Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.12.25

“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 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

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 

April 22-- Agenda Posted. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 of the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg.  9:00 a.m. Click Here to join the meeting via Microsoft Teams.  DEP Contact: Lindsay Byron at lbyron@pa.gov  or calling 717-772-8951.  Read more here.

April 24-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to join via Microsoft Teams: ID: 274 896 265 706  Passcode: GfvsJL  or telephone +1 267 332 8737  ID: 377 402 179#    Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov.   

-- DEP: Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leak Investigation In Bucks County Expands To Delaware, Montgomery Counties; DEP, Dept. Of Health Briefing On State Response To Leak Now Available On Demand [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 12 [PaEN] 

-- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For EQT ARO LLC 3 Mile Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline In Cascade Twp., Lycoming County  [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 73 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 12 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 

-- The Derrick: Tempers In Frenchcreek Township Subside Over Nova Energy LLC Cryptocurrency Mining Operation In Venango County  [PDF of article] 

-- PUC To Host Meeting Of The PA Sustainable Energy Board On April 17  [PaEN]

-- Etna Center For Community Renovation Project To Showcase Sustainability, Green Building Principles In Allegheny County  [PaEN]

-- Reminder: DEP April 17 Climate Action Plan Community Climate Conversations Webinar. 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.  Read more here.

-- Penn State Institute Of Energy And The Environment To Hold Climate Solutions Symposium May 19-20 In State College 

-- Scranton Times: ‘Don’t Dump Our Future:’ Friends Of Lackawanna’s Decade-long Fight Against Keystone Landfill

-- DEP Sets May 12 Hearing On Response At The Brookhaven Manufactured Home Community PCE  Hazardous Site Cleanup In York County   [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Parks Township Radioactive Waste Cleanup Now Set To Start In Fall In Armstrong County

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley High School Student Studied Radon In Schools, Some Districts Taking Action

-- DEP Beings Black Fly Suppression Program On 1,800 Miles Of Rivers And Streams

-- TribLive: Western Pennsylvanians Prepare To Capture April Showers In Rain Barrels

-- Keep PA Beautiful Now Accepting Applications For Young Ambassadors Program From Students In Grades 10-12  [PaEN] 

-- LancasterOnline: Owners Of Now Closed Evergreen Golf Course, Nearby Quarry Disagree Over Cause Of Sinkholes;  DEP Determined Some Caused By Quarry In 2022

-- DCNR Names Tyler Ickes Manager For Sinnemahoning State Park In Cameron, Potter Counties

-- April 11 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Leechburg, Armstrong County Tow Path Trail Connects Borough To Counties, Miles Beyond 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Allegheny Closes On Rail Line For Major Trail Conversion  

-- The Allegheny Front - Kara Holsopple: A Trip Down The Youghiogheny River Through Photos

-- MCall Guest Essay: Preserving Our Parks Invests In Nature And The Nation - By Kiera Shellhammer, Citizens Climate Lobby 

-- Over 1,300 Acres Of Forest Preserved In Northwest PA By Foundation For Sustainable Forests in 2024  [PaEN] 

-- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Hosts April 15 ‘Tap Talk’ Presentation By Brian Donahue, Author Of Slow Wood - Greener Building From Local Forests  [PaEN] 

-- Pennsylvania Society For Ornithology: Team Registration Now Open For 5th Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation June 6-16  [PaEN]

-- PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: Vernon Ross - Combat Photographer, Grocer, Advocate For Hunting And Fishing - By Wayne W. Kober  [PaEN]

-- WNEP: Game Commission Honors PA Outdoor Life’s Don Jacobs 

-- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Wildlife Corridors Decrease Animal-Vehicle Crashes By Up To 97%, So Where Are They? 

-- TribLive Editorial: What Are Your Rights Regarding Your Property?  [Game Commission Warrantless Searches]

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- The Derrick: Tempers In Frenchcreek Township Subside Over Nova Energy LLC Cryptocurrency Mining Operation In Venango County  [PDF of article]

  

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

-- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.21  Ohio- $3.02  PA- $3.37

-- Baker Hughes PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Up 1 To 16

New Federal Administration

-- Center for Coalfield Justice: Federal Mine Safety Silica Rule ‘Temporarily’ Paused, Further Gutting Protections For Coal Miners  

-- The Center Square: LIHEAP Utility Bill Assistance Program Hit By Federal Staff Cuts

-- WHYY: Philly May Lose Federal Wastewater System Improvement Funding To Protect Drinking Water, Shifting Costs To Ratepayers

-- WESA/WVIA: Advocates, Environmentalists Split As President Signs Orders To Bolster Coal Industry

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Gov. Shapiro Joins 15 Other States In Lawsuit Against US Dept. Of Education Revoking $185 Million In Funding For Pennsylvania

-- York Daily Record: 7 York County School Districts Could Lose Nearly $12 Million After President Revoked Funding

-- PA Capital-Star: Provisional Ballots Are Increasingly Being Rejected For Technical Errors In PA. Why?

-- Erie Times: PA Democratic Lawmakers Renew Push For PA To Join National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

-- Tribune-Democrat: International Physicians Numerous At Conemaugh, Across US Health Care Industry

-- TribLive: 132-Year Old Charleroi Glass Plant Ends Production, Set To Close In Washington County

-- WHYY: SEPTA Supporters Rally At Philadelphia City Hall Against ‘Death Spiral’ Of Proposed Service Cuts

-- MCall: Republican Con. Mackenzie Defends Hariffs, DOGE Cuts, Economic Outlook At CNN Town Hall

-- Post-Gazette: ‘We’re Stuck:’ Pittsburgh Homebuilding Businesses Adapting To President’s Tariffs

-- PA Capital-Star: Some International Students At Penn State Among those To Have Visas Revoked

-- AP: President’s China Tariff Shocks US Importers, One CEO Calls It ‘End Of Days’

-- Financial Times: Warning Lights Flash For US Consumer Strength As Credit Defaults Rise

-- TribLive: Butler Man Charged With Threatening To Murder President 

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[Posted: April 12, 2025]  PA Environment Digest