Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 7.13.24

“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 September 23

-- Committee Schedule

Senate next voting day September 16, 17, 18, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

-- DEP Advisory: OnBase Database Will Be Unavailable July 27 From 5:00 to 8:30 p.m.

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 13 [PaEN] 

-- DEP Posted 77 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 13 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Celebrates Forest Stewardship Council Leadership Award For Achieving 25 Years Of Forest Management Certification; 2024 Update Available On Shale Gas Drilling In State Forests  [PaEN] 

-- Environmental Quality Board Sets 3 Hearings On Proposed Changes To 80 Chemical Cleanup Standards Under Land Recycling Program, Including More PFAS Chemicals And Lead  [PaEN]   

-- DEP Invites Comments On Water Encroachment Permit For A Beech Resources, LLC Project To Construct 3 Pipelines On A Right-of-Way Impacting An Exceptional Value Stream, EV Wetlands In Lycoming County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Sets Aug. 14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP To Hold Aug. 14 Hearing On Title V Air Quality Permit For the IPSCO Koppel Tubular LLC Facility In Beaver County  [PaEN] 

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Homer City, Indiana County Navigates An Uncertain Future After Its Coal-fired Power Plant Closed 

-- TribLive: Public Survey Shows Gap In Understanding Coming Cleanup Of Nuclear Waste Site In Armstrong County

-- Inquirer: More Fast, Public Electric Vehicle Charging Is On The Way, But PA Is ‘Playing Catch-Up’

-- PennLive Editorial: Time To Accept Change - Electric Vehicles Are On The Way, If They’re Not Already Here

-- Patch.com: New Hope-Solebury Students Awarded Aquetong Watershed Scholarships In Bucks County 

-- Dept. of Agriculture Starts Accepting Applications For Urban Agricultural Infrastructure Grants July 22, Deadline Sept. 6

-- Inquirer: Federal Agency Is Pushing Urban Agriculture As A Climate Change, Social Issues Solution

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Pittsburgh Must Embrace The Trees

-- Dept. Of Agriculture Issues Quarantine Order Establishing A Framework For Taking Actions To Prevent Damage To Nursery Stock From The Invasive Box Tree Moth  [PaEN]  

-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Loving The Land Through Working Forests Conference Sept. 21; Annual Dinner Sept. 20 With Tim Palmer And Rosalie Haizlett, In Crawford County  [PaEN] 

-- The Allegheny Front: Hollow Oak Land Trust Is Fighting Invasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid In Allegheny County

-- Warren Times - Josh Cotton: Allegheny National Forest Fighting Spread Of Hemlock Wooly Adelgid With Silver Flies

-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Moths Emerge For A Short Time Span

-- July 12 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation Now Available  [PaEN] 

-- Game Commission Board Adds Nearly 5,300 Acres To State Game Lands 

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Hunting Lobbyist - Game Commission Puts Itself ‘In Political Peril’

Train Derailments

-- PA Capital-Star: Casey, Deluzio Announced $3.66 Million For Public Water Supply In Beaver County Affected By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment 

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]

-- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA- $3.68  National- $3.52  Ohio- $3.32

-- Delaware Valley Journal: PA Energy Advocates Ecstatic After Judge Blocks Biden Pause In Permits For New LNG Gas Export Facilities [PA Gas Industry Wants To Send More Gas To China Because It Means Higher Prices For Them And Us]

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs - 21, Same As Last Week

-- Reuters: US Natural Gas Prices Settle UP Over 2% On Hot-Weather Forecasts

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Rise After Global Supply Risks Resurface

Other States/National/International

-- Post-Gazette: California Officials Report First Wildfire Death Of 2024 Season

-- Utility Dive: US Supreme Court’s Chevron Ruling Creates Legal, Regulatory Uncertainty In Power Sector Over Future EPA Mandates, Moody’s Ratings 

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PA Capital-Star: Which New Programs In New State Budget Didn’t Make Headlines?  [Solar For Schools, Agriculture Innovation]

-- City & State PA: 9 Takeaways From PA’s 2024-25 State Budget

-- TribLive Editorial: Start Planning Path To Next PA Budget Now

-- TribLive: Pitt Raises In-State Tuition On Its Main Campus By 2%

-- Post-Gazette: Evidence Lacking For Hate Crime Charges In Death, Dismemberment Of Transgender Teen, Investigators Say

-- Spotlight PA: Local Governments Could Save Millions If Public Notice Requirements Change; Newspapers Oppose The Move

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[Posted: July 13, 2024]  PA Environment Digest