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DEP Searching For Right Energy Mix, Acting Secretary Says

DEP Acting Secretary: PA Marcellus Wells Most Productive In US

DEP Pushes Improper Role In Picking Energy Mix

Sunday NewsClips

Op-Ed: Time For Shale Industry To Take Lead In Environmental Performance

DEP Pushes Improper Role In Picking Energy Mix

Employees Collaborate On New Green Building In South Fayette

Climate Advocacy Group Targets PA With $25M Campaign

Op-Ed: Pennsylvania’s Future Depends On Clean Power

Don’t Get Bitten By This Odd Zika Scam

Op-Ed: Farmland Preservation Set To Move Ahead In Lehigh County

Schuylkill Heritage Area Helps Lead Bridge Opening Ride

Air

Ozone Action Days Decline In Pittsburgh With Drop In Industrial Pollutants

Susquehanna County Requests Air Quality Study For Industrial Site

Study: Bad Air In Philly Causes 126 Early Deaths

Op-Ed: PA Legislators Are Poisoning Our Environment

Letter: Public Health Undercut By Burning Coal Refuse

Awards & Recognition

Meet Sustainable Philadelphia’s Unsung Hero Nominees

Crable: Lancaster Conservation District Staff Earn Statewide Recognition

Budget

Editorial: Is The Natural Gas Severance Tax Dead?

Chesapeake Bay

PA’s Reboot Of Chesapeake Bay Strategy To Improve Water Quality Needs Kick-Start

Crable: Survey May Give Lancaster County Farmers Due On Bay Cleanup

Editorial: DEP Ruling On Susquehanna Impaired

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Climate

Op-Ed: Nuclear Power Needed To Combat Climate Change

Editorial: Climate Of Silence: Secret Pact

New York Nuclear Plant Rescue Plan Could Mean $280M/Year To Exelon

Bloomberg: Rate Of Sea-Level Rise Speeding Up

Compliance Action

PUC OKs $5.3M Penalty Against Deceptive Power Supplier

Mobile Home Park Owner To Pay $1M For Fatal Blast

Conservation Districts

Crable: Lancaster Conservation District Staff Earn Statewide Recognition

Delaware River

Water Quality In Lower Delaware Mostly Meets Standards

Delaware River Cleanest, In Terms Of Trash, It’s Been In 30 Years

Drinking Water

Editorial: National Shame, Bottled Water Sales Are Up

Economic Development

Conti: Count Of Clean Energy Jobs Iffy

Couple Turns From Digging Coal To Writing Code

Editorial: Create Mining Jobs Through Reclamation

Education

PA Outdoor Corps Youth Improving State’s Parks

Students Get Lessons In Great Outdoors From DCNR Program

Perseid Meteor Show Could Be The Best In Years

Energy

PA Studying Feasibility Of 3 Hydro Projects At State Parks

Will Coal-To-Gas Just Keep Environmental Dinosaur Alive?

Report Details Lead Discharge From Cheswick Power Plant

CMU Spinoffs Create Faster Mapping Tool For Mining Operations

Op-Ed: Nuclear Power Needed To Combat Climate Change

Op-Ed: Let’s Innovate Rather Than Bicker Over Sources Of Energy

Couple Turns From Digging Coal To Writing Code

Electric Utility Reliability Improving PUC Says

Utilities Rely On Technology, Energy Efficiency To Beat Summer Heat

PUC OKs $5.3M Penalty Against Deceptive Power Supplier

PPL Warns Of Sophisticated Phone Scam

PECO Warns Of Scam Targeting Its Customers

New York Nuclear Plant Rescue Plan Could Mean $280M/Year To Exelon

Environmental Heritage

TMI Meltdown Film To Host Another Casting Call

Rachel Carson Homestead Assn Awarded $50K Grant

Farming

Crable: Survey May Give Lancaster County Farmers Due On Bay Cleanup

Flooding

Flash Flood Watch For Erie, Crawford Counties This Weekend

Dunmore Flood Victims Still Asking For Help

Forests

Brackenridge Working To Get Trees Thru TreeVitalize

Emerald Ash Borer Spotted In Philadelphia

Illegal Dumping/Littering

AP: 91-Year Old Makes Tackling Litter A Priority

Delaware River Cleanest, In Terms Of Trash, It’s Been In 30 Years

Citizens Of The Week: Stewards Of The Schuylkill River

Mine Reclamation

Editorial: Create Mining Jobs Through Reclamation

Letter: Public Health Undercut By Burning Coal Refuse

Mining

Groups Appeal Consol Mining Permit In Greene County

Oil & Gas

Cases Of Gas Migration Into Water Supplies Decline In PA

Rendell Would Revisit How Early Drilling Was Regulated

Rendell: I Don’t Apologize At All For Fracking

Editorial: Is The Natural Gas Severance Tax Dead?

Elk County Municipality Abandons Fight To Block Injection Well

Mobile Home Park Owner To Pay $1M For Fatal Blast

EPA’s Science Advisers Challenge Agency On Fracking Report

U.S. LNG Surge Shaking Up Global Markets

Bloomberg: IEA Sees Oil Glut Ending

Gasoline Prices Fall Again In Pittsburgh

Pipeline

Fixes To Westmoreland Pipeline Could Cost $100 Million

Sunoco Pipeline Creates A Divide Across PA

200+ Attend Sunoco Pipeline Hearing In West Chester

Mariner East 2 Pipeline Partisans Clash At DEP Meeting In West Chester

Allegheny Front: Are Wetlands Being Overlooked In Pipeline Development

Op-Ed: Safe Natural Gas Pipeline, Union Workers Deserve Support

Inter Pipeline Makes $1B Bet On Rally In Williams Deal

Consumer Energy Alliance Launches Program To Support Pipelines

Recreation

3 Rivers Offer Near-Perfect Regatta Conditions

Three Rivers Regatta Shines On Sunny Day

PA Outdoor Corps Youth Improving State’s Parks

Students Get Lessons In Great Outdoors From DCNR Program

Galaxies, Constellations Shine Bright At Cherry Springs State Park

PA Studying Feasibility Of 3 Hydro Projects At State Parks

Night Fishing At Presque Isle State Park

Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

Op-Ed: National Parks Offer Chance To Serve

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy To Share $1.75M Grant

North Country Trail Gives Hikers Walk On Wild Side

York Rail Trail Re-Opens After Improvement Project

Tacks Scattered On Popular York Rail Trail

Crable: Spray-Painting Of Natural Landmarks At All-Time High

Rachel Carson Homestead Assn Awarded $50K Grant

Allegheny County Installs Fitness Stations In Parks

Philly Naked Bike Ride Date Announced

Lancaster County Couple Creates Picnic Boat For Hire

Recycling/Waste

Facility To Pull Metals From York County’s Resource Recovery Plant Ash

Crable: Free Tours Of Lancaster Trash Transfer Station Complex Offered

Renewable Energy

Pittsburgh Concert Series Relies On Solar Energy To Run Equipment

Conti: Count Of Clean Energy Jobs Iffy

Schuylkill River

Citizens Of The Week: Stewards Of The Schuylkill River

Susquehanna River

PA’s Reboot Of Chesapeake Bay Strategy To Improve Water Quality Needs Kick-Start

Editorial: DEP Ruling On Susquehanna Impaired

Sustainability

Updated Philadelphia GreenWorks Sustainability Plan Coming This Fall

Meet Sustainable Philadelphia’s Unsung Hero Nominees

Philadelphia Green Advocate Mary Seton Corboy Passes Away

Wastewater Plants

State Loan Helps Archbald Water Treatment Plant

Watershed Protection

PA’s Reboot Of Chesapeake Bay Strategy To Improve Water Quality Needs Kick-Start

Crable: Survey May Give Lancaster County Farmers Due On Bay Cleanup

Editorial: DEP Ruling On Susquehanna Impaired

Crable: Lancaster Conservation District Staff Earn Statewide Recognition

Crable: Utility Cracks Down On Squatters On Susquehanna River Islands

Water Quality In Lower Delaware Mostly Meets Standards

Delaware River Cleanest, In Terms Of Trash, It’s Been In 30 Years

Citizens Of The Week: Stewards Of The Schuylkill River

Report Details Lead Discharge From Cheswick Power Plant

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Wetlands

Wetlands Expanding In Washington County

Wildlife

Dad With Kids On Walk Fights Off Rabid Coyote In Allegheny County

NestWatch Program Shows A Bird In Hand Can Be Awesome

Presque Isle Draws Endangered Piping Plovers

Night Fishing At Presque Isle State Park

Mayflies Gone, So Susquehanna Bridge Lights Will Come Back On

Butterfly Farmer To Speak At Kosciusko Healing Garden In Scranton

Branching Out Program At Arboretum Focuses On Butterflies

Schneck: These Toxic Caterpillars Could Kill You

90-Year-Old Fern Thrives, Memorial Garden Brings Peace

West Nile/Zika Virus

Mosquitoes Found To Carry West Nile In York

Crable: Mosquito Spraying Set For Monday In Lancaster County

Zika Virus Linked To Infant’s Death In Texas

CDC Awards Pitt $5,5M To Continue Flu Vaccine Work

Zika Scare Prompts Crackdown On Mosquito Repellent Ads

Role Of Sex In Spreading Zika Raises New Worry

Other

Perseid Meteor Show Could Be The Best In Years

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8/15/2016

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