Thursday, February 23, 2023

Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 2.23.23

Are You Telling Your Story?

House holds Special Session Voting Days Feb. 23, 24 [Child Sexual Abuse Issue]

     -- Committee Schedule

Senate returns to voting session Feb. 27, 28, March 1, 6, 7, 8

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


TODAY 10:00: Senate Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee hearing on Ohio/PA train derailment impact on local residents and emergency response. Community College of Beaver County, 1 Campus Drive in Monaca. Click Here to watch online.   (Click Here for more on the agenda.)


DEP Advisory: DEP Forms Application Will Be Unavailable March 3-4 Due To Maintenance


-- Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Haven’t Filed Annual Production/Waste Generation Reports For 61,655 Wells; Attorney General Continues Investigation Of Road Dumping Wastewater  [PaEN]


-- PA Supreme Court Sides With Citizens, Landowner Not Sunoco Pipeline On Reimbursing Legal Costs For Lawsuits Won By Citizens  [PaEN]


-- Observer-Reporter: Washington School District Finalizes Lease With Natural Gas Driller


-- Lexology.com: PA Supreme Court To Hear Case Determining Whether PA Is An At-The-Well Or First-Marketable Product State In Paying Natural Gas Royalties


-- Shell Accountability Campaign Coalition Marks 100th Day Of Operator With Feb. 23 Webinar On The Facility's Report Card 


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shell Petrochemical Plant Receives DEP Notice Of Violation For Exceeding Air Emission Limits In Nov., Dec.; NOVs For Air, Water Violations Total 10 So Far


-- NextPittsburgh: Why Is The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Being Sued By Environmental Groups? 


-- York Dispatch: Enel Green Power’s Solar Project - Dover’s First - Moves Forward


-- Gov. Shapiro Ensuring Local PA Fire Departments Are Reimbursed By Norfolk Southern For Contaminated Equipment  [PaEN]


-- TribLive: How Ohio/PA Train Derailment Impacted PA’s Air, Water Quality


-- TribLive: Giant Eagle Temporarily Stops Selling Bottled Water Produced At Water Plant Near Ohio/PA Train Derailment


-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Could A Toxic Train Derailment Happen Here?


-- Erie Times: Even 100+ Miles From Ohio/PA Train Derailment, Residents Are Asking Should I Be Worried?


-- Utility Dive: FERC Approves PJM’s Mid-Auction Capacity Rule Change Over Protests From Some Generators


-- Bay Journal: Pennsylvania's State Water Plan Points To New Challenges - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN] 


-- Stroud Water Research Center: Cutting Waste In Reforestation Of Riparian Buffers; Summer Intern Opportunities  [PaEN]


-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Forms LLC, Names Allyson Gibson, Executive Director [PaEN] 


-- PennLive Guest Essay: Air Pollution Is Killing Us, We’ve Got To Act Now To Stop It - By Carolyn Heckman, Evangelical Environmental Network


-- PA American Water Charitable Foundation Awards STEM Education Grants 


-- WESA: Carnegie Mellon Wants To Diversity STEM Fields With $150 Million Investment In Graduate Level Education


-- Centre Daily Times: Hazardous Sinkholes Common In Parts Of PA, Here’s What To look Out For


-- DCNR Blog: Archaeology And The Segregated Civilian Conservation Corps - Giving Voice To The Voiceless - By Joe Baker, Bureau Of Forestry


-- DCNR Blog: Spongy [Formerly Gypsy] Moth Damage Expected In Central PA This Year - By Andrew Rohrbaugh, Bureau of Forestry


-- TribLive: Allegheny County Grant Allows Trail Work To Begin In Marshall


-- Scranton Times: Crossing Project To Improve Pedestrian Safety On Lackawanna River Heritage Trail


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


-- MCall: Red Creek Wildlife Center Reopens In Schuylkill County After Fire, Has Big Plans For This Year


-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Fewer Than 1,000 Digger Crayfish Believed To Be Living In PA


Ohio/PA Train Derailment


-- Gov. Shapiro Ensuring Local PA Fire Departments Are Reimbursed By Norfolk Southern For Contaminated Equipment  [PaEN]


-- WESA: Ohio/PA Train Derailment: Latest News On The Derailment And Cleanup


-- TribLive: How Ohio/PA Train Derailment Impacted PA’s Air, Water Quality


-- WESA: Doctor Near Train Derailment Site Details The Main Thing He’s Watching For Now


-- TribLive: Giant Eagle Temporarily Stops Selling Bottled Water Produced At Water Plant Near Ohio/PA Train Derailment


-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Could A Toxic Train Derailment Happen Here?


-- Erie Times: Even 100+ Miles From Ohio/PA Train Derailment, Residents Are Asking Should I Be Worried?


-- AP: Ex-President Criticized Federal Response To Ohio/PA Train Derailment [His Administration Repealed Railroad Safety 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: Chesapeake Energy To Reduce Drilling This Year Amid Natural Gas Price Slump 


-- Wall Street Journal: Natural Gas Prices Plunge, And Drillers Dial Back 


-- Bloomberg: Natural Gas Prices Drop To Pandemic-Era Low As U.S. Supply Glut Worsens 


-- Public Citizen: LNG Natural Gas: New Report On How Natural Gas Industry Exploited Ukraine War To Lock In Methane Emission Increases, Infrastructure Expansion 


-- Washington Examiner: Green Groups Take Aim At Biden’s Narrative On LNG Natural Gas Exports


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- WITF: Tension During PA House Special Session On Child Sexual Abuse Threatens Bipartisan Hopes

-- PennLive - John Baer: Who Will PA’s Presidential Picks Be A Year From Now?

-- PennLive: Lycoming County Judge Reviewing Ballot Images As Challenge To 2020 Results Continues

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Report: PA’s Tax Burden Still A Mixed Bag

-- The Guardian: PA Republican Cong. Scott Perry Battles DOJ Over Work With Ex-President’s Allies To Overturn 2020 Election

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Had highest Incidence Of White Supremacist Propaganda In 2021

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[Posted: February 23, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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