Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 2.13.20

TODAY 9:15 a.m. DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting.  Draft RGGI Reg. Meeting Materials: http://bit.ly/2tS0xgp  Background: http://bit.ly/39vQm0k 

Ed Wytovich To Be Guest Speaker At Western Pocono Trout Unlimited Feb. 25 In Luzerne County [PaEN]

EPA, NFWF Announce $2.4 Million For Projects To Improve PA Streams In Chesapeake Bay Watershed [PaEN]

PA Assn. Of Conservation Districts Releases Highlights Of Conservation District Accomplishments in 2019 [PaEN]

Seedling Sale Benefits Erie County Conservation

Luzerne County Still Researching Options For Ways To Fight Stormwater Fee

Lancaster Farming: Herbicide Drift Cost PA Vineyard $1.5 Million In Damage

Keep PA Beautiful: 12,610 PA International Coastal Cleanup Volunteers Remove 488,135 Pounds Of Trash, Tires Last Fall [PaEN]

DEP Starts Work To Extinguish Dolph Mine Fire, Reclaim Abandoned Mine In Lackawanna County [PaEN]

Andrew Maykuth: Judge Picks Hilco Partners As Winner In Philadelphia Refinery Auction

Bankruptcy Judge Approves Philly Refinery Sale To Developer, Assuming No New Objections

Op-Ed: PA Legislators Should Stop Giving Tax Breaks To Fossil Fuel Industry [PaEN]
Op-Ed: Socialized Rsk, Privatized Profits - HB 1100 Could Be Disastrous For Our State - Rep. Innamorato

Feature: From The Ground Up - Energy Resilience Begins With Our Buildings [PaEN]

PA Solar Congress Comes To Indiana County Feb. 15

PJM Interconnection Announces Executive Appointments

Advocacy Groups Ask For More Public Input In Allegheny County, U.S. Steel Air Pollution Violation Settlement

Op-Ed: Dirty Air Is Killing People In PA, And We Must Do Something About It - Dauphin County Commissioner

Asbestos Closes 2 More Philadelphia Schools

Editorial: As Asbestos Crisis Persists, Time to Shake Up Philly’s Board Of Education

Registration Open For Sinnemahone Triple Crown Events- Canoe & Kayak, Gravel Bike And Ultra Trail Run In Cameron County [PaEN]
How A Relentless City Hall Insider Wants To Fix Philly’s Recreation Centers
More Than 100,000 Snow Geese Arrive At Middle Creek Wildlife Area In Lebanon County

Fish & Boat Commission’s Tim Schaeffer Talks Fishing, New Trout Plan Due Out In July

Sean Sauro: Number Of Deer With Chronic Wasting Disease Harvested In PA Hits All-Time High

Sean Sauro: Game Commission Seeks Hunter Feedback On Chronic Wasting Disease

Sean Sauro: Do Hunters Eat The Meat From The Bears They Harvest?

Intern Wanted: Trout Unlimited Biological Field Intern, Lock Haven [PaEN]

Thursday PA Capitol NewsClips 2.13.20 - Click Here

AP-Marc Levy: Sen. Scarnati Announces He Will Not Run For Re-Election: http://bit.ly/38pDcBI   Senator’s Statement: http://bit.ly/39v5WsT 

Highest Ranking Senate Republican Joe Scarnati Joining House Speaker Mike Turzai In Retirement At The End Of The Year [PaCN]

Other States/National/International
Bipartisan Federal Energy Efficiency Bill Targets National Building Code To Save Consumers An Estimated $51 Billion

AP: BP Lays Out Plans To Be Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2050

Dominion Energy Announces Goal Of Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2050

Congressional House Republicans Proposed Carbon Capture, Sequestration Legislation
What A National Republican Climate-Change Agenda Might Look Like

Climate Change Producing Atmospheric Rivers That Are Drenching The U.S.

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[Posted: February 13, 2020]  PA Environment Digest