Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 8.24.24

“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 

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 24 [PaEN] 

-- DEP Posted 70 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In August 24 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Eureka Resources Plans To Close/Sell 2 Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Plants In Williamsport: Not Enough Wastewater Volume To Keep Plants Open [PaEN]

-- Eureka Resources Shuts Down Standing Stone Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility; DEP Wastewater, Waste Violations Continued From Feb. 2023  [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] 

-- Former Employees Of Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Company Ask For Criminal Investigation Of Eureka And An Audit Of DEP Over Alleged Workplace, Environmental Violations  [PaEN]

-- Rocket-Courier: Sayre Man Killed At Eureka Resources Standing Stone Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Plant [September, 2022]

-- Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration Report On Worker Death At Eureka Resources.

 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Sept. 12 On Water Withdrawal Requests - Including 8 Shale Gas Development, Gas Power Plant; Budget; Procurement Regulations  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 33 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In July; 188 General Permits So Far In 2024  [PaEN]

-- DEP Designates Renewal Of Marcus Hook Terminal Air Quality Permit Subject To Environmental Justice Enhanced Public Participation; Stormwater Permit Also Pending  [PaEN] 

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Some Question If Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Will Bring Clean Energy

-- PennLive: Cumberland County Company Receives USDA Funding For Solar Energy Project

-- Observer-Reporter: Hearing Held For Solar Energy Facility Proposed In Smith Twp., Washington County

-- The Allegheny Front - Kara Holsopple: New Federal Tax Credits For Home Solar, Energy Efficiency You Might Not Know About

-- National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Now Accepting Applications For Chesapeake Bay Innovative Nutrient & Sediment Reduction Grants; Sept. 12 Webinar  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners: The Backbone Of An Amazing Network Of Partners Who Work To Restore Clean Water In Lancaster County  [Video]

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: EPA May Increase Oversight Of State Stormwater Programs In Chesapeake Watershed 

-- Schuylkill Action Network Hosts Sept. 24 Southeast PA Water Utility Forum At Albright College, Berks County  [PaEN] 

-- PUC Supports A Common Application Form To Break Barriers To Essential Electric, Gas, Water & Wastewater Public Utility Assistance For Eligible Families 

-- Southwestern PA Water Network To Host Confluence At Mingo Creek - A Celebration Of Watersheds Sept. 28 In Washington County  [PaEN] 

-- Penn State Extension Watershed Winds Newsletter: Pharmaceuticals And Water Quality; Impervious Surface Stormwater Impacts; Fix A Leaking Pond; Much More!

-- TribLive: Junior Green Corps Students Play Part In Transforming Homewood Neighborhood In Pittsburgh

-- TribLive: Officials Paddle For The Future Of The Allegheny River: ‘Up Close And Personal’ 

-- DEP Bans Sale Of Teclast Electronics Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken  [PaEN] 

-- Scranton Times: 200% Increase In Recycling Costs Likely To Remain For Now In Lackawanna County

-- Citizens Voice: Proposed Waste Transfer Station In Avoca Riles Residents; Developer Promises Answers At Special Meeting

-- Health, DCNR, DEP Highlight Lyme Disease, Tick Bite Prevention Best Practices At Memorial Lake State Park, Dauphin County

-- York Daily Record: PA Being Invaded By New Tick Species: How To Protect Yourself

-- Observer-Reporter: Treatments Planned To Combat West Nile Virus In Washington County

-- Register Now For Delaware Highlands Conservancy Women And Their Woods Retreat Sept. 15-18 In Wayne County, PA  [PaEN]

-- Reminder: Delaware Highlands Conservancy Accepting Entries For Summer Photo Contest Until Aug. 31 

-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For 2025 Environmental Education Grants, Deadline Nov. 15 

-- Republican Herald: Smokey Bear Celebrates 80th Birthday In Minersville

-- Upper Delaware Council Hosts Sept. 5 Presentation On Upper Delaware Oral History Project At Its Offices In Narrowsburg, NY, And Online  [PaEN] 

-- Republican Herald: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary’s 90th Anniversary Fall Migration Season Underway

-- PennLive: Game Commission Looking For 5 People Who Vandalized Waggoner’s Gap Hawk Watch In Perry County 

-- Game Commission: At Last, Nest Success For Common Terns In Erie County

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- $3.37   Ohio- $3.27    PA- $3.54

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

Other States/National/International

-- Financial Times: Where Have All The Insects Gone?

-- AP: Biden Promised To Clean Up Heavily Polluted Communities; Here Is How Is How Advocates Say He Did

-- AP: What Has Worked To Fight Climate Change? Policies Where Someone Pays For Polluting, Study Finds

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- TribLive/AP: Court: Cornel West Can’t Be On PA’s Presidential Ballot

-- PA Capital-Star: JFK, Jr. Asks PA Court To Take Him Off Ballot

-- WITF: Butler County Mail-In Voting Case Could Standardized County Rules On Correcting Ballots

-- The Center Square: Harris, Ex-President In Dead Heat In Pennsylvania

-- The Center Square: Casey Blames ‘Scheming Corporations’ For Rising Prices

-- The Hill: Biden Administration Will Restart Free At-Home COVID Test Program Next Month

-- TribLive: Outgoing Chancellor Of State-Owned Universities Reflects On Achievements, Challenges

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[Posted: August 24, 2024]  PA Environment Digest