Monday, October 2, 2023

Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.2.23

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania!

Senate next voting day October 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, Nov. 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13

-- Committee Schedule

House next voting day October 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 30, 31, Nov. 1, 13, 14, 15

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


TODAY 10:00:  House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee holds hearing on House Bill 1275 (Webster-D-Montgomery) to protect riparian stream buffers. Room G-50 Irvis Building.  10:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch live online.  Read more here.


TODAY 9:00: House Game and Fisheries Committee meets to consider House Bill 1522 (Probst-D-Monroe) establishing a Wildlife Rehab Grant Program.  Room 523 Irvis Building. 9:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch live online.


TODAY 11:00: PA Climate Convergence - People’s Hearing On Climate Change. East Wing Capitol Building, Harrisburg.  Click Here for written statements.


TUESDAY 9:30: House Judiciary Committee meets to consider House Bill 1466 (Bizzarro-D- Erie) to prevent powerful interests from filing SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) lawsuits to silence citizen critics. Room 140. 9:30 a.m.  Click Here to watch live online.  Read more here.


WEDNESDAY 7:00: Dickinson College An Evening With Environmental & Indigenous Rights Advocate Tara Houska On Her Groundbreaking Advocacy Work. Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Dickinson’s campus in Carlisle, Cumberland County.  It will also be livestreamed.  7:00 p.m.


-- October 2 PA Environment Digest Now Available  [PaEN]


-- Repsol Gas USA Issued Violation For Denying DEP Right To Document Damaged Shale Gas Well Casing During Investigation Of Uncontrolled Gas Venting In Bradford County  [PaEN]


-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 23 to 29; More Abandoned Wells; Oil & Gas Doesn’t Typically Issue NOVs For ‘Routine’ Venting Of Natural Gas, Will Air Quality Under New Regs?  [PaEN]


-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 30   [PaEN]


-- Forbes: How One Contrarian Company [Mostly Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owner Diversified Energy] Thrives In A Shale And Gas World  [Check The Company’s Compliance Record In PA ]


-- NPR Climate Week: The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Health Care Has A Massive Carbon Footprint, These Pittsburgh Doctors Are Trying To Change That 


-- Altoona Mirror: Martinsburg Water Suit Over PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Slated For Transfer To Federal Court In South Carolina


-- Warren Times: Warehouse Growth Worrying PA Environmental Groups


-- Pike County Conservation District: What Is The Conservation Districts' Role?  [PaEN]


-- LancasterOnline: Mountville Holds Community Watershed Event Oct. 7


-- Republican Herald: Walk In Penn’s Woods ‘Well Attended’ At Penn State Schuylkill


-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: More Than 100 PA Streams, Lakes Will Receive Trout This Fall, Find Out Where


Natural Gas Explosions


-- TribLive: Car Rally Held To Raise Money For Rustic Ridge Families Impacted By Home Explosion, Fires In Allegheny County


National Emergency Alert Test Oct. 4


-- FEMA And FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test For Oct. 4 Sending Test Messages To All TVs, Radios and Cell Phones [Beginning At 2:20 p.m ET]


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 Decline As Mile Weather Offsets Supply Risks


-- Bloomberg: Ireland Denies LNG Natural Gas Port Despite Energy Security Concerns


Other States/National/International


-- NPR Climate Week: The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Health Care Has A Massive Carbon Footprint, These Pittsburgh Doctors Are Trying To Change That


-- NPR: Climate Solutions Are Necessary, So We’re Dedicating A Week To Highlighting Them


-- Reuters: COP28 Presiddent Says 20 Oil, Gas Companies Support 2050 Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal


-- Reuters: Global Climate Leaders Gather Ahead Of ‘Challenging’ COP28


-- The Economist: How Carbon Prices Are Taking Over The World; A Quarter Of Global Emissions Now Covered With Share Rising Fast


-- Wall Street Journal: PG&E’s $6 Billion Plan To Prevent Wildfires In California In Peril


-- Wall Street Journal: The Secret Behind The First $1 Billion Green Hydrogen Startup


-- FoxNews: US Energy Information Administration Quietly Released Study Showing Green Energy Receives Far More Subsidies Than Fossil Fuels  [Read the report itself for a different view.  “Renewables” include low-income energy assistance and “natural gas and petroleum-related subsidies became a net cost to the federal government.”]


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- AP: Gov. Shapiro’s Voter Registration Change Draws Ex-President’s Ire In Echo Of 2020 Election Clashes 

-- Inquirer Column: PA’s Legislature Is Big And That’s Beautiful

-- Warren Times Editorial: Move Up Presidential Primary Election In PA

-- TribLive Editorial: Federal Government Shutdown Not Avoided, Just Punted

-- WESA: Nursing Homes In PA Prepare For A Season Of COVID, Flu And RSV

-- MCall Guest Essay: PA Doesn’t Let Me Get A Driver’s License Because I’m Undocumented - That Makes Everyone Less Safe - [Name Withheld]

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[Posted: October 2, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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