Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 1.11.23

Are You Telling Your Story?

Senate returns to voting session January 11, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31

     -- Committee Schedule

House - January [10, & 11] Session Canceled

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

 

DEP Advisory: DEP’s Cambria District Office still closed due to waterline break.

 

THURSDAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. DEP Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Visit the Board webpage for options to join the meeting remotely.  Contact: Daniel Snowden 717-783-8846, dsnowden@pa.gov

 

-- Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Nominate Rich Negrin For DEP, Retain Cindy Dunn At DCNR and Russell Redding At Agriculture [PaEN] 

 

-- Al Dia: Shapiro Taps Rich Negrin As First Latino To Helm Top Environmental Office In PA

 

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Green Day: Shapiro Announces Picks To Head PA’s Top Environmental, Conservation, Farm Agencies

 

-- AP: Shapiro Names Picks For Ag, Parks And Environmental Agencies

 

-- Inquirer: Fmr Top Philly Official Rich Negrin Is Shapiro’s Pick To Lead The PA Dept. Of Environmental Protection  

 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shapiro Nominates Former Philadelphia Official As DEP Secretary

 

-- Mon Valley Independent: Olympus Energy Gets Green Light From Elizabeth Twp. For Drilling

 

-- Environmental Health News: Citizen Scientists Seeing Substantial Increase In Plastic Nurdles In The Ohio River In SW PA 

 

-- Better Path Coalition Outlines Needed Environmental, Climate Policy Changes For Incoming Shapiro Administration  [PaEN]

 

-- PennLive: Sheetz Cuts Diesel Fuel Price By 50 Cents A Gallon Through January

 

-- DEP Declares Air Quality Action Day In Susquehanna Valley For Wednesday, Jan. 11 

 

-- Erie Times: Feds Charge 2nd Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Employee With Violating Federal Clean Air Act At Former Plant

 

-- TribLive: PennDOT Gets $171 Million In Federal Funds To Expand Electric Vehicle Network

 

-- Bay Journal: New Leadership In Chesapeake Bay States Raises Hopes For Action In 2023

 

-- NextPittsburgh: New Stormwater Plan For Greenfield, Allegheny County Depends On Pipes, Not Green Infrastructure

 

-- Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional Level 1 Certification Classes Set, Including In PA  [PaEN]

 

-- DRBC: New Study Estimates Groundwater Availability For The Delaware River Basin, With Focus On Southeastern PA Groundwater Protected Area  [PaEN]

 

-- MCall: Monthslong Boil-Water Advisory Lifted For Parts Of East Bangor In Lehigh Valley

 

-- LancasterOnline: PA Sustainable Agriculture Conference Comes To Lancaster This Winter

 

-- Brandywine Conservancy Served As Lead Consultant On Malvern Borough's Comprehensive Plan Update In Chester County  [PaEN]

 

-- South Mountain Partnership Winter Partnership Meeting Jan. 20, Penn Twp Fire Hall, Newville, Cumberland County 9:00 to 11:30 a.m.

 

-- DCNR State Parks Issues First Environmental Education Update Of 2023  [PaEN]

 

-- Penn State Extension: Home Garden News Update

 

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Private Fish Stockings May Require Notification Of Fish & Boat Commission In 2024

 

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: PA Hunter Makes Surprise Find Deer Hunting - An 8-Point Deer With Velvet On Its Antlers This Late In The Year


New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Law

 

-- EPA Announces Availability Of $100 Million For Environmental Justice Grants Thru Federal Climate, Energy Inflation Reduction Act

 

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

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


-- U.S. EIA: Short-Term Energy Outlook Projects Lower Natural Gas Prices In 2023, Increased Production; Coal-Fired Generation To Fall Again, Offset By Solar, Wind


-- Reuters: U.S. Nature Gas Output To Hit Record High In 2023, Demand To Fall


-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Price Falls As Ample LNG Supply Outweighs Colder Weather


Other States/National/International


-- TribLive/Bloomberg: U.S. Climate Disasters Racked Up $165 Billion In Damage In 2022


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Spotlight PA: House At Standstill As Deadline Nears To Get Relief For Child Sex Abuse Survivors On May Ballot

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Don’t Let Bipartisan Experiment In PA House Unravel

-- TribLive Editorial: Should House Speaker Rozzi Register As An Independent?

-- Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Nominate Rich Negrin For DEP, Retain Cindy Dunn At DCNR and Russell Redding At Agriculture [PaEN] 

-- Gov.-Elect Shapiro Names DEP, DCNR, Agriculture Secretaries - Updated List

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[Posted: January 11, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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