Friday, October 7, 2022

Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.7.22

Are You Telling Your Story?

Senate returns to session October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, November 15 [Adjourn for year]

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session October 24, 25, 26, November 14, 15, 16 [Adjourn for year]

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

 

 

-- DEP Collects $147,250 Penalty From Rice Drilling B LLC For Erosion & Sedimentation Violations In Greene County; DEP Found Rice Had Hundreds Of Other Violations, Including Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them [PaEN]

 

-- Recycling Program, Managing Electronics Waste On DEP Citizens Advisory Council Agenda For Oct. 18  [PaEN]

 

-- Schuylkill River Greenways, Partners Award $362,756 In Schuylkill River Restoration Fund Grants  [PaEN]

 

-- Lancaster County Community Foundation Announce More Than $100,000 In Lancaster Clean Water Fund Grants  [PaEN]

 

-- Forests For The Chesapeake Bay: Monster Trunk Talley Photo Contest; Oct. 28-29 TreeLay; Riparian Forest Buffer Summit

 

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Oct. 7 RiverWatch Video Report

 

-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For Small Business Advantage Grants For Natural Resource Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Pollution Prevention Projects  [PaEN]

 

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Missing Out On Millions As RGGI Battle Drudges On

 

-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Shell Ethane Cracker In Beaver County Will Start Up Soon, We Answer your Questions

 

-- UPMC Pledges To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 50% By 2030, Announces New Sustainability Leadership  [PaEN]

 

-- TribLive Letter: Permitting Reform Required For Renewable Energy In Race Against Climate Change - Citizens’ Climate Lobby

 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Massive Solar Project To Help Power U.S. Steel Plant… In Arkansas

 

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Solar Should Be Bigger Part Of Energy Puzzle, But Only Part

 

-- October 8 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available

 

-- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In September  [PaEN]

 

-- DCNR Issues 2nd Weekly Fall Foliage Report - 4 Counties At Peak Of Color  [PaEN]

 

-- Reading Eagle: When Will The Peak Colors Be Best For Leaf Peeping?

 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Where You Can Find Fall Foliage, Pumpkin Festivals In PA 

 

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster Farmland Trust Celebrates Preservation Successes, Sees Urgency With Encroaching Development

 

-- DCNR Ecological Restoration Efforts Aim To Preserve Historic CCC Camp In Michaux State Forest, Cumberland County  [PaEN]

 

-- TribLive: Allegheny County Awards Grant For Bike Trail Design Through Verona, Oakmont, Penn Hills And Plum

 

-- Post-Gazette: RiverLife Begins Project To Create Park ‘Unforgettable Experience’ Between Downtown Pittsburgh’s Sister Bridges

 

-- Game Commission: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Cases In Fayette County Result In Special Regulations 

 

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

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

 

-- Reuters: Explainer: Caps And Corridors - How Can Europe Contain Natural Gas Prices?

 

-- Financial Times: EU, Norway Agree To ‘Joint Tools’ To Tackle Europe’s High Natural Gas Prices

 

-- Financial Times: U.S. Says ‘Nothing Off Table’ In Response To OPEC+ Oil Cuts [Including Refined Fuel Export Limits, More Sales From Strategic Reserve]

 

-- AP Explainer: How Will OPEC+ Production Cuts Affect Oil Prices, Inflation?  [Spoiler - Prices, Inflation Go Up]

 

American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- Williamsport Sun: Levee To Receive $4 Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funds From Lycoming County

 

-- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.  What’s Your Community Doing?


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Erie Times: Crawford County Man Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol Claimed 2nd Amendment Rights Were Violated, He Lost

-- AP: Proud Boys Member Pleads Guilty To Seditious Conspiracy Criminal Charges Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol [Philadelphia Has A Chapter]

-- Spotlight PA: Where Candidates For Governor Stand On College Funding, Transparency, Debt Forgiveness

-- Politics PA: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano: ‘Sexualization Of Kids, Pole Dancing And Other Crap’ Will Be Forbidden In Schools On Day 1

-- City & State PA: Fetterman Pulls In $22 Million, Dr. Oz Raises $17 Million In Last Quarter

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley Congressional Candidates Trade Attacks Before ‘Lively’ Audience

-- PennLive: Democrat Daniels Says She Can Overcome Funding Disadvantage In Race Against Republican Cong. Scott Perry

-- Politics PA: PA House Preview - Montgomery County

-- Politics PA: PA House Preview - Delaware County

-- Politics PA: PA Senate Preview - North

-- Dept. Of Revenue: Taxpayers Affected by Hurricane Ian Have More Time To File Tax Returns

-- TribLive: 15-Year-Old Charged In Kennywood Amusement Park Shooting In Pittsburgh

-- PennLive: 1 Injured When ‘Dozens’ Of Shots Fired Near Harrisburg Playground: Police

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County COVID Numbers Drop, But Long COVID Remains A Problem

-- PennLive: Monkeypox Case Confirmed At Cumberland County Elementary School

-- WHYY: ACLU Files Federal Complaint Alleging Central Bucks Schools Created A ‘Hostile Environment’ For LGBTQ Students

-- York Dispatch: York County School Board Member’s Exit Speech: Bible Is ‘Scientifically Proven’

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County School District Votes To Keep ‘Indian’ Mascot Without The Logo

-- NPR: At Conservative Grove City College, Anti-Critical Race Theory Still Looms Large

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PA State-Owned Consolidated University Sees Upside To Its Enrollment Decline

-- Post-Gazette: State-Owned California U’s Enrollment Fell 17% This Fall But Accounts For All Freshman Enrollment Gains At New PennWest University

-- AP: Philadelphia Apologizes For Experiments On Black Inmates In 1950s, 1970s

Click Here for latest PA Environmental News

Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook

Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter

Read Weekly PA Environment Digest

[Posted: October 7, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

No comments :

Post a Comment

Subscribe To Receive Updates:

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner