Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 8.13.20

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

House returns to voting session Sept. 15 or at the Call Of The House Speaker [May be back late August for election fixes Read More Here.]

EPA Accepting Applications For Over $3.6 Million In Grants To Reduce Nutrient Runoff From Farms In 38 Chesapeake Bay-Related PA Watersheds [PaEN]

Op-Ed: To Create Jobs, Protect Public Lands, PA Needs A Conservation Corps

Largest Single Sloped Solar Array In The U.S. Completed Atop Pittsburgh’s Mill 19 At Hazelwood Green Site [PaEN]

Dept. Of Health Makes Available Free Potassium Iodide Tablets Around PA’s 5 Nuclear Power Plants [PaEN]

Susan Phillips: Paddle Protest At Marsh Creek Lake Calls For Mariner East Pipeline Shutdown

PA Energy Infrastructure Alliance: Mariner East Pipeline Inadvertent Returns Simply Political Soapboxes For Pipeline Opponents

Marcellus Shale Coalition: Natural Gas Production, Consumption Rise, Methane Emissions, Air Pollutant Decline

Anya Litvak: Gov. Wolf Nominates Hayley Book For PUC, State’s Lead In Joining Carbon Pollution Reduction Program From Power Plants

New Advisory Panel On Climate Change Starts Work At Delaware River Basin Commission

Letter: Climate Change Is Still Our Greatest Threat

Eastwick Residents In Philadelphia Call For Aid After ‘Devastating’ Flooding

Aspinwall Eyes Green Infrastructure Project To Reduce Stormwater Overflow

Boil Water Advisory Issued For 2 Pittsburgh Neighborhoods After Water Main Break

Allentown Council Approves Settlement With Lehigh Authority Over Water-Sewer Lease Disputes

Sewage Treatment Plant In Avonmore To Get $3.3 Million Upgrade

Advanced Recycling Bill Passed House Would Harm The Environment Report Says

Kiski Watershed Assn. To Hold Highway Cleanup In Leechburg, Gilpin

$10 Million Pledge To Get More Philly Black, Latinx People, Women In STEM Careers

Erin Negley: Zinnias Easy To Grow, Bloom For Months, Are Butterfly Magnets

Meadville Bike Share Service Gears Up For Spring Start

Lackawanna County Sheriffs To Patrol For ATV Riders

DCNR Puts Efforts In Place To Mitigate State Park Overcrowding, But It’s Difficult

Letter: Act Now To Protect The Yough From Natural Gas Power Plant

Marcus Schneck: Deer In The Headlights Safer With altered Light Design

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Other States/National

Wildfires Destroy More Than 60,000 Acres In California, Colorado, Oregon

AP: Six Fmr Republican, Democratic EPA Heads Call For An Agency Reset After Presidential Election

The Guardian: DOE Proposes Changes In Water Conservation Rules For Shower Heads After Trump’s Hair-Washing Moan ‘My Hair Has To Be Perfect’

AP: EPA Expected To Undo Methane Leak Rule For Oil, Gas Industry

The Guardian: Last Decade Was Earth’s Hottest On Record As Climate Crisis Accelerates

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[Posted: August 13, 2020]  PA Environment Digest