Saturday, July 15, 2023

Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 7.15.23

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House next voting day September 26, 27; October 2, 3, 4, 16 [Unless Sooner Recalled]

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Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct. 2, 3, 4  [Unless Sooner Recalled]

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 8 to 14; Failed Shale Gas, Conventional Well Plugging; Leaking Conventional Wells  [PaEN] 


-- DEP: Risk Assessment Did Not Prove Chemicals Polluting Soil & Groundwater At American Refinery Group’s Bradford Petroleum Refinery Met Safe Environmental Cleanup Standards  [PaEN] 


-- DEP Blog: Do You Know What’s Below? Gasoline Stations And Aging Underground Storage Tanks In Pennsylvania [PaEN]


-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 15  [PaEN]


-- DEP Invites Comments On CNX Midstream Project To Expose Natural Gas, Water/Wastewater Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Coal Mining Damage In Greene County  [PaEN] 


-- 2nd Annual Marcellus Shale Water Business Update Conference Aug. 9 In Pittsburgh On Managing Shale Gas, Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater  [PaEN]


-- Environmental Defense Fund Blog: New Health Study Shows Cost Of Oil & Gas Pollution In Appalachia


-- WPSU/NPR: Natural Gas Can Rival Coal’s Climate-Warming Potential When Leaks Are Counted 


-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Red Tape, Low Prices To Blame For PA’s Natural Gas Production Decline [Not Red Tape, Everything To Do With Prices]


-- DEP Posted 60 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 15 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]


-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Asks PA Supreme Court To Reverse A Commonwealth Court Decision Saying West Chester Stormwater Fee Is A Tax  [PaEN]


-- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Federal Lawsuit Over PA’s Role In Chesapeake Cleanup Comes To Settlement


-- Rodale Institute Blog: Nurturing Nature’s Filter - Soil Health And Its Influence On Water Quality


-- PUC Hosts Hearings On Proposed Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority Rate Increases July 25 & 27


-- WHYY: 2 Towamencin Residents Will Sue Township Over Pending Sewer Sale To PA American Water That Violates Township Ordinance


-- PUC Moves To Reopen Comment Period On Proposed Rules Covering Water Loss Controls At Drinking Water Systems


-- PA Capital-Star: Allegheny County Fines US Steel $301,275 For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works 2022 Summer Air Pollution Violations


-- Scranton Times: Scranton Eyes ‘Climate Action Plan’ To Address Adverse Impacts


-- WTAE: Monroeville Couple Battle Tesla Over Solar Panels, Roof Damage


-- WHYY: Environmental Group Creates Tool To Help Municipalities Regulate Warehouse Development


-- WHYY: No More Plastic Utensiles At King Of Prussia Mall: Upper Merion Bans Single-Use Plastic 


-- Altoona Mirror: Blair County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Set For July 29


-- July 14 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]


-- York Daily Record: Swimming Suspended At Gifford Pinchot State Park Due To Bacteria Levels


-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Commissioners To Honor $210,000 Donation For Speedwell Forge Park


-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Report: Philadelphia Ranked 4th-Best City For Cyclists


-- PennLive: Camp Hill Borough Has Become A Bee City USA Affiliate In Cumberland County


Norfolk Southern Train Derailment


-- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Scrutiny Needs To Continue Over Rail Safety


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

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


-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drill Rigs Same As Last Week - 23


-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Have Biggest Weekly Loss Of The Year


-- Bloomberg: European Power Prices Fall Below Zero This Weekend With Green Power Boom


Other States/National/International


-- Bloomberg: Mississippi And Ohio Rivers Water Levels Falling For 2nd Straight Year


-- Reuters: Equitrans Asks US Supreme Court To Vacate Stay Halting Mountain Valley Natural Gas Pipeline


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PA Capital-Star: Update On State Budget Impasse - Week Two

-- Politics PA: Federal Prosecutors Met With PA Secretary Of State Al Schmidt [Former Philadephia Election Commissioner] As Part Of Their Investigation Of Efforts To Overturn 2020 November Election By Ex-President

-- WHYY/NPR: $39 Billion In Federal Student Loan Forgiveness On The Way For More Than 800,000 Borrowers

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[Posted: July 15, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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