The Citizens Coal Council issued a report that details what they say are the Department of Environmental Protection's failures to enforce longwall coal mining operations in Pennsylvania.
Nearly 350 people tuned into the third annual Naturally Latinos Conference Dec. 2–4, organizers said. That turnout was double any of the previous gatherings. About half of the participants identified themselves as Latinos.
The Environmental Quality Board will begin accepting comments today on a proposed regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that is consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Gov. Tom Wolf has announced his administration is joining with six other states – Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Oklahoma and Wyoming in expressing a commitment to a regional CO2 transport infrastructure plan.
In the last three years 22 major, bipartisan bills have been introduced to address significant natural gas and hazardous liquids pipeline safety issues in Pennsylvania and none have made it to the Governor's desk.
The Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee is scheduled to meet on June 10 to consider several bills putting more roadblocks into adopting needed environmental and other regulations and establishing a third party permit review program.
