Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 2.19.20

Fair Districts PA Pushes “Not Red, Not Blue, Just Fair” Campaign To Fix Our Broken, Gerrymandered Redistricting Process [PaEN]

Senate & House Agency-By-Agency Budget Hearings Continue Today At 10:00 a.m.. Hearing Schedule.  Click Here to Watch Senate Hearings Live. Click Here for Senate Republican hearing videos/summaries.  Click Here to Watch House Hearings Live.  Click Here for House Republican hearing vidoes/written testimony

Molly Morrison To Receive PALTA Conservation Lifetime Achievement Award [PaEN]

EPA Awards $464,200 In Funding For Fish & Boat Commission Staff To Restore Streams In Chesapeake Bay Watershed [PaEN]

NFWF To Host March 11 Webinar On Chesapeake Bay And Delaware River Watershed Grant Opportunities [PaEN]

Luzerne County Residents  Demand End To Stormwater Fee At  County Council Meeting

Luzerne County Legislators Support Effort To End Wyoming Valley Stormwater Fee

Wyoming Valley Levee Freeboard Safety Buffer To Be Examined To Help Avert Flood Insurance Increases

Progress 2020: Gettysburg Nature Alliance
Is Centralia Mine Fire Spreading? Schuylkill Residents Worried

DEP Fines Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill $24,000 To Resolve Waste Violations; Drilling Waste Impacts On Leachate [PaEN]

Reid Frazier: DEP Fines Landfill Near Pittsburgh For Problems Tied To Fracking Waste

Don Hopey: Westmoreland Landfill Fined For Excessive Contaminated Runoff

Appeals Court Rules Against Challengers To Keystone Landfill Expansion
Explosions And Sinkholes: The History Of Sunoco’s Pipelines In Pennsylvania
Letter: Consider Environment, Public Health In Job Creation - Oppose HB 1100
Op-Ed: Philly Refinery Fire Was A WARN-ing: PA Must Do More To Retain Displaced Workers
Philly School Asbestos Problem: What’s Closed, What’s Open, What’s Being Done

Williamsport Council Committee OKs Use Of $280,000 DEP Grant For Recycling

Community Group Wants Ideas For Repurposing Shenango Coke (Coal) Works Site
Frank Kummer: Report: Even With 10,000 Solar Industry Jobs In PA, NJ, Region Lags Behind

PA Future In RGGI Uncertain As Coal, Labor Groups Attack Proposal

PEC: There Are Solutions To Reducing Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations

Editorial: Erie Readies For Changing Climate
Lyme Disease Threat Gets Clearer But Treatment Remains Murky: Ticks Are Nature’s Dirty Needle

Forest Soils Release More Carbon Dioxide Than Expected In Rainy Season [PaEN]

How Climate Change Is Ruffling Feathers Among Bird Watchers

Westmoreland Conservancy Seeking Volunteers To Help Prune Apple Trees In Murrysville

Mary Ann Thomas: Coming Soon, More Pet Camping Sites At PA State Parks

Enter The PA Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau 2020-21 Photo Contest [PaEN]

Schuylkill River Greenways Hosts International Paddling Film Festival March 26 [PaEN]

Bob Frye: Number Of PA Chronic Wasting Disease Cases Grows Again

PA Court Shoots Down Archery Hunter’s Catch-22 Conviction For Hunting Over Bait

Marcus Schneck: Why Do Some Bucks Keep Their Velvet, Answers To Reader Questions

Editorial: Time For Anglers To Weigh In On Next State Trout Plan

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Other States/National/International
Exelon Says Investigation Into Lobbying Practices On Nuclear Power Plant Subsidies In Illinois Could Result In Criminal Penalties

State Foresters Respond To Trump FY 2021 Budget Proposal

A Car Windshield Splatometer Study Finds Huge Insect Die-Off

NPR: How Warming Winters Are Affecting Everything

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[Posted: February 19, 2020]  PA Environment Digest