Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.18.23

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House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26

-- Committee Schedule

Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


WEDNESDAY 3:00: Pittsburgh-Based Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts Workshop On Local Air Quality Issues.  3:00 p.m.  


WEDNESDAY 6:30: Ohio River Valley Institute Hosts Webinar On Policy Action In Response To The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment & Beyond. 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.  


THURSDAY 10:00: Philadelphia LNG Natural Gas Export Task Force hearing on LNG terminal proposal in Philadelphia.  Courtyard Philadelphia South at The Navy Yard, Philadelphia. 10:00 a.m.


THURSDAY 10:00: Independent Regulatory Review Commission meets to consider Final Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil and Gas Operations.  14th Floor Conference Room, 333 Market Street, Harrisburg.  10:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch online.  Read more here.


THURSDAY 1:00: PA Council Of Professional Geologists Hosts Webinar Presentation By Manager Of PA State Seismic Network - Basement Structure Of Appalachian Basin In PA.  1:00 to 2:00 p.m.


FRIDAY Noon: PA Solar Center Hosts Webinar Update On PA Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, Community Solar Legislation + Review 2021-22 AEPS Compliance Report. Noon to 1:15 p.m. 


-- Bucks County Master Watershed Steward Jim Walter Inspires Environmental Action  [PaEN]


-- Allegheny County Conservation District Now Accepting Applications For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Grants; Your County Is Too  [PaEN] 


-- Penn State Extension Experts Release Guidelines To Increase Worker Safety Of Manure Storage Facilities    


-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: With New Governor, Lawmakers Push To Move [Shale Gas] Drilling Sites From Communities 


-- WESA/Inside Climate News: Awash In Toxic Wastewater From Fracking Natural Gas, PA Faces A Disposal Reckoning 


-- Good Idea?  House Bill 914 (Leadbeter-R-Columbia) requires DEP to approve the “beneficial use and reuse” of oil and gas drill cuttings as structural fill, soil substitutes, soil additives, raw materials for other products including for aggregates, construction-related materials or agricultural uses and for the extraction and recovery of critical minerals.


-- PA Capital-Star: Advocates Call On EPA To Cut Climate Pollution From PA’s Power Sector With Carbon Pollution Standards For New, Existing Power Plants


-- TribLive: Coal-Fired Homer City Power Plant Closing; Future Dim For 2 Other Regional Facilities [Competition With Natural Gas Put Coal Plants Out Of Business]  


-- Washington Examiner: Republican PA Cong. Reschenthaler Blames Biden For Closure Of Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant


-- Utility Dive: PJM Asks FERC To Help Resolve Complaints With 8 Power Companies Over Winter Storm Elliott Nonperformance Penalties  [About 200 Companies Face Penalties]


-- Marcellus Drilling News/CMU: 10% Of Natural Gas Pipeline Compressors Vulnerable To Outages Because They Run On Electricity


-- Warren Times Editorial: Have Plan For Federal Cash To Plug Abandoned Gas Wells


-- PennLive: Application Submitted To Establish Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub In PA


-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Private Investment Gets Head Start On Electronic Vehicle Buildout In PA


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Form Energy Battery Plant Among $150 Billion In Accelerated Clean Energy Spending


-- Ohio River Valley Institute Report: Timing Is Right For Rebirth Of A Clean, Green Steel Industry In PA Based On 


-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: ‘Green Steel’ Would Curb Carbon Emissions, Spur Economic Revival In SW PA, Study Says


-- LancasterOnline: Earth Day Summit April 22 To Bring Experts, Ideas To Lancaster


-- Erie Times Guest Essay: 100 Days In, Gov. Shapiro Must Sharpen His Focus On Climate Change And The Environment - By Clean Air Council 


-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Lehigh River Listed As ‘Most Endangered’ River In U.S. Due To Rampant Warehouse Developments


-- American Rivers: Lehigh And Ohio Rivers Listed In America’s 10 Most Endangered Rivers


-- Independence Conservancy Hosts 4 Waste Tire Collection Events In Beaver County  [PaEN]


-- LehighValleyNews.com: Lehigh Valley’s Litter Vigilantes: ‘It’s A Year-Round, Constant Effort’


-- York Dispatch: Go Green In The City Returns To Downtown York Saturday


-- DCNR State Parks Environmental Education Update - Earth Week Edition  [PaEN]


-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Highlights Upcoming Programs In May


-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature: Many Flowers Beginning To Appear Thanks To Weather


-- Republican Herald: New Walking Trail Installed In Union Twp. Near Ringtown, Schuylkill County


-- Scranton Times: Seven Tubs Nature Area Closed Through At Least Summer For Improvement Project


-- Williamsport Sun: Susquehanna Greenway Provides Plenty Of Wildlife In Parks, Trails


-- Game Commission: Highlights From April 15 Board Of Commissioners’ Meeting


Ohio/PA Train Derailment


-- AP: Norfolk Southern CEO To Testify In Ohio Senate About Fiery Derailment 


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

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


-- Erie Times: Sheetz Drops Price Of Unleaded 85 To $1.85/Gallon Thru April 30


-- TribLive: PA Likely To See Jump In Gasoline Prices Over Next 2 Weeks


-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Edge Up


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Senate Republican Leader To Focus On ‘Responsible’ Budget, More Than An On-Time One

-- PA Capital-Star: Senate Republican Leader Talks Budget, Schools, Energy, More

-- The Center Square: House Panel Plans To Gut Voter ID, Regulatory Reform Constitutional Amendments

-- AP: Commonwealth Court Tosses Wolf Lawsuit Against Multiple Constitutional Amendments In One Bill Saying It Wasn’t Ripe

-- AP: Printing Error Forces Lancaster County To Replace 18,000 Mail-In Ballots

-- PA Capital-Star: Meet Candidates In Special Elections To Fill House Vacancies

-- AP: Fetterman Returns To U.S. Senate

-- Spotlight PA: Expecting More Than $1 Billion From Opioid Settlement, PA Grapples With Policing Vs. Treatment

-- WESA: Lawsuit Alleges PA Unnecessarily Keeping People With Psychiatric Disabilities In State Hospitals

-- Courier Times: Students, Authors Fight Censorship In PA Schools

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[Posted: April 18, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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