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 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 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

TODAY 12:30: Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 12:30 p.m. Check webpage for options for joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Ian Irvin, Executive Director, iirvin@pa.gov or (717) 787-8171. Read more here on agenda.

TODAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. DEP Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board meeting. 14th Floor Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Daniel E. Snowden at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846. (formal notice)

January 15-- Agenda Posted. DEP Coastal Zone Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:30 a.m. Click Here for options for joining the meeting remotely. Contact Allison Hoff, alhoff@pa.gov or (717) 772-3950

January 22-- Agenda Posted. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to register to join the meeting remotely. Contact: cnrac-admin@growconservation.com. Read more here.

January 23-- Agenda Posted. DEP Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to join the meeting via Microsoft Teams With Meeting ID: 267 985 148 322 and Passcode: aAo7Qg; or by telephone 267-332-8767, conference ID 867 745 237#. Contact: Daniel E. Snowden at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846.

-- 30 Stakeholder Comments Received By PUC On Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania; Increasing Natural Gas Power Plant Reliability To 90-95% Would Mean No Imminent Capacity Problem [PaEN]

-- Registration Now Open! 2025 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference At Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Online Feb. 27 [PaEN]

-- PennLive Letter: There Must Be More Oversight Of Dangerous Fracking Wastewater In PA - By Dr. Robert Little

-- ABC27: Democrats Join Republicans In Excitement To Bring Energy To Pennsylvania: ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Weather Causes NYMEX Natural Gas Prices To Soar, Marcellus-Utica Shale Spot Prices Soar Too [PDF of Article]

-- Utility Dive: PJM’s Capacity Market Auction Proposal Faces Pushback From Market Monitor, Generators, Renewable Energy Companies

-- PUC Sets Feb. 11 Hearings On PPL Transmission Line Projects In York County Related To Three Mile Island, Peach Bottom [PaEN]

-- York Dispatch: PUC To Hold Hearings On PPL Transmission Line Projects In York County

-- WPXI: Abandoned Mine Filled With Nearly 68,000 Gallons Of Concrete After Woman Fell Through Sinkhole

-- TribLive: Free At-Home Radon Test Kits Available In Allegheny County

-- TribLive Letter: Clean Air Needed In Allegheny County; US Steel Loyal To Stockholders, Not Communities

-- Penn State Extension Hosts 70 In-Person Agronomic Pesticide Update Certification Workshops From Jan. 21 to March 27 [PaEN]