Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.1.24

“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

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

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

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

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events .

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 Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations: Similar Action In 2023 Resulted In $10 Million Settlement  [PaEN]

-- Low-Flow Water Conditions Trigger Big Jump In Susquehanna River Basin Water Withdrawal Restrictions, Most Shale Gas-related  [PaEN] 

-- Chesapeake Bay Program: Chesapeake Bay Shows Slight Water Quality Improvement In 2020-22 Assessment Period

-- CBF: New Chesapeake Bay Assessment Reveals Concerns, New Restoration Data Tool Offers Hope  [PaEN]

-- Dirty Work: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Adding 130,000 New Trees During Fall Planting Season In Pennsylvania  [PaEN] 

-- Aquatic Resource Restoration Company: Bringing Oil Creek Back To Life - A Floodplain Restoration Project In York County

-- USGS Releases New Video: Susquehanna River Story - What Does The Science Say About Water Quality?  [PaEN]

-- Spotlight PA: Owner Of Troubled Rural PA Water Company In Centre County Facing PUC Investigation Says He Wants To Sell 

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley Enters ‘Severe Drought’ As October Dryness Sets Record

-- WNEP: Crews Battle Forest Fire In Lackawanna County; Advise Residents Not To Burn  

-- Reading Eagle: Berks County Enacts Outdoor Burn Ban Due To Dry Weather Conditions

-- KYW: Christmas Tree Growers In PA Concerned About Record-Breaking Drought  

-- Republican Herald: No End In Sight For Try Conditions In Schuylkill County

-- ABC27: Dover Township, York County Issues Mandatory Nonessential Water Use Restrictions  

-- Courier Times: Bucks County Water Authority Seeks Voluntary Restrictions Amid Drought 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Now Accepting Applications For Consumptive Use Mitigation Grants; Nov. 20 Webinar  [PaEN]

-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Communities Start To See Impact Of Federal Climate Spending, As Election Casts Doubt On Future Of Programs

--  WESA: First Electric Vehicle Technician Apprentice Program Starts At Allegheny County Community College

-- Forests For The Chesapeake Bay Halloween Edition! Bat Stories; Bat Trivia; Witch-Hazel; News Around The Watershed

-- Penn State Extension: The Value Of Bats To Crop Production And Revenue

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Nov. 1 RiverWatch Video Report

-- November 2 - Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available

-- DCNR: Last Fall Foliage Report: Still Plenty Of Fall Color In Pennsylvania’s Southern Tier This Coming Week  [PaEN] 

-- DCNR, Trust For Public Land Celebate $2.6 Million In Federal Grants For Local Parks In Reading, Scranton

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Headlines At North American Hawk Migration Conference 

  

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- Forbes: Will AI Drive A Nuclear Renaissance, Or A Natural Gas Boom?

-- MSN: Amazon Announces Plan To Develop 4 Nuclear Power Plants Along Columbia River

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

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

-- National Fuel Gas Increases Natural Gas Costs 3.7% On Nov. 1

-- Utility Dive: FirstEnergy CEO Again Suggests PA, Other Competitive Electricity States Should Procure Power Supplies Outside PJM Power Auctions 

Other States/National/International

-- AP: World May Be Merely Scratching The Surface On Scope Of Climate-Changing Methane Emissions

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- TribLive: Don’t Mail That Election Ballot, Deliver In Person To Ensure It Counts, Officials Say

-- WITF: York County Approves Nearly Half Of Voter Registrations Submitted At Deadline, Refers 740 Others To District Attorney

-- Post-Gazette -Ford Turner: 2 Years After Tight Election Set Off Power Struggle In PA House, Both Sides Predict Victory

-- WSJ: Pittsburgh Is Now The Center Of The Political Universe

-- Financial Times: Winning The US Election Could Come Down To Erie County, Pennsylvania

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[Posted:  November 1, 2024]  PA Environment Digest