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The Feds

Articles and NewsClips about federal actions impacting Pennsylvania--

-- US Dept. Of Interior Announces Approval Of Another $244 Million In Funding To Pennsylvania For Cleaning Up Legacy Pollution From Abandoned Mine Lands; Local Mine Reclamation Grants Due To DEP Nov. 8  [PaEN]

-- EPA Announces Over $132 Million For Clean Water, Drinking Water Revolving Water Infrastructure Funding In PA

-- Dept. Of Agriculture, Land O'Lakes Farmer Cooperative, National Hemp Assn. Receive $40 Million In USDA Funding To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Improve Water Quality  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: After 40 Years Of Cutting Edge Environmental Restoration, Can The Bay Partnership Again Reinvent Itself In Time To Save The Bay In The 21st Century?

-- US Forest Service Announces $34 Million Available To Support Sustainable Forestry Industry, Healthy Forest Landscapes, Applications Due Dec. 11

-- One United Lancaster: Lancaster Celebrates $1 Million Federal Grant For Street Tree Program

 -- ClearWater Conservancy Celebrates $2 Million Federal Grant For New Community Conservation Center To Enhance Environmental Stewardship, Local Economy  [PaEN]

-- NY Post: Fracking Could Decide The Election In Pennsylvania And Nationwide

-- Wall Street Journal Guest Essay: Fracking Isn’t As Popular (Or Important) In Pennsylvania As You Think; The Truth For Residents Is More Complicated  [PDF of Article]  - By Colin Jerolmack, Author Of Up To Heaven And Down To Hell and Sean O’Leary, Ohio River Valley Institute

-- DEP Plugs Conventional Gas Well Orphaned By The Well Owner That Contaminated A Clarion County Family's Drinking Water Well; Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Continue To Abandoned Their Wells - 814 Violations So Far In 2024 - 2 New Plugging Grant Programs   [PaEN]

-- ExploreClarion.com: DEP Plugs Conventional Gas Well That Contaminated Vowinckel Family’s Drinking Water In Clarion County

-- NPR: States Work To Track Down, Cap Dangerous Methane Leaks From Conventional Oil, Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners [Allegheny National Forest]

-- City & State NY: The Fate Of State’s Conventional Oil/Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners May Depend On The Presidential Election [New York, Pennsylvania]

-- US DOT Announces $196 Million In Grants To Replace Aging Natural Gas Pipes, Cut Methane Emissions, Including $40 Million To Philadelphia Gas Works

-- WHYY: Philadelphia Gas Works Gets Federal Money To Replace Aging Natural Gas Mains

-- Allegheny Conference Of Community Development:  A Major Win - Mainspring Energy Receives DOE Grant For Linear Generator Sustainable Energy Manufacturing Facility  [PaEN]

-- DCED Invests $8.6 Million To Help Bring Mainspring Energy To PA, Creating Nearly 600 Clean Energy Jobs In Allegheny County

-- Post-Gazette: Mainspring Clean Energy Company Plans To Build New Plant Near Airport, Hire 600 Workers

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Mainspring Energy To Bring Big Plant, Hundreds Of Jobs To Coraopolis

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Meet Mainspring, The Company Behind Tuesday’s Big Clean Energy Announcement

-- Wall Street Journal:  Churches Look Skyward For Energy Savings [Solomon’s Church Solar Energy, Chambersburg, Franklin County]  [PDF of Article]

-- Utility Dive: Iron-Air Battery Developer Form Energy Raises $405 Million, Announces Collaboration With GE Vernova On Manufacturing Operations

-- US Dept. Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2 Million To Support Local Electric Grid Modernization Projects; Total Of $474 Million Awarded To States, Tribes

-- DEP Eligible For $1.7 Million US DOE Residential Energy Audit Workforce Development Grant; $27 Million Awarded Nationally For Clean Energy Workforce Training

-- EPA Awards $250 Million To Electrify I-95 Freight Corridor With Green Technology

-- Washington & Jefferson Blog: Draft DOE Carbon Management Strategy To Fast-Track Deployment 

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Owners Make Restart Pitch To Regulators In Maryland, While Critics Remain Skeptical Of Both

-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Owner Lays Out Reopening Timeline At Public Hearing In Maryland 

-- WNEP: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Holds Public Meeting In Maryland On Plans To Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant

-- Reuters: US Nuclear Regulator Kicks Off Review On Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart

-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Nuclear Boosters, Skeptics Eyeing Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

Reuters: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Gears Up For Reboot

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Tenaska, EQT Say Geologic Carbon Storage Will Be Ready Within A Decade

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Ex-President Has Derided Biden’s Landmark Climate Programs, Would He Ditch Hydrogen?

-- Wheeling News-Register: Sen. Manchin Announces $44 Million DOE Funding To Develop Carbon Storage Hub In Marshall County, WV

-- Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: In Fight To Decide Fate Of US Steel, Climate, Public Health Take A Backseat To Politics

-- Post-Gazette: Steelworkers Boss Vows 13-Day Blitz To Lobby Against Nippon Buying US Steel

-- The Allegheny Front: Coal Community Groups Ask Presidential Candidates For Continued Funding To Re-Energize Coal Community Economies

-- Observer Reporter: Coal Is Surviving, But Has An Environmental Black Eye [6th Article In Series On Shale Gas]  [PDF of Article

-- S&P Global: Race For Presidency Has No Time For Old ‘King Coal’

-- EPA Strengthens Standards To Protect Children From Exposure To Lead Paint Dust

-- TribLive/AP: EPA Imposes Stricter Standards To Protect Children From Exposure To Lead Paint

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Lessons From Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Have Yet To Be Made Law - That Must Change

-- The Allegheny Front: New Studies Shed Light On Contamination, Response To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Historic York County Farm To Become Gateway For Susquehanna National Heritage Area Discovery Center & Heritage Park

-- TribLive: 206-Year-Old Bridge A Sight To See For Visitors In Depleted Youghiogheny River Lake

[Posted: October 27, 2024]


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