By: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed extending compliance deadlines and creating new loopholes in clean-water rules that would allow some coal-fired power plants to keep polluting at current levels for years. The proposed changes affect rules put in place in 2015. They include looser limits on heavy-metal pollution for some […]
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Harrisburg, PA — Today, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced the release of a preliminary report gleaned from results of an extensive two-year survey seeking public input on the future of Pennsylvania’s state parks. More than 10,000 respondents offered recommendations how the commonwealth can improve the visitor experience. “Commenting on everything […]
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Huntingdon, PA — Wolf Administration officials today joined inmates at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon to plant 400 tree seedlings along an unnamed tributary to the Juniata River as the culmination of a 14-week inmate vocational training session. “This program is a win on several levels,” Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams […]
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By: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Environmental Protection Agency wants to roll back regulations for controlling methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, but clean-air advocates say that’s going in the wrong direction. Yesterday in Dallas, Texas, the EPA held its only hearing on a proposal to loosen regulations designed to curb emissions […]
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By: Andrea Sears PHILADELPHIA – Environmental groups say an explosion earlier this week at a pump station along the Mariner East 2 gas pipeline highlights regulatory flaws and lack of oversight of the project. The explosion Monday at the Boot Road Pump Station shook homes and rattled windows half a mile away. Sunoco, owner of […]
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Members of our community are encouraged to participate in helping us to clean up roads across Lancaster County and Chester County, PA. Our fist clean up is in Gap, PA along the Lincoln Highway. WLRI will start at the Gap Bypass (U.S. 30 @ PA 41) and work east to the Chester County line (Swan […]
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BY: Andrea Sears COATESVILLE, Pa. – It’s time to invest in local solar jobs. That’s the message climate-justice advocates delivered to PECO on Tuesday. Clean-energy backers rallied in Coatesville, calling on Philadelphia Electric Co. to make local jobs a priority by committing to at least 20% solar power by 2025. According to Dana Robinson, media director for […]
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