Senate returns to session June 6, 7, 8 [Budget Time!]
House returns to session June 7, 8, 9 [Budget Time!]
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
-- Who Is Protecting Taxpayers? House Committee Meets June 7 On Bills To Preempt Any Increase In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding Amounts, Give Away Plugging Contracts With No Regard For Cost [PaEN]
-- PA Outdoor Writers Association’s 2022 Excellence In Craft Award Winners Show How Vibrant Outdoor Writing Is In PA [PaEN]
-- House Environmental Committee Hearing June 13 On MS4 Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program [PaEN]
-- PA Council Of Trout Unlimited Announces Trout In The Classroom Grants For 2022-23 School Year [PaEN]
-- Bradford Era: Smethport Students Release Trout Raised In Trout In Classroom Project
-- Reading Eagle: Berks’ Best 2022 Science, Environment Student Winner Joshua Leshinskie Dreaming Big
-- Delaware Currents: Acid Rain Harming Middle Delaware River, Mercury Reported In Bushkill Creek Fish
-- The Burg: Stem To Stream - If You Want Cleaner River Water, You Need Good Tree Cover
-- PennVEST, DEP Federal Clean Water, Drinking Water Revolving Fund Plans Available For Public Comment
-- Delaware RiverKeeper June 3 RiverWatch Video Report
-- EPA Names Dr. Kandis Boyd As New Director Of Chesapeake Bay Program [PaEN]
-- PUC Continues Safety Investigation In Explosion Of Home In Pottstown That Resulted In 5 Deaths
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Local Residents, Advocates Decry Health Impacts Of Natural Gas Drilling
-- DailyLocal.com Guest Essay: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Mean Clean Air, Strong Economy For Pennsylvania - by Sen. Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester)
-- PA Resources Council Responsibly Managed 3.3 Million Pounds Of Electronics Waste Over 20 Years Of Hard-To-Recycle Collections [PaEN]
-- Warren Times: ‘Hooligans’ Help In Hemlock Road Cleanup
-- Dept. Of Agriculture Accepting Applications For Pilot Agricultural Plastic Recycling Program In 9 Counties, Deadline July 8 [PaEN]
-- Sustainable Pittsburgh, Plastics Collaborative Release Whitepaper On Reducing Single-Use Plastics [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Companies To Get $1.6 Million In Dept. Of Energy Grants To Improve Nuclear Energy, Help Solve Climate Challenges
-- Dept. Of Corrections Reports On Sustainability, Green Initiatives During 2021
-- Williamsport Sun: EPA Grant To Fund Lycoming County Brownfields Revolving Loan Cleanup Fund
-- Friday 4:00: Planet Philadelphia: Air Pollution - Potential Remedies
-- June 4 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available
-- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In May Now Available [PaEN]
-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Summer Newsletter Now Available
-- Reading Eagle: Take It Outside For National Trails Day June 4
-- Centre Daily Times: ClearWater Conservancy’s 6th Centred Outdoors Season Starts June 5 With Family Fishing Picnic
-- TribLive: Inclusive Playground To Open At Hempfield Park
-- TribLive: Westmoreland Heritage Trail Officials Prepare For Annual Herbicide Application
-- Inquirer: Future Of Philly Bike Lanes Could Be Determined By Senate, House Inaction
-- Post-Gazette Editorial: It Makes Sense To Open Pittsburgh Parks To Camping
-- Penn State: Managing Habitat For Flowering Plants May Mitigate Climate Effects On Bee Health
-- Philly Voice: Help With Firefly Conservation This Summer By Counting The Bugs In Your Backyard
-- The Chestnut Foundation Accepting Applications For Research Grants On American Chestnut Restoration, Due August 1
-- Game Commission To Hold 6 Junior Game Warden Camps Around The State For Students 11 To 15 [PaEN]
-- Republican Herald: Rachel Carson Building Peregrine Falcon Recovering In Schuylkill County Wildlife Center After Injury
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Invading Frankenfish Is Focus Of New Angler Tagging Program
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Are Giant European Hornets Becoming More Common In PA?
6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables
[There Is No Limit On What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Natural Gas Hits Highest Price In Last Decade, Report Says
-- The Center Square: Natural Gas: ‘Hedging’ And Pipeline Capacity An Issue For PA Production
-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Even More Clear Now U.S. Needs To Drill More Oil
-- WPost: OPEC Boots Oil Production As Gasoline Prices Soar In U.S.
-- WPost: Once Eager To Drill, Oil Companies Exit Leases In Arctic Refuge
American Rescue Plan Funding
-- LancasterOnline: Here’s How Lancaster County Is Spending $106 Million In American Rescue Plan Funding [$325,000 for environment, $30,000 for sewer mapping]
-- $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
-- The Guardian: EPA Aims To Erase Rule Keeping States From Blocking Energy Projects Under Section 401 Of Federal Clean Water Act
-- AP: EPA Moves To Give States, Tribes More Power To Protect Water
-- Bloomberg: Biden Would Give States Veto Power Over Polluting Pipeline Under Section 401 Of Federal Clean Water Act
-- Financial Times: Ford To Invest $3.7 Billion In Manufacturing Amid Electric Vehicle Push
-- The Economist: The Electric Vehicle Revolution Is Not Happening Fast Enough
-- Bloomberg Green: New York Plants 22 Renewable Energy Plants To Reach Climate Goals
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- TribLive Editorial: Without Gift Ban, Bribery Is All But Legal In PA
-- AP: Republican Candidate For Governor Mastriano Wants To Make Everyone Re-Register To Vote
“The concept flatly violates federal law, legal scholars say, and may conflict with state law, not to mention constitutional protections. It is also a throwback to laws designed by white people in past eras to keep Black people or newer European immigrants from voting.”
-- WHYY: Republican Insiders Begin To Reluctantly Support Mastriano, As Democrats Tout Unity In PA
-- Inquirer: Josh Shapiro, Sharif Street At Odds Over Leadership Of PA Democratic Party
-- PA Capital-Star: Republican Candidate For Governor’s Largest Donor Is Martin’s Potato Roll, Shake Shack’s Bread Maker
-- AP: Commonwealth Court Orders Contested Mail-In Ballots Counted In PA U.S. Senate Primary
-- City & State PA: Casey Says Democratic U.S. Senate Nominee Fetterman Understands ‘Real People’
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Conservative Poll: 70% Of Pennsylvanians Believe The State Is Going In Wrong Direction
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Most State Government Employees Receive Bonuses For Working Thru Pandemic
-- TribLive: COVID Cases Down, Deaths Rise In Allegheny County
-- Erie Times: Masks Are Back In Erie, Other Schools, That Could Mean More Lawsuits
-- TribLive: First ‘Probable’ Case Of Monkeypox In Philadelphia
-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Stop-And-Frisk Accountability Bill Will Help, Not Hurt Policing
-- Erie Times Guest Essay: PA’s Private Cyber Charter Schools Cost Taxpayers And Businesses
-- WITF: Teen Charged With Making Shooting Threat Toward Franklin County School District
-- Erie Times: McDowell H.S. Students Walk Out Of Class In Silent Protest Of Gun Violence
-- PennLive: Teens Wearing Gas Mask, Hot Dog Costume Prompt School Lockdown In Westmoreland County
-- WPSU: With No Social Worker, Clearfield County School District Addresses Student Stress, Trauma At Home
-- Warren Times Editorial: Talk Not Enough To Stop School Killing Horrors
-- Courier Times: Levittown Backyard Bomb Shelters Eerie Relics Of Cold War Era, A Look Inside
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[Posted: June 3, 2022] PA Environment Digest
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