Saturday, November 23, 2024

Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.23.24

“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

[End Of Session, All Bills Die]

January 7  New Session

-- Committee Schedule


Senate Voting Schedule

[End Of Session, All Bills Die]

January 7, 27, 28, 29

Budget Hearings February 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, March 4, 5,  6.

February 3, 4, 5

March 24, 25, 26, 31

April 1, 2

May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13

June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

-- 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.


December 5--  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 about agenda.


-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 23 [PaEN]


-- DEP Posted 60 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In November 23 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 


-- DEP So Far In 2024:  6,907 Violations Issued To Owners Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - 153% More Than In 2021;  830 Violations For Abandoning Their Wells -- Exceeding All Of 2023  [PaEN] 


-- DEP Prints Corrected Notice Inviting Comments On New Air Pollution Permit For Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant In Washington County; Plant Suffered Major Explosion, Fire In 2022  [PaEN] 


-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 12 On New Fee Schedule; Water Withdrawals, Including 4 Shale Gas; New General Permit For Into-Basin Diversions  [PaEN] 


-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved 42 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In October; 274 General Permits So Far In 2024  [PaEN] 


-- The Allegheny Front: Fairmont, WV Residents Press Agencies On Explosion, Fire At Oil & Gas Waste Processing Site Last Year Owned By PA Company 


-- DCNR Speeds Up Endangered, Threatened Species Environmental Permit Review Times, ATV Permitting, Ginseng Certification  [PaEN] 


-- DEP Publishes Updated Non-Regulatory Agenda Showing Technical Guidance Documents In Development  [PaEN]  


-- DEP Awards $2.55 Million In Federal Funding To Support 5 Local Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects   [PaEN]


-- TribLive: Major DEP Abandoned Mine Subsidence Report Project Set For Belle Vernon Area Impacting 230 Properties In Westmoreland County 


-- Fish & Boat Commission Accepting Application For Stream Habitat Improvement Projects In Lancaster, York Counties  [PaEN] 


-- Delaware River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 5 To Consider Resolution To Preserve And Protect Water Supplies During Persistent Dry Conditions  [PaEN] 


-- MCall: How Recent Rains Impacted Lehigh Valley’s River, Drought Status


-- Post-Gazette: Despite Drought, Christmas Tree Crop And Prices Holding Steady In PA


-- PennLive: From PA’s Christmas Tree Mega-Auction, Here’s What Buyers Can Expect To Pay This Season


-- The Derrick: Aqua Pennsylvania Lifts Boil-Water Advisory For Fryburg Water Customers In Place For Six Days [One Of The Companies Involved In Venango County Conventional Well Spill Incident]


-- Spotlight PA: Penn State Will Pay More Than $564,000 For Cleanup After Investigation Into Drinking Water Contaminated With PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’


-- PennLive: Chloronitramide In Drinking Water Could Be Toxic


-- PA Resources Council Spearheading Effort To Establish Permanent Recycling Center In Allegheny County; Asking Public To Sign Support Letter  [PaEN] 


-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: A Better Answer For Pittsburgh’s Trash - By Adriana Ramirez, Pittsburgh Council Member


-- The Allegheny Front/WHYY: So Beautiful But So Terrible: Philly Exhibit Traces The Ecology Of Fashion


-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Empathy Brings Hope For Sustainability - By Mac Dawson, Nature Educator


-- PA Dept. Of Agriculture Issues Firewood Quarantine Order For Firewood From Outside The State Or Traveling Through The State Unless Heat-Treated To Prevent The Spread Of Invasive Species  [PaEN]


-- DCNR Lifts Open Burn Ban In State Parks, Forests 


-- Game Commission Lifts State Game Lands Campfire Ban


-- LancasterOnline - Ad Crable: Canoeing, Kayaking Surge In Lancaster County; Here’s How To Keep Paddlers Safe


-- Vote Now! For PA Parks & Forests Foundation People’s Choice Photo Contest Award  [PaEN] 


-- Nov. 22 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]


-- PennLive: Ex-Marketing Director Of Susquehanna River Valley Visitors Bureau Accused Of Stealing $870,000


The Feds - New Administration


-- ABC27/AP: Republican Administration Gave Interior Nominee One Directive For US Land - ‘Drill’


Gas Explosions


-- WTAE: Residents Smelled Natural Gas Prior To Explosion At Allegheny County Apartment


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- $3.05  Ohio- $2.86  PA- $3.24


-- Baker Hughes: No Change In PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs From Last Week - 15; Aug. 23- 21


-- Institute For Energy Economics & Financial Analysis: New Fortress Energy, Leader Of LNG Gas Export Growth Bubble, Facing Bankruptcy [Proposed Building Facilities In PA] 


-- Bloomberg: Europe’s Natural Gas Storage Being Emptied Faster Than Usual, Gas Prices Surged Raising Echoes Of 2022 Shock


Other States/National/International


-- Reuters: How Big Fossil Fuel Producing Countries Export Emissions Abroad


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Spotlight PA: PA Calls Off Recount In US Senate Race After Casey Concedes To McCormick

-- WITF:With Recount Canceled, Counties Move To Finalize Election Results

-- Gov. Shapiro: PA Secretary Of Education Dr. Khalid Mumin To Resign Dec. 6; Angela Fitterer Named Interim Acting Secretary 

-- AP: Shapiro Taps Federal Highway Funding To Help Philadelphia Transit System

-- Liquor Control Board: Darrell Clarke Named Chairman Of Liquor Control Board

-- PennLive: Shapiro Picks Ex-Philly Councilman To Head PA Liquor Control Board

-- WESA: Pittsburgh Efforts To Regulate Firearms Likely Dead After PA Supreme Court Ruling

-- Tribune-Democrat/CNHI: Report: PA Still Among States With Highest Count Of Kids Without Health Insurance

-- TribLive Editorial: Are There Any Guarantees With Nippon Steel Purchase Of US Steel?

-- TribLive: 17-Year-Old Boy Charged 2nd Time For Threats Targeting Chartiers Valley School District, Police Say

-- Post-Gazette: University Of Pittsburgh Graduate Students Vote To Unionize

-- PennLive: Susquehanna University Settles Lawsuit Over Pandemic Shutdown For $675,000

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[Posted:  November 23, 2024]  PA Environment Digest

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