Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 1.17.22

 

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Senate returns to session Jan. 18, 19, 24, 25, 26

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House returns to session Jan. 24, 25, 26

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

 

-- Two Bipartisan Bills Just Sitting In Senate Waiting To Address Record Number Of Water Quality Impaired Streams Reported In 2022  [PaEN]

 

-- DEP 2022 Water Quality Report Shows 27,886 Miles Of Streams With Impaired Water Quality In PA (33%) - An Increase From 25,468 In 2020  [PaEN]

-- PG - Anya Litvak: New Pittsburgh Well-Plugging Company, Leak Detection Firm Tackle Landscape Of Gas & Oil Wells Abandoned By Conventional Well Drillers 

 

-- January 17 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN]

 

-- This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues [PaEN]

 

-- Spotlight PA: PA Republicans Answered Wolf’s Pandemic Vetoes With Constitutional Changes, That Strategy Is Here To Stay

 

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Catch Up On Goals To Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

 

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: How Road Salt And Increasing Salinity Impact Our Aquatic Resources

 

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: One Man’s Dedication To Cleaning Up Litter Along the River Offers An Example Of How To Make A Difference In 2022

 

-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: Accepting Songs Of The Susquehanna Entries Thru Jan. 31

 

-- GreenPhilly: How Local Environmental Centers Are Bringing Inclusion For Underserved Communities Outdoors In Delaware River Basin 

 

-- WLVR: Meet ‘Meeko,’ The Lehigh Valley Zoo’s Plastics Recycling Raccoon

 

-- PG: Cold, Wet Run On North Country Trail Raised $15,000 For A Nigerian Family

 

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?

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Spotlight PA: PA Republicans Answered Wolf’s Pandemic Vetoes With Constitutional Changes, That Strategy Is Here To Stay

-- PA Cap-Star: Where To Draw Voting District Lines In Black, Latino Communities At Center Of PA Legislative Map Fight

-- TribLive Guest Essay: House Redistricting Plan Will Improve Latino Representation - Reps Burgos, Cruz, Guzman (Ds)

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: End Prison Gerrymandering: Count People In Philly-Run Jails In Their Home Districts

-- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: Prison Gerrymandering: Who Counts In PA? That Depends On Who’s Counting

-- WESA: Pittsburgh Could Make $200 Million From Republican Convention, But There’s No Guarantee

-- Inquirer: Staff At Montgomery County Addiction, Behavioral Hospital Say They’re Understaffed And Unprotected From COVID

-- TribLive: More COVID Tests From Feds Likely To Help On Western PA Schools Already Using Them

-- PG: Staffing Issues Stresses Western PA 911 Centers Due To COVID 

-- Inquirer: Penn To Invest Nearly $5 Million Over 5 Years In Another West Philly School

-- ReadingE: State Of The Art Esports Facility Coming To Albright College

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Don’t Blame COVID For Turnover In PA College Presidents

-- The Mercury: Teen Come Out For Newly Created Kutztown Banned Book Club

-- Inquirer: Community-Based Violence Prevention Works, But It Needs Sustained Support

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[Posted: January 17, 2022]  PA Environment Digest