PA Environment Digest Blog: Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips -- 11.18.24

“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

-- [End Of Session, All Bills Die]

-- January 7 New Session

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

-- [End Of Session, All Bills Die]

-- January 7 New Session

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events .

November 19-- Agenda Posted. DEP Laboratory Accreditation Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00 a.m. Check the Committee webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Annmarie Beach at anbeach@pa.gov or (717) 346-8212. (formal notice) [Note: Testing biosolids, drinking water, clean water for PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ on the agenda.]

November 19-- Delaware River Basin Commission Hearing On Declaring A Water Supply Emergency. 1:30 p.m.

November 20-- Agenda Posted. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Contact: Nicole Faraguna 717-346-7636 or nfaraguna@pa.gov. (formal notice) Read more on agenda.

-- November 18 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 9 to 15 - Failed Well Pluggings; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells; More Abandoned Conventional, Shale Gas Wells [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 16 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 60 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In November 16 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

-- Pennsylvania Firefly Festival Lottery For 2025 Festival & Glow & Know Campouts Will Start January 1 [PaEN]

-- WTAJ: Winter Heating Bills Should Be Same Or Less Than Last Year

-- TribLive: Eureka, Citizens Gifted Eplugs To Fire Company To Thwart Electric Vehicle Dangers

-- Lancaster Farming: What To Know About Coming Herbicide Label Changes

-- Citizens Voice: Cemetery Headstones Washed Away In 1972 Flood Found In Forty Fort

-- PennLive: Will Drought Impact Central PA Christmas Tree Sales, Prices?

-- WNEP: 60 Acre Wildfire Contained On Montage Mountain In Lackawanna County

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Firefighters Take Service Across State To Fight Wildfires

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Volunteers Remove Thousands Of Tires Along Sugar Notch Trail [Organized By Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority, Eastern PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation, Earth Conservancy, Luzerne County Conservation District, Keep Northeastern PA Beautiful]

-- Reading Eagle: Volunteers Cleanup Area Around Tulpehocken Creek In Berks

-- TribLive Editorial: Another Step Forward For River Recreation?

-- NextPittsburgh: Pittsburgh’s Indigenous Legacy Is Alive And Thriving

Election Fallout - PA

-- PA Capital-Star: ‘Drill, Drill, Drill:’ New Federal Energy Council Signals Incoming Republican Administration To Prioritize Energy Production

-- The Energy Age Blog: Oil Executive Chris Wright Tapped As US Energy Secretary Once Drank Fracking Fluid On Camera To Demonstrate It Wasn’t Dangerous

-- PennLive: PA Farm Industry Braces For Raids, Deportations Under Republican Administration

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- Financial Times: Restart Of Three Mile Island Tests US Appetite For Nuclear Revival

Other States/National/International

-- AP: Young People, Whose Futures Are At Stake In UN Climate Talks, Push Through Anger To Fight For Hope

-- The Guardian: World’s 1.5C Climate Target ‘Deader Than A Doornail’ Experts Say