Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.6.25

“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]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Pennsylvania's Margaret Mead, World Renowned Cultural Anthropologist

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.

April 24-- 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: ID: 274 896 265 706  Passcode: GfvsJL  or telephone +1 267 332 8737  ID: 377 402 179#    Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov.   

-- 136 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA  [PaEN] 

-- Stories You May Have Missed Last Week:  PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic [PaEN]

-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults  [PaEN] 

-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 29 to April 4 - Failed To Restore 3MG Water Impoundment; Failed To Get Pipeline Permits; Nearly 7 Years Without Conventional Well Spill Cleanup  [PaEN] 

-- The Center Square: Report: Pennsylvania Energy Affordability Lagging With Current Electric Generation Profile  [New Generation Just Serving Data Centers Doesn’t Help]

-- MCall: Is The Lehigh Valley Still In Drought? [Spoiler - Still A Risk]

-- Scranton Times: Keystone Landfill Tour Spurs Both Confidence, Concern

-- PennLive: Lancaster County Golf Course To Close Due To Sinkholes

-- DCNR Prepares For Busy Summer Season At State Parks, State Forests As Federal Cuts Close Federal Recreation Areas

-- PA Capital-Star: With Federal Cuts At Federal Recreation Areas, Plans For ‘Record-Breaking Summer’ For State Parks, Forests

-- NorthPennNow.com: Towamencin Named 16th PA Bird Town In Montgomery County By Audubon Society

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Northeast PA A Hot Spot For Potential Data Centers

-- AP - Marc Levy: New Wave Of Smaller, Cheaper Nuclear Reactors Sends States Racing To Attract The Industry [PA Included]

  

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

-- Bloomberg: Natural Gas Power Plant Developers Exiting Texas Program To Kickstart Power Generation Over Cost Uncertainty, Supply-Chain Delays  [Sen. Yaw Proposed Same Program In PA]

New Federal Administration

-- WPost: FEMA Canceling Plans To Award States Grants To Prepare Against Future Disasters; Disaster Recovery Aid Could Also Be In Jeopardy 

-- The Guardian: EPA Officials Quietly Move To Reverse Bans On PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- TribLive: President’s Western PA Supporters All-In For Tariffs, Tough Talk  

-- TribLive: Protesters In Pittsburgh Join Nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ Call To Fight Policies Of President, Musk

-- TribLive: Protesters Rally At Westmoreland County Courthouse To Oppose President’s Agenda 

-- PennLive -Charles Thompson: Republican Con. Scott Perry Voices Support For President’s Tariffs; ‘There Has To Be Some Rebalancing Of The Ledger’

-- PennLive Guest Essay: As Prices Rise And Wealth Disappears, Remember Who Caused It All - By Mark Singel

-- Wall Street Journal Guest Essay: Josh Shapiro Campaigned On School Choice, In Office He Bows To Teachers Union - By Rachel Langan, Commonwealth Foundation

-- The Guardian: DOGE’s Attack On Social Security Causing ‘Complete, Utter Chaos,’ Staff Says; Agency Sent Into ‘Death Spiral’ As Cut Lead To Structural Collapse 

-- WPost: Conservative New Civil Liberties Alliance Challenges President’s Use Of ‘Emergency’ Powers To Enact Tariffs 

-- Wall Street Journal Editorial: President Owns The Economy Now, He Can Try To Blame The Fed, But The Tariff Blunder Is His Alone

-- Bloomberg: The Uncertainty Is Not Going To End; One Period Of Uncertainty Feeds Into Another Like Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Lengthen, Deepened The Great Depression

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[Posted: April 6, 2025]  PA Environment Digest