Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 1.23.20

KDKA Radio: House Speaker Mike Turzai Says He’s Not Running For Re-Election, Hopes To Move Into Private Sector.
Analysis: 2020 Is A Make Or Break Year For Environmental Funding - It’s Our Turn Now!

CFA Starts Accepting Applications Feb. 1 For Act 13 Watershed Restoration, Mine Reclamation, Sewage, Flood Mitigation, Recreation Grants [PaEN]

Republicans On House Environmental Committee Vote To Recommend IRRC Disapprove Triennial Water Quality Standards/ Stream Designation Regulation [PaEN]

Our Pocono Waters Coalition Leads Monroe County Regional Officials On Stream Education Tour [PaEN]

Westmoreland Twp Proposes Stormwater Pond On Tech Center Land

Report: PFAS Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Nationwide, Philadelphia Water Below EPA Action Limit

PA Supreme Court Overturns Rule Of Capture Trespass Decision, But Allows Challenge Of Actual Trespass [PaEN]
Laura Legere: PA Supreme Court Preserves Rule Of Capture For Fracking

AG Shapiro Joins Other Attorneys General In Filing Brief Supporting Lancaster County Landowners In Challenge Of FERC Pipeline Tolling Order Process [PaEN]

CFA Awards 4 Natural Gas Pipeline Service Extension Grants Totalling $2.3 Million In Chester, Monroe, Northampton Counties [PaEN]

Andrew Maykuth: Hilco Plans To Clean Up Polluted Philly Refinery Site On Aggressive Timeline, City Says

New Owner Of Philly Refinery Has No Plans To Continue Refinery Operations, City Says
Andrew Maykuth: Hilco’s $240M Bid For Philly Refinery Wasn’t The Highest Offer, Aggrieved Creditors Say
Delaware RiverKeeper Jan. 24 RiverWatch Video Report

AG Shapiro Joins 3 Other States In Opposing Rollback Of Federal Regulations On Coal Ash Disposal [PaEN]

PPG Paints Now Fully Lead Free, But What About Old Paint Chips?

DEP Issues Code Orange Air Quality Action Day For Thursday, Jan. 23 In Allegheny County [PaEN]

Allegheny County Reckons With New Clean Air Challenges

Brian O’Neill: Studies Come And Go As Earth Heats Up - Ridge 21st Century Environment Commission Report

Luzerne County Levee Meetings Not Open To Public On Areas No Longer Qualified For Lower Flood Insurance Rates
Environment Erie Cites Funding Issues For Closure

4 Ways Philly Can Fight Illegal Dumping

Lower Windsor Twp Residents Worried About Modern Landfill Expansion

Northeast Recycling Council Spring Conference Set For April 20-21 In Connecticut [PaEN]

It’s Haverford Twp vs. Billboards As Trial Begins In Delaware County

Pittsburgh To Begin Landslide Remediation Projects In Squirrel Hill, Duquesne Heights

Good Natured Pennsylvanians: Pia van de Venne, Friends Of Murrysville Parks, Westmoreland County [PaEN]

Marcus Schneck: Fayette County Campground KOA Campground Of The Year

Pittsburgh Council Proposes Control Of Funding Generated By Parks Tax

Dauphin County Seeking Public Input On Future Of New, 411-Acre Park

Jan. 22 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR [PaEN]

More Than 7,800 Birds Fledged Through DCNR’s Cavity Nesting Trails Program [PaEN]

Game Commission Sees Increase In Rifle Range Damage, Asks Users To Report Abuse

Earth Day 50 PA

DCNR Good Natured Blog: Earth Day 50 Series: Helping The Earth One Light Bulb At A Time [PaEN]

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Wildfires

BBC: U.S. Crew Of Firefighting Plane Dead After Crash In Australia

Australian Wildfires Unleash Millions Of Tons Of Carbon Dioxide

National/International
Ohio Nuclear Bailout Repeal Effort Now Dead
FERC Order May Have Paradoxically Unintended Consequences: PJM

Siemens CEO: Renewable Energy Is The Future

Ivanka Trump Refuses To Criticize Greta Thunberg Like Her Father

Op-Ed: Green Activists Could Torpedo Trump’s Appeal To PA Reagan Democrats

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[Posted: January 23, 2020]  PA Environment Digest