 6 Regional Watershed Workshops
*  [2/3/2020] Emerging Organic Contaminant Levels In PA At Higher Concentrations In Colder Seasons, Pesticide Concentrations Increase During High Stream Flows
*  [2/3/2020] DEP Issues Permits For Camp Hope Run Landfill In Clearfield County
*  [2/3/2020] DEP Sets March 3 Hearing [If Needed] On RACT II Air Quality Plan For Facility In Blair County
*  [2/3/2020] PennEast Natural Gas Pipeline Seeks FERC Approval To Build PA Part First
*  [2/3/2020] Dominion Energy Submits Application To Plug 3 Wells At Oakford Natural Gas Storage Complex In Westmoreland County
*  [1/27/2020] Analysis: 2020 Is A Make Or Break Year For Environmental Funding
*  [1/27/2020] New Director Of DEP Chesapeake Bay Office Wants To Move Quickly On Implementation
*  [1/27/2020] Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Drops By $5,000/Unconventional Well For CY 2019 Saving Drillers $53.6 Million
*  [1/27/2020] 2 DEP Advisory Committees To Review Draft Chapter 105 Reg. Changes; Final Chapter 91/92A NPDES Fee Changes; Overview Of Draft 2020 Integrated Water Quality Assessment Report
*  [1/27/2020] EQB Approves Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase, Lower Sulfur Content Of Heating Oil Regulations
*  [1/27/2020] Republicans On House Environmental Committee Vote To Recommend IRRC Disapprove Triennial Water Quality Standards/ Stream Designation Regulation
*  [1/20/2020] DEP Issues $1.95 Million Penalty To Sunoco For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations At Raystown Lake, Huntingdon County
*  [1/20/2020] DEP Orders Range Resources To Address Methane Leaking Into The Air, 12 Water Wells, Groundwater From A Marcellus Gas Well In Lycoming County Since 2013
*  [1/20/2020] Performance Based Budget Board Holds Jan. 22 Hearing On Performance-Based Budget Report For DEP
*  [1/20/2020] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 21 On Final Air Quality Permit Fee Increases
*  [1/20/2020] House Environmental Committee Hears From Industry, Business Groups On Triennial Review Of Water Quality Reg, Stream Redesignations
*  [1/20/2020] House Environmental Committee Meets Jan. 22 On Bill To Exempt Shoreline Landowners From Fees For Using Commonwealth-Owned Submerged Lands
*  [1/20/2020] Trout Unlimited: Federal Bill To Fund Abandoned Mine Cleanup Moving Forward
*  [1/20/2020] Chesapeake Bay Foundation Files Comments Opposing Conowingo Dam Settlement
*  [1/20/2020] Bay Journal: Can EPA Enforce The Chesapeake Bay's Pollution Diet?
*  [1/20/2020] NRCS-PA Holds Jan. 23 PA State Technical Committee Meeting In Harrisburg
*  [1/20/2020] Call For Presentations: 2020 PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference June 24-25 In State College
*  [1/20/2020] Bay Journal: 2 Small PA Communities Say No To MS4 Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program Until Financial Relief Can Be Found
*  [1/20/2020] DEP: Chapter 102 E&S Permit Application Received For Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Project In Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery Counties
*  [1/20/2020] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For 2 Dominion Energy Pipeline Projects In Beaver, Lawrence, Westmoreland Counties
*  [1/20/2020] DEP Sets Hearings [If Needed] On RACT II Air Quality Plans For 9 Facilities In Butler, Clarion, Elk, Lancaster, Philadelphia, York Counties
*  [1/13/2020] EQB Meets Jan. 21 To Finalize Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase, Lower Sulfur Content Of Heating Oil
*  [1/13/2020] House Environmental Committee Meets Jan. 13 On Bill Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
*  [1/13/2020] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Discuss Draft Horizontal Drilling Pipeline Construction Guidance Document, Stakeholder Report
*  [1/13/2020] House Environmental Committee To Hold Info Meeting Jan. 15 On Triennial Review Of Water Quality Reg, Stream Redesignations
*  [1/13/2020] DEP Approves Chrin Landfill’s Application For Expansion In Northampton County
*  [1/13/2020] DEP Reminds Pennsylvanians To Take A Commonsense Approach To Home Heating Oil , Propane Supply For A Safe Winter
*  [1/13/2020] Improving Community Resilience With Energy Efficient Buildings Webinar Series Scheduled
*  [1/6/2020] CBF: EPA Statement On Enforceability Of Chesapeake Bay Pollution Reduction Targets Should Put Fear In The Hearts Of All Who Care About Clean Water
*  [1/6/2020] Agenda Added: Senate Environmental Committee Sets Jan. 8 Briefing On PA’s Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Obligations
*  [1/6/2020] DEP Begins State Water Plan Update With Regional Water Advisory Committee Meetings; Members Needed
*  [1/6/2020] DEP Coastal Zone Committee Jan. 15: $430 Million In Property Value At Risk On Southeast PA Coast Due To Climate Change, Regardless Of Greenhouse Gas Emission Limits
*  [1/6/2020] DEP Seeking Information On Proper Water Quality Designations For 60 Class A Wild Trout Streams In 22 Counties
*  [1/6/2020] EQB Submits Final Triennial Review Of Water Quality Standards, Federal Mining Consistency Rule To IRRC, Committees For Review
*  [1/6/2020] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Host Municipality Waste Inspection Reimbursement Grants
*  [1/6/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Leidy South Natural Gas Pipeline Project E&S Permit In Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming, Luzerne, Schuylkill Counties
*  [12/30/2019] Act 54 Report Again Finds 40% Of Streams Suffered Loss Of Flow, Pooling, Reduction In Biological Activity Due To Impacts From Underground Coal Mining
*  [12/30/2019] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Centre County
*  [12/30/2019] DEP Sewage Enforcement Officers Certification Board Posts Notice Of 2020 Exam Schedule
*  [12/23/2019] EPA Says PA’s Final Chesapeake Bay Plan Falls 25% Short Of Meeting Necessary Nitrogen Reductions, Fails To Identify Funding To Implement The Plan
*  [12/23/2019] CBF: Agreed-To Federal Spending Bill Includes $12 Million Increase For Chesapeake Bay Restoration
*  [12/16/2019] Feature: Looking Back To Improve Pennsylvania’s Environment Going Forward
*  [12/16/2019] 20 Years Of Growing Greener: A Celebration Of Leadership, Partnership, Accomplishment
*  [12/16/2019] 1996 - Gov. Tom Ridge Talks About His Very Personal Connection To Lake Erie And The Need To Work Together To Restore The Great Lakes
*  [12/16/2019] 1996 - Gov. Tom Ridge: Expanding Partnerships To Clean Up The Susquehanna River And The Chesapeake Bay Beyond
*  [12/16/2019] 1996 - Gov. Tom Ridge Joins With Governors Of Delaware, New Jersey, Federal Officials To Establish The Delaware Estuary Program
*  [12/16/2019] 1996 - Gov. Tom Ridge Thanks First Environmental Excellence Award Winning Businesses For Eliminating 1.4 Million Tons Of Waste, Pollution
*  [12/16/2019] 1996 - Gov. Tom Ridge Talks About Rebuilding Pennsylvania's Industrial Heritage Through Land Recycling
*  [12/16/2019] 1996 - Gov. Tom Ridge Talks About The Vision And Actions Needed To Restore Our Environment At The PA Environmental Council’s Three Rivers Awards
*  [12/16/2019] 1996 - Department Of Environmental Protection Mission Statement & Statement Of Values
*  [12/16/2019] 1995-2002- DEP Secretary James M. Seif: The Assignment Was Clear - Take The Kick Me! Sign Off DER
*  [12/16/2019] 1995-2002- DEP Secretary David E. Hess: Many New Hands Now Help Protect Penn’s Woods
*  [12/16/2019] 1995-2002 - Environmental Accomplishments Of The Ridge & Schweiker Administrations
*  [12/16/2019] 1995-2002: Awards And Recognition For Environmental Programs During The Ridge & Schweiker Administrations
*  [12/16/2019] DEP Finalizes Policy On Public Participation In Development Of Regulations
*  [12/16/2019] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Catching And Sampling Lake Trout On Lake Erie
*  [12/16/2019] Final Guidance On Aboveground, Underground Tank Modification, Operator Training, Containment Structures Now Available
*  [12/16/2019] Over $13.3 Million In Recycling Grants Awarded To 84 Municipalities Across The State
*  [12/16/2019] DEP Opens New Section 902 Recycling Implementation Grant Round
*  [12/16/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Policy On Radiation Protection Compliance & Enforcement
*  [12/16/2019] Environment & Energy NewsClips
*  [12/16/2019] Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
*  [12/9/2019] Feature: 20 Years Of Growing Greener: A Celebration Of Leadership, Partnership, Accomplishment
*  [12/9/2019] Governor Releases Initial PFAS Action Team Report With Recommendations; 1 Of First 96 Water Systems Sampled Exceeded [Inadequate] Action Level; 25 Contamination Sites Confirmed
*  [12/9/2019] DEP Air Quality Advisory Committee To Review Final Fee Increase Package, 2019 Air Monitoring Results, Legacy Well Programs Dec. 12
*  [12/9/2019] DEP Renews PAG-02 Stormwater General Permit For Construction Activities For 5 Years
*  [12/9/2019] Get A Headstart On Applying For Student Internships At DEP, DCNR
*  [12/2/2019] Scorecard: Senate, House Come Up Very Short On Passing Bipartisan Environmental, Energy Bills
*  [12/2/2019] New Purdue Study: Serious Precautions Need To Be Taken To Prevent Pollution From CIPP Plastic Liner Pipe Repair Process Believed Cause Of Letort Spring Run Fish Kill
*  [12/2/2019] Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Blog: When It Comes To Protecting Streams, Sometimes What's In A Name Matters
*  [12/2/2019] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Projects In Cambria, Lackawanna Counties
*  [12/2/2019] Latest Environmental Justice Newsletter Now Available From DEP
*  [12/2/2019] Draft PA Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Shows Nearly 19% Reduction Between 2005 - 2016 From All Sectors
*  [11/25/2019] DEP Increases Coal Mining Reclamation Fee To $100/Acre In 2020
*  [11/18/2019] Governor’s Office Announces Transfer Of $45 Million To Augment DEP, DCNR Budgets - Not New Money
*  [11/18/2019] U.S. House Subcommittee Hears About Urgent Need For Reauthorization Of Federal Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fee/Program
*  [11/18/2019] Briefing: Positive, Bipartisan Environmental, Energy Bills The House & Senate Can Pass Before The End Of 2019
*  [11/18/2019] AP: FBI Opens Corruption Investigation Into How Wolf Administration Approved Mariner East Pipelines
*  [11/18/2019] DEP Identifies Source Of PFAS Contamination At Ridge Run Hazardous Waste Site In Bucks County
*  [11/11/2019] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Elk County
*  [11/11/2019] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Food Recovery Infrastructure Grants
*  [11/11/2019] PA Municipal League, DEP Hosting Nov. 22 Webinar On Community Resilience - Role Of The Building Energy Code
*  [11/11/2019] Environment & Energy NewsClips
*  [11/4/2019] DEP Reaches $650,000 Settlement With Greene County Gas Storage Field Operator For Oil & Gas Act Violations
*  [11/4/2019] DEP Publishes Final Management Of Fill Technical Guidance
*  [11/4/2019] EQB Invites Comments On Proposed Surface Coal Mining Water Supply Replacement Regulation Changes
*  [10/28/2019] Briefing: Trick Or Treat? Environmental Policies Promoted By Today’s Republicans
*  [10/28/2019] Republicans On Senate Environmental Committee Report Out Bills Slowing Down DEP Permit Reviews, Narrowing Public Appeals Of DEP Permits
*  [10/28/2019] DEP Awards $430,000 In Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone Grants
*  [10/28/2019] DEP Awards More Than $264,000 In Lake Erie Coastal Zone Grants
*  [10/28/2019] DEP To Hold Nov. 18 Meeting/Hearing On Easton Road PFOA/PFOS Hazardous Site Cleanup Plan In Bucks County
*  [10/21/2019] Sen. Yaw Introduces Bill To Authorize 3rd Party Review Of Chapter 102, 105 Permit Applications
*  [10/21/2019] October News & Views Newsletter Now Available From DEP
*  [10/14/2019] Op-Ed: Will Pennsylvania Be The Hero And Help Its Own Communities & Farmers And Save The Chesapeake Bay?
*  [10/14/2019] DEP Secretary Visits Williamsport To Discuss Need For Funding To Address Community Flooding Problems
*  [10/14/2019] DEP Reaches Settlement With CNX On Well Plugging Violations At 141 Conventional Coalbed Methane & Gas Wells, 5 Unconventional Gas Wells In 4 Southwest Counties
*  [10/14/2019] DEP Conducting Review Of Water Quality Standards In Dunkard Creek Watershed, Greene County; Data Invited
*  [10/14/2019] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Allegheny County
*  [10/14/2019] DEP Environmental Education Grants Program Begins Accepting Applications Oct. 31
*  [10/14/2019] Fall Teaching Green Newsletter Now Available From DEP
*  [10/14/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Certification For Tri-State Corridor Pipeline In Washington County
*  [10/14/2019] DEP Suspends Xtreme Energy Natural Gas Well Permits For Failure To Pay Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee
*  [10/14/2019] DEP Postpones Oct. 21 Hearing On Carbon County Windmill Project Water Quality Permit, Will Be Rescheduled
*  [10/14/2019] DEP Now Accepting Applications From Counties For West Nile Virus Grants
*  [10/7/2019] Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay Restoration Goals A Greater Challenge For PA - DEP Secretary McDonnell
*  [10/7/2019] Bay Journal: Path To A Clean Chesapeake Bay Poses Problems For Key Bay States
*  [10/7/2019] Talk To Your State Senator Student Video Contest -- How To Support Agriculture In PA? Here’s A Video Idea, How About Funding Farm Conservation Measures?
*  [10/7/2019] Westmoreland Conservation District Celebrates 70 Years
*  [10/7/2019] Gov. Wolf Issues Executive Order Directing DEP To Join Regional Initiative To Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Power Plants
*  [10/7/2019] Senate Environmental Committee To Hold Oct. 22 Briefing On Governor’s Order To Join RGGI To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Power Plants
*  [10/7/2019] Eastern Equine Encephalitis Now Found In 5th County - Luzerne County
*  [10/7/2019] Keep PA Beautiful, DEP, PennDOT Announce 2019 Litter Summit Nov. 14 In Harrisburg
*  [10/7/2019] House Govt. Oversight Committee To Hold First Hearing/Meeting Oct. 21 & 30 On An Issue Known Only As Investigation 1-2019
*  [10/7/2019] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear From Compacts & Commissions Office Oct. 15
*  [10/7/2019] DEP Finalizes New Soil Erosion & Sediment Control Manual For Agricultural Operations
*  [10/7/2019] DEP To Hold Oct. 30 Hearing On Bivouac Swine Facility Water Quality Permit In Fulton County
*  [10/7/2019] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Oil Sheens - All That Glitters Isn't Necessarily Pollution
*  [9/30/2019] House Passes Bill To Require Repeal Of 2 Regulations For Every New Regulation Adopted, Create Duplicate $695,000 Office Of The Repealer
*  [9/30/2019] Senate Committee OKs Bill To Limit Public’s Right To Know Why A Regulation Is Being Proposed
*  [9/30/2019] Temporary Stay Of Execution For Permitting Programs That Protect Pennsylvania’s Environment
*  [9/30/2019] PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Urge House Members To Vote NO On Bills Undermining The Integrity Of Environmental Permitting
*  [9/30/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Stormwater General Permit For Projects Under 5 Acres (PAG-01)
*  [9/22/2019] House Republicans To Move Bills To Demolish Environmental Permitting, Stop Development For 3-5 Years, Cut Public Out Of Permit Reviews
*  [9/22/2019] New Allegheny County Sanitary Authority Agreement With Feds Includes Green Infrastructure, $2 Billion Plan To Help Control 6.6 Billion Gallons Of Wet Weather Sewer Overflows
*  [9/22/2019] Republicans On House Environmental Committee Express Concern About The Cost Of PA Joining Regional Initiative To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
*  [9/22/2019] DEP Secretary McDonnell: The Time For Action On Climate Change Is Now - And The People Of Pennsylvania Know It
*  [9/22/2019] PA Joins 22 Other States In Lawsuit Against EPA For Revoking California's Authority To Set Vehicle Emission Standards
*  [9/22/2019] DEP To Hold Open House Sept. 23 In Mansfield On Doing Work In Streams Affected By Flooding, Erosion
*  [9/22/2019] DEP Hosts Oct. 16 Hearing On Tri-County Landfill Application To Re-Open A Closed Municipal Landfill In Mercer County
*  [9/22/2019] DEP Investigates High Concentrations Of Benzene Emitted In The Area Of Erie Coke (Coal) Plant
*  [9/22/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Air Permit For American Craft Brewery In Lehigh County, Hearing [If Needed] Oct. 4
*  [9/22/2019] Hearing [If Needed] Set For Oct. 21 For Hydro Carbide, Inc. RACT II Air Quality Plan In Westmoreland County
*  [9/16/2019] DEP Orders Sunoco To Cover Exposed Natural Gas Liquids, Other Petroleum Pipelines At 43 Locations Across The State
*  [9/16/2019] Personal Memories Of Sept. 11, 2001 And What Came After -- David Hess, Fmr Secretary Of DEP
*  [9/16/2019] Senate Environmental Committee Hears Testimony On The Need To Help Communities Implementing MS4 Stormwater Pollution Reduction Plans
*  [9/9/2019] We Remember September 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy
*  [9/9/2019] Agenda: Senate Environmental Committee Sets Sept. 11 Hearing On MS4 Stormwater Program; Communities Need Help Funding Local Projects
*  [9/9/2019] DEP Enters Agreement With Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority For Critical Upgrades To Highland 2 Reservoir
*  [9/9/2019] POWR Webinar Sept. 12 On Integrated Water Quality Report, Mapping Application
*  [9/2/2019] DEP Issues Sunoco $319,461 In Penalties For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations In 2017, 2018; Fines Now Total $13 Million+
*  [9/2/2019] DEP Provides Update On Pool Doctor Hazardous Site Cleanup In Beaver County, Hearing Set For Sept. 4
*  [8/26/2019] Final PA Chesapeake Bay Implementation Plan Still Falls Short Of Required Water Pollution Reductions
*  [8/26/2019] CBF: Pennsylvania's Plan To Reduce Water Pollution Going To Chesapeake Bay Sorely Deficient
*  [8/26/2019] House Committee Hears Call For More State Authority To Approve Pipeline Routes In Hearing On Bipartisan Pipeline Safety Legislation
*  [8/26/2019] DEP Issues Carlisle Notice Of Violation Related To Letort Spring Run Fish Kill; Pipe Repair Process Used Has Caused Contamination In Other States
*  [8/26/2019] Reps. Comitta, Howard Tour Mariner East 1 Pipeline Site In Chester County With Gov. Wolf, DEP
*  [8/26/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Alternative Restoration Plan For Fishing Creek Watershed, Lancaster County
*  [8/26/2019] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Surveying Mussels In French Creek, Crawford County
*  [8/19/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Proposal To Issue Erosion & Sedimentation Permit For PennEast Pipeline
*  [8/19/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Changes To PAG-02 Stormwater General Permit
*  [8/19/2019] DEP-Our Common Wealth Blog: A Deep Dive Into Proper Pool Water Discharge
*  [8/12/2019] Sen. Yudichak, DEP Secretary Highlight Benefits Of Proposed Restore PA Plan To Turn Brownfield Site Into Recreation Area
*  [8/12/2019] Latest DEP Teaching Green Newsletter Now Available
*  [8/5/2019] Bay Journal: Brunner Island Power Plant In York County To Stop Coal Ash Pollution, Pay $1 Million Fine To DEP
*  [8/5/2019] DEP Signs $750,000 Penalty Agreement With PQ Corporation For Air Violations In Chester, Delaware County
*  [8/5/2019] Fish & Boat Commission Reports 200+ Fish Kill In Letort Spring Run, Cumberland County
*  [7/29/2019] Water Resources Committee Overwhelmingly Urges DEP To Move Forward With A Proposal To Set New Toxic Substance Limit For Manganese Due To Health Impacts
*  [7/29/2019] DEP Accepting Applications For Farm, Small Business Advantage Energy Efficiency, Pollution, Nutrient, Sediment Reduction Grants
*  [7/29/2019] DEP, Marcellus Shale Coalition Win Some, Lose Some In Preliminary Commonwealth Court Decision On Drilling Regs
*  [7/29/2019] 17th Anniversary Of Quecreek Mine Rescue Celebrated July 27 In Somerset County
*  [7/29/2019] Senate Environmental Committee Hears Concerns About Monitoring Impacts Of The Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Site Cleanup
*  [7/29/2019] Addition Of Orthophosphate To Pittsburgh Water Authority System Reducing Lead In Water, But Lead Remains Above Action Level
*  [7/29/2019] DEP To Conduct Air Quality Sampling Around Erie Coke (Coal) Plant
*  [7/29/2019] DEP Provides Notice Of Pending Permit Applications, Water Quality Certification For National Fuel Gas FM100 Pipeline Project, Elk & Jefferson Counties
*  [7/22/2019] Growing Greener Coalition: Lawmakers Name Hellbender Clean Water Ambassador, Then Cut $16 Million For Clean Water Projects
*  [7/22/2019] Dozens Attend DEP Open House On Stream Maintenance, Flooding Needs In Centre County
*  [7/15/2019] Politicians In Harrisburg Are Proud Of Their New State Budget! -- Meanwhile In The Real World…
*  [7/15/2019] Op-Ed: Conservation Efforts Lose Out In State Budget
*  [7/15/2019] PennFuture Blog: PA State Budget Turns Blind Eye To Environment
*  [7/15/2019] PA Abandoned Mine Land Campaign Urges Action To Extend Expiring Federal Mine Reclamation Fee
*  [7/15/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Little Lost Creek Watershed TMDL In Juniata County
*  [7/15/2019] DEP Releases Annual Oil and Gas Program Report Covering Activities During 2018
*  [7/8/2019] CBF: State Needs To Step Up Support For Those Working Hard To Cleanup PA's Rivers And Streams
*  [7/8/2019] Gov. Wolf Signs Bills Providing $6 Million In Farm Conservation Aid Missing Target By $171 Million Or So This Year
*  [7/8/2019] DEP Posts Technical Guidance [Non-Regulatory] Agenda For Next 6 Months
*  [7/1/2019] Major Environmental Priorities Not Addressed In FY 2019-20 State Budget, Shell Game Continues
*  [7/1/2019] Growing Greener Coalition: Cuts Made To Environmental Stewardship (Growing Greener) Funding Could Have Planted 32,000 Acres of Stream Buffers
*  [7/1/2019] CBF: PA Elected Leaders Failed To Show The Will, Leadership To Restore Pennsylvania's Rivers And Streams
*  [6/23/2019] Joint Committee Report On DEP’s Chapter 102 & 105 Permit Reviews Asks For Much More Data, Shows Impact Of Budget Cuts
*  [6/23/2019] DEP To Have New Draft Under 5 Acre General Permit For Erosion Control Available In July To Begin Public Review
*  [6/23/2019] Republicans On House Environmental Committee Urge IRRC To Disapprove DEP Air Quality Permit Fee Increases, Threatening Integrity Of Program
*  [6/23/2019] DEP Accepting Applications For EPA Section 319 Watershed Restoration, Planning Grants
*  [6/23/2019] DEP: Federal Fee Due To Expire In 2021 That Is The Only Source Of Funds To Address $3.9 Billion In High-Priority AML Problems
*  [6/23/2019] PA Council Of Trout Unlimited Urges PA Congressional Delegation To Reauthorize Federal Mine Reclamation Fee, Program
*  [6/23/2019] Sen. Yudichak, Rep. Frankel To Introduce Resolutions Supporting Reauthorization Of Federal Mine Reclamation Fee
*  [6/23/2019] DEP Expects To Present EQB With A Consultant Report On Costs/Benefits Of Climate Cap-And-Trade Petition Early Next Year; Update On PFOS Petition
*  [6/23/2019] Turtle Creek Watershed Restoration, Union County-- Everyone Does A Little, So No One Has To Do It All
*  [6/23/2019] Penn State Extension: Repairing My Stream - Do I Need A Permit?
*  [6/23/2019] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: Falcon Watch Wrap-Up: 4 Young Peregrines Take To The Sky, With A Little Help From Volunteers, Interns
*  [6/23/2019] Applications Being Accepted For Driving PA Forward Electric Cargo Handling Grants
*  [6/23/2019] DEP Accepting Applications For Alternative Fuel Vehicle Rebates
*  [6/17/2019] Op-Ed: Strong, Local Economy Depends On Investing In Our Natural Resources
*  [6/17/2019] DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets June 25 On Next Climate Plan Update, Other Initiatives
*  [6/10/2019] Senate Environmental Committee Hears Ideas On 3rd Party DEP Permit Reviews, Including A Special Licensing Program For Consultants
*  [6/10/2019] Analysis: Is Attacking DEP’s Staff The Right Way To Improve Permit Review Times?
*  [6/10/2019] Senate Confirms Patrick McDonnell As Secretary Of DEP
*  [6/10/2019] Bill Proposing Change In Standard For Reviewing DEP Permit Decisions On Appeal Will Add Time, Cost To Permit Reviews, Narrow Grounds For Citizen Appeal
*  [6/10/2019] House Environmental Committee Meets June 11 On Temporary Cessation Of Coal Refuse Disposal Site Operations
*  [6/10/2019] DEP Our Common Wealth Blog: How Restoring The Health Of PA's Waters Helps The Hellbender And The Chesapeake Bay!
*  [6/3/2019] Analysis: Before More State Forest Drilling, Ask What Happened To The Money The First Time
*  [6/3/2019] Analysis: What If The Senate And House Had To Adopt Laws Like DEP Adopts Regulations?
*  [6/3/2019] House Environmental Committee Holds Info Meeting June 5 On Using Act 13 Impact Fee Monies For Stormwater Management
*  [6/3/2019] Joint Budget & Finance Committee To Release Performance Evaluation Of DEP’s Chapter 102 & 105 Permit Programs June 19
*  [6/3/2019] House Environmental, Local Government Committees To Hold Hearing June 19 On MS4 Stormwater Pollution Reduction Compliance
*  [5/27/2019] DEP's Mark Hand Receives Governor's Award For Excellence For Work On Encouraging Electric Vehicle Use
*  [5/20/2019] House Committee Republicans Ask IRRC To Turn Down DEP Water Permit Fee Increases Made Necessary By Cuts In DEP’s General Fund Budget
*  [5/20/2019] Noncoal Mining Permit Fee Increases Final, Made Necessary By Cuts In DEP’s General Fund Budget
*  [5/20/2019] DEP Orders Energy Transfer To Restore Waterways Impacted During Construction Of Revolution Pipeline In 4 Counties
*  [5/13/2019] Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Renomination Of McDonnell As DEP Secretary With Favorable Recommendation
*  [5/13/2019] DEP Secretary McDonnell’s Statement Before Senate Environmental Committee
*  [5/13/2019] House Committee Hears Concerns About Regional Consistency, Timeframes In Permit Reviews; DEP Taking Steps To Address Issues
*  [5/13/2019] DEP Collected $330,775 In Penalties For Violations At EQT Drilling Sites In Allegheny County
*  [5/6/2019] Senate Environmental Committee To Consider Renomination Of McDonnell For DEP Secretary May 8
*  [5/6/2019] Agenda - House Environmental Committee Sets May 8 Info Meeting To Hear From Regulated Community On DEP Permit Review Experiences
*  [4/29/2019] Senate Environmental Committee To Consider Renominations Of McDonnell For DEP, Dunn At DCNR April 30
*  [4/29/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To Mariner East 2 Pipeline Erosion Permit In Cambria County
*  [4/22/2019] Senators Scarnati, Yaw File Court Action To Compel DEP, EQB To Set Manganese Standard
*  [4/15/2019] Draft PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Now Available For Public Comment
*  [4/8/2019] David Allard Named Acting DEP Deputy For Air, Waste, Radiation & Remediation
*  [4/1/2019] Keep America Beautiful Recognizes DEP, PennDOT For Great American Cleanup Of PA
*  [4/1/2019] Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Impose 2 Year Moratorium On Hazardous Liquids Pipeline Approvals
*  [4/1/2019] EQB Invites Comments On Proposed $8 Million Water Quality Permit Fee Increases To Make Up For Cuts In State Funding For DEP
*  [3/25/2019] PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Planning Steering Committee Workgroup Estimates Funding Gap Of $1.467 Billion Over Next 6 Years
*  [3/25/2019] Updated Agency-By-Agency Regulatory Agenda Published By Governor’s Office
*  [3/18/2019] House Bill Would Give Either Senate Or House Environmental Committee A Veto Over Any DEP Groundwater Withdraw Regulations
*  [3/11/2019] House DEP Budget Hearing 2: Only 0.30% Of DEP Final Actions Were Appealed In 2018; 25 Fewer Attorney Positions
*  [3/11/2019] Senate’s Next Job: Consider Confirmation Of DEP, DCNR, Agriculture Secretaries
*  [3/11/2019] Sen. Dinniman, Rep. Friel Otten, Groups Hold Pipeline Safety Rally March 19 In Harrisburg; Pipeline Safety Caucus Formed
*  [3/11/2019] DEP Deputy Secretary George Hartenstein To Retire After 37 Years Of Public Service
*  [3/4/2019] All Major PA Hunting, Angler, Wildlife Groups Oppose Using Environmental Fund Project Money To Pay Agency Operating Expenses
*  [3/4/2019] Eastern PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Opposes Transfer Of Environmental Stewardship, Keystone Funds To Pay Agency Operating Costs
*  [3/4/2019] Republican Chair Of Appropriations Committee: The Way We Fund Our Environmental Protection Programs Is Not Sustainable
*  [3/4/2019] House Appropriations Continues DEP Budget Hearing On March 5
*  [3/4/2019] Penn State Professor Explores Past, Present Conservation Efforts In Pennsylvania
*  [2/25/2019] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Urges Senate, House To Adopt Funding Source For Hazardous Sites Cleanup Program Before It Becomes Insolvent
*  [2/25/2019] DEP Outlines Flood Prevention Benefits Of Restore PA For Luzerne County
*  [2/25/2019] House Environmental Committee Meeting On DEP Budget Covers Climate Change, Permit Fees, Fund Transfers
*  [2/18/2019] Growing Greener Coalition Opposes Using Community Environmental Project Funds For Agency Operating Costs; Issues Call To Action
*  [2/18/2019] DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council Urges Gov. Wolf To Rebalance DEP’s Legal Mandates And Fiscal Resources
*  [2/18/2019] DEP Secretary Promotes Restore PA Bond Proposal To Get More Funding For Environmental Improvement Projects
*  [2/18/2019] Budget Testimony Submitted By The Department Of Environmental Protection
*  [2/18/2019] DEP Awards $28.7 Million In 2018 Growing Greener Watershed Restoration Grants
*  [2/18/2019] DEP Budget Topic Of Feb. 19 House Environmental Committee Meeting
*  [2/11/2019] House Appropriations Committee Holds DEP, DCNR Budget Hearings Feb. 14
*  [2/11/2019] DEP Puts Indefinite Hold On Reviewing Permits For All Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Projects In PA
*  [2/4/2019] Gov. Wolf Proposes A $4.5 Billion, 4-Year Restore Pennsylvania Community & Environmental Infrastructure Investment Program
*  [2/4/2019] DEP Working With Villanova University On Update To Stormwater BMP Manual To Encourage Green Infrastructure
*  [2/4/2019] PA Clean Water Legislative Briefing Book Available From PennFuture
*  [2/4/2019] DEP Accepting Applications For Recycling Implementation Grants Thru March 22
*  [2/4/2019] DEP Will Accept Comments On Speciality Granules' Proposed Northern Tract Quarry In Adams County Thru Feb. 13
*  [1/28/2019] Oil & Gas Program Losing $800K/Month Without Fee Increase; DEP Wants To Step Up Inspections Of Natural Gas Storage Fields
*  [1/28/2019] Gov. Wolf Outlines Impacts Of Federal Shutdown On PA, Including DCNR, DEP
*  [1/28/2019] DEP To Host Meeting Jan. 30 On Final Stages To Extinguish Jeansville Mine Fire In Carbon/Luzerne Counties
*  [1/21/2019] Gov. Wolf Nominates Patrick McDonnell For DEP, Cindy Adams Dunn For DCNR, Russell Redding For Agriculture
*  [1/21/2019] Post-Gazette: DEP Says Energy Transfer LP Not Complying With Order To Stabilize Beaver County Pipeline Explosion Site
*  [1/21/2019] DEP Awards 7 Growing Greener Grants Totaling $224,717 For Stream Restoration Projects In Allegheny, Cambria, Northampton, Tioga, Union Counties This Week
*  [1/14/2019] DEP Changes Regional Boundaries, Shifts Workload, Provides Update On e-Permitting, e-Inspections To Improve Permit Review Times, Reduce Costs
*  [1/14/2019] Agriculture, DEP Launch Public-Private High Performance Farms Initiative For Health, Environmental, Economic Benefits In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [1/14/2019] DEP Awards 14 New Grants In 12 Counties For Water Quality Improvement This Week; Over $11.6 Million In Growing Greener Grants Announced So Far
*  [1/14/2019] DEP Awards Grants To Help Train Volunteer Master Watershed Stewards, Students In Farm Conservation Practices
*  [1/14/2019] Meet Aneca Atkinson Serving As Acting DEP Deputy For Water Programs
*  [1/14/2019] Interns Wanted: Department Of Environmental Protection Looking For Summer Interns
*  [1/7/2019] Applications Due For DEP Municipal, Hazardous Waste Host Municipality Inspector Grants March 31
*  [12/24/2018] EQB Approves Nearly $22 Million In Proposed, Final Permit Fee Increases To Offset Cuts In General Fund Appropriations
*  [12/24/2018] House Democrats Say More DEP Funding A Priority For 2019-20 Budget
*  [12/24/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Certification For Proposed UGI Liquefied Natural Gas Truck Loading Facility In Berks County
*  [12/10/2018] EQB To Consider Proposed Increases In Air Quality, NPDES, Water Quality Permit Fees Dec. 18
*  [11/26/2018] Save The Date: PA Riparian Forest Buffer Summit Feb. 20-21
*  [11/26/2018] DEP Blog: Students Explore Coal Heritage, Watershed Restoration Possibilities In Northumberland County
*  [11/12/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Revised Management Of Fill Policy
*  [10/29/2018] Centralized Grants Management Initiative For DEP, Other Agencies Winner Of National Information Technology Award
*  [10/29/2018] DEP To Adopt Change Recommended By IRRC To Final Noncoal Mining Fee Package
*  [10/8/2018] DEP Blog: Intern Brittany Sprout Pursues New Dream Inspired By Working For DEP
*  [9/24/2018] DEP: Hazardous Sites Cleanup Program Faces Fiscal Cliff In FY 2020-21
*  [9/24/2018] DEP To Hold Oct. 1 Hearing On Drilling Waste Injection Well In Allegheny County
*  [9/10/2018] DEP-Related Initiatives Selected As Finalists For National Assn. Of State Chief Information Officer Awards
*  [9/3/2018] DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Well Violations More Than Triple Between 2015-2017
*  [9/3/2018] DEP Has Storm Recovery Information Available, Time For Real Investment In Green Infrastructure Solutions With Multiple Benefits
*  [8/27/2018] DEP Will Come Back To EQB With Proposal To Raise Water Quality Permit Fees By $8 Million Annually
*  [8/27/2018] Senate, House Republicans Want Taxpayers, Not Drilling Industry, To Pay Additional Costs For DEP Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
*  [8/27/2018] DEP Issues Modified Permits For Mariner East 2 Pipeline In Chester County; PUC Lifts Construction Ban At 2 Locations
*  [8/20/2018] Renew The State's Commitment To Keeping Pennsylvania Clean, Green And Growing
*  [8/20/2018] Want To Find A Watershed Group Near You? Try The PA Land Trust Assn. Watershed Association Finder
*  [8/20/2018] DEP Has Stream Work Permit Guide; Storm Recovery Information Available For Individuals, Flooded Communities
*  [8/20/2018] New Safe Drinking Water Fee Increases Now In Effect
*  [8/20/2018] DEP Allows Mariner East 2 Pipeline To Resume Construction In Chester County; PUC OK Still Needed
*  [8/20/2018] Environmental Groups Release 2017-18 PA Environmental Voting Scorecard
*  [8/20/2018] Public Meeting On Cumberland County Landfill Permit Modification Aug. 21
*  [8/20/2018] DEP Hearing Sept. 20 On Air Permit For Mineral Processing Plant At Hanson Quarry, Bucks County
*  [8/13/2018] Adequacy, Stability Of Funding For DEP Water Quality Protection Programs Again On Aug. 21 EQB Agenda
*  [8/13/2018] Meeting The Challenge Of Keeping Pennsylvania Clean, Green And Growing
*  [8/6/2018] PA’s Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act Is 30 Years Old; Where Will Future Funding Come From?
*  [8/6/2018] DEP Blog: DEP Connects At Local Farmer's Markets In Northeast
*  [8/6/2018] DEP Helps Improve School Safety With Laboratory Chemicals Training, Cleanout
*  [7/30/2018] Environmental Groups Reach Settlement With DEP On Mariner East 2 Pipeline Appeals
*  [7/30/2018] DEP Has New Stream Work Permit Guide; Storm Recovery Information Available For Individuals, Flooded Communities
*  [7/30/2018] DEP To Conduct Aerial Mosquito Spraying July 30 As Flood Water Recedes In Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon Counties
*  [7/30/2018] DEP: West Nile Virus Found In 8 More Counties Bringing Total To 48; Wet Weather Offers Perfect Mosquito Breeding Conditions
*  [7/23/2018] DEP: Reauthorizing Federal Mine Reclamation Fee Critical To Continued Success Of AML Program
*  [7/23/2018] PUC, DEP: There Needs To Be A Serious Conversation On Legislation Controlling Pipeline Siting
*  [7/23/2018] PACD, DEP: Four Pennsylvania Farms Receive 2018 Clean Water Farm Award
*  [7/23/2018] DEP Now Accepting Small Business Advantage Grant Applications For Water Quality Improvement Projects; July 24 Webinar
*  [7/16/2018] EQB Publishes Unconventional Well Permit Fee Increase Regulation For Comment
*  [7/16/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Revised Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy
*  [7/16/2018] DEP Names Allison Acevedo Director Of Environmental Justice
*  [7/9/2018] DEP Hosts July 10 Webinar On County-Level Planning To Develop Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Improvement Plans
*  [7/9/2018] DEP, Health Take Additional Steps To Fight Lyme Disease, Zika And West Nile Viruses
*  [7/9/2018] PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals, DEP Freshwater Mussels Workshop July 26 In Pittsburgh
*  [7/9/2018] July 11 DEP Hearing On Interim Response At Ridge Run PFAS, PFOS, PFOA Well Contamination Site, Bucks County
*  [7/9/2018] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Natural Gas Pipelines Under I-79 In Allegheny County
*  [7/2/2018] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Underground Tank Cleanup At Capital Bus Company In Dauphin County
*  [6/25/2018] EPA Outlines Specific Expectations For PA To Meet In The Next Phase Of Chesapeake Bay Restoration, And The Consequences If We Don’t
*  [6/25/2018] Senate, House Send Budget Bills To Wolf, Includes Funding For 35 New DEP Positions, Few Other Changes
*  [6/25/2018] Fiscal Code Bill Goes To Governor With New Private Dam Financial Assurance Program, ATV Trails Provisions
*  [6/25/2018] DEP Blog: Empowering DEP's Interns, Helping Young Falcons Take Flight
*  [6/11/2018] DEP Invites Citizens To Sign Up For New Regional Community Engagement Events
*  [6/11/2018] DEP Blog: DEP Connects Invites Citizens To Engage With DEP In Their Communities
*  [6/11/2018] DEP, Agriculture Leaders Tour Award-Winning Stream Restoration Project At Plain Sect Farm In Lancaster
*  [6/4/2018] Chesapeake Bay Foundation: PA Lagging In Meeting All Pollution Reduction Goals Except From Wastewater Plants
*  [6/4/2018] DEP Loses Appeal Of Unconventional Drilling Regulation Injunction At PA Supreme Court, Case On Merits Continues
*  [5/28/2018] Inside Pennsylvania's Strategy For Healthier Local Streams In The Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [5/28/2018] DEP Holds June 7 Hearing On Rolling Hills Landfill Expansion In Berks County
*  [5/21/2018] EHB Upholds DEP Issuance Of Unconventional Gas Well Permits Under Environmental Rights Amendment Challenge
*  [5/21/2018] EQB OKs Unconventional Oil & Gas Permit Review Fees For Public Comment
*  [5/21/2018] DEP Blog: Teaming Up To Keep Pennsylvania Clean
*  [5/14/2018] DEP Begins Accepting Growing Greener Plus Watershed Restoration Grant Applications May 14
*  [5/14/2018] Environmental Coalition Backs Common PA Conservation Agenda Aimed At Candidates For Governor
*  [5/14/2018] DEP Northwest Regional Roundtable Meets May 15 In Warren On Filing Complaints, Emergency Protocols
*  [5/14/2018] DEP Attorney Mike Heilman Recognized With Governor's Award For Employee Excellence
*  [5/7/2018] House Passes Bills Changing Regulation, Permit Process In Ways That Puts Politics Ahead Of Science, Adds More Bureaucracy
*  [5/7/2018] DEP Fines Mariner East 2 Pipeline Additional $355,000 For Violations
*  [5/7/2018] Proposed Bills Call For Narrowing Grounds For Appealing DEP Permits, Reducing Terms Of Environmental Hearing Board Judges
*  [4/16/2018] DEP Williamsport Office To Hold Earth Day Open House April 23
*  [4/16/2018] EPA Threatens PA With Sanctions For Failing To Submit A Plan On Time To Reduce Particulate Pollution In Allegheny, Delaware, Lebanon Counties
*  [4/9/2018] DEP Invites Comments On TMDL Plans For Streams In Fulton, Juniata Counties
*  [4/2/2018] DCNR, DEP Join Local Officials To Break Ground For Capital Area Greenbelt Trail, Stream Restoration Project
*  [3/26/2018] PA Environmental Council To Host Dinner April 24 To Honor Recipients Of Governor’s Award For Environmental Excellence
*  [3/12/2018] DEP Blog: Sharing A Love For Engineering At Kinzua Bridge State Park Student Program
*  [3/5/2018] Senate Budget Hearing: DEP Plans To Add Safe Drinking Water Program Staff Ahead Of Fee Revenue To Address Deficiencies
*  [3/5/2018] DEP House Budget Hearing Highlights Efficiencies, $2.5 Million Proposal To Improve Permit Review Times
*  [3/5/2018] Budget Testimony By DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell, Improving Efficiency, Customer Service
*  [3/5/2018] Governor’s Agency-By-Agency Regulatory Agenda Posted, 4 Major DEP Fee Increase Packages
*  [3/5/2018] DEP Blog: Energy Literacy Workshops Help Create A Smart Energy Future For PA
*  [2/26/2018] DEP Releases Information On Maintaining Streams To Assist Flood Recovery Efforts
*  [2/26/2018] Teaching Green Newsletter Now Available From DEP
*  [2/26/2018] Fill Policy, Changes To Recycling Law On March 8 Agenda Of Solid Waste & Recycling Advisory Committees
*  [2/26/2018] DEP To Hold March 26 Meeting/Hearing On TCE Contamination Site In Lycoming County
*  [2/26/2018] DEP Awards Total Of 155 Small Business Advantage Grants To Cut Energy, Other Costs, Program Now Closed
*  [2/19/2018] Senate, House Kick Off Budget Hearings, DCNR Up Next Week
*  [2/19/2018] IFO Report Confirms There Are No Unused Monies In Environmental Special Fund Balances
*  [2/19/2018] DEP Posts Update To List Of Technical Guidance Documents It's Working On
*  [2/19/2018] Sunoco Satisfies Requirements To Resume Mariner East II Pipeline Construction At Chester County Site
*  [2/12/2018] Gov. Wolf’s Budget Bumps DEP, DCNR Budget, But DEP Remains Just Above 1994 Levels
*  [2/12/2018] Senate Adopts Bipartisan Resolution Requiring Independent Performance Evaluation Of Chapter 102, 105 DEP Permit Programs
*  [2/12/2018] House Committee Republicans OK Bill To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing
*  [2/12/2018] DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board To Discuss More Than Doubling Unconventional Well Permit Fee Feb. 14
*  [2/12/2018] DEP, PennDOT Earn National Recognition For Great American Cleanup Of PA
*  [2/12/2018] Interns Wanted: DEP Has 92 Summer Internship Positions Available
*  [2/5/2018] Senate Passes Bill To Finance More Initiatives Out Of The Growing Greener Fund Without Adding Any New Money
*  [2/5/2018] Senate Committee Approves Resolutions Directing Review Of DEP Permit Programs, Ending State Forest Drilling Moratorium
*  [2/5/2018] House Committee Meets Feb. 6 On 5 Bill Regulatory, Permit Package Designed To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing
*  [2/5/2018] EPCAMR Asking Enviro, Land Conservation, Watershed, Sportsmen’s Groups, Local Govts To Adopt Resolution Urging Congress To Act NOW On Bill To Reclaim PA’s Abandoned Mines
*  [1/29/2018] Gov. Wolf, DEP Taking Action To Reduce Backlogs, Improve Oversight, Modernize Permit Process
*  [1/29/2018] Gov. Wolf’s Statement Introducing Plan To Reduce Backlogs, Improve Oversight, Modernize DEP’s Permit Process
*  [1/29/2018] Senate Committee Meets Jan. 30 On Resolutions On Permit Program Reviews, Ending State Forest Drilling Moratorium
*  [1/29/2018] DEP, DCNR Discuss Special Funds Use To Support Community Projects, Agency Environmental Missions With House Appropriations Committee
*  [1/29/2018] DEP Secretary McDonnell’s Testimony On Special Funds Use At House Appropriations Hearing
*  [1/29/2018] Jan. 24 DEP News & Views Newsletter Now Available
*  [1/22/2018] Consol, DEP, Center For Coalfield Justice Settle: No Mining Under Stream In Ryerson Station State Park
*  [1/22/2018] House Appropriations Jan. 25 Hearing On DEP, DCNR Use Of Special Funds
*  [1/22/2018] House, Senate Appropriations Budget Hearing Schedule Now Set
*  [1/15/2018] House Bill 1960 Short Circuits Imposition Of Fines, Penalties For Environmental Violations
*  [1/15/2018] House State Govt. Committee Chair To Announce Findings On Regulatory Overreach Jan. 16
*  [1/15/2018] DEP Taking Over Drinking Water System Inspections In Allegheny County
*  [1/8/2018] PEDF Files Petition Requesting PA Supreme Court To Enforce Environmental Rights Budget Decision
*  [1/8/2018] DEP Spotlights Local Clean Water Actions In PA Farm Show Exhibit
*  [1/8/2018] House Bill 1959 Creates New 3rd Party Permit Review Bureaucracy At DEP, State Agencies
*  [1/1/2018] Briefing: Environmental Legislative, Policy Opportunities, Challenges; Court Actions In 2018
*  [1/1/2018] Elections, Budget Will Dominate 2018 Legislative Politics And Session
*  [12/25/2017] Stories Invited
*  [12/18/2017] Penn State: Citizen Scientists To Help Researchers Gauge Susquehanna River Water Quality
*  [12/18/2017] Dec. 15 News & Views Newsletter Now Available From DEP
*  [12/11/2017] Gov. Wolf Announces Growing Greener Grant Awards To 106 Local Clean Water Projects
*  [12/11/2017] Growing Greener Coalition Applauds Growing Greener Grants, Points To Need For More Clean Water Investments
*  [12/11/2017] DEP Awards $550,000 For 15 Projects To Protect Lake Erie, Delaware Estuary Areas
*  [12/11/2017] House Appropriations Reschedules Hearing On DEP, DCNR Use Of Special Funds To Jan. 25
*  [12/11/2017] DEP, Ag, Ed Officials Tour New Agricultural, Environmental Learning Center In Philadelphia
*  [12/4/2017] DEP Names Tim Schaeffer Deputy For Water Programs
*  [11/27/2017] House Appropriations Sets Dec. 14 Hearing On DEP, DCNR Use Of Special Funds
*  [11/27/2017] November News & Views Now Available From DEP
*  [11/20/2017] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Gets Update On Recycling Grants, Budget, Deep Mine Impacts, Ecological Offsets
*  [11/20/2017] Nearly $1 Billion Budget Deficit Projected For Next Year, Legislature Has Surplus, Turzai Joins Race
*  [11/20/2017] Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule [Updated] /Gov’s Schedule
*  [11/20/2017] DEP/Pittsburgh Water Authority Agreement Could Allow $1.8 Million Investment In Lead Line Replacement
*  [11/13/2017] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Discusses Act 54 Deep Coal Mine Regulation Nov. 14
*  [11/6/2017] DEP Outlines New Procedures For Handling PAG-02 Stormwater General Permits, Revisions Proposed
*  [10/30/2017] Senate Hearing: E-Waste Recycling Law Broken, 5.1 Million CRTs, TVs Waiting To Be Recycled In PA
*  [10/23/2017] Sen. Yudichak Introduces Resolution Requiring Independent Performance Evaluation Of Chapter 102, 105 DEP Permit Programs
*  [10/23/2017] Bill Allowing The General Assembly To Kill A Regulation By Doing Nothing Was Reported For Referral To Another House Committee
*  [10/16/2017] Here Are Some GOOD Bills The Senate & House Could Pass To Help Solve Environmental Problems
*  [10/16/2017] House Committee To Consider Bill Oct. 16 Allowing The General Assembly To Kill A Regulation By Doing Nothing
*  [10/16/2017] DEP To Pay For At Least 800 Farm Conservation Plans In PA Part Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [10/9/2017] EQB To Consider Noncoal Mining Fee Increases, Storage Tank Reg Updates Oct. 17
*  [10/9/2017] Sustainable Pittsburgh Reaffirming Environmental Rights For PA Citizens Forum Oct. 11
*  [9/25/2017] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Fayette County
*  [9/18/2017] September News & Views Newsletter Now Available From DEP
*  [9/11/2017] DEP: House GOP Raid On Funds Threatens Environment, Breaks Promises To PA Communities
*  [9/4/2017] DEP Holds Webinar Sept. 6 On Expanded Chesapeake Bay Watershed Farm Inspections
*  [8/28/2017] What DEP Said Before About 3rd Party Permit Reviews, Speeding Up Permitting
*  [8/28/2017] Environmental Funds At More Risk As House Republicans Fill Out New Budget Proposal
*  [8/28/2017] EDF: Impact Of Trump’s Proposed EPA Budget Cuts On Pennsylvania Communities, Health
*  [8/28/2017] DEP Implements Plan To Improve Drinking Water Inspections, Asks For Public Comments On Fee Package
*  [8/21/2017] EHB Denies Permit Expanding Bailey Longwall Mine In Greene County At The Heart Of Legislative Debate To Change Law
*  [8/21/2017] Updated Regulatory Agenda Shows DEP Acting On Fee Increases For 6 Programs
*  [8/21/2017] DEP/Ag: Successful First Year For Expanded Farm Inspections In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
*  [8/14/2017] DEP Brownfields To Playfields Initiative Wins National Honors
*  [8/14/2017] August 10 News & Views Newsletter Now Available From DEP
*  [8/14/2017] DEP Announces Retirement Of Kelly (Heffner) Means As Executive Deputy Secretary
*  [8/14/2017] Ramez Ziadeh Serving As Acting DEP Executive Deputy For Programs
*  [8/7/2017] PA Environmental Council: Budget Deal, A Bad Solution To The Wrong Problem
*  [8/7/2017] PRC Urges Senate, House, Gov. Wolf To Oppose Budget Bill Changes That Undercut DEP’s Permitting Authority
*  [8/7/2017] Expanding REAP Farm Conservation Tax Credit Suggested To Bring REAL Private Capital To Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Effort
*  [8/7/2017] Lisa Daniels Named Acting DEP Deputy For Water Programs
*  [8/7/2017] Help Wanted: DEP Environmental Engineering Specialist, Environmental Engineer
*  [7/31/2017] Op-Ed: PA High Court Addresses Scope Of The Environmental Rights Amendment
*  [7/31/2017] House State Government Committee Holds Aug. 2 Info Meeting On State Regulations
*  [7/31/2017] DEP Employees Paddle With A Purpose, Joining The Fight Against Invasive Water Chestnut
*  [7/24/2017] Help Wanted: DEP Blasting & Explosives Inspector
*  [7/17/2017] EPA Report Finds DEP Lacks The Resources To Implement Critical MS4 Stormwater Program
*  [7/17/2017] FY17-18 Budget Now Law, It Fails To Address ANY Environmental Funding Shortfalls
*  [7/17/2017] PEDF Submits Brief To Declare FY17-18 Oil & Gas Fund Transfers Unconstitutional
*  [7/10/2017] July 6 News And Views Now Available From DEP
*  [7/3/2017] House, Senate, Governor Agree On $31.996B Spending Plan, Fails To Address ANY Environmental Funding Shortfalls
*  [7/3/2017] Op-Ed: Staffing, State Funding Cuts Put Pennsylvania Water Quality At Risk
*  [7/3/2017] 34 Groups Urge General Assembly, Gov. Wolf To Invest In Clean Rivers, Streams For PA
*  [7/3/2017] CBF-PA Urges More State Investment In Farms And Clean Water Efforts
*  [7/3/2017] U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Reports Out RECLAIM Mine Reclamation Initiative
*  [7/3/2017] Gov. Wolf Announces Funding For 17 Stormwater Projects In 5 Chesapeake Bay Counties
*  [7/3/2017] Post-Gazette: EQT Drilling Again Challenges The Way DEP Calculates Penalties In $1.1 Million Fine Appeal
*  [6/26/2017] DEP Authority To Regulate Impact Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wells On Public Resources Upheld By PA Supreme Court
*  [6/26/2017] Associated Press Calls DEP Wracked By Years Of Budget Cuts
*  [6/26/2017] PA Parks & Forest Foundation: Stop The Attack On Our Parks, Forests & Environment, Act Now!
*  [6/26/2017] Shale Gas Industry Tells House Committee, We Don’t Want Regulatory Relief, We Want Permits On Time
*  [6/19/2017] PEC: Will The Environment, Conservation Be Dissed Again In PA’s State Budget?
*  [6/19/2017] DEP: PA House Republican Budget Will Delay Permit Reviews, Put Public Health At Risk
*  [6/19/2017] June 17 Call For Clean Water Funding At Susquehanna River Rally In Harrisburg
*  [6/19/2017] Senate Unanimously Passes Bill To Prevent Funding Crisis In Recycling Program
*  [6/19/2017] House Passes Bills Authorizing Local Stormwater Management Fees
*  [6/19/2017] House Committee Meets June 19 To Roll Back Environmental Standards For Mining
*  [6/19/2017] Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced
*  [6/19/2017] Renewing Recycling Fee, Illegal Dumping, Fixing E-Waste Recycling Law Key Issues At Hearing On Act 101
*  [6/19/2017] DEP Urges Reauthorization Of $2 Recycling Fee Before Joint Conservation Committee
*  [6/12/2017] DEP Citizens Advisory Council: The Consistent Cuts To DEP’s Budget Are Unsustainable
*  [6/12/2017] Op-Ed: Nobody In Pennsylvania Benefits When DEP’s Budget Is Cut
*  [6/12/2017] PA Legislators Look For Ways To Fund Environmental Programs
*  [6/12/2017] Chesapeake Bay States, DC Call For Continued Federal Funding Of Cleanup Efforts
*  [6/12/2017] House Committee Seeks Ways The General Assembly Can Get More Involved In The Regulatory Process
*  [6/12/2017] PEC: Bill Requiring House/Senate Approval Of Regulations Raises Significant Constitutional Questions
*  [6/12/2017] John Dawes Urges Congress To Reauthorize Federal Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fee
*  [6/12/2017] Over 200 Attend Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Listening Session
*  [6/5/2017] Budget Challenges Part I: Will General Assembly Continue Systematic Dismantling Of DEP’s Core Programs?
*  [6/5/2017] Budget Challenges Part II: PA Environmental Restoration, Park, Land Conservation Project Funding Cut 75 Percent
*  [6/5/2017] Budget Challenges Part III: Federal Govt Pays More To Fund DEP Than PA Does, Will They Cut Too?
*  [6/5/2017] EPA Letter Tells PA To Increase Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Effort Or It Will Act
*  [6/5/2017] House Committee Holds June 6 Hearing On Regulatory Burdens, Abuses, Oversight
*  [6/5/2017] June News & Views Newsletter Now Available From DEP
*  [5/29/2017] Senate Unanimously Confirms Patrick McDonnell As 8th Secretary Of DEP
*  [5/29/2017] Growing Greener Coalition Applauds Updated Senate Natural Resource Investment Proposal
*  [5/29/2017] Rep. Sturla Reintroduces Water Use Fee Bill To Fund Clean Water Programs
*  [5/29/2017] Analysis: House/Senate Republicans Introduce DEP Permit/Reg Reform Bills
*  [5/29/2017] DEP: Trump Budget Proposal Threatens Safe Drinking Water, Clean Air And Job Creation
*  [5/29/2017] Senate Bill Filling Funding Gap In DEP’s Underground Storage Tank Program OK’d By Committee
*  [5/22/2017] EQB OKs Proposed Fees To Improve Safe Drinking Water Oversight For Public Comment
*  [5/22/2017] PennLive Editorial: Pennsylvanians Can’t Wait For Clean Water, State Must Act Now
*  [5/22/2017] Trump’s Final 2018 EPA Budget Recommendations Offer No Relief From Drastic Cuts
*  [5/15/2017] Will Gas Drilling Company Overturn The Way DEP Has Calculated Penalties For Nearly 40 Years? We’ll See
*  [5/15/2017] Growing Greener Rally For Clean Water, Parks, Trails, Open Space, Family Farms Funding
*  [5/15/2017] Senate Environmental Committee Endorses McDonnell’s Nomination As DEP Secretary
*  [5/15/2017] Acting DEP Secretary McDonnell’s Opening Statement Before The Senate Committee
*  [5/15/2017] Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced
*  [5/15/2017] DEP Names Patrick Patterson Southeast Regional Office Director
*  [5/8/2017] Senate Environmental Committee To Consider Nomination Of Patrick McDonnell To Be DEP Secretary May 9
*  [5/8/2017] EPA Still Concerned About DEP Drinking Water Program, Urges Temporary Funding To Hire Staff Sooner
*  [5/8/2017] EQB To Consider Safe Drinking Water Fee Increases At May 17 Meeting
*  [5/8/2017] Bill On Senate Calendar Would Prevent Funding Crisis In Recycling Program
*  [5/8/2017] Senate Bill Would Fill Funding Gap In DEP’s Underground Storage Tank Program
*  [5/8/2017] Growing Greener Coalition Holds Capitol Rally May 9 To Support More Investments In Green Infrastructure
*  [5/8/2017] Proposed Senate Bill Would Distribute Volkswagen Diesel Testing Settlement Funds
*  [5/8/2017] Inspectors Find Most PA Farms Trying To Comply With Conservation Regs, But Not All
*  [5/8/2017] DEP Opportunity To Bid On Water Supply Distribution System Project In Lancaster
*  [5/1/2017] DEP Opens New Our Common Wealth Blog
*  [5/1/2017] DEP Begins Spraying To Control Black Flies; Only DEP Line-Item Not Cut But Increased By House GOP
*  [4/10/2017] House Republicans Pass Budget Proposal With Across-The-Board Cuts… Again
*  [4/10/2017] Analysis: Cuts In State Funding To DEP Cannot Continue, Rebalance Needed
*  [4/10/2017] Fox News: EPA’s Pruitt Says States Have The Resources To Do The Job
*  [4/10/2017] Wolf Administration Details Impacts Of Proposed Cuts In U.S. Dept. Of Energy Budget
*  [4/10/2017] 220 Ag, Conservation Groups Urge Congress To Protect Farm Bill Conservation Funding
*  [4/10/2017] EQB To Consider Laboratory Fee Increases, Ammonia Standard On April 18
*  [4/3/2017] Bipartisan RECLAIM Reintroduced In Congress To Cleanup Abandoned Mine Lands
*  [4/3/2017] Sen. Killion To Introduce Bill To Eliminate Sunset Date On $2 Recycling Fee
*  [4/3/2017] DEP’s Existing Online What Permit Do I Need? Tool Much Better Than Proposed Bill
*  [3/27/2017] Senate Takes No Action Yet On Nomination Of Patrick McDonnell As DEP Secretary
*  [3/27/2017] Report: $61.8M In DEP Budget, $19.4M In DCNR Budget Is State Grants To Others
*  [3/27/2017] National Governors Assn: PA, 4 Other States Advance Energy Goals Thru NGA Program
*  [3/27/2017] Help Wanted: DEP District Mining Manager In Moshannon Office
*  [3/20/2017] Proposed Trump Cuts To State Grants Will Cripple DEP, Cause Drastic Fee Increases
*  [3/20/2017] DEP: Federal Budget Cuts Will Have Immediate, Devastating Effect In PA
*  [3/20/2017] Sen. Yudichak: Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Will Challenge Right To Clean Air, Water
*  [3/20/2017] CBF On Proposed Elimination Of Federal Funding For Chesapeake Bay Program
*  [3/20/2017] 50 State Environmental Agencies Group: EPA Cuts Will Adversely Affect States
*  [3/13/2017] Senate Budget Hearing: Historic Cuts To DEP Budget, Safe Drinking Water, Chesapeake Bay
*  [3/13/2017] Gov. Wolf Announces Launch Of Electronic Permit Application For Surface Coal Mines
*  [3/6/2017] House DEP Budget Hearing: Safe Drinking Water, Permitting, Pipelines, Chesapeake Bay
*  [3/6/2017] DEP Budget Testimony Acknowledges Staff Deficiencies, Steps To Improve Permit Reviews
*  [3/6/2017] Senate Hearing On DEP’s Budget March 9 At 10:00
*  [3/6/2017] Sen. Yaw Asks For Plan On How PA Will Meet Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Obligations
*  [3/6/2017] Op-Ed: Budget Season Is Time For Residents, Legislators To Step Up For Clean Water
*  [3/6/2017] CBF: Cut To EPA Chesapeake Bay Funding Not Consistent With President’s Statements
*  [3/6/2017] Trump Considering 30% Cut In State EPA Grants, 20% Cut To EPA Staff
*  [3/6/2017] DEP Sends Plan To EPA, Clearing Safe Drinking Water Deficiencies Could Take Until 2020
*  [3/6/2017] SRBC, DEP Partner On Water Loss Management Training For Water Systems
*  [3/6/2017] New iPad App Makes DEP Oil And Gas Site Inspections More Efficient
*  [3/6/2017] DEP Receives Phase II Application For Elcon Hazardous Waste Facility In Bucks County
*  [3/6/2017] Delaware RiverKeeper Submits Petition To EQB To Protect Spawning Fish Species
*  [3/6/2017] Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
*  [2/27/2017] DEP Citizens Advisory Council: The Consistent Cuts To DEP’s Budget Are Unsustainable
*  [2/27/2017] House Budget Hearings For DEP, DCNR Feb. 27, Senate Hearing For DCNR March 1
*  [2/27/2017] DEP Shuffles Senior Staff To New Positions, Brings Back Field Operations Deputy Position
*  [2/20/2017] DEP Approves Environmental Permits For Mariner East 2 Pipeline
*  [2/20/2017] EHB Denies Supercedeas In Appeal Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline Permits, Hearing March 1
*  [2/20/2017] PennEast Pipeline Receives DEP Water Quality Certification
*  [2/20/2017] Senate, House Begin Agency-By-Agency Budget Hearings Next Week
*  [2/13/2017] Senate Fails To Take Any Action On Acting DEP Secretary McDonnell’s Nomination
*  [2/13/2017] DEP To Senate Committee: Complete Applications, More DEP Staff Keys To Improving Permit Turnaround Times
*  [2/13/2017] Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing On DEP Budget Request Now March 9
*  [2/13/2017] Senate Committee: Exposure To Endocrine Disruptors Ubiquitous, Impacts Being Studied
*  [2/13/2017] Senate Passes Performance Budgeting Bill, Does Not Apply To House, Senate, Judiciary
*  [2/6/2017] Welcome To 1994! Tools For Evaluating Gov. Wolf’s 2017-18 Environmental Funding Request
*  [2/6/2017] Updated Regulatory Agenda: DEP To Consider At Least 5 Fee Increase Regs This Year
*  [2/6/2017] EPA: DEP Lacks Resources To Enforce Minimum Federal Safe Drinking Water Regs
*  [2/6/2017] February 3 DEP News Now Available
*  [1/30/2017] Gov. Wolf Resubmits Nomination Of Patrick McDonnell As Secretary of DEP
*  [1/23/2017] Senate Bill Would Take Time Away From DEP Permit Reviews, Without More Funding
*  [1/23/2017] January 20 DEP News Now Available
*  [1/16/2017] DEP OKs Water Quality Certification For Hydro Project On Allegheny Lock & Dam #2
*  [1/9/2017] Jan. 13 Deadline For Next Round Of Growing Greener Plus Green Infrastructure Grants
*  [1/9/2017] Visit DEP’s PA Farm Show Exhibit And Be A Detective! Help Find Emojis To Go Green!
*  [1/9/2017] DEP’s Craig Burda Receives ECHO Award From Federal Office Of Surface Mining
*  [1/9/2017] Citizens Advisory Council To Hear About DEP Information Technology Upgrades Jan. 17
*  [1/9/2017] Conventional Drillers Have 5 Times The Violations, 3.5 Times The Enforcement Actions
*  [1/9/2017] DEP Review Of Drilling Erosion Permits Finds 60% Of Applications Deficient
*  [1/9/2017] DEP To Receive $33.6 Million In Federal Mine Reclamation Funds In FY 2017
*  [1/9/2017] January 5 DEP News Now Available
*  [1/9/2017] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Tank, Lake Dam Breach Projects In Erie, Delaware Counties
*  [1/9/2017] Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
*  [1/2/2017] Pivot Points 2017: Facts Will Lead Us To Better Decisions On Protecting The Environment
*  [1/2/2017] Senate, House Convene January 3 To Start New Legislative Session
*  [1/2/2017] DEP: Environmental Tips For A Safe, Healthy 2017
*  [1/2/2017] Part III: Environmental, Energy Bills To Be Introduced In January
*  [1/2/2017] DEP Accepting Green Infrastructure Grant Applications In 10 Chesapeake Bay Counties
*  [12/26/2016] Proposed $7.5M Fee Increase On DEP Water Systems Advisory Committee Agenda Jan. 5
*  [12/26/2016] December 22 DEP News Now Available
*  [12/26/2016] UPDATED: Help Wanted: DEP Citizens Advisory Council Executive Director
*  [12/19/2016] Year In Review: DEP Puts Miners To Work, Protects Air, Water, Boosts Energy Economy
*  [12/19/2016] 2016 Was A Challenging Year In Harrisburg For Budget, Environmental Initiatives
*  [12/13/2016] State Court Reimposes Stay On DEP Enforcement Of Certain Sections Of Drilling Regs
*  [12/13/2016] PROP Begins Work On Reauthorizing Act 101 Recycling Fee To Expire In 2020
*  [12/13/2016] DEP To Continue Investigation Into PFC Contamination On Easton Road, Bucks County
*  [12/13/2016] DEP Wins 2016 PA Excellence In Technology Award For Network Innovations
*  [12/13/2016] December 8 DEP News Now Available
*  [12/13/2016] George Hartenstein Named Acting DEP Deputy For Waste, Air, Radiation, Remediation
*  [12/12/2016] Analysis: 2017 PA Environmental Policy Initiatives In 140 Characters Or Less
*  [12/5/2016] DEP Welcomes Precipitation, But Drought Conditions Remain Unchanged
*  [11/28/2016] DEP Laboratory Accreditation Advisory Committee Meets Dec. 7
*  [11/28/2016] November 23 DEP News Now Available
*  [11/14/2016] Commonwealth Court Judge Puts Hold On Some Sections Of DEP Shale Drilling Regulations
*  [11/14/2016] Analysis: No, An Asteroid Named Trump Didn’t Just Destroy The Planet, Yet
*  [11/14/2016] DEP Small Water Systems Board To Discuss $7.5M Permit Fee Proposal Nov. 14
*  [11/14/2016] November 10 DEP News Now Available
*  [11/7/2016] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [10/31/2016] Gov. Wolf Vetoes SB 562 Allowing Senate, House To Block A Regulation By Inaction
*  [10/31/2016] Senate, House Finish Session With Flurry Of Action On Bills, No Action On DEP Secretary
*  [10/31/2016] Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced
*  [10/31/2016] October 28 DEP News Now Available
*  [10/24/2016] Senate Hearing: More Resources Needed To Meet Water Pollution Cleanup Obligations
*  [10/24/2016] Senate Approves Resolution That Could Lead To Roll Back Of PA Environmental Laws
*  [10/24/2016] Op-Ed: Gas Drillers Need To Work With Our Communities, Not Against Them
*  [10/24/2016] Op-Ed: Litigation Necessary Last Resort To Protect Job Creators, Marcellus Shale Coalition
*  [10/24/2016] House Bill Would Create Yet Another Reviewer Of Regulations: Office Of The Repealer
*  [10/17/2016] Environmental Issues In Play During Waning Days Of Senate, House Session
*  [10/17/2016] Marcellus Shale Industry Sues To Block Certain Provisions Of New DEP Drilling Rules
*  [10/17/2016] Op-Ed: Meeting Water Quality Goals For PA’s Rivers, Streams And The Chesapeake Bay
*  [10/17/2016] Northwest PA Watershed Workshop Oct. 25 In Crawford County
*  [10/17/2016] October 13 DEP News Now Available
*  [10/17/2016] DEP Northwest Regional Office Building Receives Energy Star Label Certification
*  [10/17/2016] Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
*  [10/10/2016] DEP Drilling Regs To Take Effect Oct. 8 In Spite Of Challenge By Conventional Drillers
*  [10/10/2016] DEP Publishes Guidance Related To Implementing Final Drilling Regs For Comment
*  [10/10/2016] PEC On Final DEP Drilling Regs: (Un)Conventional Thinking Part 2
*  [10/10/2016] Chesapeake Bay Strategy Hearing Oct. 18 By Senate Environmental & Ag Committees
*  [10/10/2016] Good Idea? Automatic OK Of DEP Erosion Control Permits, Even With 30% Deficiencies
*  [10/10/2016] DEP Now Accepting Applications For Environmental Education Grants
*  [10/10/2016] EQB Oct. 18: Pittsburgh Low-RVP Gasoline, Update Of Radiological Health Regs
*  [10/10/2016] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Luzerne County
*  [10/3/2016] Conventional Drillers Attempt To Delay Publication Of Final DEP Marcellus Drilling Regs
*  [10/3/2016] Analysis: Stage Set To Roll Back Decades-Old Environmental Protection Measures
*  [10/3/2016] GASP: 1/3 Of Major Air Pollution Sources In Southwest PA Don’t Have Current Permits
*  [10/3/2016] DEP Proposes Water Quality Approval, Emsworth Lock & Dam 12-MW Hydro Facility
*  [10/3/2016] Comments Invited On Montgomery Lock & Dam 42-MW Hydroelectric Facility
*  [10/3/2016] September 29 DEP News Now Available
*  [10/3/2016] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Lawrence County
*  [10/3/2016] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [9/26/2016] Gov. Wolf Nominates Patrick McDonnell As DEP Secretary
*  [9/26/2016] PA Coalition Unveils New $315 Million Growing Greener III Program, No Funding Source
*  [9/26/2016] Warning Flags Raised Over House Attempts To Roll Back Environmental Protection
*  [9/26/2016] Senate Committee Vote Sept. 27 Could Lead To Roll Back Of PA Environmental Laws
*  [9/19/2016] September 15 DEP News Now Available
*  [9/12/2016] EQB Meets Sept. 20 To Consider Proposed New Chloride, Ammonia Standards
*  [9/12/2016] Williams Asks DEP WQ Certification For 164 Pipeline Segments In Susquehanna County
*  [9/5/2016] Commonwealth Court: DEP Can Protect Public Resources In Oil & Gas Permits
*  [9/5/2016] DEP Offers In-Person Training On Updated Oil & Gas Drilling Regs Sept. 13-14, 27-28
*  [9/5/2016] September 1 DEP News Now Available
*  [9/5/2016] DEP Names Jim Miller New Northwest Regional Office Director
*  [8/29/2016] Now Online: DEP’s McDonnell Outlines Priorities On PEC TV Program
*  [8/29/2016] House GOP Policy Committee Held Hearing On Conventional Drilling Industry
*  [8/22/2016] Joint Committee Unanimously Directs Final Publication Of DEP Marcellus Drilling Regs
*  [8/22/2016] DEP To Hold 10 Webinars On Final Chapter 78 Marcellus Shale Drilling Regulations
*  [8/22/2016] DEP’s McDonnell Outlines Priorities On PEC Environmental Focus TV Program Aug. 21
*  [8/22/2016] August 18 DEP News Now Available
*  [8/22/2016] PA Bulletin: Governor’s Office Publishes Updated Catalog Of Nonregulatory Documents
*  [8/15/2016] AG OKs Final DEP Drilling Regs, Legislative Committee Meets On Publishing Final Rules
*  [8/15/2016] Help Wanted: Dept. Of Environmental Protection 5 Air Quality Engineering Specialists
*  [8/8/2016] August 4 DEP News Now Available
*  [8/1/2016] 4,267 More Miles Of Streams Listed As Impaired By DEP, Lower Susquehanna Not Listed
*  [8/1/2016] DEP To Hold Aug. 1 Webinar On Susquehanna River Monitoring, Impairment
*  [8/1/2016] State Court Rejects Appeal In Case To Force PA To Adopt Greenhouse Gas Limits
*  [7/25/2016] DEP OKs Turnpike Widening Project In Chester, Montgomery Counties
*  [7/25/2016] July 20 DEP News Now Available
*  [7/18/2016] PEC: Senate Bill Weakens DEP Marcellus Shale Drilling Regs, Now In House
*  [7/18/2016] Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule[Updated]/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced
*  [7/18/2016] DEP Invests $2.2 Million In Stormwater Projects In Susquehanna River Watershed
*  [7/18/2016] DEP Reclamation Advisory Board Tours Engineered Wetland At Flight 93 Site July 20
*  [7/18/2016] DEP: Send Asbestos Abatement, Demolition, Renovation Forms To Regional Offices
*  [7/18/2016] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Elk County
*  [7/11/2016] Governor’s Office Publishes Update To Agency Regulatory Agenda
*  [7/11/2016] Did You Know? DEP Publishes 30 To 50 Pages Of Permit Actions Each Week?
*  [7/11/2016] July 7 DEP News Now Available
*  [7/4/2016] Senate, House Go Home Without Agreement On A $1.2 Billion+ Revenue Package
*  [7/4/2016] CFA Approves $16.8 Million In Environmental, $23.9 Million In Clean Energy Projects
*  [7/4/2016] Rep. Maher Announces Intent To Introduce New Conventional Oil & Gas Legislation
*  [7/4/2016] Opportunity To Bid On Mine Reclamation Project In Luzerne County
*  [6/27/2016] Gov. Wolf Signs Bill Into Law Killing DEP Conventional Drilling Regulations
*  [6/27/2016] Republicans Build On No More Stringent Theme: This Time On Methane Limits
*  [6/27/2016] Centre County Mine Reclamation Project Wins Reforestation Award
*  [6/27/2016] Environmental Quality Board OKs Final Coliform, Air Quality Regs
*  [6/27/2016] DEP Fines UPMC $451,000 For Medical Waste Disposal Violations
*  [6/27/2016] June 23 DEP News Now Available
*  [6/27/2016] DEP's Bruno Named To The 2016 Class Of Erie's 40 Under 40
*  [6/20/2016] Bills Killing Conventional Drilling Regs, On Clean Power Plan Review Go To Governor
*  [6/20/2016] Gov. Wolf Applauds Approval Of Final Unconventional Drilling Regulations
*  [6/13/2016] Gov. Wolf, House GOP Agree To Make DEP Start Over On Conventional Drilling Regs
*  [6/13/2016] PA Environmental Council: Much Work To Do To Modernize Conventional Drilling Regs
*  [6/13/2016] Governor’s Office Reaches Agreement With Senate On Clean Power Plan Review Bill
*  [6/13/2016] Clean Power Coalition Denounces Action To Stall Climate Change, Gut DEP Drilling Regs
*  [6/13/2016] Rep. Sturla Water Use Fee Bill Would Generate $245 Million/Year For Water Programs
*  [6/13/2016] Environmental Quality Board Meets June 21 On Final Air Quality, Coliform Regs
*  [6/13/2016] June 9 DEP News Is Now Available
*  [6/6/2016] House Could Vote At Any Time To Kill Entire Drilling Reg Package Thru June 13
*  [6/6/2016] Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events
*  [6/6/2016] Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
*  [5/30/2016] CBF-PA Calls For Clean Water Progress In Wake Of Quigley Resignation
*  [5/30/2016] Analysis: 10 Opportunities To Make Pennsylvania An Environmental Leader Again
*  [5/30/2016] Sen. Aument Calls For Investigation Into Conduct Of Fmr DEP Secretary John Quigley
*  [5/30/2016] May 26 DEP News Now Available
*  [5/30/2016] Tom Ridge Environmental Center Marks 10th Anniversary In Erie
*  [5/30/2016] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation Project In Washington County
*  [5/23/2016] House Could Vote On Resolution To Kill DEP’s Drilling Regulations At Any Time
*  [5/16/2016] Countdown Is On To Start Of DEP Mobile Inspections, Electronic Permitting
*  [5/16/2016] Environmental Quality Board To Consider Another DEP Fee Increase May 17
*  [5/16/2016] May 12 DEP News Now Available
*  [5/16/2016] Kim Snyder New Manager Of DEP’s Wilkes-Barre Abandoned Mine Reclamation Office
*  [5/9/2016] DCNR, DEP Construction Contracts Now Open For Bid
*  [5/9/2016] Opportunity To Bid On DEP Non-Coal Mine Reclamation Project In McKean County
*  [5/2/2016] Progress Made On Construction Of Duryea Flood Control Project In Luzerne County
*  [5/2/2016] DEP Employees Participate In Earth Day Cleanup In Harrisburg
*  [5/2/2016] April 28 DEP News Now Available
*  [5/2/2016] DEP Makes Changes To Meadville, Harrisburg Regional Office Directors
*  [4/25/2016] Winners Of Governor’s Award For Environmental Excellence Honored Tuesday
*  [4/25/2016] Governor’s Awards: Make A Choice For Change, To Innovate, For Sustainability
*  [4/18/2016] April 14 DEP News Now Available
*  [4/4/2016] March 31 DEP News Now Available
*  [3/21/2016] 2nd Senate Budget Hearing: DEP: 12 Special Funds Will Have Funding Shortfalls By 2018
*  [3/21/2016] Growing Greener Coalition Calls For Boost In Funding For Environmental Agencies
*  [3/21/2016] March 17 DEP News Now Available
*  [3/21/2016] Presque Isle State Park Beaches Named Best Freshwater Beach By USA Today