Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 2.20.20

Senate & House Agency-By-Agency Budget Hearings Continue Today At 10:00 a.m.:

Senate: 10:00- State System of Higher Ed, 1:00 Dept. of State, 3:00 Attorney General. Click Here to Watch Senate Hearings Live. Click Here for Senate Republican hearing videos/summaries. 

House: 10:00 State Police/Homeland Security, 1:00 Dept. of Corrections, Probation & Parole, Board of Pardons. Click Here to Watch House Hearings Live.  Click Here for House Republican hearing vidoes/written testimony

Complete Hearing Schedule.   

Note: DEP’s Moshannon District Mining Office Will Be Closed Feb. 21 For Electrical Work.

DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanian: Former Senator Franklin Kury [PaEN]

Game Commission Biologist Mary Jo Casalena Recognized With National Conservation Award [PaEN]

DCNR Good Natured Blog: Earth Day 50: Diversity For Sustainability [PaEN]

Elizabethtown College Awarded EPA Student Innovative Technology Grant For Lead Detection [PaEN]

USGS Study: No Statistically Significant Relationship Between Shale Gas Development And Stream Chemical, Benthic, Microbial Life Changes In State Forest Drilling Areas [PaEN]
Brian O’Neill: Nothing’s Shakier Than The Middle Ground On Fracking

Letter: HB 1100 Tax Credit Is Money Not Collected Or Money Spent, But It Could Be Lost Jobs - Builders Guild Of Western PA [Tax Credits Are Real Public Money Otherwise Due The Government That Could Have Been Spent On Something Else]
Letter: Bring Clean Jobs To Pennsylvania [Oppose HB 1100]
Housing Developer Seeks Fresh Start On Toxic Kensington Soil In Philadelphia

Southwestern PA Water Resources Center Hosts Smart Green Corridors, MS4 Stormwater Refresher, Stormwater & Flood Management Workshops [PaEN]

Dauphin County Woodland Owners Conference Set For March 14 In Dauphin [PaEN]

Pennsylvania Rare Plant Forum To Be Held March 28 At Penn State Beaver Campus [PaEN]

PA Plant Conservation Network To Hold 2nd Public Stakeholder Meeting March 27 In Beaver County [PaEN]

Feb. 19 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR [PaEN]

Rabid Raccoon Attacked Person At Wildwood Park, Dauphin County

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Other States/National/International

Toomey Pushes Back On Democrat Efforts To Ban Fracking

Toomey Resolution Would Prohibit President From Banning Fracking

Pro/Con: Should The Next President Ban Fracking?
We’re Vastly Undercounting Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations, Scientists Say

AP: Report: Work To Reduce Wildfire Risks Has Economic Benefits

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[Posted: February 20, 2020]  PA Environment Digest