Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.5.21

House
returns to session October 5, 6

     -- Committee Schedule

Senate returns to session October 18, 19, 20

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events


TODAY 10:30: Attorney General Shapiro Announces Charges Against A Corporation For Environmental Crimes.  Location: Marsh Creek State Park site of large spill by Mariner East 2 Pipeline Project. Click Here to watch live.


-- AP: Attorney General, Prosecutors Abruptly Halt Natural Gas Pipeline Probe Announcement Monday 


-- Sen. Comitta: Calls For Hearings On The Failure Of Pennsylvania To Invest In Clean Energy Infrastructure  [PaEN]


-- 65+ Groups Ask Biden Administration To Reclassify Oil & Gas Drilling Waste As 'Hazardous' To Prevent Road Dumping Of Wastewater And Other Practices  [PaEN]


-- ScrantonT Editorial: Reclassify Fracking Waste As Hazardous

-- PA Consumer Advocate: Heating With Natural Gas Will Cost Residential Consumers About 20% More This Winter; No Impact On PA Consumers Of PennEast Pipeline Cancellation [PaEN]

-- ErieT: Solar Energy Project Planned In Girard, Another Still Planned In Southern Erie County

-- EPA: Awards $4.9 Million To PA To Improve Water Quality Throughout The State  [PaEN]

-- Brandywine Conservancy: Receives $400,000+ In Delaware River Watershed Water Quality Improvement Grants From National Fish & Wildlife Foundation  [PaEN]

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: How Close To Goal Is The Initiative To Plant 10 Million Trees Across PA?

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Learn How Businesses Help Prevent Water Pollution While Creating Jobs  [Video]

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal Film: Water's Way - Thinking Like A Watershed  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Science History Institute Exhibition Traces 200-Year History Of Water Pollution In Philadelphia 

-- State Auditor General: Begins Audit Of PennVEST Nonpoint Source Project Funding Prompted By $51 Million Loan To Purchase Forest Land  [PaEN]

-- Delaware River Basin Commission: Names Elizabeth Koniers Brown Director, External Affairs & Communications  [PaEN]

-- House Committee Sets Oct. 25 Hearing On Biosolids Permit Revisions  [PaEN] 

-- Public Source: Is The Air I’m Breathing Safe In Allegheny County?

-- PennEnvironment: 100_ Businesses, Organizations Sign Letter Supporting A Plastic Bag Ban In Pittsburgh

-- PA Resources Council, UPMC: Host 2 October Reuse Fest Events To Benefit Local Nonprofits In Allegheny, Lawrence Counties  [PaEN]

-- ScrantonT: Cabot, Cimarex Merge To Form Coterra Energy

-- Friends Of The Wissahickon: Host A Virtual Valley Talk On Spotted Lanternflies Oct. 12  [PaEN]

-- Forbes Trail Trout Unlimited: Veterans Enjoy Day Of Fly Fishing In Westmoreland County  [PaEN]

-- Delaware RiverKeeper, Partners: Call On DCNR To Increase Water Releases To The Lower Tohickon Creek In Bucks County [PaEN]

-- PennLive: 9/11 National Memorial Trail Only A Signature Away From Becoming Official

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Bumble Bee Could Be Declared An Endangered Species

National/International

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Philadelphia Can’t Curb Climate Crisis Without Federal Support

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Preserve Federal Tax For Black Lung Benefits

PA Politics

-- Inquirer: Top Republican Sen. Kim Ward Made A Big Claim To Defend The Party’s Election Review - There’s No Evidence For It

-- York Daily Record: Republican Fight Between Sen. Mastriano And Leadership Part Of A Bigger 2022 Struggle In The Party

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Redraw PA’s Congressional Voting Districts For Residents, Not Politicians - T.J. Rooney & Alan Novak

-- MCall: PA Reported 14,076 New Cases Over Weekend, 94 Deaths Erase Previous Declines

-- YorkD: More PA Children Are Being Hospitalized For COVID Than Ever, But Why?

-- ErieT: Warren County School District Sued To Strengthen Mask Policy

-- AP: House OKs Bill To Make More Pandemic Data Publicly Available

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley Companies Paying Big Sign-On Bonuses To Attract Workers

-- WLVR: Worker Shortage Hits Home Again As PennDOT Seeks Hundreds Of Workers To Run Snow Plows

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Republican Sen. Regan Says It’s Time To Legalize Recreational Marijuana In PA: ‘It’s Inevitable’ 

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: House Panels Examine Higher Education Funding With An Eye Toward Change

-- WHYY: Historic Gun Violence Sparks Call For More Policing Along Philly’s Commercial Corridors

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