Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 9.21.21

Senate
returns to session September 21, 22

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session September 21, 22

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events


TODAY 9:00: ​​Senate Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee hearing on utility scale solar development and agricultural land.  9:00 a.m.  Click Here for more on the agenda.


TODAY Off the Floor: Senate Appropriations Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 302 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) protecting PFOA/PFAS manufacturers from lawsuits over contamination.  Click Here to watch live.  


-- Great Lakes Protection Fund: Announces 2021 Leadership Award Winners, Including 2 From Pennsylvania  [PaEN]

-- Doc Fritchey Chapter Trout Unlimited: Volunteers Breathe Life Into Broken Trout Waters In Dauphin County [PaEN]

-- Presidents Of PA Farm Bureau, Farm Groups: In Chesapeake Bay Watershed Call For USDA To Create $737 Million Resilient Farms Initiative  [PaEN]

-- PA Cap-Star: State Farm Bureaus Back Proposal For $737 Million Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Initiative

-- NFWF: Announces $11.5 Million In Conservation Grants To Restore Delaware Watershed; PA Grants Total $4.5 Million  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster Farmland Trust Preserves 130-Acre Stoltzfus Farm in Drumore Township [PaEN]

-- Timothy & Amanda Maxwell Partner With French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust To Protect Over 57 Acres In Chester County  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Help Celebrate Riparian Buffer Month In October!  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Hurricane Ida’s Impact On Spring Creek Forested Buffer In Dauphin County  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Benefits And Challenges Of Lawn Conversion, Native Landscaping For Landowners, Local Officials Webinar Oct. 12  [PaEN]

-- Water4Ag Groups In Potter, Tioga, Mifflin Counties Share Accomplishments   [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Welcomes 2 New Master Watershed Stewardship Coordinators: Lake Erie, Lower Susquehanna  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Hosts 5-Part Water Webinar Series Homeowners  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Can I Stock Tilapia Or Other Fish In My Pond To Control Algae And Plants?  [PaEN]

-- World Water Monitoring Day Celebrates Importance Of Water Quality Testing  [PaEN]

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: How To Assess, Report, Reduce Negative Impacts Of Petroleum Spills

-- TribLive: Sharpsburg Awarded Grant To Combat Flooding

-- Pisces Foundation: Now Accepting Applications For Environmental Education & Outdoor Learning Infrastructure Grants  [PaEN]

-- Richard King Mellon Foundation: Now Accepting Applications For Grants To Encourage The Recruitment, Retention Or Reactivation Of Hunters, Anglers And Outdoor Enthusiasts  [PaEN]

-- DCNR: Announces Climate And Sustainability Plan Will Take Presque Isle State Park To Net Zero In Erie  [PaEN]

-- ErieT: Solar Panels At Beach 8 Will Help Take Presque Isle State Park To Net-Zero Energy Usage

-- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: Clean Energy: It’s Time To Embrace Climate Change As A Moral And Spiritual Challenge Of Unparalleled Import  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Hosts Oct. 14 Webinar On Revised Regulations, Policies, Updated Natural Gas Program

-- WilliamsportS: Electronics Recycling To Be Suspended At Lycoming County Transfer Station

-- WITF: Spotted Lanternfly Continues To Spread In PA

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: These Trails, Spaces, Streets Newest “Great Places In PA’

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Pymatuning State Park Lake On National List Of Cheap End-Of-Summer Fishing Trips

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: PA’s Largest Native Fruit Is Ripe Now, For Just A Few Days

-- ErieT: Bike Track Headed To Scranton

-- Bay Journal: Pennsylvania Creates 35 Secret Sanctuaries To Protect Rare Plants  [PaEN]

-- Game Commission: 2 Piping Plover Chicks Took Flight From Presque Isle State Park Marking 5th Year Of Nesting Success  [PaEN]

Hurricane Ida

-- WHYY: Disaster Recovery Centers Open In Montgomery, Delaware Counties To Help With Damage From Hurricane Ida

Bipartisan U.S. Senate Infrastructure Bill

AP: Cleanup Of Abandoned Mines, Including Those In PA, Could Get Financial Boost From Infrastructure Bill

PA Politics

-- Inquirer: Republican In Chester County Admitted He Voted Illegally In His Son’s Name In 2020 Election 

-- WPost Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Republicans Invade Voters’ Privacy In Service Of The ‘Big Lie’  

-- AP: Republican Candidate For Governor Lou Barletta Signs Anti-Tax Pledge

-- YorkDR: House Republicans Say Agenda Is More Than Masks, Rallies Welcome Them Back To Session

-- PennLive: More Than 12,000 New COVID Cases Reported In PA; Every County In PA Shows High Transmission Rate

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Pediatrician Hopes ‘A Lot Of Kids’ Get Vaccinated By Halloween

-- AP: PA Supreme Court To Hear Argument In Victims’ Rights Amendment Case

-- AP: State Appeals Court Judge Candidates Talk Temperament, Not Cases

-- PA Cap-Star: Judicial Candidates For PA Appellate Courts Make Their Pitches To Voters

-- WITF: Central York School Board Lifts Ban On Diversity Resources

-- PA Gaming Control Board: Reports August Revenue $408 Million; Down From $423.6 Million In July

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[Posted: September 21, 2021]  PA Environment Digest

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