Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 5.6.21

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

We Could Fund 4 To 6 TIMES The Number Of Local Environmental Projects We Do Now With The $200+Million Senate & House Surplus [PaEN]

Thomas & Marjorie Seibert Partner With French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust To Protect Nearly 20 Acres Of Woodlands  [PaEN]

2021 Riparian Forest Buffer Summit Presentations Now Available On Demand [PaEN]

PA Parks & Forests Foundation: Celebrate The Innovative, Amazing Work Of 19 COVID Champions May 12 Virtual Awards Ceremony [PaEN]

Deadline Extended: Nominations Now Being Accepted For Regional Women In Conservation Awards From Northeast [PaEN]

Keep PA Beautiful: The Consequences Of Illegal Dumping Trash, Tires - Abandoned Mine Fire In Northumberland County [PaEN]

Rachel McDevitt: Legislature Revives Effort To Create Special Standards For Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers

Gov. Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9° F Warmer by Midcentury, Precipitation To Increase, Targets Areas to Reduce Risk [PaEN]

Frank Kummer: PA Projected To Warm 5.9 Degrees By 2050, State Climate Report Says

Rachel McDevitt: State Climate Report Predicts Nearly 6 Degree Temperature Rise, More Heat Waves And Intense Storms By 2050

Laura Legere: DEP Climate Report Predicts Weeks Of 90-Degree Days By Mid-Century In PA

YorkDR: Why PA’s Annual Temperature is Expected To Rise 6 Degrees By The Middle Of The Century

Guest Essay: PA Needs Help On Climate Change, RGGI Is One Solution

Guess Essay: Here’s How To Build A More Equitable Future For PA With Clean Energy

ScrantonT: Midvalley, Upvalley Flooding Worst In Region After Storm, Roads Closed

Pike County Task Force Releases Results Of First-Of-Its-Kind Baseline Tick-Borne Illness Study  [PaEN]

Marcus Schneck: Lyme Disease Found In Nearly 40% Of Ticks In Pike County Study

PG: Fmr Hazelwood Coke Works Being Considered For Green Manufacturing Plant

Anya Litvak: Consol Energy, Finding Hungry Industrial Plants Abroad, Mines More Coal Than Ever Before

Joint Conservation Committee Held Informational Meeting On Harmful Algal Blooms [PaEN]

Don Hopey: Allegheny County Proposal Would Require Polluters To Reduce Pollution During Unfavorable Weather

MCall: Cancer Victims Sue Over Toxic Gas Emissions From B. Braun’s Lehigh Valley Plant, Claiming 3 Died

Pittsburgh Business Times: Proposed Natural Gas Power Plant Questioned By Neighbors In Allegheny, Westmoreland Counties

Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Drilling Adds To PA Marcellus Wells, Acreage In $69 Million Purchase

MCall: Lehigh Valley Region Ranked As Worst Place For People With Asthma To Live

MCall: PPL Moves Closer To $3.8 Billion Acquisition Of Rhode Island Utility

PUC: PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Meets Virtually May 11

Guest Essay: State Must Update PA’s Electric Choice Program

WBTimes: American Institute Of Mining Engineers Anniversary To Be Observed In Wilkes-Barre May 16

PA Resources Council Holds May 15 Household Chemical Collection Event In Cambria County [PaEN]

Delaware Highlands Conservancy Announces 2021 Upper Delaware River Photo Contest [PaEN]

TribLive: Paddling Sojourn On Conemaugh, Kiski Rivers Returns After Pandemic Hiatus

Inquirer: Drive Up To A Paddling Film Festival In Pottstown

ScrantonT: Anthracite Bicycle Coalition Gears Up For Next Chapter

ErieT: Bucket List: What To Do At Presque Isle State Park

CitizensV: Pool Owners Facing Chlorine Shortage This Summer

WITF: Wildlife Conservationists Sound Alarm On Deadly Chronic Wasting Disease In Deer

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Dept. Of Health: Reports 57 Additional Deaths Due To COVID; 2,476 New Cases-- 5.6.21 [From App]

National/International

Axios: Building New Wind And Solar Power Plants More Cost Effective Than Continuing To Run The Vast Majority Of Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants

The Guardian: Global Heating Pace Risks ‘Unstoppable’ Sea Level Rise As Antarctic Ice Sheet Melts

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[Posted: May 6, 2021]  PA Environment Digest