Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 3.1.22

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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

WEDNESDAY: Senate Appropriations Committee state budget hearings: 10:00 - Department of Conservation & Natural Resources; 2:30 - Department of Environmental Protection. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building.  Click Here to watch live.

-- Budget Briefing: Senate, House Budget Hearings Should Talk About Once-In-A-Generation Investments In Cleaning Up The Environment; Oil & Gas Program At A Crossroads  [PaEN]

WEDNESDAY 10:00: House Appropriations Committee budget hearing: Department of Agriculture.  House Floor.  Click Here to watch live.

THURSDAY 10:00: Senate Appropriations Committee state budget hearings: 10:00 - Department of Agriculture. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building.  Click Here to watch live.

-- DEP Budget Hearing: Unconventional Natural Gas Industry Didn’t Drill 40% Of The Wells It Had DEP Permits For  [PaEN]

-- DEP Budget Testimony: Significant Investments In Environmental Cleanup, Improving Permit Review Times, Holding Polluters Responsible, Relief To Those Harmed By Pollution  [PaEN]

-- PG - Anya Litvak: Who Decides What ‘Responsible’ Natural Gas Production Really Means? 

-- TribLive: U.S. Gasoline Prices Rise On Higher Oil Prices Brought On By Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

 

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Lackawanna Transit Should Prepare For Electric Buses

 

-- Bay Journal: Money Grows On Trees For Owners Who Manage Small Forests To Capture Carbon, Fight Climate Change  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Western PA Watershed Groups Have High Hopes For Tapping Into Abandoned Mine Cleanup Funds

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Update: Looking At 2021 Successes! Removing Sediment To Restore Wetlands, Grants, Water Quality Monitoring

-- Register Now For Brodhead Watershed Assn. Volunteer StreamWatcher Training March 24 & 26 In Monroe County  [PaEN]

-- YorkDR: EPA Seeking Explanation From Hanover Foods After Pollution Violations

-- CourierT: DEP Opens Comment Period On PFAS Chemicals In Drinking Water

-- PUC Partners On Virtual Consumer Education Workshops In SE PA On Energy Shopping, Conservation, Customer Assistance On March 2, 9, 16   [PaEN]

-- Senators Yaw, Yudichak Request Independent Fiscal Office To Audit Modeling Done By DEP To Justify Final RGGI Regulations Reducing Carbon Pollution From Power Plants  [PaEN]

-- WBTimes: Yudichak, Yaw Request Independent Review Of ‘Outdated’ RGGI Modeling

-- Gov. Wolf: Comments On UN Panel Report: Time For Climate Action Is Now

-- WeConservePA: Glick Family Partners With Lancaster Farmland Trust Preserves 83-Acre Farm

-- Schuylkill Action Network Seeking Volunteers For 2022 Schuylkill Scrub Litter Cleanup March 1 to May 31

-- NextPittsburgh: Cinderlands Beer Joins Allegheny Cleanways, 3 Rivers Outdoor Company To Spread Awareness Of Illegal Dumping In Allegheny County

-- PennFuture Environmental Voices Podcast: Environmental Justice

-- PA Environmental Council Podcast: A Fruitful Endeavor - The Philadelphia Orchard Project

-- DCNR Plans Whitewater Release Into Tohickon Creek For Annual Boating Event In Bucks County

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: The Nature Conservancy Removes Popular, But At Risk Dam In Lackawanna County

-- Carnegie Museums Of Art & Natural History: Register Now For 2022 Summer Camps 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Game Commission Back At Enough Commissioners To Take Action

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Steelworkers In West Mifflin Celebrate 1st Bald Eagle Egg Of Season 

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: March Virtual Events On Bald Eagle, Peregrine Falcons, Women Of Hawk Mountain Panel

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Hummingbirds Are On The Move To PA, But There’s Plenty Of Time To Get Ready

-- LancasterOnline - P.J. Reilly: PA Wants More Rules For Popular Night Bowfishing

-- LancasterOnline: 84 Things For Plant Lovers To Do In March, Including Following Monarch Butterfly Migration

True Energy Independence Means More Renewables

 

-- TribLive: U.S. Gasoline Prices Rise On Higher Oil Prices Brought On By Russian Invasion Of Ukraine 

 

-- PG Editorial:  Biden Must Tell Putin A Cyberattack Would Mean War

 

-- Reuters: Germany Aims To Get 100% Of Energy From Renewable Sources By 2035

 

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

 

-- WLVR: For PA And Other States, Money From Landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Won’t Come Free

 

Other States/National/International

-- AP: U.S. Supreme Court Justices Wrestle With EPA Power To Curb Carbon Pollution

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- AP: U.S. Supreme Court Asked To Intervene In PA Congressional Voting Districts Case 

-- PA Cap-Star: Protests Demanding Action Of Lawmaker Gift Ban Disrupt House Republican Leader’s Speech

-- PG: Republican Sen. Jake Corman Touts Trumpian Bona Fides, Conservative Record During Bethel Park Town Hall [He actively worked to overturn the Nov. 2020 election results]

-- Inquirer: Republicans Running For Governor Talk A Lot About Philly Crime, But Who Are They Talking To?

-- PG: Mercer County Man Who Pleaded Guilty To Charges Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol Has Died

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Eugene DePasquale Will Not Run Against Republican Congressman Scott Perry

-- AP: Republican Congressman Fred Keller Won’t Run For Reelection Against Another Republican

-- WESA: In A Time Of Political Hostility, This Pittsburgh Author Blames ‘The Death Of God’

-- AP: PA Moves To Divest State Pension Fund Holdings In Russian Assets

-- PennLive: State Looking To Divestment Of Russian-related Assets In Pension Funds

-- TribLive Editorial: Pour One For Ukraine, But Not With Russian Vodka

-- WITF: PA Lawmakers Start Negotiations Over New State Budget

-- Inquirer: PA Medical Marijuana Sellers Offer Advice On Weed Legalization At PA Senate Hearing

-- Warren Times: PA Mulls Potential $3 Billion A Year Industry - Legalized Marijuana

-- PG: UPMC Profit Jumps 36% During COVID-Challenged Year In 2021

-- PG: Staffing Woes Driving Western PA Hospitals’ Struggles With Costs

-- PG Editorial: COVID Tests Arrived Too Late

-- LancasterOnline Editorial: Elizabethtown School Director Aludes To Holocaust In Remark About COVID Protocol, She Needs To Learn History

-- PG: Ex-Pittsburgh Teacher Sues District Over Termination For Right-Wing Facebook Post

-- TribLive Editorial: State Police Shouldn’t Be Above Scrutiny Of Outside Investigations

-- PennLive: The Pandemic Has Changed The Way We Work In Central PA

-- PennLive: Norfolk Southern Offering $5,000 Starting Bonuses For Conductor Trainees In Priority Locations

-- PG: Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Announce End Of Emergency Rental Assistance Program

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Universities Can Be Vital In Cultivating Innovation And Stimulating Economic Growth - Outgoing President Of Penn State

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[Posted:March 1, 2022]  PA Environment Digest