Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.16.23

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

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House next voting day October 16, 17, 18, 30, 31, Nov. 1, 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

TODAY 10:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 1476 (Vitali-D-Delaware) establishes reporting requirements for certain cryptocurrency mining operations and a two-year moratorium on air permits for behind-the-grid energy generation used for cryptocurrency mining; House Resolution 185 (Webster-D- Montgomery) directs the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study on the feasibility of using geothermal energy technologies that utilize abandoned mining locations and operations in this Commonwealth (sponsor summary); House Resolution 228 (Otten-D-Chester) designates the week of October 1 through 7, 2023, as "Climate Week" in Pennsylvania (sponsor summary). Room G-50 of the Irvis Building. 10:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch live online.   Read more here.

TODAY 4:30: Inaugural Online Meeting Of Southwest PA Environmental Literacy Coalition.  4:00 to 4:30 p.m.

TODAY 6:00: DEP Hearing On Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy. University of Scranton, Loyola Science Center, 200 Monroe Avenue, Scranton, Lackawanna County.  6:00 to 8:00 p.m.  Persons wishing to reserve time to present testimony at a meeting must contact Jennifer McLuckie at (717) 772-5633 or RA-EPOEJ@pa.gov at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing.  Read more here.

TODAY 7:30: Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Webinar On Lawsuit Challenging Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells. 7:30 p.m.

-- October 16 PA Environment Digest Now Available  [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov. Shapiro, Let's Hold Them Accountable - Support The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative  - By Rev. Mitchell Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network - Action  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments At Nov. 14 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Marcus Hook Terminal In An EJ Area, Delaware County  [PaEN] 

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 14 [PaEN] 

-- Inside Climate News: Answers About Old Conventional Gas Wells Repurposed As Injection Wells For Oil/Gas Wastewater May Never Be Fully Unearthed 

-- TribLive: Columbia Gas Shuts Off Service To 4,000 Beaver County Residents Because Of Natural Gas Introduced Into Its System By A Third-Party Gas Supplier, No Service For Several Days 

-- KDKA: Columbia Gas Halts Service For Nearly 4,000 Residents After It Identified An ‘Issue With Natural Gas Introduced Into Its System By A Third Party 

-- WTAE: Thousands Of Beaver County Columbia Gas Customers To Be Without Service For Several Days

-- TribLive: Plum Boro’s Festival Of Honor Returning To Raise Money For Rustic Ridge Community Impacted By Natural Gas Explosion In August 

-- Courier Times: Nooses And Slurs vs. Contested Firing: PA Workplace Discrimination Cases Yield Very Different Outcomes; Case Of Oil & Gas Employee vs. Starbucks Manager

-- The Allegheny Front: Southwestern PA Unions Disappointed Regional Hydrogen Hub Will Be Based In West Virginia

-- Erie Times: Venango Township Residents Raise Concerns About Proposed Solar Energy Facility

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Long Duration Energy Storage Integral To Net Zero Carbon Clean Energy Transition 

-- Altoona Mirror: Community Members’ Efforts Help Establish Rain Garden At Duncansville Memorial Park

-- Republican Herald: Sweet Arrow Lake At 100; Recreation Refuge To 50,000 Annually In Schuylkill County

-- WNEP: Lakefront Festival At Sweet Arrow Lake In Schuylkill County Educates On Environment

-- Warren Times Editorial: Closing In On City Of Warren Waterfront Hopes

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Pennsylvanians Should Educate Themselves About Spotted Lanternfly

-- WeConservePA Now Accepting Nominations For Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award  [PaEN]

-- MCall: Possible Mountain Lion Sighting In Lower Macungie Twp, Police Ask Residents To Report Sightings

Train Derailments

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Norfolk Southern Train Derailment A Symptom Of Addition To Plastic, Says Resident Turned Activist

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: Shell Hits Record Stock Price As New CEO Makes Most Of High Oil Prices

Other States/National/International

-- The Guardian: ‘Exceptional Events’ Air Pollution Rule Lets Regulators Wipe Air Pollution From The Record

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PennLive: McCormick’s PAC Gave PA Republican State Committee $50,000 In Weeks Before ‘Unprecedented’ US Senate Endorsement

-- Spotlight PA: Everything You Need To Know About Requesting, Filling Out, Return Your Mail-In Ballot

-- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: Can We Have Another Candidate, Please? 

-- Inquirer: Penn President Said University ‘Should Have Moved Faster’ In Opposing Palestine Writes Speakers With History Of Antisemitism

-- Courier Times: Nooses And Slurs vs. Contested Firing: PA Workplace Discrimination Cases Yield Very Different Outcomes; Case Of Oil & Gas Employee vs. Starbucks Manager

-- Post-Gazette: Without Antitrust Law, PA Lacks Regulatory Muscle Needed For Oversight Of Hospital Deals

-- Post-Gazette: Rite Aid, Facing Slumping Sales, Opioid Suits, Files For Bankruptcy

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[Posted: October 16, 2023]  PA Environment Digest