Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 8.3.21

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


-- PA Environmental Defense Foundation: Files Petition In Court To Order Commonwealth To Return $1.3 Billion In Revenue From State Forest Drilling Unconstitutionally Transferred From Oil & Gas Lease Fund  [PaEN]


-- Natural Gas, Hazardous Liquids Pipelines Are NOT Required To Carry Insurance Or Show They Can Pay For Damages If They Explode, Leak Or Kill Someone [PaEN]


-- Senate Environmental Committee: Meets Aug. 18 To Vote On Letter Disapproving Final Carbon Pollution Reduction Reg. Covering Power Plants [RGGI]  [PaEN]

-- DEP: Update On Chesapeake Bay Implementation Plan Activities From Healthy Waters Partnership  [PaEN]

-- Center For Water Quality Excellence: Now Open Providing Info On Agricultural And Urban Stormwater Management  [PaEN]

-- Call For Abstracts: Bucknell University River Symposium Nov. 5-6 In Lewisburg  [PaEN]

-- Reminder: EPA: Accepting Applications For Chesapeake Bay Agriculture, Nonpoint Source Program Support Grants

-- Sen. Yaw: SB 465 Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program A Win-Win For PA’s Farmers And Local Water Quality [If passed and funded]

-- ReadingE: Blue Marsh Lake Algae Blooms Unlikely To Be Sole Cause Of Philadelphia-Area Water Complaints

-- Register Today For Aug. 18 PA Resources Council Recycling & Waste Education Webinar  [PaEN]

-- PG: Sustainability Startup Ecotone Renewables Wants To Eliminate Food Waste, Or At Least Make It Useful

-- MCall: Final County Shows 11 Tornadoes Hit PA During Thursday’s Storms  [May 31, 1985 19 tornadoes claimed 65 lives in PA]

-- Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum Launches New Website

-- Utility Dive: Despite Limited Participation, Advocates See Potential For Northeast Transportation Cap-And-Invest Plan

-- SEEDS Of Northeastern PA: Will Host Local Members Of Earth To Sky Partnership At Annual Membership Meeting on Sept. 29 [PaEN]

-- CourierT: The Lenape Tribe Once Thrived In Bucks County, Now Only Traces Remain

-- French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust: Partners With Nancy Long and Tom Baldwin To Preserve Old Growth Forest In Chester County [PaEN]

-- PennLive: McClure Cave, Snyder County, Sold To Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy: Sept. 23 - Learn About How To Protect Your Land With A Conservation Easement Webinar.  5:15 to 6:15 p.m.

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Forest Fire Offiails Ask People To Be Aware Of Wildfire Risk

-- PG Editorial: Tick Population Rising In State, So Are Tick-Related Illnesses

-- WilliamsportS: DCNR Deputy Secretary Joins Students In Brandon Park For Tree Inventory

-- PA Environmental Council: A Laurel Highlands Reunion

-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy: Now Accepting Photo Contest Entries Thru August 31  [PaEN]

-- Natural Lands: Big Hooved Animals Help Little Falcons At Spring Mills Farms In Centre County

-- TribLive: Rabies Vaccine Baits Distributed Throughout Allegheny County

-- Help Wanted: Federal Office Of Surface Mining AmeriCorps VISTA Positions Available

-- Help Wanted: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Temporary Warehouse Driver Positions Open  [PaEN]

-- Help Wanted: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Logistics Manager

PA Politics

-- Independent Fiscal Office: July General Fund Revenue 34.2% Below Prior Year Collections

National/International

-- AP: Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Leaves Out Key Climate, Clean Energy Steps

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Bipartisan Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Boost Bay Restoration Funding

-- NPR: Here’s What’s Included In The Bipartisan Senate Infrastructure Bill

-- The Guardian: Wildfire Fighters Advance Against Biggest U.S. Blaze Amid Dire Warnings

-- Financial Times: Carbon Offsets Going Up In Smoke As Company-Linked Forests Burn

-- Financial Times: Fossil Fuel Groups Step Up Lobbying Of SEC To Dilute Climate Reporting Rules

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[Posted: August 3, 2021]  PA Environment Digest

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