Senate next voting day October 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, Nov. 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13
House next voting day October 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 30, 31, Nov. 1, 13, 14, 15
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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