House holds Regular Session May 22, 23, 24, June 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22
Senate holds Regular Session June 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
-- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells
-- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp., Indiana County [PaEN]
-- Triumph Township, Warren County Advertising For 100,000 Gallons Of ‘Salt Brine’ To Dump On Township Roads [PaEN]
-- Scranton Times: Invenergy’s Natural Gas Power Plant Among State’s 12 Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluters, Study Shows
-- WESA: Nearly Half Of PA’s Top 12 Greenhouse Gas Emitting Power Plants Are In Pittsburgh Region
-- PA Capital-Star: Report: Pennsylvania Ranked Fourth Nationally In Greenhouse Gas Emissions In 2020
-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: PA’s Largest Coal-Fired Power Plant Is Closing, What Would It Take To Transition The Site To Renewables?
-- Dept. Of Agriculture: PA Senate Confirms Russell Redding To Serve As Secretary Of Agriculture
-- Republicans On Senate Environmental Committee Report Out Bills To Narrow Grounds For Appealing DEP Actions, Stream Cleaning, Take ‘Protection’ Out Of The Dept. Of Environmental Protection [PaEN]
-- Senate Republicans Move Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Waive Any Permitting Requirement, Add Cost, Time, Complexity To Regulatory/Permitting Bureaucracy [PaEN]
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: 60+ PA Business Groups Urge Action On State’s Permitting Reform
-- PA American Water Awards $75,000+ In Local Environmental Project Grants [PaEN]
-- TribLive: Roaring Run Watershed Assn. Trying To Raise Money For Trail-Related Projects
-- LancasterOnline: Janus School Students Release Rainbow Trout Into The Wild
-- Republican Herald: Tamaqua Area Students Learn About The Outdoors At Locust Lake State Park
-- WFMZ: History’s Headlines: Lehigh River’s Troubled Waters
-- WHYY: Temple Researchers To Study How Drinking Water From Private Wells Impacts Children’s Health
-- MCall Guest Essay: U.S. Farming Adds To World’s Toxic Waste Problem - By Bruce Wilson, Green Builder
-- Alliance For Chesapeake Bay Accepting Presentation Proposals For Chesapeake Watershed Forum, Due June 4
-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Water Authority Files For 60% Rate Increase Over 3 Years
-- MCall: PA Seeing Feeding Frenzy Of Sales Of Public Water, Public Sewer Systems
-- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, PennDOT Partner On Cigarette Litter Prevention At Rest Stops [PaEN]
-- York Daily Record: York Man Pulled 26,000 Pieces Of Trash From Susquehanna River One Boatload At A Time
-- TribLive: Hampton’s Recycle Rama Scheduled For May 13
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Home Energy Use Can Be Expensive, Contribute To Climate Change; New Programs Aim To Cut Bills And Emissions
-- NextPittsburgh: Solarpunk Envisions A Sustainable Future With Art, Innovation And Jobs
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: House Lawmakers Examine Cryptocurrency’s Use Of Waste Coal To Generate Power For Data Mining
-- Better Path Coalition: May 24 Webinar With Dan Zegart, Investigative Reporter Who Covered 2020 CO2 Pipeline Explosion In Mississippi. Noon to 1:00 p.m.
-- Centre Daily Times: Expect Hazy Skies As Canadian Wildfires Bring Smoke Over Central PA
-- WGAL-TV: Major Transformation Underway At Michaux State Forest
-- DCNR Blog: One Of The Best Things You Can Do To Help The Environment - Plant A Native Tree!
-- Reading Eagle: Schuylkill River Greenways Has A Plan To Complete Trail In Berks County
-- York Daily Record: New Creekside Park Land, Mill With Civil War History Acquired In Manchester Township
-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Pittsburgh’s E-Scooter Program Gets First Green Light In Harrisburg, But Will Face Opposition
Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
-- TribLive: Norfolk Southern Train Derails In New Castle, No Hazardous Materials Released
-- KYW/CBSnews: Highways Pose Greatest Danger For Potential PA Hazmat Situations
-- The Center Square: U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Advances Railway Safety 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]
-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Extend Drop, Record Amounts Of LNG Idling In Ships At Sea
-- The Economist: Expensive Electricity (68% Spike), Natural Gas (145% Spike) May Have Killed More Europeans Than COVID Last Winter
Other States/National/International
-- The Guardian: New U.S. Rules Could Stem Emissions From Coal, Gas Power Plants
-- Bloomberg: EPA Plan To Cut Planet-Warming Pollution Spares Most Natural Gas Power Plants
-- Reuters: White House Backs Faster Energy Project Permits, Joining Republicans
-- AP: Court: EPA Must Regulate Perchlorate, Contaminant In Water
-- Utility Dive: U.S. DOE Proposes Framework For National Electric Transmission Corridors To Spur New Lines, Ease Grid Congestion
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- AP: PA Republicans Put Clout Back On Line In Primary Election After Losing U.S. Senate, Governor Races
-- PA Capital-Star: Lt. Gov. Davis Says PA’s Young Voters ‘Fired Up’
-- PA Capital-Star: Democratic Spending Approaches $1 Million In Special Election To Decide Control Of PA House
-- PennLive - John Baer: PA’s Closed Primary, State Judges - Tuesday’s Election A Double-Dark Downer
-- Politics PA: PA Supreme Court: Money, Endorsements May Tip Scale In Primary
-- PA Capital-Star: Senate Panel Approves Constitutional Amendment Advertising Accountability Measure
-- PA Capital-Star: Senate Moves Bill Expanding Canned Cocktail Sales Advances
-- WESA: Shapiro Touts Corporate Tax Cuts To Philly Business Chamber
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[Posted: May 11, 2023] PA Environment Digest
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