House returns to session [Budget Hearings] March 21, 22, 23
Senate returns to session [Budget Hearings] March 28, 29, 30
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
TODAY 10:00: DEP to announce nearly $3 million in Growing Greener watershed improvement grants to 12 projects in Southwest PA. Ligonier, Westmoreland County.
-- Tribune-Democrat Editorial: Immediate Threat To Water Resources Thwarted In Quemahoning Creek, But Much Work Remains
-- Times Leader Editorial: More Good News In Effort To Cleanup Mining-Scarred Land [Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law]
-- The GIANT Company, Keep PA Beautiful Again Team Up To Offer Healing The Planet Grants To Improve The Health Of Waterways, Communities [PaEN]
-- Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay Seeks Volunteers For 11 Tree Plantings In 5 PA Counties Starting March 31 [PaEN]
-- LancasterOnline - Erin Negley: Emily Broich Shows How Small Improvements Can Have Big Impact On Chesapeake Bay Watershed
-- Forests For The Chesapeake Bay March Newsletter Now Available
-- City & State PA: PA Could Be Second-Most Flooded State In 2022 Behind Florida, New Study Shows
-- DCNR Grant Helps Add 162 Acres To White Clay Creek Preserve In Chester County; Apply Now For DCNR Grants [PaEN]
-- Rodale Institute Partners With The GIANT Company, Kitchen Table Consultants To Develop Regenerative Organic Agriculture Case Studies [PaEN]
-- DCNR Blog: DCNR Deploying Solar Arrays To Power Buildings, Save Money, Reduce Agency's Carbon Footprint [PaEN]
-- WHYY: Philly’s Newest Electric Vehicle Chargers Designed To Help Drivers Living In Rowhouses Go Electric
-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Philly Gasoline Prices Move Up A Nickel, But Crude Oil Markets Pull Back
-- DEP Celebrates $30 Million In Low-Interest Loans For High-Impact Commercial Energy Efficiency Projects [PaEN]
-- Attorney General, Consumer Advocate Remind Pennsylvanians They Can Still Apply For Low Income Home Energy Assistance
-- Warren Times: Remnants Of Coal-Fired Warren Generating Station Imploded
-- French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Preserves 111 More Acres In Chester County [PaEN]
-- TribLive: Murrysville Sugar-Maker Expecting ‘Pretty Good’ Maple Syrup Season
-- ScrantonT: It’s Maple Syrup Time At Keystone College
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Is There Cell Coverage At Your Outdoor Destination? Know Before You Go
-- YorkDR - Brain Whipkey: Anglers, Hunters Contribute $1.5 Billion To PA’s Economy Each Year
-- WHYY: Researcher Finds ‘Stunning’ Rate Of COVID Among Deer Across PA; What It Means For Humans
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: PA Warns Against Emergency Of ‘Rare But Dangerous’ Deer Tick Virus
-- Penn State: Biologist Tricia Miller Shares Her Insights Into Golden Eagle Behavior, Conservation Concerns In March 15 Webinar
-- TribLive: Lights Out Pittsburgh Program Helping Migrating Birds Continues This Spring
-- WESA: Program Asks Pittsburgh Buildings, Homeowners To Limit Light Pollution To Aid Migrating Birds
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: PA Fossil Site Yields New Species of Prehistoric Creature
True Energy Independence - The Big Picture
[Our Dependence On Oil/Natural Gas Is Being Used As A Weapon Against Us - Again]
-- WHYY: Philly’s Newest Electric Vehicle Chargers Designed To Help Drivers Living In Rowhouses Go Electric
-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Philly Gasoline Prices Move Up A Nickel, But Crude Oil Markets Pull Back
-- CourierT: How Gasoline Prices, Ukraine, PA Energy Are Shaping 2022 Election - Favoring Republicans
-- Pittsburgh Biz Journal: PA-based EQT Proposes Plan To ‘Unleash’ LNG Natural Gas By Increasing Drilling, Building 4x Pipeline/LNG Capacity, Removing Barriers To Construction [Where’s it going to go? Europe’s REpowerEU Plan calls for moving away from all natural gas.]
-- Bloomberg: U.S. Energy Chief Calls For More Oil Output Amid ‘War Footing’ - “Right now, we need oil and gas production to rise to meet current demand.” It isn’t at odds with clean energy commitment and efforts to decarbonize. “We can walk and chew gum at the same time.” https://tinyurl.com/3czfzc8t
-- Bloomberg: Europe’s Plan To Quit Russian Energy Starts Global Fight For Gas - “Rule book for energy markets has been thrown out the window.”
-- The Economist: What Oil Bosses Are Saying About The Global Energy Crisis - “The [energy markets] turbulence has just begun.”
-- The Guardian: Oil And Gas Companies Are Looking At A Bonanza From The Ukraine War, Fear Of Shortages Gives Fossil Fuel Companies Leverage
-- WSJ: Shale Oil Companies Say There Are Limits To How Much, How Quickly They Can Boost Oil Supplies Due To Supply Chain Issues, Wary Investors, Shortages Of Labor, Sand, Equipment; Will Take A Good 18 Months Just To Ramp Up - “There’s only about a 10-year inventory of shale [oil] drilling locations left, maybe 15”
American Rescue Plan Funding
-- WilliamsportS: Williamsport Approves $25.4 Million American Rescue Plan Budget
-- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. What’s Your Community Doing?
Other States/National/International
-- EPA Restores California’s Authority To Enforce Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards For Cars, Light Trucks
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- AP: Divided PA Supreme Court Picks New Congressional Voting Districts Map
-- PA Cap-Star: PA’s New Congressional Voting Districts Map Is Reflective Of State’s Voters, PA Supreme Court Justices Argued
-- Sen. Corman, Republican Candidate For Governor, Calls For Nearly 50% Gasoline Tax Cut; Use American Rescue Plan Funds To Pay $500 Million For State Police; Float $650 Million Bond For PennDOT [What about the Legislature’s $233 million operating surplus just sitting there?]
-- LancasterOnline Editorial: PA’s Top Ranking In Hate Propaganda Is Alarming, We Must Fight Hate
-- PG Editorial: Republicans Must Rein In The Extremists
-- PennLive - John Baer: PA’s Democratic Process Deficit Seems Alive And Well In 2022
-- PG: In Pittsburgh, Democratic Candidates For U.S. Senate Tackle Foreign Policy Amid Ukraine Crisis
-- MCall: Cong. Wild On Poland-Ukraine Border: ‘Every Single One Of Us Was In Tears Watching It’
-- MCall - Ford Turner: PA Proposals For Relief At Gas Pump Face Headwinds As Price Hits Record $4.39 A Gallon
-- CourierT: How Gasoline Prices, Ukraine, PA Energy Are Shaping 2022 Election - Favoring Republicans
-- PG: PennDOT Will Negotiate With Group Led By Australian Firm For Tolling Project To Replace 9 Bridges
-- WITF: Nurses In PA Waited Months To Get Licenses To Work During Historic Staffing Shortages
-- WHYY: ‘There Should Be No Underdogs In The Education System;’ PA Students Reflect On School Funding Trial
-- TribLive: Penn Hills Refuses To Play Kiski Area Sports Teams This Spring Over Alleged Racial Taunts By Fans
-- TribLive: Westmoreland County School District Latest To Face Book Ban Challenge
-- AltoonaM: Altoona School District Hit By Cyber Attack
-- PG: Six PA State Universities Will Soon Find Out The Fate Of Their Planned Merger
-- PG: Communities See High Rate Of Evictions As Relief Programs Expire
-- Inquirer: Philly Police Killed 12-Year-Old Five Doors Down From Where He’d Tossed The Gun, Recordings Show
-- ErieT Guest Essay: Removing PA Kids From Their Families Must Be A Last Resort For Juvenile Authorities
-- PG Editorial: Pennsylvania Can’t Afford The Death Penalty
-- WESA: Pittsburgh’s URA Wants To Invest $5 Million In Minority And Women-Owned Businesses
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[Posted: March 10, 2022] PA Environment Digest
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