Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.24.25

“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 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 10:00: Agenda Posted. 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.   Read more here on the agenda.

TODAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. DEP Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board meeting.

TODAY 1:00: Agenda Posted. Public Utility Commission Hearing On Review of Electric Grid Impacts From Data Center Growth.  Hearing Room 1, Keystone Building. 1:00.  Click Here to watch online.   Read more here on agenda.

TODAY 6:00: Susquehanna River Basin Commission hearing on water withdrawal requests, including renewal of two shale gas water projects in Susquehanna and Wyoming counties.  SRBC Offices, 4423 North Front Street in Harrisburg. 6:00 p.m.  Join by telephone by calling (877) 304-9269, passcode 2619070#.  Read more here.

-- DEP: Abandoned Shale Gas Water Impoundment Not Used For 7 Years Cited For Not Being Restored In Clarion County  [PaEN] 

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 19 [PaEN] 

-- DEP Posted 96 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 19 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]   

-- PennVEST Approves $242.8 Million Investment In 32 Water Infrastructure Projects In 23 Counties  [PaEN] 

-- Tribune-Democrat: North Fork Water Project Awarded Funds For ‘Flood Resilience’ Project; Scalp Level Gets Sewer, Stormwater Funding

-- Erie Times: Erie Water Works Secures $10 Million For Lead Pipe Replacement Project

-- Altoona Mirror: PennVEST Loans Altoona Water Authority  For Wastewater System Improvements

-- DEP, Local Partners Celebrate Stream Restoration Investments In Little Conestoga Creek Watershed, Lancaster County  [PaEN] 

-- LancasterOnline: Officials Tour Little Conestoga Creek Blue Green Connector Project

-- York County Partners With USGS On Water Quality Monitoring To Document Nutrient, Sediment Pollution Going Into Local Streams, Chesapeake Bay  [PaEN] 

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: USDA Shuts Down ‘Climate Smart’ Program With Big Impacts On Farm Conservation Work In Chesapeake Bay Watershed 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Low Stream Flows Trigger Restrictions On 29 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals  [PaEN] 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved 58 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In March; 142 In 2025  [PaEN] 

-- DCNR Unveils Solar Energy Facility At Gifford Pinchot State Park In York County Cutting Costs, Climate-Changing Emissions On Public Land; Celebrating 30 Years Of Stewardship  [PaEN] 

-- TribLive: New York City Firm Gets Initial OK For Solar Energy Facility On Site Of Former Unity Stone Quarry In Westmoreland

-- Post-Gazette: PUC Tees Up Hearing On Data Centers As A.I. Critic Says, ‘We Want To Be A Little More Cautious’

-- PA Capital-Star: FERC Approves Shapiro’s PJM Settlement To Halt ‘Runaway’ Electricity Prices

-- DelawareValleyJournal.com: Grid Operator PJM Rejects Accusations It’s Slow-Rolling Renewable Energy Generation

-- PennWATCH: Allegheny Conference, Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council Join Energy Future PA

-- Tribune-Democrat: Special Report: Climate Change Impacting Housing Market, Insurance Industry

-- PennLive Letter: Congress Holds Key To PA’s Next Energy Breakthrough - Mine Methane Capture - By Mike Moore, Waste Gas Capture Initiative

-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Consent Agreement For The Precision National Plating Site In Lackawanna County  [PaEN]

-- Erie Times: Wildfire Near Jim Thorpe Sets Hundreds Of Acres Ablaze, See Wildfire Map

-- WTAE: Wildfire Smoke From Canada Impacted Air Quality In Pittsburgh

-- Beaver Times: State Of The Air Report Gives Beaver County Passing Grade For Ozone, Particulates

-- Susquehanna University Students Translate Climate Research Into Children's Stories  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette: Local Elementary Students Draw, Clean Up In Keep PA Beautiful Litter Hawk Youth Award Program 

-- The Derrick: Early Arbor Day Observance Sees Oil City Students Planting New Tree In Hasson Park

-- Penn State Extension Hosts Plant Identification Walks Thru Parks In Centre, Franklin, Huntingdon, Lebanon, Somerset Counties 

-- PA Parks & Forest Foundation Launches New Podcast-- It's Time To Think Outside!  [PaEN]

-- Registration Open! Delaware River Sojourn June 14-20 - Celebrating 30 Years Of Paddling The Delaware  

-- ABC27: City Of Harrisburg Named Official Audubon Bird Town, Will Join  Effort To Protect Birds

Train Derailments

-- Post-Gazette/AP: Jury Decides Norfolk Southern Should Pay For $660 Million Settlement In 2024 Train Derailment

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Outcome Of Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Case Important

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

 

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Bring Nuclear Power Jobs Back To PA and Power America’s Future - By Rep. Tom Mehaffie  [Microsoft - Three Mile Island Deal]

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

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: EQT Retrenches Into Its Own Backyard With $1.8 Billion Olympus Energy Shale Gas Deal

-- NPR: Oil, Gas Companies Expected A Big Business Boom Under President, Now They’re Worried

New Federal Administration

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: USDA Shuts Down ‘Climate Smart’ Program With Big Impacts On Farm Conservation Work In Chesapeake Bay Watershed 

-- US Dept. Of The Interior Implements Emergency Permitting Procedures For Projects Related To Energy Production, Transportation, Refining, Critical Minerals; 28 Day Review Times ‘At Most’

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Spotlight PA: PA’s Independent Voters Are Growing In Number, Here’s Why They Still Can’t Vote In Primaries

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Federal ‘Save Act’ Would do Farm More Harm Than Good For Election Integrity

-- PennLive - John Baer: Here’s My New Take On President’s ‘Golden Age Of America’

-- Centre Daily Times: PA Republican Cong. Glenn Thompson Gets Agricultural Award, As Protests Range On At His Bellefonte Office

-- TribLive: La Roche University International Student Sues Feds Over Termination Of Status In Allegheny County

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: The President’s Made Up Trade Emergency

-- AP: A Dozen States Sue Federal Government To Stop President’s Tariffs [Not PA]

-- TribLive/AP: President Signs Orders Targeting College Accreditation, K-12 School Diversity, Equity Efforts

-- TribLive/AP: Law Firms Fighting President’s Executive Orders Seeking To Punish Them Ask Federal Judges To Permanently Block The Orders

-- Financial Times: Corporate America Puts Wall Street On Alert Over Damage From Trade War On Costs, Supply Chains

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