Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 4.25.20

House is scheduled to be in voting session April 27, 28 and 29. 

Senate expected to return to session at some point next week

SATURDAY Live Briefing: Secretary Of Health Provides Coronavirus Update at Noon.  Watch Live:  https://www.governor.pa.gov/live/ or facebook.com/governorwolf/  or pacast.com/live/doh

Op-Ed: 50th Earth Day: Time To Consider Wiser Course - We Are All Of This Earth And Dependent On It - Bernie McGurl, Lackawanna River Conservation Association

Fmr EPA Officials Release Special Environmental Protection - A Half Century Of Progress Reports For Students, Teachers [PaEN]

More Funding Provided For Federal COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program For Nonprofits, Small Businesses [PaEN]

PA Recreation & Park Society Opposes Republican Efforts To Freeze Funding For Local Park, Recreation, Conservation Projects [PaEN]

PA Parks & Forests Foundation: Republican Efforts To Freeze Conservation Funding Will Hurt Communities, Small Businesses [PaEN]

PA Environmental Council: Almost All Funds Targeted By Republican Freeze Support Local Environmental, Conservation Efforts [PaEN]

PennVEST Provides $116 Million To Fund 16 Water Infrastructure Projects In 13 Counties [PaEN]

Butler Senior High Students Couldn’t Be There On Release Day For Their Trout In The Classroom Project, But They Found A Way [PaEN]

DEP Invites Comments On TMDL For Stream In Bedford County [PaEN]

DEP Receives Good Samaritan Act Proposals To Plug 2 Abandoned Wells In Wyoming, Venango Counties [PaEN]

DEP Begins 2020 Black Fly Control Program In 35 Counties [PaEN]

Reid Frazier: Why One Writer Says COVID-19 Is Like Climate Change On Steroids

The Guardian: COVID-19 Virus Detected On Particles Of Air Pollution

PA Resources Council Asks Public To Sort, Save, Store Materials For Upcoming Collection Events; Recycling & Waste Reduction Webinars Set [PaEN]

Recycling Collection To resume In New Kensington

Health Dept. Receives 1,200 Complaints From Workers Saying Businesses Are Not Following Worker Protection Guidelines [PaCN]

DEP Posts Guidelines For Emergency Land Application Of Milk [PaEN]

April 30 PUC Meeting To Be Conducted Telephonically [PaEN]

Columbia Gas Files For Rate Increase With PUC To Replace, Upgrade Aging Infrastructure

DEP Posts 55 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 25 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

Op-Ed: Open Pennsylvania Parks For Early Recovery From COVID-19 [PaEN]

Mira Lloyd Dock: A Beautiful Crusade Online Event April 29 [PaEN]

Pittsburgh School Gets Park Grant From Noble Environmental

April 24 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]

Nature Watch: Avocet Sighting A Rarity For Erie County

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Other States/National/International

EPA Awards $920,000 In Clean Diesel Grants To Clean Up 47 Buses In PA [PaEN]

Coal’s Collapse Could Lead To A Landscape Of Abandoned Mines

Reuters: U.S. Weighs Taking Equity Stakes In U.S. Energy Companies Secretary Of Treasury Says

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[Posted: April 25, 2020]  PA Environment Digest