Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 1.12.22

 

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House returns to session Jan. 12, 24, 25, 26

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

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

 

TODAY 1:30: DEP Secretary McDonnell, Second Lady Gisele Fetterman Talk About Radon Testing In Homes.  Available online.

 

-- PA Professional Geologists: Feb. 16 Webinar: Dust Suppression With Oil & Gas Produced Water Featuring Author Of Penn State Study Finding Increased Cancer Risks With Road Spreading.  1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Awarded USDA Grant To Expand Outreach To Underserved Farmers In PA, MD, VA  [PaEN]

-- NRCS-PA Offers Expanded Conservation Program Opportunities To Support Climate-Smart Agriculture In 2022  [PaEN]

 

-- Foundation For Pennsylvania Watersheds Sets Spring, Fall Grant Application Deadlines  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: New Fee Incentives For Use Of Abandoned Mine Impacted Water  [PaEN]

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Winter Road Salt Making Some Philly-Area Streams As Salty As The Ocean, Enough To Kill Wildlife

-- Bay Journal: Ahead On State Legislative Agendas: Climate, Environmental Justice, Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funds

-- WESA: Restoring Pittsburgh’s Vacant Land To Use Just Got A Little Easier With Agreement To Clear Debt To Pittsburgh Water Authority

-- DEP Took Action On 582 Permits, 92% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,348 Inspections; Responded To 1 Environmental Emergency Last Week

-- PA State Grange: Jan. 13 Farm Show Solar Energy Program. 10:00 a.m.  Available Online.

-- Yahoo! Finance: OLB Group Signs Long-Term Lease For Cryptocurrency Mining Facility In Bradford

-- Meten Begins Trial Operation Of Crypto Mining Business In PA

-- Seneca Resources Achieves Certification Of Natural Gas Production Under Equitable Origin Standard   [Compliance History in PA Starting In 2015]

-- PA Cap-Star: Republican Sen. Laughlin Invites National Fuel Gas To Relocate HQ To PA: ‘Pennsylvania Is Pro-Natural Gas, And We’re Not Going To Do These Ridiculous Mandates’

-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Hearing Officer Blocks Allegheny County’s New Coke (Coal) Oven Regulations For U.S. Steel

-- PA Cap-Star: Allegheny County’s Fine Against U.S. Steel For Air Quality Violations Too Small, Environmentalists Say

-- PG - Anya Litvak: U.S. Steel Picks Arkansas For $3 Billion Mini-Mill Investment, After Canceling Upgrade To Mon Valley Works In May

-- WeConservePA: Lackawanna County-Based Countryside Conservancy Protects 265 Acres At Base Of Elk Mountain

-- New Fossil Species Named For Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Paleontologist David S. Berman  [PaEN]

-- DCNR To Hold Jan. 18 Virtual Town Hall Meeting On Inflatable Dam Work At Shikellamy State Park.  2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Experts Remain Baffled By Last Year’s Mystery Bird Disease, Offer No Assurances The Issue Is Resolved

 

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?

 

Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law

 

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Use Fed Cash To Cleanup Abandoned Mine Polluted Waterways

 

Build Back Better Budget Bill

-- WESA: Sen. Casey Hopeful On Democrats’ Massive Social Spending Investments: ‘We Can Get There’

Other States/National/International

-- AP: EPA Moves To Crack Down On Dangerous Coal Ash Storage Ponds

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- WHYY: PA Lawmakers Nearly Deadline For New Congressional Voting District Maps, Here’s What’s Next

-- CourierT Guest Essay: Proposed Constitutional Amendments Threaten Independence Of PA Judiciary - Pennsylvanians For Modern Courts  [Republicans renew effort to control Judiciary]

-- MCall: New Muhlenberg Poll - 60% Believe 2021 Election Was Conducted Fairly; 63% Don’t Want Legislature To Overturn Certified Election Results  [Poll Results]

-- WBTimes Editorial: PA Republicans Need To Get Over The Big Lie, Drop Sham Election Probe

-- PG Editorial: Social Media Companies Allowed ‘Big Lie’ On Election Fraud To Fester

-- CourierT: Bucks County Man, 19, To Spend 14 Days In Jail As A Result Of Charges In Assault Of U.S. Capitol

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley Man Sentenced To House Arrest, Probation For Charges Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol

-- ErieT: Republican Rep. Curt Sonney Won’t Seek Reelection

-- PA Cap-Star: Republican Jeff Coleman Running For Lt. Governor To Restore Civility

-- PG Editorial: Benefits Of Hosting Republican Convention Outweigh Perils

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Voting Rights Bill Will Undermine The Rights Democrats Claim To Protect - Sen. Toomey

-- AP: Wolf: Vaccine Is Strategy To Fight COVID, Not Shutdowns 

-- PA Cap-Star: State Focused On Coordinating Federal COVID Relief, Not Statewide Mask, Vaccine Mandates

-- MCall: PA COVID Hospitalizations Top 7,000 For First Time, 197,000 New Cases Last Week

-- PG: Weekly COVID Cases Hit All-Time High In Allegheny County

-- PA Cap-Star: PA Health Officials Urge COVID Vaccines Among New, Expecting Parents

-- WITF: Centre County Schools, Penn State, Mount Nittany Medical Push Ahead As COVID Cases Climb

-- Inquirer: Philly, NJ Officials Say Peak Of Omicron Surge Could Be Near

-- AP: COVID Omicron May Be Headed For A Rapid Drop In U.S.

-- WITF: York City Police To Patrol WellSpace Hospital Amid Rising Threats And Violence Against Health Care Workers

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley School Districts Allows Students Who Don’t Want To Be In A Non-Mask Environment To Get Their Education Online

-- TribLive: North Allegheny School District File Lawsuit To Block Mask-Optional Policy Says It Endangers Their Children

-- TribLive: Freeport H.S. Goes Remote After Surging COVID Counts

-- ScrantonT: Restaurants Scrap Indoor Dining Amid Surging COVID Cases: ‘The Last Thing I Want Right Now Is A Full Dining Room’

-- ErieT: Unfounded Threat Leads To Lockdown At Erie H.S., No Weapon Found

-- PG: Student In Custody And Gun Found During Lockdown At Pittsburgh H.S.

-- PG: Pittsburgh Man Charged With Illegally Buying 34 Guns

-- PA Cap-Star: Reluctant Witnesses Hampering Gun Violence Prosecution, Philly DA Says

-- Inquirer: Delaware County Officials Say Drop In Murders In Chester Result Of ‘Unprecedented’ Collaboration

-- TribLive: Allegheny County Jail Now Says 87 Inmates In Solitary Last Month, Not 294

-- PennLive: Wrongly Labeled A Sex Offender, Central PA Man Can’t Shake Felony For Missing Job Reporting Deadline

-- WHYY: Philly School Superintendent Cites Staffing Shortfalls, Crumbling Buildings As Proof Of unconstitutional School Funding System

-- Inquirer: Philly School Superintendent Says Students Minimal Standards ‘Because That’s All They Have Access To’  [School Funding Case]

-- CentreDT: State College School Board Voices Support For PA Fair School Funding Lawsuit

-- Center Square: House Committee Approves Bills To Align PA, Federal Tax Codes

-- TribLive: Red Cross: Blood Donations Needed To Reverse Worst Shortage In A Decade 

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[Posted: January 12, 2022]  PA Environment Digest