Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 2.8.20

StateImpact PA: DEP To Receive 36% Less Federal Mine Reclamation Funding This Year [PaEN]

DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Feb. 18 On RGGI Reg; State Water Plan; Draft Chapter 105 Regs [PaEN]

NFWF Delaware River Program Now Accepting Applications For Watershed Restoration Grants [PaEN]

Lancaster Farming: Proposed Ag Budget Keeps Farm Bill, But Makes Some Cuts

Lancaster County Campaign Seeks To Preserve 50 Farms That Have Plans To Keep Pollutants From Washing Into Streams

For Water Quality: Creating Woods Instead Of Lawns

Opportunity To Bid On DEP Contract To Provide Mine Drainage Treatment System O&M [PaEN]

Senators Yudichak, Argall, Yaw To Introduce Resolution Directing Joint Conservation Committee To Study Impacts Of Joining RGGI On Coal Waste Cogeneration [PaEN]

Why Philly Shouldn’t Be Freaking Out About PFAS In Their Water… Yet

Air Quality Near Closed Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Showing Significant Improvement

Lead Found In Penn State Tyson Building Water In State College, Occupants Worry About Exposure

Philly Elementary School Closed Indefinitely For Asbestos, Lead Paint Cleanup

Editorial: Some Of Wolf’s Budget Proposals Make Sense, But We Need Fiscal Sanity Too

Katie Meyer: Some Lawmakers Think They Can Override Wolf’s Veto Of Bill Giving Unlimited Subsidies For Using Natural Gas In Manufacturing

Protect PT To Hold Workshop On Fracking Feb. 15 In Westmoreland

Andrew Maykuth: Creditors Urge Judge To Reject Philly Refinery Bankruptcy Plan; Heap Scorn On Executive Bonuses

DEP Hearing Feb. 26 [If Needed] On Chesapeake Energy Request To Waive Setback For Well To Be Drilled In Bradford County [PaEN[

Widespread Power Outage Affected Most Of Lebanon County

Host Fees Allow Lycoming County Township To Pile Up Nearly $11 Million Over 20 Years

Editorial: Establish Right-To-Repair

DEP Posts 77 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Feb. 8 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
Erie Nature Watch: Presque Isle State Park Has Lost Nearly Half Of Its Butterfly Species

3 More Plants Added To Noxious Weed List By Controlled Plant & Noxious Weed Committee [PaEN]

Merrill W. Linn Land & Waterways Conservancy Preserves Meadow Lane Farm In Snyder County [PaEN]

Property Protected By WPC Conservation Easement In Cook Twp., Westmoreland County

Trout Unlimited Delaware River Fly Tri, A Test Of Fitness And Fishing At The Delaware Water Gap May 16 [PaEN]

All Tobacco, Vaping, E-Cigarettes Now Banned At Playgrounds In State Parks [PaEN]

Feb. 7 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]

Dead 15-Foot Python Found In York County Woods

Marcus Schneck: Best Chance To See Full Moon Is After Sunset Tonight

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Other States/National/International

EPA Region III Releases 2019 Report On Accomplishments & Environmental Progress [PaEN]

Allegheny Front: Clean Water Group To Start Monitoring Near Proposed Ethane Plant In Ohio
Lyme Disease Cases May Rise 92% In U.S. Due To Climate Change

NPR: Bumblebees Are Disappearing Because Of Extreme Heat

Bipartisan Innovate First, Regulate Later Climate Change Bill To Be Introduced In U.S. House By Members From Oregon, West Virginia [PaEN]

S&P Global: Bipartisan U.S. House Duo Pitches Innovate First, Regulate Later Climate Concept

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[Posted: February 8, 2020]  PA Environment Digest