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

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Earth Day 50 PA: Wayne Kober: Impact & Inspiration From First Earth Day [PaEN]

Earth Day 50 PA: Richard Lewis: What I Did On The First Earth Day 50 Years Ago [PaEN]

DCNR Good Natured Blog: Earth Day 50: Diversity For Sustainability [PaEN]

Politics

Fair Districts PA Pushes “Not Red, Not Blue, Just Fair” Campaign To Fix Our Broken, Gerrymandered Redistricting Process [PaEN]

PA Capitol Report: Presidential Candidates All In For PA Primary; Permanent State Deficits [PaCN]

Stephen Caruso: Rep. Metcalfe, An ‘Extremist,’ Challenger Timko, A ‘Clown,’ Face Off In Primary Election

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Air

PA Future In RGGI Uncertain As Coal, Labor Groups Attack Proposal

PEC: There Are Solutions To Reducing Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations

We’re Vastly Undercounting Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations, Scientists Say

GASP Urges Allegheny County To Apply For EPA Air Toxics Monitoring Grant

Utilities Oppose EPA’s Pending Rollback On Mercury Emissions

Alternative Fuels

City Of Harrisburg Unveils New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Letter: Pittsburgh Needs A Better, Greener Transit System

Awards & Recognition

DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanian: Former Senator Franklin Kury [PaEN]

Molly Morrison To Receive PALTA Conservation Lifetime Achievement Award [PaEN]

Game Commission Biologist Mary Jo Casalena Recognized With National Conservation Award [PaEN]

EPA Features Blacks Creek, Venango County Mine Drainage Treatment As Success Story [PaEN]

PennDOT Announces First District Winner Of Student Innovation Litter Challenge [PaEN]

Erie Students Win Regional PennDOT Innovation Challenge On Litter

CleanScapes Celebrates 20 Years Of Service: Bald Eagle Valley Trail Fest March 28, Clinton County [PaEN]

Academy Of Natural Sciences First To Display Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Photos

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

Pennsylvania Rare Plant Forum To Be Held March 28 At Penn State Beaver Campus [PaEN]

PA Plant Conservation Network To Hold 2nd Public Stakeholder Meeting March 27 In Beaver County [PaEN]

Rare Native Orchid Helped By Longwood Gardens, DCNR PA Plant Conservation Network

A Car Windshield Splatometer Study Finds Huge Insect Die-Off

Budget

House Holds Hearings With DEP, DCNR Feb. 24 On A Budget Request That Primarily Repairs Damage Done Last Year; Promises More [PaEN]

Penn State Extension: What Is A Municipal Stormwater Fee? [PaEN]

Luzerne County Residents  Demand End To Stormwater Fee At  County Council Meeting

Luzerne County Legislators Support Effort To End Wyoming Valley Stormwater Fee

Stormwater Fee Fight Grows In Southern Luzerne County

Stormwater Fee Opponents Predicted At Luzerne County Committee Meeting

State Foresters Respond To Trump FY 2021 Budget Proposal

Chesapeake Bay

NFWF To Host March 11 Webinar On Chesapeake Bay And Delaware River Watershed Grant Opportunities [PaEN]

EPA Awards $464,200 In Funding For Fish & Boat Commission Staff To Restore Streams In Chesapeake Bay Watershed [PaEN]

York County Master Watershed Stewards Recognize Ryan Davis, Chesapeake Bay Forests, Northeastern Schools As 2019 Outstanding Partners [PaEN]

Penn State Extension: Riparian Buffers: Using The Power Of Plants To Help Clean Our Waterways [PaEN]

Monitoring Streams With Visual Assessment Important For Assessing Stream Conditions [PaEN]

Penn State Extension: What Is A Municipal Stormwater Fee? [PaEN]

North Middleton Twp Schedules Stormwater Ordinance For March Meeting

Luzerne County Residents  Demand End To Stormwater Fee At  County Council Meeting

Luzerne County Legislators Support Effort To End Wyoming Valley Stormwater Fee

Stormwater Fee Fight Grows In Southern Luzerne County

Stormwater Fee Opponents Predicted At Luzerne County Committee Meeting

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Citizen Action

EPA Features Blacks Creek, Venango County Mine Drainage Treatment As Success Story [PaEN]

NFWF To Host March 11 Webinar On Chesapeake Bay And Delaware River Watershed Grant Opportunities [PaEN]

Community Group Wants Ideas For Repurposing Shenango Coke (Coal) Works Site

Lyme Disease Threat Gets Clearer But Treatment Remains Murky: Ticks Are Nature’s Dirty Needle

Susquehanna River Basin Commission Business Meeting March 13 In Harrisburg [PaEN]

PUC Announces Be Utility Wise Consumer Forums Feb. 21, March 12; Highlights Energy Assistance Programs & LIHEAP [PaEN]

How To Repair & Maintain Gravel Driveways And Unpaved Lanes Workshop March 24 In Westmoreland [PaEN]

Westmoreland Workshop To Outline Remedies For Storm-Damaged Unpaved Driveways

Volunteers Needed For Stream Restoration Planting At Slippery Rock Campground, Butler County [PaEN]

Wissahickon Watershed Assn. Hosts Feb. 26 Meeting On Upper Gwynedd Twp Stream Restoration Project in Montgomery County [PaEN]

Stream Monitoring In The Delaware River Basin Is More Than Just Numbers [PaEN]

York County Master Watershed Stewards Recognize Ryan Davis, Chesapeake Bay Forests, Northeastern Schools As 2019 Outstanding Partners [PaEN]

Monitoring Streams With Visual Assessment Important For Assessing Stream Conditions [PaEN]

Dauphin County Woodland Owners Conference Set For March 14 In Dauphin [PaEN]

Study Finds Over 500 Million Pieces Of Roadside Litter: Join Keep PA Beautiful's Pick It Up Pennsylvania Today! [PaEN]

Stephen Huba: Study: PA Roads Average 1,030 Litter Items Per Mile

Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Invites Volunteers For April 4 Stream Cleanup In Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery Counties [PaEN]

CleanScapes Celebrates 20 Years Of Service: Bald Eagle Valley Trail Fest March 28, Clinton County [PaEN]

Map Lets You Track Your Flosh To The ALCOSAN Wastewater Plant In Allegheny County

Op-Ed: Let’s Talk About Dog Poop In Philadelphia - Kadafi El-Kardah, PA Environmental Council

Progress 2020: Gettysburg Nature Alliance

February Catalyst Newsletter Now Available From Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition [PaEN]

Enter The PA Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau 2020-21 Photo Contest [PaEN]

Schuylkill River Greenways Hosts International Paddling Film Festival March 26 [PaEN]

Westmoreland Conservancy Seeking Volunteers To Help Prune Apple Trees In Murrysville

Wildlands Conservancy Highlights Special Activities, Programs In March [PaEN]

Academy Of Natural Sciences First To Display Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Photos

Climate

DEP Drafts Cap-And-Invest Program For Greenhouse Gas Emissions From PA Energy Sector

PA Future In RGGI Uncertain As Coal, Labor Groups Attack Proposal

Sen. Street Announces Bill Package To Transition From AEPS To New Clean Energy Standard With Carbon Capture [PaEN]

Op-Ed: 3 Things Rep. Metcalfe’s 1-Sided Hearing Got Wrong About RGGI Climate Proposal

PA Solar Congress In Indiana County Attracts Hundreds

Ernst Conservation Seeds, Ernst Pollinator Service & American Solar Grazing Assn. Partner On Pollinator-Friendly Fuzz & Buzz Seed Mix For Solar Arrays [PaEN]

City Of Harrisburg Unveils New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Letter: Pittsburgh Needs A Better, Greener Transit System

PEC: There Are Solutions To Reducing Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations

How Climate Change Is Ruffling Feathers Among Bird Watchers

Bay Journal: January Breaks Record For Warmest Global Temperature

Winners, Losers In Philly’s Very Mild Winter

Pennsylvania Launches Keystone Mesonet One-Stop Shop For Displaying Weather, Environmental Data [PaEN]

Forest Soils Release More Carbon Dioxide Than Expected In Rainy Season [PaEN]

Editorial: Erie Readies For Changing Climate

Allegheny Front: Amid Climate Debate, Coal’s Decline, West Virginia Considers A Just Transition

The Guardian: JP Morgan Economists Warn Climate Crisis Is Threat To Human Race

The Guardian: Revealed: Quarter Of All Tweets About Climate Crisis Produced By Bots

We’re Vastly Undercounting Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations, Scientists Say

Op-Ed: Absolutism Is Killing Progress On Climate Change

A Car Windshield Splatometer Study Finds Huge Insect Die-Off

NPR: How Warming Winters Are Affecting Everything

AP: Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion To Fight Climate Change

Coal Mining

Allegheny Front: Amid Climate Debate, Coal’s Decline, West Virginia Considers A Just Transition

GASP Urges Allegheny County To Apply For EPA Air Toxics Monitoring Grant

Compliance Action

DEP Fines Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill $24,000 To Resolve Waste Violations; Drilling Waste Impacts On Leachate [PaEN]

Reid Frazier: DEP Fines Landfill Near Pittsburgh For Problems Tied To Fracking Waste

Don Hopey: Westmoreland Landfill Fined For Excessive Contaminated Runoff

Conservation District

How To Repair & Maintain Gravel Driveways And Unpaved Lanes Workshop March 24 In Westmoreland [PaEN]

Westmoreland Workshop To Outline Remedies For Storm-Damaged Unpaved Driveways

Northumberland Conservation District To Lead Effort To Restore Warrior Run Watershed

Dams

Marcus Schneck: Pennsylvania Leader In Removing Dams In Our Streams

DCNR

DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanian: Former Senator Franklin Kury [PaEN]

DCNR Good Natured Blog: Earth Day 50: Diversity For Sustainability [PaEN]

USGS Study: No Statistically Significant Relationship Between Shale Gas Development And Stream Chemical, Benthic, Microbial Life Changes In State Forest Drilling Areas [PaEN]

Rare Native Orchid Helped By Longwood Gardens, DCNR PA Plant Conservation Network

Feb. 19 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR [PaEN]

Feb. 21 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]

Delaware River

NFWF To Host March 11 Webinar On Chesapeake Bay And Delaware River Watershed Grant Opportunities [PaEN]

Stream Monitoring In The Delaware River Basin Is More Than Just Numbers [PaEN]

Monitoring Streams With Visual Assessment Important For Assessing Stream Conditions [PaEN]

Delaware RiverKeeper Feb. 21 RiverWatch Video Report

Drinking Water

Elizabethtown College Awarded EPA Student Innovative Technology Grant For Lead Detection [PaEN]

EPA Accepting Comments On Proposal To Regulate PFOA, PFOS In Drinking Water [PaEN]

AP: EPA To Regulate PFAS, PFOA, PFOS In Drinking Water

Water Sampling Error Led To High Lead Levels In Hollidaysburg

Earth Day

DCNR Good Natured Blog: Earth Day 50: Diversity For Sustainability [PaEN]

Earth Day 50 PA: Wayne Kober: Impact & Inspiration From First Earth Day [PaEN]

Earth Day 50 PA: Richard Lewis: What I Did On The First Earth Day 50 Years Ago [PaEN]

Economic Development

Allegheny Front: Amid Climate Debate, Coal’s Decline, West Virginia Considers A Just Transition

G.E.T. Solar Now Accepting Applications To Help Nonprofits, Businesses Go Solar; 7 County Focus Area [PaEN]

Ernst Conservation Seeds, Ernst Pollinator Service & American Solar Grazing Assn. Partner On Pollinator-Friendly Fuzz & Buzz Seed Mix For Solar Arrays [PaEN]

What Happens Next With Philly Refinery, Now That It’s Future Seems Wide Open

Op-Ed: Philly Refinery Fire Was A WARN-ing: PA Must Do More To Retain Displaced Workers

$500 Million Natural Gas Synthesis Plant Proposed In Clinton County To Make Feedstock For Manufacturing; Looking For 2024 Start Date

Letter: Bring Clean Jobs To Pennsylvania [Oppose HB 1100]

Letter: House Bill 1100 Just More Corporate Welfare For Natural Gas Industry

Letter: HB 1100 Tax Credit Is Money Not Collected Or Money Spent, But It Could Be Lost Jobs - Builders Guild Of Western PA [Tax Credits Are Real Public Money Otherwise Due The Government That Could Have Been Spent On Something Else]

Op-Ed: Turzai’s Last Act Will Be To Screw Over Pennsylvanians For Years To Come [HB 1100] - Larry J. Schweiger

Chevron Drilling To Trim 320 Jobs In Pennsylvania

Education

Elizabethtown College Awarded EPA Student Innovative Technology Grant For Lead Detection [PaEN]

PA Teachers Air Ideas, Issues On State Science Education Standards Not Changed Since 2002

Pitt Fossil Fuel Disinvestment Activists Begin Occupation Of Cathedral

Wildlands Conservancy Highlights Special Activities, Programs In March [PaEN]

Marcus Schneck: What And When Is The First Day Of Meteorological Spring?

Surveyors Tackling Resurvey Of Mason-Dixon Line

Emergency Response

Pennsylvania Launches Keystone Mesonet One-Stop Shop For Displaying Weather, Environmental Data [PaEN]

Energy

DEP Drafts Cap-And-Invest Program For Greenhouse Gas Emissions From PA Energy Sector

PA Future In RGGI Uncertain As Coal, Labor Groups Attack Proposal

Sen. Street Announces Bill Package To Transition From AEPS To New Clean Energy Standard With Carbon Capture [PaEN]

150 MW Solar Energy Farm To Be Built In Cambria County

G.E.T. Solar Now Accepting Applications To Help Nonprofits, Businesses Go Solar; 7 County Focus Area [PaEN]

PA Solar Congress In Indiana County Attracts Hundreds

Ernst Conservation Seeds, Ernst Pollinator Service & American Solar Grazing Assn. Partner On Pollinator-Friendly Fuzz & Buzz Seed Mix For Solar Arrays [PaEN]

PUC Announces Be Utility Wise Consumer Forum March 12; Highlights Energy Assistance Programs & LIHEAP [PaEN]

Proposed UGI Natural Gas Hike Challenged

Northampton County Gas Leak Report Leads To Home Evacuations

Penn Power Partners With Erie Bird Observatory To Protect Nesting Osprey, Prevent Power Outages [PaEN]

Sustainable Energy & Education Development Support (SEEDS) Names Olga Trushina New Executive Director [PaEN]

Pitt Fossil Fuel Disinvestment Activists Begin Occupation Of Cathedral

Utilities Oppose EPA’s Pending Rollback On Mercury Emissions

Energy Conservation

Sustainable Energy & Education Development Support (SEEDS) Names Olga Trushina New Executive Director [PaEN]

Environmental Health

EPA Accepting Comments On Proposal To Regulate PFOA, PFOS In Drinking Water [PaEN]

AP: EPA To Regulate PFAS, PFOA, PFOS In Drinking Water

Agriculture’s Pesticide Advisory Board Meets March 3 To Discuss Proposed Ban On Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Harmful To Children [PaEN]

Frank Kummer: More Than A Dozen Pollutants Lurk On Philly Refinery Site Targeted For Redevelopment

Housing Developer Seeks Fresh Start On Toxic Kensington Soil In Philadelphia

Water Sampling Error Led To High Lead Levels In Hollidaysburg

Environmental Heritage

PA Anthracite Section Of SME Meets March 12; Features Presentation On Grace Iron Ore Mine, Berks County - History, A Study For Reopening [PaEN]

The Conservation Legacy Of Theodore Roosevelt

Farming

Agriculture’s Pesticide Advisory Board Meets March 3 To Discuss Proposed Ban On Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Harmful To Children [PaEN]

39 Farms, 2,848 Acres Added To Pennsylvania's Farmland Preservation Program [PaEN]

Ernst Conservation Seeds, Ernst Pollinator Service & American Solar Grazing Assn. Partner On Pollinator-Friendly Fuzz & Buzz Seed Mix For Solar Arrays [PaEN]

USDA Pushes Sustainability Agenda, Says Farmers Must Do More With Less

Editorial: Reform Crop Insurance To Protect Farmers From Calamities

Flooding

Wyoming Valley Levee Freeboard Safety Buffer To Be Examined To Help Avert Flood Insurance Increases

Southwestern PA Water Resources Center Hosts Smart Green Corridors, MS4 Stormwater Refresher, Stormwater & Flood Management Workshops [PaEN]

Editorial: Erie Readies For Changing Climate

Forests

USGS Study: No Statistically Significant Relationship Between Shale Gas Development And Stream Chemical, Benthic, Microbial Life Changes In State Forest Drilling Areas [PaEN]

PEC: Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative Featured In Washington Post Article

Lyme Disease Threat Gets Clearer But Treatment Remains Murky: Ticks Are Nature’s Dirty Needle

Sen. Street Announces Bill Package To Transition From AEPS To New Clean Energy Standard With Carbon Capture [PaEN]

Dauphin County Woodland Owners Conference Set For March 14 In Dauphin [PaEN]

Feb. 19 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR [PaEN]

Feb. 21 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]

March Is Key For Erie-Region Maple Producers

Northwest PA 2020 Maple Taste & Tour Schedule

Forest Soils Release More Carbon Dioxide Than Expected In Rainy Season [PaEN]

Westmoreland Conservancy Seeking Volunteers To Help Prune Apple Trees In Murrysville

AP: Report: Work To Reduce Wildfire Risks Has Economic Benefits

Grants/Funding

NFWF To Host March 11 Webinar On Chesapeake Bay And Delaware River Watershed Grant Opportunities [PaEN]

Elizabethtown College Awarded EPA Student Innovative Technology Grant For Lead Detection [PaEN]

Green Infrastructure

NFWF To Host March 11 Webinar On Chesapeake Bay And Delaware River Watershed Grant Opportunities [PaEN]

EPA Awards $464,200 In Funding For Fish & Boat Commission Staff To Restore Streams In Chesapeake Bay Watershed [PaEN]

Southwestern PA Water Resources Center Hosts Smart Green Corridors, MS4 Stormwater Refresher, Stormwater & Flood Management Workshops [PaEN]

Penn State Extension: What Is A Municipal Stormwater Fee? [PaEN]

Stream Monitoring In The Delaware River Basin Is More Than Just Numbers [PaEN]

York County Master Watershed Stewards Recognize Ryan Davis, Chesapeake Bay Forests, Northeastern Schools As 2019 Outstanding Partners [PaEN]

Penn State Extension: Riparian Buffers: Using The Power Of Plants To Help Clean Our Waterways [PaEN]

Monitoring Streams With Visual Assessment Important For Assessing Stream Conditions [PaEN]

How To Repair & Maintain Gravel Driveways And Unpaved Lanes Workshop March 24 In Westmoreland [PaEN]

Volunteers Needed For Stream Restoration Planting At Slippery Rock Campground, Butler County [PaEN]

Wissahickon Watershed Assn. Hosts Feb. 26 Meeting On Upper Gwynedd Twp Stream Restoration Project in Montgomery County [PaEN]

Northumberland Conservation District To Lead Effort To Restore Warrior Run Watershed

North Middleton Twp Schedules Stormwater Ordinance For March Meeting

Luzerne County Residents  Demand End To Stormwater Fee At  County Council Meeting

Luzerne County Legislators Support Effort To End Wyoming Valley Stormwater Fee

Stormwater Fee Fight Grows In Southern Luzerne County

Stormwater Fee Opponents Predicted At Luzerne County Committee Meeting

Hazardous Substances

EPA Accepting Comments On Proposal To Regulate PFOA, PFOS In Drinking Water [PaEN]

AP: EPA To Regulate PFAS, PFOA, PFOS In Drinking Water

Agriculture’s Pesticide Advisory Board Meets March 3 To Discuss Proposed Ban On Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Harmful To Children [PaEN]

Frank Kummer: More Than A Dozen Pollutants Lurk On Philly Refinery Site Targeted For Redevelopment

Housing Developer Seeks Fresh Start On Toxic Kensington Soil In Philadelphia

Water Sampling Error Led To High Lead Levels In Hollidaysburg

Land Conservation

Molly Morrison To Receive PALTA Conservation Lifetime Achievement Award [PaEN]

39 Farms, 2,848 Acres Added To Pennsylvania's Farmland Preservation Program [PaEN]

Westmoreland Conservancy Seeking Volunteers To Help Prune Apple Trees In Murrysville

Schuylkill River Greenways Hosts International Paddling Film Festival March 26 [PaEN]

Land Recycling

Frank Kummer: More Than A Dozen Pollutants Lurk On Philly Refinery Site Targeted For Redevelopment

What Happens Next With Philly Refinery, Now That It’s Future Seems Wide Open

Op-Ed: Philly Refinery Fire Was A WARN-ing: PA Must Do More To Retain Displaced Workers

Community Group Wants Ideas For Repurposing Shenango Coke (Coal) Works Site

Housing Developer Seeks Fresh Start On Toxic Kensington Soil In Philadelphia

Lake Erie

Presque Isle Officials Seek Fixes For High Water

Nature Watch: Mild Erie Winter Means Early Bird Activity

Littering/Illegal Dumping

PennDOT Announces First District Winner Of Student Innovation Litter Challenge [PaEN]

Study Finds Over 500 Million Pieces Of Roadside Litter: Join Keep PA Beautiful's Pick It Up Pennsylvania Today! [PaEN]

Stephen Huba: Study: PA Roads Average 1,030 Litter Items Per Mile

Toll Of Litter And Illegal Dumping In 9 PA Cities, Including Reading

Editorial: We Must Change Our Habits That Allow Litter To Pervade Our Landscape

Erie Students Win Regional PennDOT Innovation Challenge On Litter

Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Invites Volunteers For April 4 Stream Cleanup In Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery Counties [PaEN]

CleanScapes Celebrates 20 Years Of Service: Bald Eagle Valley Trail Fest March 28, Clinton County [PaEN]

Mine Reclamation

EPA Features Blacks Creek, Venango County Mine Drainage Treatment As Success Story [PaEN]

PEC: Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative Featured In Washington Post Article

February Catalyst Newsletter Now Available From Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition [PaEN]

Noncoal Mining

PA Anthracite Section Of SME Meets March 12; Features Presentation On Grace Iron Ore Mine, Berks County - History, A Study For Reopening [PaEN]

Oil & Gas

USGS Study: No Statistically Significant Relationship Between Shale Gas Development And Stream Chemical, Benthic, Microbial Life Changes In State Forest Drilling Areas [PaEN]

DEP Fines Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill $24,000 To Resolve Waste Violations; Drilling Waste Impacts On Leachate [PaEN]

Reid Frazier: DEP Fines Landfill Near Pittsburgh For Problems Tied To Fracking Waste

Don Hopey: Westmoreland Landfill Fined For Excessive Contaminated Runoff

PEC: There Are Solutions To Reducing Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations

Additional Shale Gas Well Pad Planned For Arconic Property In Upper Burrell

$500 Million Natural Gas Synthesis Plant Proposed In Clinton County To Make Feedstock For Manufacturing; Looking For 2024 Start Date

Letter: Bring Clean Jobs To Pennsylvania [Oppose HB 1100]

Letter: House Bill 1100 Just More Corporate Welfare For Natural Gas Industry

Letter: HB 1100 Tax Credit Is Money Not Collected Or Money Spent, But It Could Be Lost Jobs - Builders Guild Of Western PA [Tax Credits Are Real Public Money Otherwise Due The Government That Could Have Been Spent On Something Else]

Op-Ed: Turzai’s Last Act Will Be To Screw Over Pennsylvanians For Years To Come [HB 1100] - Larry J. Schweiger

Chevron Drilling To Trim 320 Jobs In Pennsylvania

Proposed UGI Natural Gas Hike Challenged

Northampton County Gas Leak Report Leads To Home Evacuations

Frank Kummer: More Than A Dozen Pollutants Lurk On Philly Refinery Site Targeted For Redevelopment

Op-Ed: Philly Refinery Fire Was A WARN-ing: PA Must Do More To Retain Displaced Workers

AP-Marc Levy: Fracking Debate Causes Tremors In Battleground Pennsylvania

PA Gas Industry Leaders React To Democratic Candidates’ Proposals On Fracking

Brian O’Neill: Nothing’s Shakier Than The Middle Ground On Fracking

Toomey Pushes Back On Democrat Efforts To Ban Fracking

Toomey Resolution Would Prohibit President From Banning Fracking

Pro/Con: Should The Next President Ban Fracking?

We’re Vastly Undercounting Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations, Scientists Say

Pipelines

Explosions And Sinkholes: The History Of Sunoco’s Pipelines In Pennsylvania

Amid Fracking Debate, More Natural Gas Pipelines Being Considered For PA, NJ

DEP Issues Permits To Sunoco For Changes To Mariner East II Pipeline Construction In Blair, Perry Counties; 2nd Pipeline In Berks County [PaEN]

DEP Invites Comments On Adelphia Gateway Natural Gas Pipeline Project Erosion & Sedimentation Permit [PaEN]

AP: Transco Back Again Seeking Permits For Eastern Gas Pipeline

Op-Ed: Mariner East Pipeline Is About Risk Not Natural Gas

Op-Ed: Mariner East Pipeline Should Not Be Subject Of Gamesmanship By Chester County DA

Op-Ed: Everyone Will Benefit If Mariner East Pipeline Allowed To Make Changes To Project

PennEast Natural Gas Pipeline Gets 2-Year Extension

Permitting

DEP Issues Permits To Sunoco For Changes To Mariner East II Pipeline Construction In Blair, Perry Counties; 2nd Pipeline In Berks County [PaEN]

DEP Invites Comments On Adelphia Gateway Natural Gas Pipeline Project Erosion & Sedimentation Permit [PaEN]

DEP Posts 47 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Feb. 22 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

Radiation Protection

Exelon Says Investigation Into Lobbying Practices On Nuclear Power Plant Subsidies In Illinois Could Result In Criminal Penalties

Recreation

Mary Ann Thomas: Coming Soon, More Pet Camping Sites At PA State Parks

Presque Isle Officials Seek Fixes For High Water

Feb. 19 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR [PaEN]

Feb. 21 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]

Enter The PA Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau 2020-21 Photo Contest [PaEN]

Schuylkill River Greenways Hosts International Paddling Film Festival March 26 [PaEN]

Annual Cherry Pie Hike Held Feb. 22 At Jennings Environmental Ed Center, Butler County [PaEN]

Editorial: Battered Presque Isle Peninsula Needs Help

Murrysville To Hire Consultant To Help Plan For Community Park Amphitheater

Editorial: City Of Pittsburgh Park Tax Squabbles Not What Residents Voted For

Teens Rescued After Capsizing Raft In Northmoreland Park, Armstrong County

Rabid Raccoon Attacked Person At Wildwood Park, Dauphin County

Recycling/Waste

Williamsport Council Committee OKs Use Of $280,000 DEP Grant For Recycling

Are Lehigh Valley Towns Actually Recycling Or Have Chinese Policies Ended Local Programs?

Blair County Trash Hauler Wants Intermunicipal Relations Committee To Bag Plastics Recycling

Here’s What To Know About Recycling Plastics In Centre County

DEP Fines Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill $24,000 To Resolve Waste Violations; Drilling Waste Impacts On Leachate [PaEN]

Reid Frazier: DEP Fines Landfill Near Pittsburgh For Problems Tied To Fracking Waste

Don Hopey: Westmoreland Landfill Fined For Excessive Contaminated Runoff

Appeals Court Rules Against Challengers To Keystone Landfill Expansion

Renewable Energy

DEP Drafts Cap-And-Invest Program For Greenhouse Gas Emissions From PA Energy Sector

PA Future In RGGI Uncertain As Coal, Labor Groups Attack Proposal

Sen. Street Announces Bill Package To Transition From AEPS To New Clean Energy Standard With Carbon Capture [PaEN]

150 MW Solar Energy Farm To Be Built In Cambria County

G.E.T. Solar Now Accepting Applications To Help Nonprofits, Businesses Go Solar; 7 County Focus Area [PaEN]

PA Solar Congress In Indiana County Attracts Hundreds

Ernst Conservation Seeds, Ernst Pollinator Service & American Solar Grazing Assn. Partner On Pollinator-Friendly Fuzz & Buzz Seed Mix For Solar Arrays [PaEN]

Sustainable Energy & Education Development Support (SEEDS) Names Olga Trushina New Executive Director [PaEN]

This Is Going To Be A Very Big Deal: Coronavirus Poised To Disrupt Power Storage, Solar Sectors

SRBC

Susquehanna River Basin Commission Business Meeting March 13 In Harrisburg [PaEN]

Stormwater

Southwestern PA Water Resources Center Hosts Smart Green Corridors, MS4 Stormwater Refresher, Stormwater & Flood Management Workshops [PaEN]

Penn State Extension: What Is A Municipal Stormwater Fee? [PaEN]

North Middleton Twp Schedules Stormwater Ordinance For March Meeting

Luzerne County Residents  Demand End To Stormwater Fee At  County Council Meeting

Luzerne County Legislators Support Effort To End Wyoming Valley Stormwater Fee

Stormwater Fee Fight Grows In Southern Luzerne County

Stormwater Fee Opponents Predicted At Luzerne County Committee Meeting

Op-Ed: Let’s Talk About Dog Poop In Philadelphia - Kadafi El-Kardah, PA Environmental Council

Wastewater Facilities

Map Lets You Track Your Flush To The ALCOSAN Wastewater Plant In Allegheny County

Municipalities Interested In Altoona Water Authority Digester Project

Watershed Protection

NFWF To Host March 11 Webinar On Chesapeake Bay And Delaware River Watershed Grant Opportunities [PaEN]

EPA Awards $464,200 In Funding For Fish & Boat Commission Staff To Restore Streams In Chesapeake Bay Watershed [PaEN]

Marcus Schneck: Pennsylvania Leader In Removing Dams In Our Streams

USGS Study: No Statistically Significant Relationship Between Shale Gas Development And Stream Chemical, Benthic, Microbial Life Changes In State Forest Drilling Areas [PaEN]

Southwestern PA Water Resources Center Hosts Smart Green Corridors, MS4 Stormwater Refresher, Stormwater & Flood Management Workshops [PaEN]

Penn State Extension: What Is A Municipal Stormwater Fee? [PaEN]

Stream Monitoring In The Delaware River Basin Is More Than Just Numbers [PaEN]

York County Master Watershed Stewards Recognize Ryan Davis, Chesapeake Bay Forests, Northeastern Schools As 2019 Outstanding Partners [PaEN]

Penn State Extension: Riparian Buffers: Using The Power Of Plants To Help Clean Our Waterways [PaEN]

Monitoring Streams With Visual Assessment Important For Assessing Stream Conditions [PaEN]

Volunteers Needed For Stream Restoration Planting At Slippery Rock Campground, Butler County [PaEN]

Wissahickon Watershed Assn. Hosts Feb. 26 Meeting On Upper Gwynedd Twp Stream Restoration Project in Montgomery County [PaEN]

North Middleton Twp Schedules Stormwater Ordinance For March Meeting

Luzerne County Residents  Demand End To Stormwater Fee At  County Council Meeting

Luzerne County Legislators Support Effort To End Wyoming Valley Stormwater Fee

Stormwater Fee Fight Grows In Southern Luzerne County

Stormwater Fee Opponents Predicted At Luzerne County Committee Meeting

Northumberland Conservation District To Lead Effort To Restore Warrior Run Watershed

How To Repair & Maintain Gravel Driveways And Unpaved Lanes Workshop March 24 In Westmoreland [PaEN]

Westmoreland Workshop To Outline Remedies For Storm-Damaged Unpaved Driveways

Op-Ed: Let’s Talk About Dog Poop In Philadelphia - Kadafi El-Kardah, PA Environmental Council

Progress 2020: Gettysburg Nature Alliance

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Wildlife

Game Commission Biologist Mary Jo Casalena Recognized With National Conservation Award [PaEN]

EPA Awards $464,200 In Funding For Fish & Boat Commission Staff To Restore Streams In Chesapeake Bay Watershed [PaEN]

Game Commission To Host Briefing On Status Of Atlantic Flyway Waterfowl Populations March 6 In Venango County [PaEN]

Marcus Schneck: Snow Geese At Middle Creek: One Bird’s Incredible 13-Year Journey

Hays Eagle Lays Second Eggs Of The Season In Pittsburgh

Marcus Schneck: Bald Eagles Lay 2nd Eggs In PA Nests

How Climate Change Is Ruffling Feathers Among Bird Watchers

Penn Power Partners With Erie Bird Observatory To Protect Nesting Osprey, Prevent Power Outages [PaEN]

Nature Watch: Mild Erie Winter Means Early Bird Activity

Game Commission Pushing To Make Mentor Programs Simpler

Marcus Schneck: How Do Hunters React To Chronic Wasting Disease?

Bob Frye: Number Of PA Chronic Wasting Disease Cases Grows Again

Game Commission Member, Sportsmen Rep Clash At Hearing On Saturday Start To Deer Season

State Officials Considering Expansion Of Deer Hunting To Include Sundays

PA Court Shoots Down Archery Hunter’s Catch-22 Conviction For Hunting Over Bait

Marcus Schneck: Why Do Some Bucks Keep Their Velvet, Answers To Reader Questions

Editorial: Time For Anglers To Weigh In On Next State Trout Plan

Marcus Schneck: Pennsylvania Leader In Removing Dams In Our Streams

Rabid Raccoon Attacked Person At Wildwood Park, Dauphin County

Academy Of Natural Sciences First To Display Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Photos

Don Hopey: Pittsburgh Zoo Has Been In Violation Of Its Lease For 5 Years Over Elephants

West Nile/Zika Virus

Lyme Disease Threat Gets Clearer But Treatment Remains Murky: Ticks Are Nature’s Dirty Needle

Opportunities

Sustainable Energy & Education Development Support (SEEDS) Names Olga Trushina New Executive Director [PaEN]

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2/24/2020