Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.12.24

“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]

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 9:00: Senate Republican Policy Committee hearing on orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells.  David Lawrence Convention Center, Room 405, Pittsburgh.   9:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch live.

September 17-- House Republican Policy Committee hearing on “Opportunity Lost - Bureaucracy’s Battle Against Fracking.”  Hempfield Township Building, 1132 Woodward Dr., Greensburg.  2:00 p.m.  Click Here to watch live.

September 17-- NEW. Virtual.  Center for Coalfield Justice, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Pennsylvania, Mountain Watershed Association, Environmental Health Project, and FracTracker Alliance Press Conference On One Year After The Pitt Shale Gas Development Health Impact Studies And Failure To Fulfill Essential Promises To Residents.  2:00 p.m.  Click Here for full advisory.

-- DEP Issues Violation To Apex Energy (PA) LLC For Failure To Submit List Of Fracking Chemicals For 37 Shale Gas Wells Over 6 Years In Westmoreland County  [PaEN]

-- DEP Declares 21 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Owned By Schreiner Oil & Gas Inc. Abandoned, Not Plugged In Erie, McKean Counties; 747 Violations For Conventional Well Abandonment This Year  [PaEN]  

-- Natural Resources Defense Council Blog: Fracking Loopholes Remain, With More Sick Families In Communities [Includes Pennsylvania Examples] 

-- WHYY - Susan Phillips: A President Can’t Ban Fracking In Pennsylvania

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Growing Demand For Power, But No Clean Plan For PJM Grid Operator

-- The Keystone: PA Received Over $1.08 Billion In Clean Energy Investments From Federal Inflation Reduction Act

-- Group Against Smog & Pollution Lauds Allegheny County Board Of Health Approval Of Revised Fee Schedule To Fund Air Quality Program

-- US Army Corps Of Engineers To Sign Cost Sharing Agreement On Future Use Study Of Francis E. Walter Dam Reservoir In Carbon County  [PaEN] 

-- Delaware River Basin Commission Recap Of Sept. 5 Business Meeting

-- Swatara Watershed Assn., Master Watershed Stewards Host Oct. 19 Waterways On Wheels - Swatara Rail Trail In Schuylkill County  [PaEN] 

-- Penn State Extension Hosts Oct. 17 Webinar - Adenosine Triphosphate In Algal Bloom Tracking  [PaEN] 

-- WHYY Climate Fixers: PA Flax Project Wants To Use A ‘Climate-Positive’ Plant To Transform Fashion Industry

-- MCall Guest Essay: New PA Law Ensures Students Will Remember, Understand 9/11 - By Gov. Mark Schweiker

-- WITF: Part Of Flight 93 Crashed On My Land, I Went Back To The Sacred Ground 20 Years Later

-- TribLive: For Volunteers, Flight 93 Memorial ‘Like A Phoenix Rising’

-- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council Meets Sept. 25 On Sustainability And Green Infrastructure Initiatives; Ecological, Economic Benefits Of Restoration Work  [PaEN] 

-- Times Of Chester County Guest Essay: Trails Are No Longer A Luxury, But A Must-Have In Many Communities - By Patrick Starr, PA Environmental Council 

-- Reading Eagle: Input Sought On Improvements For Recreation Area Along Schuylkill River In Southeastern Berks

-- The Allegheny Front: Citizen Help Wanted Collecting Spotted Lanternflies So Saint Vincent College Scientists Can Track Them

-- Manada Conservancy, Partners To Host Sept. 26 Climate Change & Penn's Woods; Oct. 6 Walk In Penn's Woods Events In Dauphin County  [PaEN]

-- PA Natural Heritage Program Wild Heritage News Highlights Partners & Priorities In Invasive Species Management, Aquatic Mushrooms And Much More  [PaEN]

-- PA Firefly Festival Newsletter Reflects On 2024 Firefly Festival Week; Describes Firefly Education Services And More  [PaEN] 

Train Derailments

-- Post-Gazette: Nearly 55,000 Claims Filed In Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Settlement

--WESA/AP: Norfolk Southern Fires CEO Alan Shaw For Inappropriate Relationship With An Employee

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]

-- Bloomberg: Europe At Peak LNG Gas Consumption; LNG Overcapacity Heightens Risk Of Stranded Assets, IEEFA Says

Other States/National/International

-- TribLive/AP: Wildfires In Southern California Torch Dozens Of Home, Force Thousands To Evacuate

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- TribLive Editorial: Voters Decide Who Won The Debate

-- PennLive - John Baer: Watching The Presidential Debate Makes Me Wish For Better Politics

-- KDKA: Republican Ohio Governor Debunks Claims By Ex-President, OH US Senator Immigrants Are Eating Pets In Springfield, OH

-- TribLive: Bad Blood Between USW, Nippon Steel May Have Doomed US Steel Deal From The Start, Emails Show

-- Post-Gazette: Poll: Pennsylvanians Support Taxing Wealthy To Save Social Security

-- ABC27: PA National Guard Firefighters Return From Mission In Antarctica 

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[Posted: September 12, 2024]  PA Environment Digest