Environmental NewsClips - All Topics

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Sunday NewsClips

PA Gets Critical Funds To Reduce Pollution From Farms

PA Farmers To Get $28 Million For Water Quality

PEC Northwest PA Region Watershed Workshop Oct. 25

Lackawanna River Group To Expand Volunteer Base

Editorial: PUC Shirks Responsibility In Scranton Sewer System Sale

Scranton Group Takes Landfill Leachate Line Fight To Court

Op-Ed: Greater Production Of Natural Gas Must Be Encouraged

Scarecrows Highlight Trail, Recycling In Scranton

Source Of Lehigh Oil Slick A Construction Site

Open Allegheny River Locks A Huge Success

On The Appalachian Trail Combat Vets Learn To Let Things Go

Agency Shows Hunters Where Forest Regeneration Increased Hunting Opportunity

Air

Report: Reducing Methane Emissions Can Create New Jobs

Feds Again Sue Erie Coking Coal Plant Over Pollution

Erie Coal Coke To Pay $500K Fine To End Benzene Case

New York, 5 Other States Sue Feds Over Upwind Pollution

Alternative Fuel

Biofuel Credits Complicate Costs For Philadelphia Refinery

Beautification

Keep Philadelphia Beautiful: From Blight To Bloom Nov. 5

Volunteers Tidy Up, Beautify Downtown Scranton

Budget

PA Lagging Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Gets Fiscal Transfusion

Hayes: Proposed GG III Down Payment On Conservation Funding

Frye: Conservation Funding Idea, GG III

PA Revenue Down $144.9M In Sept., Down $218.5M For Fiscal Year

AP: PA State Tax Collections Lag 3% In First Quarter

PA’s 1st Quarter Revenue Shortfall Could Be Election-Related

Chesapeake Bay

PA Lagging Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Gets Fiscal Transfusion

Crable: $28M Headed To Southcentral PA Farmers For Pollution Control

PA Receives $28M For Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Efforts Aimed At Agriculture

Latest From The Chesapeake Bay Journal

Chesapeake Bay Conservation Mandate Gets Boost In PA

Editorial: Chesapeake Bay Improves

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Climate

AP: Paris Climate Agreement To Take Effect Nov. 4

Report: Reducing Methane Emissions Can Create New Jobs

Paris Climate Agreement Now In Force, Now The Hard Part

Paris Climate Deal Extremely Close To Taking Effect

Global Methane Emissions Up, Fossil Fuels Not The Source

Earth Will Add More Carbon Emissions Than Humans

Pew Poll Finds Deep, Political Split On Climate Change

Crable: Lancaster County’s Top 8 Greenhouse Gas Emitters

Editorial: Climate Change Must Be Election Topic

Editorial: Greenhouse Gas Needs To Be Reduced, Or Else

U.S. Getting Closer To Clinton’s Vision Of Clean Energy Superpower

Curious Plan To Fight Climate Change: Buy Mines, Sell Coal

PSEG Shuts Its Last 2 Coal Plants In NJ

Editorial: China’s Coal Output Increases, And Signs Climate Agreement

Coastal Zone

DEP Coastal Resource Program Seeking Grant Applications

Delaware River

Video: Flexing Mussels In The Delaware River Basin

Delaware RiverKeeper Oct. 7 RiverWatch Video Report

Drinking Water

After Troubling Results, Philly Schools To Test Water For Lead

Centre County Water Contains Carcinogen, Group Says

Corry Returning To Normal After Massive Water Leak

Emergency Response

Hurricane Prompts PA To Send State Meteorologist To Florida

Energy

Berwick Nuclear Plant Safely Shutdown For Repairs

NRC: No Security Breach At Beaver Valley Nuclear Plant

Hydro Plant Operating Again After Youghiogheny River Fish Kill

Excessive Electric Fee Baffled Slatington Couple

PPG Acquires Naming Rights To Consol Energy Center

Contura Energy Pursues Permit At Greene County Mine

Talen Shareholders Approve $1.8B Takeover By Equity Firm

PSEG Shuts Its Last 2 Coal Plants In NJ

Arch Coal Emerges From Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Flooding

Wilkes-Barre Named Best In State For Maintaining Flood Insurance Program

Weather Service Seeks To Better Monitor Ice Jams, Severe Conditions

Drill Focuses On Wilkes-Barre’s Flood Gates

Editorial: Make Washington Blvd  Floodgates Work

Forests

Erie Region At 20-30% Of Fall Foliage Peak Color

Schneck: What Trees Turn Which Colors In Fall?

Land Conservation

Nature Conservancy’s Special Gala Held At Phipps Conservatory

Cutler: Tracy Ridge Is Allegheny National Forest Wilderness

Land Recycling

EPA Brownfields Grant Funds Free Soil Testing For Philadelphia Gardens

Borough Officials Suggest Gas Station For Brownfield Program

Mine Reclamation

EPCAMR Supports Coal Communities, Environmental Remediation Act

Oil & Gas

Pennsylvania Publishes New Rules For Shale Drillers

New DEP Marcellus Shale Drilling Regs To Take Effect Saturday

Reuters: PA Adopts New Fracking Regulations

Conventional Drillers Ponder Criminal Prosecution Of Local Officials

PA Court Ruling On Act 13 Likely To Boost Energy Law Business

Trade Group Seeks To Block New Drilling Rules

Oil And Gas Trade Group Seeks To Halt Drilling Rules

Court Ruling Leaves Holes In PA Drilling Law

Op-Ed: Drilling Industry Should Be More Transparent

Editorial: Court Ruling Will Help Drilling Industry In Long Run

Report: Reducing Methane Emissions Can Create New Jobs

Judge Denies Class Action For Natural Gas Royalty Suit

Penn State Conference Takes Aim At Orphan Well Problem

Drillers’ Campaign Donations Continue To Flow Despite Slowdown

Feds Look Deeper Into Chesapeake Energy’s Accounting Practices

Former Greene County Oil & Gas Company Manager Indicted

Natural Gas Production Continues To Climb In PA

Utica, Marcellus Natural Gas Production Defying Skeptics

Pittsburgh Gasoline Prices Rise Slightly After Oil Supply Deal

Recreation

Cherry Springs State Park Lets You See The Cosmos

Erie Region At 20-30% Of Fall Foliage Peak Color

Schneck: What Trees Turn Which Colors In Fall?

Philly’s Fairmount Park One Of America’s Great Public Spaces

Crable: 3 Lancaster Rail-Trails On Track To Completion In 2016

Cutler: Tracy Ridge Is Allegheny National Forest Wilderness

Take 5 Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

Recycling/Waste

Ye Olde TVs Outweigh PA Recycling Law

Homework: PRC Composting Workshop Set In Pittsburgh Oct. 9

Renewable Energy

U.S. Getting Closer To Clinton’s Vision Of Clean Energy Superpower

Biofuel Credits Complicate Costs For Philadelphia Refinery

Wastewater Facilities

DEP Hearing Set On Scranton Sewer Plant Permit Renewal

Scranton Authority Puts Permit Renewal Papers At City Hall, Library

PUC Approves Sale Of Scranton’s Sewer System

Stakes High For Scranton In PUC Decision On Sewer System Sale

Watershed Protection

PA Lagging Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Gets Fiscal Transfusion

Crable: $28M Headed To Southcentral PA Farmers For Pollution Control

PA Receives $28M For Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Efforts Aimed At Agriculture

Chesapeake Bay Conservation Mandate Gets Boost In PA

Editorial: Chesapeake Bay Improves

Tubmill Creek Group Completes Stream Improvement Project

Fish Commission To Discuss Recovery Of Dunkard Creek

Milford’s Deep Brook Receives New Classification

Delaware RiverKeeper Oct. 7 RiverWatch Video Report

Delaware RiverKeeper Sept. 30 RiverWatch Video Report

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Wildlife

Fish Commission To Discuss Recovery Of Dunkard Creek

Hydro Plant Operating Again After Youghiogheny River Fish Kill

Anglers Benefit From New Fish Habitat Structures In Presque Isle Bay

Video: Flexing Mussels In The Delaware River Basin

Milford’s Deep Brook Receives New Classification

Erie Native Heads Fish & Boat Commission’s Communication Division

Schneck: PA Drivers More Likely To Hit Deer This Year

Family Protests Game Commission Deer Management Practices

Philly Council Passes Pro-Bee Declaration, But Only For The Buzz

West Nile/Zika Virus

Pitt Announces Zika Vaccine Success With Mice

Other

Longer, Colder Winter, More Frequent Snowstorms For PA Central, East

Asteroid Busts Over Wellsboro, Tioga County Tuesday

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10/10/2016

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