Senate returns to session July [1- canceled], 2, 3 [Budget Time!]
House returns to session July 1, 2 [Budget Time!]
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
Note: Senate, House are adding voting session days to move budget bills implementing a final budget agreement-- unless things change, of course.
-- Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability [PaEN]
-- Evangelical Environmental Network Testifies In Congress On Need To Defend Our Children’s Health & Taxpayers By Fixing Oil & Gas Facility Methane Leaks, Require Real Well Plugging Bonding [PaEN]
-- Bay Journal: Penn State Study: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread On Pennsylvania Roads Bad For Health, Land - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]
Take Action Now!
-- Bipartisan Group Of Lawmakers, Hunters, Anglers, Farm, Environmental, Recreation Groups All Working Together, Down To The Wire, To Bring Home A Win On Growing Greener III Funding [PaEN]
-- Most UNwanted List: Lookout For Bad Environmental, Energy Provisions During Final Budget Week [PaEN]
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-- PennLive: DCNR Staffing Shortages Force More Than Half Of State Park Pools To Close Or Reduce Hours
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: State Park, Other Campgrounds Will Be Destination This Weekend For Many Who Changed Their Plans
-- Warren Times: House Members Introduced Fracking Health Protection Bill
-- Warren Times: Tanker Truck Leaking Sulfuric Acid On Miles Of Roads In Warren County Into New York State Caused Road Closures, Detours
-- DEP Declares Air Quality Action Day For Friday, July 1 In Philadelphia Area
-- EPA Approval Of Pequea Creek Watershed Restoration Plan Advances Efforts To Improve Water Quality In Lancaster County [PaEN]
-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Begin Accepting Clean Water Fund Large Grant Applications July 26; Watershed Leadership Academy Open [PaEN]
-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Mine Drainage Restoration Along North Country Trail; Celebrate The Blazing Star Prairie Bloom At Jennings July 30 [PaEN]
-- PA Environmental Council: $3.7 Billion - The Value Of Clean Water In Just 3 Watersheds Of The Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape - By Marla Meyer Papernick, PA Environmental Council [PaEN]
-- Penn State: Regional Manure Expo Focuses On Farm-Level Agronomic, Economic, Environmental Advances July 13-14 In Franklin County
-- GIANT Foods, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Award 45 Healing The Planet Waterways, Community Improvement Grants [PaEN]
-- Williamsport Sun: Williamsport Area Levee Work Comes In $3 Million Over Budgeted Cost
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Kraft Heinz Enters Into 2 Power Purchase Agreements For Wind Energy
-- U.S. Supreme Court Decision Did Not Affect EPA’s Ability To Regulate Carbon Dioxide As A Pollutant, Has No Impact On DEP's RGGI Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Program [PaEN]
-- Evangelical Environmental Network: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of U.S. Supreme Court Decision On Regulating Carbon Pollution [PaEN]
-- Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Respond To U.S. Supreme Court Decision On Regulating Power Plant Carbon Pollution [PaEN]
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Supreme Court Ruling A Set-Back For Climate Regulations, But PA Retains Power To Set Carbon Pollution Limits, Lawyers Say
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: ‘Major Step Backward’: PA Groups React To Supreme Court Decision On Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
-- TribLive: What Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Means For Carbon Emissions In Pittsburgh, PA
-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Philadelphia Natural Gas Works Reverses Onerous Weatherization Charges For May Gas Bills
-- WHYY: Refunds To Philadelphia Natural Gas Works Customers For May Bills Could Cost $12 Million
-- WESA: New State Consumer Advocate Aims To Be ‘The Consumer’s Voice’ On Utility Issues
-- Daily Item: 20.5% Of All The Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Statewide Goes To One State Senate District - Sen. Yaw (R-Lycoming); 47.5% Of Statewide Revenue Goes To Just 2 Senate Districts-- Sen. Yaw and Sen. Bartolotta
-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants [PaEN]
-- DEP Accepting Applications For Electric Cargo Handling Grants To Reduce Air Pollution [PaEN]
-- July 2 Pennsylvania Bulletin Is Now Available
-- Post-Gazette: Proposed U.S. Steel Permit At The Forefront Of Air Quality Hearing In Braddock
-- TribLive: 3 Arrested In Theft Of 34 Catalytic Converters From Salem Auto Dealer
-- Independent Regulatory Review Commission Executive Director David Sumner Receives The Legal Intelligencer Professional Excellence Award
-- 15th Coal Miner’s Heritage Festival July 10 At The No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum, Carbon County [PaEN]
-- DCNR Blog: What Can We Do About The Spongy Moth [Formerly Known As Gypsy Moth] Outbreak
-- Frances Rodgers Partners With French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust To Preserve 7.5 Acres In Chester County [PaEN]
-- PA Forestry Association News You Can Use May/June: Nov. 5 Penn’s Forest Carbon - Growing Green
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: PA A Sweet Spot, But Not The Sweetest, For Honey Producers
-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Furbearing American Martens, Last Seen In The Early 1900s, Could Be Reintroduced In PA
-- Warren Times: Audubon Little Explorers To Meet July 9
6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables
[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]
-- Altoona Mirror: Peoples Gas Cost Nearly Doubles, Average Bill Increases $33/Month
-- Reuters: FERC Gives National Fuel Gas More Time To Build Northern Access Pipeline In PA, NY
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Freeing Competitive Markets Where Only A Handful Of Corporations Control The Prices You Pay - Rep. Pisciottano (D-Allegheny) & Rep. Innamorato (D-Allegheny)
-- Reuters: U.S. Natural Gas Prices Plunge 17% As Texas LNG Outage Continues [Note: Natural Gas Prices Drop Without LNG Exports]
-- Reuters: U.S. Regulator Bars Texas LNG Plant Restart Over Safety Concerns
-- The Economist: Can Europe Keep The Lights On This Winter? Energy Crunch Intensifies
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?
Other States/National/International
-- AP: U.S. Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Authority To Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Power Plants
-- Bloomberg Green: EPA Isn’t ‘Knocked Out,’ But Doing Its Job Just Got Much Harder
-- Reuters: U.S. Supreme Court Just Gave Federal Agencies A Big Reason To Worry
-- Utility Dive: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects EPA Ability To Set Fleet-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards For Power Plants
-- WSJ: U.S. Supreme Court Limits Power Of EPA Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Other Regulatory Agencies
-- WPost: U.S. Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Power To Reduce Carbon Emissions From Power Plants
-- Reuters: U.S. Supreme Court Limits Federal Power To Curb Carbon Emissions
-- Bloomberg: U.S. Supreme Court Curbs EPA’s Climate Authority In Blow To Biden
-- Financial Times: U.S. Supreme Court Curbs EPA’s Power To Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- AP: U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case On State Authority Over Congressional Redistricting, Federal Elections [PA Included]
-- AP: Pennsylvania To Begin Fiscal Year Without A Budget
-- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: PA State Budget Is Officially Late, Here’s What You Need To Know
-- AP: Commonwealth Court Blocks Governor’s Bridge Tolling Plan
-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Bridge Tolling Plan Is Dead, But Long-Term Road, Bridge Funding Still Needed
-- PennLive: Fetterman Skipping July 4th Campaigning, But should Be Back ‘Really Soon’
-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Property Owners Who File Assessment Appeals Could Get Tax Breaks
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[Posted: July 1, 2022] PA Environment Digest
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