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Drill, Baby, Drill!
- Philadelphia City Paper
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2010-02-17 |
| Marcellus Shale drilling doesn't just worry activists in Pennsylvania. In December, New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Steven W. Lawitts called for a prohibition on drilling within that city's watershed — a watershed that, to a large degree, is shared by Philadelphia. | |
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PennEnvironment calls for stricter gas drilling rules
- Scranton Times-Tribune
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2009-12-16 |
| An environmental advocacy group is promoting a series of policy recommendations it says will make natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale safer for the environment and public health. | |
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Tighter rein urged on Pa gas drilling
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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2009-12-02 |
| An environmental advocacy group today called for tighter regulation of Pennsylvania's natural gas industry in the face of a dramatic escalation of deep wells tapping into the Marcellus Shale. | |
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| 2009-11-17 | |
| More than 300 state workers are facing pink slips due to Pennsylvania's ongoing budget problems. The Department of Environmental Protection is one of the departments taking the biggest hit. | |
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Report finds millions of pounds of chemicals dumped into PA waterways
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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2009-10-22 |
| An environmental group released a report yesterday chronicling the millions of pounds of pollutants released by industrial facilities into Pennsylvania's waterways, saying that the state is the sixth-largest dumping ground for toxic discharges in the nation. | |
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Waterways burdened by pollution, report says
- Scranton Times-Tribune
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2009-10-22 |
| More than 2.6 million pounds of toxic chemicals were dumped into the Susquehanna River in 2007, making it one of the 20 rivers in the country most inundated by industrial releases. | |
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Erie water quality declines, but better than most
- Erie Times-News
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2009-07-30 |
| The water quality of Lake Erie off Pennsylvania declined in 2008, according to a study released Wednesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council and PennEnvironment. | |
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Protecting Pennsylvania's Drinking Water Through Federal Action
- Latrobe Bulletin
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2009-07-27 |
| New federal legislation will protect drinking water here in Pennsylvania and across the country. | |
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| 2009-03-13 | |
| Pennsylvania officials are banking on a boom in natural gas drilling over the next few years. But environmental advocates say lawmakers will need to put strict regulations in place to protect water sources. | |
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| 2008-07-30 | |
| First, the good news: The water quality at Presque Isle State Park improved in 2007, according to a study released Tuesday by the Natural Resource Defense Council. The park staff issued swimming advisories six times in 2007 -- down 85 percent from 2006. | |
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Too much rain? Here's what to do
- Harrisburg Patriot-News
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2008-07-03 |
| A 2007 report by PennEnvironment, "When It Rains, It Pours," forecasts increased heavy downpours and flooding in Pennsylvania. In many areas of central Pennsylvania, decades-old storm sewers are unable to keep up with development. | |
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Deep question
- The Philadelphia Weekly
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2008-06-11 |
| Will dredging the Delaware River mean more jobs for our longshoremen? | |
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Is Our Water Safe? PennEnvironment Promotes Solution
- Carlisle Sentinel
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2008-03-13 |
| PennEnvironment, a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization, released a statement on Monday about the findings of an Associated Press investigative report on trace pharmaceuticals in water supplies and suggested a solution to the challenges faced by medicines, hormones and prescription drugs found in our tap water. | |
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Is Our Water Safe? PennEnvironment Promotes Solution
- Carlisle Sentinel
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2008-03-13 |
| PennEnvironment, a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization, released a statement on Monday about the findings of an Associated Press investigative report on trace pharmaceuticals in water supplies and suggested a solution to the challenges faced by medicines, hormones and prescription drugs found in our tap water. | |
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PennEnvironment promotes solution
- Carlisle Sentinel
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2008-03-13 |
| PennEnvironment, a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization, released a statement on Monday about pharmaceuticals in water supplies and suggested a solution to the challenges faced by medicines, hormones and prescription drugs found in our tap water. | |
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Pennsylvania 2nd in nation for water incidents
- Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
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2007-10-13 |
| More than 3,600 facilities in the United States exceeded their discharge limits under the federal Clean Water Act, according to a report released Thursday by a state environmental group. The report, “Troubled Waters,†analyzed Clean Water Act compliance in 2005. The data was compiled by PennEnvironment and released a week before the 35th anniversary of the act. | |
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Pollution from water plants tops legal limits
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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2007-10-12 |
| More than half of the major industrial and municipal water treatment facilities in Pennsylvania have exceeded their water pollution permit limits, and the number doing so in Allegheny County ranked among the worst in the nation, according to a report by PennEnvironment. | |
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Experts say more flooding inevitable in future
- Bucks County Courier Times
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2007-07-01 |
| Residents and business owners along the Delaware are no strangers to flooding — last year’s flood was the third major flood since September 2004. However, environmentalists warn that it definitely won’t be the last time homeowners in Yardley will watch floodwaters creep to their front door. | |
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Protect waterways
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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2007-06-18 |
| It is disturbing that the Bush administration and recent Supreme Court rulings have weakened the Clean Water Act of 1972 to the point where our wetlands, streams and intermittent waterways are at risk. | |
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Environmental group sues Reliant Energy over water discharge
- The Bucks County Courier Times
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2007-04-12 |
| An environmental group sued Reliant Energy Inc., claiming the energy company violated its Clean Water Act discharge permit by pumping water with illegal levels of potentially toxic metals into a river near one of its power plants. | |
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Reliant Energy sued, accused of polluting Conemaugh River
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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2007-04-12 |
| A lawsuit filed against Reliant Energy Inc. alleges that its Conemaugh Generating Station in Indiana County is in continuous violation of a federal Clean Water Act discharge permit despite the company's side agreement with the state that allows the pollution. | |
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Pa. mercury rule: Now the hard part
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
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2007-02-20 |
| Faced with a reality they have fought for months, Pennsylvania's coal-plant operators now have to figure out how they can vastly reduce the mercury emissions from their plants. | |
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Enviromental groups threaten to sue plant
- The Tribune-Democrat
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2007-02-07 |
| A New Florence power plant is discharging “illegal levels of potentially toxic metals†into the Conemaugh River – endangering both water quality and aquatic life – two environmental groups said Tuesday. State regulators have taken no action even though Reliant Energy Inc.’s Conemaugh Generating Station has continued to violate its operating permits, the Sierra Club and Philadelphia-based PennEnvironment contend. | |
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Groups to sue Reliant for polluting Conemaugh river
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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2007-02-07 |
| To clear the air, Reliant Energy's Conemaugh Generating Station installed pollution controls in 1994 and 1995, but much of what's been removed from the sky over Indiana County is being discharged into the Conemaugh River. | |
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Environmentalists to Sue Reliant Energy
- Forbes Magazine
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2007-02-06 |
| Reliant Energy Inc. violated its Clean Water Act discharge permit by pumping water with illegal levels of potentially toxic metals into a river near one of its power plants, according to two environmental groups. | |
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State mercury restrictions advance
- Central Penn Business Journal
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2006-10-18 |
| A state board yesterday approved mercury regulations that are tougher than federal standards. The Environmental Quality Board, a state body that approves environmental regulations, yesterday approved the new rules by a 17-3 vote. Power-plant operators argue the regulations approved yesterday are unnecessary and will be too expensive. | |
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Despite protests, EPA moving forward with new measures
- Uniontown Herald-Standard
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2006-10-08 |
| HARRISBURG - Despite strong protests from state lawmakers and industry groups, the state's environmental protection agency is moving forward with final regulatory approval on two controversial measures to curb automobile pollutants and mercury emissions from power plants. | |
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Toxic mercury closes south Jersey daycare
- NBC10.com
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2006-08-08 |
| More than two dozen children in South Jersey may have been exposed to toxic mercury. | |
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Work begins on $5M sewer plant upgrade
- Chambersburg Public Opinion
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2006-08-06 |
| Construction is finally under way on a long-awaited, multimillion-dollar upgrade to the Shippensburg waste water treatment plant along Avon Drive. | |
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Witnesses urge PA to put stricter curbs on coal-fired mercury pollution
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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2006-07-28 |
| Pennsylvania should enact a state plan forcing coal-fired power plants to cut mercury emissions 90 percent by 2015, rather than adopt less stringent rules favored by the Bush administration, witnesses told a public hearing yesterday. | |
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