Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 4.17.21

House returns to voting session April 19, 20, 21 [April 26, 27, 28-canceled] 

Senate returns to voting session April 19, 20, 21

Senate Budget Hearing Schedule

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

DEP Accepting Applications For Growing Greener Plus, EPA Section 319 Watershed Restoration, Protection, Mine Reclamation Grants Starting April 22 [PaEN]

PA Grade Crude (Oil) Development Advisory Council Meets April 22 On Draft Conventional Drilling Rules; Update On Road-Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater Study [PaEN]

House Environmental Committee Meets April 19 On Environmental Benefits Of Conventional Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN]

ScrantonT: Worker Killed In Susquehanna County Drilling Site Identified As Wyoming Man

PennFuture: Environmental Groups, Law Center File Brief In Opposition To PA Senate Republican Caucus Challenge To DRBC Fracking Ban

Ned Smith Center For Nature & Art Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of PA Environmental Rights Amendment  [PaEN]

DEP Blog: Tips For A Greener Earth Week And Beyond [PaEN]

Rachel McDevitt: DEP Looks To Address Environmental Justice Concerns In Rule To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants [RGGI]

EPA, DEP: May 4 Virtual Meeting Set To Take Comments On Proposed Settlement With American Zinc Recycling On Its Palmerton, Carbon County Facility  [PaEN]

Daily Pennsylvanian: University Of Pennsylvania Centers To Lead Development Of Stormwater Master Plan In Pittsburgh

WarrenT: Warren Conservation District, WPC Plan April 24 Stream Dynamics Tour

HuntingdonDN: Girl Scouts Tree Planting April 24 In Halifax, Dauphin County

Mary Ann thomas: Redbuds Over Pittsburgh: Massive Planting Of Native Trees In Bloom

HeraldStandard: Green Conservation District To Hold Rain Barrel Workshop With Waynesburg Boro April 29

Environmental Hearing Board Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To Practice, Procedures Regulations [PaEN]

DEP Accepting Applications For Calendar 2020 Act 101 Recycling Performance Grants [PaEN]

DEP Posts 47 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 17 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

PG: II-VI Expanding Operations To Meet Demand For Electric Cars, Clean Energy Applications

Anya Litvak: Duquesne Light Latest Western PA Utility To Ask For Rate Increase

DEP Begins 2021 Black Fly Suppression Program [PaEN]

PA Environmental Council Begins Accepting Applications For Water Trail Mini Grants End Of April [PaEN]

ErieT - Brian Whipkey: Learn About The Unique Features Of PA’s State Parks

YorkDR: Father, Daughter Out To Conquer Appalachian Trail

PennLive: National Park Service To Set Prescribed Fire At Gettysburg Battlefield This Weekend

LancasterOnline: Skinny Fledgling Owl Rescued From Stream At Carlisle Army War College, Taken To Raven Ridge Wildlife Center 

AP: Cicadas Expected To Be Fish ‘Filet Mignon’ In Pennsylvania

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Biden Infrastructure Plan

PA Cap-Star: Congressional Panel Splits On Need To Cleanup, Cap Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells

National/International

FinancialT: Fed Urges Texas To ‘Winterise’ Grid After $130 Billion In Storm Damage

WPost: The Fight Over Who WillPay For Texas Blackouts Gears Up

WSJ: ‘A Failure Of Texas-Sized Proportions’: Texas Debates How To Overhaul Power Market

NPR: How The U.S. Could Halve Climate Emissions By 2030

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[Posted: April 17, 2021]  PA Environment Digest