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A New Executive Order Takes Aim at the Fees That Pay for Stormwater Fixes
On September 16, the White House signed an executive order that partially rescinds the 2009 Chesapeake Bay cleanup order and,…
Roots, Branches, and Hands: Free Native Trees, and a Watershed Reason to Plant Them
Planting season is here, and one of our partners in the wider Pennsylvania conservation community is giving away trees by…
Heart of the Highlands: A Piano Benefit for the Mountain Watershed Association
Some benefits ask you to sit through a program to get to the cause. This one is the other way…
Lead in Blue Hole Creek: MWA Presses DEP for Enforceable Action
Blue Hole Creek is one of those places people in the Laurel Highlands hand down to their kids: a cold,…
Stream Restoration Happens in the Woods. You Feel It at Home.
By John Detisch, H2O Water Network We have all heard some version of this story. Someone calls the township shed…
Pennsylvania Fines Shell $15 Million for Air Pollution at Beaver County Plastics Plant
Pennsylvania has hit Shell with a $15 million penalty for air pollution violations at its Monaca ethane cracker on the…
Washington Wants States to Lead on Disaster Recovery. West Virginia Is Not Ready.
The federal government is moving to hand states the lead role in disaster recovery. New reporting from Mountain State Spotlight…
Report: More Than Half of Tested Pennsylvania Waterways Had Unsafe Bacteria Levels
A new statewide report card asks a simple question: are Pennsylvania’s rivers and lakes safe for swimming? For more than…
Twenty-Five Years On, the Flight 93 Memorial Is Also a Mine Drainage Success Story
The field in Somerset County where Flight 93 came down twenty-five years ago is hallowed ground. It is also reclaimed…
Second Round of Flash Flooding Hits Eastern Ohio and West Virginia, Watch Continues Into the Weekend
For the second time in eleven days, flash flooding tore through parts of the Upper Ohio basin, and the rain…
Three Rivers Waterkeeper Packs September With Pollution-Spotting Trainings
If your volunteers have ever floated past something on the river and wondered whether it was worth reporting, Three Rivers…
While Renewables Languish, Pennsylvania Pays Millions to Coal Waste Companies
New reporting digs into a question that sits close to home for every group working below a culm pile: Pennsylvania…
