Saturday, October 26, 2024

Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.26.24

"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]


House Voting Schedule

-- November 12, 13 [End Of Session, All Bills Die]

-- Committee Schedule


Senate Voting Schedule

-- November 13, 14 [End Of Session, All Bills Die]

-- Committee Schedule


TODAY’s Calendar Of Events .


DEP Advisory: DEP is migrating its website to a new platform to launch in mid-December. Updates to the current site will be limited until then.


-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 26 [PaEN]


-- DEP Posted 78 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In October 26 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 


-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Down To 12, Lowest In More Than 17 Years; Community Support Drops; Big Hole In DEP Budget  [PaEN]


-- Dr. Susan L. Brantley Named A Distinguished Daughter Of Pennsylvania For Her Research On Water, Geology And The Environmental Impacts Of Natural Gas, Oil Extraction  [PaEN] 


-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 20 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In September; 232 General Permits So Far In 2024  [PaEN]  


-- Bradford Era: ‘No Help From Any Quarter’ Residents Fighting Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Cyclone, McKean County  [PDF of Article]


-- Protect PT Hosts Nov. 11 Information Session On Penn Twp. Rezoning Proposal To Allow Shale Gas Industrial Development In Rural Resources Zone In Westmoreland County 


-- DEP Extends Air Quality Permits For Temporary Operation Of Shell Petrochemical Plant; No Schedule Posted Yet For Considering Full Title V Air  Quality Permit  [PaEN] 


--  Energy Age Blog: Shell Petrochemical Complex In Beaver County Fully Operational


-- Dept. Of Agriculture, Land O'Lakes Farmer Cooperative, National Hemp Assn. Receive $40 Million In USDA Funding To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Improve Water Quality  [PaEN] 


-- Delaware River Basin Commission To Hold Nov. 6 Hearing, Dec. 5 Business Meeting  [PaEN]


-- DEP Invites Comments On Total Maximum Daily Nutrient Load Plans For Muddy Run, Union County; Deer Creek, York County  [PaEN]


-- WHYY: Real Estate Developer Aims To Control Flooding, Erosion In Chester County


-- Wall Street Journal:  Churches Look Skyward For Energy Savings [Solomon’s Church Solar Energy, Chambersburg, Franklin County]  [PDF of Article


-- US Dept. Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2 Million To Support Local Electric Grid Modernization Projects; Total Of $474 Million Awarded To States, Tribes 


-- DEP Eligible For $1.7 Million US DOE Residential Energy Audit Workforce Development Grant; $27 Million Awarded Nationally For Clean Energy Workforce Training 


-- Observer Reporter: Coal Is Surviving, But Has An Environmental Black Eye [6th Article In Series On Shale Gas]  [PDF of Article]  


-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Ex-President Has Derided Biden’s Landmark Climate Programs, Would He Ditch Hydrogen?


-- WHYY-Sophia Schmidt: Over 60? Climate Change Could Be Coming For Your Nest Egg


-- Bloomberg: Climate Activism Is No Longer A Young Person’s Game


-- City & State PA Guest Essay: The Effort To Protect Communities From PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Must Include A Way Forward For Manufacturers As Well - By Harold Epps, Senor Advisory, DSG Global


-- TribLive: 206-Year-Old Bridge A Sight To See For Visitors In Depleted Youghiogheny River Lake 


-- DCNR Urges Caution To Prevent Wildfires Amid Increased Risk Due To Dry Conditions  [PaEN] 


-- Republican Herald: No Open Burning Advisory Issued For Schuylkill County


-- Reading Eagle: Get Physical Activity While Taking In The Beauty Of Nature By Hitting Regional Trails


-- Cumberland County Master Gardeners Host Nov. 16 Wildlife Tree Ornaments Workshop For Youth  [PaEN] 


-- Lehigh Valley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Highlights November Program, Activities 


Oil & Gas - National Debate


-- S&P Global: Race For Presidency Has No Time For Old ‘King Coal’

  

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart


-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Owners Make Restart Pitch To Regulators In Maryland, While Critics Remain Skeptical Of Both


-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Owner Lays Out Reopening Timeline At Public Hearing In Maryland  


-- WNEP: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Holds Public Meeting In Maryland On Plans To Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant


-- Reuters: US Nuclear Regulator Kicks Off Review On Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart


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

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


-- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.13  Ohio- $2.84   PA- $3.34


-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Down To 12, Lowest In More Than 17 Years; Community Support Drops; Big Hole In DEP Budget  [PaEN]


-- Reuters: Blackstone Private Equity Firm  In Talks To Buy US Natural Gas Pipeline Stakes From EQT For $3.5 Billion, Sources Say


Other States/National/International


-- Inside Climate News: How Fracking Technology Could Drive Clean Geothermal Energy Boom For Heat Instead Of Oil, Gas


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- AP: Lancaster County Says 2,500 Voter Registrations Being Investigated For Possible Fraud 

-- York Daily Record: York County Investigating Large Delivery Of Voter Registration Forms, Mail-In Ballot Requests From A Third Party

-- TribLive/AP: Nuns Push Back After Republican Political Activist Casts Doubt On Their Pennsylvania Voting Registration In Erie County 

-- AP: FBI: Russian Actors Made Fake Video Depicting Mail-In Ballots For Ex-President Being Destroyed In Bucks County 

-- PA Capital-Star: Republicans Ask PA Supreme Court To Stay Ruling Allowing Provisional Voting In Mail-In Ballots Case

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Republican Congressmen Allege PA’s Military Ballot Rules Violate Federal Law [Republic Con. Scott Perry]

-- York Dispatch: Republican Con. Scott Perry Qualified For Military voting Program He’s Now Challenging

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Our Elections Are Safe And Secure, So Vote With Confidence - By Fmr. Gov. Tom Corbett, Fmr Cong. Conor Lamb

-- Post-Gazette: Fmr Republican Cong. Charlie Dent, Others Discuss Election Certification Challenges

-- Reading Eagle: How Latino Voters In Allentown, Reading Will Decide PA Election

-- Post-Gazette: Steelworkers Boss Vows 13-Day Blitz To Lobby Against Nippon Buying US Steel

-- WESA: Pittsburgh Police Chief Retires After Basketball Refereeing Controversy

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[Posted: October 26, 2024]  PA Environment Digest

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