Here are NewsClips from around the state on all environmental topics, including General Environment, Budget, Marcellus Shale, Watershed Protection and much more--

Air

EPA’s New Ozone Limits Upsets Both Sides

EPA Announces Lower Standard For Ozone

EPA’s New Ozone Standard Not Tough Enough For Some

Unlikely Help In Battle Against Smog Rules: Black Businesses

New EPA Ozone Regulations Remain Divisive

Federal Court Rules PA Haze Pollution Control Plan Inadequate

Green Ridge Odor Impact Cost Hotel, Others Thousands

EPA Sets Stricter Emission Standards For Oil Refineries

Alternative Energy

Larimer Landlord Sees Solar As Way To Cut Costs

Company Connects Solar Developers With Land

Clean Energy Creates Jobs, But The Right Ones?

Biodiversity

Invasive Species In Erie, Testing The Water

Measures Taken To Improve Kirby Park Natural Area

Budget

PA’s Budget Train Wreck Unfolded Over Past Year

Wolf Imposes Hiring Freeze, Travel Ban Due To Impasse

State Agencies Ordered To Make Budget Cutbacks

IFO: State Revenue Trends Continue To Beat Estimates

Republican Leaders Invite Vote On Wolf’s Tax Plan

Wolf, Scarnati Exchange Shots Over Budget Impasse

Video: Republicans Will Bring Wolf’s Budget To House Floor

Analysis: Republicans Roll Dice On Wolf’s Tax Plan

Wolf Vetoes Stopgap Spending Plan, Targets GOP Leaders

Wolf Vetoes GOP Stopgap Budget Bill

Wolf: GOP Leaders Blocking Budget Agreement

Wolf, Legislative Leaders Meet On Staled Budget

Op-Ed: Severance Tax Beneficial For Education, Environment

Op-Ed: Enough Blame To Go Around On Budget Mess

Editorial: Give State DEP More Resources

Editorial: Budget Impasse Gets Very Costly

$10M In Waterfront Tax Credits May Be Budget Casualty

Legislators Punched Each Other During 1977, 1991 Tax Votes

Climate

DEP Clean Power Climate Plan Listening Sessions Hit Philadelphia

Nuclear Industry Execs: Missed Opportunity In Clean Power Plan

PA Embraces EPA Clean Power Climate Plan

Climate Plan Fails To Account For Nuclear Power’s Role

DEP Gets Feedback On Power Plant Rules

Methane Leak Data In PA Paints Uncertain Picture

Erie Faith Leaders Respond To Pope’s Message On Environment

Conference Links Ethics, Religion, Global Warming

Editorial: Extreme Climate Proposal A Big Zero

Conservation Districts

Luzerne Conservation District Worker To Plead Guilty In Theft

Drinking Water

Water Firm’s Plans Cause Anxiety In Chesco

Emergency Response

Hurricane Joaquin To Spare Pennsylvania

East Coast Likely To Dodge Hurricane, But Flooding Looms

Major Flooding Still Likely Due To Rain

Wolf: PA Is Preparing For The Worst With Hurricane

PA Urged To Prepare For Hurricane Joaquin

Hurricane Joaquin Could Add To Rainy Mess On East Coast

Wet, Wild, Dangerous Weather Headed This Way

More Rain On The Way After Record Rain In Western PA

Armstrong Roads Washed Out, Flooded By Heavy Rain

DEP Investigating Tank Collapse At Allegheny Technologies

Energy

PA Opposes Patriot Coal Reorganization Over Environmental Obligations

Former EQT Exec Confirmed As PUC Commissioner

Video: PUC Highlights Cybersecurity Threats

FirstEnergy Solutions Drops PECO Customers

Beaver Valley Unit 2 Offline For Refueling

Talen Energy Offers Revised Plan To Sell Plants

EPA Releases New Rules On Coal Ash Disposal Areas

Anthracite Heritage Museum Play Remembers Union Boss

Mine Equipment Manufacturer Laying Off 85 Workers

Bush: Export Markets Key To Oil, Gas Boom

Bush Sets Domestic Energy As Priority

Bush Praises Natural Gas Development In Pittsburgh

Bush: Energy Affects Families, Every Economic Sector

NPR: How Energy Policy Helps Bush

Economists Question Bush Energy Proposals

Enviromental Education

New Frick Environmental Center Features Water, Energy Savings

Forests

DCNR Seeks Input On Management Plan

Fall Foliage Shaping Up To Be Beauty In PA

Green Buildings

PNC Shows Off Green Tower In Pittsburgh

New Frick Environmental Center Features Water, Energy Savings

Mine Reclamation

Wolf Expected To Sign Mine Water Reuse Bill

PA Opposes Patriot Coal Reorganization Over Environmental Obligations

Ex-Prof Hoping To Re-Invent Mining Tracts As Craft Village

Earth Conservancy: Will ATVs Destroy Reclamation Project?

Oil & Gas

Water Contaminated After Spill At Drilling Site

DEP: Drilling Spill Not Excused By Excellent Community Engagement

DEP: Unauthorized Drilling Fluid Polluted Potter County Aquifer

State To Monitor For Earthquake Activity Linked To Fracking

PennEast Pipeline Opponents To Intervene

Environmental Groups Seek To Defeat PennEast Pipeline

Info Sought On Gas Line Approval Process

Pipeline Builder Addresses Erosion Problems In Lancaster

Court Rejects Objections To Sunoco Pipeline Eminent Domain

Sunoco Scores Victory In Mariner East 2 Pipeline Case

Court Rejects Objections To Sunoco Pipeline Eminent Domain

Judge Backs Sunoco In Dispute Over Eminent Domain

Sunoco Pipeline Wins Round On Eminent Domain

Energy Transfer To Take Over Williams Pipelines

Energy Transfer To Buy Williams Gas Plants, Pipelines

EPA In Pittsburgh On Proposed Oil & Gas Methane Emission Limits

EPA Hears From Supporters, Opponents Of Methane Standards

EPA Hears Comments On Proposed EPA Methane Rule

5 Things You Need To Know About EPA’s Methane Plan

Methane Leak Data In PA Paints Uncertain Picture

2 Gas Lease Cases Could Upend PA Real Estate Laws

Murrysville Tables Proposed Drilling Ordinance

Editorial: People Have A Right To Clean Air, Pure Water

Marcellus Shale Coalition Looks To Future On Manufacturing Day

Judge Blocks Federal Land Fracking Rules

EPA Sets Stricter Emission Standards For Oil Refineries

Oil, Gas Prices Fall, But Gasoline Not As Much

Why America’s Oil Output Refuses To Collapse

Bush: Export Markets Key To Oil, Gas Boom

Bush Sets Domestic Energy As Priority

Chesapeake Energy To Lay Off More Than 800 Workers

Recreation

Fall Foliage Shaping Up To Be Beauty In PA

Earth Conservancy: Will ATVs Destroy Reclamation Project?

Ricketts Glen State Park Lake To Refill By Memorial Day

Cultural, Recreational Groups Get Public Help In Western PA

Public Meeting On Carbondale Riverwalk Planned

Improvement Plan Proposed For Kirby Park Natural Area

Allegheny Land Trust Receives Grants For Franklin Park

Recycling/Waste

Volunteers Clean Kiski River Near Avonmore

Pittsburgh Launches App For Trash, Recycling

Group To Appeal Keystone Landfill Zoning Decision

Foul-Smelling Liquid In GreenRidge Not Treated Leachate

DEP Takes Leachate Samples At Keystone Landfill

DEP, EPA Meet With Landfill Officials

Green Ridge Odor Impact Cost Hotel, Others Thousands

Sustainability

Pocono Raceway Leading In Environmental Issues

Water Quantity

Water Firm’s Plans Cause Anxiety In Chesco

Watershed Protection

Farm Bureau Challenging EPA Authority On Chesapeake Bay

Schuylkill Grants Fund Projects In Montco, Chesco, Berks

Editorial: Alcosan Should Put New Work Out For Bid

Toxic Algae Outbreak Overwhelms Ohio River

TU Spotlights Little Lyman Run Culvert Project

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Wildlife

State Game Lands Pass 1.5 Million Acres

New Keystone Select Trout Program In 8 Streams

PA Unveils New Plan To Keep Wildlife From Becoming Rare

TU Spotlights Little Lyman Run Culvert Project

Game Commission Increases Fines For Killing Eagles

Protections Sought For Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake

Other

Anthracite Heritage Museum Play Remembers Union Boss

Native American Traditions Preserved At Noxen Powwow

10-County Regional Transportation Alliance To Form In Western PA

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10/5/2015