PA Environment Digest Blog: Monday PA Environment & Energy Articles

“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

July 14, 15, 16

September 22, 23, 24, 29, 30

October 1, 6, 7, 8, 27, 28, 29

November 17, 18, 19

December 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

July: No Session Days Scheduled

September 8, 9, 10

October 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29

November 17, 18, 19

December 8, 9, 10

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

WARNING: This Is Budget Season, Watch Out For Anything!

TODAY 6:30: In-Person. DEP Hearing On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities. Susquehanna County. 6:30 p.m.

July 15-- No Agenda Posted Yet. PA Sen. McCormick’s PA Energy & A.I. Summit In Pittsburgh - Watch Live

July 15-- In-Person. DEP Town Hall Meeting On Energy Transfer/Sunoco Petroleum Pipeline Leak In Bucks County. Upper Makefield Twp. Building, 1076 Eagle Road, Newtown. 7:30 p.m.

July 15-- Virtual. Chesapeake Bay Program Webinar On Proposed New Bay Agreement: Clean Water for a Healthy Bay - Exploring The Revised Goal. Noon.

July 16-- In-Person. DEP Hearing On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities. Montgomery County. 6:30 p.m.

July 16-- Virtual. Environmental Health Project To Launch Compounds Of Concern Online Tool During Webinar. 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

August 13-- Senate and House Agricultural & Rural Affairs Committees Information Session At Penn State Ag Progress Days. Red Barn Annex, Ag Progress Days Site, Pennsylvania Furnace, Huntingdon County. 10:00 a.m.

-- July 14 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 5 to 11 - Shale Gas Wastewater, Fracking Chemicals Release; Water Pipeline Rupture; Crude Oil Spills; More Abandoned Wells [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On An Air Quality Permit For A Proposed 218 MW Natural Gas Power Plant For A Data Center In Bradford County; Site Originally Proposed For An LNG Gas Facility [PaEN]

-- Shale Gas Industry VP Attacks Credibility Of A Mom And Allegheny County Resident For Comments She Submitted In Support Of DEP Plan To Reduce Methane Emissions From The Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 12 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 70 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 12 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

-- WESA: With President Set To Attend A.I. & Energy Summit, CMU Professor Worries Climate Issues Will Be Lost

-- WESA: CMU Community Pushes Back On A.I. Summit With Paint, Petitions, And Protests

-- Post-Gazette: President’s Visit To CMU Sparks Student Protests Ahead Of Energy, A.I. Summit

-- Planet Philadelphia: July 18 - Climate Change Anxiety, 4:00 p.m.

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists Sue EPA To Reassess A Toxic Chemical Used At A PA Oil Refinery

-- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Could Foot More Of The Bill For Disaster Response Under Proposed FEMA Cuts

-- Republican Herald: PEMA Urges FEMA To Reconsider Cuts, Changes That Would Impact Communities

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: The Real Reason Four Mile Run Is Still A Flood Trap In Pittsburgh [Local Politicians Opposed Green Solutions & Offered None Of Their Own]

-- Bradford Era: End Of Roadless Rule Brings Increase In Timber Sales In Allegheny National Forest

-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Walking Club Helps Women Make Connections

-- WPXI: Raccoon Creek State Park Reopens For Swimming After E. coli Levels Quickly Drop

Train Derailments

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Residents Near Norfolk Southern Train Derailment To Get Results Of Tests For Vinyl Chloride And Liver Damage

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Greed And Deceit Define The History Of Vinyl Chloride

International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas

[Energy Independence Means Renewables]

-- Bloomberg: Puerto Rico Idles Power Plants As New Fortress Withholds LNG Gas Threatening To Strain The Grid At Height Of Summer Demand [New Fortress Proposed PA LNG Export Facility]

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Extend Increases As Asia Attracts LNG Gas Cargoes

New Federal Administration

-- Bloomberg: President Using A Light Touch On Pipeline Safety Oversight; Enforcement Cases Lowest In 20 Years