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By Jan Ellen Spiegel, CT Mirror Connecticut is on the verge of changing one of the key financial underpinnings for residential solar electric systems, and, for the first time in more than a decade, it appears no one is complaining. The change is in how solar owners are compensated for the excess power their systems produce at certain times. The rates for how that is calculated and structured will be altered, but in exchange, systems will be allowed more flexibility to accommodate ...

Reid R. Frazier / StateImpact Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is failing to protect streams and property from subsidence from underground “longwall” mining, according to a report released by a Washington County-based environmental group.  The state is allowing dozens of miles of streams in Western Pennsylvania to suffer the loss of flow or have their streambeds disrupted from mine subsidence, because the mines are causing land above them to sink, i...

pcrossley@sungazette.com With the loss of income due to the pandemic, the issue of food insecurity for state residents has drastically increased and doesn’t show signs of abating, according to Russell Redding, the state’s Secretary of Agriculture. “It’s been devastating at one point, just to look at it and know that in a normal year, we had roughly 1.4 million people that were food insecure. That number has been two million plus,” Redding said, referring to the increase during the pa...

Police said they brought misery to our community. Now the last of 34 people to be brought to justice as part of the large-scale Operation Horizon has been jailed. PrinceWill Enaruba, 26, was jailed for more than nine years at Preston Crown Court after he admitted his part in a conspiracy to flood Barrow with class A drugs. Operation Horizon smashed a number of county lines rings that brought despair to the streets of south Cumbria. It saw officers launch more than 20 raids on properti...

JAILED: All the defendants jailed under Operation Horizon THEY were blasted by police for flooding the streets of Barrow with class A drugs and bringing untold misery to the town. But now after the conclusion of Operation Horizon police have brought 34 criminals to justice, seeing them jailed for a combined total of more than 100 years. A line was drawn under the operation, one of Cumbria Polices biggest ever, on Tuesday when Pricewill Enaruba, 26, became the last to face justice. The c...

A MAN has been jailed for nine years in what marks the last conviction brought about by a huge crackdown on organised drug dealing in Barrow.

Justice: Princewill Enaruba was jailed for nine years and six months A HUGE Cumbria Police drugs investigation has today brought the latest of more than 30 criminals to justice. Officers from across the county smashed a "county lines" drugs-ring that peddled heroin and crack cocaine. The criminals involved have now collectively received jail terms of more than 100 years. Princewill Enaruba, 26, is the 34th person to face justice as a result of Operation Horizon.  The probe reached it...

Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection This entry in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s radon illustration contest, drawn by Kylee Jo Ware of Stoystown, Somerset County, won third place.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. January is National Radon Action Month, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection hopes that raises awareness about th...

Drought watch lifted in 20 Pennsylvania counties Updated Jan 07, 2021; Facebook Share Nearly all of Pennsylvania is out from under drought watch or warning after the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection today lifted its advisories from 20 counties. Centre and Clearfield counties remain on drought watch. Clinton County is also on drought watch, having improved from drought warning conditions. After a meeting of the Commonwealth Drought Task Force, DEP lifted drought watch or warn...

Drought watches lifted in 20 PA counties, including Perry and Juniata Centre, Clearfield, and Clinton counties are the only three in Pennsylvania that remain under drought watch conditions, the Dept. of Environmental Protection says. Credit: PA Dept. of Environmental Protection Author: Keith Schweigert (FOX43) Updated: 1:44 PM EST January 7, 2021 HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has lifted drought watches or warnings for...