Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 7.1.23

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House CANCELED session for July 1

-- Committee Schedule

Senate adjourned until September 18

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

ADVISORY: PA Environment & Energy NewsClips Will NOT Be Published Sunday, July 2 

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 24 to 30 - Radiation Levels Prompt Shale Gas Wastewater Tank Decontamination; Replugging Conventional, Shale Gas Wells  [PaEN] 

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment -  July 1   [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Cryptocurrency Power Generation Facility By Diversified Production, LLC At A Shale Gas Well In Elk County  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: PA House Votes On Party-Lines To Study Revenue Estimates For Shale Gas Severance Tax, Republicans Opposing  [House Resolution 131]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Air Quality General Permit For Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Invites Comments On Individual Stormwater Permit For 4,000 Acre ‘Conservation’ Housing Development Next To Hickory Run State Park In Carbon County  [PaEN]

-- EPA AirNow Forecasts Code YELLOW Air Quality Day For SATURDAY, July 1

-- DEP: Pennsylvania Experienced Code RED Air Quality Conditions Friday, June 30

-- The Guardian: Tiny Flying Bugs Arrive In New York City Along With Wildfire Smoke From Canada

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Raging Fires In Canada Demand Action On Air Quality, Environment

-- Western PA Conservancy Watershed Conservation Program Receives U.S. Forest Service Award For Decades-Long Work To Improve Water Quality In The Allegheny National Forest  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Posts 57 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 1 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: Lancaster Clean Water Fund Now Accepting Grant Cycle 2 Letters Of Intent By July 14

-- Partnership For The Delaware Estuary News: Microplastics Are Forever; Growing Big, Strong Freshwater Mussels; Predicting Sea Level Rise; Much More!

-- DEP Extends Application Period, Increases Rebate Amounts And Expands Healthy Electrified Commercial Kitchen Rebate Program To Restaurants  [PaEN]

-- DEP Soliciting Extensions Of Expired Vouchers For Driving PA Forward’s Onroad Cleaner Diesel Vehicle Rebate Program  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Announces Award Of $16.3 Million In Local Act 101 Recycling Grants To 80 Municipalities  [PaEN]

-- July PA Township News Packed With Articles On Parks, Trails, Recreation, Grid-Scale Solar Facilities, Electric Vehicle Charging Stations, More  [PaEN]

-- June 30 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Blog: Dark Skies In The Keystone State

-- Beaver County Times: North Country Trail Shelter In Darlington Moves Closer To Opening

-- Scranton Times: Factoryville Borough Accepts Grant To Create Connector Trail

-- Willistown Conservation Trust & Natural Lands Receive $25,000 Grant From Cornell Lab Of Ornithology To Reverse The Decline Of Grassland Birds In Chester County  [PaEN]

-- Delaware RiverKeeper ‘Baby Shower’ For Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon - Video

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

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

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Rig Count Same As Last Week- 23

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices End June With 30% Rise, Increased 8% Just On Friday Nearing Last Summer’s Spikes

-- Utility Dive: Texas Electric Grid Has Remained Stable Despite 9.6 GW Of Coal, Natural Gas Power Plants Being Offline; Renewables Logged New Records In Generation

Other States/National/International

-- The Economist: How Misfiring Environmentalism Risks Harming The World’s Poor

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- AP: PA To Begin New Fiscal Year Without Budget Plan In Place

-- The Center Square: PA Senate OKs $45.5 Billion State Budget Without House Agreement; Adjourns To Sept. 18

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: House, Senate Standoff Over Budget Bills Delays Deal; Senate Adjourns Until Sept. 18

-- Spotlight PA: Legislature At Budget Impasse As House Democrats Vow To Oppose $100 Million For Private School Vouchers

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Will Start New Fiscal Year Without A Budget As Harrisburg’s Private School Voucher Divide Persists

-- The Center Square: Forward Party Sets Sights On Pennsylvania

-- AP: US Supreme Court Just Issued Its Biggest Rulings Of The Year, Here’s What You Need To Know

-- TribLive: Student Borrowers Disappointed With US Supreme Court Ruling Striking Down Loan Relief

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[Posted: July 1, 2023]  PA Environment Digest