Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.12.23

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania!

Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct. 2, 3, 4  [Unless Sooner Recalled]

-- Committee Schedule

House next voting day September 26, 27; October 2, 3, 4, 16 [Unless Sooner Recalled]

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

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: Glenda Davidson at gldavidson@pa.gov or 717-783-4759.  (formal notice)   Read more here.

TODAY 1:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology, Utilities Committee holds hearing on House Bill 1578 (Mullins-D-Lackawanna) training and bonding retail electric and natural gas energy suppliers.  Room G-50 Irvis Building.  1:00 p.m.  Click Here to watch live online.

-- Bedford Gazette Editorial: Natural Gas Development is Making Pennsylvanians Sick, Lawmakers Must Act 

-- WTAE: Records Show Dozens Of Abandoned Natural Gas Wells In Plum Boro, Allegheny County

-- Post-Gazette: Top Work Places Survey In Pittsburgh Has EQT Natural Gas Drilling In First Place  [Check their DEP environmental compliance record here ]

-- BiofuelsDigest.com: Air Liquide Making Progress On Planned PA Biomethane Project In Indiana County

-- Bay Journal: Virginia Natural Gas Compressor Project Raises Environmental Justice Questions 

-- Financial Times: World At ‘Beginning Of End’ Of Fossil Fuel Era, Says Global Energy Agency [Demand For Oil, Natural Gas, Coal Will All Peak Before 2030]

-- Wall Street Journal: Demand For Oil, Natural Gas, Coal To Peak This Decade, IEA Chief Says 

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Federal Judge Strikes Down Ruling Eastern Hellbenders Are Not Endangered

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitte: Eastern Hellbender May Get Another Shot At Federal Protections

-- Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper - John Zaktansky: Hellbender Ruling A Needed Step Toward Better Protections

-- PennLive Guest Essay: America Urgently Needs More Young People To Work In Mines - By National Mining Association

-- Interfaith Partners For Chesapeake Bay Hosts 3-Part Faithful Green Leaders Online Training In October  [PaEN]

-- Help Wanted: Chesapeake Bay Foundation - 3 Pennsylvania Positions  [PaEN]

-- Meadville Tribune: Is French Creek Getting Cleaner?

-- Penn State: Laszlo Kulcsar Named Interim Dean Of College Of Agricultural Sciences

-- PA Capital-Star: Senators Fetterman, Braun Introduce Organic Agriculture Research Bill To Protect Funding

-- Scranton Times: Flash Flood Sweeps Away ‘The Love Of My Life’ 

-- Scranton Times: Tallying Flood Damage In Lackawanna County As Recovery Continues

-- Citizens Voice: Flash Flood Interrupts Wedding In Luzerne County

-- PA Capital-Star: ‘Resources Are Going To Be Spread Thin:’ NE PA Rallies After Weekend Storms

-- Inquirer: Army Corps Of Engineers Propose 1,400 Foot Levee In Eastwick To Ease Flooding

-- Reading Eagle: Flooding In Northern Berks Township Puts Homes, Residents At Risk, Officials Say

-- AP: US Sets Record For Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters In A Year, And There’s Still 4 Months To Go

-- PA Resources Council To Host Last Hard-To-Recycle Collection Event In Allegheny County Oct. 7  [PaEN]

-- NextPittsburgh: We Followed Pittsburgh’s Recycling To An Epic Processing Facility In Hazelwood

-- Warren Times: Metal Recycling Dumpster Back To Raise Funds For Allegheny River Cleanup

-- Carnegie Museum Of Natural History: We Get Questions - Climate Change, Hope And Action - By Patrick McShea, Educator, Carnegie Museum of Natural History  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Contemporary Lenape Artists Off Their Perspective On Lenape History

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Phipps Conservatory Starts Campaign To Buy Former Irish Centre Site For New Nursery

-- Registration Open! 2023 Pennsylvania Botany Symposium Oct. 20-21 In State College  [PaEN] 

-- Penn State’s Great Insect Fair Returns To Snider Ag Arena Sept. 30  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Mantis Makes Meal Of Pesky Spotted Lanternfly

-- Courier Times: Ever Encountered The Lizards Of Levittown?  How They Got To Bucks County, What To Do About Them

-- Penn State Course Gives Students Hands-On Wildland Fire Management Training 

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Summer Is Behind Us As September Brings Autumn

-- Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture: Fish Habitat Funding Opportunities

-- Williamsport Sun: Bring Your Own Kayak Paddle; Walk In Penn’s Woods Day Coming Up!

-- TribLive: Pittsburgh Beings Improving Trail Linking Three Rivers Heritage Trail, Riverview Park

-- Centre Daily Times: Another Sinkhole Opens In Centre County, Closing Bike Path In Ferguson Twp.

Remembering 9/11

-- TribLive: Remembering flight 93: 9/11 Ceremony Honors Passengers, Crew Members

-- Post-Gazette: Second Gentleman, Gov. Shapiro Mark 22nd Anniversary Of 9/11

-- TribLive: Teachers Rely On Flight 93 Memorial, Personal Experiences To Teach About 9/11

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: 22 Years Later, It’s Time To Teach 9/11 In PA Schools

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PA Capital-Star: Control Of PA House At Stake As Allegheny County Candidates Get Out The Vote For Sept. 19 Special Election

-- Inquirer Editorial: PA Voters Would Benefit From Open Primary System

-- City & State PA: Where PA Politicos Drink And Dine In Harrisburg

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: PA Gun Laws Have Devastated My Community, There’s Little I Can Do - Sen. Sharif Street

-- Inquirer: Independence Blue Cross Spet $3.3 Million In 2022 To Influence Health Insurance, Health Care Laws In PA

-- York Daily Record: Mask Mandates? COVID Vaccine Requirements?  The Latest On The Debate In PA

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[Posted: September 12, 2023]  PA Environment Digest