PA Environment Digest Blog: Thursday 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

TODAY 9:30: Agenda Posted. DEP Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:30 a.m. Visit the Board webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Daniel E. Snowden, D.Ed., dsnowden@pa.gov or by telephone at 717-787-5103. [Note: Update on investing new federal mine reclamation funds.]

TODAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. House Republican Policy Committee hearing on road dumping oil and gas wastewater. [hosted by Rep. Lee James (R-Venango)] Drake Well Museum & Park, 202 Museum Lane, Titusville. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online. [Read the real story here]

-- Grist - Jake Bolster: Road Dumping Returns: How Pennsylvania’s Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Quietly Dumped Waste Across The State

July 26-- Virtual. State Museum Of PA Webinar: Pennsylvania Caves - Time Capsules Of The Past Featuring Rose-Anna Behr, PA Geological Survey. 12:15 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.

-- No One Warned A Cameron County Family Their Water Well Was Contaminated By A Seneca Resources Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Rupture [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: EQT Natural Gas’ Toby Rice On Presidential Politics: ‘Time To Hold Leaders Accountable’ [EQT, PA Shale Gas Says We Have A ‘Duty’ To Sell More Gas To China Our Economic, Military Competitor ]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: What EQT Gas Will Do With Its Newly Acquired Mountain Valley Pipeline

-- House Committee To Hold 2nd Hearing July 29 On Governor’s Energy Plan To Diversify Energy Generation, Improve Grid Reliability, Lower Consumer Energy Costs [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: PA House Hearing On Coal’s Future Holds Hearing Underground

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Pennsylvania Could Be A Lithium Goldmine, If The Tech Catches Up [Oil & Gas Wastewater]

-- StateImpactPA: Harley-Davidson In York Gets $89 Million In Federal Funding To Boost E-Motorcycle Production

-- State Conservation Commission Starts Accepting Resource Enhancement & Protection Farm Conservation Tax Credit Applications Aug. 1 [PaEN]

-- Shade Creek Watershed Assn. Celebrates 25th Anniversary Sept. 21 In Somerset County [PaEN]

-- MCall: Residents Urge DEP To Deny Lehigh County Warehouse Proposal

-- Spotlight PA: Public Water System Privatization On The Rise In PA, Here’s What You Need To Know

-- Scranton Times: DEP OKs PCB Waste For Alliance Landfill In Lackawanna County