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— DEP Reduces Permit Backlog By 98%, Has Reviewed Nearly 20,000 Permit Applications So Far This Year [PaEN]
— Dept. Of Insurance/DEP Highlight 30 Years Of Underground Petroleum Products Storage Tank Insurance Fund Work; Paid Over $1.3 Billion To Clean Up Tank Leaks [PaEN]
— Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Celebrating The Waters Of Lancaster County [PaEN]
— Patch.com: Three New Hope-Solebury HS Students Receive Malcolm P. Crooks Scholarships From Aquetong Watershed Association
— Warren Times: Warren Conservation District Awards Scholarships To Local Students
— TribLive Editorial: What Are The Limits Of Expression On College Campuses? Censoring ‘The Fence’ At CMU [CMU College Republicans President said, “The decision to censor made by the administration is an uncharacteristic and deeply concerning (breach) of commitment, as well as the trust it has fostered.”
— Courier Times: Bucks County Residents, Sen. Santarsiero Say DEP Isn’t Doing Enough To Make Energy Transfer/Sunoco Define The Extent Of Petroleum Pipeline Leak And Clean It Up [PaEN]
— PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard – July 12 to 18 – Uncontrolled Shale Gas Wastewater Release For 34 Hours; Abandoned Conventional Wells Top 300; 107 New Brownfield Sites [PaEN]
— Environmental Groups Rallying To Protect Delaware River Watershed From Shale Gas Fracking [PaEN]
— TribLive: An Inside Look At Plum Borough’s Controversial Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Allegheny County
— Environmental Health Project Releases Compounds Of Concern Online Tool To Help Frontline Residents Better Understand Health Symptoms Related To Chemicals In Industrial Pollution, Released By Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN]
— The Allegheny Front – Kara Holsopple: New Online Tool Launches To Help Identify Chemical Exposure To Oil & Gas Operations, Industrial Pollution
— DEP Invites Comments On 4 Water Quality Permits For Texas Eastern Appalachia To Market 3 Natural Gas Pipeline Upgrade Project In Adams And York Counties [PaEN]
— Utility Dive: Bipartisan Group Of 9 Governors, Including Gov. Shapiro, Say PJM Interconnection Facing ‘Unprecedented Crisis Of Confidence’ And Want A Hand In Filling 2 Vacant Board Seats [PaEN]
— PJM Interconnection Issues Maximum Generation Alert For July 15; Natural Gas Accounted For Most Generation Outages In June Generation Alert [PaEN]
— PJM Interconnection Extends Maximum Generation Alert To July 16; Natural Gas Accounted For Most Generation Outages In June Generation Alert [PaEN]
— PJM Interconnection Issues Hot Weather Alert For July 17 In Its Mid-Atlantic, Southern Regions, Including Parts Of PA [PaEN]
— List Of More Than $90 Billion In Energy, A.I. Data Center Investments, Commitments Or Plans Announced At The PA Energy & Innovation Summit [PaEN] [Warning]
— NewsClips – PA Energy & A.I. Summit Pittsburgh July 15, 2025
— Post-Gazette Editorial: Energy And Innovation Summit Is A Great Opportunity For Pittsburgh, But People Must Come First [PaEN]
— Post-Gazette Editorial: What Does Pittsburgh’s A.I. And Energy Future Hold?
— PA Republican Lawmakers Rush To Introduce Bills To Give New Tax Breaks, Waive Regulations, Environmental Standards For A.I. Data Centers Already Flocking Into Pennsylvania And Locking Up PA Power [PaEN] [Warning]
— Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: What Wasn’t Discussed At Pennsylvania’s Energy & A.I. Summit – By John Quigley, Senior Fellow
— The Allegheny Front – Reid Frazier: President Came To Pittsburgh To Promote A.I. In Pennsylvania; Here’s What You Need To Know
— Post-Gazette – Chloe Jad, Anya Litvak: At Pittsburgh Energy And Tech Summit, Optimism And Warnings Over Future Of A.I.
— WashPost: Nvidia Says President Lifts Ban On Selling Some A.I. Chips To China [The Country The US At ‘War’ With Over A.I.]
— Environmental Advocates Oppose Gov. Shapiro’s Attendance At Sen. McCormick’s Energy, A.I. Summit Today In Pittsburgh [PaEN]
— Post-Gazette: Gov. Shapiro Stands Out At High-Profile A.I. Energy Summit; Other Democrats Used Summit To Bash President’s Policies
— TribLive: Pittsburgh Police Use Pepper Spray On Energy Summit Protesters
— WESA: Hundreds Gather To Protest President, Fossil Fuel Dependence During Energy Summit
— WESA: With President Set To Attend A.I. & Energy Summit, CMU Professor Worries Climate Issues Will Be Lost
— Pittsburgh Business Times: What’s Next After Big-Time A.I., Energy Summit? Shapiro: The Proof Will Be When Shovels Go In The Ground [PDF of Article]
— Post-Gazette – Benjamin Kail, Anya Litvak: Energy & A.I. Summit Made Bold Predictions, Announced Billions In Investments – What Happens Next?
— TribLive Editorial: PA Energy & A.I. Summit – It’s Easy To Promise Big, But Corporate Investments Can Change With Market Winds
— Observer-Reporter Editorial: Good Things Await The Mon Valley
— TribLive: Is The Labor, Funding There To See Through $90 Billion In Energy, Tech Projects In PA?
— Post-Gazette Editorial: McCormick’s Energy, A.I. Summit Accomplished What It Set Out To Do, But What’s Next?
— WTAE: Massive Natural Gas-Powered Data Center Project In Homer City Promises Economic Revival
— Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Secures Massive Natural Gas Deals For 4.5 GW Homer City, 3.6 GW Bruce Mansfield Natural Gas Power Plant Projects
— The Allegheny Front: Data Centers Are Encroaching On This Luzerne County Town, So Locals Are Taking Action Early
— LancasterOnline: Public Input On $6 Billion A.I. Data Center May Be Limited Under Current Lancaster City Zoning
— LancasterOnline: Google To Buy $3 Billion Worth Of Electricity For Data Centers From Holtwood, Safe Harbor Hydroelectric Plants, Locking Up PA Power
— PennLive: $26 Billion In Data Center Projects Coming To Central PA, Locking Up PA Power
— York Daily Record: $5 Billion A.I. Data Center Project To Lock Up 828 MW Of Power From York II Natural Gas Power Plant
— Williamsport Sun: Shamokin Dam Natural Gas Power Plant To See $3 Billion Upgrade
— Utility Dive: PPL Utilities, With Blackstone Venture, Is ‘Biggest Winner’ From PA Energy & A.I. Data Center Summit
— PA Capital-Star: A.I. Data Centers Like The Ones Coming To PA Are Using More Power, Regular Customers Are Footing The Bill
— Indiana Capital Chronicle: A.I. Data Centers Are Using More Power, Regular Consumers Are Footing The Bill [In PJM Grid]
— The Center Square: Sustainability, Community Impact Concerns Shade A.I. Data Center Investment
— EPA Is ‘Clearing The Regulatory Path For America To Dominate The Global A.I. Revolution’ [PaEN] [Warning]
— Environmental Council Of The States: EPA Budget Cut 23%, Staff Cut 23%, Reductions In Grants Supporting State Administration Of Federal Programs, Water Infrastructure Funding [PaEN] [Warning]
— Bloomberg: President Using A Light Touch On Pipeline Safety Oversight; Enforcement Cases Lowest In 20 Years
— Tribune-Democrat: President’s Tariff Pressure Pushes Asia Toward American LNG Gas To Ease Trade Tensions
— Bloomberg: Puerto Rico Idles Power Plants As New Fortress Withholds LNG Gas Threatening To Strain The Grid At Height Of Summer Demand [New Fortress Proposed PA LNG Export Facility]
— Post-Gazette: DEP Approves More Than $1 Million In Grants For Clean Energy Vehicles In Western PA
— WESA/The Allegheny Front – Julia Fraser: Swisshelm Park Slag Heap In Pittsburgh Nearly Cleaned Up, Ready For Solar Makeover
— NPR: Do You Want Federal Money For An Electric Vehicle Or Home Solar? Time Is Running Out – Fast
— Erie Times: US Attorney Says ‘Accidentally Deleted’ Database Is A Reason To Drop Federal Charges In An Erie Coke [Coal] Case [Warning]
— PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists Sue EPA To Reassess A Toxic Chemical Used At A PA Oil Refinery
— Environmental Working Group: Frequent Violations Of Paraquat Pesticide In Pennsylvania Points To Health Risks For Farmers, Rural Residents
— PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Residents Near Norfolk Southern Train Derailment To Get Results Of Tests For Vinyl Chloride And Liver Damage
— PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Greed And Deceit Define The History Of Vinyl Chloride
— PennVEST Invests $222.2 Million In 31 Drinking Water, Wastewater, Stormwater Projects In 21 Counties [PaEN]
— Scranton Times: Two PA American Water Dam Rehabilitation Projects In Lackawanna Get Low-Interest PennVEST Loans
— Northampton, Bucks County, Municipal Authority Announces Public Water Connection Project For 334 Homes With PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Contamination [PaEN]
— Inquirer – Frank Kummer: All Adults, Children Tested Near PA Military Bases Have PFAS In Their Blood, Study Says
— Lancaster Farming: Chesapeake Bay Alliance, CNH Held Field Day For Conservation At New Holland Agriculture Campus Farm
— Tribune-Democrat: Conservation District Leaders Tour Somerset County Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Site: ‘Now I See Hope’ [Federal Funding] [PDF of Article]
— Scranton Times: Abandoned Mine Reclamation To Begin Soon For Archbald, Mayfield Warehouse Projects
— Wilkes-Barre Times Leader: Restoring A Coal Country Watershed Begins With Counting Bugs
— Penn State Extension: Planting A Riparian Grass Buffer For Wildlife
— DEP, PEMA Announce Matching Funding For More Than $6 Million In NRCS Flood Recovery Projects In 9 Counties Related To Damage From Tropical Storm Debby In 2024 [PaEN]
— Tribune-Democrat: Anniversary Of 1977 Johnstown Flood That Killed 140 People, Recent Disaster In Texas Prompt Thoughts Of Safety
— TribLive: Flash Flood Warnings Surge To 20-Year High Across Western PA
— PA Capital-Star: In A Summer Marked By Flash Floods, PA Lawmaker Wants Homeowners To Be Aware Of Flood Risks
— Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader: Bipartisan Lawmakers To Advance Bill On Requiring Home Buyers Get Information On Flood Risks
— York Dispatch Guest Essay: The Flash-Flood Era Is Here, And We’re Not Ready – By Bloomberg Opinion
— Post-Gazette Editorial: The Real Reason Four Mile Run Is Still A Flood Trap In Pittsburgh [Local Politicians Opposed Green Solutions & Offered None Of Their Own]
— PennLive: PA Farms, Food At Risk From Too Much Rain: ‘There Is No Normal Anymore’
— DCNR: Using Natural Solutions, Engineering Upgrades And Technology-Based Mapping To Prevent Flooding [PaEN]
— Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County Property Owners Struggle To Recover From Tropical Storm Debby Damage That Left Tons Of Rock, Dirt On Their Property
— TribLive: Western PA Storms Impact Power, Roads In Allegheny, Westmoreland Counties
— Centre Daily Times: Power Restored To State College Area After Thousands Reported Outages Again
— Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader: Storm Damages Luzerne County-Owned Infrastructure
— WNEP: Swift Floodwaters Cause Chaos For Campers, Animals In Luzerne County
— WNEP: Flooded Roads Disrupt Sullivan, Lycoming Counties, Closes Roads
— LancasterOnline: Dozens Of Water Rescues, Flooded Homes Report In Lancaster County Monday
— WHYY: PA, DE, NJ Sue President’s FEMA Over End Of Grant Program That Helps States Prevent Flooding
— Republican Herald: PEMA Urges FEMA To Reconsider Cuts, Changes That Would Impact Communities
— WESA – Rachel McDevitt: PA Could Foot More Of The Bill For Disaster Response Under Proposed FEMA Cuts
— Citizens Voice: Second Sinkhole In South Wilkes-Barre Leads To Evacuation
— Call For Presentations: PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Annual Conference March 8-10 In Gettysburg [PaEN]
— The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Cleanup Work At Contaminated Jackson Ceramix Superfund Site In Clearfield County Underway
— Post-Gazette: How Pittsburgh’s Plastic Bag Ban Changed Shopping Habits
— The Litterbug Continues To Strike: Strike Back By Entering The PRC Lens On Litter Photo Contest [PaEN]
— Gov. Shapiro Stops In Potter County To Highlight Investment In Key Gas Station Near Northcentral Regional ATV Trail To Build Outdoor Recreation Economy [Owner Failed To Comply With Storage Tank Regulations]
— WTAE: Laurel Caverns Proposed As Pennsylvania’s Next State Park
— WNEP: Scranton Mural Tells Story Of Lenape Tribe
— PA Capital-Star: Glen Onoko Falls, A Dangerous Beauty In The Poconos, Could Soon Reopen To Visitors
— National Parks Group To Congress: Our National Parks Need More Staff And Funding, Not Less [Warning]
— WJAC: Experts Warn Of Increased Risk For Lyme Disease, Other Illnesses As Tick Populations Surge
— Observer-Reporter: Vigilance Is Key In Preventing, Mitigating Tick Bites: ‘They’re Everywhere’
— DEP West Nile Virus Detected In These Counties
— Inquirer: Philadelphia Health Dept. Warns Of Mosquito-Borne West Nile Virus
— DEP To Conduct Mosquito Control Operations In Lycoming County July 15
— Courier Times: West Nile Virus Detected In Bucks County: What To Do About It
— Republican Herald: Blue Marsh Federal Recreation Area Swim Beach To Reopen Saturday
— WPXI: Raccoon Creek State Park Reopens For Swimming After E. coli Levels Quickly Drop
— Altoona Mirror: Canoe Creek State Park Closed To Swimming Due To Bad Water Quality
— WNEP: Swimming Prohibited At Ricketts Glen State Park After ‘Unacceptable’ Levels Of Bacteria Found
— York Dispatch: Elevated Bacteria Levels Close Pinchot State Park Lake To Swimming
— Warren Times: Handicapped-Accessible Kayak, Boat Launch Opens At Chapman State Park
— NextPittsburgh: Experience Pittsburgh By Kayak With Venture Outdoors’ New Downtown Dock
— The Derrick: Oil Region Alliance Receives America250PA Grant For Allegheny River Kayak Sojourn
— Reading Eagle: Reading, Allentown Mayors: Illegal Swimming In Creeks, Rivers, Disorderly Conduct At Parks ‘Will Not Be Tolerated’
— Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Walking Club Helps Women Make Connections
— Observer-Reporter: Greene County Commissioners Seek $3 Million For Wisecarver Recreation Improvements
— Discover NE PA: Susquehanna Valley Watershed Festival July 26, Catawissa, Columbia County
— 4th Annual Susquehanna Greenway Outdoor Expo Comes To Shikellamy State Park Aug. 2 In Selinsgrove [PaEN]
— Bradford Era: End Of Roadless Rule Brings Increase In Timber Sales In Allegheny National Forest
— Penn State Extension Hosts 5-Part Woodland Stewardship Webinar Series – Guided Engagement With Your Land Starting Sept. 24 [PaEN]
— Post-Gazette: Facing Crop Losses, Farmers Are Turning To Deer Hunters
— TribLive: Bat Cam – Streaming Video Reveals Secret Life Of Bat Colony At Westmoreland Land Trust Site
— PA Natural Heritage 2024 Annual Report Provides An Update On Pennsylvania Biodiversity Conservation Efforts And New Discoveries [PaEN]
— Beaver Times: Western PA’s Frogs Are The Stars Of Frog Week 2025; How To Watch, Listen And Learn More
— TribLive: Frog Week A Leap Into Education, Improving Habitat
— The Derrick: DiscoverE Bug Camp At Oil Creek State Park Is Hit With Kids [PDF of Article]
— Inquirer: Are There More Fireflies In PA This Summer? Here’s Where To See Them Near Philly
— Forests For The Chesapeake Bay News: Fireflies Around The Bay Watershed; Black Locust Trees; Upcoming Events; Much More!
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[Posted: July 20, 2025] PA Environment Digest