Saturday, December 21, 2024

Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 12.21.24

“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

January 7, 27, 28, 29

February 3, 4, 5

March 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26

April 7, 8, 9, 22, 23, 24

May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 24

June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30

-- Committee Schedule


Senate Voting Schedule

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 


January 4-11-- Pennsylvania Farm Show. Harrisburg.


February 26-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 1:00- Department of Agriculture.  House Floor.


February 27-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.  House Floor.


March 3-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 1:00- Public Utility Commission.  House Floor.


DEP Advisory: DEP’s New Website Is Online [Not All Webpages Updated Yet]


DCNR Advisory: DCNR’s New Website Is Online


-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - December 21 [PaEN]


-- DEP Posted 63 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In December 21 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 


-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Veteran Reporter Ad Crable Wraps Up 4 Decades Of Environmental Journalism  [PaEN] 


-- ​​Anthracite Mining Heritage Month Celebrated In January; Schedule Of Events Now Available  [PaEN]


-- PUC Urges Natural Gas Customers To Explore Ways To Reduce Heating Costs; All But One Major Gas Utility Has Increased Cost Of Gas In PA  [PaEN]


-- PUC Chairman Stephen M. DeFrank Appointed Chair Of National Assn. Of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Committee On Natural Gas  [PaEN] 


-- EarthWorks Blog: Common Sense Needed In The Commonwealth - How To Protect Pennsylvanians From The Environmental, Health Impacts Of The Oil & Gas Industry - By Melissa Ostroff & Charlie Palladino, EarthWorks  [PaEN]


-- EPA, DOE Award $850 Million To Support Oil & Gas Sector Methane Pollution Reduction, Including $10 Million Grant To Penn State  [PaEN] 


-- DCED Invests $4.6 Million In Williamsport Company Making Hydrogen Storage Containers


-- TribLive: Proposed Unity Twp. Solar Farm Nixed By 3-2 Zoning Board Vote In Westmoreland County


-- PennDOT Opens 2 New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Under Federal Program In Butler, Lebanon Counties


-- Lancaster Farming: Environmental Groups Ask For Susquehanna River Pump Storage Hydro Permit Rehearing


-- DEP: Revised Application, Instructions Available For Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares Air Quality General Permit  [PaEN] 


-- WHYY: Top Climate Stories Of 2024 - Fracking In PA Hasn’t Gone As Well As Some Might Think


-- Ohio River Valley Institute - 2024 Year In Review


-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Designation Of Areas Not Meeting Health-Based Standards For Particulate Matter (PM2.5);  3 Hearings Scheduled  [PaEN]


-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act Interim Response At Tub Mill Farm, Clearview Farm Waste Site, Somerset County  [PaEN] 


-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Consent Order For Precision National Plating Site, Lackawanna County  [PaEN]


-- TribLive: Pittsburgh-Area Dry Cleaners React To EPA Chemicals Ban


-- TribLive: Western PA Boom Towns Battle Strain On Services, Streets And Schools 


-- MCall: Easton Residents Denounce Plans For Massive Warehouse At Old Pfizer Plant Near Residential Area


-- PennLive: Clinton County Beef Processor Seeks Permit For Wastewater Treatment Facility


-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Regenerative Practices Are Best Way To Boost Farm Resiliency, CBF Tells USDA 


-- Centre Daily Times: Know The Myths And Realities Of Recycling In Centre County


-- Dec. 20 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]


-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: The Importance Of Getting Outside 


-- Nuts For Natives Blog: Heartwood Nursery In York County Propagating Native Holly, Other Plants Since 1987


-- WITF/StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Endangered Status Proposed For Eastern Hellbender


-- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Deer Decimating Crops As Game Commission Considers Revamping Tag Program 


-- Seasonal Help Wanted: Fish & Boat Commission Fisheries Biologist Aide  [PaEN]


The Feds - New Administration


-- Reuters: Biden EPA Administrator Michael Regan To Resign Effective Dec.. 31


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- $3.14  PA- $3.22


-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Same As Last Week- 15; 21 On Aug. 23


-- IEEFA: US Natural Gas Prices Linked To International LNG Gas Prices Cost US Consumers More Than $100 Billion Dollars Over 16 Months At The Beginning Of Russian War In Ukraine


-- Bloomberg: Green Hydrogen Goes From Hyped To Humbled On Eye-Popping Costs


Other States/National/International


-- The Guardian: Oil & Gas Firms Operating In Colorado Falsified Environmental Impact Reports


-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: In Sweden, Broad Consensus On Climate Action Spurs an Energy Transition In Manufacturing


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PennLive: PA Republican Leadership Race Down To Rothman

-- TribLive: ‘My Goodness, Where’s The Justice?’: Latrobe Fire Chief Asks Of Biden’s Move To Commute CEO Podlucky’s Sentence

-- WITF: Counties Clean Voter Rolls, Election Skeptics Praise Routine Process

-- TribLive Editorial: Will Westmoreland County Finally Hire An Elections Director?

-- The Center Square: PA Lawmaker To Introduce ‘Ghost Gun’ Regulation Bill, After CEO Murder

-- Dept. Of Labor & Industry Reports November Unemployment At 3.5%, First Change Since October 2023

-- Spotlight PA: Gaming Board Abandons Proposal To Make It Easier For Problem Gamblers To Return To PA Casinos

-- TribLive: Western PA Casinos See Revenue Spike As State Gaming Board Reports Record Monthly Profit

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[Posted: December 21, 2024]  PA Environment Digest

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