Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 12.3.24

“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

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 


ADVISORY: DEP and DCNR Websites Are Down; So Is PA Press Room


December 5--  Agenda Posted. DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m.  Check the Board webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely.  Contact: Todd Wallace at twallace@pa.gov or by telephone at 717-783-6395.  Read more here about agenda.


December 12-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. 10:00 a.m.  Click Here for options to join the meeting remotely.  Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov


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


-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Agriculture To Get Greater Voice In Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Effort 


-- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: $40 Million+ Heading To PA Farms To Increase Climate Resilience


-- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Holds Virtual Meeting Dec. 4 On Federal Disaster Response; Regulating Water Supplies; Roadside Springs  [PaEN] 


-- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay Host Dec. 5 Webinar: Moving Towards Sustainable Consumption - Navigating The Holidays  [PaEN] 


-- PennLive: Cumberland County Conservation Sets Jan. 17 Deadline To Apply For College Scholarship Applications


-- Altoona Mirror: Council Of Governments Working To Obtain Easements For Floodplain Restoration Project Along Beaverdam Branch, Juniata River In Blair County


-- Center For Coalfield Justice: Environmental Justice Communities Abandoned By Global Plastics Treaty Process  [PaEN] 


-- AP: Negotiators Fail To Reach Agreement On Plastic Pollution Treaty, Talks To Resume Next Year


-- NextPittsburgh: Uncovering The History Of Cement City And Clean Air In Donora


-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: PennDOT Among 39 States In Federal Program To Lower Carbon Emissions In Road, Bridge Work


-- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: Chapter 14 Utility Law Will Lapse After PA Legislature Deadlocks On Expanding Consumer Protections 


-- PUC Cautions Electricity, Natural Gas Supply Shoppers Against Copycat Online Energy Shopping Websites  


-- PUC: PA OneCall Damage Prevention Committee Announces $211,500 In Penalties For Pipeline, Underground Utility Checking Violations 


-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: PA Resources Council Proposes Allegheny County Facility For Hard-To-Recycle Waste


-- Natural Lands, Landowners Starr & Howard Offenger Partner To Preserve Historical Farmstead In Cumberland County  [PaEN] 


-- Penn State Research Offers Guidance On Forest Farming Wild Leeks (Ramps)


-- Children’s Book By Penn State Master Gardeners Teaches Kids About The Spotted Lanternfly 


-- Wildlands Conservancy Nature Preserves Offer People With A Variety Of Abilities Access To Nature: ‘Being Able To Bring My Mom Here Has Just Changed My Life And Her Life’


-- TribLive: Audubon’s Annual Christmas Bird Count Puts Focus On Our Feathered Friends 


-- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Quail Researchers Optimistic About First Year Of Translocation Project In PA 


-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Walleye Fishing In Erie, Pittsburgh Has Been ‘Phenomenal,’ Here’s Why

  

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Data Center Power Demand Could Be Boon For Coal Miners


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

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


-- Reuters: Natural Gas Prices Rose 30-50% In 2024; Key Global Natural Gas Prices Set To Keep Rising Into 2025 


-- Reuters: US LNG Gas Exports To Europe Surge In November On Higher Prices


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Newly Elected PA Lawmakers On The Payroll Dec. 1; But Won’t Be Sworn In Until January, A Proposal Wants To Change That

-- The Center Square: PA Post-Election Audits Back Accuracy Of Unofficial Results

-- Dept. Of Revenue Reports November Tax Collections $87.2 Million (2.9%) Less Than Anticipated; Year-To-Date $9.9 Million (0.1%) Below Estimate 

-- PennLive: PA Revenue Dept. Releases November Tax Collections

-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports November Tax Collections $8 Million (0.3%) Below IFO Estimates; Year-To-Date $119 million (0.7%) Below IFO Estimates 

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Lawmakers Likely To Try Again To Deal With Hospital Closure Problems In 2025

-- Observer-Reporter: Washington County Man Convicted Of Crimes Related To Assault On US Capitol Hoping For Republican Administration Pardon  

-- TribLive Editorial: With % Words, Republican Administration Kills A Free-Press Measure With Bipartisan Support

-- PennLive: Dauphin County DA Asks Attorney General To Look At Questionable Payments To Dauphin County Commissioner

-- PA Capital-Star: Temple Enters Agreement With US Dept. Of Education After Investigation Into Discrimination Response

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[Posted: December 3, 2024]  PA Environment Digest

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