Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 12.11.21

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

 

-- Turkey Hill Clean Water Partnership, Alliance For Chesapeake Bay Now Have NRCS-PA Funding Available For Priority Watersheds In 14 PA Bay Counties  [PaEN]

-- LancasterOnline: Landisville Mennonite Church Converts Nearly 4 Acres Of Farmland To Forest And Meadow 

-- Available On Demand: Presentations From PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Statewide Conference For Watershed Organizations  [PaEN]

-- Deadline Extended! Call For Presenters - Joint Keystone Goldwater Conference & American Fisheries Society Meeting Feb. 25-26  [PaEN]

-- Opportunity To Bid On DEP Blacklick Creek AMD Treatment Facility, Cambria & Indiana Counties  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Draft Stream Evaluation Report Covering 85 Class A Wild Trout Waters  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Hold Dec. 17 Business Meeting In-Person/Virtual

-- HRG Engineering’s Erin Letavic Appointed To Chesapeake Bay Program Science & Technical Advisory Committee

-- DEP Invites Comments On Mariner East Pipeline Erosion & Sedimentation Renewal Permits For Rights Of Way In 15 Counties  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: DEP Adjust Oil & Gas Methane Rule, But Critics Say It’s Not Enough

-- DEP Posted 72 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Dec. 11 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- EPA Administrator, UAW President Test-Drive Fully Electric Volvo In NC And Mack Trucks [Made In Lehigh Valley]

-- Pocono Record Guest Essay: We Must Speed Up Transition To Zero-Emission Vehicles To Avoid Climate Crisis - By Dr. Steph Lee, MD, Dr. Maya Ragavan, MD & Flora Cardoni, PennEnvironment

-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For County Recycling Coordinator Grants  [PaEN]

-- ReadingE Editorial: Litter Action Plan Badly Needed In Pennsylvania

-- Dec. 10 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Destroyer Of Spotted Lanternfly’s Favorite Tree - Also An Invasive Species - May Have Been Found 

-- CentreDT: Bald Eagles Dying ‘Senseless Deaths,’ PA Wildlife Center Says, Here’s Why [Lead Poisoning] 

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- NextPittsburgh: House Expected To Vote On Proposed PA Congressional Redistricting Map Monday

-- Spotlight PA: See How The Proposed PA Congressional Voting District Map Scores In Every Key Area

-- PA Cap-Star Editorial Cartoon: With Pay Raises Hung By The Chimney With Care

-- Senate, House Republican Leaders Call On Gov. Wolf To Reconvene COVID Vaccine Task Force In Response To Rise In COVID Cases Statewide

-- PA Cap-Star: Republican Leaders Call On Wolf To Reconvene Bipartisan COVID Task Force; Wolf Says It Never Stopped

-- PennLive Guest Essay: We Don’t Need Leaders Like Sen. Corman Pulling Us Apart During A Time Of Crisis - John Sigle, Fmr Dickinson College Professor

-- AP: PA Supreme Court Throws Out Mask Mandate For Schools

-- ScrantonT: Carbondale School District Moving To Online Learning Due To Increase In COVID Cases

-- ScrantonT: Parents Of Delaware Valley School District Ask County Judge To Issue An Injunction After 2 Children Exposed To COVID From Classmates Who Did Not Wear Masks

-- Inquirer: PA Hospitals Are Really Busy, They Beg You To Get Your Flu, COVID Shots

-- ErieT: Meadville Hospital Scrambles To Deal With Surge In COVID Patients

-- LancasterOnline: COVID Hospitalizations May Soon Set Pandemic Record In Lancaster County

-- PennLive: PA COVID Percent Positivity Rate Offers Ray Of Hope

-- Inquirer: Fmr DA Bruce Castor Files Lawsuit Arguing That Vaccine Status Is So Politically Divisive It Should Be Considered Free Speech

-- PennLive: Flu Cases Increase Significantly In PA, Showing Up In Nearly Every County

-- MCall - Ford Turner: PA Hospital Nurses Head For The Exits Amid Overwork, Pay Disputes As Lawmakers Look For Answers

-- AP: COVID-Era Nursing Home Staff Crunch Hurting Hospitals, Too

-- Gov. Wolf: Commission Approves Recommendations On Police-Involved Shootings, Use Of Force, Bias-Based Policing

-- Spotlight PA: Investigations Of PA State Police Troopers Who Injure, Kill Should Be Independent, Panel Says

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Threats Put Central PA School Districts On Alert, Disrupt Classes

-- LancasterOnline: Rumors Of Threat On Social Media Caused Lancaster School District To Switch To Remote Learning

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Caller Threatened Shooting At Central PA Kellogg’s Plant

-- LancasterOnline Editorial: End Theatrics And Work Toward Meaningful Solutions To Gun Violence

-- WITF: Carlisle’s Truth And Reconciliation Committee Is Hosting Community Dialogues To Talk About Race

-- WHYY: Child Care Staffing Shortages Across PA Persist, But Solutions Taking Shape

-- MCall - Bill White: Who’s To Blame For The Decline In Local News Coverage?

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[Posted: December 11, 2021]  PA Environment Digest