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]

House next voting day April 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 39, 30

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Senate next voting day April 8, 9, 10, 29, 30

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

TODAY 10:00: House Democratic Policy Committee hearing on House Bill 905 (McNeill-D- Lehigh) providing notice of a property’s water usage increases by 50% in one month.. Lehigh Valley Health Network, 2545 Schoenersville Road, Bethlehem. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

TODAY 1:00: House Republican Policy Committee hearing on Balancing Your Budget & Thermostat- Consumer- Focused Energy Policy. US Hotel Tavern, Liberty Hall, 401 S. Juniata St., Hollidaysburg, Blair County. 1:00 p.m. Read more here on Republican Energy Package.

April 3-- House Republican Policy Committee hearing on Balancing Your Budget & Thermostat- Consumer- Focused Energy Policy. Butler County Community College - Ford City Campus, Armstrong County 10:00 a.m. Read more here on Republican Energy Package.

April 4-- Agenda Posted. DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:15 a.m. Visit the Committee webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Joseph Martini martjos@pa.gov or 717-772-5619.

-- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Seeking High School Students For Young Ambassadors Program [PaEN]

-- Pike County Conservation District: What Is Envirothon?

-- DEP, Keystone Landfill Sign Consent Order With $575,000 Penalty To Immediately Begin Mitigating Landfill Odors In Lackawanna County [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Keystone Landfill To Pay Nearly $600,000 Penalty, Undergo 26 Corrective Actions For Odors

-- Environmental Health News: Residents Fear PA, WV Chemical Plastics Recycling Proposals Will Deepen Fossil Fuel Tires, Pollution Problems

-- Central Penn Business Journal: Shapiro’s Energy Plan Draws Reactions From PA Labor, Industry Leaders

-- The Allegheny Front: PennEnergy Plan To Withdraw Water From Big Sewickley Creek In Beaver County For Fracking Revives Worry About Threatened Fish

-- KDKA: Radioactive Nuclear Waste Burial Ground In Armstrong County To Be Cleaned Up By Federal Government

-- US Senator Casey Presses Cumberland Coal Mine Owner About Impact Of Mine Closure On Miners, Families In Greene County

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Eos Electricity Storage Enterprises Wins Expansion Of Contract With Pine Gate Renewables

-- The Energy Age Blog: Electric Vehicle Charging, Solar Energy And Home Utility Costs In March

-- Inside Climate News: Kraft Heinz Faces Shareholder Vote On Its ‘Deceptive’ Recycling Labels