Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 1.23.22

 

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Senate returns to session Jan. 24, 25, 26; Feb. 7, 8, 9

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session Jan. 24, 25, 26; Feb. 7, 8, 9

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

 

-- MONDAY 10:00 a.m.: U.S. Secretary Of Interior, Gov. Wolf Highlight Upcoming Investments In Abandoned Mine Reclamation Thru Bipartisan Infrastructure Law In Luzerne County.

 

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

 

-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults  [PaEN]

 

-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week   [PaEN]

 

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: Wolf Touts PA’s Strong Financial Position, Why That’s Only Half The Story

 

-- PennLive/TNS: 1 In 3 Miles Of Pennsylvania Streams, Rivers Water Quality Impaired

 

-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Donegal Trout Unlimited Much More Than A Fishing Club [Includes The Late Greg Wilson] 

 

-- Stroud Water Research Center STREAM Girls Leader Mandy Nix Honored By Valley Forge Trout Unlimited  [PaEN]

 

-- Brubaker Farms, A Stroud Water Research Center Partner, Wins Leopold Conservation Award 

-- Stroud Water Research Center: How’s My Soil? How We’re Helping Farmers Answer This Question - Video

 

-- Sharon Herald: DEP Water Quality Impaired Streams Data Aids Crawford County Conservation Efforts In Planning, Grants

-- SunburyDI: Some Stream Success Stories In Central Susquehanna Valley From DEP’s Stream Water Quality Report

-- ErieT: New Advisory Group To Become Part Of Erie Stormwater Fee Push

 

-- Stroud Water Research Center Partner West Chester Area School District Opens New Water Quality Education Center

 

-- WHYY: Busted Water Mains Flood Philly Streets As City Fails To Hit Pipe Replacement Goals

 

-- Stroud Water Research Center Feb. 11 Webinar - Forever Chemicals (PFAS) In Our Water: Threats And Solutions  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Fox Chapel Teen Focuses On Litter With Award-Winning Photo

-- Stroud Water Research Center Intern & Job Opportunities

 

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Sale Of Last Coal-Fired Power Plant In Allegheny County Good Sign For Post-Coal Economy  [PaEN]

 

-- Pittsburgh, Philadelphia Join White House Building Energy Performance Standards Coalition  [PaEN]

 

-- PG - Salena Zito: From The PA Farm Show: Energy Costs Are Top Concern [At The Mercy Of International Energy Markets That Set Prices]

 

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Shortchanges State Taxpayers

 

-- ScrantonT: Annual Knox Mine Disaster Commemoration Held At Anthracite Museum

 

-- MCall/SunburyDI: PA Coal Carver’s Family Visits Sculpture At Line Mountain Elementary School

 

-- Doug Tallamy: Bringing Nature Home: The Importance Of Native Plants In Your Backyard - Video Of Presentation

 

-- Philly Voice: Friends Of Wissahickon Pedestrian Bridge Project Could Restore Access To The Park Damaged By Storm Erosion

 

-- AP: All 100 Lab Monkeys Accounted For After Several Escaped Crash Near Danville

 

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Migration Sensor Network Tracks Purple Martins From Christina River Watershed To Central America

 

American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.  What’s Your Community Doing?

 

Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law

 

-- PG. Western PA Democrats See  Federal Infrastructure Investments As Game-Changer

Other States/National/International

-- OilPrice.com: Are America’s Natural Gas Drilling Hotspots Preparing For A Pivot To Renewables? 

-- TribLive/AP: Wildlife Along California’s Big Sur Forces Evacuations

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PA Cap-Star: Senators Interrogate Wolf Congressional District Map, Though No One Could Speak For It

-- TribLive: Westmoreland Officials Favor Congressional District Map That Unifies County

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: Wolf Touts PA’s Strong Financial Position, Why That’s Only Half The Story

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Jeff Bartos Emerging As Republic Faithful’s Favorite For U.S. Senate

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Republicans To Provide Election Training To Conservative Group That Regularly Spreads Disinformation On Election Fraud, COVID 

-- PA Cap-Star: What We Know About 2020 Fulton County Republican Election Review Thru Open Records

-- PG: UPMC Doctor’s Advice On Having Respectful Conversations About COVID Vaccine Hesitancy

-- PG: College Students Struggling In The Pandemic, But Mental Health Awareness Is Growing

-- WHYY: How One Survivor Dealt With Philadelphia’s Gun Violence

-- KYW: 16-Year-Old Shot Seven Times In West Philadelphia

-- TribLive Editorial: Truth Is Kids Need To Be Safe From Gun Violence - 15-Year-Old Marquis Campbell Should Not Be Dead

-- PG: Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit Addresses Equity Issues In Black Communities

-- TribLive Guest Essay: State Legislators As College Administrators?  It Would Be An Improvement

-- PG Editorial: Firing Professor Who Scuffled With Counter-Protester Would Taint Penn State

-- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: PA Constitution Supports Fair Education For All - Rich And Poor Alike

-- LancasterOnline Editorial: Lancaster County School Officials Shouldn’t Surrender To Those Seeking To Ban Books From School Libraries 

-- PG: Turnpike Seeking New Contract For Processing Toll Payments

-- CitizensV: Horse Racing Vital To State’s Economy And Agricultural Industry

-- ScrantonT: Scranton’s 30-Year Designation As Financially Distressed Finally Ending

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[Posted: January 23, 2022]  PA Environment Digest