Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 8.28.20

House returns to voting session Sept. 1 & 2 and then Sept. 15 or at the Call Of The House Speaker

Senate returns to voting session Sept. 8 or at the Call Of President Pro Tempore

Mariner East Pipeline Can Resume Construction In Chester County Under Temporary Supercedeas Granted By Environmental Hearing Board [PaEN]

Federal Court Tosses Out EPA Approval Of Lax Power Plant Emissions  Plan For PA

PA Must Address Gaping Loopholes Allowing Coal-Fired Power Plants To Poison Air [Release]

Petition Demands Info About Air Pollution At U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works

Keep PA Beautiful Recognizes Faith Milazzo Of Allegheny County With Inaugural Community Pride Award [PaEN]

Joint Conservation Committee Hearing On State Park, Forest Friends Groups Sept. 15 [PaEN]

Anya Litvak: PUC Again Delays Discussion About Utility Shutoff Ban

Andrew Maykuth: PUC Retains Ban On Utilities Shutting Off Nonpaying Customers

Lights Out All Over Western PA As Wind, Rain Move Through

Over 60,000 Affected By Power Outages As Severe T-Storms, Rain Roll Thru Western PA

Storm Knocks Down Power Lines, Trees In Lehigh Valley

Reading & Northern Railroad Sues Wyoming Authority Over Stormwater Fee

PUC To Investigate Rate Increase By Reynolds Wastewater Company

DEP Provides $5.1 Million In Volkswagen Settlement Funding For Cleaner Air,  Cleaner Transportation Projects [PaEN]

Advanced Biofuels Show Promise For Replacing Some Fossil Fuels

EPA Accepting Nominations For 2021 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program [PaEN]

Delaware RiverKeeper Aug. 28 RiverWatch Video Report

Grants Will Cover Costs Of Recurring Flooding Problems On Monroeville Street

Shippensburg, Dickinson Join Statewide Partnership To Address Climate Change [PaEN]

Beaver County Municipalities To Join State Climate Change Program

Penn State Black Walnut Trial Turns 40, Now Ideal Climate-Change Experiment [PaEN]

Mosquitoes Test Positive For West Nile Virus In Centre County

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary To Host Fall Native Plant Sale Sept. 12 [PaEN]

Fall Driving Tour In Elk Country

Dirt Bike Crackdown In Allentown Will Be First Of Many

Student Completes Virtual Internship With Fish & Boat Commission [PaEN]

Help Wanted: Stroud Water Research Center Watershed Restoration Coordinator [PaEN]

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Other States/National

Exelon Vows To Close 2 Nuclear Plants In Illinois After Bribery Scandal

Ohio Legislators Balk At Ending FirstEnergy Subsidies After Bribery Scandal

Ohio AG Considering Lawsuit To Halt Nuclear Plant Surcharge

AP: FirstEnergy Had big Stake In Tainted Nuclear Plant Bailout

Nuclear Energy Politics: Bribes, Corruption, Lies

U.S. Senate Democrats Reveal Climate Plant That Could Define Clean Energy Policy Under Biden

AP: Hurricane Laura Further Strains FEMA In Disaster-Filled Year

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[Posted: August 28, 2020]  PA Environment Digest