PA Environment Digest Blog: Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips

“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

December 12-- Agenda Posted. DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to join via Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID: 274 896 265 706 Passcode: GfvsJL or by telephone 1 267-332-8737 Conference ID: 377 402 179# Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov. Read more about agenda.

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

-- DEP Awards $24 Million In Grants To Support County Clean Water Projects To Improve Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay Watershed [PaEN]

-- Coalition For The Delaware River Watershed, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Announce $17 Million In Grants To Enhance The Health Of The Delaware River Watershed [PaEN]

-- Vote Now For Pennsylvania's 2025 River Of The Year Among 3 Finalists-- Delaware River, Perkiomen Creek, Youghiogheny River [PaEN]

-- Independent Fiscal Office Estimates Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Of $163.8 Million In 2024, Down $115 From 2022 [‘Lower Expectations’ Of Shale Industry Support] [PaEN]

-- The Energy Age Blog: Formaldehyde Cancer Risk In Your Neighborhood

-- PA Solar Center: Whitehall Borough, Allegheny County To Install Solar Energy Facility In Early 2025 [PaEN]

-- The Energy Age Blog: Dream Team: Rooftop Solar With Electric Vehicle - Crunching The Numbers From May to August

-- Inside Climate News: Clean Energy Industry Questions New PJM Proposal That Could Move Fossil Fuel Projects To Front Of Interconnection Queue

-- Utility Dive: FERC Rejects Plan To Shift PJM’s Electric Transmission Planning Protocol In Win For State Regulators

-- Warren Times Editorial: Permitting Reform Still Too Slow

-- NextPittsburgh: Landforce, Partners Receive $15.3 Million Federal Grant For Workforce Development Program