Saturday, March 12, 2022

Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 3.12.22

Is Your Story Being Told?

House returns to session March 21, 22, 23

     -- Committee Schedule

Senate returns to session [Budget Hearings] March 28, 29, 30

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events


ADVISORY: Some DEP Databases Back: eFACTS, interactive Oil & Gas Compliance Reporting, online eDMR reporting databases seem to be back online, mostly.  DEP Green Port, and other program reporting functions, not so much.   Read more here.



-- Guest Essay: Our Addiction To Fossil Fuels Fuel War: ‘Only Truly Addicted People Chase After Their Next Hit With Singular Focus As The Consequences Of Their Addiction Pile Up Around Them’ - By Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network-PA  [PaEN]


-- 2 Republican Senators Lay Out Agenda For Deregulating Oil & Gas Industry, Power Plants In PA  [PaEN]


-- DCNR Designates September 11th National Memorial Trail As A Statewide Major Greenway [PaEN]


-- DEP Invites Comments On Draft Environmental Justice Policy For Permit Reviews, 3 Virtual Hearings Set  [PaEN]


-- DEP Names Justin Dula Acting Director For Environmental Justice [PaEN]


-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Encouraged By Federal Fiscal 2022 Funding Increases For Priority Programs


-- Applications Now Being Accepted For 2022 ARIPPA Mine Reclamation Grants  [PaEN]


-- Appalachian Voices: Congress Misses Another Opportunity To Tackle Ongoing Cost Of Acid Mine Drainage  [PaEN]


-- DEP Opportunity To Bid On Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project In Indiana County


-- PUC Invites Comments On Petition To Issue A Policy Statement On Electric Utility Rate Design For Electric Vehicle Charging  [PaEN]


-- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Allowance Costs Increase To $13.50 From $13 In March 9 Auction 


-- DEP Posted 36 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In The March 12 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]


-- YorkD: Cost Of Potassium Iodide Pills That Can Protect You Against Certain Kinds Of Radiation Has Surged, Here’s Why 


-- WESA: New PA Program Is Helping Residents Cover Unpaid Water, Sewer Bills


-- PA American Water Helps Educate Homeowners During EPA’s Fix A Leak Week - March 14-22 


-- South Mountain PartnershipReleases 2021 Year In Review Report On Accomplishments


-- March 11 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]


-- Huntingdon Daily News: Columnist Details History Of Retired DCNR Rockhill Fire Tower


-- Inquirer: Birders Go Bonkers Over A Snowy Owl In PA, Highlighting The Pandemic Growing Pains And Obsessions Of The Hobby


True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[Our Dependence On Oil/Natural Gas Is Being Used As A Weapon Against Us - Again]


-- Guest Essay: Our Addiction To Fossil Fuels Fuel War: ‘Only Truly Addicted People Chase After Their Next Hit With Singular Focus As The Consequences Of Their Addiction Pile Up Around Them’ - By Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network  [PaEN]


-- 2 Republican Senators Lay Out Agenda For Deregulating Oil & Gas Industry, Power Plants In PA  [PaEN]


-- Bloomberg Green: Seeing The Future Of Energy Thru A Coal Company’s Solar Strategy - Building Renewables On Old Coal Mining Sites Is A Win-Win  


-- The Guardian: ‘Defining Moment’: How Can The U.S. End Its Dependency On Fossil Fuels? 


-- MCall: Gasoline Prices Are Spiking Across PA; Is It Price Gouging?


-- ScrantonT Editorial: Gasoline Tax Break Merited, No Assurance Savings Will Be Passed On To Driver [Because There Is No Limit To What Oil Companies Can Charge]


-- The Hill: Here’s Who Stands To Win From High Gasoline Prices [Spoiler - U.S. Shale Oil Producers Are #1]


-- WSJ: Why Are Gasoline Prices So High?  Invasion Accelerates Rise In Already Climbing Prices 


-- Bloomberg: Biden Wants U.S. Oil To Drill More, Here’s Why They’re Holding Back, U.S. Oil Production Remains Below Pre-Pandemic Levels  


-- Financial Times: Oil Spike Crashes Houston’s Weeklong Energy Party At ‘Shocking Time’


American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- PG: How Pittsburgh Uses Its $335 Million Federal American Rescue Plan Money

 

-- $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

 

-- TribLive Editorial: Infrastructure Priorities Demand Plan For Success

 

Other States/National/International


-- EPA Proposes ‘Cross-State Air Pollution Rule To Cut Smog-Causing Air Pollution From Power Plants, Industrial Sources, Pipelines In 25 States [Including PA]


-- AP: EPA Plan Would Limit Downwind Pollution From Power Plants


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Legislature Is Responsible For Election Laws, Not Courts

-- MCall - Ford Turner: Soaring Inflation, Gasoline Prices Have PA Lawmakers Talking About Tax ‘Holidays,’ Distributing Federal Aid

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Gasoline Tax Break Merited, No Assurance Savings Will Be Passed On To Driver [Because There Is No Limit To What Oil Companies Can Charge]

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Reps. Stambaugh, Hershey Will Run Against Each Other In Redrawn House District

-- AP: Republican Sen. Mastriano, U.S. House Committee Investigating Assault On U.S. Capitol Silent On Deposition Request

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Critics Cry ‘Political Tourist,’ But Republican U.S. Senate Hopeful McCormick Plays It Like A Homecoming

-- City & State PA: Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Jeff Bartos On Economy, Legislating, Saving Small Businesses

-- Inquirer: Biden To Democrats In Philly: Campaign On Policies That Gave Families ‘Money In Their Pockets’

-- CourierT: PA’s Book Ban Push Comes To Central Bucks School Board Meeting

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Private Schools Need To Fight For Fair Public Funding Of Education In PA, Too

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Transit Warns of ‘Significant Delays’ From Vaccination Discipline

-- Inquirer: School Mask Mandates Sharply Reduced COVID Transmission, New Study Suggests

-- Inquirer: Philadelphia Reaches 100 homicides For 2022, Outpacing Last Year

-- MCall: Book With 2 Pages Describing A Sexual Assault Sparks Uproar At Oley Valley School Board Meeting

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Officials To PennDOT: Slow It Down On Fern Hollow Bridge Redesign

-- TribLive Editorial: Infrastructure Priorities Demand Plan For Success

-- Dept. of Labor & Industry: PA Unemployment Rate Fell Slightly To 5.4%

-- AP: PA Payrolls, Labor Force Grew In January, Unemployment Crept Down

-- WHYY: Philadelphia Parking Authority Says ‘Internet Fraud’ Is Why You Can’t Pay A Parking Ticket With Your License Plate Number Anymore

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[Posted: March 12, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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