Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 9.5.21

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

-- We Remember Sept. 11, 2001- DEP’s Betsy Mallison, One Of Thousands To Respond [PaEN]

-- 20 New Stories - Real Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN]

-- PA Environment Digest: Educational Opportunities for Students & Adults [PaEN]

-- PA Capitol News: Top 10 Top 12 Stories From Harrisburg Last Week  [PaEN]

-- Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater; Radiation Monitoring Of Drilling Wastes; More On DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Agenda Sept. 9  [PaEN]

-- Hurricane Ida In Pennsylvania - From First Warnings To Initial Recovery [PaEN]

-- WBTimes: Scars From 2011 Flood Linger On Local Landscape, Local Hearts

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster City’s Rain Gardens Work Well, With Maintenance

-- PG - Daniel Moore: Soaring Prices Fuel Long-Running Push By PA Officials To Roll Back Ethanol Mandate

-- New Report Outlines Key Ways To Reconnect Nature Through Wildlife Corridors  [PaEN]

-- Western PA Conservancy: Protecting Pennsylvania’s Plants & Animals

-- PG: Meteorologists: Chill Out Over Farmer’s Almanac’s Dire Winter Prediction

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Local Residents Paddle Length Of Susquehanna River In Search Of Adventure, History

-- CentreDT: Summer Isn’t Over Yet, Get Out And Enjoy Centre County’s Natural Spaces

September 11 Remembered

-- AP: Biden To Mark 20th Anniversary Of 9/11 At 3 Memorial Sites

-- TribLive: Families Forged Resolve To See Flight 93 National Memorial

-- TribLive: Shanksville Remains Forever Connected To 9/11 And United Flight 93

-- PG - Daniel Moore: Tom Ridge Protected The Homeland By Crafting Better Bureaucracy, Can DHS Combat At New Age Of Threats?

-- MCall: A Lehigh Valley Priest Who Comforted The Bereaved Of The Pentagon Attack Remembers Lights In The Darkness

Hurricane Ida

-- PennLive: 4 Tornadoes Hit 2 PA Counties In 90 Minutes; Here’s How It Happened

-- WHYY: The Science Behind The Delaware Valley’s Tornado Summer

-- YorkDR: Dover Township Slammed By Ida, One Of The Worst Floods On Record

-- CourierT: Why Residents Along Neshaminy Creek Don’t Run When It Floods In Bucks County

-- KYW: Volunteers Come Together To Help Clean Up Schuylkill River Trail 

National/International

-- WPost: Nearly 1 In 3 Americans Experienced A Weather Disaster This Summer

-- WPost: Burying Power Lines Isn’t The Only Way To Weatherproof The Grid; Scientists Have Other Ideas

-- CNBC: Bitcoin Miners And Oil & Gas Execs Mingled At Secretive Meetup In Houston - Here’s What They Talked About

-- NYT: Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Many Countries, How Is That Possible?

PA Politics

-- TribLive Editorial: No-Excuse Mail-In Voting Is The Law Of The Land - Lawsuit Against It Republican Sour Grapes

-- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: The Philly Suburbs Grew Over The Last Decade, That’s A Problem For Republicans

-- Inquirer: Montgomery County Recommends Masking Outdoor, COVID Transmission Rates Remain High

-- MCall: Lehigh University Implements New Health Measures As Student COVID Cases Rise

-- PG Editorial: It’s About Time - School Mask Mandate Is Necessary In PA

-- ErieT: Erie’s 2nd COVID Surge Shows No Sign Of Slowing

-- WPost: Why America Has 8.4 Million Unemployed When There Are 10 Million Job Openings

-- ScrantonT Editorial: If Talk Were School Property Tax Reform, PA Would Have The Best System In The Nation

-- ErieT: Gun Violence In City Prods Erie School Board To Propose Delay In Reducing Police Force

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[Posted: September 5, 2021]  PA Environment Digest