PA Environment Digest Blog: Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips

“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 Voting Schedule

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

-- November 12, 13

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

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

-- November 13, 14

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

NOTICE: PA Environment Digest, Daily Blog Will Not Publish Oct. 9 to 16 - You’re On Your Own

October 8-- Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 12:30 p.m. Visit Council webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Ian Irvin, Executive Director, iirvin@pa.gov or 717-579-0329. Read more here on agenda.

October 10-- Agenda Posted. DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:15 a.m. Visit the Committee webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Joseph Martini martjos@pa.gov. [Note: New Federal Oil & Gas Methane Reduction Rule On Agenda] Read more here on agenda.

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 5 [PaEN]

-- DEP Violations To 7 Shale Gas Drillers For Failure To Submit Monthly Waste Generation, Disposal, Production Reports - 1 Company For 3 Years; 2 More Drillers Fail To Disclose Fracking Chemicals [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 72 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In October 5 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Oct. 30 Hearing On The Proposed 2025 Fee Schedule; Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 4 Supporting Shale Gas Development [PaEN]

-- The Energy Age Blog: Update: Emergency DEP Conventional Well Plugging Continues In Allegheny County

-- Observer-Reporter: Marcellus Shale Has Wealth Of Natural Gas And More [Royalty Payments, Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees] [PDF of Article] [Part 3]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: How 2 Coal Companies Overcame Their Differences And Combined To Form Core Natural Resources

-- DEP Sets Nov. 4 Hearing On Renewal Of Air Quality Permit For Panther Creek Coal Waste-Fired Power Plant In Carbon County [PaEN]

-- MCall: Talks Could Bring Amazon Data Center To Lehigh Valley At Site Of Electric Plant And Fmr Portland Generating Station

-- DEP Sets Oct. 28 Meeting/Hearing On Renewal Of Hazardous Waste Permit For Keystone Cement In Northampton County [Updated] [PaEN]

-- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn.: Nov. 2 Teacher Training For Junior Solar Sprint

-- Tribune-Democrat: Upper Yoder Twp. Drawing Up Regulations For Possible Solar Energy Facilities

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Old Lycoming Twp. Solar Energy Facility Permit Good For Energy Needs, Liberty

-- Delaware River Basin Commission/EPA Climate Practitioners Workshop Oct.28, 4:00 p.m.

-- Pottsville Republican Herald Guest Essay: Riparian Buffers Necessary In Age Of Stronger Storms - By Alliance for The Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

-- Centre Daily Times: Ferguson Twp. To End Controversial Stormwater Fee More Than 2 Years After It Started

-- Delaware River Basin Commission Reports Outline Need To Improve Estuary Dissolved Oxygen Levels

-- WHYY: East Falls, Manayunk, Publish Flood Mitigation Study 3 Years After Hurricane Ida

-- KDKA: Allegheny County Health Dept. Releases New Assessment On Children With Lead Poisoning

-- Oct. 4 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]

-- WPXI: Dormont Closing All Playgrounds Due To Loss Of Insurance Coverage

-- KYW: Delaware RiverKeeper Files Lawsuit Against EPA for Failing To Protect Atlantic Sturgeon

-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Boogie-Woogies In The Woods

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Private Investment - Not Subsidies - Will Empower PA’s Nuclear Energy [TMI Restart With Constellation Energy/Microsoft] - By Commonwealth Foundation [Actually Constellation is seeking $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees for the deal]

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

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