Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 7.11.23

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House next voting session day July 11 [12-Hour Call]

-- Committee Schedule

Senate adjourned until September 18, 19, 20, Oct. 2, 3, 4  [24-Hour Call]

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


TODAY 9:00: Agenda Posted. Environmental Quality Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  9:00 a.m.  Visit the Board webpage for options to join the meeting remotely.  Contact: Laura Griffin at laurgriffi@pa.gov or (717) 772-3277.   Read more here about the agenda [Conventional oil and gas well bonding, water quality toxics standards]


TODAY 12:30: Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 12:30 p.m. Visit the Council webpage for options to join the meeting remotely.  Contact: Max Schultz maxschultz@pa.gov or Glenda Davidson at gldavidson@pa.gov or 717-783-4759.  (formal notice)   Read more here about the agenda  [Chapter 105 environmental assessment alternatives analysis]


-- PA Eligible To Apply For $76.4 Million In Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; Conventional Operators Still Abandoning Wells  [PaEN]


-- DEP Announces July 13 Local Steering Committee Meeting For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Community Fund  [PaEN]


-- Beaver County Times: Community Panel To Make Plan For Shell’s $5 Million Air Quality Violations Settlement Fund


-- Living On Earth: Shell Petrochemical Plastics Plant Pollutes


-- MethaneSAT-EDF Successfully Test Methane Detection Technology To Be Used To Document Methane Emissions From Onshore Natural Gas Production In North America  [PaEN]


-- TribLive: Protect PT Seeks Support For Proposed Ordinance Regulating Shale Gas Wells In Penn Twp., Westmoreland County; Meeting July 13 


-- City & State PA Guest Essay: Hydrogen Energy Sounds Too Good To Be True - Because It Is - By Clean Air Council


-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: What The Wildfire Smoke From Canada Tells Us About Climate Change - By Larry Schweiger


-- Penn State Hosts Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 23  [PaEN]


-- NextPittsburgh: How Duquesne Light Trains Workers To Fix Power Lines In Pittsburgh


-- Gov. Shapiro Visits Lower Alsace Twp., Berks County Impacted By Short-Duration, High-Intensity Flooding  [PaEN]


-- Reading Eagle: Gov. Shapiro Visits Berks County As Communities Reel From Flooding


-- Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Jayné Park-Martinez Sparks Conservation Efforts  [PaEN] 


-- Williamsport Sun: Tracking Drought Factors, Effects On Plants


-- WESA: PA Launches 2nd Round Of Drinking Water, Wastewater Bill Assistance


-- Citizens Voice Editorial: Replace All Lead Water Pipes


-- PA Mine Map Atlas Has Served State Since The Quecreek Mine Rescue In Somerset County  [PaEN] 


-- Feature: Rock - Water - Air: A Personal Account Of The 2002 Quecreek Mine Rescue  [PaEN] 


-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - The Milkweed Plant Was Very Important In World War II


-- Erie Times Guest Essay: A National Wildlife Refuge For French Creek Could Be A Boon For The Region - By Wendy Ormon, Erie Resident


-- Penn State Extension: Q/A: Tick Season Is Starting Sooner, And They Are Showing Up In New Places


-- Williamsport Sun: Lock Haven Native Steve Yale Once Again Hiking Appalachian Trail - Part I of IV


-- Observer-Reporter: Portion Of Montour Trail To Close For Repairs To Tunnel


-- PA Council Of Trout Unlimited - Bob Pennell: Americans Continue To Find Their Best Selves In Recreational Fishing  [TakeMeFishing Special Report ]


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: European Natural Gas Prices Trade At Lowest In A Month On Weak Demand


Other States/National/International


-- The Guardian: US Faces Week Of Dangerous Weather With Flooding, Heatwave Alerts


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- City & State PA: 10 Things You Need To Know About PA’s Budget Impasse

-- LancasterOnline: State Budget Impasse Could Stretch Into September; Local School Districts Brace For Delay In Funding

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: State-Related University Funding On Ice In Pennsylvania

-- TribLive Editorial: PA Budget Standoff Drags On

-- Politics PA: David Sunday Announces Republican Candidacy For Attorney General

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[Posted: July 11, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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