Monday, August 12, 2024

Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 8.12.24

“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]


Senate Fall Voting Schedule

-- September 16, 17, 18, 30

-- October 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 21, 22, 23

-- November 13, 14

-- Committee Schedule


House Fall Voting Schedule

-- September 23, 24, 25, 30

-- October 1, 2, 21, 22, 23

-- November 12, 13

-- Committee Schedule


TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


August 15--No Agenda Posted Yet.  DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. 10:00 a.m.  Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov


-- August 12 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available  [PaEN]


-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 3 to 9 - Diversified Prod LLC Fails To Comply With Order To Plug Abandoned Shale Gas Wells;  700 Abandoned Conventional Well Violations  [PaEN]


-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 10 [PaEN] 


-- DEP Posted 62 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In August 10 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]


-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Leaders At Beaver County Shell Petrochemical Plant Admit To Rocky Start But Insist Operations Are Stabilizing 


-- TribLive: Proposed New Derry-Ligonier Power Line To Follow Path Of Existing One


-- Post-Gazette: Chatham University’s Eden Hall Campus Is A Living, Breathing Embodiment Of Environmental Consciousness 


-- Erie Times: What Is the Fmr Erie Coke [Coal] Site’s Value?  ‘Less Than Zero,’ New Owners Claim To Reduce Taxes


-- WHYY - Zoe Read: What To Know About The Chemical Spill That Closed A Trail At Bartram’s Garden


-- WNEP: Trout Run Devastated By Tropical Storm Debby In Lycoming County


-- WNEP: Debby Swept Away Bridge In Luzerne County


-- Inquirer: How Time In Nature Builds Happier, Healthier And More Social Children


-- PennLive/LehighValleyLive: PA Among Worst For Animal-Vehicle Collisions; New Report Outlines How To Better Protect Wildlife


-- TribLive: Freeport, Fox Chapel Become Bird Towns; Tarentum To Consider Joining 


-- Erie Times: Erie County Reports Malaria Cases; How Did Tropical Illness Get Here?


Gas Explosions


-- WTAE: Plum Boro To Mark 1 Year Since Natural Gas Explosion Claimed 6 Lives In Allegheny County


-- KDKA: Plum Community Continues To Heal 1 Year After Deadly Natural Gas Explosion


-- WPXI: Plum Community Coming Together Monday To Remember Neighbors Killed In Natural Gas Explosion


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

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


-- Reuters: Shell, PetroChina To Expand Surat Coal Seam Gas Project In Australia


Other States/National/International


-- The Guardian: Inside California’s Wildfire Home Insurance Crisis


-- The Financial Times: The Uninsurable World - Rethinking How To Cover For Climate Damage


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Beaver County Times: Why PA Democrats Are Still Optimistic About November

--  Erie Times Guest Essay: How Does PA Ensure Free, Fair Elections? Lawmakers, Red And Blue, Count The Ways - By Ed Rendell, Melissa Hart, Jim Gerlach & Keith McCall

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Shapiro Can Now Focus On Leading Pennsylvania - By Commonwealth Foundation

-- Post-Gazette: Ex-President Proposes Dates For 2 Debates In PA Next Month

-- PA Capital-Star: Democrats Billboard Campaign In PA Will Contrast Presidential Tickets

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[Posted: August 12, 2024]  PA Environment Digest

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