Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 11.7.21

Senate returns to session Nov. 8, 9, 10, Dec. 13, 14, 15

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session Nov. 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, Dec. 13, 14, 15

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

-- 42 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA  [PaEN]

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

-- All Articles & NewsClips In Nov. 8 PA Environment Digest By Topic  [PaEN]

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

-- U.S. House Sends Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill To Biden’s Desk, Includes Largest-Ever Investment In Cleaning Up Abandoned Coal Mines - PA’s #1 Water Pollution Problem  [Pennsylvanians worked 5 years to get this done.]  [PaEN]

 

-- PG: Republican PA Cong. Reschenthaler Says Infrastructure Bill Is An Attempt To Push ‘Radical, Socialist Goals’  [Like Lead & AMD-Free Clean Water?]

-- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Presents Mira Lloyd Dock Awards To Kiasha Huling Of Philadelphia & Shauna Yorty Of Lancaster; PA Forestry Assn.  Recognizes Marci Mowery With Myra Dock Award  [PaEN]

-- Gov. Tom Wolf Serves As Chair Of Great Lakes Protection Fund

-- Inquirer: Behind Hurricane Ida’s Destruction Along The Brandywine: A 1,000-Year Downpour, A ‘Choke Point’ And A Record Crest

-- DEP Issues Air Quality Action Day Alert For Liberty-Clairton, Susquehanna Valley For Sunday, Nov. 7 -- Check EPA Air Now For Details 

-- Carnegie Mellon (#11), Penn State (#14), Temple (#27) Recognized In EPA’s Top 30 College & University List Of Green Power Users 

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Host Global Climate And Energy Meeting Next Year

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Pittsburgh To Host The World On How To Transition Away From Fossil Fuels  [PaEN]

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Huge Step To Curb Methane From Oil & Gas Operations

-- WESA: Environmental Groups Sue To Invalidate Permits For Ethane Storage Project Along Ohio River

-- MCall: Coal Miners In WV Wait In Vain For Unemployment Payments From PA; Filing Status Has To Do With State From Which They Entered Mines

-- ScrantonT: Environmental Cleanup On Land Along Lackawanna River Eyed For Park

-- AP: Delaware Water Gap Proposal Would Give PA, NJ First National Park

-- AP: Paddle A String Of Islands In The Lower Susquehanna River

Hurricane Ida

-- KYW: Pennsylvanians Continue To Struggle From Hurricane Ida Damage, As FEMA Extends Financial Aid Deadline

Bipartisan U.S. Senate Infrastructure Bill

-- U.S. House Sends Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill To Biden’s Desk, Includes Largest-Ever Investment In Cleaning Up Abandoned Coal Mines - PA’s #1 Water Pollution Problem  [Pennsylvanians worked 5 years to get this done.]  [PaEN]

-- PG: Republican PA Cong. Reschenthaler Says Infrastructure Bill Is An Attempt To Push ‘Radical, Socialist Goals’  [Like Lead & AMD-Free Clean Water?]

-- WPost: 13 Republicans Who Voted For Infrastructure Bill Now Facing Backlash [Including PA’s Brian Fitzpatrick]

National/International

-- WSJ: Natural Gas Exports Lift Prices For American Utilities

-- PG: Biden Noncommittal On Release From Strategic Petroleum Reserve Amid Rising Oil Prices

-- AP: Frustrations Grow As Marchers Demand Faster Climate Action

-- AP: Kerry Rallies Global Climate Push As Uncertainty Grows In U.S.

-- AP: The Magic 1.5: What’s Behind Climate Talks’ Key Elusive Goal

PA Politics

-- MCall/TNS: Lots Of Republicans Are Running For Governor, More Likely To Join The List

-- Inquirer: Progressives Seek To Expand Political Footprint In Philly Thru House, Senate Races

-- Inquirer: A Year Ago Philadelphia Was The Center Of The Political World, What’s Happened Since?

-- PG: Eastern PA Democrats Warn Party: Growing Republican Wave Is Real

-- TribLive - Deb Erdley: Red Wave In Western PA Leaves Allegheny County A Blue Island

-- PA Cap-Star: Democrats Show Signs Of Strength In Pittsburgh And Its Suburbs

-- ReadingE: Latest Election Results Change Key Berks County School Board, Supervisor Races

-- PA Cap-Star: Will PA Lawmakers Finally Pass Real Lobbying Reform And A Gift Ban?

-- MCall: Desperate For Workers, Lehigh Valley Restaurants Offering Money, Paid Vacations, Is It Working?

-- AP: Federal Appeals Court Stays COVID Vaccine Mandate On Larger Businesses

-- PG: Historic Trial On School Funding To Start Friday In Harrisburg

-- PA Cap-Star: Critical Race Theory Isn’t Taught In PA K-12 Schools, But It Permeated Local School Board Races 

-- PG: When Police Shoot At Suspects In PA, Most Don’t Tell FBI

-- PG: Afghan Native Now Helping Newly Arrived Refugees Find Homes, Hope In Pittsburgh

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[Posted: November 7, 2021]  PA Environment Digest