Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.11.24

“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 (non-voting), 24 (non-voting), 25 (non-voting), 30

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

-- November 12, 13

-- Committee Schedule


TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


TODAY 10:00:  Agenda Posted. Independent Regulatory Review Commission meeting.  Item: Draft Report Regarding Legislative Requests to Review Existing Regulations.  14the Floor Conference Room 333 Market Street, Harrisburg. 10:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch online.


September 12-- Senate Republican Policy Committee hearing on orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells.  David Lawrence Convention Center, Room 405, Pittsburgh.   9:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch live.


September 17-- House Republican Policy Committee hearing on “Opportunity Lost - Bureaucracy’s Battle Against Fracking.”  Hempfield Township Building, 1132 Woodward Dr., Greensburg.  2:00 p.m.


September 17-- NEW. VirtualCenter for Coalfield Justice, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Pennsylvania, Mountain Watershed Association, Environmental Health Project, and FracTracker Alliance Press Conference On One Year After The Pitt Shale Gas Development Health Impact Studies And Failure To Fulfill Essential Promises To Residents.  2:00 p.m.  Click Here for full advisory.


-- We Remember Sept. 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy [PaEN] 


-- TribLive: A Look Back At 9/11 And Impact On Shanksville: ‘Hallowed Ground’


-- Post-Gazette: After 23 Years, Impact Of 9/11 Flight 93 Crash Still Runs Deep


-- TribLive Editorial: The Indelible Mark Of Sept. 11, 2001


-- WESA: New Freeport, Greene County Residents File Lawsuit Against EQT Gas Drilling Company Over Contaminated Water Supplies  [PaEN]   https://tinyurl.com/2uvh4ctd


-- Marcellus Drilling News: Coterra Energy Pulling All Active Marcellus Drilling Rigs From Susquehanna County Until Natural Gas Price Recovers  [PDF of Article]  [Dimock Is In This County]


-- Southwestern PA Community, Health Organizations To Hold Sept. 17 Online Press Event - One Year After Pitt Shale Gas Health Impacts Studies And The Failure To Fulfill Essential Promises Made To Residents  [PaEN]  


-- Ohio River Valley Institute: $55 Million Federally-Funded Tenaska Carbon Geologic Sequestration Project Expected To Permanently Employ 4 People, According To A WV University Study  [PaEN] 


-- US Dept. Of Energy Awards $20 Million To Improve Siting Of Renewable Energy Facilities; $1.96 Million To PA  [PaEN]


-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Presidential Debate In Pennsylvania Dances Around The Energy Question


-- City & State PA: Presidential Debate Covers Plenty Of Ground And Digs Into PA Fracking


-- Dickinson College Included In AASHE Sustainable Campus Index For Third Straight Year


-- Environmental Quality Board Approves Proposed Stream Redesignations For Public Comment; Votes Down Motion To Decouple Truck Emission Standards From California In 2 Years  [PaEN]


-- Secretaries Of Maryland Dept. Of Natural Resources, PA DCNR Discuss Water Quality Goals, Potential Interstate Trail Connections At Joint Event


-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: City Of Lancaster Getting More Trees, Thanks To A Grant From The GIANT Company, Keep PA Beautiful


-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Company To Be Featured In $1 Million Project To Define ‘Regenerative Poultry’


-- Horn Farm Agricultural Education Center Launches New Ecological Restoration Certification, Ecological Gardener Training Programs  [PaEN] 


-- DEP Permitting Efficiency: 21,006 Permits Since 11/2023; Decisions On 17,152;  2 Currently Eligible For PAyback Did Not Meet Decision Deadlines; ZERO Application Fees Refunded [9.11.24]


-- Dept. Of Agriculture: Invasive Box Tree Moth Discovered In Erie, High-Value Ornamental Shrubs Threatened


-- Erie Times: Invasive Box Tree Moth Found In Erie, Limiting Some Plant Sales; What To Know


-- Independence Conservancy Hosts Waste Tire Collection Events In Beaver, Washington Counties [PaEN]


-- Countryside Conservancy, Peck Family Partner On Preservation Of 420-Acres In Susquehanna County  [PaEN] 


-- DCNR To Host Programs In 25 State Parks For Girl Scouts Love State Parks Weekend Sept. 13-15


-- The Guardian: US Cave System’s Bats, Insects Face Existential Threat: Discarded Cheetos


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

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


-- Marcellus Drilling News: Coterra Energy Pulling All Active Marcellus Drilling Rigs From Susquehanna County Until Natural Gas Price Recovers  [PDF of Article]  [Dimock Is In This County]


-- RealClearEnergy.org: EQT Gas CEO Says Gas Reserves Could Sustain A 50% Increase In Production, Leaving ‘Enough Resources For Over 30 Years Of Supply;’ [Natural Gas Prices Would Be Lower If We Had More Pipelines, Storage] 


-- Reuters: US Gulf Coast Oil, Natural Gas Facilities Hit By Hurricane Francine


Other States/National/International


-- AP: Pollution Of The Potent Climate Warming Gas Methane Soards, People Mostly To Blame


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso/Kate Huangpu: Public Transit Funding, Utility Protections, More Top PA Legislature’s Fall To-Do List

-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Presidential Debate In Pennsylvania Dances Around The Energy Question

-- City & State PA: Presidential Debate Covers Plenty Of Ground And Digs Into PA Fracking

-- Spotlight PA: Shapiro Administration Threatened With Lawsuit Over ‘Scandalous’ Conduct Order Issued Amid Gaza Protests

-- York Dispatch: Republican PA Con. Scott Perry Stands By Effort To Overturn 2020 Election Results

-- Tribune-Democrat: School Threats Plague Region In Recent Days

-- The Center Square: Rumored Migrant Shelter In Chambersburg Stirs Up Controversy

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[Posted: September 11, 2024]  PA Environment Digest

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