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Senate/House ----------------------------------------------------------------------

-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Oil Lobby Keeps Abandoned Wells Unplugged

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Candidates For Governor Show Support For Fossil Fuels, Ignore Climate In Runup To Primary

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Court Battle Over PA RGGI Climate Rule Set To Begin

-- Scranton Times: Casey, Cartwright Team Up On Bipartisan Abandoned Mine Land O&M Costs Bill

-- Inside Climate News: Climate Change Takes Backseat To Jobs, Economic Development In Contested Pittsburgh Area Congressional Race

-- City & State PA: Green Party Candidates Seeking Spots On Ballot For Governor, Lt. Gov., U.S. Senator [Not On Primary Ballot]

Top 10 Headlines From Harrisburg Last Week -----------------------------------

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else--

-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week  [PaEN]

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-- 65 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA  [PaEN] 

-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students And Adults  [PaEN]

-- This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues  [PaEN]

Air

-- Guest Essay: PA's Low-Producing Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Are Leaking Too Much Methane, The Industry Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Trash - By Rev. Mitch Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Court Battle Over PA RGGI Climate Rule Set To Begin

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Health Hears From Activists, Steel Workers On New Coke [Coal] Oven Regulations

-- WESA: Environmentalists, U.S. Steel Clash Over Allegheny County On New Coke [Coal] Oven Regulations  

-- Post-Gazette: More Research Links Air Pollution Exposure And COVID Risk

-- Inquirer: High Levels Of Toxic Benzene Recorded As Former South Philly Refinery Got Demolished 

-- The Guardian: U.S. Oil Refineries Spewing Cancer-Causing Benzene Into Communities, Report Finds [Including PA]

Allegheny National Forest

-- Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads  [PaEN]

-- Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN]

Alternative Vehicle Fuels

-- Citizens Voice: UGI Accelerates Use Of Cleaner Fuel Vehicles

-- TribLive: New Bike Share Pittsburgh System Features e-Bikes

-- The Center Square: Biofuels Industry Still Waiting On Subsidies To Compete With Oil, Natural Gas, Electric Vehicles

-- The Center Square: PA Programs Help More Affluent Buy Electric, Alternative Fuel Vehicles

-- PA Business Report: Reading-Based Penske Truck Leasing In Joint Initiative With Shell Recharge Solutions To Provide EV Charging At Penske Locations

-- Utility Dive: States Band Together To Push For Nationwide Fleet Electrification [PA Included] 

-- Financial Times: Powering Electric Cars: The Race To Mine Lithium In America’s Backyard

-- Reuters: Creaky U.S. Power Grid Threatens Progress On Renewables, EVs

Awards & Recognition

-- Centre Daily Times: Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Celebrating 50th Anniversary By Giving Away Gift Cards To 50 Residents With Perfect Recycling Bins 

Bid Opportunity

-- DEP Opportunity To Bid On Mine Reclamation Project In Fayette County (PA Bulletin, Page 2910)

Biodiversity/Invasive Species

-- DCNR Awards $320,866 In Wild Resources Conservation Grants; Deadline For Next Grant Round July 8  [PaEN]

-- DEP Highlights Impact Of Coastal Zone Grants At Erie Bird Observatory [PaEN]

-- North Penn Water Authority, Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Hold May 20 Groundbreaking, May 21 Planting Day For Rain Garden Project In Skippack Twp., Montgomery County  [PaEN]

-- Westmoreland Pollinator Partners Host Pollinator Palooza Garden Tours Starting May 21; Bring Your ‘Passports’ & Cameras, Get A Free Native Plant  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Attract Pollinators To Your Garden With Native Plants

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Event Celebrates Opening Of Dallas Twp. Pollinator Garden

-- Erie Times: How Plants Play A Role In Perceptions Of Erie’s Public Spaces

-- ExploreClarion.com: Cook Forest Conservancy Initiatives Project To Clear Japanese Knotweed

-- American Chestnut Foundation PA/NJ Chapter Newsletter Now Available 

America Rescue Plan Funding

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law

-- EPA Announces 2022 State Water Revolving Fund Grants Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; PA Share Is $240.1 Million  [PaEN]

-- Sen. Casey, DEP Highlight Importance Of Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding To Address Abandoned Mine Reclamation In Visit To Northumberland County  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Casey, Cartwright Team Up On Bipartisan Abandoned Mine Land O&M Costs Bill

-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Oil Lobby Keeps Abandoned Wells Unplugged

-- EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totalling $7.3 Million [Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Included]  [PaEN]

Budget

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

--  Scranton Times Editorial: Transparency Solves Controversy Over DCNR Submerged Land Leases To Natural Gas Companies

Chesapeake Bay

-- NRCS-PA: $22.5 Million Chesapeake Bay Partnership Initiative To Benefit PA Farmers

-- Gettysburg Times: Watershed Alliance Of Adams County, Adams Conservation District Distributed Nearly 10,000 Trees In Adams County

-- Help Wanted: Western PA Conservancy/DCNR - 4 Regional Watershed Forestry Specialists  [PaEN]

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Citizen Action

-- Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads  [PaEN]

-- Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN]

-- Grist: Ohio Residents Fight To Get Radioactive Oil & Gas Wastewater Off Their Roads

-- Guest Essay: PA's Low-Producing Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Are Leaking Too Much Methane, The Industry Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Trash - By Rev. Mitch Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network [PaEN]

-- Black Appalachian Coalition, Emerald Cities Collaborative Host May 17 Listening Session On Justice40 & What It Means For Black Communities. 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

-- DEP Sets June 28 Hearing On Response To PFOA/PFOS Contamination Around University Park Airport, Centre County  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Health Hears From Activists, Steel Workers On New Coke [Coal] Oven Regulations

-- WESA: Environmentalists, U.S. Steel Clash Over Allegheny County On New Coke [Coal] Oven Regulations  

-- Centre Daily Times: How Residents, Businesses, Local Government Embrace Solar Power In Centre County

-- A Daughter Partners With Pocono Heritage Land Trust To Remember Her Parents Through The 400 Acre Kurmes Paradise Creek Nature Preserve In Monroe County [PaEN]

-- TribLive: PennDOT Filling Underground, Abandoned Coal Mine Void To Repair Route 981 Dip Near Latrobe, Westmoreland County [DEP: Get Mine Subsidence Insurance

-- North Penn Water Authority, Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Hold May 20 Groundbreaking, May 21 Planting Day For Rain Garden Project In Skippack Twp., Montgomery County  [PaEN]

-- Westmoreland Pollinator Partners Host Pollinator Palooza Garden Tours Starting May 21; Bring Your ‘Passports’ & Cameras, Get A Free Native Plant  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Attract Pollinators To Your Garden With Native Plants

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Event Celebrates Opening Of Dallas Twp. Pollinator Garden

-- Erie Times: How Plants Play A Role In Perceptions Of Erie’s Public Spaces

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Road To Recovery Concert Fundraiser May 28 For Chainsaw Carver Todd Gladfelter From Schuylkill County  [PaEN]

-- Gettysburg Times: Watershed Alliance Of Adams County, Adams Conservation District Distributed Nearly 10,000 Trees In Adams County

-- Bedford Gazette: Stonerstown Plans Tree Planting May 14

-- May 13 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- Poconos Residents Support More Action To Protect ‘Exceptional Value’ Streams, New Poll Finds  [PaEN]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Poconos Residents Support Action Too Protect ‘Exceptional Value’ Streams

-- Delaware Currents: Brandywine-Christina Watershed Faces Population Boom In Chester County

-- Republican Herald: Volunteer Maintains Spirit Of Tuscarora Trail At Tuscarora State Park, Schuylkill County 

-- ExploreClarion.com: Cook Forest Conservancy Initiatives Project To Clear Japanese Knotweed

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: During Tick Awareness Week, A Reminder They ‘Are Not Your Average Pest’

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: How To Protect Dogs, Cats, Horses From Ticks?  Watch These Free Webinars

-- DEP Blog: Why Aren’t Ticks Exterminated In Pennsylvania?

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Step Up Fight Against Ticks, Lyme Disease

-- Local Organization Selected To Host Organization For Southwest PA Water Network  [PaEN]

-- PA Resources Council Hosts Household Chemical Collection Event In Cambria County May 21  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun: Volunteers Pitch In As Part Of Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week 

Climate

-- Guest Essay: PA's Low-Producing Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Are Leaking Too Much Methane, The Industry Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Trash - By Rev. Mitch Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: Climate Change Demands Southwestern PA Transition To A New Low-Carbon Energy Reality - By Hilary Mercer, Shell Polymers/Pennsylvania Chemicals Project & Kevin Walker, President/CEO Duquesne Light [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: McKinsey Report Outlines Steps Southwest PA, U.S. Can Take To Meet Climate Goals

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Court Battle Over PA RGGI Climate Rule Set To Begin

-- ​​DEP Announces Local Climate Action Training Provided To 121 More Municipalities; Apply Now For Training  [PaEN]

-- Muhlenberg College Survey: Emission Reduction Remains Public’s Preferred Approach To Dealing With Climate Change; If We Don’t Act Now It Will Cost More Later  [PaEN]

-- WITF Smart Talk: Muhlenberg Poll Finds Most Americans Say They’ve Felt The Effects Of Climate Change. 9:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.

-- Centre Daily Times: How Residents, Businesses, Local Government Embrace Solar Power In Centre County

-- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County Works Toward Harnessing Solar Energy En Masse

-- WFMZ: Poconos Plan For PA’s Largest Solar Field To See Light Again In June  

-- WHYY: For These Young Trainees, Careers In Solar Look Like Philly’s Future

-- PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants

-- Erie Times: Cargo Ship Delivers Wind Energy Equipment Thru Port Of Erie 

-- Existing Technologies Can Help World Meet Agricultural Methane Targets By 2030  [PaEN]

-- The Center Square: PA Programs Help More Affluent Buy Electric, Alternative Fuel Vehicles

-- Utility Dive: States Band Together To Push For Nationwide Fleet Electrification [PA Included] 

-- The Guardian: Living Costs In Outer Suburbs Would Be Slashed $5,000 A Year Under Plan To ‘Electrify Everything,’ Analysis Finds

-- The Guardian: Avoid Using Natural Gas As ‘Transition’ Fuel In Move To Clean Energy, Study Urges

-- Reuters: Trudeau: Canada To Be Good Energy Partner With Europe But Won’t Compromise Climate Goals 

-- E&E ClimateWire: Why Biden Isn’t Preaching Energy Conservation

-- The Hill Guest Essay: Clean Energy Can Light A New Path Forward For Former Coal Communities - U.S. Secretary of Energy 

-- Financial Times: Powering Electric Cars: The Race To Mine Lithium In America’s Backyard

-- AP: Tennessee Valley Authority Weighs Coal Plant Shutdown Options, Climate Impact

-- AP: Earth Given 50-50 Chance Of Hitting Key Warming Mark By 2026

-- Financial Times: Climate Graphic Of The Week: Record Carbon Dioxide Levels Alarm Scientists

-- The Guardian: New U.S. Fracking Boom Could Tip World To Edge Of Climate Disaster

Coal Mining

-- TribLive: PennDOT Filling Underground, Abandoned Coal Mine Void To Repair Route 981 Dip Near Latrobe, Westmoreland County [DEP: Get Mine Subsidence Insurance

-- The Hill Guest Essay: Clean Energy Can Light A New Path Forward For Former Coal Communities - U.S. Secretary of Energy 

Coastal Zone

-- DEP Highlights Impact Of Coastal Zone Grants At Erie Bird Observatory [PaEN]

Compliance Action

-- DEP Took Action On 677 Permits, 94% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,389 Inspections; Responded To 5 Environmental Emergencies Last Week

Conservation Districts

-- Over 700 Students Participate In York County In-Person Envirothon Competition; Statewide Competition May 25  [PaEN]

-- Gettysburg Times: Watershed Alliance Of Adams County, Adams Conservation District Distributed Nearly 10,000 Trees In Adams County

-- Westmoreland Pollinator Partners Host Pollinator Palooza Garden Tours Starting May 21; Bring Your ‘Passports’ & Cameras, Get A Free Native Plant  [PaEN]

-- Republican Herald: West Nile Virus Monitoring Starts In Schuylkill County

DCNR

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Blog: Whiskey Springs ATV Trail, Clinton County To Close 4 Days A Week To Allow Work On 3 Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects  [PaEN]

--  Scranton Times Editorial: Transparency Solves Controversy Over DCNR Submerged Land Leases To Natural Gas Companies

-- DCNR, Corrections Forestry Camp Program Prepares Reentrants For Tree Maintenance Careers In Centre County  [PaEN]

-- May 13 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times: Walking Best Way To Experience Presque Isle State Park

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Long-Distance Rides For ATVs In Pennsylvania

-- Reading Eagle: DCNR Secretary Takes A Hike With Students At Nolde Forest Environmental Center In Berks

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: 2 State Parks Pilot Glamping Project; Lifeguards Needed To Save Pools At 4 Parks 

-- Public News Service: PA Communities Gearing Up For Public Pool Season [Lifeguard Shortage]

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Park Pool Will Not Open This Summer Due To Lifeguard Shortage

-- DCNR Awards $320,866 In Wild Resources Conservation Grants; Deadline For Next Grant Round July 8  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Announces $150,000 Grant For Bridge Repairs At Memorial Park In Pottstown, Montgomery County

-- DCNR Announces $398,000 Grant For Expansion Of Schuylkill River Trail In Montgomery County

-- Reading Eagle: Spend This Spring On The Schuylkill River Trail And River

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Camping Boom Draws More Diversity, Millennials, But One Group Has Started To Dwindle

--  Stroudsburg Herald: Get Outdoors Pocono Series Gives Public Exclusive Access To Buck Hill Trails In Monroe County 

-- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: Take A Break From Politics, Spend Time In Nature

-- Registration Open! PA Wilds Dinner & Champion Of PA Wilds Awards Program July 28 At Birds Brewing Company, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County.

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: During Tick Awareness Week, A Reminder They ‘Are Not Your Average Pest’

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: How To Protect Dogs, Cats, Horses From Ticks?  Watch These Free Webinars

-- DEP Blog: Why Aren’t Ticks Exterminated In Pennsylvania?

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Step Up Fight Against Ticks, Lyme Disease

-- ExploreClarion.com: Cook Forest Conservancy Initiatives Project To Clear Japanese Knotweed

-- Help Wanted: Western PA Conservancy/DCNR - 4 Regional Watershed Forestry Specialists  [PaEN]

DEP

-- Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads  [PaEN]

-- Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Oil Lobby Keeps Abandoned Wells Unplugged

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- DEP Sets June 28 Hearing On Response To PFOA/PFOS Contamination Around University Park Airport, Centre County  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Man Released From Hospital After Falling Into Westmoreland County Abandoned Coal Mine Shaft

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Court Battle Over PA RGGI Climate Rule Set To Begin

-- ​​DEP Announces Local Climate Action Training Provided To 121 More Municipalities; Apply Now For Training  [PaEN]

-- DEP Reschedules Environmental Quality Board Meetings June Thru October  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To NPDES General Permit PAG-06 - Combined Sewer System Overflow Discharges  [PaEN]

-- DEP Highlights Impact Of Coastal Zone Grants At Erie Bird Observatory [PaEN]

-- DEP Opportunity To Bid On Mine Reclamation Project In Fayette County (PA Bulletin, Page 2910)

-- DEP Took Action On 677 Permits, 94% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,389 Inspections; Responded To 5 Environmental Emergencies Last Week

-- DEP Posted 68 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 14 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

Delaware River

-- Delaware Currents: Brandywine-Christina Watershed Faces Population Boom In Chester County

-- Poconos Residents Support More Action To Protect ‘Exceptional Value’ Streams, New Poll Finds  [PaEN]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Poconos Residents Support Action Too Protect ‘Exceptional Value’ Streams

-- PA Resources Council Awarded Foundation For Delaware County Grant For Stream Stewards Student Education Program  [PaEN]

-- Delaware RiverKeeper May 13 RiverWatch Video Report

Drinking Water

-- EPA Announces 2022 State Water Revolving Fund Grants Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; PA Share Is $240.1 Million  [PaEN]

-- DEP Sets June 28 Hearing On Response To PFOA/PFOS Contamination Around University Park Airport, Centre County  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Below The Surface, Pittsburgh’s Water System Getting A Massive Makeover

-- North Penn Water Authority, Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Hold May 20 Groundbreaking, May 21 Planting Day For Rain Garden Project In Skippack Twp., Montgomery County  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer-Andrew Maykuth: PUC Approves Aqua Water, Sewer Rate Increase, How Much, It Won’t Say

Economic Development

-- Sen. Casey, DEP Highlight Importance Of Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding To Address Abandoned Mine Reclamation In Visit To Northumberland County  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Blog: Whiskey Springs ATV Trail, Clinton County To Close 4 Days A Week To Allow Work On 3 Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects  [PaEN]

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- DCNR, Corrections Forestry Camp Program Prepares Reentrants For Tree Maintenance Careers In Centre County  [PaEN]

-- PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants

-- Black Appalachian Coalition, Emerald Cities Collaborative Host May 17 Listening Session On Justice40 & What It Means For Black Communities. 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

-- WFMZ: Poconos Plan For PA’s Largest Solar Field To See Light Again In June  

-- Erie Times: Cargo Ship Delivers Wind Energy Equipment Thru Port Of Erie 

-- WHYY: For These Young Trainees, Careers In Solar Look Like Philly’s Future

-- PA Business Report: Reading-Based Penske Truck Leasing In Joint Initiative With Shell Recharge Solutions To Provide EV Charging At Penske Locations

-- Upcycling Plastic Waste Into Graphite Could Facilitate Transition To Electric Vehicles, Clean Energy  [PaEN]

-- The Guardian: Living Costs In Outer Suburbs Would Be Slashed $5,000 A Year Under Plan To ‘Electrify Everything,’ Analysis Finds

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: America Stinks At Recycling Plastic, Why Don’t We Care?

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Camping Boom Draws More Diversity, Millennials, But One Group Has Started To Dwindle

-- Registration Open! PA Wilds Dinner & Champion Of PA Wilds Awards Program July 28 At Birds Brewing Company, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County.

-- PA Technical Assistance Program: May 19 Webinar: Penn State University Resources For PA Industry. 11:00 to Noon.

-- The Hill Guest Essay: Clean Energy Can Light A New Path Forward For Former Coal Communities - U.S. Secretary of Energy 

Education

-- PA Trout Unlimited Has STREAM Girls/STREAM Keeper Program Materials Available  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: Take A Break From Politics, Spend Time In Nature

-- Black Appalachian Coalition, Emerald Cities Collaborative Host May 17 Listening Session On Justice40 & What It Means For Black Communities. 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

-- Over 700 Students Participate In York County In-Person Envirothon Competition; Statewide Competition May 25  [PaEN]

-- Reading Eagle: DCNR Secretary Takes A Hike With Students At Nolde Forest Environmental Center In Berks

-- PAEE Professional Development Programs On Tracking Life Cycles In A Warming World, Chronolog Citizen Science Project, Conservation Science Curriculum [PaEN]

-- MCall: Southern Lehigh H.S. Trout In The Classroom Release With Lehigh Conservation District  [Photos]

-- Game Commission, DEP, DCNR Held Live Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcon Banding Event   [PaEN]

-- North Penn Water Authority, Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Hold May 20 Groundbreaking, May 21 Planting Day For Rain Garden Project In Skippack Twp., Montgomery County  [PaEN]

-- Westmoreland Pollinator Partners Host Pollinator Palooza Garden Tours Starting May 21; Bring Your ‘Passports’ & Cameras, Get A Free Native Plant  [PaEN]

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Road To Recovery Concert Fundraiser May 28 For Chainsaw Carver Todd Gladfelter From Schuylkill County  [PaEN]

-- Central PA Conservancy: June 12 Spring Garden Gallery - A Celebration Of The Arts 7 Conservation. Letort Spring Garden Preserve, Carlisle. Noon to 3:00 p.m.

-- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation 7th Annual Great Outdoor Picnic June 25Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park, Centre Hall, PA.  11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

-- DEP Highlights Impact Of Coastal Zone Grants At Erie Bird Observatory [PaEN]

-- PA Resources Council Awarded Foundation For Delaware County Grant For Stream Stewards Student Education Program  [PaEN]

-- Meadville Tribune: Allegheny College Cuts Ribbon On New Watershed Research Center

-- Wildlife For Everyone: Contractor Selected For Soaring Eagle Wetland Educational Trail Accessibility Improvements, Centre County  [PaEN]

-- Clean Air Council Hosts May 18 Webinar On Oil & Gas Threat Map By Earthworks. 2:00 p.m.  [PaEN]

-- PA Technical Assistance Program: May 19 Webinar: Penn State University Resources For PA Industry. 11:00 to Noon.

-- PA Solar Center May 20 Webinar: Utility Scale Projects In PJM Queue; U.S. Trade Investigation; New Poll Results.  Noon to 1:15 p.m.  [PaEN]

-- Register Now! Delaware River Sojourn June 17-25 

-- Public News Service: PA Communities Gearing Up For Public Pool Season [Lifeguard Shortage]

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: 2 State Parks Pilot Glamping Project; Lifeguards Needed To Save Pools At 4 Parks 

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Park Pool Will Not Open This Summer Due To Lifeguard Shortage

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Event Celebrates Opening Of Dallas Twp. Pollinator Garden

-- Erie Times: How Plants Play A Role In Perceptions Of Erie’s Public Spaces

Emergency Response

-- Altoona Mirror: 3 Rescued From Stranded Vehicle On Flooded Road

-- TribLive: PennDOT Filling Underground, Abandoned Coal Mine Void To Repair Route 981 Dip Near Latrobe, Westmoreland County [DEP: Get Mine Subsidence Insurance

-- Gov. Wolf: Low-Interest Loans Still Available For Businesses Recovering From Hurricane Ida

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[Listen To What Europe Says They Need - Not What The U.S. Oil/Gas Industry Wants]

-- PUC Alerts Electric Customers Prices To Compare Going Up June 1 Between 16.1% And 44.6% Due To Rise In Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: Electricity Prices Jumped 51% In PJM Interconnection; 85% In New England Due To Rising Natural Gas Prices

National/International

-- NYT Guest Essay: Drilling To Solve The Energy Crisis Leaves America Exposed

“Thanks to a remarkable oil and gas boom, the United States has achieved the long-sought goal of energy self-sufficiency: We now produce more oil and refined products, natural gas and coal than we consume.      

“Yet look at prices at the pump, and you’ll see why we can’t drill our way to true energy security.”

-- Bloomberg: EU Must Speed Transition To Renewable Energy To Shut Out Russian Natural Gas, 100+ CEOs Say 

-- Bloomberg: EU Drafts $205 Billion Plan To Wean Itself Off Russian Fuels, To Propose Ambitious Renewable, Energy-Savings Goals

-- Financial Times: EU Is Preparing To Loosen Its Environmental Regulations To Fast-Track  Permitting Renewable, Wind, Solar Projects

-- Yahoo!News: EU Plan To Boost Renewable Energy To Get Off Russian Fossil Fuels Will Help Climate Change Fight, Experts Say

-- Reuters: Solar Rooftops, European Manufacturing To Get Boost Under Draft EU Plan

-- Bloomberg: Renewable Records In Southern Europe Boost Hopes Over Ditching Fossil Fuels

-- Bloomberg: How Germany’s LNG Terminals Will Morph Into Green Hydrogen Hubs 

-- Reuters: Analysis: Europe In High-Cost Race To Replenish Natural Gas Stocks

-- Bloomberg: Big Oil, Natural Gas Spends On Investors, Not Output, Prolonging Crude Crunch 

-- The Guardian: Largest Oil & Gas Producers Made Close To $100 Billion In First Quarter Of 2022

-- WSJ: Western Economies Are Creaking Under High Oil, Natural Gas Prices With No Relief In Sight 

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Surges As Russian Moves Spur Supply Worries 

-- WSJ - Explainer: Why Your Electric Bill Is So High And Could Keep Climbing [Natural Gas Prices] 

-- Reuters: Trudeau: Canada To Be Good Energy Partner With Europe But Won’t Compromise Climate Goals 

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Extend Losses As Steady Supply Counters Russia Risks

-- Financial Times: Rocketing Prices At The Pump Fuel Surge In Profits At U.S. Refiners 

-- Bloomberg: Saudis Cut Oil Prices From Record Highs Amid China Lockdowns

-- Bloomberg: OPEC Kingpins Sound Alarm Over World’s Swindling Energy Capacity

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Drops As Russia Tries To Calm Clients Over Payments

-- Reuters: Russia To Cut Electricity To Finland Due To Lack Of Payment

Energy

-- Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads  [PaEN]

-- Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Oil Lobby Keeps Abandoned Wells Unplugged

-- PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants

-- ​​DEP Announces Local Climate Action Training Provided To 121 More Municipalities; Apply Now For Training  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: Climate Change Demands Southwestern PA Transition To A New Low-Carbon Energy Reality - By Hilary Mercer, Shell Polymers/Pennsylvania Chemicals Project & Kevin Walker, President/CEO Duquesne Light [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: McKinsey Report Outlines Steps Southwest PA, U.S. Can Take To Meet Climate Goals

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Court Battle Over PA RGGI Climate Rule Set To Begin

-- Clean Air Council Hosts May 18 Webinar On Oil & Gas Threat Map By Earthworks. 2:00 p.m.  [PaEN]

-- PA Solar Center May 20 Webinar: Utility Scale Projects In PJM Queue; U.S. Trade Investigation; New Poll Results.  Noon to 1:15 p.m.  [PaEN]

-- PJM Interconnection Prepared To Meet Summer Electricity Demand  [PaEN]

-- PJM Interconnection Releases ‘Grid Of The Future’ Road Map To Handle Coming Renewables, Storage Wave  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: PJM Releases Road Map For Creating ‘Grid Of The Future’ To Handle Coming Renewables, Storage Wave

-- Muhlenberg College Survey: Emission Reduction Remains Public’s Preferred Approach To Dealing With Climate Change; If We Don’t Act Now It Will Cost More Later  [PaEN]

-- WITF Smart Talk: Muhlenberg Poll Finds Most Americans Say They’ve Felt The Effects Of Climate Change. 9:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.

-- Centre Daily Times: How Residents, Businesses, Local Government Embrace Solar Power In Centre County

-- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County Works Toward Harnessing Solar Energy En Masse

-- WFMZ: Poconos Plan For PA’s Largest Solar Field To See Light Again In June  

-- Erie Times: Cargo Ship Delivers Wind Energy Equipment Thru Port Of Erie 

-- The Center Square: PA Programs Help More Affluent Buy Electric, Alternative Fuel Vehicles

-- Utility Dive: States Band Together To Push For Nationwide Fleet Electrification [PA Included] 

-- DEP Hosts May 25 Hearing On Lackawanna Energy Center Air Quality Permit

-- Scranton Times: Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant Owner Talen Energy Supply Files For Bankruptcy

-- TribLive Guest Essay: In Southwest PA, The Way To A New Energy Reality [Allegheny Conference Report] - Shell Polymers &  Duquesne Light 

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: A LNG Natural Gas Terminal In South Jersey Would Put The Health Of 1.9 Million People At Risk - Delaware RiverKeeper

-- TribLive: Gasoline Prices Set Record Highs In Pittsburgh, State

-- Erie Times: Gasoline Prices Hit New Record In PA; Why And What To Expect This Summer

-- MCall: Gasoline Prices Set Another Record In Lehigh Valley And PA, The Worst Could Be Yet To Come 

-- Bloomberg: Big Oil, Natural Gas Spends On Investors, Not Output, Prolonging Crude Crunch 

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Westinghouse Electric’s Parent Company Wants To Put Nuclear Company On The Market

-- PUC Alerts Electric Customers Prices To Compare Going Up June 1 Between 16.1% And 44.6% Due To Rise In Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: Electricity Prices Jumped 51% In PJM Interconnection; 85% In New England Due To Rising Natural Gas Prices

-- PUC Office Of Consumer Advocate Urges Consumers To Know Their Options In Face Of Rising Energy Prices

-- WLVR: PA Public Utility Commission Warns Energy Costs Are Ready To Skyrocket [Due To Natural Gas Price Spike]

-- PA Capital-Star: Consumers Could See Up To 45% Increase In Electricity Rates This Summer [Natural Gas Costs]

-- TribLive: PA Electric Generation Costs Increasing Up To 45% On June 1 [Natural Gas Costs]  

-- PennLive: Options To Consider With Price Of Electricity Expected To Rise

-- Williamsport Sun: PPL To Work With Customers On Paying Bills

-- WSJ - Explainer: Why Your Electric Bill Is So High And Could Keep Climbing [Natural Gas Prices] 

-- PUC Sets May 31, June 1 Telephonic Hearings On Proposed 10% Rate Increase By Columbia Gas

-- The Guardian: Avoid Using Natural Gas As ‘Transition’ Fuel In Move To Clean Energy, Study Urges

-- The Guardian: Living Costs In Outer Suburbs Would Be Slashed $5,000 A Year Under Plan To ‘Electrify Everything,’ Analysis Finds

-- City & State PA: Sen. Corman Looks To Form Cryptocurrency Task Force To Take Advantage Of Economic Opportunities Of Crypto Currency Boom

-- Bloomberg: More Than $200 Billion Wiped Off Cryptocurrency Market In A Day

-- Reuters Explainer: Does The Cryptocurrency Crash Pose A Threat To The Financial System?

Energy Conservation

-- E&E ClimateWire: Why Biden Isn’t Preaching Energy Conservation

Environmental Health

-- DEP Sets June 28 Hearing On Response To PFOA/PFOS Contamination Around University Park Airport, Centre County  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: High Levels Of Toxic Benzene Recorded As Former South Philly Refinery Got Demolished 

-- The Guardian: U.S. Oil Refineries Spewing Cancer-Causing Benzene Into Communities, Report Finds [Including PA]

-- StateImpactPA-Jon Hurdle: As PA Candidates For Governor Push More Natural Gas Production, Report Collects Studies Show Fracking Harms 

-- Spotlight PA: Home Buyers, Renters In Hot Market Should Be Aware They Could Be Former Drug Labs, Public Database Significant Undercounts Contaminated Homes In PA

-- TribLive Editorial: PA Should Require Meth House Disclosure

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: During Tick Awareness Week, A Reminder They ‘Are Not Your Average Pest’

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: How To Protect Dogs, Cats, Horses From Ticks?  Watch These Free Webinars

-- DEP Blog: Why Aren’t Ticks Exterminated In Pennsylvania?

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Step Up Fight Against Ticks, Lyme Disease

-- Post-Gazette: More Research Links Air Pollution Exposure And COVID Risk

Environmental Heritage

-- York Daily Record: 9-Ton ‘Atom Smasher,’ Once A Nuclear Marvel, Rusts At A Westinghouse Site In A PA Neighborhood In Pittsburgh 

-- WITF: The Conservation Fund Purchased York County Underground Railroad Site To Preserve

Environmental Justice

-- Black Appalachian Coalition, Emerald Cities Collaborative Host May 17 Listening Session On Justice40 & What It Means For Black Communities. 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

EPA

-- EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totalling $7.3 Million [Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Included]  [PaEN]

Farming

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- NRCS-PA: $22.5 Million Chesapeake Bay Partnership Initiative To Benefit PA Farmers

-- MCall: Rodale Institute Gets Nearly $160,000 Grant For Specialty Crops Project

-- Westmoreland Pollinator Partners Host Pollinator Palooza Garden Tours Starting May 21; Bring Your ‘Passports’ & Cameras, Get A Free Native Plant  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Attract Pollinators To Your Garden With Native Plants

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Event Celebrates Opening Of Dallas Twp. Pollinator Garden

-- Existing Technologies Can Help World Meet Agricultural Methane Targets By 2030  [PaEN]

Flooding

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- Gov. Wolf: Low-Interest Loans Still Available For Businesses Recovering From Hurricane Ida

-- FEMA Region 3, Silver Jackets Host Hurricane Agnes50 Virtual Seminar Series Starting May 18  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: Hurricane Ida Ruined $80,000 Of Help Drying In Couple’s Basement, They’re Still Fighting The Insurer 8 Months Later

-- Altoona Mirror: 3 Rescued From Stranded Vehicle On Flooded Road

-- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Residents Deserve Voice In Flood Plans

Forests 

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- Reading Eagle: DCNR Secretary Takes A Hike With Students At Nolde Forest Environmental Center In Berks

-- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: Take A Break From Politics, Spend Time In Nature

-- DCNR, Corrections Forestry Camp Program Prepares Reentrants For Tree Maintenance Careers In Centre County  [PaEN]

-- May 13 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Long-Distance Rides For ATVs In Pennsylvania

-- American Chestnut Foundation PA/NJ Chapter Newsletter Now Available 

-- Gettysburg Times: Watershed Alliance Of Adams County, Adams Conservation District Distributed Nearly 10,000 Trees In Adams County

-- Bedford Gazette: Stonerstown Plans Tree Planting May 14

-- WHYY: Fees Proposed For Philly Developers Who Don’t Replace Trees They Take Down

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: During Tick Awareness Week, A Reminder They ‘Are Not Your Average Pest’

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: How To Protect Dogs, Cats, Horses From Ticks?  Watch These Free Webinars

-- DEP Blog: Why Aren’t Ticks Exterminated In Pennsylvania?

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Step Up Fight Against Ticks, Lyme Disease

-- ExploreClarion.com: Cook Forest Conservancy Initiatives Project To Clear Japanese Knotweed

--  Scranton Times Editorial: Transparency Solves Controversy Over DCNR Submerged Land Leases To Natural Gas Companies

-- Help Wanted: Western PA Conservancy/DCNR - 4 Regional Watershed Forestry Specialists  [PaEN]

Forests - Wildfires

-- Scranton Times: Fire Crews Battle Brush Fire On West Mountain In Newton Twp.

-- Williamsport Sun: Forest Fire Burned Out Of Control For Hours In Lycoming County

-- The Guardian: ‘Everything Was Orange,’ U.S. Wildfires Burning At Furious Pace Early This Year

-- USA Today: New Mexico Wildfires: Strong Winds Ground Firefighting Aircraft, Threatening More Communities

Game Commission

-- Future Of Deer Management Clouded By Coming Steep Decline In Hunter Numbers  [PaEN]

Geologic Hazards

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Landslide Dumps Dirt, Trees On 40 Foot Stretch Of Butler-Freeport Trail

Grants/Funding

-- EPA Announces 2022 State Water Revolving Fund Grants Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; PA Share Is $240.1 Million  [PaEN]

-- PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants

-- EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totalling $7.3 Million [Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Included]  [PaEN]

-- DEP Now Accepting Calendar 2021 Recycling Performance Grant Applications Thru Dec. 30 

-- DCNR Announces $150,000 Grant For Bridge Repairs At Memorial Park In Pottstown, Montgomery County

-- DCNR Announces $398,000 Grant For Expansion Of Schuylkill River Trail In Montgomery County

-- DCNR Awards $320,866 In Wild Resources Conservation Grants; Deadline For Next Grant Round July 8  [PaEN]

-- DEP Highlights Impact Of Coastal Zone Grants At Erie Bird Observatory [PaEN]

-- MCall: Rodale Institute Gets Nearly $160,000 Grant For Specialty Crops Project

-- PA Resources Council Awarded Foundation For Delaware County Grant For Stream Stewards Student Education Program  [PaEN]

Green Infrastructure

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- A Daughter Partners With Pocono Heritage Land Trust To Remember Her Parents Through The 400 Acre Kurmes Paradise Creek Nature Preserve In Monroe County [PaEN]

-- Bedford Gazette: Stonerstown Plans Tree Planting May 14

-- Gettysburg Times: Watershed Alliance Of Adams County, Adams Conservation District Distributed Nearly 10,000 Trees In Adams County

-- Poconos Residents Support More Action To Protect ‘Exceptional Value’ Streams, New Poll Finds  [PaEN]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Poconos Residents Support Action Too Protect ‘Exceptional Value’ Streams

-- Delaware Currents: Brandywine-Christina Watershed Faces Population Boom In Chester County

-- Help Wanted: Western PA Conservancy/DCNR - 4 Regional Watershed Forestry Specialists  [PaEN]

Hazardous Sites Cleanup

-- Scranton Times: Two Sue Throop Over Remediated Land Near Marjol Battery Site

Hazardous Substances

-- DEP Sets June 28 Hearing On Response To PFOA/PFOS Contamination Around University Park Airport, Centre County  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: High Levels Of Toxic Benzene Recorded As Former South Philly Refinery Got Demolished 

-- The Guardian: U.S. Oil Refineries Spewing Cancer-Causing Benzene Into Communities, Report Finds [Including PA]

-- StateImpactPA-Jon Hurdle: As PA Candidates For Governor Push More Natural Gas Production, Report Collects Studies Show Fracking Harms 

-- Spotlight PA: Home Buyers, Renters In Hot Market Should Be Aware They Could Be Former Drug Labs, Public Database Significant Undercounts Contaminated Homes In PA

-- TribLive Editorial: PA Should Require Meth House Disclosure

-- Post-Gazette: More Research Links Air Pollution Exposure And COVID Risk

Land Conservation

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- A Daughter Partners With Pocono Heritage Land Trust To Remember Her Parents Through The 400 Acre Kurmes Paradise Creek Nature Preserve In Monroe County [PaEN]

-- WITF: The Conservation Fund Purchased York County Underground Railroad Site To Preserve

-- Central PA Conservancy: June 12 Spring Garden Gallery - A Celebration Of The Arts 7 Conservation. Letort Spring Garden Preserve, Carlisle. Noon to 3:00 p.m.

Land Recycling

-- EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totalling $7.3 Million [Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Included]  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Two Sue Throop Over Remediated Land Near Marjol Battery Site

Land Use

-- WHYY: Fees Proposed For Philly Developers Who Don’t Replace Trees They Take Down

Lake Erie

-- DEP Highlights Impact Of Coastal Zone Grants At Erie Bird Observatory [PaEN]

Littering/Illegal Dumping

-- Williamsport Sun: Volunteers Pitch In As Part Of Susquehanna Greenway Cleanup Week

-- York Dispatch: Railway Gives Hope Trash Will Be Cleaned Up, And A Warning To Trespassers

-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh’s Electronic Waste Collection Program Returning

-- PA Resources Council Hosts Household Chemical Collection Event In Cambria County May 21  [PaEN]

Mine Reclamation

-- Sen. Casey, DEP Highlight Importance Of Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding To Address Abandoned Mine Reclamation In Visit To Northumberland County  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Blog: Whiskey Springs ATV Trail, Clinton County To Close 4 Days A Week To Allow Work On 3 Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Awards Design Contract For Tioga River Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Project  [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Casey, Cartwright Team Up On Bipartisan Abandoned Mine Land O&M Costs Bill

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Man Released From Hospital After Falling Into Westmoreland County Abandoned Coal Mine Shaft

-- TribLive: PennDOT Filling Underground, Abandoned Coal Mine Void To Repair Route 981 Dip Near Latrobe, Westmoreland County [DEP: Get Mine Subsidence Insurance

-- DEP Opportunity To Bid On Mine Reclamation Project In Fayette County (PA Bulletin, Page 2910)

Ohio River

-- Local Organization Selected To Host Organization For Southwest PA Water Network  [PaEN]

-- Meadville Tribune: Allegheny College Cuts Ribbon On New Watershed Research Center

Oil & Gas

-- Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads  [PaEN]

-- Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN]

-- Grist: Ohio Residents Fight To Get Radioactive Oil & Gas Wastewater Off Their Roads

-- Guest Essay: PA's Low-Producing Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Are Leaking Too Much Methane, The Industry Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Trash - By Rev. Mitch Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Oil Lobby Keeps Abandoned Wells Unplugged

-- Scranton Times Editorial: The Cost Of Pandering To Natural Gas Industry Rising  [Methane Reduction Rule]

-- StateImpactPA-Jon Hurdle: As PA Candidates For Governor Push More Natural Gas Production, Report Collects Studies Show Fracking Harms 

-- Clean Air Council Hosts May 18 Webinar On Oil & Gas Threat Map By Earthworks. 2:00 p.m.  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: High Levels Of Toxic Benzene Recorded As Former South Philly Refinery Got Demolished 

-- The Guardian: U.S. Oil Refineries Spewing Cancer-Causing Benzene Into Communities, Report Finds [Including PA]

--  Scranton Times Editorial: Transparency Solves Controversy Over DCNR Submerged Land Leases To Natural Gas Companies

-- TribLive Guest Essay: In Southwest PA, The Way To A New Energy Reality [Allegheny Conference Report] - Shell Polymers &  Duquesne Light 

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: A LNG Natural Gas Terminal In South Jersey Would Put The Health Of 1.9 Million People At Risk - Delaware RiverKeeper

-- TribLive: Gasoline Prices Set Record Highs In Pittsburgh, State

-- MCall: Gasoline Prices Set Another Record In Lehigh Valley And PA, The Worst Could Be Yet To Come 

-- Erie Times: Gasoline Prices Hit New Record In PA; Why And What To Expect This Summer

-- Bloomberg: Big Oil, Natural Gas Spends On Investors, Not Output, Prolonging Crude Crunch 

-- DEP Hosts May 25 Hearing On Lackawanna Energy Center Air Quality Permit

-- PUC Alerts Electric Customers Prices To Compare Going Up June 1 Between 16.1% And 44.6% Due To Rise In Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- WLVR: PA Public Utility Commission Warns Energy Costs Are Ready To Skyrocket [Due To Natural Gas Price Spike]

-- PA Capital-Star: Consumers Could See Up To 45% Increase In Electricity Rates This Summer [Natural Gas Costs]

-- TribLive: PA Electric Generation Costs Increasing Up To 45% On June 1 [Natural Gas Costs]  

-- PennLive: Options To Consider With Price Of Electricity Expected To Rise

-- Williamsport Sun: PPL To Work With Customers On Paying Bills

-- WSJ - Explainer: Why Your Electric Bill Is So High And Could Keep Climbing [Natural Gas Prices] 

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Extend Losses As Steady Supply Counters Russia Risks

-- Financial Times: Rocketing Prices At The Pump Fuel Surge In Profits At U.S. Refiners 

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Surges As Russian Moves Spur Supply Worries 

-- Bloomberg: Saudis Cut Oil Prices From Record Highs Amid China Lockdowns

-- Bloomberg: OPEC Kingpins Sound Alarm Over World’s Swindling Energy Capacity

-- Bloomberg: How Germany’s LNG Terminals Will Morph Into Green Hydrogen Hubs 

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Drops As Russia Tries To Calm Clients Over Payments

-- The Center Square: Biofuels Industry Still Waiting On Subsidies To Compete With Oil, Natural Gas, Electric Vehicles

-- The Guardian: New U.S. Fracking Boom Could Tip World To Edge Of Climate Disaster

Pipelines

-- Courier Times: Sunoco Plans To Relocate, Replace Natural Gas Pipeline Under Delaware River In Bucks County  [Same Company Owns Mariner East Pipeline, Revolution Pipeline]

-- Bloomberg: A 67-Foot Pipeline Rupture In Energy Transfer Pipeline In Texas Triggered Massive Methane Plume, Photos Show Blowout  [Energy Transfer owns Mariner East, Revolution Pipelines in PA]

-- PA Capital-Star: Biden Administration Vows To Speed Up Environmental Permits For Infrastructure Projects

Permitting

-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To NPDES General Permit PAG-06 - Combined Sewer System Overflow Discharges  [PaEN]

-- DEP Took Action On 677 Permits, 94% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,389 Inspections; Responded To 5 Environmental Emergencies Last Week

-- DEP Posted 68 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 14 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: Biden Administration Vows To Speed Up Environmental Permits For Infrastructure Projects

Public Participation

-- DEP Sets June 28 Hearing On Response To PFOA/PFOS Contamination Around University Park Airport, Centre County  [PaEN]

-- DEP Hosts May 25 Hearing On Lackawanna Energy Center Air Quality Permit

-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To NPDES General Permit PAG-06 - Combined Sewer System Overflow Discharges  [PaEN]

-- DEP Reschedules Environmental Quality Board Meetings June Thru October  [PaEN]

-- PUC Sets May 31, June 1 Telephonic Hearings On Proposed 10% Rate Increase By Columbia Gas

-- PUC Seeks Comments On Proposed Settlement With Peoples Natural Gas On Leak, Service Outage In Allegheny County

-- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Residents Deserve Voice In Flood Plans

-- DEP Posted 68 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 14 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

PUC

-- PUC Alerts Electric Customers Prices To Compare Going Up June 1 Between 16.1% And 44.6% Due To Rise In Natural Gas Prices  [PaEN]

-- WLVR: PA Public Utility Commission Warns Energy Costs Are Ready To Skyrocket [Due To Natural Gas Price Spike]

-- PA Capital-Star: Consumers Could See Up To 45% Increase In Electricity Rates This Summer [Natural Gas Costs]

-- TribLive: PA Electric Generation Costs Increasing Up To 45% On June 1 [Natural Gas Costs]  

-- PennLive: Options To Consider With Price Of Electricity Expected To Rise

-- Williamsport Sun: PPL To Work With Customers On Paying Bills

-- WSJ - Explainer: Why Your Electric Bill Is So High And Could Keep Climbing [Natural Gas Prices] 

-- PUC Sets May 31, June 1 Telephonic Hearings On Proposed 10% Rate Increase By Columbia Gas

-- PUC Seeks Comments On Proposed Settlement With Peoples Natural Gas On Leak, Service Outage In Allegheny County

-- PUC Rejects Proposed Settlement With Columbia Gas Concerning Over-Pressurization Of Distribution Systems In Clarion, Franklin Counties

-- Inquirer-Andrew Maykuth: PUC Approves Aqua Water, Sewer Rate Increase, How Much, It Won’t Say

-- PJM Interconnection Prepared To Meet Summer Electricity Demand  [PaEN]

-- PJM Interconnection Releases ‘Grid Of The Future’ Road Map To Handle Coming Renewables, Storage Wave  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: PJM Releases Road Map For Creating ‘Grid Of The Future’ To Handle Coming Renewables, Storage Wave

-- Reuters: Creaky U.S. Power Grid Threatens Progress On Renewables, EVs

Radiation Protection

-- York Dispatch: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning Continues

-- WPost: The Dangerous Business Of Dismantling America’s Aging Nuclear Power Plants

-- Scranton Times: Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant Owner Talen Energy Supply Files For Bankruptcy

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Westinghouse Electric’s Parent Company Wants To Put Nuclear Company On The Market

-- York Daily Record: 9-Ton ‘Atom Smasher,’ Once A Nuclear Marvel, Rusts At A Westinghouse Site In A PA Neighborhood In Pittsburgh 

Recreation

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- Republican Herald: Volunteer Maintains Spirit Of Tuscarora Trail At Tuscarora State Park, Schuylkill County 

-- DCNR Blog: Whiskey Springs ATV Trail, Clinton County To Close 4 Days A Week To Allow Work On 3 Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: Take A Break From Politics, Spend Time In Nature

-- Erie Times: Walking Best Way To Experience Presque Isle State Park

-- May 13 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- Registration Open! PA Wilds Dinner & Champion Of PA Wilds Awards Program July 28 At Birds Brewing Company, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County.

-- LancasterOnline: Zion Lutheran Church Hosts Warwick To Ephrata Rail Trail Church Services Twice A Month

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Butler-Freeport Trail Lands $750,000 Grant To Shore Up Cracks In The Trail 

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Landslide Dumps Dirt, Trees On 40 Foot Stretch Of Butler-Freeport Trail

-- Reading Eagle: Spend This Spring On The Schuylkill River Trail And River

-- Register Now! Delaware River Sojourn June 17-25 

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: 2 State Parks Pilot Glamping Project; Lifeguards Needed To Save Pools At 4 Parks 

-- Public News Service: PA Communities Gearing Up For Public Pool Season [Lifeguard Shortage]

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Park Pool Will Not Open This Summer Due To Lifeguard Shortage

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Camping Boom Draws More Diversity, Millennials, But One Group Has Started To Dwindle

--  Stroudsburg Herald: Get Outdoors Pocono Series Gives Public Exclusive Access To Buck Hill Trails In Monroe County 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Long-Distance Rides For ATVs In Pennsylvania

-- DCNR Announces $150,000 Grant For Bridge Repairs At Memorial Park In Pottstown, Montgomery County

-- DCNR Announces $398,000 Grant For Expansion Of Schuylkill River Trail In Montgomery County

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: During Tick Awareness Week, A Reminder They ‘Are Not Your Average Pest’

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: How To Protect Dogs, Cats, Horses From Ticks?  Watch These Free Webinars

-- DEP Blog: Why Aren’t Ticks Exterminated In Pennsylvania?

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Step Up Fight Against Ticks, Lyme Disease

Recycling/Waste

-- Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads  [PaEN]

-- Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN]

-- Grist: Ohio Residents Fight To Get Radioactive Oil & Gas Wastewater Off Their Roads

-- Centre Daily Times: Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Celebrating 50th Anniversary By Giving Away Gift Cards To 50 Residents With Perfect Recycling Bins 

-- DEP Now Accepting Calendar 2021 Recycling Performance Grant Applications Thru Dec. 30 

-- PA Resources Council Hosts Household Chemical Collection Event In Cambria County May 21  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh’s Electronic Waste Collection Program Returning

-- Upcycling Plastic Waste Into Graphite Could Facilitate Transition To Electric Vehicles, Clean Energy  [PaEN]

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: America Stinks At Recycling Plastic, Why Don’t We Care?

Regulations

-- DEP Reschedules Environmental Quality Board Meetings June Thru October  [PaEN]

Renewable Energy

-- PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Awards $2 Million In Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants

-- Guest Essay: Climate Change Demands Southwestern PA Transition To A New Low-Carbon Energy Reality - By Hilary Mercer, Shell Polymers/Pennsylvania Chemicals Project & Kevin Walker, President/CEO Duquesne Light [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: McKinsey Report Outlines Steps Southwest PA, U.S. Can Take To Meet Climate Goals

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Court Battle Over PA RGGI Climate Rule Set To Begin

-- Centre Daily Times: How Residents, Businesses, Local Government Embrace Solar Power In Centre County

-- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County Works Toward Harnessing Solar Energy En Masse

-- WFMZ: Poconos Plan For PA’s Largest Solar Field To See Light Again In June  

-- WHYY: For These Young Trainees, Careers In Solar Look Like Philly’s Future

-- PA Solar Center May 20 Webinar: Utility Scale Projects In PJM Queue; U.S. Trade Investigation; New Poll Results.  Noon to 1:15 p.m.  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times: Cargo Ship Delivers Wind Energy Equipment Thru Port Of Erie 

-- Reuters: Solar Rooftops, European Manufacturing To Get Boost Under Draft EU Plan

-- Bloomberg: Renewable Records In Southern Europe Boost Hopes Over Ditching Fossil Fuels

-- The Guardian: Avoid Using Natural Gas As ‘Transition’ Fuel In Move To Clean Energy, Study Urges

-- The Hill Guest Essay: Clean Energy Can Light A New Path Forward For Former Coal Communities - U.S. Secretary of Energy 

-- Financial Times: Powering Electric Cars: The Race To Mine Lithium In America’s Backyard

-- Reuters: Creaky U.S. Power Grid Threatens Progress On Renewables, EVs

Schuylkill River

-- Reading Eagle: Spend This Spring On The Schuylkill River Trail And River

SRBC

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Awards Design Contract For Tioga River Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Project  [PaEN]

Susquehanna River

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Awards Design Contract For Tioga River Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Project  [PaEN]

Water Resources

-- Local Organization Selected To Host Organization For Southwest PA Water Network  [PaEN]

Wastewater Facilities

-- EPA Announces 2022 State Water Revolving Fund Grants Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; PA Share Is $240.1 Million  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To NPDES General Permit PAG-06 - Combined Sewer System Overflow Discharges  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Below The Surface, Pittsburgh’s Water System Getting A Massive Makeover

Watershed Protection

-- May 18 Webinar: Learn More About Funding The Growing Greener Program For The Next Generation  [PaEN]

-- PA Trout Unlimited Has STREAM Girls/STREAM Keeper Program Materials Available  [PaEN]

-- Delaware Currents: Brandywine-Christina Watershed Faces Population Boom In Chester County

-- Poconos Residents Support More Action To Protect ‘Exceptional Value’ Streams, New Poll Finds  [PaEN]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Poconos Residents Support Action Too Protect ‘Exceptional Value’ Streams

-- DCNR Blog: Whiskey Springs ATV Trail, Clinton County To Close 4 Days A Week To Allow Work On 3 Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Awards Design Contract For Tioga River Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Project  [PaEN]

-- Local Organization Selected To Host Organization For Southwest PA Water Network  [PaEN]

-- Meadville Tribune: Allegheny College Cuts Ribbon On New Watershed Research Center

-- NRCS-PA: $22.5 Million Chesapeake Bay Partnership Initiative To Benefit PA Farmers

-- Bedford Gazette: Stonerstown Plans Tree Planting May 14

-- Delaware RiverKeeper May 13 RiverWatch Video Report

-- Help Wanted: Western PA Conservancy/DCNR - 4 Regional Watershed Forestry Specialists  [PaEN]

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Wildlife

-- PA Trout Unlimited Has STREAM Girls/STREAM Keeper Program Materials Available  [PaEN]

-- MCall: Southern Lehigh H.S. Trout In The Classroom Release With Lehigh Conservation District  [Photos]

-- Game Commission, DEP, DCNR Held Live Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcon Banding Event   [PaEN]

-- DCNR Awards $320,866 In Wild Resources Conservation Grants; Deadline For Next Grant Round July 8  [PaEN]

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Road To Recovery Concert Fundraiser May 28 For Chainsaw Carver Todd Gladfelter From Schuylkill County  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline - Sean Sauro: 100+ Black Vultures Dead South Of Lancaster County Around Conowingo Dam, Bird Flu Detected

-- Future Of Deer Management Clouded By Coming Steep Decline In Hunter Numbers  [PaEN]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: May Is Prime Time To See Migrating Birds

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Highlights Upcoming Events: World Migratory Bird Day, Native Plant Sale, Spring Moonlit Hike, Red Cross First Aid Training, More 

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Tree Swallows Are The First Swallows To Return In Spring

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: How To Attract More Hummingbirds To Your Back Yard 

-- Wildlife For Everyone: Contractor Selected For Soaring Eagle Wetland Educational Trail Accessibility Improvements, Centre County  [PaEN]

-- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation 7th Annual Great Outdoor Picnic June 25Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park, Centre Hall, PA.  11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Bigfood Fans Can Celebrate His Large PA Footprint At These 2 Events

West Nile/Zika Virus

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: During Tick Awareness Week, A Reminder They ‘Are Not Your Average Pest’

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: How To Protect Dogs, Cats, Horses From Ticks?  Watch These Free Webinars

-- DEP Blog: Why Aren’t Ticks Exterminated In Pennsylvania?

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Step Up Fight Against Ticks, Lyme Disease

-- Republican Herald: West Nile Virus Monitoring Starts In Schuylkill County

Opportunities

-- Help Wanted: Western PA Conservancy/DCNR - 4 Regional Watershed Forestry Specialists  [PaEN]

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[Posted: May 15, 2022]


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