Thursday, June 6, 2024

Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.6.24

“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 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

-- Committee Schedule

Senate next voting day June10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

-- Committee Schedule


TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


June 10-- NEW. House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee hearing on Road Dumping Oil & Gas Waste and House Bill 2384 (Vitali-D-Delaware) banning road dumping oil and gas wastewater.  Room G-50 Irvis Building.  10:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch onlineRead more here.


June 11-- NEW. House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee holds voting meeting on House Bill 2384 (Vitali-D-Delaware) banning road dumping oil and gas wastewater; House Bill 2238 (Scott-D-Montgomery) banning certain common consumer products from containing PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals.’  Room 205 Ryan Building.  10:00 a.m. Read more here.


-- House Environmental Committee Hearing On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater Set For June 10; A Voting Meeting On Bill To Ban Road Dumping June 11  [PaEN]


-- Center For Coalfield Justice: Cause Of Omnis Bailey Coal Waste Processing Plant Fire In Greene County Unknown  [PaEN] 


-- Clean Air Council: US Steel Complying With Lawsuit Settlement To Reduce Harmful Air Pollution At Clairton Coke [Coal] Works  [PaEN] 


-- KDKA: Battery 15 At US Steel Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Permanently Shut Down


-- Post-Gazette: This Year’s Annual Congressional Baseball Game Brought To You By US Steel


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Natural Gas Drilling Drops In First Quarter In Pennsylvania


-- KDKA: Residents And Research Say Shell Petrochemical Plant A Bust, Fell Short Of Economic Promises


-- Politico: Shell CEO Says Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act Working To Attract Capital To Clean Energy, Climate Projects


-- Bloomberg: Shell CEO Warns Of Risk From Volatile LNG Gas Export Policy In DC Visit


-- Delaware Valley Journal Guest Essay: PA Leaders - LNG Gas Expansion isn’t Partisan, It’s Smart - By Taylor Millard


-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: New Report - Extreme Rainfall In Pennsylvania To Increase  [PaEN] 


-- TribLive: Export Officials On Board With $5 -$10 Million Turtle Creek Remediation Project In Westmoreland 


-- Lancaster Conservancy, Many Partners: Lancaster Water Week - June 7-15 


-- Senators Yaw, Martin Introduce Resolution Designating June 2-8 Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week In PA


-- Reminder: DEP To Host June 20 Hearing On Proposed Monroe County Warehouse Project  [PaEN]  


-- PennLive: Push By PA Lawmakers For Denser Housing Could Have Big Impact In Harrisburg And Beyond


-- Landforce Pittsburgh Opens Crew Member Job Training Application Period June 10


-- Keep PA Beautiful’s Young Ambassadors of Pennsylvania Program Graduates The Class Of 2024; Applications Now Being Accepted  [PaEN]


-- Keep PA Beautiful Newsletter: Summit For Community Stewardship Oct. 16-17; Healing Planet Tree Planting Grants; 250 PA Day


-- WHYY: Montgomery County Officials Say Unused Dam Along The Schuylkill In Norristown Could Provide Green Energy For The County


-- Reuters: US May Revive Some Shut Nuclear Plants To Help Meet Emissions Goal, DOE Chief Says [Three Mile Island In PA]   


-- Beaver County Times: Dept. Of Health Giving Out New Potassium Iodide Tablets For Free June 12


-- Tribune-Democrat: Coal Miners’ Memorial Weekend June 13-16 Will Celebrate Windber’s Heritage


-- News-Item: Former Glen Burn Colliery Mine Transport Shuttle Installed At Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area In Northumberland County


-- Scranton Times: Finding New Life For Coal Mining Relics In Archbald


-- Planet Philadelphia: June 7: Radioactivity Exposure From Your Gas Stove? And Successful Campaign Stopped A Plastics Chemical Recycling Plant


-- NextPittsburgh: Celebrate The Trails This Weekend At Great Day On The Great Allegheny Passage Trail 


-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Push For Local Tourism Districts Advance In PA House


-- Republican Herald: Woodland Stewardship Committee Of Schuylkill County Conservancy To Connect Landowners In Schuylkill County 


-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Will Fireflies Fade From Summer Nights?


-- Penn State Extension Spotted Lanternfly News: How To Prevent Spread; To Treat Or Not To Treat; Training For Businesses


-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Porcupines Expanding To New Parts Of Pennsylvania


Train Derailments


-- Inside Climate News: Ohio, PA Residents Affected By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Say Their ‘Basic Needs’ Are Still Not Being Met


-- PA Senate Approves Mastriano, Vogel, Brooks Bill To Let Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Victims Keep More Money


-- AP: IRS Decides People Who Get Money From Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Won’t Be Taxed On It

 

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Wilkes-Barre Times Guest Essay: Republicans Continue To Wage War On Mail-In Votes In Pennsylvania

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Senate Passes Bill To Expand Places To Buy ‘Canned Cocktails’ To Go

-- AP: Republican US House Speaker Appoints PA’s Con. Scott Perry To Intelligence Committee

-- PennLive: Poll Shows Republican Con. Perry, Stelson In Statistical Tie

-- Franklin & Marshall Poll Results: Perry vs Stelson Congressional Race

-- WNEP: Four Pennsylvania Men Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On US Capitol

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley NASCAR Driver, Son Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On US Capitol

-- Post-Gazette: This Year’s Annual Congressional Baseball Game Brought To You By US Steel

-- TribLive: Shapiro, Pitt Chancellor Give Vastly Different Takes On Pro-Palestinian Encampment Than Protest’s Leaders

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[Posted: June 6, 2024]  PA Environment Digest

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