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 (non-voting), 24 (non-voting), 25 (non-voting), 30

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

-- November 12, 13

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

TODAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Check the Board webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Todd Wallace at twallace@pa.gov or by telephone at 717-783-6395. Read more here on the agenda.

September 10-- Agenda Posted. Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00 a.m. Visit the Board webpage for options for joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Laura Griffin, Regulatory Coordinator, laurgriffi@pa.gov, (717) 772-3277. (formal notice) Read more here on the agenda.

September 10-- Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 12:30 p.m. Visit the Council webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Ian Irvin, Executive Director, iirvin@pa.gov. Read more here on the agenda.

-- Source Of 19-Day-Old Oil Discharge Into Allegheny River In Venango County Still A Mystery; Recreators Asked To Avoid The Area [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: PA To Receive $76 Million To Plug Hundreds Of Abandoned Conventional Oil, Gas Wells; DEP Holds Workshops On New Plugging Grants

-- Clean Air Advocates File Lawsuit Against EPA To Reduce Hazardous Air Pollutants From Steel Industry Coke [Coal] Oven Plants [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: US Steel CEO Warns Company Would Close Mon Valley Works, Clairton Coke [Coal] Works, Thomson Works, Irvin Plant, Pittsburgh HQ If Nippon Steel Deal Falls Through

-- The Center Square: Without Nippon Deal, US Steel Will Leave Pittsburgh

-- Financial Times: Biden Set To Block Nippon Steel’s Takeover Of US Steel, Transaction Poses A National Security Risk

-- Utility Dive: Reregulation? How Utilities And States Are Responding To PJM’s Record Electricity Capacity Prices [Part 1 of 3]

-- PUC Awarded $4.6 Million DOE Grant To Improve Siting Process For High-Voltage Electric Transmission Lines [PaEN]

-- StateImpactPA: Franklin County Transource High-Voltage Power Line Project: How Did We Get Here?

-- PennDOT Invites Public To Comment On Plan For Expanded Electric Vehicle Charging Support, Funding Distribution [PaEN]

-- Green Building Alliance Awarded $1.48 Million Federal Grant To Launch Green Pathways Workforce Initiative In Southwest PA [PaEN]

-- WTAJ: PA Man Pleads Guilty To Defrauding $2 Million From Investors In Green Energy Scheme