PA Environment Digest Blog: Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.”

-- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [It’s Not A Suggestion]

Senate next voting day March 18, 19, 20

-- Committee Schedule

-- Senate Agency Budget Hearing Schedule.

House next voting day March 18, 19, 20

-- Committee Schedule

-- House Agency Budget Hearing Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

TODAY 9:00 Agenda Posted. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00 a.m. Visit the Committee webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Lindsay Byron, at lbyron@pa.gov or (717) 772-8951. Read more here.

February 21-- Agenda Posted. DEP Agricultural Advisory Board meeting. DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 9:00 a.m. Visit the Board webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Bob Haines, at robhaines@pa.gov or (717) 787-7565.

February 21-- Agenda Posted. DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board meeting. 16th Floor Delaware Room, Rachel Carson State Office Building. 9:00 a.m. Visit the Board webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Jennifer McLuckie, at jmcluckie@pa.gov or (717) 772-5633.

February 22-- House Appropriations Committee budget hearing - Dept. Of Agriculture. Room 140 Main Capitol. 1:00 p.m. Click Here to watch online.

-- Centre County Recycling Coordinator Joanne Shafer To Retire; Longest Serving Recycling Coordinator In Pennsylvania [PaEN]

-- MCall Guest Essay: Biden’s Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Facilities A Win For PA Families, Our Health And Our Climate - By Sierra Club

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Gas Pipelines Are Critical To PA’s Energy Revolution - Reading Chocolate Plant Explosion That Caused 7 Deaths ‘Is Not Cause For Alarm About Our Pipeline Infrastructure’ - By Fmr State Sen. Earl Baker

-- TribLive: Gas Leak Forces Evacuation Of Riverview Jr.-Sr. High School In Allegheny County

-- Inside Climate News: Sonya Sanders Grew Up Next To Fmr Philadelphia Refinery, She’s Still Suffering From Environmental Trauma

-- PennLive: Beaver County Man Sues Shell Petrochemical Plant Over Smell, Noise: “Sounds Like A Freight Train 24 Hours A Day’

-- Inquirer: PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Other Chemicals Lurk In Artificial Turf Some Experts Worry Could Be Linked To Cancer In Young Athletes

-- Republican Herald: DEP Says Hole Near Pottsville Property Is Not Mine Subsidence

-- Williamsport Sun: Williamsport Stormwater Ordinance Update In The Works

-- Post-Gazette: PA To Get $200 Million From EPA For Clean Water, Sewage Treatment Improvements

-- Vice President, EPA Administrator In Pittsburgh To Announce Nearly $6 Billion In Drinking, Wastewater Revolving Loan Fund Infrastructure Investments