Friday PA Environmental NewsClips

PaEN: DEP Puts Hold On Reviewing All Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Projects In PA Due To Non-Compliance With Beaver County Pipeline Explosion Order
PaEN: Gov. Wolf Issues Statement On  Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Project Permit Bar By DEP, Urges General Assembly To Fill Gaps In State Regulation Of Pipelines, PUC Action
PaEN: PA Parks & Forests Foundation Honors 2019 Award Winners
PaEN: WPCAMR Abandoned Mine Post: Growing Greener May Lose From Governor’s Proposed Budget
PaEN: Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Urges Support For INCREASED Funding For Environmental Stewardship (Growing Greener) Fund
Ice Jam On Allegheny River In Armstrong County Starting To Break Up

PaEN: EPA Accepting Grant Applications For Help To Develop Plan To Offset Lack Of Sediment Trapping Capacity At Conowingo Dam

Bay Journal: New Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plans On Scheduled Despite Federal Shutdown

Murrysville Will Retrofit 13 More Stormwater Ponds To Comply With State’s Pollution Reduction Plan

Tanger Outlets Crater Failure Of Stormwater System, Not Sinkhole, Due In Part To Heavy Rains

PaEN: PA Sea Grant: Lake Erie Shipboard Science Workshop For Teachers Now Accepting Applications

PaEN: Erie Times-News Connect With Your Environment, Teacher Curriculum Guide Now Available

Delaware RiverKeeper Feb. 7 RiverWatch Video Report

PaEN: PUC Approves 13 Percent Increase In Pittsburgh Water Authority Rates

PaEN: NRDC-Pittsburgh Agrees To Terms For Tackling Its Lead Contaminated Water

PUC OKs Nearly 14% Pittsburgh Water Authority Rate Increase

Pittsburgh Water Authority Will Pay $50 Million To Address Lead Service Line Crisis

PaEN: Senate, House Democratic Policy Committees Hear Testimony On Improving Air Quality In Allegheny County

Sisk: Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Hearing Draws Suggestions, Criticism Over Fire Response

Residents Pack Meeting With Lawmakers About Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Fire

Litvak: Consol Says Market Will Use As Much Coal As It Can Produce

PaEN: Appalachian Regional Commission Accepting Applications For POWER Workforce, Economic Revitalization Grants

75 Years Ago: 2-Year Old Girl Swallowed By Mine Subsidence In Pittston

Hopey/Templeton: Post-Gazette Asks Court To Unseal Washington County Shale Gas Case Settlement

Letter: Public Can No Longer Rely On PUC For Pipeline Safety

Maykuth: PECO To Pay Penalty For Shutting Off Electricity To Customers During Winter

Electric Companies Report Service Interruptions In Allegheny, Westmoreland Counties

After Complaints, Giant Utility Poles Will Be Removed, Line Buried In Hershey
PaEN: DEP Posts 64 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Feb. 9 PA Bulletin

4 Homes Evacuated In Pittsburgh After Thick, Gooey Mudslide

PaEN: New Poll: Republicans And Democrats Tend To Agree On Climate Change

PaEN: Kroger Company Accepting Applications For $1 Million In Food Waste Reduction Grants

Western PA Colleges Take Steps To Reduce Plastic Usage

Lackawanna County Recycling Center May Soon Start Refusing Contaminated Recycling

Wilkes-Barre Council Needs Another Attempt To Passing Higher Recycling Fee

Wilkes-Barre Recycling Fee Hike Headed For Defeat

Penn State: How Craigslist Can Cut Solid Waste One Used Sofa At A Time

PaEN: February Newsletter Now Available From Joint Conservation Committee

Editorial: Public Has Role In Schuylkill Dredging Project Still $1 Million Short

Planners Deny OK For Development Of Last Farm In Middletown, Bucks County
State Parks, Forest Advocates Calling For Action On Funding
PaEN: Feb. 8 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation
PaEN: 17 In-Person Tree Tender Training Classes Being Offered For Volunteers In Pittsburgh, Southeast PA
PaEN: Making The Most Of Your Piece Of Nature: A Sustainable Backyard Workshop March 16 In Westmoreland County

PaEN: Fish & Boat Commission Warns Of Rapidly Changing Ice Conditions

Meyer: Bill To Lift Sunday Hunting Ban Is On Move In Senate
Schneck: Sunday Hunting In PA, What’s Different This Time?

Group To Make Its Case For Sunday Hunting This Weekend At Penn State New Kingston

O’Reilly: Hunters In Blair Ready To File Lawsuit Over Chronic Wasting Disease Project

Frye: Brush Piles Easy Way To Help Wildlife, Spark Love Of The Outdoors

Mandarin Duck Spotted In Delaware County

Schuylkill Wildlife Clinic Reopens After Hiatus In Roxborough

Man Who Illegally Caught Rattlers Also Charged In Deer Kill

Lackawanna State Park Gets New Manager

Politics

Meyer: What’s Within Reach In Wolf’s Budget Plan, And What’s Not
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National/International

PaEN: Defend Our Future Student Leaders, Elected Officials In Philadelphia Push For Continued Reduction Of Mercury Pollution, Oppose Federal Rollback

PaEN: The Nature Conservancy: U.S. Senate Takes First Steps Toward Reauthorizing Federal Land & Water Conservation Fund

PaEN: Bipartisan Bill Introduced In Congress To Support Chronic Wasting Disease Research

Congressional Democrats Unveil Green New Deal Resolution
Nuclear Power Plants Can Have Small Role In Congressional Democrat Green New Deal

Op-Ed: How The Congressional Democrats’ Green New Deal Could Dramatically Alter Our Political Debate
Report: Polar Vortex Broke U.S. Natural Gas Consumption Record

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