PA Environment Digest Blog: Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips

“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]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Pennsylvania's Margaret Mead, World Renowned Cultural Anthropologist

House Voting Schedule

March 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

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

TODAY 10:00 Agenda Posted. DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Visit the Board webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Todd M. Wallace, twallace@pa.gov or (717) 783-6395. Read more here on agenda items.

TODAY Noon: Lt. Gov. Davis, Acting DEP Secretary Shirley Unveil New Federally Funded, $26 Million Blacklick Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Facility In Cambria County. Click Here for more after event.

March 26-- Agenda Posted. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Contact: cnrac-admin@growconservation.com. Read more here.

-- DEP To Host April 1 Webinar On New Program To Reduce Methane Pollution From Oil And Gas Operations [PaEN]

-- Penn State Research: Reusing Old Oil And Gas Wells For Energy Storage Using Compressed Air Technology [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Landfill Gas Plant At Keystone Landfill Seeks Expansion In Lackawanna County

-- House Adopts Rep. Matzie’s Resolution Celebrating PA’s Natural Gas Utility Workers

-- Inquirer: PA’s New Attorney General Won’t Be Suing The President; Dave Sunday’s Quest To Be A ‘Boring AG’

-- Community Advocates For Clean Energy To Introduce Green Schools Campaign In Southeast PA During April 1 Webinar [PaEN]

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Clean Energy, Strong Economy: PA’s Proposed Budget Seeks Both - By Fmr Rep. Kate Harper (R) and Fmr Cong. Conor Lamb (D), Energy Future PA

-- Bucks County Herald Guest Essay: Bucks County’s Lawsuit To Make Energy Companies Pay For Climate Impact Costs Hurts Pennsylvania - By David Taylor, PA Manufacturers’ Assn.

-- First Student, School Transportation Company, Pittsburgh Public Schools Roll Out 16 New Electric School Buses

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Corsa Coal’s Bankruptcy In Somerset County Asks: What’s Worth More Coal Or The Machines That Mine It?

-- National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Now Accepting Proposals For Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants; March 31 Webinar [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Using Live Stake Nurseries To Engage Communities In Stream Health [PaEN]

-- PEMA: PA’s Silver Jackets Team Recognized Nationally For Collaborative flood Risk Reduction Efforts

-- PA Resources Council Launches 2025 Household Chemical Collection Campaign April 12 In Butler County [PaEN]

-- Beaver Times: Free Electronics Waste Recycling Event Coming To Riverside School District April 1

-- TribLive: Billboards Still Of Great Concern For East Deer Twp. Residents In Allegheny County

-- TribLive: South Hills Nonprofit Seeks To Recycle, Reuse Old Yard Signs

-- Citizens Voice: Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus Detected In Luzerne County; What You Need To Know

-- Natural Lands Preserves 2 Forested Properties Totaling 151 Acres In Berks, Lancaster, Lebanon Counties [PaEN]

-- Inquirer: Philadelphia Planting 250 New cherry Blossom Trees For Its 250th Birthday

-- Beaver Times - Katie Claber, Master Gardener: Hemlocks Are Worth Protecting

-- DCNR Grants News: Grants Director Tom Ford Retires; Mapping For Meaningful Outreach; Last Call For Grant Applications

-- DCNR Trails Advisory Committee To Hold Public Forums April 10 On Trails In And Around Centre County, Boalsburg, 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

-- Registration Open! PA Interfaith Power & Light May 1 to 31 Caring For Every Body Moving Through Nature Bike & Hike

-- PennEnvironment Releases New Report On The Success Of Wildlife Corridors In Reconnecting Habitat To Protect Native Species, Prevent Vehicle Collisions [PaEN]

-- WPSU: New Report Advocates For More PA Wildlife Corridor Projects

-- MCall: How Lehigh Valley Development Is Threatening The Birds That Flock To Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Every Year

PA Energy Politics

-- Reuters: US Natural Gas Prices Jump 5% To One-Week High On Record LNG Gas Flows, Daily Output Drop

-- Reuters: US DOE Approves Venture Global LNG Gas Export Facility Construction In Louisiana

-- Bloomberg: China Halts US LNG Gas Imports As Trade Ware Reroutes Deliveries

-- Reuters: US LNG Gas Exporters Stick With Methane Reduction Measures Despite EPA Rollbacks To Meet Standards Of Overseas Import Markets

-- Bloomberg: Biden Draft LNG Gas Export Study Shelved After Pollution Impacts Deemed Minor

-- Bloomberg: President’s Love For Coal Is Crashing Into Market’s Economic Reality

-- S&P Global: President Meets With US Oil, Gas Executives Advocate For Deregulation; Permit Reform; Push Against Tariffs Say Market Forces Could Limit President’s Production Goals [Meaning Prices Need To Be Higher]

-- AP: Last Decade Was Earth’s Hottest As Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach An 800,000 Year High, Says UN Report

New Federal Administration

-- Tribune-Democrat: Federal Office Of Surface Mining In PA To Close, Staff Cut, May Significantly Impact Abandoned Mine Reclamation Efforts In PA [PDF of Article]

-- Citizens Voice: Wilkes-Barre Fire Chief Calls FEMA Canceling National Fire Academy Classes ‘Demoralizing’

-- Inquirer: 425+ Campsites Across PA Are Closed Indefinitely Due To Federal Cuts At Raystown Lake, Seven Points, Susquehannock, Nancy’s Boat-to-Shore Campgrounds, Tompkins Campground on Tioga-Hammond and Cowanesque Lakes

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Our National Parks Are National Treasurers DOGE Must Not Cut - By John Plonski

-- The Legal Intelligencer: ‘Why Are You Remaining Silent?’ Some Clients Expect Big Law Public Response On President’s Actions [PDF of Article]

-- Bipartisan Group Of 51 Former EPA Officials Send Letter To Congress Saying Deep Cuts To The Agency Would Threaten 50 Years Of Environmental Progress [PaEN]

-- New York Times Guest Essay: Three Former EPA Leaders - You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone - By William K. Reilly, Christine Todd Whitman & Gina McCarthy

-- Bloomberg: Top Leaders Flee Federal Pipeline Safety Agency As President Pushes To Build

-- National Catholic Reporter Editorial: We Must Oppose President’s Immoral Environmental Agenda

-- The Guardian: Greenpeace Must Pay At Least $660 Million To Energy Transfer Partners [Sunoco] Over Dakota Pipeline Protests Says Federal Jury, Decision Appealed

-- Financial Times: North Dakota Court Battle Between Dakota Pipeline Protesters, Energy Transfer Partners [Sunoco] Is Testing Free Speech

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Spotlight PA: Ballot Secrecy Could Be Jeopardized By Recent PA Court Rulings, Officials Say

-- City & State PA: Bipartisan Paid Family Leave Bill Advances In PA House

-- PennLive - John Baer: Time For Another 5 Questions About President’s ‘Golden Age Of America’

-- Inquirer: PA’s New Attorney General Won’t Be Suing The President; Dave Sunday’s Quest To Be A ‘Boring AG’

-- PennLive: ‘Where Is Scott Perry?’: Progressive Group Holds Town Hall With Focus On Medicaid Health Insurance Cuts

-- MCall: Republican Cong. Mackenzie To Hold Telephone Town Hall Today; Same Time As Democrats People’s Town Hall

-- Inquirer: $175 Million In Federal Funding For University Of Pennsylvania Paused For Allowing Transgender Athlete To Compete