PA Environment Digest Blog: Friday 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 9:00: In-Person. DCNR Host Meeting For Prospective Vendors At Catawissa Motorized Recreation Area In Luzerne, Schuylkill Counties. Weiser State Forest District Office, 16 Weiser Lane in Aristes, PA. 9:00 a.m. to Noon

-- Eureka Resources Shuts Down Standing Stone Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility; DEP Wastewater, Waste Violations Continued From Feb. 2023 [PaEN]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Eureka Resources Plans To Close/Sell 2 Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Plants In Williamsport: Not Enough Wastewater Volume To Keep Plants Open [PaEN]

-- Eureka Resources Request To Terminate Its Water Quality Permit For A Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility In Dimock, Susquehanna County Approved By DEP [PaEN]

-- Insurance Dept. Urges Insurance Companies To Use Flexibility In Premium Due Dates, Extend Grace Periods And Waive Late Fees And Penalties [PaEN]

-- Tribune-Democrat: Repairs Begin On Ghost Town Trail Sections Damaged By Hurricane Debbie

-- WNEP: Clean Up Continues In Lackawanna County After Flash Flooding

-- Williamsport Sun Guest Essay: A New Age Of Flooding - By Tim Palmer, Author Of Seek Higher Ground, The Natural Solution To Our Urgent Flooding Crisis

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Brookside Levee Project Set To Begin Tuesday

-- TribLive: RiverLife Has Been Caring For Pittsburgh’s Waterways For 25 Years

-- Competitive Power Ventures Begins Construction Of Third Renewable Energy Project Using Abandoned Mine Land In PA [PaEN]

-- Save the Date! PA Solar Center: Eastern PA Sunset Soiree & Awards Program Sept. 26 In Philadelphia

-- Natural Resources Defense Council Blog: PJM’s Spike In Electric Prices Due To Natural Gas Un-Reliability And PJM’s Failure To Connect New Clean Energy Generation - By Claire Lang-Ree, NRDC

-- DelawareValleyJournal: PJM Pays 700% More To Buy Electricity, Warns Price Hikes Will Follow

-- Reading Eagle: Cumru Twp. Looks To Develop Land Near Closed Coal-Fired Titus Station Power Plant

-- DEP Environmental Justice News: Update On EJ Policy Implementation; Staffing; And More!

-- PennLive: $450 Million State Labs Complex To Be Built On Former Harrisburg State Hospital Grounds [Agriculture, DCNR, DEP, Health, State Police]

-- Dept. Of General Services Unveils Final Joint Laboratory Plans For Former Harrisburg State Hospital Property

-- August 24 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available

-- PUC OKs Implementation Of PaPUC Forward Strategic Plan Centered On Professional Development, Process Excellence, Enhanced Consumer Education [PaEN]