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Environmental group asks court to order lawmakers pay back money meant for conservation

The Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation said lawmakers have taken $1.3 billion dollars from a conservation fund to pay for other things since 2009.

By Rachel McDevitt/StateImpact Pennsylvania

A new strategy to regrow a forest on abandoned mineland: Start by tearing up the earth

The relatively new technique counters what had been traditional practice. But, one forester said, “It’s more natural — the way it was supposed to be, the way it was before mining.”

By Andy Kubis/The Allegheny Front

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Episode 33: State forest drilling and the gas cash impasse

Two GOP senators are introducing an alternative: a $1 billion package funded by lifting Gov. Wolf’s four-year moratorium on drilling in state forests.

By Katie Meyer/WITF

Wolf rejects Pa. Senate’s infrastructure proposal funded by forest drilling

GOP lawmaker: "This is in no way putting a drilling rig in the middle of a forest,"
By Katie Meyer/WITF