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
WEDNESDAY: Senate Appropriations Committee state budget hearings: 10:00 - Department of Conservation & Natural Resources; 2:30 - Department of Environmental Protection. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. Click Here to watch live.
-- Budget Briefing: Senate, House Budget Hearings Should Talk About Once-In-A-Generation Investments In Cleaning Up The Environment; Oil & Gas Program At A Crossroads [PaEN]
WEDNESDAY 10:00: House Appropriations Committee budget hearing: Department of Agriculture. House Floor. Click Here to watch live.
THURSDAY 10:00: Senate Appropriations Committee state budget hearings: 10:00 - Department of Agriculture. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. Click Here to watch live.
-- DEP Budget Hearing: Unconventional Natural Gas Industry Didn’t Drill 40% Of The Wells It Had DEP Permits For [PaEN]
-- DEP Budget Testimony: Significant Investments In Environmental Cleanup, Improving Permit Review Times, Holding Polluters Responsible, Relief To Those Harmed By Pollution [PaEN]
-- PG - Anya Litvak: Who Decides What ‘Responsible’ Natural Gas Production Really Means?
-- TribLive: U.S. Gasoline Prices Rise On Higher Oil Prices Brought On By Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
-- ScrantonT Editorial: Lackawanna Transit Should Prepare For Electric Buses
-- Bay Journal: Money Grows On Trees For Owners Who Manage Small Forests To Capture Carbon, Fight Climate Change [PaEN]
-- TribLive: Western PA Watershed Groups Have High Hopes For Tapping Into Abandoned Mine Cleanup Funds
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update: Looking At 2021 Successes! Removing Sediment To Restore Wetlands, Grants, Water Quality Monitoring
-- Register Now For Brodhead Watershed Assn. Volunteer StreamWatcher Training March 24 & 26 In Monroe County [PaEN]
-- YorkDR: EPA Seeking Explanation From Hanover Foods After Pollution Violations
-- CourierT: DEP Opens Comment Period On PFAS Chemicals In Drinking Water
-- Senators Yaw, Yudichak Request Independent Fiscal Office To Audit Modeling Done By DEP To Justify Final RGGI Regulations Reducing Carbon Pollution From Power Plants [PaEN]
-- WBTimes: Yudichak, Yaw Request Independent Review Of ‘Outdated’ RGGI Modeling
-- Gov. Wolf: Comments On UN Panel Report: Time For Climate Action Is Now
-- WeConservePA: Glick Family Partners With Lancaster Farmland Trust Preserves 83-Acre Farm
-- Schuylkill Action Network Seeking Volunteers For 2022 Schuylkill Scrub Litter Cleanup March 1 to May 31
-- NextPittsburgh: Cinderlands Beer Joins Allegheny Cleanways, 3 Rivers Outdoor Company To Spread Awareness Of Illegal Dumping In Allegheny County
-- PennFuture Environmental Voices Podcast: Environmental Justice
-- PA Environmental Council Podcast: A Fruitful Endeavor - The Philadelphia Orchard Project
-- DCNR Plans Whitewater Release Into Tohickon Creek For Annual Boating Event In Bucks County
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: The Nature Conservancy Removes Popular, But At Risk Dam In Lackawanna County
-- Carnegie Museums Of Art & Natural History: Register Now For 2022 Summer Camps
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Game Commission Back At Enough Commissioners To Take Action
-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Steelworkers In West Mifflin Celebrate 1st Bald Eagle Egg Of Season
-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: March Virtual Events On Bald Eagle, Peregrine Falcons, Women Of Hawk Mountain Panel
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Hummingbirds Are On The Move To PA, But There’s Plenty Of Time To Get Ready
-- LancasterOnline - P.J. Reilly: PA Wants More Rules For Popular Night Bowfishing
-- LancasterOnline: 84 Things For Plant Lovers To Do In March, Including Following Monarch Butterfly Migration
True Energy Independence Means More Renewables
-- TribLive: U.S. Gasoline Prices Rise On Higher Oil Prices Brought On By Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
-- PG Editorial: Biden Must Tell Putin A Cyberattack Would Mean War
-- Reuters: Germany Aims To Get 100% Of Energy From Renewable Sources By 2035
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
-- WLVR: For PA And Other States, Money From Landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Won’t Come Free
Other States/National/International
-- AP: U.S. Supreme Court Justices Wrestle With EPA Power To Curb Carbon Pollution
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- AP: U.S. Supreme Court Asked To Intervene In PA Congressional Voting Districts Case
-- PA Cap-Star: Protests Demanding Action Of Lawmaker Gift Ban Disrupt House Republican Leader’s Speech
-- PG: Republican Sen. Jake Corman Touts Trumpian Bona Fides, Conservative Record During Bethel Park Town Hall [He actively worked to overturn the Nov. 2020 election results]
-- Inquirer: Republicans Running For Governor Talk A Lot About Philly Crime, But Who Are They Talking To?
-- PG: Mercer County Man Who Pleaded Guilty To Charges Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol Has Died
-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Eugene DePasquale Will Not Run Against Republican Congressman Scott Perry
-- AP: Republican Congressman Fred Keller Won’t Run For Reelection Against Another Republican
-- WESA: In A Time Of Political Hostility, This Pittsburgh Author Blames ‘The Death Of God’
-- AP: PA Moves To Divest State Pension Fund Holdings In Russian Assets
-- PennLive: State Looking To Divestment Of Russian-related Assets In Pension Funds
-- TribLive Editorial: Pour One For Ukraine, But Not With Russian Vodka
-- WITF: PA Lawmakers Start Negotiations Over New State Budget
-- Inquirer: PA Medical Marijuana Sellers Offer Advice On Weed Legalization At PA Senate Hearing
-- Warren Times: PA Mulls Potential $3 Billion A Year Industry - Legalized Marijuana
-- PG: UPMC Profit Jumps 36% During COVID-Challenged Year In 2021
-- PG: Staffing Woes Driving Western PA Hospitals’ Struggles With Costs
-- PG Editorial: COVID Tests Arrived Too Late
-- LancasterOnline Editorial: Elizabethtown School Director Aludes To Holocaust In Remark About COVID Protocol, She Needs To Learn History
-- PG: Ex-Pittsburgh Teacher Sues District Over Termination For Right-Wing Facebook Post
-- TribLive Editorial: State Police Shouldn’t Be Above Scrutiny Of Outside Investigations
-- PennLive: The Pandemic Has Changed The Way We Work In Central PA
-- PennLive: Norfolk Southern Offering $5,000 Starting Bonuses For Conductor Trainees In Priority Locations
-- PG: Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Announce End Of Emergency Rental Assistance Program
-- PennLive Guest Essay: Universities Can Be Vital In Cultivating Innovation And Stimulating Economic Growth - Outgoing President Of Penn State
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[Posted:March 1, 2022] PA Environment Digest
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