Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.31.19

Exelon Commits $200M To Clean Up Chesapeake Bay; Critics Say It’s A Drop In The Bucket

Weather Channel: Innovative Solution To Pittsburgh’s Flooding Problem: Bioswales, Could Help Other Cities

Bringing Jenkintown Creek Back To Nature To Improve Water Quality Downstream

Lititz Council Reviews Stormwater Management Fee [Because Politicians Running General Assembly Won’t Help]

Late Stormwater Fee Payers Could Face Liens, $20 Fee In Luzerne [Because Politicians Running General Assembly Won’t Help]

Senate Passes Bill To Restrict Some Uses Of Firefighting Foams With PFAS; Clean Water Action Says Bill Is Meant To Protect Industry [PaEN]

Delaware River Basin Commission Hearing Nov. 13, Business Meeting Dec. 11 [PaEN]

Water Main Break Opens Sinkhole In Easton, Forces Evacuations

Philly Is Creating First-Ever Urban Agriculture Manifesto

Armstrong Ceilings Recycling Program Recognized With Northeast Recycling Council Sustainability Leadership Award [PaEN]

Reid Frazier: DEP, Equitrans Agree To $650,000 Settlement Over Storage Field Violations

Laura Legere: DEP Fines Equitrans Gas Storage Area $650,000 For Unmapped Wells In Path Of Coal Mine
PA Supreme Court To Consider Attorney General’s Long-Running Chesapeake Energy Gas Royalty Lawsuit.  Click Here for Court statement of issues.
Closing Bruce Mansfield Coal-Fired Power Plant Workers Cut, 49 Layoffs Expected In Feb.
Beaver County Officials Disheartened By Pittsburgh Mayor’s Dismissal Of More Petrochemical Development

EPA Removes Landfills In Chester, Lehigh Counties From National Superfund Site List [PaEN]

Professional Recyclers Of PA Now Accepting Presentation Proposals For 2020 Recycling & Organics Conference July 29-31 In Gettysburg [PaEN]

Dept. Of Human Services Will Begin Accepting Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Applications Nov. 1 [PaEN]

Senate Consumer Protection Committee Unanimously Reports Out Bill To Promote Electric, CNG, Hydrogen Vehicle Infrastructure Development [PaEN]

Pittsburgh Mayor: Pittsburgh’s Business Community Should Do More To Fight Climate Change

Pollinator Project Will Complement Penn State Solar Power Project In Franklin County [PaEN]

Philadelphia Magazine: What Can A City Do About Climate Change? http://bit.ly/335sy0n

Philadelphia’s $200 Million Plan To Save FDR Park

WITF Smart Talk: Bill Requiring Insurance Companies To Pay For Long-Term Lyme Disease Treatment

PA Photographer Captures The Horror Of Invasive Spotted Lanternfly

DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanians: Lindsay Hughes, North Penn Water Authority [PaEN]

DCNR Good Natured Blog: It’s Not Just Faith That Moves Mountains [PaEN]

Oct. 30 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR [PaEN]

Fish & Boat Commission Honors Law Enforcement Officers With Lifesaving Awards

Marcus Schneck: Sunday Hunting Bill Passes House, Returns To Senate For Concurrence

John Buffone: Sunday Hunting Bill Passes House, Now Back To Senate

Caruso: Bill Allowing Sunday Deer Hunting One Step Closer To Governor’s Desk

Mary Ann Thomas: New Population Of Hellbenders Found In Butler County

Marcus Schneck: Hellbenders Found In Butler County For First Time

Thursday PA Capitol NewsClips 10.31.19 -- Click Here

Wildfires

AP; Anger Grows As Utility Struggles To Get Its Blackouts Right In California Wildfires

National/International

Op-Ed: Ramping Up Ethanol Production Makes No Sense

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