-- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [It’s Not A Suggestion]
Senate Voting Schedule
November 19
December 8, 9, 10
House Voting Schedule
November 19
December [canceled- 8, 9, 10], 15 [non-voting], 16, 17
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
TODAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Contact: cnrac-admin@growconservation.com. Read More Here On Agenda.
TODAY Noon: Virtual. Penn State Extension A.I. Data Centers And Water Resources, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
TODAY Noon: Virtual. Penn State Extension Land Use Webinar On Using A.I. For Community Planning. Noon to 1:30 p.m.
November 20-- Agenda Posted. DEP Small Business Compliance Advisory Committee meeting. 10:00 a.m. (formal notice) [Note: Conventional Oil & Gas/Shale Gas Emissions Reporting]
November 24-- Outdoor Business Alliance Of PA Webinar: Starting, Growing An Outdoor Business. Noon to 1:00 p.m.
December 1-- DEP hearing on a revised Title V Air Quality permit for the Monroe Energy LLC Trainer Refinery in Trainer Borough, Delaware County. Read more here.
December 2-- DEP Hearing On Revision To Title V Air Quality Permit For a Glass Furnace At The PQ LLC Facility In Chester, Delaware County. Chester City Hall, One 4th Street in Chester. 7:00 p.m.
December 2-- DEP hearing on proposed revisions to the Title V Air Quality Permit for the Delaware County Regional Water Quality Control Authority wastewater plant in Chester, Delaware County. Read more here.
December 2-- DEP hearing on proposed revisions to the Title V Air Quality Permit for the Constellation Energy Generation Co. Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Limerick Township, Montgomery County. Read more here.
December 2-- DEP hearing on a revised Title V Air Quality permit for the US Steel Fairless Steel Plant in Falls Township, Bucks County. Read more here.
December 4-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. LTBA. Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov.
December 11-- DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting. 10:00 a.m. Contact: Todd Wallace at twallace@pa.gov or 717-783-6395.
-- PUC: Natural Gas Utility Winter Reliability Reports Forecast Slightly Higher Usage, Costs [PaEN]
-- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader: UGI Gas Company Contributes $500,000 For Customers Struggling To Pay Heating Bills
-- North American Electric Reliability Corp: Electric Grid At Elevated Risk Of Insufficient Energy Supplies During Extreme Weather Due To Rising A.I. Data Center Demands, 'Precarious' Natural Gas Supplies [PaEN]
-- Inquirer: How An Energy Transfer/Sunoco Petroleum Products Pipeline Leak Disrupted A Quiet Bucks County Neighborhood: ‘Never Drink The Water’ [PDF of Article]
-- PUC Sets Hearings On PPL Electric Proposed 7% Rate Increase Starting Dec. 8 [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Don’t Let Water Just Pass Over Our Dams, Pennsylvania Needs More Power - By Justin Trudell, FirstLight
-- Tribune-Democrat: State Republicans, Natural Gas Industry Celebrate Exit From RGGI Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program [That Was Never Implemented]
-- WESA: PA Republicans, Union Leaders, Natural Gas Industry Celebrate End Of RGGI Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program [That Was Never Implemented]
-- PennLive Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s Future Looks Much Brighter Without RGGI Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program [That Was Never Implemented] - By Commonwealth Foundation
-- DEP Awards $3.1 Million In Federal Funds To Support 8 Local Water Quality Improvement Projects In 8 Counties [PaEN]
-- Chesapeake Bay Program: The Decades-Long Effort To Restore Brook Trout Habitat In The Kettle Creek Watershed, Potter County
-- York County Master Watershed Stewards Growing Native Trees For The Chesapeake Bay Restoration Effort [PaEN]
-- Penn State Extension/Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay: Dec. 10 Funding Forest Conservation Work Webinar [PaEN]
-- EPA, DEP Announce Hanover Foods Agrees To Pay $1.15 Million Penalty For Clean Water Act Violations At Its York County Plant [PaEN]
-- TribLive: Allegheny County Council Approves Increases To Air Quality Permit Fees
-- Horn Farm Center: Ecological Restoration, Ecological Gardener, Regenerative Grower, Forager, Beekeeper Training Programs In York County
-- Register Now! Outdoor Business Alliance Of PA Webinar: Starting, Growing An Outdoor Business Nov. 24 [PaEN]
-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Weekly Raptor Migration Report
A.I. /Data Centers
-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster City Council To Consider A.I. Data Center Benefits Agreement Thursday, Nov. 20 [PDF of Article] [Click Here For Agreement]
-- York Daily Record: Farm Fields To Server Farms, York County Grapples With Potential A.I. Data Center Invasion [PDF of Article]
-- Morning Call: Proposal For 3 A.I. Data Centers In Lower Macungie A Land Use Of Regional Significance, Requires Lehigh Valley Planning Commission Review [PDF of Article]
-- Scranton Times: Dickson City To Regulate A.I. Data Centers Through Zoning In Lackawanna County [PDF of Article]
-- Scranton Times: Blakely Boro Applies More Than 30 Zoning Ordinance Restrictions On A.I. Data Centers, Lackawanna County [PDF of Article]
-- Scranton Times - Chris Kelly: Archbald Boro No Place For 82 A.I. Football Fields In Lackawanna County [PDF of Article]
-- Inquirer: Plymouth Twp. A.I. Data Center Proposal Abruptly Withdrawn Over Legal Issues In Montgomery County [PDF of Article]
-- Clean Air Council, Environmental Health Project, Residents Urge State To Stop Headfirst Jump To Power A.I. Data Centers With Fossil Fuels [PaEN]
-- US Dept. Of Energy Closes On $1 Billion Taxpayer Funded Loan To Constellation Energy To Finance Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant To Power Microsoft A.I. Data Centers [Company Originally Claimed No Taxpayer Money Would Be Used To Restart The Plant]
-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: President’s Energy Dept. Approves $1 Billion Loan For Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor Restart [Federal Legislation Makes Taxpayer Funding Available]
-- AP: US DOE Loans $1 Billion To Help Finance Restart Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor [Company Originally Claimed No Taxpayer Money Would Be Used To Restart The Plant]
-- Utility Dive: FERC OKs NRG’s 19 GW Purchase Of LS Power Gas-Fired [5 In PA], Demand Response Assets; BP Wind Energy Sale Also Approved [PA Wind Farm]
-- North American Electric Reliability Corp: Electric Grid At Elevated Risk Of Insufficient Energy Supplies During Extreme Weather Due To Rising A.I. Data Center Demands, 'Precarious' Natural Gas Supplies [PaEN]
-- Reuters: US A.I. Data Center Demand Raising Power Risks This Winter, NERC Says
-- Bloomberg: US Faces Winter Blackout Risks From A.I. Data Centers’ Power Needs, NERC Says
Today’s Oil & Gas Violations
-- Today’s Violation: DEP: Amer Natural Resources LLC failed to comply with an order issued on December 12, 2019 to plug an abandoned conventional well leaking gas in Glenfield Borough, Allegheny County for 2,167 days and counting. Read more here.
-- Today’s Violation: DEP: First Amer Energy Inc. failed to comply with an order issued on October 28, 2024 to clean up contaminated soil and water at a conventional well in Foster Township, McKean County for 382 days and counting. Read more here.
-- Today’s Violation: DEP: EQM Gathering OPCO LLC [EQT] reported “bubbling” in stream NINFS004 Pipeline drilling in Union Twp., Washington County, but no "inadvertent" return found (there were 6 others). Access road mud found clogging stream. Read more here.
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- TribLive: Westmoreland County To Break 200 Municipal Election Tie Votes With Draws From A Jar
-- Post-Gazette: Rural Somerset County Mounts Pushback Against Loss Of Pharmacies
-- WHYY: Philadelphia Achieved ‘Unprecedented’ Reduction In Gun Violence, Experts Gathered To Discuss How
-- Tribune-Democrat: Suspected Terrorist Arrested In Kansas By Federal ICE Had CDL From PA; State Republicans Demand Investigation
-- Spotlight PA: PA State Government, Local Governments On Track To Use Nearly All $13 Billion In Pandemic Relief Funding By End Of 2026
-- Republican Herald: Shenandoah Boro Faces Potential $144,000 Debt Due To Alleged Improper Use Of Pandemic Relief Funds
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