Saturday, November 20, 2021

Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 11.20.21

House
returns to session Dec. 13, 14, 15

     -- Committee Schedule

Senate returns to session Dec. 13, 14, 15

     -- Committee Schedule

-- Updated 2022 Voting Session Day Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

 

-- Preliminary Results From New Penn State Study Find Increased Cancer, Health Risks From Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Especially For Children  [PaEN]

 

-- New Pitt-Duquesne Study Shows Higher Exposures To Radiation In Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater When Appropriate Exposure Scenarios Are Used  [PaEN]

 

-- Environment News Service: Pennsylvania Drilling Wastewater Toxics Spread On Dirt Roads

 

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Mariner East Natural Gas Pipeline/Township Records Should Be Open To Public

-- Commonwealth Financing Authority Invests $10.4 Million In Environmental Improvement Projects Funded By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees  [PaEN]

-- Evangelical Environmental Network: U.S. House Passage Of Build Back Better Budget Puts Us Closer To A Bright Inheritance For Our Children [PaEN]

-- ErieT: Why Democrats Say Build Back Better Plan Is A ‘Big Win’ For Pennsylvania

-- AltoonaM Editorial: PA Infrastructure Investments Must Improve Our Climate Resiliency

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Officials Hope UN Climate Conference Urgency Translates Into Action At Home 

-- PA Cap-Star: Plunging Temperatures, Higher Prices: Why Renewables Could Be The Answer; Unlike Natural Gas, Clean Energy Sources Do Not Suffer From Wild Price Fluctuations

-- Inquirer: SEPTA Buys Hybrid Buses For $178 Million, While It Studies Options For Battery Electric Models

-- DCED Announces $105,497 Grant To Extend Pipeline For Natural Gas Service In Mifflin County

-- TribLive: Fake Energy Company Jilts Investors Out Of $2 Million

-- ErieT: Natural Gas Prices Rise 8.2%, Tips For Cutting Heating Costs

-- PUC OKs Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority Rate Settlement, Including $21 Million Annual Stormwater Charge  [PaEN]

-- WITF - Reid Frazier: Corroded Equipment Led To Catastrophic Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works In 2018 

-- Public Source: The City Of Prayer: Clairton’s Residents Persevere Amid Persistent Pollution And Violence

-- CourierT: Researchers Now Enrolling Bucks, Montgomery Residents For PFAS Study, Do You Qualify?  

-- PG: Pittsburgh Councilmember Set To Introduce Bill To Restrict Single-Use Plastic Bags

-- Lancaster Conservancy Preserves 130 Acres Of Forest Land In York County [PaEN]

-- PennLive: Expect Your 2021 Christmas Tree To Cost Much More Says Auctioneer Who Sold 51,000 Of Them

-- Nov. 19 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available From PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]

-- WarrenT: Storywalk Trail Now Open At Chapman State Park

-- DCNR: Announces Delayed Dam Repairs At Shikellamy State Park

-- ErieT: Lake Erie Cottages’ Bankruptcy Could Net More Access To Prized Steelhead Run

Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Bill

-- AltoonaM Editorial: PA Infrastructure Investments Must Improve Our Climate Resiliency

Build Back Better Budget Bill

-- Evangelical Environmental Network: U.S. House Passage Of Build Back Better Budget Puts Us Closer To A Bright Inheritance For Our Children [PaEN]

-- ErieT: Why Democrats Say Build Back Better Plan Is A ‘Big Win’ For Pennsylvania

-- AP: House Democrats Pass Sweeping Social, Climate Bill

-- The Guardian: House Democrats Pass Expansive Build Back Better Budget Plan

-- Utility Dive: U.S. House Passes Build Back Better, Tees Up Senate Vote On Funding For Climate, Clean Energy And Electric Vehicles

National/International

-- AP: Wildfires Torched Up To A Fifth Of All Giant Sequoia Trees

-- NYT: Global Rivalries Are Miring The Clean Energy Revolution; Quest For Congo’s Cobalt

PA Politics

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Senate Republicans To Spend $270,000 In Taxpayer Money To ‘Investigate’ Nov. 2020 Election

-- AP: Senate Republicans Hire Firm For $270,000 In Taxpayer Money To ‘Investigate’ Nov. 2020 Election

-- Spotlight PA: What We Know About The Firm Hired By Republicans To Review 2020 Election

-- MCall - Ford Turner: House Democrats Condemn Republican Impeachment Threat As Lehigh County Elections Board Controversy Heats Up

-- CourierT: Can The ‘Bucks County Turnout Commission’ Expose Voter Records?

-- LancasterOnline/The Caucus: Fmr Republican House Speaker Turzai Running For Governor

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: How PA’s Overpaid Lawmakers Got Their Biggest Raise Since At Least 1995

-- MCall: Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie Files To Run Against Cong. Susan Wild

-- WBTimes Editorial: Scavo Lied Until He Couldn’t Hide His Actions In Assault On U.S. Capitol

-- PG: 40,044 COVID Cases Last Week, Highest In 10 Months; 3,095 Hospitalized

-- PennLive:  PA COVID Positivity Rate Barometer Turns Darker

-- Dept. Of Health: All Adults In PA Now Eligible For COVID Vaccine Boosters

-- PG: New Study Identifies Stark Health Care Disparities For Black Pennsylvanians

-- Gov. Wolf: Proposed Regs Will Help Tipped Works, Calls On Legislature To Act On Wages, Support Paid Sick Leave

-- Dept. Of Labor & Industry: PA Unemployment Rate Down Slightly In October To 6%; Labor Force Declined By 6,000

-- PG: Accused Money Launderers Moved Millions Into Steel Industry, Then Left A Trail Of Deceit And Ruin

-- PennLive Guest Essay: To Prevent More Gun Violence Legislators Must Stop Allowing Guns Everywhere

-- PG Editorial: Juvenile Lifers Highlight Prisoner Re-Entry Struggles

-- PG:  Cindy Chung Confirmed As New U.S. Attorney In Pittsburgh

-- WHYY: ‘We’re Broke’: At State School Funding Trail, Educators Say They’re Doing Their Best With Less

-- TribLive: Pitt Study Focuses On Reversing ‘Brain Drain’ From Western PA

-- CourierT: Mailer In Central Bucks School District Warned Of Replacing Teachers Based On Race Sparks Call For Doylestown Official Who Delivered It To Resign

-- KYW: Philadelphia Leader Says Rittenhouse Verdict ‘The Epitome Of White Privilege’

-- WITF: Fmr Slaves Made An Impact At Dickinson College, The School Is Now Honoring Their Names

-- WITF: Fulton County Commissioners Withheld Money From Library Over Its LGBTQ Support; Then The Online Fundraisers Began

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[Posted: November 20, 2021]  PA Environment Digest

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