Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.5.25

“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

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

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 

April 7-- House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee meets to consider House Bill 109 (Vitali-D-Delaware) establishing an environmental justice permit review program in DEP to consider cumulative impacts of pollutants on communities;  House Bill 969 (Pielli-D-Chester) requires outdoor night lighting practices that reduce light pollution from public facilities; House Bill 1089 (Steele (D-Allegheny) prohibits the supply, sale or application of sealants containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on driveways or parking lots. Room 205 Ryan Building. 11:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch online.   Read more here.

April 8--  Agenda Posted. Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  9:00 a.m. Check webpage for options for joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Laura Griffin, laurgriffi@pa.gov  or (717) 772-3277. [Note: Will consider accepting for study rulemaking petition increasing setbacks from shale gas wells.]  Read more here.

April 8-- 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.

April 22-- Agenda Posted. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 of the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg.  9:00 a.m. Click Here to join the meeting via Microsoft Teams.  DEP Contact: Lindsay Byron at lbyron@pa.gov  or calling 717-772-8951.  Read more here.

-- DEP: Shale Gas Driller Failed To Restore 3 Million Gallon Water Impoundment, Well Site For Nearly 8 Years In Clinton County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP: Nearly 7 Year Struggle Continues To Cleanup Multiple Conventional Oil Well Spills At Site In Economy Borough, Beaver County [PaEN] 

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 5 [PaEN] 

-- Environmental Quality Board Invites Comments On Spill Notification Regulation Changes; May 15 Virtual Hearing  [PaEN] 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission April 24 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including Renewal Of 2 Shale Gas Water Projects  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Posted 83 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 5 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 

-- Utility Dive: US DOE Offers 2 National Energy Technology Laboratory Sites In Pittsburgh For Colocating Data Centers, Related Power Plants  [PaEN]  

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Lawmakers Praise Homer City Power Plant/Data Center Project, But It Won’t Address The Potential Electric Grid Generation Gap

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: How Pennsylvania Is Imagining What Our Energy Future Could Look Like

-- The Allegheny Front: Amendment To PA Solar Bill Puts Industry On Edge 

-- DEP Issues Temporary Extension To Keystone Landfill Permit After Environmental Hearing Board Decision Saying DEP Erred In Reviewing The Landfill’s Permit

-- MCall: Lower Macungie Twp. Hopes To Buy, Preserve Farm Site Of Controversial Proposed Development For $9.4 Million

-- PA Environmental Professionals Host April 29 Webinar On Flood Alert System For Grafius Run In Lycoming County, Noon 

-- Stroud Water Research Center Highlights: Salt Rising In NYC Source Water; Farmland May Be  Source Of PFAS Chemicals In Fish; World Water Day Attracts 160+ Visitors

-- PA Dept. Of Agriculture Accepting Applications For Sustainable Agriculture Grants Starting April 21  [PaEN] 

-- PA Dept. Of Agriculture Expands Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Area To Bradford, Sullivan, Venango, Wyoming Counties  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: After DOGE Cuts Shutter Federal Campgrounds In PA, State Parks See Surge In Reservations

-- April 4 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN] 

-- TribLive: Trout Opener Boosts Economy, Outdoor Fun

-- Tribune-Democrat: Johnstown Tree With Bald Eagle Nest Topples In Storm, Birds Survived, Warden Says

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Lawmakers Praise Homer City Power Plant/Data Center Project, But It Won’t Address The Potential Electric Grid Generation Gap

  

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

-- AAA Gasoline Prices:  National- $3.26  Ohio- $3.18  PA- $3.40

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Up 1 To 15 Where It Was 14 Out Of The Last 15 Weeks

-- NYT: ‘Wait, Baby, Wait’: Slumping Oil, Natural Gas Prices Reflect Fears President’s Tariffs Could Slash Global Economic Growth

-- WSJ: US Natural Gas Export Facility Construction Squeezed By President’s New Tariffs On Specialized Components All Made Overseas

New Federal Administration

-- AP: Voices From Coal Country Say Closures Of Federal Mine Safety & Health Administration Offices Will Endanger Mine Safety

-- AP: Chemical Industry Seeks Exemptions From US Pollution Rules To Reduce Mercury, Arsenic, Benzene Emissions As Part Of EPA’s Email Exemption Offer 

 

-- PennLive: PA Republicans Aren’t Rushing To Buy Teslas, But They Love Elon Musk, DOGE Cuts

-- PennLive: As President’s Tariffs Tank Stocks, PA Republicans Double Down On Their Support 

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PennLive: PA Republicans Aren’t Rushing To Buy Teslas, But They Love Elon Musk, DOGE Cuts

-- PennLive: As President’s Tariffs Tank Stocks, PA Republicans Double Down On Their Support 

-- Inquirer: PA Republicans Gathered To Celebrate President, DOGE, And Hardly Mentioned President’s Tariffs

-- Tribune-Democrat: Early Childhood Services At risk With Federal Cuts, Downsizing Local Leaders Say

-- Inquirer: Here’s A Running List Of Terminated Federal HHS Grants In Philly Area

-- AP: Markets Plunge: S&P 500 Down 6%; Dow Down Another 2,231 Points Friday After China Retaliates Against President’s Tariffs  

-- AP: Congress Has Power To Halt President’s Tariffs, But Republicans Aren’t Ready To Use It  

-- AP: Federal Reserve Chief Says President’s Tariffs Likely To Raise Inflation, Slow US Economic Growth  

-- AP: Republicans In Congress Moving Ahead With President’s ‘Big’ Bill Of Tax Breaks, Spending Cuts amid Tariff Uproar 

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[Posted: April 5, 2025]  PA Environment Digest