The Financial Times reports that President Obama may be ready to support more exports of liquefied natural gas, after the President was quoted this weekend saying the U.S. may be a net exporter of natural gas by 2020. The push for exports comes from the natural gas industry, which has experienced a boom in shale [...]
A new study published by the Princeton-based Climate Central shows coastal flooding along the East Coast will soon become commonplace and threaten the homes of 3.7 million people. New Jersey and the Chesapeake Bay are at risk, according to the report. Newsworks Tonight host Dave Heller spoke with Ben Strauss, an author of the report. [...]
The Department of Environmental Protection will release a new Chesapeake Bay watershed plan next week. That’s according to former DEP Secretary Dave Hess, who posted the update at his PA Environment Daily blog. Sen. Mike Brubaker (R-Lancaster), Chair of the interstate Chesapeake Bay Commission, hosted a briefing Tuesday for House and Senate members on the [...]
A look at how expanded natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania’s forests could impact the Chesapeake Bay, from the Chesapeake Bay Journal: …The analysis also raises a concern for Chesapeake cleanup efforts. The conservancy estimates that about 46 percent of the drilling would take place within the Bay watershed. That suggests the forest loss within the [...]
The Chesapeake Bay Program has a new director. The organization, which frames itself as “a unique regional partnership that has led and directed the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay since 1983” on its website, will now be led by former Delaware environmental secretary Nicholas DiPasquale. More from the AP: Nicholas DiPasquale was Delaware’s environmental secretary [...]
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