Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 9.10.21

Senate returns to session September 20, 21, 22

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session September 20, 21, 22

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

-- DEP: Fails To Address Loophole That Continues To Allow Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater; Members Of Public Register Their Opposition To All Road Dumping  [PaEN]

-- Sand County Foundation: Announces 3 Finalists For Pennsylvania Leopold Farm Conservation Award  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: We Must Work Together To Protect Our Shared Waters  - By Jeff Skelding, Executive Director of the Friends Of the Upper Delaware River 

-- Delaware River Festival Sept. 24 - Oct.  3-- Philadelphia & Camden Waterfronts

-- DCNR Blog: DCNR Incident Management Team Helps Manage Response To Western U.S. Wildfires; Six 20-Person PA Crews Directly Fought Fires  [PaEN]

-- Public News Service: PA Forest Action Plan Could Help Prevent Damage  From Extreme Weather, Like Ida

-- PA Resources Council: Middle School Students In Delaware County Become Summer Stream Stewards  [PaEN]

-- Delaware RiverKeeper: Sept. 10 RiverWatch Video Report

-- WHYY: Philly Parents Disgusted By Rampant Schoolyard Trash

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Waste-To-Energy Is A Bad Deal For Chester [Delaware County] And Other Polluted Communities

-- NextPittsburgh: Why Is The Pittsburgh-Based Green Building Alliance Honoring A Steel Company?

-- National Fuel Gas: Announces Target Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 25% By 2030  [PaEN]

-- PPL Utilities: Subsidiaries Louisville Gas & Electric, Kentucky Utility Company And University Of Kentucky Form Partnership To Study Capture Of CO2 Emissions From Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plants

-- WilliamsportS Editorial: Sen. Yaw Correct About State Collaboration With RGGI

-- TribLive: Allegheny County Man Tests Positive For West Nile Virus, First Case In County Since 2018

-- Dept. of Agriculture: Accepting Urban Agricultural Infrastructure Grant Applications

-- PG: Park Over I-579 In Pittsburgh Won't Include Restrooms, Other Desired Amenities

-- ReadingE: New Executive Director To Lead Rock Hollow Woods Environmental Learning Center

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Storm-Carried Armyworms Devastating PA Lawns, Fields As Part Of ‘Once In A Generation Outbreak’

September 11 Remembered

-- ErieT: Fmr. Gov. Tom Ridge Recalls Tragedies Of 9/11, But Also The Compassion

-- PennLive: Fmr Gov. Tom Ridge Releases Video Remarks On 9/11 Anniversary

American Rescue Plan Funding

-- TribLive: Westmoreland Officials Seek Public Input For Spending $105 Million In COVID Relief 

National/International

-- EDF: What To Look For As EPA Readies Landmark Methane Rules

PA Politics

-- PA Cap-Star: PA Grapples With Competing Redistricting Priorities: ‘It’s A Rubik’s Cube’

-- PA Cap-Star: Here’s What [Republican] PA Lawmakers Aren’t Coming Back Early To Fix

-- YorkDR: PA Lawmakers Plan Early Return To Capitol To Fight Against School Mask Mandate

-- AP: Senate Republicans Start Election ‘Investigation’ In Pennsylvania

-- Inquirer: Fmr. Gov. Rendell Targeting The ‘Treason Caucus’ In Congress-- Cong. Scott Perry, Jeff Van Drew

-- PG: Dept. Of Health Lawyers Ask Court To Uphold School Mask Mandate Challenged By Republicans, Some Parents

--Spotlight PA: PA School Mask Legal Challenge Backed By Republican Group That Challenged 2020 Election Results

-- AP: PA Mask Policy Allows Some Students To Avoid Masking If It Would Worsen A Medical Condition

-- PennLive: List Of PA ZIP Codes Where COVID Cases Are Spiking

-- PennLive: List Of 12 PA High School Football Cancellations, Postponements Due To COVID

-- MCall: Northampton Teacher Dies After Battle With COVID

-- TribLive: Hospital In Westmoreland County Sets Up Tent Outdoors For Patients With Minor Issues Due To COVID

-- The Guardian: Dr. Fauci Says U.S. COVID Cases 16 Times Too High To End Pandemic: ‘Not Even Modestly Good Control’

-- MCall: 5 Years After Grace Parker Murder, PA Lawmaker Seek Stronger Child Protection System

-- AP: Senate Republicans Appropriations Chair Pat Browne Injured In Colorado Motorcycle Wreck, No Charges Expected To Be Filed

-- MCall: Sen. Browne Injured In Motorcycle Crash, After Motorcycle Crash In 2015 He Was Charged With His Third DUI

-- ErieT: U.S. House Committee Investigating PA Cong. Kelly For Possible Ethics Infraction For Insider Stock Buying

-- ErieT: Refugees, Immigrants Offset Population Slide, Make Erie More Diverse

-- PA Cap-Star: Longtime Republican Activist Charlie Gerow Thinks He’s The Man To Beat For PA Governor

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[Posted: September 10, 2021]  PA Environment Digest