Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 2.10.23

Are You Telling Your Story?

Senate returns to voting session Feb. 27, 28, March 1, 6, 7, 8

     -- Committee Schedule

-- March 7-- Governor’s Budget Address

House returns to voting session Feb. 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, March 1

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

-- DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Updates From Oil & Gas, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Programs Feb. 14  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Interior Secretary Visits Pittsburgh Area To Tout Federal Oil & Gas Well Plugging Money, Though PA Companies Are Still Abandoning Wells, Legislation Thwarted Attempt To Increase Plugging Bonds

-- AP: Firm: Faulty Weld, Pressure At A Bend In Keystone Pipeline Led To Kansas Oil Spill; Cost Of Cleanup Now At $480 Million 

-- DEP Opens Next Round Of Federally-Funded Abandoned Mine Reclamation Grants For Locally-Sponsored Projects March 6  [PaEN]

-- PA Solar Center: USDA Offering Grants To Install Solar Energy To Reduce Skyrocketing Energy Bills For Businesses, Municipalities, Nonprofits - By Leo Kowalski, PA Solar Center  [PaEN] 

-- AP: Penn  State, Other Universities To Experiment With Micro Nuclear Power

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA State Water Plan Urges More Resources To Protect Against Flooding, Pollution

-- LancasterOnline: Manheim Twp. School District In Violation Of Clean Streams Law After Chemical Leak Into Stream, DEP Says

-- LancasterOnline: Long’s Park Adding Wetlands To Improve Water Quality

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Shale Gas Companies Play ‘Dirty Pool’ By Reactivating Expired Leases By Claiming They Are Part Of Back-dated Pooling Declarations  [PaEN]

-- PUC Approves 48.9% Increase In Natural Gas Charges By Leatherstocking Gas Company In Susquehanna & Bradford Counties [The Heart Of Shale Gas Drilling In PA]  [PaEN]

-- Sen. Yaw (R) Guest Essay Supports Exporting PA Natural Gas Thru Philadelphia LNG Terminal  [Ukraine War Taught Us LNG Exports Mean Higher Prices For PA Consumers ]

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Movement To Halt Use Of Carbon Fuels To Blame For Christmas Electric Grid Problems - By Sen. Augment (R)  [Actually Not According To PJM, Natural Gas Froze And Wasn’t Available  ]

-- Reuters: 46% Drop In U.S. Natural Gas Prices This Year Threatening To Slow Drilling 

-- Reuters: U.S. Natural Gas Output Hit Record High In 2023, Demand To Fall, First Time Demand Would Fall For 2 Years In A Row - US. EIA 

-- Mon Valley Independent: Rostraver Twp. Zoning Board Denies Olympus Shale Gas Well Pad Request In Westmoreland County

-- PUC Seeks Public Comment On Proposed $125,000 Settlement With National Fuel Gas Over 2020 Natural Gas Leak, Fire In Erie

-- Potter Leader-Enterprise: Coterra Energy Makes Tax Credit Donation To McKean County School [Coterra Pleaded No Contest To Criminal Charges Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County]

-- PUC Chair Dutrieuille Recognizes Black History Month And Highlights Upcoming State Observance Program 

-- PJM Interconnection: The Super Bowl’s Unique Power Play - Electricity Use Tracks Human Behavior On Super Sunday

-- TribLive: PRC Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Coming To Indiana Twp., Allegheny County

-- February 11 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available

-- PA/NJ Chapter American Chestnut Foundation Update: April 1 Spring Growers Meeting

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Use DCNR Grant For Citywide Trail Condition Study

-- Interns Wanted: Loyalhanna Watershed Assn. Seeking Summer Interns In Westmoreland County

-- KDKA: Audubon Society Of Western PA On Bald Eagle Egg Watch [Video]

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

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

-- Reuters: U.S. Regulators OK Freeport LNG Natural Gas Plant Request To Return To Ship Loading At Texas Plant

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Head For Weekly Loss On Mild Weather, Freeport LNG Terminal To Resume Shipments

-- WSJ: Russia To Cut Oil Production, Sending Prices Higher

American Rescue Plan Funding

-- Williamsport Sun: Nearly $1.5 Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funds Going To Lycoming County Water, Sewer Projects

-- $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

-- AP: Firm: Faulty Weld, Pressure At A Bend In Keystone Pipeline Led To Kansas Oil Spill; Cost Of Cleanup Now At $480 Million 

-- Erie Times: The Electric Vehicle Revolution Brings Environmental Uncertainty At Every Turn

-- EPA Seeks Input On Environmental And Climate Justice Program

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- City & State PA: House Speaker Says House Will Vote On Rules, Reforms Feb. 21

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Republicans Take Away Rep. Mehaffie’s Capitol Office As Punishment For His Role As Caucus Maverick

-- AP: Commonwealth Court Won’t Force State Agency To Release Election Records Wanted By Senate Republicans

-- NPR: Pennsylvania Voting Officials Are Still Fighting Election Deniers

-- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: Shapiro, Lawmakers May Face Multi-Billion Dollar Budget Question After Major School Funding Ruling

-- PoliticsPA: The Coming Battle Over Public School Funding

-- Spotlight PA: Tracking Gov. Shapiro’s Biggest Campaign Promises

-- UnionProgress.com: Allegheny County Woman Avoids Prison For Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol, Marine Friend’s Case Pending

-- AP: NY Cong. Santos Had 2017 PA Theft Charge Expunged

-- PennLive: COVID Slows, But Remains A Top Killer In PA

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[Posted: February 10, 2023]  PA Environment Digest