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]

House Voting Schedule

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 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 Recycling Fund Advisory Committee + Solid Waste Advisory Committee joint meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here for instructions for joining remotely. Contact Laura Henry at 717-772-5713 or ahenry@pa.gov.

April 1-- DEP To Host Webinar On New Program To Reduce Methane Pollution From Oil And Gas Operations. Noon to 1:00 p.m.

April 1-- Environmental Health Project Webinar On What The Shapiro Administration Can Do To Better Protect Public Health From The Impacts Of Shale Gas Development. Noon to 1:00 p.m.

April 7-- [Tentative Agenda] House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee meets to consider House Bill 109 (Vitali-D-Delaware) establishing an environmental justice permit review program in DEP to consider cumulative impacts of pollutants on communities [Read more here.] House Bill 969 (Pielli-D-Chester) requires outdoor night lighting practices that reduce light pollution from public facilities.

-- Daily Grind Living Next To Oil & Gas Industry: Spills, Polluted Water Supplies, Smells Like Gas, Noise, Air Pollution, Explosions, Truck Traffic, Erosion, Radioactive Waste, Gas Flares, Dust, Lights, Road Dumping Waste, Abandoned Wells [PaEN]

-- DEP: US Interior Dept. Withdraws Orphan Oil & Gas Well Regulatory Improvement Grant Program To Help Prevent Future Well Abandonments, A Severe Problem In PA [PaEN]

-- High Country News: President Halts Historic Orphaned Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program

-- E&E News/Politico: Energy Transfer Partners [Sunoco] Gas Pipeline Company Suing Federal Pipeline Safety Agency Alleging Its Enforcement System Is ‘Unconstitutional’

-- WHYY: Philly Area’’s MACH2 Hydrogen Hub Funding Could Be On Chopping Block, According To Report

-- Gov. Shapiro, Farm Leaders Visit Penn England Farms In Blair County To Promote ‘Lightning’ Energy Plan

-- Altoona Mirror: Gov. Shapiro Touts ‘Lightning’ Energy Plan In Blair County

-- PennLive: Opponents Of Susquehanna River Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Project Ask Court To Overturn FERC Permit Approval

-- The Center Square: Lake Erie’s Renewable Energy Future Up For Study

-- The Allegheny Front: Advice From A Youth Climate Organizer; Preview Of Pittsburgh Youth Climate Summit

-- PennLive: Photos From 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident Show Region’s Reaction

-- PennLive: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident: How It Unfolded In 1979

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Foundation Distributes First Grants From US Steel Clairton Coke [Coal] Work Air Pollution Settlement

-- Sen. Yaw: Senate Approves Bills Addressing Stream ‘Cleaning’

-- City & State PA: Meet The Pennsylvania Timber Mills Behind The Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat

-- Call For Presentations: WeConservePA Accepting Presentation Proposals For PA Greenways & Trails Summit In Harrisburg [PaEN]

-- Warren Times: Eisenhower Grad Begins Long Hike To Conquer Appalachian Trail

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- PennLive: What’s The Status Of Reopening Undamaged Unit At Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant?

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

-- Financial Times: President’s ‘Chaos’ Threatens US Oil, Gas Output, Say Shale Executives

-- Bloomberg: Shale Oil, Gas Bosses Slam President’s Tariffs In Anonymous Survey

New Federal Administration

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: New Federal Administration Upends Chesapeake Bay Watershed Cleanup Work

-- EarthJustice: USDA Requires Unlawful New Conditions For Release Of Rural Energy For American Funding

-- The Guardian: US Could See Return Of Acid Rain If Pollution Rules Are Quashed, Says Scientist Who First Discovered It

-- The Guardian: Recreated Climate Future Risk Tool Developed By FEMA After It Was Deleted By New Administration

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PoliticsPA Analysis: What The Democratic Victory In Lancaster County State Senate Race Means [‘It’s Time For Common Sense, Kindness And Transparency’ ‘We Are Watching Our Values Be Denigrated In Washington’]

-- AP: Democrats Take Hope From Upset Win In Republican-Leaning Lancaster County State Senate District

-- The Center Square: Democrats Flip Reliably Red State State Senate Seat

-- LancasterOnline: ‘Shock And Disbelief’: Democrats’ Victory In State Senate Race Stuns Lancaster County

-- TribLive Editorial: Is Swing State PA Swinging Even More In Some Areas? [Democrat Wins State Senate Race In Lancaster County]

-- PA Capital-Star: Bob Casey Calls Current Moment A ‘Time Of Real Peril’ As He Urges Democrats To Fight

-- Inquirer: Bob Casey Is Back And Wants Democrats To Talk About How Republicans Are ‘Screwing’ The Middle Class

-- Inquirer: PA Experts Say President’s Order On Elections Is Dangerous, Unlikely To Take Effect

-- PA Capital-Star: Shapiro Announces $5 Million RCAP Grant To A Muslim Group For Community Center In Philadelphia

-- AG Sunday Announces 11 Arrests By Allegheny County Gun Violence Task For For Illegal ‘Straw Purchase,’ Firearms Trafficking

-- WESA: PA Spending On Public Defenders Is ‘Unjust,’ Say Advocates In Harrisburg Protest

-- State Reduces Workers Compensation Costs For Business 8.67%

-- TribLive: 200+ Students Gather For Anti-Hate Summit At Acrisure Stadium