Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.19.24

“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  New Session

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events .

TODAY 9:00:  Agenda Posted. DEP Laboratory Accreditation Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  9:00 a.m.  Check the Committee webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely.  Contact: Annmarie Beach at anbeach@pa.gov or (717) 346-8212.  (formal notice)  [Note: Testing biosolids, drinking water, clean water for PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ on the agenda.]

TODAY 1:30: Delaware River Basin Commission Hearing On Declaring A Water Supply Emergency.  1:30 p.m.

November 20-- Agenda Posted.  DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Contact: Nicole Faraguna 717-346-7636 or nfaraguna@pa.gov.   (formal notice)  Read more on agenda.

-- Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Update: Industrial Shale Gas Development In Tioga State Forest Prioritizes Industry Profit Over Constitutional Mandate To Preserve, Protect State Forest Lands  [PaEN] 

-- DEP: Some Guidance Now Available To Apply For $396 Million In RISE PA Industrial Decarbonization Grants; Application Period Opens Early In 2025  [PaEN]   

-- TribLive Guest Essay: My School District Saved Over A Million Dollars In Energy Costs By Going Solar, With Solar For Schools Your District Could Be Next - By Carlisle Area School District 

-- Altoona Mirror: Central Cambria School District Considering Solar Energy To Save Up to $500,000 Over Next 25 Years

-- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. 20 Webinar On Clean School Buses Funding For Pennsylvania, Noon to 1:00 p.m.

-- WHYY: Philly Launches Flood Alerts For Eastwick Neighborhood: ‘A Long Time Coming’

-- Citizens Voice: Drought Has Susquehanna River At Exceedingly Low Levels 

-- WNEP: Aqua Pennsylvania Issues Mandatory Water Conservation Notice In Northumberland, Columbia, Schuylkill Counties 

-- WNEP: Drought Impacts Lake At Beltzville State Park In Carbon County

-- KYW: Officials Eyeing Delaware River Salt Levels As Philly-Area Drought Worsens

-- New York Governor Declares 15 Counties In Drought Warning, Drought Watch Statewide

-- Appalachian Voices: Statement On Request For $98 Billion In Federal Disaster Funding 

-- WNEP: PA American Water Finishes Dredging Silt Released From Dam Rehab Project Into Roaring Brook 

-- Scranton Times: PA American Water Dredges Silt Released From Dam Rehab Project Into Roaring Brook

-- Spotlight PA: Paint, Pipes, Soil Can Expose PA Children To Lead, How To Stay Safe

-- PUC Commissioner Kathryn Zerfuss Appointed To EPA’s Farm, Ranch And Rural Communities Advisory Committee

-- Post-Gazette: Styropek Seeks Buyer For Old Plastics Manufacturing Plant Set To Close In January

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Should Ban Single Use Plastic Bags - By Sedona Boyle, Lehigh University Student

-- Reading Eagle: Berks Nature Emphasizes Community Planning During State Of The Environment Breakfast

-- PA Resources Council What’s Up Watershed: Fireflies, A Magical Reason To Leave Your Leaves 

-- Federal Highway Administration, Fish & Wildlife Service Host Dec. 4 Online Pollinator Conservation And Transportation Symposium  [PaEN] 

-- Wildlands Conservancy Opens 187 Acre Black River Sanctuary In Lehigh County  [PaEN]

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation: New Friends Of Chapman State Park Group Formed In Warren County  [PaEN] 

-- TribLive: Pitcairn Officials Look To Improve Recreation Areas In Advance Of Great Allegheny Passage, Westmoreland Heritage Trails Connector 

The Feds - New Administration

-- Bloomberg: US EPA Nominee Has Embraced Carbon Capture Injection Well Storage Technology

  

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- Utility Dive: Ohio Consumer Counsel Urges FERC To Shield Utility Customers From Expected Grid Costs Due To 1.5 GW Amazon Data Center 

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

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

-- Reuters: LNG Gas Tankers Divert To Europe From Asia After Russia Halts Supplies To Austria  [11.18.24]

-- Bloomberg: LNG Gas Traders Choose To Pay Penalties For Not Shipping Gas To Germany To Chase Higher Profits In Asia  [10.1.24]

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- AP: PA Supreme Court Orders Counties Not To Count Mail-In Ballots That Lack Date On Return Envelope In US Senate Race

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Lawmakers Say Candidates Pay $250 Fine For Failing To File Campaign Finance Reports On Time To Avoid Revealing Donors

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Time For Post-Election Sanity: Approve Nippon - US Steel Deal

-- KDKA: Antisemitic Stickers Found In Pittsburgh Neighborhoods

-- PennLive: Sexual Assault Victims Find PA Prosecutors Take On Few Cases, Why?  ‘I Felt Attacked By Them’

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[Posted:  November 19, 2024]  PA Environment Digest