Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 8.3.24

“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-- 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. 

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 3 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 66 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In August 3 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 

-- Eureka Resources Request To Terminate Its Water Quality Permit For A Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility In Dimock, Susquehanna County Approved By DEP  [PaEN]

-- DEP Names Nathan Houtz Acting Deputy Secretary For Active & Abandoned Mine Operations; Sharon Hill Named Acting Director Bureau of Mining Programs  [PaEN] 

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: The High Price Of Failing To Transition To Clean Energy In PJM Footprint; Next PJM Auction Is In December - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: PJM Capacity Auction To Lead To Double-Digit Rate Hikes For Exelon Utilities: CFO  [PECO]

-- House Committee Held 2nd Hearing On Governor’s Energy Plan To Diversify Energy Generation, Improve Grid Reliability, Lower Consumer Energy Costs  [PaEN]

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: DEP Sends Out $15 Million To Lower Rural Power Outage Risk

-- DV Journal: Proposed US Senate Energy Facility Permitting Changes Could Be Boon To PA’s Energy Economy

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: What Does Harris Think About Fracking?  - By Jeffrey Kupfer, Carnegie Mellon, Fmr Deputy At DOE

-- Inquirer: While America Dithers Over Climate Change, Swarthmore College Shows How We Can Live Without Fossil Fuels

-- DEP To Hold Aug. 26 Hearing On Mining/Water Quality Permits For Proposed Maggie Lynn Underground Limestone Mine in Washington County  [PaEN]

-- DEP Healthy Waters Update On Chesapeake Bay Watershed Cleanup - June/July

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Network Sends EPA Notice Of Intent To Sue For Delayed Release Of Final Water Quality Standards For Protecting Aquatic Life In Delaware Estuary

-- WNEP: Flash Flooding Closes Streets In Lackawanna County

-- Penn State Extension Sept. 19 In-Person Gardening With Nature - Stormwater-Friendly Lawn Care Workshop In Cumberland County  [PaEN] 

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Small Actions At Home Can Make A Big Difference In Watershed Health - By Teresa Avery, Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Volunteer  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center Summer Interns Spend A Day On The Water 

-- In Memoriam: Stroud Water Research Center’s Katherine “Kay” Dalton Dixon 

-- Observer-Reporter: Southwest PA Farmers Grappling With Heat, Dry Weather 

-- DCNR, Labor & Industry Secretaries Visit PA Outdoor Corps Crews At Codorus State Park In York County  [PaEN] 

-- August 2 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- TreeVitalize Pittsburgh Now Accepting Applications For Street, Park, Trail Tree Planting Grants In Pittsburgh + Allegheny County; Resources Also Available Outside The County  [PaEN] 

-- Western PA Conservancy Adds 122 Acres To State Game Lands In French Creek Watershed, Crawford County  [PaEN] 

-- Call For Presentations! PA Recreation & Park Society Accepting Proposals For The 2025 Conference & Expo March 16-19 In Hershey  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Friends Of The Riverfront Seeks Volunteers To Clean The Tarentum Waterfront By Kayak Aug. 29 In Allegheny County

-- PennLive: You Won’t Believe What Clean Up Crews Found In This PA Creek

-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Warden Youth Camp Creates Awareness Of What Game Commission Wardens Do To Protect Wildlife 

-- Allegheny County Health Dept. Started Annual Raccoon Rabies Vaccination Initiative Aug. 1 

-- The Allegheny Front - Kara Holsopple: New Legislative Report Recommends Ways To Keep PA Wildlife And Drivers Safe

-- Lancaster Farming: Report Calls For More Conservation Corridors To Aid Animals And Motorists

Train Derailments

-- AG Henry/Gov. Shapiro: Federal Settlement Over Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Does Not Help Enough Pennsylvanians Impacted By The Incident  [PaEN] 

-- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Fears Surface As Report Eyes Railroad Safety

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: National - $3.48,  Ohio - $3.47   PA- $3.58  

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Down 1 From Last Week To 20

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Erie Times: Commonwealth Court Grants Access To 49,000 Mail-In, Absentee Ballots From 2020 Election To Erie County Republican Committee Member 

-- TribLive: Commonwealth Court Hears Arguments About Misdated Mail-In Ballots

-- City & State PA: Lawmakers Disclosed Trips Paid For By Others In 2023

-- WITF: Most US Adults Don’t Know They Can Fight Health Insurance Denials, New Study Finds

-- AP: Drexel University Agrees To Bolster Handling Of Bias Complaints After Probe Of Antisemitic Incidents

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[Posted:  August 3, 2024]  PA Environment Digest