Saturday, April 26, 2025

Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.26.25

“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

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 


-- DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report [PaEN]


-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 26 [PaEN] 


-- DEP Posted 77 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 26 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 


-- Conventional Oil & Gas Facility Owners Must Now File A Methane Emissions Compliance Report By June 1, 2025 Required By A 2022 DEP Methane Pollution Reduction Rule As A Result Of Court Settlement   [PaEN]


-- DEP To Hold May 1 Virtual Update On State Response To Energy Transfer/Sunoco Twin Oaks Pipeline Leak In Bucks County  [PaEN] 


-- Post-Gazette Letter: I Applaud Bucks County Commissioners Who Had The Guts To Challenge The Natural Gas Industry For Contributing To Climate Crisis - Cat Lodge, Washington County Resident


-- Altoona Mirror: Solar Energy Facility In Greenfield Twp. Gets Positive Review By Blair County Planning Commission


-- DEP Alerts Cumberland County Residents To Elevated Air Quality Levels Due To Wildfire Smoke 


-- PennLive: New Evacuation Notice Issued As Crews Struggle To Contain Cumberland County Wildfires 


-- PennLive: Red Cross Opens Shelter To Serve Cumberland County Wildfire Evacuees 


-- LancasterOnline: Wildfires In Cumberland County Burn More Than 1,350 Acres So Far- What Does It Mean For Central PA?


-- WGAL: Driving Thru The Michaux State Forest Wildfires In Cumberland County [Video] 


-- DCNR Celebrates Arbor Day By Encouraging Pennsylvanians To Support Tree Planting Across The State With Donations To Keystone Tree Fund  [PaEN] 


-- Republican Herald: Pottsville Marks 37th Year As A Tree City USA


-- The Derrick: Students Put Their Environmental Expertise To The Test At Venango County Envirothon


-- Altoona Mirror: Portage Area High School Students Donate Their Time To Help Clean Up Community: ‘Every Little Bit Counts’ 


-- Observer-Reporter: Washington County Watershed Alliance Working To Preserve Natural Resources


-- Northampton Twp., Northampton Bucks County Municipal Authority Announced The Award Of $20 Million In PennVEST Funding To Expand Navy PFAS Remediation


-- WESA: Pittsburgh Water Awards $193 Million In Contracts For Next Stage Of System Overhaul


-- Delaware River Basin Commission Hearing May 7; Business Meeting June 11  [PaEN]


-- Penn State Landscape Architecture Students Collaborate On Project To Improve The Quality Of Life For Pittsburgh's Hilltop Neighborhoods  [PaEN] 


-- WNEP: Volunteers Plant Trees, Pick Up Litter In Wilkes-Barre


-- Gettysburg Connection: Gettysburg Nature Alliance Hosts April 26 Stream Cleanup Event At Sachs Bridge


-- April 25 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation 


-- PennLive: Pennsylvania Is One Of The Top States For Birdwatching


-- LancasterOnline: State Dept. Of Health Reports Increased Tick Bite Visits


Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

 

-- TribLive: As Data Centers Spread, Their Leaders Push For Transparency, Consistency In State Regulations  [PUC Hearing]


-- AP-Marc Levy: Big Tech’s Soaring Energy Demands Are Making Coal-Fired Power Plant Sites Attractive [Not Necessarily The Plants Themselves] 


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


-- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.16  Ohio- $2.99  PA- $3.34


-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Rig Count At 18, Up 2 From April 11


New Federal Administration


-- Reading Eagle: Blue Marsh Lake Recreation Area Reducing Services After Federal Cuts


-- Post-Gazette: Flood Protection, Other Federally-Funded Infrastructure Projects In Limbo In Pittsburgh Suburbs


-- Inquirer: Some Big Philly Law Firms Pulling Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Language From Their Websites - Ballard Spahr, Cozen O’Connor, Fox Rothschild, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Reed Smith


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Tribune-Democrat: Pantry Leaders Say Federal Cuts Will Impact Services, Cause Food Insecurity: ‘Got To Feed These People’

-- Post-Gazette: Federal Funding Cuts To Head Start Programs Put Region’s Most Vulnerable Kids At Risk Advocates Say

-- Spotlight PA/AP: Federal Judge Blocks President’s Push To Cut Funding To Public Schools Over Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Policies

-- TribLive/AP: 19 States Sue President Over Push To End Diversity Programs In Public Schools [Not PA]  

-- Inquirer: Some Big Philly Law Firms Pulling Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Language From Their Websites - Ballard Spahr, Cozen O’Connor, Fox Rothschild, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Reed Smith

-- York Daily Record: WellSpan Health System Cancels Black Men In White Coats Summit In Response To President’s Anti-Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Policies

-- PA Capital-Star: President Faces Lawsuit Over Withheld Family Planning Funds From PA And Other States

-- Erie Times: Gannon Students Get Visa Status Back After ICE Reverses Terminations

-- KDKA: Federal ICE Reinstates Carnegie Mellon Student’s Legal Status And Thousands Of Others

-- MCall: Federal ICE Reverses Lehigh University Student Visa Terminations

-- WHYY: Federal ICE Restores International Student Status To Penn Affiliates And Others

-- Post-Gazette/AP: Federal ICE Reversing Termination Of Legal Status For Thousands Of International Students

-- Inquirer: Could Tariffs ‘Cancel’ Halloween And Christmas In 2025?  Philly Area Small Business Owners Are Worried 

-- TribLive: Republican PA US Senator McCormick: President Making Progress On Trade Deals 

-- AP: President Keeps Contradicting Himself On Tariffs, Making A Fragile World Economy Nervous 

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[Posted: April 26, 2025]  PA Environment Digest

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