Monday, October 17, 2022

Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.17.22

Are You Telling Your Story?

Senate returns to session October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, November 15 [Adjourn for year]

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session October 24, 25, 26, November 14, 15, 16 [Adjourn for year]

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

 

TUESDAY 11:30:  Senate Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure Committee hearing to consider PUC nominees Katie Zerfuss, John F. Coleman, Jr. (Incumbent) and Stephen DeFrank.  Room 461.  Click Here to watch live.


TUESDAY 12:30:  Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 12:30 p.m. See webpage for remote options to join the meeting.  Contact: Keith Salador, Executive Director, ksalador@pa.gov.   Read more here on the agenda.


TUESDAY 6:00:  PA Association of Environmental Educators Professional Development Webinar: Setback Distances For Unconventional Shale Gas Well Pads - How Close Is Too Close?  6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

 

-- October 17 PA Environment Digest Now Available  [PaEN]

 

-- NO SPECIAL PROTECTION: The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek In Lycoming County Is Dammed And Damned - Video Dispatch From The Loyalsock - By Barb Jarmoska, Keep It Wild PA 

 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Has No Exclusion Zones For Water Withdrawals From Any Streams, Including EV Or HQ Streams Subject To Water Quality Antidegradation Rules  [PaEN]

 

-- PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host 2022 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference Online Nov. 15-16  [PaEN]

 

-- Citizens Voice Editorial: Subsidizing Pollution - Taxpayers Pay $1.7 Billion To Subsidize Shell Ethane Plant In Beaver County [$670,000 Shell Pipeline]

 

-- GANT News: PA Coal Companies Showcase Employee Safety Records, Mine Reclamation Enhancements

 

-- Bloomberg: The Coal Is Gone, But The Mess Remains - How Big Companies Shed Their Obligations To Clean Up Old Mines [Includes Fmr DEP Bureau Of Mining & Reclamation, OSM Director Joe Pizarchik]

 

-- Financial Times: The Big Read - America’s Green Revolution Comes To Coal Country

 

-- Post-Gazette: Ask Me About Winning A Major Grant For Climate-Smart Farming [PASA Sustainable Agriculture] 

 

-- WHYY: PA’s Pandemic Water/Wastewater Bill Aid Program Will End Oct. 28

 

-- Centre Daily Times: Recycling: Bulk Waste Collection, Cleanest Tailgate Contest, More Fall Reminders

 

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Rare Regal Fritillary Butterflies Find Refuge Thanks To Explosions At PA Fort Indiantown Gap

 

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]

 

-- Post-Gazette: Steep Increase In Natural Gas Price Pushes Utility Bills Higher As The Weather Turns Colder

 

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?


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Erie Times: Candidates For Governor Both Say They’re The ‘Freedom’ Guy, But What Does That Even Mean?

-- Post-Gazette: Allies Of Dr. Oz, Fetterman Give Advice Ahead Of U.S. Senate Candidates’ Debate - Just Stick To The Issues

-- Erie Times: Republican Candidate For State House Fueled By Discredited Conspiracies In Erie

-- MCall Guest Essay: Proposed State Constitutional Amendments Are Dangerous Attacks On System - PA League Of Women Voters

-- MCall - Bill White: Toxic Political Ads Taking Over Your TV

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Senators Baker, Haywood Announce Bipartisan Guardianship Legislation

-- Courier Times: PA Schools Lack Policies That Protect LGBTQ Students And District Taxpayers, Experts Say

-- AP: 3 People Killed, 1 Wounded In Pittsburgh Shooting

-- TribLive: Carnegie Mellon’s African Campus Works To Foster Digital Transformation

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[Posted: October 17, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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