Senate returns to session Dec. 15, Jan. 4, 10, 11, 12
-- Updated 2022 Voting Session Day Schedule
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
-- TODAY 9:00 A.M.: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee hearing on bonding and decommissioning solar and wind energy facilities-- Senate Bill 284 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) and House Bill 2104 (Rapp-R-Warren). Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch the hearing live online. Read more here.
-- TODAY 6:30 P.M.: Group Against Smog & Pollution Webinar: Making The Connection - The Link Between Pollution & Mental Illness. 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
-- THURSDAY 10:00 A.M.: Agenda Posted. DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Penn State Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd., State College. 10:00 a.m. Contact: Adam Walters, adwalters@pa.gov or call 717-214-6548. Conference Call dial 712-770-8026 and use Conference Code: 915098. [Includes discussion of road spreading conventional oil and gas wastewater, latest draft of DEP conventional oil and gas regulations.]
-- THURSDAY 10:00 A.M.: Agenda Posted. DEP Joint Recycling Fund & Solid Waste Advisory Committees meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Contact: Laura Henry lahenry@pa.gov or 717-772-5713. [Note: Includes discussion of DEP’s recommendations for changing Act 101 Recycling Act and Electronic Waste Recycling Act.]
-- PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Lawsuit To Stop Northcentral Regional ATV Trail Connector Project As Violation Of Public Trust Responsibilities [PaEN]
-- PA Wilds Finalist In National Build Back Better Regional Challenge For Up To $100 Million [PaEN]
-- Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Executive Director Julie Slavet Honored By Wyncote Audubon Society [PaEN]
-- Rodale Institute Urges Farmers, Families To Learn More About How To Grow Clean Water [PaEN]
-- WITF: PA Organic Farmers Face Uncertain 2022 As They Battle Inflation
-- PA Horticultural Society Webinar: January 25 Starting From Scratch - A Guide To Creating A New Garden With Author Page Dickey. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
-- PA Master Naturalist To Offer Spring Training Courses In Allegheny, Northern Chester, Washington Counties [PaEN]
-- EPA Accepting Nominations For Presidential Innovation Award For Environmental Educators [PaEN]
-- Nominations For President’s K-12 Environmental Youth Award Now Being Accepted By EPA [PaEN]
-- WHYY: The PFAS Exposure Study For Bucks, Montgomery Counties Has Started, Here’s How To Join
-- TribLive Editorial: Why Doesn’t PUC Monitor More Water Authorities?
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: House To Take Up Resolution To Block Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Regulations
-- WHYY: How Climate Scientists Are Decoding Philly’s Warm Weather
-- DEP Encourage Pennsylvanians To Winterize Their Homes For Savings On Utility Bills
-- PUC: Highlights Ways Consumers Can Manage Energy Use, Cost To Help Control Size Of Winter Energy Bills
-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Natural Gas Heating Bills Higher, But Natural Gas Jobs, Impact Fee Benefit Region
-- ScrantonT: Couple Who Sold Flood-Ravaged Home To Luzerne County Wants $200/Month Lease-Back
-- PA-Based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Keeping Up The Pressure Following Historic Rights Of Nature Victory In Ecuador [PaEN]
-- Now On Demand: Physicians For Social Responsibility-PA Host Virtual Conference On Health Hazards Of Oil & Gas Industry In Pennsylvania [PaEN]
-- FirstEnergy Invests In Venture Capital Fund To Help Advance Sustainable Energy Innovation
-- EPA Awards PA Company XCMR, Inc. Innovative Technology Grant For Pathogen Killer
-- Delaware River Basin Commission: Highlights Of Dec. 8 Business Meeting
-- NextPittsburgh: New Plan Could Revive Carrie Furnace Mill Site, The Stakes Are High For Rankin
-- YorkDR: New CRCD Global Plant In York Turns Plastic Waste Into Concrete Enhancing Mix [Video]
-- PennLive Guest Essay: We Need To Repair, Restore And Reuse More Things To Save Planet Earth - Christina Ciocirlan, Fulbright Scholar, Elizabethtown College
-- Lancaster Conservancy Preserves 155 Acres Along Conewago Recreation Trail [PaEN]
-- LancasterOnline - Sean Sauro: Environmental, Recreational Benefits Celebrated As Lancaster Conservancy Announces 50th Preserve
-- ReadingE: 200 Acres Preserved In 5 Recent Conservation Deals In Berks County
-- DCNR Receives $250,000 Grant For Outdoor Recreation Concierge Program
-- GantNews: You Can Improve Health With Outdoor Recreation In PA’s Parks & Forests
-- DCNR Announces $237,500 Grant For Penn Hills Community & Universal Parks In Allegheny County
-- PA Cap-Star: SW PA Trail Council Maintains Its Portion Of Great Allegheny Passage Trail Thru Donations, Volunteers
-- WBTimes: Parks And Rec To The Rescue In West Wyoming, Luzerne County
-- YorkDR Editorial: Can Kindness And Compassion Make A Comeback In 2022?
-- PennLive: Public Reports Of Spotted Lanternflies Down 50% In 2021, But That Doesn’t Tell The Whole Story: Researcher
-- Pocono Record - Brain Whipkey: Deer Camp Owner In Pocono Mountains Introduces People To The Outdoors
-- PennLive: Washington County Residents Call 911 On 100-Pound Tortoise ‘Walking Down The Street’
-- PennLive: Game Commission Warns Of Possible Rabid Fox In Cumberland County
Tornado Recovery
-- Inquirer: Philly Area Nonprofits Deploy To Kentucky After Deadly Tornadoes
American Rescue Plan Funding
-- YorkDR: York Mayor To Present Plans To Spend $35 Million In American Rescue Plan Funding
-- NYT: Republicans Who Assailed Biden’s Stimulus Bill Are Embracing The Money
Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law
-- CourierT: Why $4.4 Billion In Federal Infrastructure Funds Isn’t Enough To Fix PA Roads
Build Back Better Budget Bill
-- PA Wilds Finalist In National Build Back Better Regional Challenge For Up To $100 Million [PaEN]
-- WESA: Southwestern PA Named Finalist For Up To $100 Million In Build Back Better Money
-- PennLive Guest Essay: The Grinch Will Steal Christmas If Congress Doesn’t Pass Build Back Better Budget - By Jill Sunday Bartoli, Professor Emerita, Elizabethtown College
National/International
-- WPost: Climate Change Has Destabilized The Earth’s Poles, Putting The Rest Of The Planet In peril
-- NPR: U.N. Verified New Record High Temperature For The Arctic
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- WHYY: PA Republicans Moving New Draft Congressional Voting Districts Map, But It’s Still Mostly A Mystery
-- WESA/AP: Commission Members Face Vote On Redrawn Senate, House Voting Districts Thursday
-- Gov. Wolf Urging Pennsylvanians To Submit Their Own Congressional Voting District Mays By Dec. 15
-- AP: AP Investigation Finds Far Too Little Vote Fraud To Tip Election To Former President [PA Included]
-- AP: Vote Fraud Investigation - State By State Details [PA Included]
-- PG: AG Shapiro Heading To Court Over Republican Legislators’ Subpoena For Personal Voter Information
-- PA Cap-Star: Why We’re Fighting In Court To Protect Your Voting Information
-- MCall: House Republicans Pass Bill To Ban Nonprofit Funding From PA Elections Amid Heated Debate [Note: The state provides no funding to counties to run elections.]
-- AP: Pennsylvania Tries Again To Move Up 2024 Presidential Primary
-- PA Cap-Star: Rep. Austin Davis To Enter Lt. Gov. Race With AG Josh Shapiro’s Backing
--AP: District Of Columbia Prosecutor Sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers Over Assault on U.S. Capitol Seeking Harsh Penalties [Philadelphia Has An Active Proud Boys Chapter]
-- Inquirer: 3 More Philadelphia Proud Boys Charged In Assault On U.S. Capitol
-- ScrantonT: Feds Want PA Man Jailed For Charges Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol
-- Inquirer: Gunfire Tears Thru Offices Of Philly State Sen. Street, NAACP, Leaving One Man In Critical Condition
-- WHYY: Man Injured, Offices Of PA Senator, NAACP Damaged By Gunfire In Philadelphia
-- WHYY: Philly Police, AG Shapiro Tout Reductions In Shootings In Some Parts Of West Philly
-- TribLive: Shots Fired Outside Walmart In Pittsburgh, Police Looking For 4 Suspects
-- MCall Guest Essay: Why PA Should Immediately Repeal Its Stand Your Ground Gun Laws - Mark Pensley, U.S. Army Veteran
-- PG Editorial: Young People Need A Purpose To Cut Gun Violence
-- TribLive: Allegheny County Man Gets Federal Prison For Throwing Concrete, Pipes At Police During George Floyd Protests
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Republicans Move Another Constitutional Amendment To Cut Governor Out Of Amendment Process
-- Spotlight PA: Pennsylvania Revises Confederate Markers, Recasts Forces As ‘Enemy’ Soldiers
-- Dept. Of Health: Weekly Update On COVID Trends In Deaths, Cases, Hospitalizations, Vaccinations
-- PennLive: COVID Killing Younger People In PA
-- ScrantonT: 3 NE PA Counties Hit COVID Case Milestones As Virus Surge Continues
-- TribLive: COVID Cases Create ‘Desperate’ Situation At Westmoreland Hospitals
-- LancasterOnline: Parents Share Fears As Surgical Procedures Delayed Due To COVID Surge
-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Sets Pandemic Record For COVID Hospitalizations
-- LancasterOnline: Fulton Theatre Cancels Cinderella Performances After Actors Test Positive For COVID
-- ErieT: Erie Hospital Sees 2 Young Adult Patients Die From COVID On Same Day
-- ErieT: Wolf: PA Has No Plans To Issue New Mask Mandate, ‘Vaccines Are Our Strategy’
-- Fox43: Republicans Rally Against Vaccine, Mask, Other COVID Medical Mandates
-- WHYY: How Philly’s Indoor Dining COVID Vaccine Mandate Will Work
-- YorkD: COVID Patient Dies After Winning Court Order To Be Treated With Ivermectin
-- PG: She Was The First Vaccinated In Pittsburgh, One Year Later, Has Anything Changed?
-- PennLive - Joyce Davis: Truly Good People May Give You The Shirts Off Their Backs, But They Keep Their Masks Firmly In Place
-- PG: Warren Hospital Strike Called Off After Workers, Company Reach Tentative Contract
-- MCall - Paul Muschick: Why I Think PA Republican Lawmakers Are Phonies When They Act Concerned About COVID
-- TribLive Editorial: Pandemic Is No Time For Polarization; 650 Pennsylvanians Died Of COVID Last Week Alone [“They were people who needed to have their leaders working toward solutions instead of positioning for a win.”]
-- YorkDR Editorial: Can Kindness And Compassion Make A Comeback In 2022?
-- CitizensV: Flu Cases Rising Sharply In Pennsylvania
-- PA Cap-Star: Senate Committee Advances Republican Fetal Remains Legislation
-- LancasterOnline Editorial: Lawmakers Need To Pass Legislation To Ensure Access To Telemedicine
-- PG: FBI: PA Led Nation In Data Breach Losses In 2020; Cyber Ransom Attacks Costing PA Victims Millions
-- WHYY: Number Of Women Doing Gig Work In Philly Region Surged During Pandemic
-- Inquirer: Philly Business Owner Pleaded Guilty To Using Nearly $1 Million In PPP Aid To Buy A House, Cars, Jewelry
-- ErieT: Erie Restaurant Remains Closed Despite $500,000 Federal Aid, Here’s Why
-- ErieT: Feds Give More Than $10 Million To Erie County Restaurants
-- TribLive: Leechburg School District To Monitor Student Emails Via Google App
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[Posted: December 15, 2021] PA Environment Digest
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