This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips--

-- 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]

-- Senate Hearing: Wholesale Electricity Prices Too Low To Support Coal, Natural Gas Power Plants In Market; Natural Gas Reliability Issues Will Continue  [PaEN]

-- Broad+Liberty: Energy Executive Warn Of Looming Power Shortages In PA At PA Senate Hearing

-- Utility Dive: State Regulators, Others Urge FERC To Reject PJM Plan To Delay June 14 Capacity Auctions 

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

-- Reuters: Chesapeake Energy Expects Natural Gas Volatility To Remain, Could Hold Off Bringing Some Wells Online If Low Prices Continue  

-- NY Assembly Member Dr. Anna Kelles Testifies Before House Environmental Committee On NY State Law On Cryptocurrency Mining

-- City & State PA: New York Legislator’s Twitter Account Hacked After Appearance Before PA House Environmental Committee 

-- Utility Dive: Energy Company Aims To Build $2.1 Billion, 858 MW Pumped Storage Project Along Susquehanna River In York County

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Shapiro’s Muddled Messaging And Secret Meetings On Climate Issues Hurting PA Natural Gas Industry - By Keystone Forward

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: CNX Shareholders Reject Climate Change Proposal That Drew Heated Debate

-- The Center Square Guest Essay: Increased Bonding Amounts Will Not Discourage Conventional Oil/Gas Operators From Walking Away From Their Wells; DEP Should Impose More Penalties - By PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn. (conventional operators) [But they know operators haven’t set aside the money to plug the wells]

-- AP: Audit Says Senate, House Expense Account Surplus Jumped To Record $261 Million In FY 2022 After Record Spending  [PaEN] 

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[Posted: May 7, 2023]  PA Environment Digest