Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.4.24

“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.

PA Environment Digest: CLOSED Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5

TODAY 6:00: Cecil Township, Washington County Hearing/Meeting On Ordinance To Increase Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells. 3599 Millers Run Road, Cecil, PA.  6:00 p.m. Hearing.  7:00 p.m. Board of Supervisors Meeting.  Click Here to watch live.   Read more here.

-- November 4 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 26 to Nov. 1 - No Attempt To Contain, Cleanup Injection Well Spill; Gas Storage Area Well Release; More Abandoned Conventional Wells  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 2 [PaEN] 

-- DEP Posted 82 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In November 2 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Fracking Turns 20 In Pennsylvania, Towns Consider New Regulations For Distance Between Homes And Well Pads  [Cecil Twp., Washington County]  [PDF of Article] 

-- Altoona Mirror: Scientist’s Startup EcoIslands Uses Microorganisms To Clean Polluted Ecosystems 

-- TribLive: New Environmental Field Study Class At Burrell Gets Students In The Elements In Westmoreland

-- MCall: Wildfire On Blue Mountain Spreads To 150 Acres As Crews Work To Contain It 

-- TribLive: Hikers, Bikers Travel Twisty New North Huntingdon Trail In Westmoreland 

-- Tribune-Democrat: Great Allegheny Passage Big Savage Tunnel To Close For Season Nov. 27

-- Erie Times: Low Stream Flows Killing Steelhead Fish Returning To Spawn In Trout Run; How Officials Fixed The Problem Causing It  

-- WESA: New Conservation Plan Aims To Protect Endangered PA Bats From Habitat Loss

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- TribLive: 2024 Election Takes Heavy Toll On Stressed-Out Voters

-- TribLive: Democrats, Once Supreme In Pittsburgh Region, Now Overtaken By Republicans

-- Inquirer: State Senator Amanda Cappelletti Grieving A Pregnancy Loss

-- Post-Gazette: PA Colleges Trying To Grow Out-Of-State Enrollments

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[Posted:  November 4, 2024]  PA Environment Digest