PA Environment Digest Blog: This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips--

-- Ohio River Basin Alliance Responds To Listing Of Ohio River As America's 2nd Most Endangered River In The Nation; Lehigh River On List Too [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: Ohio River Ranks 2nd On America’s Most Endangered List By American Rivers Group

-- MCall - Evan Jones: Lehigh River Named One Of 10 Most Endangered In Country; Warehouses And Poor Planning Blamed In Report

-- Pocono Record: Warehouse Growth Puts PA’s Lehigh River On Most Endangered List

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Lehigh River Listed As ‘Most Endangered’ River In U.S. Due To Rampant Warehouse Developments

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Local Leaders, DOT Must Stop Plant In Wyalusing, Bradford County To Ship LNG Natural Gas By Rail Or Truck Or Both To Philadelphia [PaEN]

-- American Rivers: Lehigh And Ohio Rivers Listed In America’s 10 Most Endangered Rivers

-- Good Idea? House Bill 914 (Leadbeter-R-Columbia) requires DEP to approve the “beneficial use and reuse” of oil and gas drill cuttings as structural fill, soil substitutes, soil additives, raw materials for other products including for aggregates, construction-related materials or agricultural uses and for the extraction and recovery of critical minerals.

-- Utility Dive: PJM Asks FERC To Help Resolve Complaints With 8 Power Companies Over Winter Storm Elliott Nonperformance Penalties [About 200 Companies Face Penalties]

-- Marcellus Drilling News/CMU: 10% Of Natural Gas Pipeline Compressors Vulnerable To Outages Because They Run On Electricity

-- The Guardian: Nearly 120 Million In U.S. Exposed To Unhealthy Levels Of Soot And Smog- Pittsburgh, Lancaster Worst Areas For Particulate Pollution East Of The Mississippi- American Lung Assn. Report

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Air Quality Improves In New Report, But Takes Steps Back, Too

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley Has Some Of The Worst Air Quality In The Country

-- PennLive: Harrisburg Area Air Quality Gets Mixed Grades

-- UnionProgress.com: Half Of 1.8 Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S. Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works

-- Reuters: How Federal Clean Air Act Lets Closed Coal-fired Power Plants Keep Polluting For Years

-- Washington Examiner: Republican PA Cong. Reschenthaler Blames Biden For Closure Of Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant

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