Thursday, May 18, 2023

Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 5.18.23

Are You Telling Your Story?

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

-- Committee Schedule

Senate holds Regular Session June 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


TODAY: Celebrate Pennsylvania Native Species Day!


-- Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Asks DCNR To Protect State Forest Land From Seneca Shale Gas Drilling Well Pad, Comply With PA Supreme Court Decision, Protect Recreation, Wildlife  [PaEN] 


-- Republican Herald Editorial: PA Supreme Court Reaffirms Environmental Quality Is A Right Not A Luxury In Shale Gas Drilling Ruling


-- Stroud: Property Owners, Farmers Bringing Eastern Brook Trout Back To Red Clay Creek  [PaEN]


-- WNEP: Natural Lands, Lackawanna Conservation District Coordinate Planting Of 3,000 Trees  At Glenburn Pond


-- Stroud: High School Student’s Research Shows Salt Pollution of Fresh Water Has Tripled in 20 Years  [PaEN]


-- Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals Training Aug. 29-30 In Lancaster; Find A Professional Near You  [PaEN] 


-- PUC Alerts Consumers To Electricity Price Changes Coming June 1-- From 20.7% Increase To 17% Decrease; Driven By Price Of Natural Gas  [PaEN]


-- Wilkes-Barre Times: PUC Alerts Consumers Of June 1 Electric Price Changes - PPL, UGI Decrease


-- Inquirer: Your PECO Bill To See 6% Increase In June


-- Reading Eagle: UGI Files For Rate Decrease For Natural Gas Customers [Finally Coming Down After Rate Spikes Over Last Year]


-- UGI Gas Rates To Remain Unchanged In June, Decrease Projected In Dec.


-- Zefiro Methane Corp. Acquires PA-Based Plants & Goodwin Well Plugging Firm To Create Methane Emission Offsets  [PaEN]


-- City & State PA: Fmr Cong. Tim Ryan Talks Natural Gas Policy, Need For ‘Radical Pragmatism’


-- Schmidt & Clark: Pennsylvania Oil/Natural Gas Field Accidents, Injuries


-- EPA Announces Proposed Rule Requiring Cleanup Of Inactive Coal Waste Impoundments, Disposal Areas For Comment  [PaEN]


-- WHYY: Montgomery County Voters Support New Local Law To Prohibit Public Sewer System Sale


-- PA Resources Council Announces June Schedule Of Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Locations In Allegheny County  [PaEN]


-- DCNR Celebrates Induction Of The Snyder-Middleswarth Natural Area, Snyder County Into The Old-Growth Forest Network  [PaEN]


-- Pinchot Institute For Conservation, U.S. Forest Service Sign MOU Enhancing Long-Term Partnership  [PaEN] 


-- PennDOT, DCNR, York County Officials Encourage Bicycle Safety, Discuss Benefits Of Biking


-- Fish & Boat Commission Gives Final Approval To License Fee Changes


-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Fee To Fish In PA Will Increase In 2024


-- Warren Times: Audubon Nature Center Student Investigators To Study Pond Life May 27


-- Warren Times: May 24 Get-Together At Audubon Nature Center To Form New Birding Group


-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Lakes Across PA Receive Enhancements For Fishing, Erosion Control


-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: If You Find Young Wild Animals, Here’s What You Need To Know To Keep Them And You Safe 


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

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


-- Bloomberg: Europe’s Carbon Emissions Lower Than Pandemic Levels Due To High Energy Prices, Strong Renewables Output


-- Financial Times: ‘Halt Button’ Hit On Drilling In U.S. Oil And Gas Slowdown; Weakening Prices Accentuated Pullback


-- Bloomberg: Keystone Pipeline Pushed To Limit Preceded Pipeline’s Worst Oil Spill


Other States/National/International


-- The Guardian: Pentagon’s PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Cleanup Budget Falls ‘Dramatically’ Short


-- AP: Likelihood Earth Briefly Hits Key Warming Threshold Grows Bigger, Closer, UN Forecasts


-- EPA Proposes Reforms To New Chemical Review Process To Protect Public Health, Promote Efficiency


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- The Center Square: Policy Pillars Erected For State’s ‘Great Compromise’ Budget

-- PA Gaming Control Board Reports Total April Revenue Up 3.27% Over April 2022

-- TribLive: Mail-In Ballots Drive Westmoreland Primary Turnout, Democrats Had Higher Turnout Percentage, Twice As Many Mail-In Ballots

-- Observer-Reporter: Democrats Outpace Republicans In Voter Turnout For Washington County’s Primary Election

-- Politics PA: 2023 Primary Voter Turnout

-- Post-Gazette: Progressive Takeover Of Democratic Politics In Allegheny County Shows No Signs Of Slowing

-- Post-Gazette: Rocky Calls Self ‘Centrist’ As Republican Launches Allegheny County Exec Campaign vs Innamorato

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Progressive Still Need To Earn Victories In November

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Proposed ‘Right To Organize’ Amendment To State Constitution Violates Constitution - By Fairness Center

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Pass Yaw Bill To Regulate ‘Skill’ Gambling Games

-- PennLive - John Baer: FBI, CNN Just Gave Ex-President’s Campaign A Boost

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[Posted: May 18, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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