Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips + Budget Day 2.4.20

TODAY 9:45 a.m. Senate Agriculture Committee to consider bill to prevent overuse of fertilizer on turf.  Background.  Click Here to watch live.

TODAY 11:30 a.m. Governor’s Budget Address. Background.  Click Here to watch live.

Senate Environmental Committee Meets Feb. 5 On Alternative On-Lot Sewage Facilities, Waste Tire Dumping Fine Legislation [PaEN]

Agenda Added: House Committee Hearing Feb. 5 On Bill To Take Away DEP’s Authority To Enact Any Program To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions [PaEN]

Stephen Caruso: DEP Makes Allowances In Climate Cap-And-Trade Proposal For Waste Coal Power Plants

Op-Ed: Climate Action Is Here And Pennsylvania Is Entering The Race - PEC, EDF

Delmont Library In Westmoreland Captures $40,000 Grant For Solar Panels, Geothermal HVAC System

PUC To Host PA Statewide Sustainable Energy Board Meeting Feb. 6 [PaEN]

U.S. DOE Grant Powers Penn State Research On Natural Gas Vehicle Storage Tanks

Penn State Researchers Look At Novel Methods To Enhance Battery Performance

Wolf Promises Veto On Unlimited Natural Gas Tax Incentive Bill

Andrew Maykuth: Sunoco Files Objection Ahead Of Bankruptcy Sale Of Philly Refinery

PUC: Energy Marketer So Aggressive It Reached Out To Dead PPL Customers
Warren County Brine Challenger Featured In Rolling Stone Magazine

Falling Natural Gas Prices Batter National Fuel

Op-Ed: PA Helped Make U.S. World’s Leading Energy Producer - Associates Petroleum Industries

Lancaster Farming: Penn State’s Water4Ag Taking A Different Approach To Water Quality Goals And Chesapeake Bay

Tookany/Tacony Frankford Watershed Partnership: Jenkintown Creek Neighbors Are Stream Smart [PaEN]

Fox43 Reveals Pennsylvania’s Dangerous Dams

Sale Or Lease Of Wilkes-Barre Sewer System Still Under Consideration

Letter: Radon Health Threat In Pennsylvania

Op-Ed: Our Students Deserve Safe, Healthy Schools

Sludge Recycler, Landfill Pull Plug On Controversial Sludge Treatment Plant In Lehigh Valley

Cumberland County Master Gardeners Host Native Plant, Vegetable Fest & Sale May 16 [PaEN]

Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Host Winter Backpack Trip On March 7-8 In Warren County [PaEN]
Two Lehigh Valley Park/Historic Sites Listed On Preservation Group’s Endangered Properties List

Editorial: Pittsburgh Parks Funding Should Be Based On Need, Not Location

Game Commission: Bear Harvest State’s Best All-Time

AP: PA Hunters Killed Record 4,653 Black Bears In 2019

State Officials Exploring Options As Hunting Group Calls For Stricter Rules On Chronic Wasting Disease

PA Wildlife Futures Program: Taking On Wildlife Disease Problems

Game Commission Game Warden Cadet Class Applications Now Being Accepted

Meet Poppy, The 10-Month Old Groundhog From Lancaster County That Starred In Jeep’s Groundhog Day Commercial

National/International
EHN: Could The Ohio River Have Rights? A Movement To Grant Rights Test Power Of Local Control

FERC Reorganizes To Better Address Landowner Rehearing Requests

Congressional Republican Will Seek To Commit U.S. To Plant 3.3 Billion Trees Annually

The Guardian: Sea Level Rise Accelerating Along U.S. Coastline, Scientists Warn

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January PA State Revenue $83.6 Million Over Estimates [PaCN]

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[Posted: February 4, 2020]  PA Environment Digest