Wednesday PA Environmental NewsClips

Committee Info Meeting/Hearings TODAY

1:00: Senate Consumer Protection & Environment Committees hearing on Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards.

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PaEN: House Republicans Pass Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Waive Penalties, Provide Defenses To Violators
Op-Ed: Reducing Red Tape In Government Done Right - Rep. Cutler [Except, Read The Bills]

PaEN: House Republican Bills Providing Public Subsidies For Natural Gas Use Creates Political Commission To Set Environmental Standards, Make Individual Permit Decisions

PaEN: House Hearing: Bill To Aid Nuclear Plants Will Significantly Increase Electricity Costs For Businesses, Threatens Competitive Electric Market, Offers No Job Guarantees
Battle To Keep Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Open
Cong. Lamb Hosts Congressional Hearing Friday On Importance Of Nuclear Energy
Op-Ed: Politicians Think PA Heating And Light Bills Are Too Small [Nuclear Power]

NPR: Peach Bottom PA Nuclear Power Plant Illustrates Problem With Nuclear Waste Piling Up

PaEN: Agenda - Senate Republican Policy Committee Holds May 1 Workshop On Climate Change In PA

PaEN: Franklin Institute Hosts Global Warming Demystified Presentation May 14 In Philadelphia

Editorial: State Needs Consensus On Climate
Penn State To Fuel Energy Needs With Huge Franklin County Solar Array
Washington County Commissioners Use Impact Fees For Bridge, Park Projects

PaEN: Student Leader Involved In Passing Hellbender Recognition Says: We're Not Done

Editorial: Welcome To Stardom, Eastern Hellbender

PaEN: Senate Environmental Committee Unanimously OKs Renomination Of Dunn As DCNR Secretary

DEP Secretary’s Senate Reconfirmation Hearing Delayed Over Pipeline Concerns

PaEN: PUC's PA One Call Enforcement Committee Imposes $57,775 In Penalties For Hitting Pipelines, Underground Utilities

Meyer: In Pennsylvania Two Disparate Visions For Natural Gas

McKelvey: PFAS Chemical Levels Decline In York County Community, More Testing Under Way
Bagenstose: Cong. Boyle Introduces Bill To Force EPA To Set PFAS Chemical Standard

Allegheny County: Key Air Quality Measure Improved Last Year

PaEN: E-Town College Students Work With RiverStewards To Promote River Towns Like Marietta

PaEN: May 2 Harrisburg University Data Analytics Summit To Feature Partnership With Susquehanna River Basin Commission

Wilkes-Barre Aims to Get Solomon Creek Flood Wall Project Back On Track
Dredging Funds Raised To Keep Boat Racing Afloat On Schuylkill River

Bagenstose: Falls Twp Supervisors In Bucks Reject Elcon Hazardous Waste Facility Plan

Falls Twp In Bucks Turns Down Elcon Hazardous Waste Facility

Why Philadelphia is No Longer Burning Half Its Recyclables
Litter Continues To Build Up In Luzerne County
Washington County Tire Recycling Event Set For May 18

PaEN: Yough Senior High School Takes First Place In Westmoreland County Envirothon

PaEN: Erie Times-News Connect With Your Environment: It’s All Connected Edition

PaEN: Brodhead Watershed Assn. Native Plant Sale May 31 - June 1, Monroe County

PaEN: Audubon Society Of Western PA Native Plant Nursery Opens May 4 In Pittsburgh

PaEN: Go Native With Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Spring Native Plant Sale May 18-19, Berks County

PaEN: Brodhead Watershed Assn: May 11 - Birding For Kids; May 18 Walk In Woods That Work For Warblers, Monroe County

Scranton Lackawanna River RiverFest Celebration Set For May 11

PA Breaks Record With 15 Tornadoes So Far This Year

PA Bill Could Bring More Of Safest Bike Lanes To Philadelphia

Memorial Park To Open In Williamsport

PaEN: Game Commission Board To Study Saturday Deer Hunting Opener Ahead Of 2020 Season

Game Commission Might Reconsider Saturday Deer Hunting Opener In 2020

Saturday Start To Deer Hunting Season Might Not Be Permanent

PaEN: Senate Committee OKs Bill Allowing Fish & Boat Commission To Adopt Their Own Fees

Audubon Society Of Western PA Unable To Determine If Eaglet Swallowed Fishing Hook

Test Results From Donegal Creek  Fish-Kill Could Take A Month

75 Years Ago: Scranton Firefighter Dies Battling Forest Fire On West Mountain

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EIA: Renewables To Top Coal Electric Generation For First Time In April/May

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