Friday, December 2, 2022

Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 12.2.22

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Senate session schedule-

     January 3, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31

     February 1, 27, 28

     March 1, 6, 7, 8

     Budget hearings: March 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 and April 11, 12, 13

    April 24, 25, 26

    May 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10

    June 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to voting session January 3 [Democrats, Republicans Fighting Over Schedule]

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

 

-- DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov.  [PaEN]


-- DEP: Schedule For Updating Conventional Oil & Gas Environmental, Waste Regulations Will Be Up To Gov. Shapiro  [PaEN]


-- DEP Preparing To Plug The Next 198 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells With Federal Funding  [PaEN]

 

-- Pittsburgh Union Progress - Laura Legere: Wolf Uses Emergency Measure To Adopt Conventional Oil & Gas Methane Limits To Stave Off Threat To Highway Funding

 

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: PA Passes Emergency Rule To Trim Methane Emissions At Conventional Oil & Gas Wells

 

-- Dramatic Video From Carnegie Mellon’s Project Breathe Shows Shell Ethane Plant In Beaver County Flaring Natural Gas Due To Malfunction  [PaEN]

 

-- FracTracker Alliance: A Contentious Landscape Of Pipeline Build-Outs In The Eastern U.S.

 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Environmental Groups Urge Slower Mountain Valley Pipeline Review

 

-- Natural Resources Defense Council Blog: Rising Cost Of Pennsylvania’s Petrochemical Industry Subsidies - By Mark Szybist

 

-- Warren Times: Ohio Woman Facing Charges Of Destruction Of Original Property Deed Records At Warren Courthouse 

 

-- MCall: Three Takeaways From EPA Meeting On Threats Posed By Ethylene Oxide

 

-- DEP Now Accepting Grant Applications For $12.7 Million Initiative To Electrify Truck Fleets For Cleaner Air; Awards $1.7 Million For 3 Vehicle Projects

 

-- Group Against Smog And Pollution: Neville Scrap Recycler Awarded $499,000 Grant To Replace Diesel Material Handler With All-Electric In Pittsburgh

 

-- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In November  [PaEN]

 

-- PJM Interconnection Prepared To Meet Winter Electricity Demand; Potential Rail Strike Remains A Concern

 

-- Utility Dive: FERC Approves PJM’s ‘First-Ready, First-Served’ Interconnection Reform Plan, Steps To Clear Project Backlog

 

-- TribLive: New Sustainable Senior Housing Development Opens In Penn Hills

 

-- EPA Grants Petition By Environmental Coalition To Set New Water Quality Standards For Delaware River Estuary  [PaEN]

 

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Dec. 2 RiverWatch Video Report

 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times Editorial: Support North Branch Susquehanna River For PA River Of The Year

 

-- Presentation Proposals Wanted For 2023 Watershed Forestry Summit June 13-15  [PaEN]

 

-- Pike Conservation District, Keystone 10 Million Trees Partner To Offer County Residents Free Trees  [PaEN]

 

-- Pike County Conservation District: Microplastics Testing Report, What We Found 

 

-- DEP Accepting Applications For Food Recovery Infrastructure Grants  [PaEN]

 

-- December 3 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available

 

-- MCall Guest Essay: How Northampton County Is Trying To Help Municipalities Control Warehouse Development - Northampton County Executive

 

-- Carbon County Chamber Nature & Commerce Committee, Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau Release 2 New Conservation Focused Videos  [PaEN]

 

-- WESA: Hazelwood Residents Welcome Traffic-Calming Measures As Part Of Sylvan Ave. Trail Plan

 

-- Exelon Awards 27 STEM Education Grants, Including 9 In Pennsylvania

 

-- WeConservePA Blog: Lancaster Conservancy Adds 85 Acres To Two Current Preserves

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Developments On Tundra Might Make Snowy Owls Scarce In PA This Winter

 

-- Penn State’s Behrend Campus In Erie Hosts Dec. 13 Webinar On Invasive Freshwater Snails. 10:00 a.m.

 

-- Republican Herald: Female Peregrine Falcon Cared For At Red Creek Wildlife Center Dies

 

-- Lehigh Valley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Highlights December Programs, Activities

 

-- Help Wanted: Federal Farm Service Agency - Luzerne County Program Technician

 

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

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

 

-- WPSU: Heating Prices Could Bring Sticker Shock This Winter; Columbia Gas Price Takes Especially Dramatic Jump - 128%

 

-- WESA: Duquesne Light Customers To See Some Electric Rates Increase By 20% This Winter [Due To Cost Of Natural Gas-Fired Generation] 

 

-- PUC Alerts Consumers Utility Natural Gas Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 128%, Electric Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 34%; Both Driven By Cost Of Natural Gas On World Markets  [PaEN]

 

-- Reuters: EU Countries To Consider Lower Natural Gas Price Cap


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PA Capital-Star: With No Majority, PA House Democrats, Republicans Fighting Over Who Calls The Shots

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PA House Republican Leader Accuses Democrats Of ‘Paperwork Insurrection’

-- PA Capital-Star: Special Election To Fill Sen. Gordner’s Seat Set For Jan. 31

-- City & State PA: Shapiro To Be Sworn In As Next Governor Jan. 17

-- PA Capital-Star: Shapiro Names Long-Time Assistant Dana Fritz Chief Of Staff

-- Spotlight PA: Transition Teams Helping Shapiro Prepare To Be Governor Include Wealthy Donors, Republicans

-- Inquirer: At Pennsylvania Society, Jockeying For 2024 Race For State Attorney General

-- Inquirer: Fetterman Names Philly Organizer Joe Pierce State Director For U.S. Senate Office

-- PA Capital-Star: Reformers Summit Seeks Solutions To State Government's Woes

-- Spotlight PA: Unprecedented Number Of Recount Requests Delay Election Certification

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: PA Republicans Won’t Change - Lebanon Valley College Professor

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: $7,400 Raises For PA Lawmakers?  The System Is Broken When Politicians Profit From Inflation

-- Dept. Of Revenue Reports November State Tax Collections 6.8% $201.9 Million Below Estimates; Still $183.2 Million Above Estimates For Fiscal Year

-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports November State Revenue Was 4.5% $129 Million Below Its Estimates; Still $731.8 Million Above Estimates For Fiscal Year 

-- Post-Gazette: More Candidates Announce Runs For PA Supreme, Appellate Courts

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Unemployment Falls To 20-Year Low

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[Posted: December 2, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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