PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Yaw Introduces Skill Gambling Games Regulation Bill Directing Some Revenue To Clean Streams Fund [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Celebrates Earth Day With Dr. Watt R.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Mike Kelley -- Post-Gazette: PA Republican US Senator McCormick Tells Hundreds Of Local Republicans To Keep 2024 Momentum Going -- TribLive: Republican PA US Senator McCormick: President Making Progress On Trade Deals -- Centre Daily Times: PA Republican Cong. Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4%

Politics

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission Hearing May 7; Business Meeting June 11 [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4% Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission Hearing May 7; Business Meeting June 11 [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4%

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

Million In Energy Costs In 2024 [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Critics Slam Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant For Not Reporting Fire In Damaged Unit 2 Reactor Building Feb. 11-13 In State College -- Penn State Master Gardeners: Ken & Mee Park In Montgomery County Recognized With Pollinator Habitat Of Merit Award; Aug. And Saved $44.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW [PaEN] -- Fox45: PA Republican Sen. And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW [PaEN] -- Fox45: PA Republican Sen.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Data Center, The Countrys Largest Natural Gas Power Plant [ PDF of Article ] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Homer City Reinventing Itself As Datacenter Campus With Lots Of Natural Gas Power To Supply It -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Homer City Coal Power Plant Site To Become A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

Of Health Briefing On State Response To Leak Now Available On Demand [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 5 to 11 - Late Night Conventional Wastewater Road Dumping Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order; Pipeline Leak Investigation Expands To 2 Other Counties; More Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: April 22, 2024] PA Environment Digest More Than 100 Volunteers Clean Up 30 Miles Of River Banks In Huntingdon, Blair Counties Yuengling Brewery, Keep PA Beautiful Celebrate Partnership With Cleanup In Schuylkill County PA Chapter American Planning Assn. .: Click Here for a Calendar of Upcoming Events.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2024

Magnitude Earthquake Confirmed In Berks County -- MCall: 2.4 National- $3.67 Magnitude Earthquake Confirmed In Berks County -- MCall: 2.4 National- $3.67 Magnitude Earthquake Confirmed In Berks County -- MCall: 2.4 National- $3.67

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2023

Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant [No Specifics Yet] -- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That? -- NextPittsburgh: DEP Awards $3.7 Million To Support 22 Environmental Restoration Projects In Southwestern PA [ Jan.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

Read more here about how PA’s largest gas producer thinks it’s our “duty” to send LNG Gas to support our major competitor China.] -- April 9-- House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 1943 (McNeill-D-Lehigh) requires disclosure of all chemicals used in oil and gas well fracking ( sponsor summary ).

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

StreamWatch Volunteer Training May 20 In Monroe County [PaEN] -- CBF: Proposed Settlement Of Lawsuit Against EPA For Failing To Hold Pennsylvania Accountable For Meeting Chesapeake Bay Water Pollution Reduction Goals Focuses On Actions In 7 PA Counties [PaEN] -- New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

Withdraws Request To EPA To Be Considered In Compliance With Federal Air Quality Standards -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Work Continues On Luzerne Abandoned Mine Subsidence; Second Hole Opens In Swoyersville -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Second Hole Opens From Abandoned Mine Subsidence In Swoyersville -- WNEP: Crews Repair Abandoned Mine Subsidences In Luzerne County, (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

No Video Coverage] -- April 8-- House Republican Policy Committee hearing on “Fueling Pennsylvania’s Future - Liquid Natural Gas” Exports. Rules Committee Room. Off the Flood - Sometime After Session Begins. [No Room 418 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0 National- $3.58

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019 and brings ethane feedstock from natural gas to the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County. [In Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Earth Day: Water At Risk: 'Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness' - Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment - By Carol Hillestad for the Brodhead Watershed Association [PaEN] -- City & State PA: Q/A With Sen.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2024

26-27 In Bethlehem, PA Susquehanna River Basin Commission Newsletter Highlights Proposed York County Hydroelectric Project; Filling Water Use Data Gaps; 2023 Annual Report Two BioBlitz Events, Earth Day Events In Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster Counties Coming Up! PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2024

Posted: April 7, 2024] PA Environment Digest Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2024

Complain About Noise From Allshouse Oil Well Compressor -- Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition Official Joins Pittsburgh-based EQT In Saying We Have A 'Duty’ To Provide LNG Gas To China, Our Economic, Military Competitor [PaEN] -- The Energy Age Blog: Gas Profiteers: It’s Our ‘Duty’ To Provide Gas To China -- DEP Issues $1.1

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

1 Deadline -- Penn State Extension, PA Sea Grant Host June 7 Webinar On Aquatic Invasive Species [PaEN] -- The Nature Conservancy-PA: Return Of Bog Events; Explore TNC Preserves; Federal Funding Benefits Philly Trees; Much More!

Conservation

Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

Minnesota’s Environmental Trust Fund, With Potential Changes, To Be On 2024 Ballots Lawmakers are debating potential modifications to the state’s Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, which, per the Minnesota Constitution, allocates 40 percent of net state lottery proceeds to fund environmental projects, the Minnesota Post reports.

2023

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2024

Report Harrisburg Area’s Air Quality Is Among Worst On East Coast -- PennLive: PA’s Summer 2024 Forecast Is Sultry And Soggy -- American Lung Assn. 2024 State Of Air Report Reveals Most Hazardous Air Quality Days In 25 Years -- Pittsburgh Works Industry Group: Upcoming American Lung Assn. Of State Webpage -- DEP Awards $2.9

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2024

Posted: April 21, 2024] PA Environment Digest Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2024

Joseph Center In Baden April 20 -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy To Host Free Earth Month Events At 2 City Parks -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Casey Announces $1.35 Of Revenue Reports March Tax Revenue $289.9

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

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Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

in Somerset County -- WHYY: My Climate Story: Philly Students Take Science From Abstract To Personal -- Reading Eagle: Berks Nature Nonprofit Has Evolved Over Its 50-Year History -- MCall: C.F.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2024

Shapiro Needs To Fix It - By Conservative Commonwealth Foundation -- Post-Gazette: PA Cong.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2024

Ohio- $3.44 -- Baker Hughes: PA Gas Drilling Rigs No Change From Last Week- 22 Other States/National/International -- Utility Dive: Electric Grid Interconnection Queues Jumped 27% To 2.6 National- $3.63 TW In 2023; Led By Solar, Storage - DOE Lab -- Dept.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2024

Billion Cubic Feet Of Gas From The Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area In Cambria County [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Cambria County Gas Storage Well Blowout Brings $1.1 Million Penalty For Equitrans -- WJAC: DEP Fines Equitrans Gas Company $1.1 Posted: April 14, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Wolf on April 21, 2021 (Earth Day) they would reject all future nominees to the PUC until he withdraws his executive order joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. Tom Wolf for his nominations, along with the Pennsylvania Senate for its support of all three nominations earlier.

2017

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

Million In Funding For Clean Water Infrastructure To Protect Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware River Basin -- Brodhead Watershed Assn. Million In Funding For Clean Water Infrastructure To Protect Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware River Basin -- Brodhead Watershed Assn.

Earth Day

Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new bill introduced in the Ohio House would prevent the removal of oil and natural gas from beneath Lake Erie. Congress has authorized $425 million for fiscal year 2024. billion for the conservation of at-risk species, Michigan Radio reports.

Government

Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta SOMO PaulaR Fri, 03/01/2024 - 15:21 Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Read more Audrey Gaughran Shell cannot be allowed to divest from the onshore oil industry in the Niger Delta before it takes responsibility for its toxic legacy of pollution and the safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say Follow the Money PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 16:59 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Matthew Green, Merel de Buck & Birte Schohaus Latest Shell-files show that the company reflected on climate change caused by fossil products as early as the 1970s.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell faces shareholder rebellion over climate activist resolution The Guardian PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:51 Tuesday, January 16, 2024 Read more Jillian Ambrose Investors including UK’s biggest pension scheme agree to back call for oil firm to set bigger emissions targets Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural (..)

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

But by a wild coincidence, E&E News released a story the very next day about its interview with Kennedy that addressed those questions. Others may surprise you , like his embrace of natural gas as a fuel and his reservations about regulating emissions. Some of his answers may be what you expected. to burn it instead.

Fossil Fuels