Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 5.10.25

“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

May 12, 13, 14

June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

May 12, 13

June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

May 12-- Agenda Posted. Joint Hearing Of Senate Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure and Environmental Resources & Energy Committees on PJM grid Reliability Resource Initiative Planning and generation market updates.  Room 8E-B East Wing. 11:00 a.m. Click Here to watch live.   Read more here on agenda.

May 13-- Senate Local Government Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 311 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) prohibiting local governments from banning any source of energy [like natural gas].  Room 8E-A East Wing.  9:30 a.m. Click Here to watch live.

May 13--  Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting. 12:30 p.m.  Read more here on agenda.

May 13-  Agenda Posted. DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board meeting. 10:00 a.m

May 14-- Agenda Posted.  House Energy Committee informational meeting on electric transmission.  Room 523 Irvis Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 10  [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 75 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 10 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- President's Proposed Budget Cuts Will 'Incapacitate’ State Environmental Programs - $120+ Million At Risk In DEP’s Budget; Drinking Water, Wastewater Infrastructure Funding Cut 89%  [PaEN]

-- PJM Interconnection Forecasts Adequate Electric Generation For Typical Summer Demands; Preparing Demand Response Resources To Reduce Power Use In Extreme Scenarios  [PaEN]

-- PUC Launches Post-Storm Review Of Utility Response, System Resilience Following Major Southwestern PA Storm  [PaEN] 

-- Scranton Times: Ransom Twp. Supervisors Hear Plans For Solar Energy Facility

-- Joint State Government Commission Releases Report On Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facilities And Farming In Pennsylvania

-- DEP Invites Comments On Draft PA Energy Development Authority Energy Development Plan; $156 Million In Solar For All Funding Still Locked Up  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension Energy Essentials: Grid-Scale Solar Energy Ordinance; How To Choose Solar Vendor; Microquakes Boon For Geothermal Energy

-- DEP To Hold June 17 Hearing On Warren County Sulfur Dioxide Maintenance Plan, Redesignation Request  [PaEN]

-- DEP: Updated Non-Regulatory Agenda Now Available Showing Technical Guidance Documents In Development  [PaEN] 

-- Inside Climate News: Nighttime Gas Flaring Caused By A Malfunction At The Shell Petrochemical Plant Lit Up Beaver County ‘Like Dawn’ 

-- Still Time To Organize Local Cleanups, Volunteer For Keep PA Beautiful's Pick Up Pennsylvania Initiative  [PaEN] 

-- Warren Times: Warren Conservation District Opens Registration For Summer Camps - ‘A Little Dirt Doesn’t Hurt’

-- PUC Recognizes Drinking Water Week

-- WNEP: Flooding Shuts Down Route 507 In Pike County

-- WNEP: Delaware River Closed Due To Rising Water Levels In Monroe County 

-- PennLive: Wildfire That Burned 2,700 Acres In Cumberland County Was ‘Human-Caused’

-- May 9 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation Now Available  [PaEN] 

-- Warren Times - Audubon Community Nature Center: Hellbenders Are Very Real

Storm Damage/Power Outages

-- PUC Launches Post-Storm Review Of Utility Response, System Resilience Following Major Southwestern PA Storm  [PaEN]

Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart/Data Centers

-- The Center Square: More Tech, More Problems For Regional Power Grid Stability

International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas

[Energy Independence Means Renewables]

-- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.14  Ohio- $3.02  PA- $3.30

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs At 18, Same For 3 Weeks

New Federal Administration

-- The Allegheny Front - EPA Terminates $15 Million Tree Planting/Climate/Workforce Development Grants That Would Benefit Pittsburgh, Philadelphia

-- Tribune-Democrat: AmeriCorps Future, Backpack Project In Jeopardy After ‘Abrupt And Unforeseen’ Cuts In Cambria County

-- WITF/NPR: President Tightens Control Of Independent Agency Overseeing Nuclear Safety

-- AP: 15 States Sue Over President’s Move To Fast-Track Oil & Gas Projects Based On A Nonexistent Energy Emergency  [Not PA]

-- TribLive/AP: Federal Judge Pauses Much Of President’s Massive Downsizing Of Federal Agencies

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Spotlight PA: Hidden Talents Of PA Lawmakers - New Yorker Writer, MMA Fighter, Alligator Rescues

-- TribLive: PA Cong. Deluzio Rips Proposed Cut To Veterans Administration Clinical Trails As ‘Betrayal Of Veterans’

-- Inquirer: State, Local Lawmakers Hearing On President’s Anti-Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Policies On Local Campuses, Universities Didn’t Show

-- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Clothing Retailers Are On Edge Amid Trade War

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: American Steelmakers Hail Tariffs They Say Will Pay Off - Just Not Yet

-- Republican Herald Editorial: Americans Are Buying Milk With Borrowed Money

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