Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.29.24

“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 July 1

-- Committee Schedule

Senate next voting day July 1,  September 16, 17, 18, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 29 [PaEN] 

-- DEP Posted 81 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In June 29 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- DEP Soliciting Bids For Plugging 20 Conventional, Abandoned Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells Owned By Pennzoil In The Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawals, Including 7 More For Shale Gas Development In June; Total Of 15 In 2024  [PaEN] 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 33 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In May; 133 General Permits In 2024  [PaEN] 

-- Request For Presentation Proposals: Ohio River Basin Alliance Summit Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 At University Of Pittsburgh  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Revised Oil & Gas Erosion & Sediment Control General Permit (ESCGP-4)  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permits For Installation Of A 5.8 Million Gallon Gasoline/Naphtha Storage Tank At The United Refining Company Refinery In Warren, PA  [PaEN]

-- Comments Invited By DEP On Renewal Of Air Quality Permit For American Refining Group Facility In Bradford, McKean County  [PaEN]

-- US Dept. Of Energy Awards Funding For Projects Repurposing Existing Energy Facilities, Including 4 In PA Promoting Reuse Of Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Mine Pools, Abandoned Mine Lands  [PaEN]

-- Evangelical Environmental Network Action: Celebrates PA House Passage Of Legislation To Strengthen PA Energy Development Authority

-- Utility Dive: Talen Energy Defends Amazon Interconnection Agreement At Nuclear Plant

-- Post-Gazette: Alcoa Says More Program Being Made On Technology To Eliminate All Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Smelting Process

-- The Allegheny Front - Lauren Myers: Pollution Risks From Gas Stoves Are Greater In Small Homes

-- Scranton Times: PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In Lackawanna, Luzerne County School Water Supplies 

-- PennLive: Clinton County Meat Processor Has Beef With DEP Over Wastewater Treatment Project

-- TribLive: Leechburg Homeowner Embraces A ‘No-Mow’ Lifestyle In Armstrong County 

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: New Sharpsburg Riverside Development Will Be A Model For The Region 

-- June 28 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Bushy Run Battlefield Now Part Of National Old-Growth Forest Network In Westmoreland 

-- PA Wilds Center: 2 New PA Wilds Conservation Shops Open In Forest, Tioga Counties

-- Juniata College Raystown Field Station: Aug. 10-11 Leave No Trace Level 1 Instructor Course 

Train Derailments

-- Post-Gazette: Group Rebuts EPA’s Claims About Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Response, Calls For ‘Thorough’ Investigation

 

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

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

-- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA- $3.64  National- $3.50   Ohio- $3.56

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Regs - 21, Same As Last Week

Other States/National/International

-- TribLive/AP: US Miners’ Union Head: Republican Effort To Block Silica Dust Rule ‘Attack’ On Workers

-- NRDC Blog: The US Supreme Court Ends Chevron Deference For Federal Agencies - What Now? 

-- PennFuture: Statement On US Supreme Court Overturning Chevron Doctrine

-- The Energy Age Blog: US Supreme Court Guts Federal Environmental Protections

-- WPost: What The US Supreme Court Chevron Decision Means For Environmental Rules

-- AP: US Supreme Court Weakens Federal Regulators, Overturning Decades-Old Chevron Decision

-- The Guardian: US Supreme Court Puts Hold On EPA Attempt To Reduce Pollution That Drifts Across States

-- The Guardian: Colorado Oil & Gas Wells Can’t Fund Their Own Cleanup, Taxpayers May Foot The Bill

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

--  Spotlight PA: Private School Vouchers May Make It Into PA’s Budget, What Would They Really Do?

-- MCall Guest Essay: House Democrats’ Proposed Education Fix Won’t Do Anything To Reduce Property Taxes - By Property Tax Elimination Working Group

-- TribLive: Regulations On Pharmacy Benefit Managers Pass PA House, Head To Senate

-- Post-Gazette: 2 Big PA Nursing Home Owners Owe State $10.1 Million, Union Says

-- Post-Gazette: US Government Objects To Sale Of Pittsburgh-Area Nursing Homes

-- PA Capital-Star: Gov. Shapiro Comes To Biden’s Defense Following ‘Bad Debate’

-- TribLive: Western PA Democratic Delegates Stick With Biden, But Case Debate Performance As ‘Wake-up Call’

-- Inquirer: Panicked PA Democrats Launch Into Cleanup Mode After Biden’s Bad Debate Night

-- City & State PA: PA Pols’ Reax To The Presidential Debate

-- Post-Gazette: Concern, Not Panic, For Bob Casey In PA US Senate Race After Biden Debate Performance

-- PoliticsPA: PA US Senate Candidate Hints Cabinet Should Consider 25th Amendment For Biden

-- TribLive Editorial: Was Presidential Debate The Worst Ever?

-- PennLive: Republican Con. Scott Perry Campaign Shares, Then Deletes, Antisemitic Meme On Social Media

-- PA Capital-Star: US Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Fmr PA Police Officer Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On US Capitol

-- AP: US Supreme Court Makes It Harder To Charge Participants In Assault On US Capitol With Obstruction Crimes

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[Posted: June 29, 2024]  PA Environment Digest