PA Environment Digest Blog: Saturday 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]

Senate Fall Voting Schedule

-- September 16, 17, 18, 30

-- October 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 21, 22, 23

-- November 13, 14

-- Committee Schedule

House Fall Voting Schedule

-- September 23, 24, 25, 30

-- October 1, 2, 21, 22, 23

-- November 12, 13

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

ADVISORY: Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips Will Be Available After 1:00 p.m.

July 29-- NEW. House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee holds hearing on House Bill 2277 (Otten-D-Chester), the PA Reliable Energy Sustainability Standard (PRESS) is the Governor’s Energy Plan that would diversify energy generation, improve grid reliability, lower consumer costs by avoiding energy price spikes and create energy-related jobs. Room G-50 of the Irvis Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch live online. Read more here.

August 15-- NEW. DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. 10:00 a.m. Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov.

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 27 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 74 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 27 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 22 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In June; 155 General Permits In 2024 [PaEN]

-- MotherJones.com: Frackers Are Spraying Toxic Wastewater On Pennsylvania Roads Despite Ban

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Fight Over Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater Is A Rural-Urban Tension [They Now Dump More On Paved Roads; Road Dumping Is Waste Disposal - This Is 2024, Not 1859]

-- NonProfitQuarterly.org - Justin Nobel: Is Radioactivity The Key To Holding The Fracking Industry Accountable? [Bryan Latkanich Case In Washington County]

-- Altoona Mirror: PUC Files Complaint: Peoples Natural Gas Accused Of 22 Safety Violations, $800,000 Fine Proposed In 2021 Tyrone Explosion

-- DEP Requiring Any Facility Operating Under A Temporary Title V Air Plan Approval For More Than 12 Months To Submit a Title V Operating Permit On Or Before Nov. 25, 2024 [PaEN]

-- DEP To Hold Aug. 28 Hearing On Water Quality Permit For Rustic Ridge Ridge #1 Coal Mine 1,452 Acre Expansion In Fayette, Westmoreland Counties [PaEN]

-- DEP Sets Aug. 29 Hearing On Stormwater Permit For Blue Ridge Real Estate’s Proposed Truck Terminal, Warehouse In Kidder Twp., Carbon County [PaEN]

-- Courier Times: Bucks County Twp. Denies Warehouse Permit What The Developer Plans Next

-- Watershed Alliance Of York, Partners Host 22nd Annual Watershed Week Sept. 21 - 27 [PaEN]

-- Patch.com: Students Team Up With Bucks Beautiful To Enhance Buckingham Wetlands

-- Scranton Times: Keystone Landfill Withdraws Applications To Discharge Treated Leachate Into Stream, Plans To Reapply

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front: Report: Chemical Recycling Of Plastic Won’t Benefit The Ohio Valley

-- York Daily Record: Contaminated Foundry Site In Adams County Gets Grant, Loans To Be Rehabilitated

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: How Western PA’s Industrial Sector Can Tap Into $396 Million In Federal Climate Funding Received By DEP