Monday, January 12, 2026

January 12 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” 

-- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution  [It’s Not A Suggestion]


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109 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA


Stories You May Have Missed Last Week: PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic


Post-Gazette: Pennsylvania Could Lose $200+ Million In Federal Funding For Abandoned Mine Reclamation, Plugging Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners Under Budget Bill Passed By US House


Appalachian Voices: Coal Community Groups Urge Congress To Reject $500 Million Raid On Abandoned Mine Cleanup Funds; PA Would Lose Over $169 Million


DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 13 To Hear Update On Oil & Gas Program; Discuss EQB Rulemaking Petition Process; Presentation On Data Centers & Water Use


DEP Issued Lazy Oil Company Violations For Abandoning 12 More Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Butler, Venango Counties


DEP: MarkWest Liberty Midstream Reports Losing 197,000 Gallons Of Pipeline Drilling Fluid Into Abandoned Mine Voids In 3 Incidents In Washington County; Total Losses Reach 734,600 Gallons


DEP: Report Submitted By CNX Gas Company/Consol Coal Company On Cleanup Of A Major Shale Gas Wastewater Spill In Morris Twp., Greene County Failed To Show It Met Act 2 Cleanup Standards


DEP Issues Water Quality Permits For The Appalachia To Market 3 Pipeline Project In Adams, York, Bedford Counties; 3 Other Natural Gas Pipeline Projects In Greene And Washington Counties


DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Permits For Appalachia Midstream 3 Mile Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline In Lycoming County; And A 2nd Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline In Bradford County


PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - January 10


DEP Improves Protections For Communities By Increasing Public Engagement Through New Environmental Justice Policy, Updated PennEnviroScreen EJ Tool


DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Consent Decree Covering Wastewater Discharges To Continue Operation Of The Keystone And Conemaugh Coal-Fired Power Plants In Indiana And Armstrong Counties


PUC Report Makes Recommendations Coming Out Of April/May Storms In The Greater Pittsburgh, State College Areas Causing 679,000 Electric Customers To Lose Power


Green Building Alliance Hosts Jan. 13 Online Roundtable On Restoring, Renovating Commercial Buildings Using C-PACE Financing


Sen. Boscola To Introduce 6-Bill Package To Protect Pennsylvania Communities And Ratepayers From Large-Scale A.I. Data Centers Rapidly Expanding Across The State


Vistra Corp Buys 2 More PA Natural Gas Power Plants; Facebook/Meta Buys 20 Years Of Power From Beaver Valley Nuclear Plant; 18 PA Power Plants Now Locked Up To Feed A.I. Data Centers


PJM Interconnection: 2025 Year In Review Part II: PJM Revised Market Rules With Goal Of Supporting Efficiency, Increasing Generation Resources


In Case You Missed It: A.I./Data Center Articles - NewClips From Last Week - January 12


Sen. Gene Yaw Elected Chair Of Interstate Chesapeake Bay Commission


Delaware County Conservation District, Volunteers, Watershed Groups Plant 700+ Trees, Shrubs In Prospect Park Boro, Ridley Township


Registration Open! 29th Annual Watershed Congress March 28 At Alvernia University, Berks County


Reminder! Keep PA Beautiful Litter Hawk Youth Award Entries Due January 31


PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In December


Western PA Conservancy: Local Families Donate More Than 2,400 Acres Of Forestland On Chestnut Ridge In Westmoreland County


Western PA Conservancy Protects 652 Acres Of Forestland in Fayette County Transferred To Forbes State Forest


Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy Partners With Landowner Allen Jones To Conserve 230 Acres In Snyder, Mifflin Counties


Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy Partners With Robin Read, John Bierley To Conserve 116 Acres In Lycoming County


Central Pennsylvania Conservancy, Parrish Family Partner To Preserve 91 Acres In Franklin County


Natural Lands Partners To Preserve 23.4 Acres In East Bradford Twp., Chester County


PA Environmental Council Awards $35,000 In PA Water Trail Mini-Grants To Support 7 Local Projects


Penn State Extension: Everybody Walk Across Pennsylvania Program - April 6 to June 1


Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults


Delaware Highlands Conservancy Accepting College Scholarship Applications


Wildlife Leadership Academy To Host Online Info Sessions Jan. 13, Feb. 4 For Students, Parents, Nominators On Summer Residential Field Experiences For Students 14 to 17


PA Office Of Outdoor Recreation Hosts Jan. 21 Webinar On Economic Impact Of Outdoor Recreation


News From PA House & Senate


The Feds - New Administration


Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events


Grants & Awards


PA Bulletin Public Notices - January 10


Stories Invited - About PA Environment Digest


Supporting Member PA Outdoor Writers Assn.; PA Trout Unlimited; PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers


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-- David Hess

Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection


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[Posted: January 12, 2026]  PA Environment Digest

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