Saturday, December 14, 2024

Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 12.14.24

“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]


Life Advice

“Never Fight Until You Have To.  But When It’s Time To Fight, You Fight Like You’re The Third Monkey On The Ramp To Noah’s Ark… And Brother, It’s Startin’ To Rain.”


House Voting Schedule

January 7, 27, 28, 29

February 3, 4, 5

March 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26

April 7, 8, 9, 22, 23, 24

May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 24

June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30

-- Committee Schedule


Senate Voting Schedule

January 7, 27, 28, 29

Budget Hearings February 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, March 4, 5, 6

February 3, 4, 5

March 24, 25, 26, 31

April 1, 2

May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13

June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

-- Committee Schedule


TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


DCNR Advisory: DCNR Will Launch Its New Website Dec. 17  


December 17-- Agenda Posted. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  9:00 a.m.  Visit the Committee webpage for instructions for joining the meeting remotely.  Contact: Lindsay Byron   lbyron@pa.gov


December 18-- Agenda Posted. DEP Agricultural Advisory Board meeting.  DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 9:00 a.m. Visit the Committee webpage for instructions for joining the meeting remotely.  Contact: Bob Haines at robhaines@pa.gov


January 4-11-- Pennsylvania Farm Show. Harrisburg.


-- DEP Forms Internal Work Group To Develop Position On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Shapiro Administration Supports Legislative Ban On Road Dumping  [PaEN]


-- DEP Invites Comments On 2 PA General Energy Company Pipeline Projects Impacting Exceptional Value Streams And Wetlands In Lycoming County To Support Shale Gas Development  [PaEN] 


-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - December 14 [PaEN]  


-- DEP Posted 107 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In December 14 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 


-- DEP To Hold Jan. 28 Hearing On Title V RACT 3 Air Quality Permit For Monroe Energy LLC Trainer Refinery In Delaware County  [PaEN] 


-- Congress Passes Good Samaritan Legislation To Address Toxic Legacy Of Abandoned Mines, Biden Expected To Sign  [PaEN] 


-- Trout Unlimited: A Watershed Moment: Congress Passes Good Samaritan Legislation To Address Toxic Legacy Of Abandoned Mines


-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership: Federal Good Samaritan Legislation To Help Cleanup Abandoned Mines Heads To President’s Desk


-- National Wildlife Federation: Final Passage Of Federal Good Samaritan Act Will Encourage Abandoned Mine Cleanup


-- TribLive: Crews Work To Stabilize Abandoned Mine Sinkhole In Westmoreland After Woman’s Death 


-- TribLive Editorial: Laurels & Lances - Rescue & Ratings


-- PA Interfaith Power & Light Launching Watershed Circle Watershed Protector Training For Congregations, Community Groups  [PaEN] 


-- DEP Finalizes Great Lakes Water Management Program 5-Year Report  [PaEN]


-- DEP Invites Comments On Total Maximum Daily Load Water Quality Plan For Buffalo Creek In Perry County  [PaEN] 


-- Tribune-Democrat: Officials: Johnstown Water Authority, No Property Owners, Responsible For Lead Pipe Replacement


-- PA Sea Grant: Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Application Period Open For Graduate Students  [PaEN] 


-- Wilkes-Barre Times: PUC Policy Ensures Utility Consumer Safeguards


--  WHYY: PECO To Hike Gas Rates 12.5%, Electric Rates 10%  Starting In January


-- DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Nova Energy LLC Cryptocurrency Data Center In Venango County  [PaEN] 


-- DEP To Hold Jan. 15 Hearing On Title V Air Quality Permit For The Georgia-Pacific Panel Products LLC Facility In McKean County  [PaEN] 


-- NPR: Proposed Federal Rule Requires Gas Utilities To Find and Fix More Climate-Warming Leaks


-- DEP Awards $2.25 Million In Grants To Support Clean Fuel Infrastructure, Purchase Of Clean Vehicles  [PaEN]  


-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: What Will It Take For The American Steel Industry To Go Fossil-Free?


-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Frick Environmental Center Exhibit Celebrates Artists, Creative Entrepreneurs Representing Marginalized Voices


-- South Mountain Partnership Jan. 31 Winter Partnership Meeting In York County; Holiday Gift Guide [PaEN] 


-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests: Mallory Forest – Loving the Land Through Working Forests, Landowners Tell Their Stories  [PaEN] 


-- Warren Times: Allegheny National Forest North Country Trail Assn. Details 2024 Work, Talks 2025 Plans 


-- DCNR Names Justin Waid Park Manager For Tobyhanna State Park Complex In Monroe, Wayne Counties


-- Dec. 13 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]


-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill Haven Vying For WalkWorks Grant


-- WNEP: Proposed Fee Changes At Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area


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

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


-- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.02  Ohio- $3.05  PA- $3.24  


-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Down 1 From Last Week To 15; 21 On Aug. 21


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Northern Oil & Gas To Invest In Appalachian Natural Gas Drilling


-- Financial Times: LNG Gas Freight Rates Plummet As Sector Grapples With Glut Of Ships


-- Bloomberg: Venture Global Starts New LNG Gas Export Facility In Louisiana


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- AP: Biden’s Commutation Kids For Cash Judge Angers Pennsylvania Families

-- PA Capital-Star: Shapiro Says Biden Commuting Kids For Cash Judge’s Sentence ‘Absolutely Wrong’

-- Scranton Times: Shapiro Blasts Biden Decision To Commute Kids For Cash Judge

-- Beaver Times: ‘Biden Got It Absolutely Wrong:’ PA Officials Condemn Clemency For ‘Kids For Cash’ Judge 

-- TribLive Editorial: There Is No Justice In Biden’s Commutation Of Kids For Cash Judge

-- City & State PA: Pennsylvania’s Presidential Pardon History

-- ChesCo: US Senator-Elect McCormick’s Plan To Push Greg Rothman To Lead PA Republicans

-- Erie Times: Sen. Laughlin Settles Libel Lawsuit Over Erie Reader Newspaper Column With No Retraction

-- The Center Square: State Tests Show Students Still Struggling With Pandemic Learning Loss

-- TribLive: Indiana County School Guard Accidentally Fires Gun In Elementary School

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[Posted: December 14, 2024]  PA Environment Digest

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