Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 7.1.24

“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 July 1, 2, 3

-- Committee Schedule

Senate next voting day July 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7,  September 16, 17, 18, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

-- TODAY Off The Floor:  NEW. Senate Judiciary Committee meets to consider House Bill 1466 (Bizzarro-D-Erie) protecting free speech from frivolous SLAPP lawsuits [House Summary & Fiscal Note]. Rules Room [No Video Coverage].  Off the Floor.  Read more here on SLAPP suits.

-- July 1 Weekly PA Environment Digest Is Now Available  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 22 to 28 - 12 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 29 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 81 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In June 29 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh-based Viatris, Inc., American Eagle Outfitters Made Time’s World’s Most Sustainable Companies List

-- Citizens Voice: Grant Will Help Eastern PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Examine Water Quality In Shickshinny 

-- Spotlight PA To Host July 18 Panel Discussion On How Unreliable Small Private Water Systems Affect Quality Of Life In PA  [PaEN] 

-- Tribune-Democrat: Archpriest Blesses Little Conemaugh River, Continuing 45-Year Tradition

-- Post-Gazette: Downtown Neighbors Alliance Works To Increase Rooftop Greenery In Pittsburgh

-- Faithful Green Leaders Training Being Offered For Congregation Green Teams In October By Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay  [PaEN] 

-- PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Host July 23 Webinar On Large-Scale Solar Energy Facilities In Pennsylvania  [PaEN]

-- Altoona Mirror: Logan Township Revises Solar Rules

-- PA Interfaith Power & Light Interfaith Climate Convening Set For Sept. 29  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Upper Merion Twp. Begins 2nd Phase Of Single-Use Plastic Ban

-- Republican Herald: West Nile Virus Mosquitoes Detected In Cressona, Schuylkill County

-- DEP Update On West Nile Virus, Jamestown Canyon Virus  

-- Dept. Of Agriculture Update On Animal Rabies Cases In Pennsylvania

-- WHYY: Chester County Hayfields Can Be Traps For Baby Birds, A Collaboration Aims To Make Them Havens 

Train Derailments

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: PA Cong. Deluzio Calls Out Norfolk Southern’s Actions After Derailment

Other States/National/International

-- The Guardian: PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Absorbed Through Skin At Levels High Than Previously Thought

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Post-Gazette: Shapiro Emerges As Potential Candidate As Democrats Debate Replacing Biden

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[Posted: July 1, 2024]  PA Environment Digest