Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 1.28.24

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.”

-- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution  [It’s Not A Suggestion]

Governor’s Budget Address:  February 6

Senate next voting day February 5, 6, 7, March 18, 19, 20

-- Committee Schedule

-- Senate Agency Budget Hearing Schedule.

House next voting day February 6, March 18, 19, 20

-- Committee Schedule

-- House Agency Budget Hearing Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

-- 76 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA  [PaEN]

-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults  [PaEN] 

-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week  [PaEN]

-- UPDATED: Marcellus Drilling News: DEP Approves Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County  [Jan. 26 Inspection Found Gas Bubbling From Well]  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Hearing Board Denies Liberty Twp., Citizens Group Appeal Of DEP Tri-County Landfill Permit Over Threats Posed By Birds, Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste In Mercer County  [PaEN] 

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 20 to 26 - 15 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Revolution Pipeline Land Slip; Brief Compressor Fire; Crypto Mining?  What's That Pink Stuff?  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Rocky First Year For Shell Petrochemical Plant Commercial Operations In Beaver County 

-- York Dispatch: State Task Force Changes York County’s Status To Drought Watch

-- WTAE: Cybersecurity Task Force Proposed In State House In Response To Aliquippa Water Authority Hack

-- WHYY: UPenn Researchers Look At Fecal Bacteria Levels In Lower Delaware River, Recommend Ways To Make Swimming Safter

-- Republican Herald: Mining Engineer Marks Anthracite Heritage Month With History Of Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co

-- Republican Herald: Author Discusses Bootleg Coal Industry In Book “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion’

-- PennLive: Tiny, ‘Secretive’ Black Rail Added To PA’s Threatened Species List

-- Republican Herald - Outdoors: Thus Far Plan For Enhancement Project At Sweet Arrow Lake Has Been Denied

Train Derailments

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: A Year Later Officials Tell The People Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Everything’s Okay, Is It?

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- TribLive Editorial: Shapiro’s Big Idea On Colleges Needs More Detail

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Purple Is The [Political] Color For 2024! - By Mark Singel

-- TribLive: Despite Rising Salaries, There’s A Shortage Of Qualified School Superintendents

-- Scranton Times: Interactive Gambling On Rapid Rise In PA

-- Inquirer: PA Judge Rules In Favor Of State In Opioid Settlement Dispute With Philly’s DA

-- WITF: Applications Open For PA Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program

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[Posted: January 28, 2024]  PA Environment Digest