Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.11.24

“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]

House next voting day April 10, 15, 16, 17, 39, 30

-- Committee Schedule

Senate next voting day April 10, 29, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

-- Westmoreland County-Based Protect PT Calls For Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; CAC Member Asks For DEP Response  [PaEN] 

-- Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition Joins Pittsburgh-based EQT In Saying We Have A 'Duty’ To Provide LNG Gas To China, Our Economic, Military Competitor  [PaEN]

-- Act 14: Little Known State Law Gives Municipalities, Counties First Chance To Comment On DEP Permits Before Applications Are Submitted; Critical First Step In Public Involvement  [PaEN]

-- Tribune-Democrat: Equitrans To Pay More Than $1.1 Million Penalty For 2022 Gas Storage Area Leak In Cambria County

-- Courier Times: Years After PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Rock Bucks, Montgomery Counties, EPA Sets Near-Zero Detection Limit

-- PA Capital-Star: EPA Sets PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Limits Found In One-Third Of PA Water Systems

-- PA Energy Development Authority Launches Keystone Energy Efficiency Program To Lower Electricity Costs For Homeowner, 4 Unit Residences  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: FERC Approves PJM’s $5.1 Billion Cost-Share Plan For Transmission Lines To Be Built By Dominion, Others; Rejected Arguments Virginia Should Pay More

-- Bucks County Herald: Elementary Schools Win $5,000 From PECO’s Natural Gas Safety Challenge 

-- York Dispatch: Chemistry Experiment Gone Wrong Prompts Evacuation Of York County High School  [DEP School Chemical Cleanout Campaign]

-- LancasterOnline: Faith, Nonprofit Leaders Promote Green Transportation In Lancaster County 

-- Latest Penn State Growing Impact Podcast Looks At Youth Climate Leadership  [PaEN]

-- MCall: Allentown To Award ‘Mirogrants’ To Youth-Led Projects Addressing Climate Change 

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Polluters Should Pay For Damage To Climate - By Citizens Climate Lobby

-- Penn State Climate Consortium Webinar April 16 To Raise Awareness Of Its Activities, 3:00 p.m.

-- WNEP: Flood Recovery Assistance Center Open In Scranton

-- Brodhead Watershed Association Seeks StreamWatch Program Volunteers In Monroe County; Training May 18  [PaEN] 

-- Chester County Press: Octoraro Watershed Assn. Announces Photography Contest Winners

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Jeremy Cox: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Equity Director Wants Advocacy As Diverse As Nature

-- EPA, Federal Partners Seek Public Input On Great Lakes Action Plan 

-- Republican Herald: Residents, Schuylkill County Commissioners To Meet With DEP Over Odor Complaints From Composting Facility

-- WHYY: Philly Mayor Reveals More Of Her Plan To Make Philly ‘Clean And Green’

-- Scranton Times: Dunmore To Build Pocket Park Using Keystone Landfill Fines

-- Penn State EarthTalks: April 15 Webinar On Exposure To Indoor PM2.5, Temperature, Humidity Gradients, 4:00 p.m.

--  WNEP: Take A Hike With Jon Meyer - Jakes Rocks In Warren County

Train Derailments

-- Post-Gazette: Attorneys In Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Settlement Clarify Some Details Of Payout

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]

-- AP: Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Sues Natural Gas Companies Over Price Spikes During 2021 Winter Storm 

-- Bloomberg: Russia Attacks Ukraine Gas Storage Sites, Driving Prices Higher

-- Bloomberg: Proposals For New US Power Plants Jump 90% On Surging Demand; Gas, Coal Plants Make Up Just 3% Of New Planned Capacity

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Spotlight PA: Voting Rights Groups Appeal Ruling That Directs PA To Reject Undated Mail-In Ballots

-- Spotlight PA: Why Independents Can’t Vote In PA Primary, And The Slow-Moving Push To Change That

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Commonwealth Foundation Poll Shows Democrats Have Narrow Edge In PA

-- TribLive/PennLive: PA Republican Lawmakers Offer Alternative To Shapiro’s Higher Ed Plan

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Republican Lawmakers Shut Shapiro’s Higher Ed Plan, Pitch Their Own

-- Inquirer Editorial: DePasquale For Attorney General

-- PennLive - John Baer: PA Voters’ Thoughts About Biden v. Ex-President Matter More Than National Polls

-- WITF/WESA: As PA’s Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Hits A Year, Thousands Have Lost Coverage But Many Haven’t

-- AP: Consumers Would Be Notified Of AI-generated Content Under PA Legislation

-- TribLive Editorial: Anonymous Donations To Government Create Questions, And Silence Them

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[Posted: April 11, 2024]  PA Environment Digest