Friday, September 3, 2021

Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 9.3.21

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


-- After More Than A Decade Of Warnings Significant Funding Was Needed, Floods Are Again Devastating Pennsylvania  [PaEN]

-- Groups Gathering Support For Letter Urging DEP, Gov. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 Million Gallons Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Dumped On PA Roads  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer/Bloomberg: Satellites Find Methane Plumes Over Midwest Caused By Energy Transfer Natural Gas Pipeline Company [Mariner East Builder] 

-- Republicans On House Committee Approve Resolution To Kill Final Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Regulations  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Lawmakers Move To Block RGGI After Rule Wins Regulatory Approval

-- WilliamsportS: Sen. Yaw Angry Over Greenhouse Gas ‘Compact’ Vote  [It’s Not A Compact]

-- MCall: Mack Trucks To Soon Start Producing Electric Garbage Trucks At Lehigh Valley Facility

-- Gov. Wolf: Federal SBA Low-Interest Loans To Be Made Available For Those Affected By August Flash Flooding In Tioga, Bradford, Lycoming, Potter  [PaEN]

-- Now On Demand: Southwest PA Water Agencies Flood Education Series For Allegheny County Homeowners & Business Owners  [PaEN]

-- CourierT: Living On Neshaminy Creek In Bucks County: You Gotta Go Up Or Get Out, That’s Just What 261 Homeowners Did

-- PennVEST Awards $5.2 Million Forgiveness Loan To Aqua PA For PFAS Water Treatment System In Montgomery County  [PaEN]

-- PA Sea Grant: Welcomes 4 New Staff: Susquehanna & Delaware River Watershed Specialists, Lake Erie Outreach Specialist, Education Lead

-- Delaware RiverKeeper: Sept. 3 RiverWatch Video Report

-- DEP: Approves Methods For Land Application Of Food Processing Residual Waste From Clinton County Meat Processor  [PaEN]

-- PG: What’s That Smell?  ‘Funky But Industrial’ Odor In Pittsburgh Remains A Mystery

-- WESA: Trapped Air Caused A Bad Smell In Pittsburgh

-- TribLive: What’s Causing The Strange Smell Around McKees Rocks?

-- YorkD: More West Nile Positive Mosquitoes Found In York County

-- TribLive: 20th Observance At Flight 93 Memorial Closed To Public

-- WITF: Part Of Flight 93 Crashed On My Land - I Went Back To The Sacred Ground 20 Years Later

-- AP: 20 Years After 9/11: ‘We Will Live With The Scars’ Forever

-- WITF: For Muslim And Arab Immigrants In PA, Sept. 11 Forever Changed Their Lives

-- WHYY: Bucks County Lost 18 On Sept. 11, 2 Decades Later A Memorial In Their Honor Offers Solace

-- DCNR: Gives Park, Forest Visitors Tips For Recreating Responsibly During Labor Day Weekend

-- DCNR: Construction To Limit Access To Northern Portion Of Lehigh Gorge State Park

-- WESA: Pittsburgh City Council Moves Ahead On Effort To Celebrate Pittsburgh Trees

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Dangerous Water Levels To Flow In Rivers, Streams Thru Labor Day

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: When Will Peak Fall Foliage Hit PA This Fall?  Interactive Map Offers Early Look

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Update On Mystery Songbird Disease Planned By Penn State Extension

-- NextPittsburgh: BirdSafe Pittsburgh Urges Lights Out For Migratory Birds

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Popular Game Commission Stony Valley Driving Tour Set For Oct. 17  In Dauphin County

Hurricane Ida

-- MCall: Flooding Kills Stranded Driver In Bucks County, At Least 3 Dead In Montgomery County

 -- Inquirer: Ida’s Legacy: 5 Deaths, 7 Tornadoes Record Flooding, Hundreds Of Water Rescues, One Incredibly Soggy Mess

-- CourierT: Ida Claims Lives In Bucks, Montgomery Counties; Bucks Sees Widespread Flooding, Damage 

-- PennLive: Parent Of PA Student-Athlete Drowns In Flood While Driving Home From Match

-- Inquirer: ‘It Came Too Fast’ Record Floodwaters Brought Rescues, Damage, Terror, Grief

-- WHYY: Long Recovery Ahead As Ida’s Remnants Lead To Historic Flooding, Tornadoes In Philly Region

-- PennLive: Gov. Wolf Updates Damage From Ida: More Than 370 Roads Closed In PA, ‘Thousands” Of Water Rescues

-- AltoonaM: Floods Continue To Impact Blair County Region

-- PG: Pittsburgh Residents Begin Cleanup After Ida Floods Area

-- MCall: Ida Drops Up To 8 Inches Of Rain On Lehigh Valley Area, Major Flooding Continues Along Rivers 

-- MCall: After Ida Swamped Lehigh Valley, Residents Muck Out, Size Up Damage

-- WHYY: Ida’s Remnants Lead To Historic Flooding; Shelter-In-Place Along Schuylkill River

-- Billy Penn: Photos/Video Of Flooded Highway In The Middle Of Philadelphia 

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: As Tornadoes Strike, Horrified Families Watch Their Philly-Area Homes Explode Around Them

-- WBTimes: Cleanup Begins After Record Rain Storm

-- CitizensV: Rain Deluge Collapses Roads, But Flood Measures Save Homes

-- ScrantonT: Before And After: Scranton Streams And Rivers During Ida

-- LancasterOnline: Photos Of Flooding In Lancaster County

-- YorkDR: Aftermath Of Ida In Photos, The Day After A Record Storm In PA

-- Inquirer: How To File A Hurricane Ida Damage Claim For Wind And Flooding

-- Inquirer: Biden Hints At Aid For States, But It’s Unclear Whether PA, NJ Will Get Federal Disaster Relief

-- USA Today: ‘We’re Not Out Of This Yet’: At least 46 Dead After Flooding Overwhelms NYC, Northeast [5 in PA]

-- AP: Cleanup And Mourning Continue After Ida Soaks Northeast U.S

-- AP: Why Was Ida So Devastating As It Flooded The Northeast? 

National/International

-- Bloomberg Law: Bankruptcies Fuelling Environmental Crisis At Abandoned Oil Wells

-- NPR: Our Future On A Hotter Planet Means More Climate Disasters Happening Simultaneously

PA Politics

-- Gov. Wolf: Medical, Education Experts Support Secretary Of Health Order Requiring Masking In Schools, Early Learning, Child Care Settings

-- PennLive: PA Reports Another Spike In COVID Infections, 90 New Deaths

-- PA Cap-Star: Republican Rep. Diamond Compares COVID Vaccinations To Sexual Assault, Faces Backlash

-- PG: Pittsburgh-Area Workers Prepare For End Of Federal Unemployment Benefits

-- PG - Robert Swift: House Hearing Explores State’s Worker Shortage

-- PG: Want To See How PA State Universities Do Business? Your Window May Be Closing

-- Spotlight PA: The Coming Crisis In Dementia Care, Why PA Is Woefully Unprepared

-- PA Cap-Star: Q/A With Republican Gov Candidate Nche Zama - PA Is Sick And Needs A Doctor [Spoiler - He Is One]

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