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Sunday NewsClips

DCNR Owed Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars In Royalties For State Forest Drilling

Letter: Federal Farm Bill Programs Deserve Support

PA’s Natural Gas Industry Could Be Poised For Rebound

Greensburg Salem School Buildings Much More Energy Efficient Than Expected

Corps Contemplates Tearing Out Lightly Use Locks, Dams On Upper Allegheny

EPCAMR Uncovers The Ghosts Below Thru Old Mining Maps

Trump’s Changes High On Reclamation Conference Topics

How Does Indiana Rock Dam Protect York?

Amid Health Care Uncertainty, Black Lung Clinic Supports Coal Miners

Farm Grows In Chester City And So Does Supermarket Partnership

Phipps, Grow Pittsburgh Partner With Carnegie Library For Seed, Plant Swap

Crable: Lancaster County Has 6 Of Top 100 Birdwatching Spots In PA

Taxidermists Aim To Communication About The Animal

Sunday - The Feds

EPA Chief Calls For Aggressive Rollback Of Regulations

Trump Blocks Changes On Federal Lands Coal Mining Royalties

USGS Hails An Early Spring, Ties It To Climate Change

Montage Mountain Ski Resort Closed, Sled Derby Canceled

Severe Weather Accompanies Record-Breaking Temps In NE PA

No Injuries Reported Despite Rampant Storm Damage In Lancaster

Federal Policy

Trump Signs Another Order To Reduce Regulation

EPA’s Pruitt Pledges To Vigorously Defend EPA Grants, Funds To States

Pruitt To Employees: We Don’t Have To Choose Between Jobs, Environment

Pruitt Suggests New Direction For EPA In Address To Employees

New EPA Chief Woos Staff Skeptical Of Tilt To Pro-Energy Mission

Trump Executive Orders To Target Climate, Water Rule At EPA

Emails Show Ties Between New EPA Head, Energy Firms

CEOs Oppose Trump’s Promise To Sweep Aside Climate Accord

Haverford Participates In Climate Data Rescue Research

Bloomberg: Dominion’s Nuclear Bailout A Do-Or-Die Moment For Opponents

Trump Seeks To Quell Ethanol Industry Worry As Pruitt Enters EPA

Updated Federal Asbestos Rule Puts Crimp In Plans To Fight Blight

Automakers Ask Trump’s EPA To Toss Obama Vehicle Mileage Decision

Op-Ed: The Role Of Water In Preparing Our Cities For A Better Future

Air

Op-Ed: Here’s How VW Is Shaping PA’s Energy Future, T. Boone Pickens

Trump Seeks To Quell Ethanol Industry Worry As Pruitt Enters EPA

Study Finds Slight Mercury Increases In Some Great Lakes Fish, Birds

Updated Federal Asbestos Rule Puts Crimp In Plans To Fight Blight

Alternative Fuels

Trump Seeks To Quell Ethanol Industry Worry As Pruitt Enters EPA

Budget

PA Funding For Environmental Regulation Is Unsustainable Panel Says

State Funding To DEP Is Inadequate, Says Advisory Panel

Swift: State Borrowing To Tackle Water Quality Issues

Letter: Conservation Funding Vital To Clean Water

Drilling In State Forests To Generate $80 Million This Year

In 5 Years, Impact Fee Pumped $1 Billion Into Drilling Communities

Coldwater Heritage Partnership Awards Grants For 2017

Letter: Popular Support Favors Increasing Parks, Recreation, Conservation Funding

AP: Wolf Could Secure Minimum Wage Hike, With Big Concessions

State Could Lose Federal Authority To Monitor Drinking Water

EPA’s Pruitt Pledges To Vigorously Defend EPA Grants, Funds To States

Game Commission Recruiting Next Class Of Wildlife Conservation Officers

Chesapeake Bay

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Citizen Action

Senior Volunteers Sought For Water Quality Monitoring In Allegheny County

Climate

Western PA Orchard Farmers No Fans Of Spring-Like Weather

Warm Winter Could Impact Crop Yields In Lancaster County

Pittsburgh Breaks 111-Year-Old Temperature Record

CEOs Oppose Trump’s Promise To Sweep Aside Climate Accord

Trump Executive Orders To Target Climate, Water Rule At EPA

Haverford Participates In Climate Data Rescue Research

Compliance Action

Two Drillers Accused Of Killing 169 Salamanders In Lycoming County

Dam Safety

PA Leading The Nation In Dam Removals

Editorial: California Dam Raises Alarm In Pennsylvania

Deep Mine Safety

CNN: Quecreek Mine Rescue Fast Facts

PennDOT Cracks Down On Centralia Graffiti Highway

Delaware River

DRBC Mum On Gas Drilling Regulation Talks

Delaware RiverKeeper Feb. 24 RiverWatch Video Report

Drinking Water

State Could Lose Federal Authority To Monitor Drinking Water

Economic Development

AP: Surge In Downstream Energy Job Openings Provides Hope

How An Ethane Cracker Facility Grows In Beaver County

Contest Strives To Develop Erie’s Water Economy

Education

Students At School For Deaf Flying High Over Annual Bird Count

State Approves Expansion For Pittsburgh’s Environmental Charter School

Energy

Work Picks Up On Westmoreland Natural Gas Power Plant

AP: Surge In Downstream Energy Job Openings Provides Hope

Seeing Growth, Duquesne Light Upgrades Transmission Lines

FirstEnergy’s Asset Impairments Lead To $6.2 Billion Loss

Ohio Nuclear Power Plant Zero Emission Credits Could Be PJM Problem

Bloomberg: Dominion’s Nuclear Bailout A Do-Or-Die Moment For Opponents

Op-Ed: Here’s How VW Is Shaping PA’s Energy Future, T. Boone Pickens

Energy Efficiency

Editorial: Find Energy Efficiency To Save Cash, Create Jobs

Environmental Heritage

CNN: Quecreek Mine Rescue Fast Facts

Wilkes-Barre Sculptor Honored Family’s Coal Mining Roots

Farming

Erie Considers Urban Farming-Related Zoning Changes

Western PA Orchard Farmers No Fans Of Spring-Like Weather

Warm Winter Could Impact Crop Yields In Lancaster County

Flooding

Plymouth Twp Receives $2.5M PEMA Grant To Purchase Flooding Homes

Forests

Drilling In State Forests To Generate $80 Million This Year

Warm Weather Has Maple Syrup Flowing Early

Photo Of Man In Ski Mask Caught At Scene Of  Brush Fire In York

Geologic Hazards

Plymouth Twp Receives $2.5M PEMA Grant To Purchase Flooding Homes

Green Buildings/Sustainability

PEC Podcast: Building A Sustainable Future, Phipps Conservatory

Green Infrastructure

Philly, Nonprofit Digging In On Project To Green Up Schoolyards With Parks

Land Conservation

Perry County Land Preservation Effort Launches More Interest

Mine Reclamation

PennDOT Cracks Down On Centralia Graffiti Highway

Mine Subsidence

Mine Subsidence Issue Declared Emergency At Canonsburg Home

Oil & Gas

Drilling In State Forests To Generate $80 Million This Year

In 5 Years, Impact Fee Pumped $1 Billion Into Drilling Communities

DRBC Mum On Gas Drilling Regulation Talks

Editorial: Unanticipated Consequence Of Drilling: Earthquakes

Work Picks Up On Westmoreland Natural Gas Power Plant

AP: Surge In Downstream Energy Job Openings Provides Hope

How An Ethane Cracker Facility Grows In Beaver County

Editorial: Drilling Industry No Dry Well For Lawmakers’ Campaigns

Two Drillers Accused Of Killing 169 Salamanders In Lycoming County

Clairton Schools Cancels Classes Due To Columbia Gas Issue

South Philly Refinery Names Rinaldi Protege Named CEO

Spring Rise Expected For Gasoline Prices In Pittsburgh

Pipelines

Wolf Administration Pipeline Report Is Largely Ignored A Year Later

Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Opponents: We’re Here As Long As It Takes

Crable: Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Moves To Seize Land From 13 Lancaster Residents

Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Seeks Eminent Domain On 4 Lebanon County Properties

Crable: Lancaster Judge Refuses To Toss Lawsuit Over Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline

EHB Denies Latest Call To Halt Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction

Sunoco Begins Mariner East 2 Pipeline Work At Raystown Lake

Sunoco Clears Trees, Builds Drill Pads For Mariner East 2 Pipeline

Sunoco Confirms Plans To Build 2 New Mariner Pipelines, Not One

Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Breaks Ground In PA Towns

Across Tough Terrain, Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Leaves Hard Feelings

Cumberland County Landowners Continues Fight Over Mariner East 2 Pipeline

Townships Accused Of Failing To Enforce Ordinances Over Mariner East 2 Pipelines

Op-Ed: Let’s Get Started On The Mariner East 2 Pipeline

Reversing Laurel Buckeye Pipeline Could Bring Higher Prices

Landowners Caught In Eminent Domain Fight With Rover Pipeline

PennEast Pipeline Donates To Nonprofit Groups

Dissed By Trump, PA Pipe-Maker Says All Is Forgiven Now

AP: Surge In Downstream Energy Job Openings Provides Hope

Trump Eyes Easing Obama Rules For Sprawling Pipeline Network

Most Dakota Pipeline Opponents Leave Protest Camp

Recreation

Crable: Why Lancaster Residents Camp In Harsh, Snowy Woods

Crable: Land Purchased For Northwest Lancaster River Trail, More Eyed

Pennsylvania Ranks 4th In ATV Deaths

Well-Intended ATV Riders Plan Trail To Ride Responsibility

The Circuit: Philadelphia Region’s Exploding Trail System

Op-Ed: Can Parks Save Philadelphia?

Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation: https://goo.gl/3535L9

Recycling/Waste

New Easton Program Explores Food Composting

17 Things You Should Never Throw In Your Recycling Bin

Column: Time To Stand Up Against Keystone Landfill Like Coal Industry

Covanta Explains Plans For Waste Transfer Station In New Castle

Stormwater

Hempfield To Hunt Sources Of Stormwater

Philly, Nonprofit Digging In On Project To Green Up Schoolyards With Parks

Sustainability

PEC Podcast: Building A Sustainable Future, Phipps Conservatory

Water Monitoring

Senior Volunteers Sought For Water Quality Monitoring In Allegheny County

Wastewater Facilities

DEP Won’t Give Allentown Straight Answer On Sewage Blending

Macungie Borrows Nearly $4 Million For Sewer Improvements

DEP OKs Allegheny Valley Joint Sewage Authority Wet Weather Plan

Raw Sewage Leak Bedevils Residents On Overbrook St. In Pittsburgh

Billions Of Gallons Of Untreated Sewage Dumped In PA Waters

Scranton To Use $28M Of Sewer Sale Cash to Retire High-Interest Debt

Watershed Protection

Senior Volunteers Sought For Water Quality Monitoring In Allegheny County

PA Leading The Nation In Dam Removals

Coldwater Heritage Partnership Awards Grants For 2017

Philly, Nonprofit Digging In On Project To Green Up Schoolyards With Parks

Letter: Popular Support Favors Increasing Parks, Recreation, Conservation Funding

DEP OKs Allegheny Valley Joint Sewage Authority Wet Weather Plan

Billions Of Gallons Of Untreated Sewage Dumped In PA Waters

Trump Executive Orders To Target Climate, Water Rule At EPA

Op-Ed: The Role Of Water In Preparing Our Cities For A Better Future

Hempfield To Hunt Sources Of Stormwater

Delaware RiverKeeper Feb. 24 RiverWatch Video Report

Contest Strives To Develop Erie’s Water Economy

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Wildlife

AP: State Officials Striving To Retain Women Anglers

Study Finds Slight Mercury Increases In Some Great Lakes Fish, Birds

Students At School For Deaf Flying High Over Annual Bird Count

Crable: 50,000 To 70,000 Snow Geese Expected At Middle Creek

Pittsburgh Eagles May Be Sitting On A New Egg, Already?

Bald Eagle Dies From Suspected Lead Poisoning In Bucks County

Bald Eagles Found Nesting At Top Pottstown Boarding School

Crable: West Nile Virus Likely Culprit In Decline In Ruffed Grouse

Hayes: Point/Counterpoint On Deer Management

Small Game Hunting Declines In PA

Game Commission Recruiting Next Class Of Wildlife Conservation Officers

West Nile/Zika Virus

Crable: West Nile Virus Likely Culprit In Decline In Ruffed Grouse

Other

Sprint Sign On Mount Washington Must Go Pittsburgh Says

Bristol Wins $500K Downtown Makeover

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2/27/2017

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