PA Environment Digest Blog: Friday 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 May 20, 21, 22, June 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

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Senate next voting day June 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

May 21-- House Tourism, Economic And Recreational Development Committee holds an informational meeting to introduce Nathan Reigner, Director Of The Office Of Outdoor Recreation updating the Committee on the work done over the last year. Room 140. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

-- Advisory: DEP’s Oil & Gas, eFACTS And Other Databases Aren’t Yet Back To Normal After OnBase Database Maintenance Wednesday

-- In Memoriam: Edwin K. Charles, Teacher, Environmental Advocate: The ‘Teach-In Must Continue’ [PaEN]

-- Observer-Reporter: Cecil Township Supervisors Continue To Ponder Changes To Oil & Gas Ordinance In Washington County

-- PUC Approves Settlement In Peoples Gas Pipeline Over-Pressurization Failure That Damaged Hundreds Of Furnaces, Water Heaters [PaEN]

-- PennLive: Natural Gas Leak Closes Road In Camp Hill, Cumberland County

-- TribLive: Murrysville Acid Mine Remediation A ‘Generational Opportunity’ To Clean Turtle Creek In Westmoreland County

-- TribLive: American River Otter Returns To Ridley Creek Watershed In Chester, Delaware Counties

-- 6ABC: Science Lesson Comes Full Circle For Perkiomen Valley Middle Schools With PA Trout In The Classroom Project

-- WHYY: After Decades Of Pressure, Eastwick Neighborhood In Philadelphia Celebrates Major Milestone In Clearview Landfill Cleanup

-- Utility Dive: New PA PUC Policy Sparks Debate Over Who Can Own Energy Storage Assets

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Keep PA’s Clean Energy Momentum Going With Solar, Wind Energy - By Erika Strassburger, Pittsburgh City Council

-- PUC Recognizes Drinking Water Week, Addresses PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Congressional Action