Monday, February 7, 2022

Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 2.7.22

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Senate returns to session Feb. 7, 8, 9

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session Feb. 7, 8, 9

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

 

TODAY 9:30 a.m.: House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee informational meeting on DEP’s Program To Plug Oil & Gas Wells Abandon By Conventional Drillers and Federal Funds Available For This Purpose.  Room 515 Irvis Building. 9:30 a.m.  Click Here to watch live.  [Read more here.]

 

TODAY 9:30 a.m.: WITF Smart Talk: Road Salt Hazardous To The Environment?


TUESDAY Noonish: Governor’s Budget Address


-- February 7 PA Environment Digest Now Available  [PaEN]


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


-- AP: What To Watch For In Gov. Wolf’s Budget Proposal

 

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Surpluses And Electioneering Set Stage For Wolf’s Final Budget 

 

-- Inquirer: How A Rainy Day, Fish Launched Penn State’s Center For Dirt & Gravel Studies

 

-- WeConservePA, Partners Host New 4-Part Solar Energy Webinar Series Beginning March 17 [PaEN]


-- PPL Foundation: Powering A Brighter Future Technical School/ College Scholarship Program


-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Low-Altitude A-10 Warthog Combat Training Protested As Threat To PA Wilds


-- WarrenT: Hundreds Take Part In Winterfest At Chapman State Park


-- DEP Soliciting Bids To Plug 7 Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Conventional Well Drillers In Chapman State Park In Warren County

 

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Bear Reports Spike During Pandemic As Harvests Also Rise In Western PA


-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Poachers Pay More Than $50 Per Found Fine For Illegally Taking A Deer

 

American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- Inquirer: Wolf Wants To Release $1.7 Billion In American Rescue Plan Funding To Help Small Business Owners, Conservation, Others

 

-- $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

 

-- PA Cap-Star: States Prepare As Fraudsters Get Set To Pounce On Infrastructure Law Windfalls

 

Other States/National/International


-- Financial Times Guest Essay: Climate Disasters Are Like Another 9/11 For Insurers


-- Financial Times: ‘Net Zero’ Plans By Some Of World’s Biggest Companies Accused Of Falling Short


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- AP: What To Watch For In Gov. Wolf’s Budget Proposal 

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Surpluses And Electioneering Set Stage For Wolf’s Final Budget 

-- Inquirer: Wolf Wants To Release $1.7 Billion In American Rescue Plan Funding To Help Small Business Owners, Conservation, Others

-- LancasterOnline: Elections Group Claims Fraud In Lancaster County, Won’t Supply Evidence 

-- Inquirer: Fetterman Got A Lot Of Cash From Snail Mail

-- WHYY: IBEW Local 98 Union In Philadelphia Has More Campaign Cash Than Ever

-- WilliamsportS: PA Republican State Lawmakers, Members Of Congress Propose Capping Health Care Facility Workers’ Pay To Save Facilities Money

-- PG Guest Essay: Mask Mandates Harm Children And America’s Future - Dr. Oz, Republican For U.S. Senate

-- YorkD: Falls Surpass Overdoses As Leading Cause Of Death In York County As Population Ages  

-- WHYY: Telemedicine Eliminated Racial Health Gap During Pandemic, Study Says

-- PennLive Editorial: Wolf, Lawmakers Pledged To Stop Sending Kids To Adult Prisons, But They Haven’t Changed The Law

-- WESA/AP: Amid Scrambles For Teachers, Some Fear Worse Shortages Ahead

-- PG Editorial: Adressing The Teacher Shortage [Yes, They Spelled Addressing Wrong]

-- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: Fair School Funding For Every PA Student, Not Just A Few - Pottstown School District

-- ReadingE Editorial: State has Money To Boost Public School Funding

-- ScrantonT: Private Scranton Cyber Academy Enrollment Surpasses High Schools

-- ScrantonT Editorial: No Defense For Adequately Funded Public Schools, So Republicans Change The Subject

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Council Members Give Themselves 6.3% Pay Raise

-- PA Cap-Star: 10 Weird Laws Still On The Books In PA: Hunting Big Game To Barring Bingo

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[Posted: February 7, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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