Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.17.24

“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]

House Voting Schedule

-- October 21, 22, 23

-- November 12, 13

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

-- October 21, 22, 23

-- November 13, 14

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events .

October 23-- Agenda Posted.  Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. Room 8E-B East Wing Capitol Building. 9:30 a.m.   Click Here for available online video.

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 12 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 87 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In October 12 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- Saint Vincent College Study Finds Counties With Shale Gas Fracking Wells Using Chemicals That Target Certain Hormones Have Greater Incidence Of Pre-Term Births, Low Birth Weights     [PaEN] 

-- KDKA: Saint Vincent College Study Drills Down On Relationship Between Fracking Chemicals And Adverse Birth Outcomes

-- KDKA: Penn Township Residents Voice Concerns About Potential Zoning Changes To Allow More Industrial Development, Gas Facilities In Westmoreland County 

-- Team PA & Clean Air Task Force Convene Leaders To Discuss Challenges, Opportunities Of Industrial Decarbonization; DOE Provides Update On Decarbonization Investments In PA  [PaEN] 

-- PJM Interconnection Winter Outlook: Adequate Power Supplies Available Under Normal Conditions; PJM Delays Next Power Auction After Prices Spike  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Secures $1.62 Million Payment For American Zinc & Chemical Site Natural Resource Damage In Washington County; Invites Comments On Settlement  [PaEN]  

-- PennVEST Makes $216.3 Million Investment In 33 Drinking Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction Projects In 21 Counties  [PaEN] 

-- Assn. Of State Drinking Water Administrators Recognizes DEP’s Lisa Daniels With 2024 ASDWA Excellence In Service Award 

-- WHYY: Philadelphia Releases Lead Pipe Inventory; Much Of City Left Undetermined 

-- WPXI: Massive PA American Water Water Main Break Shuts Down Busy Road In South Fayette Township 

-- TribLive: Westmoreland Water Authority Recovers Over $880,000 In Stolen Funds, Upgrades Cybersecurity Efforts

-- DEP Awards $3.4 Million To Support 12 Local Projects To Improve Water Quality, Fish & Wildlife Habitat In 8 Counties  [PaEN] 

-- DCNR, Fish & Boat Commission, Partners Plant Stream Buffer In Snyder County To Combat Flooding, Improve Water Quality  [PaEN]

-- TribLive Editorial: Right To Remember ‘Close-Knit Town’ Of Robindale Destroyed By Flood In Indiana County 

-- Penn State Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training: Dec. 12 Webinar On Project Management For Agricultural Conservation  [PaEN]

-- Appalachian Regional Commission Awards $18.5 Million In Pennsylvania To Support Economic Revitalization Of Communities Impacted By Downturn In Coal Industry  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: PA Nonprofits Awarded $18.5 Million From Appalachian Regional Commission For Workforce Development In Coal Communities

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Appalachian Regional Commission Awards $18.5 Million To Organizations Across PA To Revitalize Communities Affected By The Loss Of The Coal Industry

-- The Allegheny Front Receives National Grant For Filling Critical Gap In Local News Coverage

-- WHYY: Environmentalists Caution Against PhilaPort Proposal To Dredge Delaware River - Again

-- DCNR Grants Newsletter: Members Needed For Trails Council; Youth Sport Equity Grants; Assessing, Advancing Belonging Webinar; Nov. 7 DCNR Grants Webinar; More! 

-- WESA/WPSU: Gov. Shapiro Unveils Colorblindness-Correcting Viewfinders At PA Parks

-- Fish & Boat Commission Publishes New Requirements To Be A Qualified Endangered, Threatened Species Surveyor  [PaEN]

-- Beaver County Times - Brian Whipkey: Fish & Boat Commission Seeking Comments On Trout Management Strategic Plan

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Hard Times For Hard-Traveling Monarch Butterfly

Hurricane Helene Impacts

-- Post-Gazette/AP: FEMA Resumes Door-To-Door Visits In North Carolina After threats Connected To Disinformation

-- KDKA: Politically Motivated Misinformation Has Surged Following Hurricane Helen, Here’s A Fact Check

-- Post-Gazette/AP: Witnesses Saw Armed Group Harassing Helene Aid Workers In Tennessee Town, Sheriff Says; Politically Motivated Misinformation Rampant

-- The Guardian: US Meteorologists Face Politically Motivated Death Threats As Hurricane Conspiracies, Misinformation Surge

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- PennLive: Three Mile Island Leaders ‘99.99%’ Sure Dauphin County’s Shuttered Nuke Plant Will Reopen

-- LancasterOnline Guest Essay: PA’s Union Workers Stand To Benefit Most From Reopening Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant - By Joseph Gusler, PA State Building Trades

-- Reuters: Constellation Orders $100 Million Transformer For Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart

-- AP: Amazon, Google Make Dueling Nuclear Power Investments To Power Data Centers With ‘Clean’ Energy  [Small Modular Reactors]

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

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

-- Bloomberg: LNG Gas Tanker Glut Is Softening Blow For Consumers Facing High Natural Gas Prices Due To LNG Shipping Costs

Other States/National/International

-- NPR: US Supreme Court Refuses To Block EPA Power Plant Climate Rule

-- AP: The World Will Be Fueled By Electricity But Even More Clean Energy Is Needed, Report Says

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- AP: Luzerne County Settles Federal Lawsuit Over Ballot Paper Shortages In 2022 Voting

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: State Court Rebuffs Attempts To Prevent PA Revenue Secretary, Fmr State Senator, From Appearing Before State Senate

-- PennLive: PA Revenue Secretary, Fmr State Senator, Appeals To PA Supreme Court To Block Senate Demand For Tax Records

-- PennLive - John Baer: Hey, PA Voters, We Need To Talk

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Fearmongering Ads In PA US Senate Race Overshadow Real Problems With Social Security

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Tying Transit Funding To ‘Skill’ Gambling Games Doesn’t Make Sense

-- TribLive: Innamorato’s Proposed Allegheny County Property Tax Increase Probably Dead, Catena Says

-- Spotlight PA: Losing Its Only Sheetz Pushed Cameron County Community To Think Differently About Its Future

-- MCall: Semiconductor Company In Lehigh Valley To Receive $93 Million In Federal Funding

-- Spotlight PA: As Problems Roiled Penn State Health’s Transplant Programs, Unknowing Patient Kept Hope, Then They Were Blindsided

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[Posted: October 17, 2024]  PA Environment Digest