Friday, August 6, 2021

Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 8.6.21

Senate
returns to session September 20, 21, 22

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session September 27, 28, 29

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events


-- House Republicans Now Want To Take Away All DEP’s Application Fee Revenue To Further De-Fund Environmental Protection Programs [PaEN]


-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Environmental Group Asks Court To Order Lawmakers To Pay Back $1.3 Billion Meant For Conservation


-- DEP: Issues Air Quality Action Day Warning For Friday, Aug. 6 For Southeastern PA, Lehigh-Valley-Barks Area

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley Will See High Levels Of Smog Friday, DEP Warns

-- PA Bulletin: Environmental Quality Board Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To RACT Requirements For Major Sources Of Nox, VOCs

-- DEP: Alternative Fuel Vehicle Incentive Grant Program Rebates Still Available  [PaEN]

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Craft Zoning To Accommodate Electric Vehicles

-- Inquirer Editorial: Natural Gas Drillers In PA Used PFAS Forever Chemicals In 8 Wells As PA Officials Maintain Willful Ignorance 

-- Better Path Coalition: PFAS Use In PA Natural Gas Drilling Confirmed -  Wolf Must Halt Fracking Now

-- Marcellus Shale Coalition: FracTracker Alliance Article On Lycoming Creek Watershed Misleading, Or Simply Wrong [PaEN]

-- Erie News Now: Congress, Small Oil & Gas Companies Work To Cap Orphan Oil And Gas Wells [Abandoned by conventional oil and gas drilling companies in the first place]

-- TribLive Guest Essay: PA Should Enact Methane Regulations Covering Oil & Gas Industry - Rep. Vitali

-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Zero Carbon Bitcoin? Owner Of PA Nuclear Plant Thinks It Could Strike Gold

-- PUC: To Seek Public Comment On Proposed Changes To Regulations For Customer-Owned Pipeline System Service Lines  [PaEN]

-- PUC: Approves Settlement With PPL Electric Regarding Improper Billing Practices

-- MCall: PPL Electric Fined Over Improper Billing Practices; Customers Didn’t Get Bills For 9 Months

-- PUC: Approves Settlement With National Gas & Electric Regarding Past Sales & Marketing Practices Violations

-- PA Bulletin: Public Utility Commission Publishes Notices In August 7 PA Bulletin - Termination of the COVID-Related Moratorium; Suspension of Regulatory And Statutory Deadlines

-- MCall: PPL Now Wants To Reduce Its Carbon Emissions By 80% In 2040

--  Environmental Health News: How Joining RGGI Could Save Western PA Kids’ Lives And Lungs

-- ErieT Guest Essay: PA’s Competitive Energy Costs An Important Economic Development Tool - Ron Wilt

-- Environmental Defense Fund: August 10 - Lehigh Valley’s Clean Energy Future. ArtsQuest Center At Steel Stacks, 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem.  8:00 to 10:00 a.m.

-- ScrantonT: Auditor General Won’t Review DEP’s Approval Of Keystone Landfill Expansion Permit

-- PennLive: Cumberland County Recycling & Waste Looking For Resident Input On What’s Working, What Isn’t

-- PA Environmental Council: In Case You Missed It In July [PaEN]

-- Delaware RiverKeeper: August 6 RiverWatch Video Report

-- Danville News: Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper - Susquehanna River Care A Balancing Act

-- Inquirer: Up To 17,000 Customer Get Inaccurate Philly Water Bills Showing ‘Shocking’ Increases

-- PPL Foundation: Now Accepting Applications For STEM Education Grants [PaEN]

-- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy: New Floating Classroom To Host Single-Day Educational Adventures, Floating Lecture Series  [PaEN]

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: Students Studied Snakes, Sang Songs And Learned About River’s Resources On Floating Classroom In Williamsport - Click Here For Other Stories

-- CitizensV: Oil Leak At White Haven Center Sends 2,000 Gallons Of Fuel Into Creek

-- Reminder: Westmoreland Pollinator Partners Accepting Entries To PA Pollinator Photo Challenge  [PaEN]

-- Pike Wayne Conservation Partnership: Science On Tap - Aug. 19 - Biodiversity Jam  [PaEN]

-- Governor’s Office: Publishes Latest Catalog Of Nonregulatory Documents  [PaEN]

-- PA Bulletin: Dept. Of Agricultural: Notice Of Additions To Controlled Plants And Noxious Weed List

-- Natural Lands: Transfer Of Delaware River Waterfront Parcel Represents Progress For Delaware River Trail  [PaEN]

-- PennLive: DCNR Crew Returns After 2 Weeks Of Fighting Montana Wildfires; Gratified They Could Make A Difference

-- AP: Town Burns To Ashes In Raging Northern California Wildfire

-- PA Homepage: ATV Park Planned For Luzerne County

-- CitizensV: Consultant: ATV And Recreation Park In Luzerne County Would Boost Region

-- NextPittsburgh: SouthSide Works Gets Playful With TechPlayground Pop-Up

-- Game Commission: Public Comments Invited On Removing The Peregrine Falcon From List Of Threatened Birds, Changing To Protected 

-- Game Commission: Public Comments Invited On Adding Northern Goshawk To List Of Threatened Birds 

-- PA Great Outdoors: Elk County - Home Of PA’s Elk Herd

-- PA Bulletin: Fish & Boat Commission Publishes Notices In August 7 PA Bulletin - Changes To List Of Class A Wild Trout Waters; Changes To Classification of Wild Trout Streams; Removal Of Waters From The Refuge Areas Program

-- William Penn Foundation: Names Stuart Clarke Director Of Watershed Protection

-- Help Wanted: Armstrong Conservation District Erosion & Sediment Pollution Control Technician  [PaEN]

National/International

-- AP: Senators Struggle To Amend, Finish $1 Trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

-- Utility Dive: Federal Court Orders FERC To Analyze Climate, Environmental Justice More Thoroughly On Natural Gas Infrastructure Projects

-- FarmAndDairy: Ohio State Study Shows Pipeline Construction Has Negative Impact On Crop Yields

-- EPA: To Overhaul Pollution Standards For Vehicles, Trucks Paving Way For Zero-Emission Future

-- The Guardian: Biden Sets Goal For 50% Of New U.S. Vehicles To Be Electric By 2030

-- Utility Dive: U.S. Power Sector Halfway To Net Zero Emissions, But It Gets Harder Now, Analysts Say

-- WPost: In A Summer Scarred By Heat, Drought And Fire, Adaptation Becomes A Necessity

-- The Guardian: Climate Crisis: Scientists Spot Warning Signs Of Gulf Stream Collapse

-- USA Today: Study Warns Of ‘Irreversible Transition’ In Ocean Currents That Could Rapidly Freeze Parts Of North America

-- The Guardian: Reduce Methane Emissions Or Face Climate Catastrophe, Scientists Warn

-- The Guardian: Facebook Let Fossil Fuel Industry Push Climate Misinformation, Report Finds

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[Posted: August 6, 2021]  PA Environment Digest

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