PA Environment Digest Blog: Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips

“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]

Senate next voting day March 18, 19, 20

-- Committee Schedule

-- Senate Agency Budget Hearing Schedule.

House next voting day March 18, 19, 20

-- Committee Schedule

-- House Agency Budget Hearing Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

CANCELED Due To Weather: TODAY-- Agenda Posted. Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00 a.m. Visit the Board webpage for options for joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Laura Griffin, Regulatory Coordinator, laurgriffi@pa.gov, (717) 772-3277. Read more here.

CANCELED Due To Weather: 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: Ian Irvin, Executive Director, iirvin@pa.gov. Read more here.

February 14-- House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee hearing on House Bill 1842 (Schweyer-D-Lehigh) authorizing community solar energy programs. Room G-50 Iris Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

UPDATE: State Offices Closed: State offices in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Reading, Scranton are now CLOSED due to weather Tuesday. Read more here. Senate, House are CLOSED. DEP’s Harrisburg, Northeast Regional Office, Altoona, Pottsville, Scranton, Pocono, Bethlehem Offices CLOSED Tuesday. Read more here.

-- DEP Database Advisory: On Feb. 14 OnBase Will Be Disabled From 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.

-- EPA Objects To Allegheny County's Air Quality Permit For The US Steel Edgar Thomson Plant [PaEN]

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front: EPA Orders Allegheny County To Include Stronger Testing In US Steel Thomson Plant Permit

-- Beaver County Times: Shell CEO Puts Beaver County Petrochemical Plant Price Tag At $14 Billion

-- Southwest PA Municipal Project Hub Will Help Municipalities In 10 Counties Apply For Historic Federal Funding To Develop Clean, Sustainable Economic Development Projects, Communities [PaEN]

-- House Republican Leader Bryan Cutler Expresses Opposition To Proposed Susquehanna River Hydropower Project

-- Inquirer: Philly Needs More Electric Vehicle Charging Stations, How A Grant And Local 98 Could Make It Happen

-- AP: Former FirstEnergy CEO, Senior VP Indicted In $60 Million Ohio Bailout Bribery Scheme Fail To Surrender As Promised To Face Charges

-- PUC Consumer Energy Shopping Campaign Honored For Creative, Innovative Public Outreach

-- CFA, Dept. Of Education To Begin Accepting Applications For 2 Grant Programs To Help Public Schools Make Environmental Repairs, Improvements [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: River Advocates, Enthusiasts Wonder If Reservoir Construction Project Muddied Waterways Could Have Been Prevented

-- USDA Now Accepting Applications For Urban Agriculture & Innovative Production Grants [PaEN]