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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