Sunday, July 31, 2022

Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 7.31.22

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House returns to session September 12, 13, 14

     -- Committee Schedule

Senate returns to session September 19, 20, 21

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

 

MONDAY 1:00: PennDOT, DEP, DCED, State Police, Keep PA Beautiful Kick Off Anti-Litter Campaign. City Island Boat Launch, Harrisburg

 

-- 91 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA  [PaEN]

 

-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students And Adults  [PaEN]

 

-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week  [PaEN]


-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Cong. Cartwright Bipartisan STREAM Act Package Can Be Used To Clean Up NE PA’s Waterways


-- Scranton Times: U.S. House Passes Bill To Address Ongoing Costs Of Abandoned Mine Drainage

 

-- NRCS-PA: Apply Now For Climate Smart Agriculture And Soil Health Conservation Innovation Grants  [PaEN]

 

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Historic U.S. Senate Climate, Energy Bill True Progress

 

-- Pennsylvania: It Will Flood Here: Are You Prepared?  Get Flood Insurance Now!  [PaEN]


-- Citizens Voice Editorial: Luzerne County Should Speed Decision On West Pittston Levee


-- Reading Eagle: Albright College Summer Camp Part Of Science Research Institute’s Effort To Change Education


-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: These Key Projects Would Boost Quality-Of-Life In York County [Recreation, Land Conservation, Farm, Historic]


-- Citizens Voice: North Branch Land Trust Receives PPL Foundation Grant


-- LancasterOnline - P.J. Reilly: Hitting The Midpoint Of The Appalachian Trail, The Easy Way In Cumberland County


-- Citizens Voice: Wilkes-Barre Mayor Vows Crackdown On Illegal ATVs In September


-- Republican Herald: Mortimer, The Runaway Tortoise, Found Safe Returns Home In Schuylkill County

 

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]

 

-- WSJ: America’s New Energy Crisis - Fossil Fuel Plants Closing Faster Than Green Alternatives Replace Them

 

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?

 

Other States/National/International

 

-- AP: Wildfires In West Explode In Size Amid Hot, Windy Conditions


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Democrats: Mastriano’s Pursuit Of Extremist Voters Makes Him Unfit To Serve As Governor

-- Post-Gazette: Republican Lt. Gov. Candidate DelRosso Plays Balancing Act With Runningmate Mastriano

-- TribLive Editorial: Wolf And Legislature Resort To Cartoon Cat Fighting [Over Constitutional Amendments]

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Reading, Writing And Guns For Teachers

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: Why Is PA Still Arguing About Undated Mail-In Ballots?  Judges Have Ruled, Count Them 

-- Post-Gazette: Legal Battles Flare Over UPMC, Star Surgeons

-- MCall: PA Hospital Profits Jumped In 2021 Report Says, But Some Dispute The Findings

-- MCall: PA Medical Marijuana Grower Lays Off Dozens, Says Industry Taken Over By Out-Of-Staters

-- PA Capital-Star: Philadelphia Announces Targeted Vaccine Response To Monkeypox

-- AP: New York City Declares Monkeypox A Public Health Emergency

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Going To The Source Of Gun Violence

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[Posted: July 31, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

91 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Here are 91 new stories in the
PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Thank you for your leadership!


-- Gov. Wolf Announces Evaluation Of How DEP Regulates Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling & The Industry’s Compliance With Environmental Safeguards [PaEN]

 

-- Penn State Study: Potential Pollution Caused By Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Makes It Unsuitable For A Dust Suppressant, Washes Right Off The Road Into The Ditch  [PaEN]

 

-- Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter?  What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?  [PaEN]


-- Environmental Health Project Profile: Dr. John Stolz, Duquesne University - Monitoring Impact Of Shale Gas Extraction On Private Water Wells, Groundwater In SW PA  [PaEN]


-- AG Shapiro: Southeast Directional Drilling Pleads Guilty To Contaminating Water Supply In Washington County, To Pay $15,000 Fine  [PaEN]


-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Lawsuit Claims Diversified Energy And EQT Drilling Played Hot Potato With Oil & Gas Well Plugging Liabilities   


-- Bloomberg Law: States Will Get Billions To Plug Orphan Oil Wells, Is It Enough?


-- The New Republic: Tiny PA Town Of 700 Declared War On Fracking Industry In 2014, They’re Finally Getting Their Day In Court, Its Own State Is Fighting Against It


-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Leaving Beaver County As Shell’s Ethane Cracker Plant Sets To Open 

 

-- Appalachian Voices: Bipartisan STREAM Act Passes U.S. House To Address Long-Term Mine Drainage Cleanup  [PaEN]

 

-- AP: U.S. Senate Democrats, Sen. Manchin Agree On Largest Single Investment In Measures To Fight Climate Change, Assess Methane Leak Fees On Oil & Gas Facilities  [PaEN]


-- Post-Gazette: PA Climate Advocates ‘Excited’ After Manchin’s Sudden Turn Gets Budget Bill Compromise

 

-- StateImpactPA: What To Know About DEP’s Newest Plan To Reduce Pollution To The Chesapeake Bay

 

-- Latest DEP Chesapeake Bay Update: DEP Sees Significant Increases In Large Area Farm BMP Implementation [PaEN]

 

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: PA Poultry Company Settles Water Pollution Suit For $1 Million

 

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Celebrate Recent Grants; Accepting Watershed Leadership Academy Applications  [PaEN]

 

-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Install Downspout Planters, Naturalize Stormwater Basins, Plant Live Stake Nursery With KPB, The GIANT Company Healing The Planet Grant  [PaEN]

 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Decades In The Making, ALCOSAN Deals With One Of Pittsburgh’s Most Intractable Problems - Massive Stormwater Runoff

 

-- Lancaster Farming: Lehigh Valley Master Watershed Steward Program Receives Healing The Plant Grant

 

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Teen's Experiment To Monitor Local Water Quality Wins At Science Fair  [PaEN]

 

-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: Passing The Internship Torch From Older To Younger Brother; Partnership With Grove City College  [PaEN]

 

-- Reading Eagle: Albright College Summer Camp Part Of Science Research Institute’s Effort To Change Education

 

-- Pike/Wayne County Homeowner Environmental Resource Fair July 29  [PaEN]

 

-- WLVT: Rodale Institute Will Invest $3 Million PA Grant To Build Organic Farming Research Center

 

-- StateCollege.com: July 30 Community Day Offers Activities To Learn How To Protect Marsh Creek In Howard, Centre County

 

-- Reading Eagle: Long-Term Benefits Of Dam Removal On Cacoosing Creek Outweigh Sediment Impacts [Video]

 

-- Altoona Mirror: Blair Conservation District Hosting Free Rain Barrel Giveaway July 28

 

-- PA Outdoor Writers Association Awards $9,000 In Youth Education Grants To 14 Recipients  [PaEN]

 

-- North Branch Land Trust Receives PPL Foundation Grant For 'Loving Our Local Waters - Amando Nuestras Aguas Locales'; Bilingual Stewardship Sign Contest Open  [PaEN]

 

-- WHYY: Take Me To The River -Academy Of Natural Sciences Sends Visitors Outside To The Schuylkill River

 

-- Call For Presentations: Bucknell University's 17th River Symposium Nov. 4-5  [PaEN]

 

-- EQB Meets Aug. 9 On Final Reg. Setting Manganese Toxics Water Quality Standard, RACT For Major Sources Of Nitrogen Oxides  [PaEN]

 

-- Penn State Extension: July Is Lake Appreciation Month In Pennsylvania; Interpreting Water Tests; Field Guide To Aquatic Plants  [PaEN]

 

-- PennDOT, DEP Highlight Commitment To Clean Transportation By Sheetz, Pittsburgh Clean Cities, PPL; Update On Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding  [PaEN]

 

-- PA Capital-Star: With Millions In Federal Funding, PennDOT Charges Ahead On Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Development In PA

 

-- Electrification Coalition Applauds PA For Submitting Plan To Build EV Charging Infrastructure Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law  [PaEN]

 

-- Pennsylvania, 18 U.S., Canadian Jurisdictions Push Ahead With Action Plan For 100% Electrification Of Medium, Heavy-Duty Vehicles By 2050   [PaEN]

 

-- Utility Dive: Nearly 20 States, Including PA, Push Ahead With Action Plan For 100% Electrification Of Medium, Heavy-Duty Vehicles By 2050 

 

-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: We Need Strong Standards For Polluting Trucks - Mom’s Air Force

 

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Here’s What Biden, Congress Can Do Right Away To Fight Climate Change, Help Appalachia


-- PASA Sustainable Agriculture: Farmer Climate Story: Thistle Creek Farms, Huntingdon County 


-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Local Climate Solutions Are The Way Forward


-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Climate Action Must Be Strategic, Not Apocalyptic

 

-- WFMZ: Proposed Poconos Solar Energy Project, PA’s Largest, Gets DEP Permit

 

-- NBC10: Philly’s Clean Energy Goals Languish As Solar Farm In Adams County Remains Unbuilt/SEPTA Solar Farm In Franklin County In Operation

 

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: It Takes An Ecovillage To Raise A Child [Rachel Carson EcoVillage] - Stefani Danes, Remaking Cities Institute At Carnegie Mellon University

 

-- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Oct. 4 Harnessing Hydrogen: Exploring Local & Regional Opportunities In Appalachia  [PaEN]

 

-- U.S. Dept. Of Energy Accepting Applications For Up To $165 Million To Advance Domestic Geothermal Energy Deployment[PaEN]

 

-- Range Resources Natural Gas Driller Publishes Corporate Sustainability Report 2021-22

 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Range Resources Sees Progress Reducing Emissions In Annual ESG Report

 

-- Exelon Corp Releases 2021 Corporate Sustainability Report Highlighting Clean Energy Transition

 

-- DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board Meets Aug. 18 In Johnstown To Hear From Communities In Southwest PA  [PaEN]

 

-- CBF Applauds U.S. House Committee Passage Of Environmental Justice For All Act, Urges Further Action

 

-- Reading Eagle: EPA Cleaning Up Hazardous Exide Property In Muhlenberg Twp. As Superfund Site

 

-- WITF Smart Talk: Dickinson College Project Will Turn Composted Waste Into Electricity

 

-- Altoona Mirror: Blair County Communities Hold Household Hazardous Waste Collection July 29-30

 

-- PA Resources Council Releases August Workshop & Webinar Schedule For Southwest PA Residents  [PaEN]

 

-- Enter Now!  PA Resources Council Invites Submissions To Lens On Litter Photo Contest  [PaEN]

 

-- Allegheny National Forest Tionesta Scenic & Research Natural Area Added To Old-Growth Forest Network In McKean County [PaEN]

 

-- Open Space Institute Expands Appalachian Landscapes Protection Fund To Support Conservation Of Climate Critical Pennsylvania Forests  [PaEN]

 

-- Giangiulio Family Partners With Natural Lands To Preserve 113 Acre Farm In Chester County  [PaEN]

 

-- Western PA Conservancy Protects 110 Acres Of Forestland, Wetlands In French Creek Watershed, Erie County  [PaEN]

 

-- Manada Conservancy: Kohler Family Farm - A Farm Preserving A Legacy In Dauphin County

 

-- PASA Sustainable Agriculture: Farmer Climate Story: Thistle Creek Farms, Huntingdon County 

 

-- Natural Lands: Regina A. Hairston Joins Natural Lands Board 

 

-- The Allegheny Front: A Rare Prairie In PA Is In Full Bloom Right Now In Butler County

 

-- Williamsport Sun: DCNR Celebrates Induction Of Beartown Woods Natural Area

 

-- DCNR Blog: Celebrating Parks And The People Who Make Them Possible [PaEN]

 

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Blog: What It’s Like To Be A Park Ranger? - By Brian Price, Ranger Supervisor, French Creek State Park

 

-- U.S. Forest Service Cancels DCNR's Keystone Crew Deployment To Sugarloaf Wildfire In Wyoming; Crew Returning To Await Another Assignment  [PaEN]

 

-- PA Environmental Council Blog: Barriers To Equitable River Access Persist In Delaware River Basin, But They’re Not Always What You Expect

 

-- PA Environmental Council Intern Alexsys Frierson Celebrating Summer With TrailOff

 

-- TribLive: Butler-Freeport Community Trail Celebrates 30 Years Of Recreation Alongside Buffalo Creek

 

-- DCNR Announces Sustainable Trail System Project In Mountain Creek Watershed, Michaux State Forest, Cumberland County  [PaEN]

 

-- DCNR Helps Celebrate Completion Of The Northwest River Trail In Lancaster County  [PaEN]

 

-- Centre Daily Times: What To Know About Exploring Trails At Gray’s Woods Preserve

 

-- Land Health Institute: Join Fun, Entertaining, Educational WonderWalks In Philadelphia

 

-- WITF Smart Talk: Hanover Remembers Its History With New Rail Trails In York County

 

-- Delaware River Basin Commission: River Sojourns - Connecting People To Our Share Waters Through Paddling And Partnerships

 

-- Susquehanna Greenway Partners Name Winners Of 2022 Photo Contest [PaEN]

 

-- Reading Eagle: Young Workers At The Big Woods In French Creek State Park Encouraged By PA Official 

 

-- WITF Smart Talk: Cherry Springs State Park One Of The Best Places On East Coast For Stargazing

 

-- Richard King Mellon Foundation Issues RFP On Stopping, Slowing Spread Of Invasive Plant Species  [PaEN]

 

-- Game Commission Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area Art Show Returns Aug. 5-7, Lancaster County  [PaEN]

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Middle Creek Visitors Center ‘Excited’ To Again Host Wildlife Art Show

 

-- Erie Times - Brain Whipkey: Hop To It: PA Woods & Forests Gears Up For Frog Week 

[Video/Article]  -- PA Woods & Forests Facebook Page

 

-- LancasterOnline - Sean Sauro: Blotchy Bass Syndrome Has Affected Local Fish For Years, Studies Continue

 

-- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center Seeks Monarch Festival Volunteers, Vendors, Supporters For Aug. 27 Festival

 

-- MCall: Migrating Monarch Butterflies, Which Summer In Lehigh Valley, Now Endangered; What You Need To Know

 

-- WHYY/AP: Monarch Butterflies Are In Trouble, Here’s How You Can Help

 

-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Through A Butterflies’ Eyes


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[Posted: July 31, 2022]   PA Environment Digest

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