Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 1.18.22

 

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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

 

TODAY 12:30: Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 12:30. See webpage for remote options to join the meeting.  Contact: Keith Salador 717-787-8171 or ksalador@pa.gov.  Click Here for more on the agenda.

 

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

 

-- Penn State To Survey Farmers In 14 Counties On Their Use Of Conservation Practices  [PaEN]

 

-- The Progress: Clearfield County Conservation District Awarded Grant For Countywide Clean Water Action Plan Projects

 

-- Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Highlights 2021 Accomplishments

 

-- PA Environmental Council Podcast: A Conversation With Hannah Smith-Brubaker Of PASA On Regenerative Agriculture

 

-- Penn State Entomologists To Study How Climate Change May Influence Pollinator Stressors

 

-- AltoonaM: Altoona Prepares Several New Stormwater Projects

 

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: York County Lawmaker To Lead State Delegation To Chesapeake Bay Commission

 

-- ‘Trust The People’- Amend The State Constitution To Authorize Citizens To Establish New Laws Without The General Assembly  [PaEN]

 

-- TribLive: Co-Founder Of Fox Chapel Parks Conservancy To Announce Run For House

 

-- Inquirer: PA Has Highest Gasoline Prices East Of Rockies, Blame High [International] Crude Oil Prices

 

-- Penn State Research: Nanoscale Window Coating Could Help Reduce Energy Costs

 

-- Penn State: Integrated Modeling Of Climate Impacts On Electricity Demand And Cost

 

-- Penn State Awarded $3.4 Million DOE Contract To Target Upcycling Plastic Waste

 

-- Register Now For PA Chapter American Water Works Assn. Annual Conference April 25-27 In State College  [PaEN]

 

-- PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Webinar: Feb. 18 - Social Media & Marketing For Environmental Educators. Noon to 1:00 p.m.

 

-- CitizensV: Second Mine Car Moved To Miners’ Memorial Park In Ashley

 

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: A ‘Blizzard Of Snow Geese At PA’s Middle Creek Wildlife Area

 

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: January Virtual Programs, Including Migration Season Wrap Up  

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: These Are The Most Seen Birds In Our Backyards

 

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

-- PennLive: Maryland County Proposal Would Mandate New Homes Have Wiring For Electric Vehicle Charging

-- AP: Race To Cut Carbon Emissions Splits U.S. State On Nuclear Energy

-- Financial Times: Industry Steels Itself For Challenge Of ‘Net Zero’ Manufacturing

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- LancasterOnline: PA Republicans’ Hedge Language May Save Them From Prosecution Over Fake Electoral Vote Scheme 

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Reject Republican Bill To Gerrymander Judicial Branch

-- YorkD Editorial: Republicans March Backwards On Redistricting

-- LancasterOnline Editorial: Fierce Urgency Of The Battle For Voting Rights Demands We Join It 

-- TribLive Editorial: PA Senate Shouldn’t Be Childish With Open Records

-- TribLive: Experts Back CDC Guidance Recommending N95, KN95 Masks

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Public Schools Close, Cancels Activities Tuesday Due To COVID Surge

-- TribLive: Judge Orders North Allegheny School District To Reinstate Universal Masking

-- PG: Other Transit Agencies Not Suffering From Vaccine Mandate Proposed By Pittsburgh Authority

-- PG: Here’s How To Get Free At-Home COVID Tests

-- PG Editorial: Give Young People A Voice On Gun Violence

-- PA Cap-Star: Allentown Police In Line To Undergo Active Bystander Training

-- LancasterOnline: Efforts To Ban Books In Lancaster County School Districts Part Of National Trend

-- ScrantonT: Grocery Stores Continue To Feel Effects Of Supply Chain Issues

-- PennLive: Staffing Shortages Still Hurting Retailers As Sales Are ‘Through The Roof’

-- Inquirer Editorial: Lawmakers Must Seize The Opportunity To Upgrade Public Transit In PA

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[Posted: January 18, 2022]  PA Environment Digest