Friday PA Environment & Energy Articles - NewsClips: 9.18.26

“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

September 28, 29, 30

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

November 9, 10

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

​​September 28, 29, 30

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

November 17, 18

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

TODAY Noon: Virtual. Penn State Extension Hosts Webinar On First Investigation Of Stream Health Tool To Track Stream Health.  Noon to 1:30 p.m.

September 20-- Virtual. Sierra Club Pennsylvania Hosts Webinar On Energy Storage In PA, 6:30 p.m.

September 22-- Virtual. Penn State Extension Backyard Stream Repair Webinars (1 of 5) - Evaluating Your Stream.  10:00 to 11:30 p.m.

September 23-- Agenda Posted. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Council meeting. Room 105 of the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg. 10:00 a.m. to Noon.  Read more here on agenda.

September 25-- Agenda Posted. DEP Low-Level Radioactive Waste Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson. 10:00 a.m. (formal notice)

September 30-- House Energy Committee meeting.  Agenda TBA.  Click Here to watch online.

October 14-- In-Person. DEP Public Meeting/Hearing On Major Amendment To Water Quality Permit For Homer City Data Center/Power Plant Complex In Indiana County.  Homer Center High School Auditorium, 70 Wildcat Lane, Homer City. 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. 

-- PJM Interconnection Maximum Generation Alert Remains In Effect For Sept. 18; Emergency Demand Response Customers Activated On Sept. 17 To Increase Reserve Generation Because More Generation Went Offline  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Issues Section 401 Water Quality Certification For Restart Of Constellation Energy Three Mile Island Data Center Nuclear Power Plant In Dauphin County  [PaEN] 

-- TribLive: South Hills Interfaith Movement’s Bethel Park Location Looks To Cut $4,000 A Year From Energy Bills Using Solar Energy In Allegheny County

-- Morning Call: Lehigh Valley Electric Vehicle Drivers Will Soon Have More Charging Locations Under State Program

-- PennDOT Opens 50th Federally Funded Electric Vehicle Charging Station In Lehigh Valley

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Consol Coal Didn’t Just Fail 2 Coal Miners Who Died In Its Mine, It Failed All Of Us - By Christina Blasinsky, Center for Coalfield Justice

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Exposure In Bucks, Montgomery Counties Linked To High Blood Pressure, Cholesterol; Cancer Cluster Found, But More Research Needed To Find A Correlation

-- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader: Wyoming Valley Authority: President’s Order Does Not Eliminate Stormwater Fees Or The Requirements For Municipalities To Reduce Stormwater Pollution

-- WNEP: Wyoming Valley Authority: President’s Order Does Not Eliminate Stormwater Fees Or Requirements For Municipalities To Reduce Stormwater Pollution

-- The Citizens’ Voice: Does President’s Order End Stormwater Fees?  Local Officials Say State Needs To Act

-- PA Capital-Star: Maryland Officials Grapple With ‘Bizarre’ Presidential Order On Chesapeake Bay Revoking Federal Resources To Support State-Led Efforts To Reduce Nutrient, Sediment Pollution

-- TribLive: Westmoreland Authority Seeks To Expand Program To Remove Lead Service Pipes 

-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For 2027 Environmental Education Grants [PaEN]

-- PEMA: Update To Guidelines For State Disaster Recovery Assistance Program - Public Infrastructure

-- September 19 - Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available

-- DCNR Awards $2.2 Million To Support 7 Local Projects To Expand, Improve ATV, Snowmobile Trails; Next Grant Round Closes Sept. 30

-- DCNR Invests $300,000 In Old Trolley Line Park In Lancaster County To Expand Recreation Opportunities

-- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader Editorial: Don’t Lose Sight Of The Value Of A City Tree

-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Highlights October Experiences, Educational Events

-- WITF: Keystone Paddlefish Campaign Wants To Bring PA’s Prehistoric Fish Into Clearer Waters 

 A.I. /Data Centers

-- WNEP: Residents Voice Concerns After Zoning Permits Issued For 15 A.I. Data Centers/3 Natural Gas Power Plants  In Newport Twp., Luzerne County [Residents Didn’t Know]

-- TribLive: South Huntingdon Twp. OKs A.I. Data Center Regulations Amid Opposition To Facilities In Westmoreland County  

-- WHYY -  Zoe Read: Environmentalists Call Philly Mayor’s A.I. Data Center Task Force Insufficient, Demand Immediate Moratorium

-- Republican Herald: Merits Of A.I. Data Center Development Presented By Chamber, Amazon In Schuylkill County; It Will Take 85% More Data Center Development To Meet Need For Information Processing

-- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s Communities And Business Share A Destiny - Let’s Strengthen It - By Tom Wyatt, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel  [Data Centers]

-- Natural Resources Defense Council Blog: PJM Interconnection Sets A.I. Data Center Rules, Now States Must Protect Ratepayers

-- TribLive/AP: US House Passes Bill Recommending A.I. Data Centers Pay For Energy Needs, But States Aren’t Required To Protect Ratepayers 

-- TribLive: Shapiro Calls For Government A.I. Regulations On Use - It’s Not What Some In The Industry Want To Hear

-- Gov. Shapiro’s Remarks At A.I. Horizons Summit: Federal Government Needs To Step Up And Regulate The A.I. Industry, Adopt Guardrails For Deployment   [Nothing About Data Centers]

Today’s Oil & Gas Violations

-- DEP - Day 1,391: Complaint Inspection Finds BKV OPR LLC Shale Gas Well With Known Casing/Cement Failure Venting Gas In Wyoming County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Confirms Gas Leak In Gathering Pipeline From Conventional Well Owned By Mid East Oil Co. In Unity Twp., Westmoreland County  [PaEN] 

Storms/Power Outages

-- TribLive: Crews Rescue Motorist Stranded On Car Roof As Flash Floods Swamp Elizabeth Twp. In Allegheny County 

-- Post-Gazette: Repeated Heavy Downpours Are Flooding Western PA, Giving Residents Little Time To Recover

-- Pennsylvania Power Outages: 

International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas

[Energy Independence Means Renewables]

-- September 18: PA Average AAA Gasoline Price Up Another 3 Cents From Yesterday To $4.55/Gallon - $1.44/Gallon Higher Than On Feb. 27 [Crawford County $4.77, Warren County $4.76  Highest Average Prices]

-- September 18: Average AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $4.46  Ohio- $4.53  PA- $4.55

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

Other States/National/International

-- New York Times: Toxic Fracking Waste Bubbling Up In Ohio From Injection Wells Is Becoming A Political Issue

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- TribLive: Shapiro Calls For Government A.I. Regulations On Use - It’s Not What Some In The Industry Want To Hear

-- Gov. Shapiro’s Remarks At A.I. Horizons Summit: Federal Government Needs To Step Up And Regulate The A.I. Industry, Adopt Guardrails For Deployment

-- TribLive: ‘So Much Chaos’: Escalating Trade War With Canada Impacts PA’s Largest Export Market 

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