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House returns to session Jan. 12, 24, 25, 26
Senate returns to session Jan. 18, 19, 24, 25, 26
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
TODAY 1:30: DEP Secretary McDonnell, Second Lady Gisele Fetterman Talk About Radon Testing In Homes. Available online.
-- PA Professional Geologists: Feb. 16 Webinar: Dust Suppression With Oil & Gas Produced Water Featuring Author Of Penn State Study Finding Increased Cancer Risks With Road Spreading. 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Awarded USDA Grant To Expand Outreach To Underserved Farmers In PA, MD, VA [PaEN]
-- NRCS-PA Offers Expanded Conservation Program Opportunities To Support Climate-Smart Agriculture In 2022 [PaEN]
-- Foundation For Pennsylvania Watersheds Sets Spring, Fall Grant Application Deadlines [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: New Fee Incentives For Use Of Abandoned Mine Impacted Water [PaEN]
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Winter Road Salt Making Some Philly-Area Streams As Salty As The Ocean, Enough To Kill Wildlife
-- Bay Journal: Ahead On State Legislative Agendas: Climate, Environmental Justice, Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funds
-- PA State Grange: Jan. 13 Farm Show Solar Energy Program. 10:00 a.m. Available Online.
-- Yahoo! Finance: OLB Group Signs Long-Term Lease For Cryptocurrency Mining Facility In Bradford
-- Meten Begins Trial Operation Of Crypto Mining Business In PA
-- Seneca Resources Achieves Certification Of Natural Gas Production Under Equitable Origin Standard [Compliance History in PA Starting In 2015]
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Hearing Officer Blocks Allegheny County’s New Coke (Coal) Oven Regulations For U.S. Steel
-- PA Cap-Star: Allegheny County’s Fine Against U.S. Steel For Air Quality Violations Too Small, Environmentalists Say
-- PG - Anya Litvak: U.S. Steel Picks Arkansas For $3 Billion Mini-Mill Investment, After Canceling Upgrade To Mon Valley Works In May
-- WeConservePA: Lackawanna County-Based Countryside Conservancy Protects 265 Acres At Base Of Elk Mountain
-- New Fossil Species Named For Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Paleontologist David S. Berman [PaEN]
-- DCNR To Hold Jan. 18 Virtual Town Hall Meeting On Inflatable Dam Work At Shikellamy State Park. 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Experts Remain Baffled By Last Year’s Mystery Bird Disease, Offer No Assurances The Issue Is Resolved
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
-- ScrantonT Editorial: Use Fed Cash To Cleanup Abandoned Mine Polluted Waterways
Build Back Better Budget Bill
-- WESA: Sen. Casey Hopeful On Democrats’ Massive Social Spending Investments: ‘We Can Get There’
Other States/National/International
-- AP: EPA Moves To Crack Down On Dangerous Coal Ash Storage Ponds
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- WHYY: PA Lawmakers Nearly Deadline For New Congressional Voting District Maps, Here’s What’s Next
-- CourierT Guest Essay: Proposed Constitutional Amendments Threaten Independence Of PA Judiciary - Pennsylvanians For Modern Courts [Republicans renew effort to control Judiciary]
-- MCall: New Muhlenberg Poll - 60% Believe 2021 Election Was Conducted Fairly; 63% Don’t Want Legislature To Overturn Certified Election Results [Poll Results]
-- WBTimes Editorial: PA Republicans Need To Get Over The Big Lie, Drop Sham Election Probe
-- PG Editorial: Social Media Companies Allowed ‘Big Lie’ On Election Fraud To Fester
-- CourierT: Bucks County Man, 19, To Spend 14 Days In Jail As A Result Of Charges In Assault Of U.S. Capitol
-- ErieT: Republican Rep. Curt Sonney Won’t Seek Reelection
-- PA Cap-Star: Republican Jeff Coleman Running For Lt. Governor To Restore Civility
-- PG Editorial: Benefits Of Hosting Republican Convention Outweigh Perils
-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Voting Rights Bill Will Undermine The Rights Democrats Claim To Protect - Sen. Toomey
-- AP: Wolf: Vaccine Is Strategy To Fight COVID, Not Shutdowns
-- PA Cap-Star: State Focused On Coordinating Federal COVID Relief, Not Statewide Mask, Vaccine Mandates
-- MCall: PA COVID Hospitalizations Top 7,000 For First Time, 197,000 New Cases Last Week
-- PG: Weekly COVID Cases Hit All-Time High In Allegheny County
-- PA Cap-Star: PA Health Officials Urge COVID Vaccines Among New, Expecting Parents
-- WITF: Centre County Schools, Penn State, Mount Nittany Medical Push Ahead As COVID Cases Climb
-- Inquirer: Philly, NJ Officials Say Peak Of Omicron Surge Could Be Near
-- AP: COVID Omicron May Be Headed For A Rapid Drop In U.S.
-- TribLive: North Allegheny School District File Lawsuit To Block Mask-Optional Policy Says It Endangers Their Children
-- TribLive: Freeport H.S. Goes Remote After Surging COVID Counts
-- ScrantonT: Restaurants Scrap Indoor Dining Amid Surging COVID Cases: ‘The Last Thing I Want Right Now Is A Full Dining Room’
-- ErieT: Unfounded Threat Leads To Lockdown At Erie H.S., No Weapon Found
-- PG: Student In Custody And Gun Found During Lockdown At Pittsburgh H.S.
-- PG: Pittsburgh Man Charged With Illegally Buying 34 Guns
-- PA Cap-Star: Reluctant Witnesses Hampering Gun Violence Prosecution, Philly DA Says
-- Inquirer: Delaware County Officials Say Drop In Murders In Chester Result Of ‘Unprecedented’ Collaboration
-- TribLive: Allegheny County Jail Now Says 87 Inmates In Solitary Last Month, Not 294
-- PennLive: Wrongly Labeled A Sex Offender, Central PA Man Can’t Shake Felony For Missing Job Reporting Deadline
-- Inquirer: Philly School Superintendent Says Students Minimal Standards ‘Because That’s All They Have Access To’ [School Funding Case]
-- CentreDT: State College School Board Voices Support For PA Fair School Funding Lawsuit
-- Center Square: House Committee Approves Bills To Align PA, Federal Tax Codes
-- TribLive: Red Cross: Blood Donations Needed To Reverse Worst Shortage In A Decade
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[Posted: January 12, 2022] PA Environment Digest
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