Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 6.4.21

Senate returns to voting session June 7, 8, 9

House returns to voting session June 7, 8, 9

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Environmental Quality Board To Consider Moving Ahead With PFOA MCL; Final PFOA/PFOS Soil & Groundwater Cleanup Standard June 15  [PaEN]

DEP: Final Sampling Results Do Not Show Widespread PFAS Contamination In Public Water Supply Systems [PaEN]

Wallace McKelvey: Toxic PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In Drinking Water Across PA: Search The Database

DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear About Energy Storage, Climate Change Impacts, Clean Energy Workforce Needs June 15  [PaEN]

NFWF/EPA Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Awards $4.9 Million In Grants To Benefit PA Portion Of Bay Watershed  [PaEN]

WBTimes: Cong. Cartwright Announces $848,440 Grant For Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority For Stormwater Improvements

WilliamsportS: Lycoming County Water & Sewer Authority OKs Growing Greener Grant To Retrofit Stormwater Basin

Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay Program Mulls Fixes For Lagging Chesapeake Cleanup Efforts

LancasterOnline: Water Street Park In Lancaster Has New Rain Garden

Delaware RiverKeeper June 4 RiverWatch Video Report

Nominations Open For Northeastern Pennsylvania Environmental Partnership Awards  [PaEN]

MCall: The Untold Story Of How 1,000 Acres Of Fmr Bethlehem Steel Land Became An Economic Powerhouse

EPA: Six PA Communities Receive $3 Million In Brownfields Grants  [PaEN]

PG: Regional Leaders Push For State Support Of Promise At Hazelwood Green Brownfield Redevelopment

Don Hopey: Pittsburgh Region Leaders Press EPA On Lead Water Needs And Fixes

House Environmental Committee Hearing June 22 On Pennsylvania CO2 And Climate [PaEN]

Eco-Friendly Process To Convert Carbon Dioxide Back Into Fuel Offers Way To Close The Carbon Loop  [PaEN]

Ben Franklin BIG Idea Contest: Tech Innovators, Small Manufacturers In Central & Northern PA Can Win Up To $50,000 [PaEN]

Guest Essay: Renewable Fuel Standard Makes Us More Reliant On Foreign Oil

DEP Approves Keystone Landfill Expansion In Lackawanna County; Recommends Change In Law Requiring Host Municipality To Agree To Expansions [PaEN]

ScrantonT: DEP Approves Massive Keystone Sanitary Landfill Expansion

PG: Covestro To Address How Recycled Food Waste, Fashion, Mattresses Make Up Circular Economy

KYW: Catalytic Converter Thefts On Rise Across Philadelphia Region, Especially From Trucks

Northeast Recycling Council Accepting Nominations For Environmental Sustainability Leadership Award [PaEN]

Utility Dive: Nuclear Capacity Increases By 4.5GW, Coal Loses 8GW In PJM Capacity Auction

Plan Philly: A Certified ‘Champion,’ Philly’s Great Beech Tree Is Dying, Over 150 Years After It Was Planted

Reading Eagle: COVID To Make Schuylkill River Sojourn Shorter And Later This Summer

PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers: 2021 Sojourn Schedule

PennLive: Little Buffalo State Park To Close Pool This Weekend Due To Lack Of Lifeguards

TribLive: Is It COVID Or Lyme Disease? If You’re Vaccinated And Have A Rash, It’s Easier To Diagnose

Marcus Schneck: Allegheny National Forest Gets Additional 2 Miles Of Riverfront

Brian Whipkey: Senate Bill Would Allow Game Commission To Decide Future Of Sunday Hunting

PG: Concrete Birdhouses Are Part Of New Public Art On Allegheny River In Pittsburgh

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Dept. Of Health: Reports 30 Additional Deaths Due To COVID; 703 New Cases; 54.7% Fully Vaccinated (Age 18+) --6.4.21

Biden Infrastructure Plan

USA Today: Biden Offers To Keep 2017 Tax Cuts Intact To Pay For Infrastructure In Concession To Republicans

WPost: Biden Offers Tax Concession In Infrastructure Talks With Key Republican

PA Cap-Star: Casey: It’s Time To ‘Chart A New Course’ With Proposed Infrastructure Bill

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[Posted: June 4, 2021]  PA Environment Digest