Friday PA Environmental NewsClips

Major Environmental Priorities Not Addressed In FY 2019-20 State Budget, Shell Game Continues [PaEN]
Both the House and Senate have now adjourned for the summer to return on September 17 and 23 respectively.

CBF-PA Urges House Not To Act On Senate Bill 619 Redefining Water Pollution [PaEN]

Pitt Moves Forward With Green Infrastructure Project To Manage Stormwater
Kummer: This Bucks County Neighborhood With Tainted Wells Has Been On Bottled Water For 3 Years

PUC Distributes Nearly $252 Million In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue, Largest Amount To Date [PaEN]

Legere: Shale Gas Impact Fees Raise $252 Million, Breaking Record

Hurdle: Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Rises To 7-Year High Boosted By Stripper Well Decisions

PA Communities In Line To Get Share Of $251.8 Million In Drilling Impact Fees

Washington, Greene Counties To Receive $14 Million In Drilling Impact Fees This Year
Frazier: Washington County Parents Want PA To Look At Whether Fracking Is Related To Cancer Cases

Heartland Institute: Fracking Isn’t Causing Health Problems For PA School Children
Op-Ed: Fracking Does Not Need To Be Linked To Cancer To Ban It In PA
U.S. Steel Reaches Agreement With Allegheny Health Dept. Over Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Air Pollution Violations

DEP Issues Code Orange Air Quality Action Day Friday For 13 Counties In Central, Eastern PA [PaEN]

Study Finds Elevated Risk Of Exposure To Pollution In Philly’s Hottest Neighborhoods
Op-Ed: We Need Action, Not More Debate, On Climate Change

Dauphin County Twp Residents Tired Of Brown Water Coming Out Of Their Faucets

Water Advisory In New Milford Because Of A Fire Tuesday

Delaware RiverKeeper June 28 RiverWatch Video Report

Phillips: Philadelphia Refinery Explosion Site Remains Unsafe

Maykuth: Investigator For Philly Refinery Fire Describes Landscape Of Twisted Steel

Philly Refinery Shutdown Unlikely To Create Jobs At Area Competitors

DEP Holds July 17 Hearing On Consol's Bailey Mine Draft Water Quality Permit In Greene County [PaEN]

Lackawanna County Twp Raises Quarry Zoning, Environmental Concerns

Philly’s Plastic Bag Ban Could Get Derailed In Budget Move By Republican Lawmakers
Cusick: Lawmakers Seek To Block Regulation Of Single-Use Plastics

O’Neill: Pittsburgh Thrives On Its Walkable Urban Places

Allegheny Front: Annual Stony-Kiski-Conemaugh Rivers Sojourn Promotes Recreation, Education

Weather An Expensive Wash-Out Along Popular Butler-Freeport, Roaring Run Trails

Editorial: More Of A Good Thing: Riverfront Trails In Pittsburgh
June 28 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

Gifford Pinchot's Grey Towers Hosts 2019 Festival Of Wood August 3-4 In Pike County [PaEN]

70-Year-Old Box Turtle Reappears On Dauphin County Farm

Op-Ed: Wildlife Around Pittsburgh’s Rivers Has Much To Tell Us

Budget

AP-Levy, Scolforo: Budget Brinksmanship Leaves Last-Minutes Bills In Doubt

AP: Key School Bill Blocked As Budget Deadline Looms

AP: Main $34 Billion Budget Bill Heads To Gov. Wolf

AP: Highlights Of PA’s 2019-20 Budget Package

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National/International
Ohio Senate Nuclear Power Subsidy Bill Drops Clean Air Pretense, But Keeps Diminished Renewable Standard

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