Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.10.25

“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 

-- TODAY At 6:00 p.m. DEP, Dept. Of Health To Hold Virtual Town Hall To Update Bucks County Residents On The Response To Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leak; Submit Questions By 11:30 a.m.  [PaEN]

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.   

-- Late Night Road Dumping: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Be Dumped On Dirt, Gravel, Paved Roads; DEP Expected To Provide Update At April 24 Meeting  [PaEN] 

-- TODAY At 6:00 p.m. DEP, Dept. Of Health To Hold Virtual Town Hall To Update Bucks County Residents On The Response To Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leak; Submit Questions By 11:30 a.m.  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Reduces Permit Backlog From 2,400 To 300 Permits (88%); Already Reviewed More Than 9,000 Permits This Year  [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shapiro Administration’s Modernization Efforts Lead To Major Reduction In DEP Permit Delays 

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Popular LIHEAP Low-Income Energy Assistance Still Has Federal Funding, For Now 

-- Wilkes-Barre Guest Essay: Make Polluters Pay For Climate Impacts - By Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch

-- Conowingo Dam Steering Committee Releases Update On Conowingo Reservoir Nutrient Reduction Efforts  [PaEN] 

-- The Derrick: How A Rainy Day, Finicky Fish Launched A PA Dedicated To Unpaved Roads [Dirt & Gravel Road Program]  [PDF of Article] 

-- Courier Times Guest Essay: Federal Funding Freeze For Pennsylvania Farmers Is A Blow To Cleaner Waterways - By Jullia Krall, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

-- Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education To Celebrate Earth Day With April 26 Naturepalooza 2025 In Philadelphia  [PaEN] 

-- PA Resources Council Announces Schedule Of Western PA Household Chemical Collection Events  [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Philadelphia Boosts Fines And Sues To Collect Penalties For Illegal Dumping: $22,000 For Dumping A Couch?

-- Triblive: Neighbors Want New Kensington Sinkhole Fixed In Westmoreland: ‘It’s Vulgar’

-- Manada Conservancy Protects 656 Acres in Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Landscape In Dauphin County [PaEN] 

-- Central PA Conservancy: April 11-12 Celebrate Letort Spring Preserve Weekend In Cumberland County

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Protect Public Lands To Protect Local Businesses And Communities - By Silas Chamberlin, DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council & York County Economic Alliance [Federal Recreation Cuts]

-- Brodhead Watershed Assn. Hosts May 6 Gardening For Wildlife - How People Benefit When Nature Thrives Workshop In Monroe County [PaEN] 

-- In Case You Missed It: What Conservationists, Outdoor Recreation Leaders, and Tourism Organizations are Saying about DCNR’s Surge in Campsite Reservations After Federal Staff Cuts

-- PA Capital-Star: Hunting Clubs Ask PA Supreme Court To Ban Warrantless Searches By Game Officials 

Gas Explosions

-- Reading Eagle: NTSB Final Report ON Fatal West Reading Chocolate Factory Natural Gas Explosion Issued

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- Utility Dive: Liberty Energy To Deploy Modular Gas-Fired ‘Power Blocks’ For Data Center At Washington County Site

-- WPXI: Microsoft Says It’s ‘Slowing Or Pausing’ Some A.I. Data Center Projects, Including #1 Billion Plan For Ohio

  

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

-- Scranton Times: Residents, Officials Rail Against UGI 10.8% Natural Gas Rate Hike At Hearing

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: UGI Natural Gas Customers, Elected Officials Testify At Rate-Hike Hearing

-- Reuters: Google Deploys A.I. To Manage PJM’s Queue For Connecting New Power Supplies 

-- Utility Dive: PJM, MISO, NYISO Ripe For Energy Storage Market Reforms: Brattle/ACP

-- Reuters: Want To Cut Your Trade Surplus With President? Buying US Crude, LNG Gas And Coal Can Help - A Bit To Avoid Tariffs

-- Financial Times: EU Weighs Buying More US LNG Gas Due To President’s Tariff Pressure, If It Fits With Green Goals

-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Jump As US Tariff Pause Eases Demand Concerns

-- Financial Times: Oil/Natural Gas Price Plunge Puts US Shale Production In Peril

New Federal Administration

-- Courier Times Guest Essay: Federal Funding Freeze For Pennsylvania Farmers Is A Blow To Cleaner Waterways - By Jullia Krall, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Popular LIHEAP Low-Income Energy Assistance Still Has Federal Funding, For Now 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Republican Con. Bresnahan Writes FEMA To Reinstate Building Resilient Infrastructure And Communities Grant Program

-- Financial Times: US Bicycle Prices Will Rise ‘Up To 50%’ As China Trade War Escalates 

-- Post-Gazette: Fetterman, Other Senators: Deep Cuts In Coal Mine Health & Safety Agency Threatens Miners

-- Post-Gazette: Coal Miners’ Health, Safety On Chopping Block Amid Drastic Federal Staffing Cuts 

-- AP: National Weather Service No Longer Translating Products For Non-English Speakers; Risks Missing Life-Saving Warnings About Extreme Weather 

-- The Guardian: US Intensifies Crackdown On Peaceful Protest Under President

-- PA Capital-Star: President Attack On State Climate Laws Likely Doomed, But Attempts To Yank Funds May Be Next 

-- E&ENews/Politico: President Declares War On State Climate, Clean Energy Laws 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Republican Con. Meuser Applauds President’s Order To Reinvigorate ‘Clean’ Coal

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Coal Industry Hopes President’s Executive Orders Will Revitalize Sector Amid Challenges

-- Inside Climate News: President’s Executive Orders Aim To Keep Coal Power Plants Alive, Despite Climate, Economic Costs

-- Utility Dive: President Aims To Boost Coal, In Part By Ordering Power Plants To Stay Open

-- Reuters: The Keystone Oil Pipeline’s History Of Spills

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Beaver Times: PA Education Officials Certify Compliance With Civil Rights Laws In Answer To US Dept Of Education Order To Certify K-12 Schools Are Complying With Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Policy Bans [Copy Of Letter]

-- Inquirer: PA Education Dept. Tells Schools They Don’t Need To Make Changes Amid President’s Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Policy Ban Funding Threats

-- PennLive - John Baer: Are ‘Hands Off’ And Other Public Protests Against President, Musk Effective?

-- TribLive: Uncertainty Still Abounds For Western PA Businesses, Consumers Despite Tariffs Pause 

-- MCall: Economic Uncertainty Changing How Warehouses Are Built, Used In Lehigh Valley

-- Erie Times Guest Essay: The FDA Fired Me And Broke Erie’s Golden Rule - They Gave Up The Ship - By Adam Ghering

-- MCall Guest Essay: Killing Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Policies Is Worth All Of The President’s Other Mistakes - By Anthony O’Brien, Prof. Lehigh University

-- PA Capital-Star: Students From PA Private Colleges Advocate For State Financial Aid

-- TribLive: Carnegie Mellon Chinese Student Among Those Whose Visas Were Terminated: ‘I Only Have A Semester Left’

-- WTAE: Pitt Joins Growing List Of Schools To Have International Students With Visas Revoked

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: PA Doesn’t Have Enough Homecare Workers Because They Aren’t Paid Enough

-- TribLive: Reports: President Voices Opposition To Nippon Purchase Of US Steel 

-- AP: President Limits Tariffs On Most Nations For 90 Days, Raises Tariffs On Chinese Imports

-- AP: S&P Stocks Soar 9.5% To One Of Its Biggest Gains Since WWII After President Limits Some Tariffs 

-- TribLive/AP: President’s ‘Buy’ Tip On Social Media Before His Tariffs Pause Made Money For Investors Who Listened

-- The Guardian: President Ignites ‘Insider Trading’ Accusations After ‘Buy’ Comment On Social Media Just Hours Before Pausing Tariffs

-- Wall Street Journal Editorial: President Blinks On Tariffs, Again, For Now; President Is Goading Investors To Bet Against America; He Needs A Policy Reversal, Not A Pause

-- NYT Guest Essay: Do We Really Expect Investors To Forget What Just Happened - By Fmr Economist With JPMorgan Chase, Bridgewater

-- WPost: Social Security Abandons DOGE-Led Phone Service Cuts Amid Chaos, Backlash

-- NYT: President Signs ‘Orders’ To Investigate, Punish Individuals, Law Firms Who Opposed His 2020 Election Lies

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