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 June 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

-- Committee Schedule

Senate next voting day June 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, September 16, 17, 18, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

TODAY 10:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 831 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) geologic carbon sequestration primacy bill. Room G-50 Irvis Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch live. Read more here on the agenda.

TODAY 10:00: Senate, House Gas & Oil Caucus To Celebrate Natural Gas & Oil Day Tuesday, June 25 [PaEN]

TODAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. DEP Climate Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Visit the Committee webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Lindsay Bryon lbyron@pa.gov.

TODAY Call of the Chair: House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 589 (Kinkead-D-Allegheny) establishing a state landslide insurance program; House Bill 2393 (Friel-D-Chester) establishing a permit program for food waste disposal. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Call of the Chair. Click Here to watch live.

June 26-- Legislative Budget & Finance Committee meets on House Resolution 131 (Steele-D-Allegheny) requiring the Legislative Budget & Finance Committee to conduct a study comparing the Act 13 shale gas drilling impact fee revenues with a natural gas severance tax. Room 8E-B East Wing. 9:00 a.m. Click Here to watch live.

June 26-- Agenda Posted. DEP Solid Waste Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Visit the Committee webpage for options to join the meeting remotely. Contact: Laura Henry, at lahenry@pa.gov or (717) 772-5713.

-- House Committee Told Governor’s Energy Plan Diversifies Energy Generation, Avoids One-Fuel Dependence, Improves Grid Reliability, Lowers Consumer Costs, Generates Jobs; Or Upends Competitive Markets And Is A ‘Death Wish’ For Our Economy [PaEN]

-- Organizations, Concerned Citizens Call On House Committee To Resist Rushing To A Vote On Bill Related To Geologic Carbon Sequestration Without A Hearing [PaEN]

-- Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds Announces $650,000 in Conservation Grants; Next Grant Round Opens In August [PaEN]

-- WTAJ: Over $100,000 In Grants To Go Towards Central PA Conservation Efforts

-- WVIA: Residents Fight ‘Greedy’ Poconos Warehouse Expansion

-- Citizens Voice: Pittston Twp. Takes Opposition To Warehouse In Residential Zone To PA Supreme Court

-- Penn State Extension Ag Progress Days To Be Held August 13-15

-- Warren Times Editorial: Streambank Work Vital To Area

-- TribLive: Dr. Iulia Vann Nominated As New Allegheny County Health Director

-- Citizens Voice: Responders Find Deficient I-Beam In Wilkes-Barre Flood Gate Drill

-- Inquirer/WPost: Warren County Town Reckons With Population Loss: ‘Too Many Old People’, People Moving Out’ [Heart Of Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Road Dumping Wastewater]

-- US Senators Casey, Fetterman Announce $15 Million For Codorus Greenway Project In York [PaEN]