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bferry@timesobserver.com Times Observer file photo by Brian Ferry Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Watershed Technician Luke Bobnar shows a group of landowners the impacts of a modified mudsill on Brokenstraw Creek during a September 2019 Stream Dynamics Workshop and Tour hosted by WPC and the Warren County Conservation District. The third phase of a project that has helped western Warren County landowners with erosion problems has received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environm...

From Mirror staff reports HARRISBURG — Three area projects are among 43 that will receive funding to clean up waters in the state’s Southcentral Region, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Collectively, more than $12 million in funding will come from the DEP’s Growing Greener program. Statewide, more than $34 million has been awarded to fund 149 projects to clean up waters. Grantees have up to three years to implement their projects from the award date. I...

Three water cleanup efforts in Washington County are among the 149 statewide that will be receiving funding through the Growing Greener Plus program that has been put in place by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). All told, $134 million is going to projects across the commonwealth, and $2.7 million is coming to the Southwest region. In addition, funding will be going to an Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Set Aside project in Greene County and a Surface Mining Conservation a...

Erie Central Fire Station To Go Solar City hopes 50-panel array on the roof (the roof) will inspire by Matt Swanseger Sunshine may be scarce this time of year, but the Erie Central Fire Station is hoping a new 50-panel solar array will be a ray of light for those curious about alternative energy.  The array, which had been planned before the onset of the pandemic, will be funded by a $24,375 COVID-19 Restart Grant that comes courtesy of t...

DEP Awards $248K in Coastal Zone Grants Grants will fund seven vital projects in the Lake Erie Coastal Zone by Matt Swanseger Dean Zeller Presque Isle State Park in the winter months Most would agree that the Gem City would be at best considered cubic zirconia without its most precious resource — Lake Erie and its shoreline. Coastal waters and coastal land are often grouped together as "coastal zones," because one directly and intimatel...

Coastal zone grants are awarded to projects related to fisheries, wetlands, stormwater management improvements, recreation, public education, coastal hazards such as bluff recession, and other areas. 

Following an August spill of drilling fluid at Marsh Creek Lake, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection shut down construction and told pipeline builder Sunoco/Energy Transfer to find alternative route. Sunoco appealed the ruling and Judge Bernard Labuskes Jr. ruled that the DEP should be tasked with making any final decision on a restart at the site that feeds drinking water to residents and businesses to the south along the Brandywine Creek watershed. The DEP also required Su...

Climate Change Initiative Would Raise Costs Without Environmental Benefits, Critics Say If Pennsylvania joins a multistate climate change agreement that restricts carbon dioxide emissions, energy prices will increase and jobs will be lost in response to new regulatory burdens that won’t produce any environmental or health benefits, according to public policy analysts who took part in virtual public hearings earlier this month. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, also known as RGGI, is a �...

Monday, December 21, 2020 Virtual Currencies as Commodities In recent years, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or the Commission) has taken a role as one of the regulators of cryptocurrency in the United States. In this article, we review the CFTC’s regulatory and enforcement approach in this space. In December 2014, the CFTC stated that virtual currencies are encompassed under the definition of a “commodity” in the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), and thus subjec...

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