Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 9.7.22

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House returns to session September 12, 13, 14

     -- Committee Schedule

Senate returns to session September 19, 20, 21

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

 

TODAY 9:30:  Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee meets to consider sending a letter to the Independent Regulatory Review Commission disapproving of the final EQB regulation setting a toxic water quality standard for manganese.  Room 461. Read more here.  Click Here to watch live. [The IRRC is due to consider the regulation September 15.]

 

TODAY 7:00: Screening Of Hurricane Agnes 50: Life After The Flood; It Happened Before And Flooding Will Be Worse In The Future Due To Climate Change. Online and at the HUB-Robeson Center Freeman Auditorium at Penn State Campus in State College


-- Exceptional Value Water Quality Designation, State Forest Land, River Honors Were Not Enough To Protect Loyalsock Creek From Natural Gas Drilling & Pipelines In Lycoming County - By Friends Of The 'Sock   [PaEN]

 

-- Gov. Wolf Announces $90 Million Investment In More Than 330 Projects To Improve Recreation, Conserve Natural Resources; Special Fall DCNR Grant Round Now Open  [PaEN]

 

-- WLVR: PA Recreation, Conservation Projects Get Multimillion Dollar Boost

 

-- Scranton Times: DCNR Grants To Help Local Park Renovation Projects

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Central lPA To Get Share Of $90 Million From DCNR For Recreation, Conservation Projects

 

-- Trash Travels - Join Keep PA Beautiful For The Pick Up Pennsylvania Program To Keep Our Waterways Clean  [PaEN]

 

-- WHYY: PennDOT Says Litter Played Major Role In Tuesday’s Flash Flooding On Schuylkill Expressway In Philadelphia

 

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Officials Look To Break Records At This Year’s Garbage Olympics On Sept. 17

 

-- PA GreenGov Council Hosts Virtual PA Sustainability Summit Oct. 3-7  [PaEN]

 

-- EPA Hosts Sept. 8 Virtual Listening Session On Developing New Pollution Prevention Grant Opportunity  [PaEN]

 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Hold Business Meeting Sept. 15 In Baltimore

 

-- Inquirer: More Than A Month’s Worth Of Rain Fell In Some Parts Of Philly Area

 

-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Farmers Say Rain Good, But Won’t Save All Crops

 

-- Deadline Extended To Sept. 16: Call For Abstracts For 2023 Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit

 

-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Bucks County Nexes Proposed $1.1 Billion Sewer Sale To Aqua Pennsylvania Amid Public Outcry

 

-- TribLive: Beaver Falls Authority Issues Boil-Water Advisory

 

-- MyTwintiers.com: Lawrenceville, Tioga County Plugs Bullet Hole In Water System Storage Tank With Tree Branch

 

-- Altoona Mirror: Penelec Raises Electricity Rates 18.69% Due To Natural Gas Price Spikes

 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Here’s What To Know As Shell’s New Ethane Plant In Beaver County Nears Completion

 

-- UGI Corporation Announces Investment In A New Renewable Natural Gas Project In Upstate New York

 

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: EQT To Acquire WV Companies For $5.2 Billion, Expanding Pipeline Reach

 

-- WHYY: SEPTA Gets $23 Million For Adapting Bus Depots For Electric, Hybrid Vehicles

 

-- MCall: Interest In Iron Works Ramping Up As Catasauqua Votes To Clean Up Industrial Site

 

-- PA Environmental Council Blog: Why Aren’t More Pennsylvanians Talking About Climate Change?

 

-- WESA: Allegheny County To Create New Dept. Of Sustainability

 

-- TribLive: First Lady Jill Biden To Speak Sept. 11 At Flight 93 Memorial Service

 

-- WHYY: Gun Violence Around Philly Rec Centers Makes Updates More Urgent, Residents Say

 

-- PA Capital-Star: Scorecard Grades Legislature On Environmental Votes

 

-- 2022 Eastern PA Consulting And Industrial Forester Conference Sept. 28, Cumberland County  [PaEN]

 

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Schuylkill Center For Environmental Ed: ‘Boy Scout’ Tract In NW Philadelphia Could Be Preserved, Controversial Development Plan Put On Hold

 

-- James Audubon Center At Mill Grove Montgomery County Holds Community Day Sept. 11

 

-- PA Wilds Region Digital Community Gift Cards Now Available For Purchase

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Best Weeks For Fall Foliage In PA Forecast By Mapping Project

 

-- PA Environmental Council Blog: The Remarkable Trees Of Pennsylvania

 

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Planting Milkweed Encouraged To Help Monarch Butterflies Rebound

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Monarch Butterflies From PA To Find New Protected Reserve In Mexico


-- Pennsylvania Firefly Festival Autumn Newsletter: PA Has Entered Final Weeks Of Adult Firefly Activity, Synchronicity And Fireflies 


-- Centre Daily Times: Resolution To Study Wildlife Corridors Deserves A Chance


-- WITF Smart Talk: What Is Rabies And How Can You Protect People, Animals?


-- TribLive: Charleroi Dirt Bike Rider Killed In Train Collision In Washington County


New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Law


-- Bloomberg: Sen. Manchin’s Plan To Fast-Track Energy Projects Headed For Showdown

 

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: Penelec Raises Electricity Rates 18.69% Due To Natural Gas Price Spikes

 

-- Reuters: EU To Propose Price Cap On Russian Natural Gas

 

-- Bloomberg: EU To Consider Emergency Power-Use Cuts, Power Price Caps Profit Grab

 

-- Reuters: Putin Says Russia To Stop Supplying Energy If Western Price Caps Imposed On Oil, Natural Gas

 

-- Financial Times: EU Plans Windfall Tax To Counter ‘Astronomic’ Energy Bills

 

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


-- Reuters: EPA Denies Cheniere’s Request To Sidestep Hazardous Pollution Rule For LNG Facilities On Gulf Coast


-- Bloomberg: A Text Alert May Have Saved California From Power Blackouts Tuesday


-- The Guardian: California Heatwave Enters Intense Phase Bringing Blackouts, Wildfires


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Inquirer: Delaware County Man Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol Sentenced To 9 Months In Prison

-- AP: Elected Officials, Police Chiefs On Leaked Right-Wing Extremist Oath Keepers List  [In PA - 4 Elected Officials, 19 Law Enforcement, 8 Military, 3 First Responders, 1,499 Total Signups In PA]

-- NYT: New Mexico County Commissioner Convicted Of Crime Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol Removed From Office Under 14th Amendment Which Bars Insurrectionists From Holding Public Office

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Meltdown: Ex-President’s Lies, Smears Show He’s A Menace

-- York Dispatch Editorial: Ex-President’s PA Speech Proves Biden Right, Amps Up Race To November

-- PennLive: 2 Months Before Election A Confident Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Says He’s Putting Transition Team To Work 

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano’s Political Success Happened With A Little Luck And A Big Pandemic

-- Post-Gazette: Shapiro Campaign’s First Add Of $16.9 Million Buy Declares Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano’s Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBTQ Beliefs ‘Too Risky For PA’

-- Inquirer: Toomey Says Fetterman Is ‘Not Up To The Job’ Of U.S. Senator

-- Post-Gazette: Toomey Appears With Dr. Oz, Criticizes Fetterman For Declining Debate

-- MCall - Ford Turner: Candidates Vying To Replace State Sen. Pat Browne Agree To Debate

-- PennLive: Lycoming County Ballot To Include Question Of Keeping Electronic Voting System

-- Scranton Times: Scranton Teachers, Staff Receive Active Shooter Training

-- Inquirer Editorial: With 750 Shootings Since Memorial Day, Philadelphia Records Another Summer Of Mayhem

-- TribLive: PA Roads, Bridges To Get Extra $175 Million As Funding Is Freed Up From State Police

-- TribLive: California U. Students Step Into New Era As PennWest University

-- TribLive Guest Essay: To Curb Student Debt, Reduce College Costs - Sen. Aument

-- Erie Times: As COVID Masking In Erie County Declined, Flu Cases Rose. Get A Flu Shot

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[Posted: September 7, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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