Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 5.6.23

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House holds Regular Session May 22, 23, 24, June 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22

-- Committee Schedule

Senate holds Regular Session May 8, 9, 10, June 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

-- Attorney General Henry Charges 2 With Criminal Risking Catastrophe Charges Related To Work On Natural Gas Pipeline In Lawrence County; Pipelines Have Worst Environmental Compliance Record In PA [PaEN]

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: 2 Charged With Covering Up Inferior Natural Gas Pipeline Work In Lawrence County

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 29 to May 5; Major Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; 6 More Abandoned Well NOVs   [PaEN]

-- Citizen Complaint, Company Report Results In DEP Inspection Finding 63,000 Gallon Wastewater Spill At Seneca Resources Shale Gas Well On State Game Lands In Elk County; More Leaks, Spills   [PaEN] 

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 6   [PaEN] 

-- KDKA: Community Members Fighting Water Withdrawal Proposal By PennEnergy Resources For Shale Gas Drilling From Big Sewickley Creek, Beaver County  [Video]

-- Senate Environmental Committee Meets May 10 On Bills To Narrow Grounds For Appealing DEP Actions, ‘Stream Cleaning,’ Renaming DEP To The Dept. Of Environmental Services  [PaEN]

-- 2 Senate Committees Meet May 8 To Run Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Waive Any Permitting Requirement, Add Cost, Time To Regulatory/Permitting Bureaucracy  [PaEN]

-- Gov. Shapiro Receives State Agency Reports On Permitting, Next Step Is To Set Money-Back Permit Review Times  [PaEN] 

-- EDF: Federal Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Proposes Vital Standards to Enhance Safety, Cut Methane From Nation’s Pipeline Network  [PaEN]

-- AP: New Federal Pipeline Agency Rule Aimed At Cutting Methane Leaks

-- Physicians For Social Responsibility PA Host May 10 Webinar: Imagine A More Natural PA - How We Use Methane Gas, What It's Doing To Us   [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: CNX Commits $1 Million To Penn Highlands Mon Valley Substance Recovery Unit

-- Utility Dive: FERC Commissioners Tell U.S. Senate Committee Power Plants Are Retiring Faster Than They’re Being Replaced - ‘The Arithmetic Doesn’t Work’

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Default Utility Electric Rates To Go Down For Some This Summer [Thanks To Drop In Natural Gas Prices]

-- PA Solar Center Honors 25 Organizations For Leadership In Clean, Renewable Solar Energy From Allegheny County  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Army Corps Of Engineers Recommends No Further Action On Scott Twp., Allegheny County Uranium Processing Site

-- DEP Posts 64 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 6 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 

-- PASA Sustainable Agriculture Hosts May 12 Online Listening Session On Flood Impacts & Solutions [PaEN]  

-- Help Wanted: Southwestern PA Commission Water Resource Center - Water Resources Specialist  [PaEN]

-- The Express: Clinton Conservation District, Others Team Up To Protect Fishing Creek

-- The Express: Members Of God’s Country Chapter Trout Unlimited, Kettle Creek Watershed Assn, Native Fish Coalition PA Chapter Pull 15 Bags Of Garbage From Little Kettle Creek

-- TribLive: Pond Cleanup Removes Plants From Penn Twp. Fishing Spot, For A Cause

-- DCNR: Work To Begin On Key Infrastructure Improvements To Leonard Harrison State Park, Tioga County

-- DCNR: Lackawanna State Park Pool To Be Closed For Summer For Repairs

-- Warren Times: Allegheny National Forest ATV Trails Open May 26

-- May 5 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- Republican Herald: $1 Million Donated To Red Creek Wildlife Center 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]

-- Argus: Coterra Energy Plans Delay In Natural Gas Well Completions Due To Low Gas Prices, Drop 2 Drill Rigs In Marcellus Areas  

-- Financial Times: European Natural Gas Price Sinks To Lowest Level Since Energy Crisis Began

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs - No Change From Last Week - 26

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- City & State PA: 5 Things You May Have Missed In Harrisburg This Week

-- TribLive Editorial: Pennsylvania Elections Need Uniformity

-- PennLive: Questions About Sen. Mastriano’s Thesis Spur University Fraud Probe, Reports

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Former Fayette County Welder Gets 14 Years In Prison For Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol

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[Posted: May 6, 2023]  PA Environment Digest