PA Environment Digest Blog: Monday 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]

House next voting day March 25, 26, 27, April 8, 9, 10

-- Committee Schedule

Senate next voting day April 8, 9, 10, 29, 30

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

TODAY 10:00: House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee hearing on Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging, Abandonment. Room G-50 Irvis Office. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online

-- DEP Issued Conventional Oil & Gas Operators 663 Violations For Abandoning, Not Plugging Wells In Last 15 Months; 392 In 2024 Alone [PaEN]

March 26-- House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 1732 (Webster-D-Montgomery) requiring testing of landfill leachate for hazardous waste and radioactivity (sponsor memo); House Bill 1943 (McNeill-D-Lehigh) require disclosure of all chemicals used in fracking oil and gas wells (sponsor memo); House Bill 919 (Rabb-D-Philadelphia) establishing natural organic reduction as an option for human interment (sponsor memo). Room 60 East Wing. 9:30 a.m. Click Here to watch online

March 27-- Senate Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness Committee hearing on Norfolk Southern train derailment one year later. Darlington Township Volunteer Fire Company, 3590 Darlington Road, Darlington, PA Beaver County. 10:30 a.m. Click Here to check availability of live stream.

-- March 25 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 16 to 22 - Truck Rollover; 12 More Abandoned Wells; Failure To Submit Annual Reports; Another Chewed Wastewater Line Leaking [PaEN]

-- DEP Issued Conventional Oil & Gas Operators 663 Violations For Abandoning, Not Plugging Wells In Last 15 Months; 392 In 2024 Alone [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 23 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 80 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In March 23 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

-- TribLive: PA Campgrounds, Parks Prep For Influx Of Visitors During April 8 Total Solar Eclipse

-- Inquirer Editorial: Ban Turf Fields In Philadelphia Parks With Their Cancer Causing Chemicals

-- Erie Times: Progress Report - Erie Water Works $50 Million Lead Pipe Replacement Project Stands

-- TribLive: Divers To Inspect Tarentum Water Plant For Algae, Corrosion In Allegheny County

-- Observer-Reporter: Mon River, Carroll Township Projects Receive $43 Million In Federal Funding

-- Citizens Voice: Bird Rescue Holds Grand Opening For New Location In Nanticoke

Train Derailments