Thursday, July 13, 2023

Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 7.13.23

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

-- Committee Schedule

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

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


TODAY 6:00: In-Person, Virtual. DEP Shell Petrochemical Plant Community Fund Advisory Committee meeting. Community College of Beaver County’s Learning Resources Center (Room 9103) at 1 Campus Drive, Monaca, Beaver County. 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.  Livestream on  RiverWise and Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Facebook pages.  Read more here.


-- Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay Recognizes PA Master Watershed Steward Jodi Sulpizio, Jodi Rose, Interfaith Partners For Chesapeake, As Watershed Champions  [PaEN] 


-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Abigail Luteri Always Enjoyed Fishing, Now She’s Patrolling Eastern PA Waterways For The Fish & Boat Commission


-- DEP Declares Code ORANGE Air Quality Action Day THURSDAY, July 13 In Lehigh Valley, Southeast PA, Susquehanna Valley 


-- Federal Court Settlement Between CBF, Other Groups And EPA Over Requiring Pennsylvania To Meet Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Requirements Now Final 


-- PA Capital-Star: Settlement Finalized In Lawsuit Over Chesapeake Bay Pollution From PA


-- EPA Region 3: Statement By Adam Ortiz On Final Chesapeake Bay Settlement


-- Triblive: Shaler Township Commissioners Approved Girty’s Run Stream Restoration Project In Allegheny County 


-- Penn State Extension Master Watershed Stewards, Master Gardeners Hold July 26 Webinar On How To Participate In Native Tree & Shrub Sale/Fundraiser, Tips On Planting, More!  [PaEN]


-- Penn State Master Gardeners Recognized With International Award For Bee Monitoring Work


-- Forests For The Chesapeake Bay July Update: Tree Planter’s Worst (Cutest) Enemy; Red Maples; Upcoming Tree Maintenance Days; More!


-- NRCS-PA: How To Protect Livestock From Harmful Algal Blooms


-- Standard-Journal: Life Along The Susquehanna River Focus Of Documentary


-- Reading Eagle: Resource Center Opening For Those Affected By Flooding In Berks County


-- Reading Eagle: Key Road In Central Berks Reopens After Removal Of Flood Debris


-- WHYY: Philly’s Summer Has Been Wetter Than Normal, So What’s With The Drought Watch?


-- Senate Bill Introduced To Provide $5 Million In Tax Credits To Develop Solar Energy Facilities On Brownfields, Abandoned Mine Sites, Warehouse Roofs  [PaEN]


-- US DOE Selects Penn State University As One Of 9 Organizations To Help Deploy Clean Energy Technologies To Decarbonize The Industrial Sector  [PaEN]


-- TribLive: Audubon’s Succop Nature Park Will Be Energy Self-Sufficient By Year’s End In Butler County


-- DEP Blog: Commercial Kitchens Can Get Up To $8,500 In Rebates To Electrify Your Cooking


-- Marcellus Drilling News: PA DEP Secretary Negrin Sucks Up To Radical Anti-Drillers At Citizens Advisory Council Meeting 


-- Marcellus Drilling News: Columbiana County, OH Evacuates 450 After Hilcorp Natural Gas Well Accident  [Hilcorp Caused Only Documented Earthquakes Related To Fracking In PA]


-- Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund: The Law Did Not Save Grant Township’s Water From PA General Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well, The People Of Grant Did


-- US Energy Information Administration Predicts Higher Natural Gas Prices As Industry Reduces Production


-- PennLive Guest Essay: Congress Should Eliminate Certain Environmental Reviews To Build Energy, Natural Gas Infrastructure Faster - By Fmr State Sen. Bob Mensch (R-Montgomery)


-- Centre Daily Times: 10 Poorest Counties In PA: Cameron, McKean, Forest, Cambria, Venango, Clearfield, Fayette, Warren, Jefferson, Elk [Also Happens To Be Heart Of Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling In PA]


-- Scranton Times: Anthracite Coal To See: Brooks Mine Tourist Attraction In Nay Aug Park To Reopen


-- Reading Eagle: Crews Contain 2-Alarm Brush Fire In Northern Berks County


-- LancasterOnline: Conestoga River Club Aims To Improve Safety, Increase Disabled Access Along The Waterfront


-- TribLive: Twin Lakes Park Fishing Tournament Honors Delmont Man’s Memory, Passion For Nature In Westmoreland County


Norfolk Southern Train Derailment


-- WTAE: Carnegie Mellon Researcher Publish February Mobile Air Sampling Results From Norfolk Southern Train Derailment


-- Grist: In The Wake Of The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment In Ohio, Other Train Towns Wonder - Are We Next?


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

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


-- US Energy Information Administration Predicts Higher Natural Gas Prices As Industry Reduces Production


-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports PA Natural Gas Production Peaked In 4th Quarter 2021 [PaEN] 


-- US Energy Information Administration: 2022 Appalachian Natural Gas Production Flat With Productivity Declines In Key Counties In PA


-- Reuters: California New Oil Well Approvals Have Nearly Ground To A Halt


-- Reuters: TC Energy Urges Canada To Speed Permits For Clean Energy Transition Projects


Other States/National/International


-- EPA Announces Proposal To Strengthen Lead Paint Standards To Protect Children Against Lead Exposure


-- Financial Times: Extreme Wildfires Are Here To Stay, Can Human Beings Really Fight Them?


-- Wall Street Journal: Insurers Are In The Hot Seat On Climate Change


-- WPost: Floods, Fires And Deadly Heat Are The Alarm Bells Of A Planet On The Brink


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- The Center Square: State Budget Deal Unlikely Before September

-- PA Capital-Star: Senate Republican Leader: Hundreds Of Millions In State Funding Could Be At Risk Without More Budget Bills

-- PennLive: PA Budget’s Big Ideas Likely To Generate Fiscal Code Fights As Impasse Grinds On

-- AP: PA Budget Still In Turmoil Over School Vouchers And Equity Funding Case

-- Politics PA: What Does PA’s Budget Impasse Mean For You?

-- Gov. Shapiro: State Budget Impasse Questions & Answers  [Who Gets Paid And Who Doesn’t]

-- PennLive - John Baer: Shapiro Fixed One Collapsed Bridge, Can He Fix Another Political Bridge?

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Elvis Is Dead; Ex-President Did Lose The 2020 Election; And Truth Is Truth - By John Sigle, Cumberland County

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: 31 Months Later, Questioning 2020 Election Results Still A Distraction

-- PennLive: Franklin County DA Who Broke With Republican Party Will Not Seek A 4th Term

-- WHYY: Ghost Gun Makers Evading State And Federal Laws, Experts Say, Will Philly’s Lawsuit Slow Them Down?

-- Inquirer: Pennsylvania Still Hasn’t Reformed Its Statutes Of Limitations On Childhood Abuse Allegations, What You Need To Know

-- PennLive: PA Patient Safety Authority Will Not Require Hospitals To Provide The Information It Needs To Understand A Spike In Injuries And Deaths Of Newborn Babies 

-- TribLive Editorial: Who Gets To Judge Challenged School Library Books?

-- AP: New Biden Plan Cuts Student Loan Payments For Millions To $0, Will It Be The Next Legal Battle?

-- PennLive: PA’s Billionaires: The Keystone State’s Richest People And How They Made Their Money

-- WHYY: Microsoft Says Chinese Hackers Breached Its Email Systems, Including U.S. Government Agencies

-- TribLive: Tribune Review, WTAE Announce Partnership To Strengthen Local News

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[Posted: July 13, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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