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]

House next voting day April 29, 30, May 1, 6, 7, 8, 20, 21, 22, June 3, 4, 5

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Senate next voting day April 29, 30, May 1, 6, 7, 8, June 3, 4, 5

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TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

-- PA Environment Digest Will Be CLOSED Tuesday, April 23 Election Day

-- PA Unofficial Primary Election Results: PA Dept. Of State Webpage

April 25-- Agenda Posted. DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Penn State Technology Center Room 243 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. 10:00 a.m. Click Here for options to attend remotely. Contact: Adam Walters adwalters@pa.gov or 717-214-6548. Read more here on the agenda.

April 25-- Agenda Posted. DEP Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Visit the Board webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Daniel E. Snowden, at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846.

-- Gov. Shapiro Announces Commitment To Get 50% Of Electricity For State Government From Solar Energy Facilities In Pennsylvania [PaEN]

-- EPA Awards PA Energy Development Authority Over $156 Million To Deliver Residential Solar, Lowering Energy Costs, Advancing Environmental Justice Across Pennsylvania [PaEN]

-- 5 Pennsylvania Colleges, Join 3 From North Carolina In Joint Solar Energy Power Purchase Agreement From Facility In Kentucky [PaEN]

-- Clean Air Council/Sierra Club: PA Falling Behind In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Bonding; Burden Falls On Taxpayers [PaEN]

-- PUC Urges Congressional Action To Address Potential PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Cleanup Liability For Water & Wastewater Utilities [PaEN]

-- A Dozen Nonprofit, Agency, Municipal Environmental Experts Team Up To Tackle Stormwater Runoff In The Lake Erie Watershed, Starting April 25 [PaEN]

-- PennFuture: Learn How To Protect the Natural Environment With Public Participation Public Power - A Community Guide to Local Land Use Decision-Making In PA [PaEN]

-- WHYY: My Climate Story: Philly Students Take Science From Abstract To Personal

-- Independence Conservancy Holds Community Tire Collections In Allegheny, Beaver Counties Starting April 27 [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: EHB Judge Hears Appeal Against Massive Expansion Of Keystone Landfill

-- Beaver County Times: Shell Charged For Falcon Pipeline Spills During Plant Construction

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Votes To Shut Down 3 Athens Wastewater Injection Wells