Friday, March 11, 2022

Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 3.11.22

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House returns to session [Budget Hearings]  March 21, 22, 23

     -- Committee Schedule

Senate returns to session [Budget Hearings] March 28, 29, 30

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events


-- TODAY 11:00: DCNR To Designate Sept. 11 National Memorial Trail A Statewide Major Greenway.  Washington Crossing Historic Park, New Hope.  Click Here to watch live.


-- Oil & Gas Industry And Their Politicians Are Pushing Hard To Hook Us To Volatile Foreign Energy Markets Where There Is No Limit On What They Can Charge You  [PaEN]


-- AP: PUC Judge: Sunoco/Energy Transfer Failed To Protect Delaware County Community During Construction Of Mariner East Pipeline, $51,000 Penalty Proposed  [PaEN]


-- PA Supreme Court To Decide If The Owner Of Mariner East Pipelines - Sunoco/Energy Transfer - Must Pay Attorneys Fees In Legal Challenges They Lost To Citizens Or Will Taxpayers  [PaEN]


-- WESA: Protect PT Joins Plum Borough Council In Fight Against 2nd Drilling Wastewater Injection Well


-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Controversial PECO Natural Gas Project Approved Near Homes In Delaware County


-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PA Policymakers Look To Provide Relief At The Gasoline Pump


-- PG - Anya Litvak: West Penn Power Agrees To Review All Inactive Equipment After Electrocution Death In 2018


-- PG Guest Essay: New Federal Rules Threaten State’s Position In Electricity Market - Glen Thomas, Fmr PUC Chair


-- DEP Invites Comments On Draft Environmental Justice Policy For Permit Reviews, 3 Virtual Hearings


-- DEP Announces $2.99 Million In Growing Greener Grants to Support 12 Water Cleanup Projects In Southwest PA; Apply Now For Grants [PaEN]


-- TribLive: $3 Million In Growing Greener Grants Announced For SW PA, Including Mill Creek In Ligonier Twp.


-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: Two Events On Grant Collaboration March 21-- NFWF, March 23- Clean Water Fund


-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Blog: Forest Fish - A Plan To Restore Habitat For Brook Trout In Pennsylvania  [PaEN]


-- Williamsport Sun - Mike Reuther: Wild Trout Flourish In Cool, Fertile Streams


-- Delaware RiverKeeper March 11 RiverWatch Video Report


-- PUC Formally Publishes Order On Net Metering - Use Of Third-Party Operators Policy


-- March 12 PA Bulletin Now Available


-- PG: Massive Water Main Break In Pittsburgh Causes Commuting Headache


-- PA Cap-Star: EPA Reinstates California Authority To Adopt Its Own Vehicle Standards, What’s Next For PA?


-- PA Resources Council Announces 2022 Household Chemical, Electronics Waste, Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Eastern, Western PA  [PaEN]


-- PA Master Naturalist: Learn How Volunteers Beth Clark (Centre County) And Todd Swanson (Delaware County) Make A Huge Difference For Nature 


-- WeConservePA: Chestnut Hill Conservancy Celebrates 50th Conservation Easement To Protect Property


-- Warren Times: Wildfire That Burned 259 Acres In Glade Twp. Ruled Arson


-- NextPittsburgh: Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Launches Restoration Project For Flagstaff Hill


-- PA Trout Unlimited 3rd Annual Women’s Leadership Retreat May 13-15 In Port Matilda, Centre County  [PaEN]


-- PA Trout Unlimited Women, Diversity And Inclusion Training Webinar March 16  [PaEN]


-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Chesapeake Bay Fish Lose Some Of Their Privacy, But It’s All For The Benefit Of Science


-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Tiny Endangered Bat From PA Sets Big Migration Record 


-- Help Wanted: Wildlife Leadership Academy Summer Field School Supervisor [PaEN]


True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[Our Dependence On Oil/Natural Gas Is Being Used As A Weapon Against Us - Again]


-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PA Policymakers Look To Provide Relief At The Gasoline Pump


-- MCall: What Cong. Wild Had To Say About Rising Gasoline Prices And Ukraine At Town Hall


-- Inquirer Editorial: Cutting Off Russian Oil Is Right Call


-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy Podcast: Organized Labor Sees Promise In Transition To Clean Energy


-- Utility Dive: Have Some Renewable Energy?  An Investor Would Like to Speak With You


-- Reuters: U.S. Push To Export LNG Amid Ukraine Crisis Slowed By Climate Concerns, Sources Say


-- NYT: As War Rages, A Struggle To Balance Energy Crunch And Climate Crisis


American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- House Democratic Leaders Call On Republican Leaders To ‘Free The Funds’ On The One Year Anniversary Of The Passage Of The Federal American Rescue Plan

 

-- $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


-- AP: New Mexico Regulators Consider More Oil And Gas Rules To Crack Down On Pollution


-- WPost: Biden’s EPA Chief Puts Power Plants On Notice For Air Pollution, Previews Suite Of New Fossil Fuel Rules


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Spotlight PA: 4 Reasons The PA Supreme Court Picked The Winning Congressional Voting Districts Map

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy/Charles Thompson: These Candidates Lack Fame And Fortune, But They Hope To Be PA’s Next Governor, U.S. Senator

-- PennLive: Dr. Oz Primes Audience For Culture War At Campaign Stop In Carlisle

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PA Policymakers Look To Provide Relief At The Gasoline Pump

-- MCall: What Cong. Wild Had To Say About Rising Gasoline Prices And Ukraine At Town Hall

-- Dept. Of Labor & Industry: Invites Unemployment Compensation Claimants To Register For Free Credit-Monitoring Services Due To Ongoing Concerns About Fraud

-- WITF: PA Agencies Pitch Higher Funding To Help Address Staffing Woes

-- AP: 4-Month Trial In Lawsuit Over PA Public School Funding Wraps

-- Inquirer: PA Lawmakers Have “Politicized’ Education Funding, Plaintiffs Argue In Landmark Trial’s Closing Arguments

-- WHYY: A ‘Catastrophic Failure’ Or ‘Above The Constitutional Threshold’? PA’s School Funding Trial Comes To A Close

-- AltoonaM: Blair County Accepts Solicitors’ Gun Sanctuary Proposal

-- AP: 2020 Census Undercounted Black, Hispanics, American Indians And Overcounted Whites, Asians

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[Posted: March 11, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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