Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 5.31.23

Are You Telling Your Story?

House holds Regular Session June 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22

-- Committee Schedule

Senate holds Regular Session June 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


June 7-- Virtual. Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Monthly Eyes On Shell Meeting. 7:30 p.m.


June 8-- In-Person. Eyes On Shell Petrochemical Plant Accountability Campaign To Hold In-Person Rally.  Beaver, Beaver County.  9:00 a.m. 


-- DEP: Large Wildfire In Nova Scotia To Contribute To Air Quality Action Day Wednesday, May 31 In Lehigh Valley, Southeast PA, Susquehanna Valley  [PaEN]


-- MCall: Wildfire In Canada Prompts Air Quality Alert For Lehigh Valley


-- AP: Wildfire In Nova Scotia Spurs Evacuation Of 16,000 People


-- PA Capital-Star: Lawmakers Are Clawing Back State’s Power To Prevent The Abandonment Of Conventional Oil/Gas Wells


-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Advocates Say More Scrutiny Needed Over Conventional Oil/Gas Well Plugging


-- PA Capital-Star: Shell Petrochemical Plant To Pay $10 Million In Fines For Exceeding Air Pollution Limits - Will It Matter? 


-- Eyes On Shell Petrochemical Plant Accountability Campaign To Hold In-Person Rally June 8 In Beaver. 9:00 a.m. 


-- Environmental Health Project, HealthFirstPA May 31 Webinar On Pollution And Children’s Health - Norfolk Southern Train Derailment And Beyond, Noon 


-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Ohio Residents Near Norfolk Southern Derailment Can’t Return To Homes They Fear Are Poisoned, And It’s Taking A Toll: ‘Depression Is Through The Roof’


-- Lancaster Farming: PA State Grange Talks Solar Energy At America’s Rural Energy Coalition National Conference


-- Delaware Valley Journal: Delaware County Natural Gas Pumping Station Still On Hold In Marple Township After Court Decision Said PUC Had To Apply Environmental Rights Amendment


-- Patch.com: South Brunswick, NJ Opposes Northeast Supply Enhancement Natural Gas Pipeline Project From PA


-- TribLive: West Penn, Duquesne Light Electric Rates Increasing For Customers Who Do Not Shop For Their Electric This Week


-- York Daily Record: Homer City On The Brink, As Coal-Fired Power Plant Shuts; What’s The Impact For The State?  [Could Not Compete With Natural Gas]


-- Observer-Reporter: Hatfield Coal-Fired Power Plant Demolition To Continue Next Week.  [Could Not Compete With Natural Gas]


-- WESA: Mon Valley Leaders Have $5 Million In U.S. Steel Fins From Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant, But Little Has Gone To Public Health  


-- Pittsburgh Group Against Smog & Pollution Seeking Pollution Reading Watchdogs For Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant At Special June 2 Event


-- Scranton Times: Meet The Team Restoring Brooks Coal Mine At Nay Aug Park To Reopen To Public As Museum

 

-- Electrification Coalition Hosts June 20 PA Medium, Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Boot Camp And Showcase At Harrisburg University  [PaEN] 


-- Centre Daily Times: Would $50 Million Lithium-Ion Battery Factory Help Revitalize Philipsburg, Retain Talent?


-- Delaware County Redevelopment Authority Announces Award Of $1 Million EPA Brownfields Grant


-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Pittsburgh, State Must Clean Up Their Act With Stiffer Penalties For Littering And Dumping


-- PA Capital-Star: Cash-Strapped Volunteer Fire Departments Ask Lawmakers For Help


-- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers June 14 Conversation Cafe Webinar - A Story Of Nonprofit Resilience - The Upper Merced River Watershed Council (California)  [PaEN]


-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: Jennings Environmental Center, 3MJC Host Historic Foltz One Room School Open House Events; Mine Drainage Treatment At Slippery Rock U.  [PaEN]


-- Lehigh Valley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Seeking Stream Team Volunteers To Help Maintain Riparian Buffers  [PaEN] 


-- NextPittsburgh: Digging Up The Secrets Of The Frick Environmental Center 


-- PA U.S. Senators Casey, Fetterman Request Full Environmental Impact Statement On Maryland Air National Guard Very Low Level Military Training Flights [100 Feet] Over PA Wilds  [PaEN]


-- Altoona Mirror: Blair County Area Recreation Key To Economic Growth


-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Dunk Lifeguard Residency Requirement To Open More City Pools


-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy: Summer 2023 Delaware Highlands Journal 


-- Game Commission Springtime Alert: Leave Young Wildlife Alone


Norfolk Southern Train Derailment


-- Environmental Health Project, HealthFirstPA May 31 Webinar On Pollution And Children’s Health - Norfolk Southern Train Derailment And Beyond, Noon 


-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Ohio Residents Near Norfolk Southern Derailment Can’t Return To Homes They Fear Are Poisoned, And It’s Taking A Toll: ‘Depression Is Through The Roof’


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

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


-- TribLive: National Average Gasoline Price Expected To Stay Under $4 This Summer, Analyst Says


-- AAA Average Gasoline Prices: Pennsylvania $3.69, National $3.57


-- Bloomberg: Poorer Nations Snap Up Cheap LNG Natural Gas In Economic Boost


-- Bloomberg: European Price Of Natural Gas Slips As Sluggish Chinese Data Damps LNG Demand


-- Reuters: Norway Shuts Hammerfest LNG Natural Gas Plant Due To Gas Leak, Facility Being Evacuated


-- Reuters: Drones Attack Russian Oil Refineries Near Major Oil Port Novorossiisk


Other States/National/International


-- Reuters: Texas Battery Rush - Power Woes Fuel Energy Storage Boom


-- Bloomberg: Equitrans Stock Soars As Mountain Valley Natural Gas Pipeline Set To Benefit From U.S. Debt Deal


-- The Guardian: ’An Egregious Act’: Federal Debt Ceiling Deal Imperils The Environment, Critics Say


-- AP: Hard-Right Conservatives Oppose Federal Debt Limit Compromise Led By PA Republican Cong. Perry; May Try To Oust Republican Speaker McCarthy 


-- Politics PA: Republican PA Cong. Perry, Freedom Caucus Announce Opposition To Federal Debt Ceiling Bill


-- Bloomberg: Net Zero Insurance Alliance Loses More Members After Republican Attacks On ESG [Environmental, Social, Governance] Goals


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PennLive: Shapiro Appoints Veteran State Official Commonwealth’s Chief Diversity Officer

-- Spotlight PA: Shapiro Won’t Share Daily Calendar, A Departure From Previous Governors

-- WITF/AP: McKean County Restaurant Owner Gets 2 Years In Prison For Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol, Threatening U.S. House Speaker Pelosi

-- AP: Hard-Right Conservatives Oppose Federal Debt Limit Compromise Led By PA Republican Cong. Perry; May Try To Oust Republican Speaker McCarthy 

-- Politics PA: Republican PA Cong. Perry, Freedom Caucus Announce Opposition To Federal Debt Ceiling Bill

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[Posted: May 31, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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