Filter out rows based on list of strings in Pandas

Use isin:

cleaned = df[~df['stn'].isin(remove_list)]

In [7]:

remove_list = ['Arbutus','Bayside']
df[~df['stn'].isin(remove_list)]
Out[7]:
                          stn  years_of_data  total_minutes  avg_daily  \
date                                                                     
1900-01-14  AlberniElementary              4           5745       34.1   
1900-01-14     AlberniWeather              6           7129       29.5   
1900-01-14          Arrowview              7          10080       27.6   

            TOA_daily  K_daily  
date                            
1900-01-14      114.6    0.298  
1900-01-14      114.6    0.257  
1900-01-14      114.6    0.241