Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 2.9.22

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Senate returns to session Feb. 9 [Budget Hearings]

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session Feb. 9 [Budget Hearings]

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

TODAY Noon: DEP Announces Funding For Projects To Protect Lake Erie Coastal Zone

TODAY 5:00: Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Game and Fisheries Committees Joint Hearing on Chronic Wasting Disease.  American Legion, 3721 U.S. 220 BUS, Bedford.

-- Environmental Hearing Board Strengthens DEP’s Clean Streams Law Complaint Investigation Process - By Martin R. Siegel, Esq., Barley Snyder  [PaEN]

-- Gov. Wolf’s Environmental Budget Builds On Bipartisan Support For $450 Million Conservation Allocation From Federal ARP Funds; Increases DEP Staff To Manage Historic Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding  [PaEN]

-- Critical Budget Issue: How Will The General Assembly Help Communities, Workers Transition To Clean Energy?  [PaEN]

-- NFWF Now Accepting Applications For Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Small Watershed Grants  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Lower Susquehanna RiverKeeper Joins Talks To End Harrisburg Sewage Overflows

-- Penn State: Soil Disturbance In Farming Reduces Availability Of ‘Longevity Vitamin’ Ergothioneine In Crops

-- PEC: Northeast PA Environmental Partnership Award Winners - The Stourbridge Project & Greater Wyoming Valley Audubon Society  [PaEN]

 

-- PUC Hosts Pittsburgh ‘Be Utility Wise’ Virtual Conference For Human Services Groups Feb. 22

 

-- DEP Took Action On 669 Permits, 96% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,432 Inspections; Responded To 6 Environmental Emergencies Last Week

 

-- PA Environmental Council: Catching A Wave - First Waves Program Engages Youth With Nature

 

-- Wildlands Conservancy Accepting Registrations For Summer Camps

 

-- PA Environmental Council: ‘Good People’ Make The Difference - Diane Kripas

 

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Want To Work At Fallingwater? Job Fair Set For Feb. 15 To Fill 10 Positions

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Punxsutawney Phil’s Forecast Less Than A Degree In Temperature Difference

 

American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- WHYY: Upper Darby Narrowly Avoids Government Shutdown Amid Claim Of Missing ARPA Funds

 

-- $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

-- USDA To Invest $1 Billion In Climate Smart Commodities, Expanding Markets, Strengthening Rural America

-- Reuters: Biden Administration Sees Carbon Capture As Key Tool In Climate Fight

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Gov. Wolf Proposes New Investments To Building Successful Future For Pennsylvania Families

-- Gov. Wolf’s In-Depth Summary Of FY 2022-23 Budget Proposal

-- Gov. Wolf’s FY 2022-23 Budget Proposal Spreadsheet

-- Gov. Wolf’s 2022 Budget Address Text As Prepared  

-- AP: Wolf’s Final Budget, Like His First, Features Public Schools

-- Spotlight PA: Wolf Asks Republican-Led Legislature To Spend PA’s Federal Aid Dollars As He Pitches $1.8 Billion Boost For Public Education

-- PennLive: Wolf’s Final Budget Plan Gives Bills More To Education While Helping Businesses

-- PA Cap-Star: Wolf Announces $43.7 Billion Spending Proposal

-- PA Cap-Star: How PA Politicians Reacted To Wolf’s 2022-23 Budget Proposal

-- PennLive: Wolf, Legislative Foes Speak To Different Pennsylvanians And Realities On Budget Day

-- PA Cap-Star: How PA’s Advocacy Community Reacted To Wolf’s Budget Plan

-- Senate Republicans: Governor’s Budget Less About Pennsylvania, More About Legacy

-- House Republicans: Wolf’s Spending Proposal Not A Serious Plan To Move PA Forward

-- PG: Wolf Pushes ‘Giant Step Forward’ For PA’s K-12 Education During Budget Address

-- PG: State-Owned Universities Would Get Historic Funding Boost Under Wolf’s Budget Proposal

-- TribLive Editorial: Wolf’s Last Budget Address Leans on Familiar Ideas

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Wolf’s Budget Further Exposes School Funding Inequities

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: Sick And Disabled Would Not Be Forgotten If PA Gets Rid of its Mail Balloting Law

-- Spotlight PA: See How Final House Voting District Map Scores

-- Spotlight PA: See How Final Senate Voting District Map Scores

-- LancasterOnline Editorial: Don’t Buy Nonsense About Election ‘Anomalies’ In Lancaster County

-- Rep. Longietti (D) Will Not Seek Reelection

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Republican Rep. Rothman Eyes Open Senate Seat

-- Inquirer: McCormick’s Longtime Praise For China And Trade Could Be Liability In U.S. Senate Run

-- PA Cap-Star: Republicans On Senate Committee Approve Bill Calling For U.S. Constitutional Convention

-- LancasterOnline: Republican Leaders Withdraw Witness In School Funding Trial Accused Of Plagiarism

-- Dept. Of Health: Weekly Update On COVID Cases, Vaccinations, Hospitalizations

-- PG: COVID Cases Drop Sharply In Allegheny County, Across Pennsylvania

-- PennLive: Most Deaths In PA County Jails Went Unreported: ‘It Is Appalling’

-- WHYY: Berks County Immigrant Detention Center Reopens As Women-Only Facility

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Gun Control Schemes Do Nothing More Than Disarm People Who Need Protection Most

-- CentreDT: Community Voices Concerns Following Assault Tied To Racist Photo At State College H.S.

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[Posted: February 9, 2022]  PA Environment Digest