Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.14.24

“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 June 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

-- Committee Schedule

Senate next voting day June 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

June 17-- NEW. House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee hearing on Hydrogen Hubs and Climate Change.  Room G-50 Irvis Building. 10:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch live.

-- DEP Issues Code Orange Air Quality Act Day For Friday, June 14 For Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery Counties and Philadelphia 

-- DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Must Be In Compliance With PA Environmental Laws & Regulations To Be Eligible For New Federally-Funded Well Plugging Grants  [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA House Effort Seeks To Ban Spreading Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater On Roads 

-- The Guardian: Rare Cancers, Full-Body Rashes, Death: Did Fracking Make Their Kids Sick?  [Pennsylvania] 

-- Marcellus Drilling News: PA DEP Customer Service Advisory Council Has No Customers On It

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Update On PA Oil & Gas Subsurface Trespass Cases, Good News For Mineral Rights Owners 

-- DEP Issues Revised Air Quality General Permit For Coal Mine Methane Enclosed Flares

-- DEP To Hold July 15 & 16 Hearings On Phasing Out Stage II Gasoline Vapor Recovery Systems

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Federal Rules Put PA’s Hydrogen Future At Risk - By PA Chamber Of Business & Industry

-- Penn State Students Learn Best Practices During High-Performance Building Summer Camp In Pittsburgh  [PaEN] 

-- WHYY/AP: Unsecured Tanker Truck Hatch Spilled Out Gasoline In crash That Destroyed I-95 Bridge In Philly

-- PUC Approves 69% Rate Increase For Small Natural Gas Distribution Utility In Jefferson County 

-- PUC Collaborates With Dept. Of Human Services For LIHEAP Data Sharing To Increase Customer Program Efficiencies And Enrollment

-- TribLive: Heat Wave Headed To Western Pennsylvania 

-- TribLive: Heat Wave Forces Shift In Spending Priorities As Household Energy Costs Jump  

-- TribLive: Experts Advise Against Cranking Down AC During High Heat

-- Delaware River Basin Commission To Develop Its First Climate Resilience Plan; Adopts Amendments To Practice, Procedures Rules  [PaEN]

-- Delaware RiverKeeper June 14 RiverWatch Video Report

-- WHYY: Water Privatization Has Led To Rate Hikes, PA Regulators Now Adding Oversight To Help Keep Bills From Rising

-- WTAE: Monaca Boro Under Precautionary Boil Water Advisory

-- Reading Eagle: EPA Begins Removing Hazardous Materials From Fire-Damaged Factory In Reading

-- June 15 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available

-- MCall: 3 More Lehigh Valley Farms Saved From Development Under State Farmland Preservation Program

-- DCNR Forests For All Strategic Plan Online Town Hall Meeting Available On Demand

-- DCNR Holds Aug. 7 Hearing On Wild Resource Conservation Grant Applications

-- Help Wanted: Pittsburgh-based Landforce Green Infrastructure Job Training Program

-- South Mountain Partnership Flex Grants Applications Are Due June 28

-- DCNR Blog: Parks, Forests, Trails Help Make Pennsylvania - The Great American Getaway

-- DCNR Joins Lower Paxton Twp. To Celebrate New Inclusive Playground In Dauphin County

-- PennLive: Inclusive Playground, Picnic Plaza Opens In Dauphin County Park

-- Reading Eagle: Schuylkill River Sojourn Launches Saturday

-- TribLive: West Penn Power Volunteers Participate In 10th Build-A-Bike Program

-- Game Commission Announces Chronic Wasting Disease Changes For 2024-25 Hunting Seasons

-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: PA Deer Hunters To See Larger Chronic Wasting Disease Management Areas This Year  

Train Derailments

-- AP: Toxic Garlic Should Have Prompted EPA To Warn Against Gardening Near Site Of Norfolk Southern Train Derailment, Watchdog Says

-- Post-Gazette: NTSB To Release Findings On Norfolk Southern Train Derailment June 25

 

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

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

-- Bloomberg: LNG Gas Markets Brace For Price Spikes During Turbulent Summer

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- WESA: Fundraising In PA State Senate, House Races Point To A Dogfight In The General Election

-- WESA: ACLU Sues Pennsylvania, Demands More Resources For Public Defenders Statewide

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Republicans Rally Against Statehood For Puerto Rico, Except When Courting Latino Voters

-- AP: Biden Campaign Calls On Republicans To Drop Lawsuits Over Mail-In Ballots, Citing Ex-President’s New Fondness For It

-- Post-Gazette: Pitt Protesters’ Demands On Divestment, Israeli Student Groups Are Part Of National Pro-Palestinian Movement

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Private Equity And Nursing Homes Are A Match Made In Hell

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[Posted: June 14, 2024]  PA Environment Digest