Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.23.24

“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 23

-- November 12, 13 [End Of Session, All Bills Die]

-- Committee Schedule


Senate Voting Schedule

-- October 23

-- November 13, 14 [End Of Session, All Bills Die]

-- Committee Schedule


TODAY’s Calendar Of Events .


TODAY 11:00: DEP Media Advisory: DEP Will Plug An Abandoned Gas Well That Has Contaminated A Family’s Water Supply In Vowinckel, Clarion County At 11:00 a.m.


CANCELED: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Resolution 565 (Pielli-D-Chester) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to do a study on wil native terrestrial invertebrate management (sponsor summary). Room G-50 Irvis Building. 10:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch online.


TODAY 9:30: 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.


TODAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. DEP Small Business Compliance Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m.  Visit the Committee webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely.  Contact: Lucas Hershey, luchershey@pa.gov(formal notice) [Note: Agenda includes oil and gas industry methane reduction regulation discussion]


DEP Advisory: DEP is migrating its website to a new platform to launch in mid-December. Updates to the current site will be limited until then.


-- Environmental, Health Groups Submit Petition To Environmental Quality Board For More Protective Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells For Schools, Daycares, Hospitals, Buildings, Drinking Water Wells, Surface Water  [PaEN] 


-- DEP Now Accepting Qualified Professional Bids As Part Of SPEED Permit Review Program  [PaEN] 


-- Allegheny Conference Of Community Development:  A Major Win - Mainspring Energy Receives DOE Grant For Linear Generator Sustainable Energy Manufacturing Facility  [PaEN]


-- Post-Gazette: Mainspring Clean Energy Company Plans To Build New Plant Near Airport, Hire 600 Workers


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Mainspring Energy To Bring Big Plant, Hundreds Of Jobs To Coraopolis


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Meet Mainspring, The Company Behind Tuesday’s Big Clean Energy Announcement


-- Spotlight PA: Legal Bills Divide Some Elected Officials Involved In Centre County Solar Energy Project


-- US DOT Announces $196 Million In Grants To Replace Aging Natural Gas Pipes, Cut Methane Emissions, Including $40 Million To Philadelphia Gas Works


-- WHYY: Philadelphia Gas Works Gets Federal Money To Replace Aging Natural Gas Mains


-- Marcellus Drilling News: Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Ready For Prime Time; But It Has An Achilles’ Heel- No Natural Gas Liquids Storage  [PDF of Article


-- Wheeling News-Register: Sen. Manchin Announces $44 Million DOE Funding To Develop Carbon Storage Hub In Marshall County, WV 


-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Council Says Proposed Air Quality Fee Increase Needs More Study


-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: After 40 Years Of Cutting Edge Environmental Restoration, Can The Bay Partnership Again Reinvent Itself In Time To Save The Bay In The 21st Century? 


-- Penn State PA Technical Assistance Program Hosting 2-Part Food Manufacturing Pollution Prevention Training Series  [PaEN]


-- Erie Times: IRG, Erie-Area Environmentalists Debate Merit Of ‘Recycling’ Plastics Into Fuel 


-- Erie Times Guest Essay: Don’t Fall For Smoke And Mirrors, Recycling Won’t Solve Our Plastics Problem - Jenny Thompkins, PennFuture


-- Scranton Times: Keystone Landfill Gas Plant Fined For Air Pollution Violations


-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh City Council Passed New Ordinance Authorizing Quality Of Life Tickets For Trash Violators


-- Registration Open!  PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Conference March 10-12 In Erie  [PaEN] 


-- TribLive/AP: On Lake Erie, Getting Rid Of Problem Algae Starts With Giving It Less Food


-- DCNR Forecast Wildfire Danger HIGH In Most Of PA For Wednesday, Oct. 23


-- LehighValleyLive: Northcentral PA ATV Trail Is A Hit, Generating $23.5 Million For Local Businesses, Study


-- NextPittsburgh: 11 Great Nature Trails In And Around Pittsburgh


-- TribLive: Montour Trail Stabbing Victim Was PA Liquor Control Enforcement Agent


-- Game Commission: Motorists Should Be Mindful Of Ramped-Up Deer Activity 


Oil & Gas - National Debate


-- NY Post: Fracking Could Decide The Election In Pennsylvania And Nationwide


Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart


Reuters: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Gears Up For Reboot


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- NYT: Josh Shapiro Tries To Deliver Pennsylvania For Harris

-- ABC27: 1 Million PA Mail-In Ballots Returned Two Weeks Before Election Day

-- WESA/Spotlight PA: Why ‘Prevanvassing’ Rules For PA Mail-In Ballots Frustrate Voting Officials

-- TribLive: Elon Musk PAC Pays 3 Pennsylvanians $1 Million Each For Signing Petition, But It Won’t Buy Their Votes

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Revenue Secretary, Fmr Republican State Senator, Questioned In Senate In Face-Off Over Tax Information

-- PennLive: PA Revenue Secretary Testifies Under Order In State Senate Over Tax Program Data

-- MCall: Allentown Economic Zone Has Never Been Audited, Revenue Secretary Tells PA Senate

-- PennLive: PA House Passes Long-Awaited Pension Increase For Pre-2001 State, School Retirees

-- Independent Fiscal Office: How Did School Districts Use Federal COVID Funds?

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[Posted: October 23, 2024]  PA Environment Digest

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