Tuesday PA Environment & Energy Articles - NewsClips: 5.12.26

“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

June 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

September 28, 29, 30

October 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21

November 9, 10

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

June 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

TODAY 12:30: Agenda Posted.  DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting. 12:30 p.m. Contact: Ian Irvin iirvin@pa.gov or 717-579-0329.  Read more on agenda.  [Data Centers Guide, Biosolids On Farms]

TODAY 5:00:  In-Person. DEP Hearing On Individual Stormwater Permit For the 5.8 Mile HCPP 30-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline Serving The 4.5 GW Homer City A.I. Data Center Campus Power Plant In Indiana County. Indiana Theater, 637 Philadelphia Street in Indiana. 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

May 13-- Agenda Posted. DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee meeting. Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. 9:30 a.m.  See agenda for options to join the meeting remotely.

May 13-- Virtual. Community Choice Aggregation Working Group Hosts Webinar On How Boroughs Can And Other Municipalities Could Purchase Power For Their Residents, Business And Lower Electric Bills. Noon.

May 13-- Virtual. Better Path Coalition A.I. Data Centers Virtual Town Hall Meeting, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

May 14-- Agenda Posted. DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting. Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. 9:15 a.m.  [Heavy Duty Diesel Program]

May 19-- Agenda Posted. DEP Statewide Water Resources Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00 a.m.  (formal notice)

May 20-- Agenda Posted. DEP Aggregate Advisory Board meeting. Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. 10:00 a.m.

May 21-- In-Person. DEP Informal Conference To Take Comments On The Proposed Addition Of 7,154 Acres To The Rosebud Mining Company Penfield Coal Mine In Clearfield County  

May 21-- Agenda Posted. DEP Small Business Compliance Advisory Committee meeting. Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. 10:00 a.m.

-- DEP Denies Water Encroachment Permit For PA General Energy Co. 3.9 Mile Permanent Access Road, Staging Area In Loyalsock State Forest, Lycoming County  [PaEN]  

-- ‘Emergency’ Upset Natural Gas/Chemical Flares At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Burned Overnight From At Least 8:52 p.m. May 10 to 3:30 a.m. May 11 - Breathecam https://breathecam.org   

-- ‘Emergency’ Upset Natural Gas/Chemical Flares At The MarkWest Harmon Creek/Energy Transfer Revolutions Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plants Burned All Night Again In Washington County - Live Breathe Project Cameras  [May 12] 

-- Headwaters To The Ohio Water Network, Watersheds Of South Pittsburgh Host June 2 In-Person Stormwater Management Workshop  [PaEN] 

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy Blog: Unlocking Rare Earth Elements From Coal Waste: Pennsylvania’s Opportunity

-- Lancaster Conservancy Breaks Ground On Climbers Run Nature Center Reservations [PaEN] 

-- TheDerrick.com: Employees Watch Bald Eagle Nest From Their Office Outside Franklin, Venango County

A.I. /Data Centers

-- Scranton Times: Project Green Mountain A.I. Data Center Hearing In Archbald Focuses On Generators, Traffic [196 Diesel Generators, 400 MW Gas Power Plant, 51 Data Center Buildings]

-- TribLive: Homer City A.I. Data Campus Power Plant/Data Center Water Usage From Central Indiana County Water Authority Reservoir Remains Unclear 

-- WFMZ: Lower Mount Bethel Twp. Supervisor Takes Stand Against Data Center Proposal In Northampton County

-- Pipeline & Gas Journal: UGI To Build Natural Gas Infrastructure To Support Large-Scale A.I. Hyperscale Data Center Campus Development In Northern Tier PA  [Cameron, Potter, Tioga Counties] 

-- Reuters: Constellation Energy Hopes Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Makes Decision On How To Connect The Three Mile Island Nuclear Data Center Power Plant To The Grid In June Or July

-- Utility Dive: PPL Utilities ‘Advanced Stage’ A.I. Data Center Pipeline Grew To 28.3 GW In Pennsylvania; Unregulated PPL-Blackstone Generation Venture Ordering Gas Turbines  

-- PA Capital-Star: PJM Grid Operator Aims To Finalize Reform Strategy By Summer

-- Utility Dive: Vistra Adds 4.5 GW Of Capacity To Feed Data Centers In Line With Forecasts For PJM, Texas  [Beaver Valley Nuclear Plant Deal With Meta/Facebook Included]

-- Utility Dive Guest Essay: Competitive Power Markets Have Delivered, Abandoning Them Would Be A Mistake - By Former FERC, PA PUC Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell

-- Spotlight PA: State Task Force Hunting Misleading A.I. Chatbots As Shapiro Administration Vows Legal Crackdown

Today’s Oil & Gas Violations

-- Today’s Violations: DEP found 4 Niche Energy LLC conventional wells in Erie County, Conneaut Twp. abandoned, not plugged, failed to comply with Oct. 5, 2022 Consent Order for 1,313 days and counting.  DEP inspection report

Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Explosion

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: US Steel, Contractor Contest Federal OSHA Citation Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Explosion That Killed 2, Injured 12 

International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas

[Energy Independence Means Renewables]

-- May 12: PA Average AAA Gasoline Price Down 1 Penny From Yesterday, Now $1.55/Gallon Higher To $4.66 Since Feb. 27  [Allegheny County Average Price Still Highest at $4.81] 

-- May 12:  FLASH!  Diesel Dropped 2 Pennies at my neighborhood Sheetz, first change in weeks

-- May 12: Average AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $4.50 Ohio- $4.67  PA- $4.66

-- Feb. 27: Average AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $2.98  Ohio- $2.79  PA- $3.11

-- AP: President Proposes To Suspend Federal Tax On Gasoline (18.4 cents), Diesel (24.4 cents) That Supports Highway, Bridge, Transit Projects [Gasoline Went Up $1.55/Gallon In PA Since President’s War On Iran Began]

Federal Administration

-- TribLive/AP: President Cancels Rule That Made Conservation A ‘Use’ Of Public Lands

-- AP: EPA Will Move Forward With Plans To Propose Weakening PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Limits 

-- AP: Scientists Say Climate Change Is Endangering Tens Of Thousands Of Plant Species

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- WITF: PA Supreme Court Ruling On Cast Vote Records Creates Uncertainty For Counties In Keeping Ballot Choices Secret

-- TribLive: PA Supreme Court Justice David Wecht Renounced His Registration As A Democrat To Become An Independent Over Antisemitism 

-- TribLive/Spotlight PA: First Amendment Rights At Center Of Clash Between PA Schools, Students Over Federal ICE Walkouts  

-- Spotlight PA: State Task Force Hunting Misleading A.I. Chatbots As Shapiro Administration Vows Legal Crackdown

-- WTAE: President Nominates Republican PA State Sen. Doug Mastriano As US Ambassador To Slovakia

-- PennLive: Immigrant To PA Followed The Law, But Then A Lawyer’s Error Changed Everything; ICE Arrested Him  [Part 2 of 8]

-- Financial Times: President’s Iran War Is Ripping Across The US Economy At A Cost Of Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In Lost Output, Soaring Fuel Prices, Rising Borrowing Costs, Supply Chain Disruptions  [PDF of Article]

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[Posted: May 12, 2026]  PA Environment Digest