Friday, March 19, 2021

Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 3.19.21


Senate
returns to voting session March 22, 23, 24

Senate Budget Hearing Schedule

House returns to voting session March 22, 23, 24


Environmental Groups Petition PA Supreme Court To Overturn Ruling Denying Attorney’s Fees In Successful Challenge To Mariner East Pipeline Permit [PaEN]

YorkDR: Conowingo Dam Relicensed For 50 Years, Settlement Agreement With Maryland Finalized

Wellsboro Gazette: Saving Babb Creek: How A Once Polluted Waterway Became A Haven For Wild Trout [Answer: Hard work by locals, support from state, many partners]

Allegheny Front: Melissa Burnett, Community Forestry Fellow, Helps Make Pittsburgh Greener

Pike Conservation Districts Hosts April 1 Webinar On Stream Crossings For Contractors [PaEN]

NYT: U.S. Senate Leader Works To Stall Overhaul Increasing Flood Insurance Rates April 1 Based On Full Risk Of Flooding [PA Is One Of Most Flood-prone States] 

WilliamsportS Editorial: Levee Repairs Necessary, Even As Steel Costs Rise

Ohio River Valley Institute: The True Cost Of Cleaning Up Historic Damage From Coal Mining

Delaware River Basin Commission Says Existing Uses At F.E. Walter Dam In Carbon County Should Be Protected [PaEN]

Delaware RiverKeeper March 19 RiverWatch Video Report

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Spring Hawk Watch Launches April 1 [PaEN]

KPB: Cleanup Your Neighborhood With Help From Pick Up Pennsylvania Initiative [PaEN]

EPA Awards Brownfield Job Training Grants To Landforce In Pittsburgh, Energy Coordinating Agency, Philadelphia [PaEN]

PG: Pittsburgh-Based Landforce Receives $200,000 EPA Grant For Job Training

Sen. Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen [PaEN]

House Environmental Committee Holds Another Info Meeting On Hydrogen Power, Carbon Capture March 22 [PaEN]

WESA: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman Negotiates Difficult Terrain On Fracking Issue

MCall: PPL Selling UK Business For $10.9 Billion, Buying Rhode Island Utility For $3.8 Billion

MCall: After 2 Big Deals, What Will Smaller PPL Look Like? What Does It Mean For Allentown?

WITF: Midstate Farmers On Alert As Warm Weather Settles In A Bit Early This Year

Marcus Schneck: Why Do We Call It Spring?

Agriculture: Business Travelers In And Out Of Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Areas - Don't Taken Them With You [PaEN]

Marcus Schneck: Chickens, Praying Mantises Appear To Be Top Predators On Spotted Lanternfly, Study Says

Castro Obscura: When Life Gave PA Spotted Lanternflies, Its Bees Made Spotted Lanternfly Honey

Delaware Highlands Conservancy: April 13 How You Can Protect Your Land With A Conservation Easement Program [PaEN]

ScrantonT: Lackawanna County Park Inventory Completed, Pickleball Court Planned

Op-Ed: Northeast PA’s National Parks, Gateway Communities Can Lead America’s Economic, Environmental Renewal - John Plonski

YorkDR: PA Hatcheries, Sportsmen Groups Partner On Providing Trout For Anglers

ScrantonT: Rabid Fox Killed In Lackawanna County

WESA: Pittsburgh Council OKs Ban On Ownership Of Crocodiles, Other Species

MCall: Millions Of Cicadas Set To Emerge; Muhlenberg Professor, Researchers Who Mapped them 17 Years Ago Will Be There  

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National/International

Anya Litvak: FirstEnergy, Carl Icahn Reach Deal For Board Seats And Influence

AP: In A First, FERC Weighs Climate Change Impacts Of Natural Gas Pipeline

FT: Hydrogen: Can The Lightest Gas Turn Heavy Industry Green?

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[Posted: March 19, 2021]  PA Environment Digest

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