PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Kober [PaEN] -- Erie Times: US Attorney Moves To End Prosecution Of Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Chief, Further Curtailing Case Involving Felony Charges Brought By A Grand Jury For Illegal Air Pollution -- WHYY: Philly Schools Delayed Asbestos Inspections And ‘Knowingly’ Failed To Make Repairs: US Dept. 7, 21, Sept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Residents Will Have Drinkable Water By 2026 -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leaks For Potential Environmental Crimes In Bucks County [Convicted Of Other Criminal Charges, Penalized Over $48.1

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Visit DEPs Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PA American To Provide Clean Drinking Water In Dimock To Replace Fracking-Contaminated Private Wells [ PDF of Article ] -- WVIA: PA American Water: Dimock Twp. Posted: March 16, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Visit DEPs Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities. Posted: June 1, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

PA Interfaith Power & Light May 1 to 31 Caring For Every Body Moving Through Nature Bike & Hike -- Lehigh Valleys Wildlands Conservancy Highlights April Educational Programs; Tree Planting; Hikes; Summer Camps -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Its Spring!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Of Agriculture Issues Firewood Quarantine Order For Firewood From Outside The State Or Traveling Through The State Unless Heat Treated To Prevent The Spread Of Invasive Species -- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Newsletter: Our Values In Action; News Around The Watershed; Recreation Access For All; Opportunities For All; New Podcast; Upcoming Events (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Of Environmental Educators Conference March 10-12 In Erie [PaEN] -- Educators Invited To Southwest PA Environmental Literacy Coalition Online Meetings Oct. Of Environmental Educators Conference March 10-12 In Erie [PaEN] -- Educators Invited To Southwest PA Environmental Literacy Coalition Online Meetings Oct.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2025

Fitzpatrick To Keep Federal Clean Energy Tax Credits; Some Feel Abandoned By Republican Rollbacks -- Williamsport Sun Letter: Senate Bill Setting Decommissioning Requirements For Solar Energy Facilities Misplaced Compared To Other Energy Source s - By Dan Alters -- PUC Reminder: June 1 Electric Price Increases Now In Effect - Tips On How To Take Control (..)

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PennDOT Opens 3 New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations In Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia Counties -- WHYY: These Philly-Area Doulas Want Parents To Think About Their Exposures To Heat, Air Pollution, Lead, Other Toxins -- Williamsport Sun: Signs Opposing Solar-Chicken Farm In Muncy Creek Twp.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

7:00 p.m. -- AP: States Are Rolling Out Red Carpets For Data Centers, But Some Lawmakers Are Pushing Back [PA Included] -- KYW: Emergency Siren Tests At Limerick, Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plants This Week -- PennFuture: PJM Interconnection Admits Its Bias For Fossil Fuel Power Plants, Rather Than New, Cheaper Shovel-Ready Clean Energy Projects -- (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Particulate Pollution Standard] -- Southwest PA Breathe Project : At 7:30 a.m 8 at the Clairton-Liberty Air Pollution Monitor PM 2.5 Pollution Was 2nd Worst In The US -- Penn State Extension: Restarting Old Nuclear Power Plants - Can It Be Done? 8 at the Clairton-Liberty Air Pollution Monitor PM 2.5

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

Shapiro: Lightning Plan Tax Credit Bill, Community Energy Pass PA House [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA House Approves Shapiros Energy Plan Tax Credit Bill -- Bucks County Beacon: Bucks County Audubon Society Showcases Its Rooftop Solar Panel Project At The honey Hollow Education Center -- TribLive Guest Essay: Allegheny County Power Outages (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

This includes harms from pollution from carbon-based energy, which medical research finds is the leading environmental threat to childrens health. For more information on programs, initiatives, upcoming events and how you can get involved, visit the Evangelical Environmental Network website. ENN is based in New Freedom, York County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

14 - Shale Gas Well Ordered Plugged After 8 Years; 20 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Well Leaking Gas For 23 Months And Counting [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

28 to Oct. 28 to Oct. 28 to Oct. 28 to Oct. 6 [PaEN] Background On Issues -- Lt.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

12 to 14 In Warren County [PaEN] -- Environmental Defense Fund, Moms Clean Air Force To Hold Public Meetings In 3 Northwest PA Counties On A Project To Test New Methods Of Locating Abandoned Conventional Oil, Gas Wells [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Webinar On Local Comprehensive Plans In Pennsylvania Sept. 11 Webinar On $396.1

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2024

Of Environmental Educators Announce 2024 Award Winners Republican Rep.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Senate session schedule- January 3, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 February 1, 27, 28 March 1, 6, 7, 8 Budget hearings: March 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 and April 11, 12, 13 April 24, 25, 26 May 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 June 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule House returns to voting session January 3 [Democrats, (..)

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works For 2nd Quarter [PaEN] -- WESA: Allegheny County Levees $307,000 In Fines On US Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: U.S. Steel Ready To Close 3 Of 10 Batteries At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works -- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: U.S.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

13, 14, 15 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 2075 (Knowles-R- Schuylkill) abrogating DEP’s air pollution control regulations covering heavy-duty trucks [Note: DEP already suspended enforcement of these regulations November 6 - Read more here.];

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

For Particulate Air Pollution - Harrisburg, York, Lancaster Region Related Articles This Week: -- Gov. Fiedler, Labor Leaders, Educational, Environmental Leaders Announce Bill To Create Grant Program To Invest In Solar Energy Facilities At Schools [PaEN] -- U.S.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Post-Gazette: More Research Links Air Pollution Exposure And COVID Risk -- The Guardian: ‘Everything Was Orange,’ U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

After Extensive Winter Storm Disruptions -- PJM Interconnection, Penn State ISO-NE Awarded $815,959 US DOE Grant To Improve Wholesale Electricity Market Design -- Bloomberg: Texas Utility Makes Case Pipeline Prices Unfairly Drove Up Gas Prices In 2021 Storm -- Bloomberg: Federal Trade Commission Alleges Shale Producer Scott Sheffield [Pioneer] Tried (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2024

10 Birds & Brew -- PA Interfaith Power & Light Interfaith Climate Convening Set For Sept. 10 Birds & Brew -- PA Interfaith Power & Light Interfaith Climate Convening Set For Sept. Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

2-3 In-Person Educator Workshop- Dive Even Deeper: Watershed Literacy And Tree Plantings In Lancaster County [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Holds Watershed Exploration Programs For Students In Grades 6 to 12 From 8 PA Schools In September, October [PaEN] -- PA Assn. Of Agriculture Invests $1.5 4 In York County, Sept. 11 Webinar On $396.1

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Click Here to watch live. -- Feature-- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen -- Like With Natural Gas Infrastructure Today [PaEN] -- PA Senate Hearing: Norfolk Southern CEO - Ignition Of Rail Cars Following Ohio Trainwreck Was A 'Success' ? ./ DEP 1:00 p.m.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

-- Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: 45 Years After Infamous Accident, Why Are They Still Cleaning Up Three Mile Island? -- PA Assn.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2022

Wolf Reminds Businesses Affected By Hurricane Ida To Apply For Federal Disaster Relief -- WLVR: PA’s 30 Year-Old Recycling Policy Needs To Be Updated, Experts Say -- WESA: New Rule Requires Mon Valley Polluters To Ease Up On Dirty Air Pollution Days, Will It Work? -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Westinghouse Electric, Bloom Energy Partner On Production (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2023

For Particulate Air Pollution - Harrisburg, York, Lancaster Region Related Articles This Week: -- Gov. Fiedler, Labor Leaders, Educational, Environmental Leaders Announce Bill To Create Grant Program To Invest In Solar Energy Facilities At Schools [PaEN] -- U.S.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health [PaEN] -- Now On Demand: Group Against Smog & Pollution Webinar: What The Donora PA Smog Disaster Can Teach Us 74 Years Later [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Industrial Energy Consumers Of America Write Gov.

Nuclear Power

Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

In the US, almost every aspect of the environment is regulated - drinking water, surface water, air, hazardous waste, new construction, nuclear power plants, factories, and much more. On the positive side, to some degree, is the fact that our air is huge which gives us a lot of dilution. 4 - Environmental Regulation.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Of Environmental Educators Conference March 10-12 In Erie [PaEN] -- TribLive/AP: On Lake Erie, Getting Rid Of Problem Algae Starts With Giving It Less Food -- DCNR Forecast Wildfire Danger HIGH In Most Of PA For Wednesday, Oct. 23 -- LehighValleyLive: Northcentral PA ATV Trail Is A Hit, Generating $23.5

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2022

House returns to session April 25, 26, 27 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session May 23, 24, 25 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:30: DEP To Announce 2022 Environmental Education Grants at Kulpmont Veterans Memorial Park, Kulpmont, Northumberland County. THURSDAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. in State College.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The facility emits large amounts of air pollution to produce plastic and has repeatedly violated its air emissions limits. It’s no wonder families living near polluters like this one face higher risks of cancer , neurological problems, birth defects, and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

Natural Gas

Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

Michael: But your job is to kind of educate the public about environmental issues. Nick: I mean, it's something to think about when you're advocating an idea, like, lifespan for nuclear power. But nuclear doesn't have a social licence to operate in Australia. Nick: They’d probably say, up, I would guess.

Climate Change