Senate returns to session September 21, October 17, 18, 19
House returns to session September 21, October 24, 25, 26
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
TODAY 9:30: House Children & Youth Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 522 (Baker-R-Luzerne) universal lead testing for children and pregnant women. Room B-31 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online.
-- Penn State Research Links Groundwater Contamination To Areas Of Unconventional Shale Gas And Conventional Oil And Gas Drilling [PaEN]
-- House Committee Fails To Address $70 Million In Penalties On Natural Gas Pipelines Or Real Concerns Of People Living Near Gas Production & Distribution Facilities [PaEN]
-- U.S. Dept. Of Interior Notified DEP A Republican Bill Allowed To Become Law In July May Block Funding For New Federal Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program [PaEN]
-- UPDATED: DEP Finalizing First Bid Packages To Plug 249 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Under New Federal Taxpayer Funded Well Plugging Program [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Seeks Participants In Study On Fracking And Childhood Cancers
-- WLBT: Mowing Accident Causes Natural Gas Pipeline Leak In Warren County
-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Heating Oil Dealers Advise Customers To Stock Up Now, Prices Expected To Rise
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Zero In On ‘Super Emitters’ Of Methane - Conventional, Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities
-- Education, DEP, DCNR Honor Green Ribbon Schools For Environmental Sustainability Efforts In PA; Nominations Open [PaEN]
-- Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Announces 2022 Milestones Watershed Heroes [PaEN]
-- Senate, House Climate Caucus Calls On General Assembly To Act On Meaningful Climate Legislation, Protect Public Health [PaEN]
-- Clean Energy Justice Convergence: Citizen Activist Events Related To Global Clean Energy Action Forum In Pittsburgh
-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Judge Deals New Setback To 75 MW Solar Energy Project In Adams County - By Ad Crable
-- PennEnvironment, 160+ Advocacy PA Groups Call On Biden Administration To Cut Climate Pollution In Half By 2030
-- Inquirer: Constitutional Amendments Bill Could Undermine Climate Rules, Advocates Fear
-- Better Path Coalition Sept. 21 Webinar How Green Is Blue Hydrogen? With Robert Howarth, Cornell University, 7:00 p.m.
-- Courier Times Guest Essay: New Federal Climate, Energy Law Will Boost PA’s ‘Hydrogen Economy’ - Team Pennsylvania Foundation
-- Daily Item Guest Essay: Embrace The Future Now Before It’s Too Late - Responsible Decarbonization Alliance, Williamsport
-- The Hill Guest Essay: Should Taxpayers Gamble On Blue Hydrogen And Carbon Capture? - By Shanti Gamper-Rabindrain, University Of Pittsburgh, Author Of “America’s Energy Gamble: People, Economy And Planet”
-- Penn State Researchers Part Of $540 Million U.S. DOE Initiative To Invest In Clean Energy Technologies, Low-Carbon Manufacturing To Help Achieve U.S. Net-Zero Emissions By 2050
-- Pennsylvania Receives $240 Million In Water Infrastructure Funding Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law [PaEN]
-- Chesapeake Bay Journal Forum: Re-Wilding Our Streams To Save The Chesapeake Bay - By Robert Siegried, Resource Environmental Solutions
-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Revises Enforcement, Penalty Policies [PaEN]
-- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Oct. 18 Lunch & Learn Webinar On How To Make Instagram Work For You [PaEN]
-- TribLive Editorial: Volunteers Vital To Southwestern PA
-- Oct. 15 PA Resources Council Pittsburgh Reuse Fest Provides Opportunity To Donate Items. To Nonprofits For Reuse [PaEN]
-- 16th Annual Tire Collection Challenge In Huntingdon, Mifflin, Perry Counties Collects 2,003 Tires
-- Register Now For Pike County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event Oct. 29
-- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center Hosts Roadside Cleanup Oct. 1 On Route 60
-- Western PA Conservancy Protects 348 Acres Of Forest, Wetland Communities In French Creek Watershed, Erie County [PaEN]
-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Here’s What Lancaster Conservancy Is Doing With Its 3,000 Acres In York County - By Jim McClure
-- DCNR Pennsylvania Fall Foliage Reports To Start Soon, Get A Headstart On Planning Your Leaf Viewing Trips [Kinzua Bridge State Park Skywalk]
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Elk-Watching ‘Spectacle’ In PA Accessible Via Scenic Driver, Live Stream
-- TribLive: Improvements Eyed At Flight 93 Memorial’s Western Overlook
-- TribLive: Upstream Pittsburgh Gets $120,000 Grant For Fern Hollow Bridge Restoration, Frick Park Rehab
-- TribLive: Plans For $1.3 Million Renovation Of Overlook Park In Pittsburgh Released
-- Western PA Conservancy: Meet Fallingwater’s Summer Internship Class, Learn About Intern Opportunities
-- Western PA Conservancy Fallingwater Oct. 25 Webinar: Artisans To Share Inspiration At 50th Anniversary Of Touchstone Center For Crafts School. Noon.
-- Game Commission: Schedule Of Game Land Tours In October
-- In Memoriam: Dr. Ralph Heister Former Executive Director, Green Valleys Watershed Association, Chester County
6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables
[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]
-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Price Jumps On Winter Risks As Putin Steps Up Ukraine War
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?
Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
-- U.S. Dept. Of Interior Notified DEP A Republican Bill Allowed To Become Law In July May Block Funding For New Federal Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program [PaEN]
-- UPDATED: DEP Finalizing First Bid Packages To Plug 249 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Under New Federal Taxpayer Funded Well Plugging Program [PaEN]
Other States/National/International
-- Reuters: U.S. Sen. Manchin To Unveil Energy Permitting Measure Wednesday
-- Financial Times: Clean Energy Bosses Urge Permit Reforms To Meet U.S. Climate Goals
-- Reuters: Biden Administration To Fund Community Education On Nuclear Waste
-- The Guardian: UN Chief Calls For Windfall Profits Tax On Fossil Fuel Companies: ‘Polluters Must Pay’
-- The Guardian: Vulnerable Countries Demand Global Tax To Pay For Climate-Led Loss And Damage
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- Scranton Times Editorial: How PA Lawmakers Spent Their Summer Vacation [Spoiler - Free Trips To Wyoming Rodeo]
-- LancasterOnline Editorial: Gifts To Lawmakers Promote Distrust In Government And Should Be Banned
-- Inquirer: New ‘Prophet’ On Campaign Trail With Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Is A Prayer-Coin Salesman
-- Erie Times: Moral Decay, Civilian Bombings, Exploiting Division: 7 Takeaways From Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano’s Writing
-- Post-Gazette - Julian Routh: Fetterman Reaffirms Commitment To Rural PA Communities During IUP Rally
-- Inquirer: Dr. Oz Is Barely Advertising On Facebook, Fetterman’s Ads Seen Millions Of Times
-- Spotlight PA: Basic Guide To Vetting Candidates For Governor, U.S. Senate, More
-- Politics PA: Republican Campaign Fund Releases New Ad, Allocates $7.2 Million Against Democratic Cong. Wild
-- PennLive: PA Republican Lawmakers Push Bill With Language Broader Than Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law
-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Summit: Shooting Survivors Stress Education As Key To Eradicating Hate
-- AP: Mail Ballot Fight Persists In Key States, Sure To Slow Count [Starts With PA]
-- Post-Gazette: Midterm Election Ballots For Allegheny County May Hit The Mail In 2 Weeks
-- Inquirer Guest Essay: False Claims Of Voter Fraud Threaten Disabled Pennsylvanians’ Right To Vote
-- Inquirer: Will Inflation Push Legislature To Give Cost-Of-Living Raises To State And School Retirees?
-- Inquirer: Biden Said The Pandemic Is Over, Here’s Where The Cases Stand In PA, NJ
-- PennLive: Bucknell University Resuming Indoor Masking Mandate Due To Rising COVID Risk
-- TribLive: Fall Allergies Share Symptoms With COVID; Ragweed A Leading Trigger
-- AP: Dauphin County DA: 10 Students Face Juvenile Court Charges In Middletown School Hazing Case
-- PennLive: Students Criticize Middletown’s Hazing Response As School Board Moves To Expel Another Student
-- WITF: Lawmakers Want To Improve Conditions For Women In Prison
-- PA Capital-Star: Former ‘Lifers’ Call On Lawmakers To End ‘Death By Incarceration’
-- PennLive: Shootings Didn’t End These Harrisburg Men’s Lives, But They’ll Never Be The Same
-- Inquirer: Republicans Try To Make Philly DA Boogeyman, Some Democrats Keeping Their Distance
-- PA Capital-Star: PA National Leader As An ‘Unprecedented Flood’ Of Book Bans Engulfs U.S. School Districts
-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny College President Leaving, Interim Leader Named
-- Post-Gazette: University Of Pittsburgh Announces Search Committee For New Chancellor
-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Penn State’s Executive Committee’s Private Meetings Are Shameful
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[Posted: September 21, 2022] PA Environment Digest
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