Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 1.14.22

 

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

-- DCNR Accepting Nominations For 2022 Watershed Forestry Leadership Award  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Blog: 2021 Year In Review From DCNR  [PaEN]

 

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: PA Contends Its New Cleanup Plan Will Meet Chesapeake Bay Goals [PaEN]

 

-- WITF: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Gets Grant To Help Disadvantaged Farmers

 

-- YorkDR: Rep. Gillespie Elected Chair Of PA Chesapeake Bay Commission Delegation

 

-- TribLive: Big Sewickley Creek Watershed Assn. Wants Stream Restoration, Not Credits From Revolution Pipeline Settlement In Beaver County 

 

-- Game Commission: Howard Nursery Seedling Orders Being Accepted; Seedlings For Schools Program Opens Jan. 31  [PaEN]

 

-- DEP Funds 12 Projects Totalling $574,974 In Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone

 

-- U.S.G.S. PA Water Science Center Winter Pennsylvania Waters Newsletter Now Available  [PaEN]

 

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Jan. 14 RiverWatch Video Report

 

-- YorkDR: See And Hear Susquehanna River Ice - Video

 

-- Senate Democratic Policy Committee Jan. 28 Hearing On $300 Million Anthracite Ridge Wind Farm In Schuylkill County  [PaEN]

 

-- ErieT: Wabtec Sells 4 More Erie-Build Electric Locomotives

 

-- WHYY: Voter Registration And Citywide Cleanups: How To Get Involved In Philly’s MLK Day of Service

 

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: South Philly Residents Worried About Hilco Refining Operations Permits At Fmr Philadelphia Refinery Site

 

-- WHYY: Philly Hits A ‘Crossroads’ Of Environmental Justice At Ex-Philly Refinery

 

-- Sen. Bartolotta: Online Meeting Of PA Legislative Gas & Oil Caucus - Prices Increases For Natural Gas & Oil Primary Topic - Video

 

-- City Of Philadelphia: Nominate Your Local Climate Champ!

 

-- PA Bulletin - January 15 Issue Now Available

 

-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Aqua PA Adds A Bucks County Sewer System To Its Portfolio For $53 Million

 

-- DEP Encourages Residents To Test For Radon, Highlights Opportunity To Request Free Testing Kit

 

-- PG: Recycle By Refilling: Meet The Women Bringing ‘Refilleries’ To Pittsburgh

 

-- Natural Lands Preserves Land Along White Clay Creek In Chester County  [PaEN]

 

-- Land Conservancy Of Adams County, Knouse Foods, Partners Protect Fly-Fishing Access Along Conewago Creek  [PaEN]

 

-- TribLive: Green Space In Sewickley Area To Grow More Than 90 Acres

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Search-And-Rescue Also A Thing In PA Parks

 

-- TribLive: Allegheny Twp. Supervisor Donates $2,500 For Gate To Curb Vandalism In Finnin Park

 

-- PA State Museum Lunch & Learn Webinar: Jan. 14 - Adventures In Nature Lab: American Eels In The Susquehanna River.  12:15 p.m.

 

-- Fish & Boat Commission Board Quarterly Meeting January 24

 

American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.  What’s Your Community Doing?

Other States/National/International

-- U.S. Dept. Of Energy To Hire 1,000 Clean Energy Corps Workers

-- AP: Earth Experiences 6th Warmest Year On Record In 2021

-- The New Yorker: The U.S. Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Efforts To Protect The Environment

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- WITF: Police, Constables In PA Joined ‘Anti-Government’ Oath Keepers

-- NPR: Oath Keepers Founder, 10 Others, Charged With Seditious Conspiracy Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Republican Sen. Mastriano Endorses Fellow Army Veteran For Lt. Governor

-- PG: Republican U.S. Senate Candidate David McCormick Buys Home In Pittsburgh’s East End

-- AP: Ex-Hedge Fund CEO David McCormick Enters Topsy-Turvey Republican U.S. Senate Race

-- Inquirer: Philly’s Largest Worker Union Backing Democratic Rep. Kenyatta For U.S. Senate

-- PA Cap-Star: U.S. Senate Democratic Hopefuls Fetterman, Lamb Join Call For Congressional Stock-Trading Ban

-- WBTimes: Rep. Mullery Will Not Seek Reelection In 2022

-- ErieT: City Of Erie Will Challenge U.S. Census Count

-- PG: PA To Receive An Extra $1.63 Billion In Federal Infrastructure Funds To Fix Bridges From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

-- WHYY: Schools Can’t ‘Cure Every Societal Ill’ Republican Lawyers Argue In School Funding Lawsuit

-- WITF: Want To Know Where COVID Will Spread? Ask People If They Plan To Follow CDC Guidelines, Researchers Say

-- ErieT: Erie County Executive Says Vaccines, Testing Provide Path Out Of COVID Surge

-- CourierT: When Do PA Hospitals Turn To Crisis Standards Of Care?  What Does That Mean To Patients

-- Inquirer: CDC And Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia Guidelines For Schools Still Recommend Masks To Keep Students In Classrooms

-- PA Cap-Star: 6 Months Into School Year, Here’s How Pittsburgh Schools Are Managing Pandemic

-- Inquirer: 102 Philly Schools Closed Due To COVID, At Some Still Open ‘Everything’s Not Fine’

-- TribLive Editorial: If Schools Want Parents To Decide About Masks, How Do They Enforce That?

-- NextPittsburgh: Pittsburgh Public Schools, Other Districts Address Pandemic Learning Interruptions

-- PG: California U., Clarion, Edinboro To Have In-Person Classes, But With New COVID Rules

-- NPR: U.S. Supreme Court Halts COVID Vaccine Mandate For U.S. Businesses

-- YorkDR: A PA Mom: ‘The Opioid Crisis No Longer Exists, It’s Now The Fentanyl Crisis’

-- AP: AG Shapiro: Settlement With Student Loan Collection Company Results In Canceling $1.7 Billion In Debt Owed By 66,000 Students

-- PG: AG Shapiro: Navient Reaches $1.85 Billion Settlement Over Student Loan Practices

-- WHYY: Philly Lawmakers Call On Penn To Revoke Professor’s Tenure After Racist Comments

-- WHYY: Lawyer Who Once Clerked For RBG To Serve As Penn’s Next President

-- PennLive: Fmr Judicial Advocate Appointed To Be Board Of Prisons Secretary

-- Inquirer: Republican Rep. White Wants To Ban Philly DA From Serving 3rd Term

-- KYW: Philadelphia Police Outline Plan To Combat Rising Carjackings In City

-- WHYY: Delaware County Community Members Demand Justice For 8-Year-Old Fanta Bility Shot By Police

-- PG Editorial: Send Rogers Pittsburgh Police Taser Case To Harrisburg For Justice

-- WHYY: City Of Chester Receiver Says City Officials Gave Themselves Raises ‘Yet Again,’ Intends To Go To Court

-- WHYY: Why A Philly Business Decided To Sit Out The Sports Betting Boom

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[Posted: January 14, 2022]  PA Environment Digest