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 May 21, 22, June 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

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Senate next voting day June 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

TODAY 10:00: House Tourism, Economic And Recreational Development Committee holds an informational meeting to introduce Nathan Reigner, Director Of The Office Of Outdoor Recreation updating the Committee on the work done over the last year. Room 140. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

TODAY 10:00: House Housing And Community Development Committee meets to consider House Bill 1179 (Borowski-D-Delaware) prohibiting bans of outdoor clotheslines and drying racks. Room 523. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

May 22-- House Local Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 1442 (Borowski-D-Delaware) amending the Third Class City Water Services Act to require 75% of municipalities they service to approve the sale of their water, sewer or other authority. Room 205 Ryan Building. 9:30 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

-- Damascus Citizens: Do You Live In An Oil & Gas Wastewater Disposal Facility? Public Roads In 84 Municipalities In PA, One County In NY Are Being Used As Disposal Areas For Wastewater [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Many West Deer Residents Calling For More Stringent Regulations On Shale Gas Drilling In Allegheny County

-- The Energy Age Blog: Federal Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Exemption History

-- PennLive: 2 Men Charged With Stealing Drilling Rig From Union County Company Then Exporting It [Company Sells Water, Oil & Gas Rigs]

-- Observer-Reporter: Fire Destroys Coal Waste Processing Facility At Consol’s Bailey Mine Complex

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: No Injuries Reported In Fire At Coal Waste Refinery

-- WPXI: Chemical Fire At Consol Energy Plant In Washington County Causes Roof To Cave In

-- Consol Energy Coal Shipments Resume From Baltimore Harbor

-- City & State PA Guest Essay: DEP Needs To Be Protected From Underfunding, Understaffing - By Rep. Vitali, Majority Chair House Environmental Committee

-- PennLive: Wilsbach Distributors In Dauphin County Receives USDA Rural Energy For America Grant For Solar Energy Facility

-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants [PaEN]

-- 10th Annual PA Renewables Summit Set For June 3-4 In Harrisburg [PaEN]

-- PJM Interconnection Advances To Next Phase Of Evaluating New Energy Generation Projects

-- TribLive: Heat Forces 39 Pittsburgh Public Schools To Move To Remote Learning

-- EPA Announces $16 Million In Brownfield Grants To Rehabilitate, Revitalize Communities In Pennsylvania [PaEN]

-- Tribune-Democrat: EPA Awards Cresson Twp. Funding For Former Cresson Ridge Industrial Site

-- WHYY: Cleanup Of Former Oil Terminal Near Bartram’s Garden Gets Boost With EPA Funds

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Dead Fish, Spoiled Milk And Human Waste: Food-Waste Fertilizers Turn Up Noses

-- WESA: Allegheny County’s Clean Air Fund Could Do More To Fight Pollution, Controller Argues

-- Inside Climate News: How Midwest States Are Preparing For Smoke-Filled Summer From Canadian Wildfires

-- WESA: Mount Washington Landslide Mitigation Begins As Climate Challenges Increase