House next voting day October 30, 31, Nov. 1, 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13
Senate next voting day Nov. 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
WEDNESDAY 9:30: House Philadelphia LNG Natural Gas Export Task Force meeting to consider Task Force Report. Room 515 Irvis Building. 9:30. Click Here to watch live.
WEDNESDAY 5:00:- PennDOT Outreach Session On National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program. H. O. Hirt Auditorium at Blasco Library, 160 E Front Street, Erie. 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Click Here to register and for more information.
WEDNESDAY 7:30: Virtual. Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community - Eyes On Shell monthly meeting. 7:30 p.m.
-- House Committee Hearing On Increasing Safety Setbacks Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities Heard About First-Hand Citizen Experiences On Health Impacts, From Physicians On Health Studies And The Gas Industry On Job Impacts [PaEN]
-- Sen. Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment ‘Stupid’ [PaEN]
-- Warren Times: Population Exodus From PA Means Higher Taxes For Those Who Remain
-- Williamsport Sun: Old Lycoming Twp. Seeks Audit Of Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Spending Discrepancies
-- Reminder: Nov. 13 DEP Hearing On Proposed River Pointe Warehouse In Northampton County
-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Watershed Renewal Project Accelerates Restoration Work In Halfmoon Creek, Centre County, Pequea Creek, Lancaster County [PaEN]
-- Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: Call For Submissions For Westminster College Student Symposium On The Environment Dec. 4 to 7
-- Quittapahilla Watershed Assn. Interns Present Stream Morphology Surveys On Lebanon County Streams [PaEN]
-- Friends Of The Wissahickon Host Nov. 7 Climate Change In Our Watersheds Fall Valley Talk, In-Person, Online In Philadelphia [PaEN]
-- Protecting Clean Water Together Series: Keeping The Gunk Out Of Your Water Supply - By Carol Hillestad for the Brodhead Watershed Association [PaEN]
-- TribLive: Little Bull Creek Sewer Project To Ease Overflows In Harrison
-- PA Sea Grant's Tom Cermak Recognized With Great Lakes Sea Grant Individual Achievement Award [PaEN]
-- Lancaster Farming: EPA Rolls Out Youth Advisory Council Led By PA 4-H’er
-- Pittsburgh’s Green Building Alliance Receives $500,000 Federal ARISE Grant To Establish A Green Building Product Supply Chain, Manufacturing Hub In Upper Appalachian Region [PaEN]
-- TribLive: US Steel Converts 2 Diesel Locomotives To Battery Power
-- EPA Launches Video Prize Challenge To Showcase Electric Transportation In Action, Entries Due Jan. 23 [PaEN]
-- Erie Times Guest Essay: We Have A Path To Reduce Climate Pollution, It Is Time To Launch market-Based RGGI - By Environmental Defense Fund & Ceres
-- 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Holds Nov. 8 Open Enrollment Meeting In Somerset County [PaEN]
-- PA Capital-Star: Bill In PA House Would Make It Easier To Recycle Electronics Waste
-- WESA/The Allegheny Front: Why Teaching People About Invasive Plants Can Get A Little Thorny
-- Fish & Wildlife Service: $36 Million For Fish Passage And River Restoration Grants Available, Deadline Dec. 31
-- TribLive: Fish Reefs To Be Built In The Monongahela River
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Lost Heritage: Bringing American Martens Back To PA
Natural Gas Explosions
-- TribLive: Natural Gas Leak Forces Evacuation At New Store In Allegheny Twp., Westmoreland County
-- Reading Eagle: Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Pipe Linked To Natural Gas Explosion At Reading Factory
Other States/National/International
-- AP: Earth Will Likely Lock Into Breaching Key Warming Threshold In Early 2029, Scientists Calculate
-- Inside Climate News: EPA To Fund Studies Of Toxic PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Agriculture
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- AP: Spending Passes $17 Million In PA Supreme Court Race As Billionaires, Unions, Lawyers Dig In
-- Spotlight PA: PA’s Voting Law Is Filled With Obsolete Provisions, Troublesome Conflicts
-- ABC27: PA House Leaders Point Fingers As State Budget, School Funding Remains Unresolved
-- PA Capital-Star: House Democratic Leader Calls Private School Vouchers ‘Very Problematic’ But Adds Democrats Didn’t Say ‘Hell No’
-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Advocates, Lawmakers Renew Push To Relax Rule For Commuting Life Sentences
-- PA Capital-Star: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Change How Pardons Are Considered
-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Nearly 70,000 PA School, Government Retirees Have Had No COLA Increase In 21 Years
-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: We Are The Majority - Why Are We Permitting The Minority To Role And Increase Dissention, Racism, Inequality, Violence And Chaos?
-- AP: PA House Passes Bill To Increase Transparency Of PA’s Universities
-- Tribune-Democrat: Bill Repealing Ban On Teachers Wearing Religious Garb In Schools Clears General Assembly
-- TribLive: Nursing Home Rating System Needs Work, So Do Nursing Homes
-- PennLive: York County Man Makes Plea Deal On Federal Crimes Related To Assault On US Capitol
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[Posted: October 31, 2023] PA Environment Digest
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