PA Environment Digest Blog: Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips

“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

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

September 22, 23, 24, 29, 30

October 1, 6, 7, 8, 27, 28, 29

November 17, 18, 19

December 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule

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

September 8, 9, 10

October 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29

November 17, 18, 19

December 8, 9, 10

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

TODAY 8:30: Virtual. Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts Webinar On Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance Practices For Dirt & Gravel Roads [PaEN]

May 28 -- Agenda Posted. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 a.m. Contact: cnrac-admin@growconservation.com. Read more here. (formal notice)

June 4-- Agenda Posted. Susquehanna River Basin Commission meeting. 4423 North Front Street in Harrisburg. 2:30 p.m. (formal notice)

-- Environmental Hearing Board Agrees There Is ‘Acute’ Danger In CNX Misusing A Deposition In An Appeal Before The Board To ‘Punish’ An Environmental Advocate For Her Advocacy Against CNX [PaEN]

-- Late Night Dumping II: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Dumping Continues On Roads, This Time With Bigger Trucks; New Research On Harmful Wastewater Impacts [PaEN]

-- PA American Water Begins Construction Of Pipeline To Provide Replacement Water For Dimock Township Residents Who Had Wells Contaminated By Shale Gas Drilling 20 Years Ago In Susquehanna County [PaEN]

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: 9 In 10 Pennsylvanians Support Stronger Health Protection From Oil & Gas Fracking - By Joanne Kilgour, Ohio River Valley Institute, and Alison Steele, Environmental Health Project [PDF of Article ]

-- WESA/The Allegheny Front: PA Senate Bill Would Cut Impact Fees For Communities That Restrict Shale Gas Fracking

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 17 to 23 -- Failure To Comply With Shale Well Plugging Order; 28 Months Without 3 Conventional Well Cleanups; 206 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Road Dumping Continues [PaEN]

-- City & State PA Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Must Energize Efforts To Regulate Its Oil And Gas Industry - By By Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee

-- Lancaster Farming: Could Measuring Greenhouse Gases Increase Returns On PA Dairy Farms?

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Philly Rises 4 Spots In National Ranking On City Parks

-- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation: June 21 Great Outdoor Picnic At Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park, Centre County

-- TribLive: Allegheny County Parks Create Economic Spillover In Nearby Municipalities

-- Williamsport Sun: Native Wildflowers Are Abundant In Our Region

-- WHYY: Invasive Asian Longhorned Tick Is Swarming SE PA; Here’s What You Need To Know

-- Williamsport Sun: Chirping Away - A Closer Look At PA’s Songbird Mimics -- Robert Ross, USGS Ecologist & Tiadaghton Audubon Society

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Our Feathered Friends Have Already Started Laying Eggs

New Federal Administration

-- PA Capital-Star: Federal Officials Call Coal Miners’ Health A ‘Priority,’ But Are Cutting A PA Team Studying Mine Safety

-- PennLive: DOGE Quietly Revises ‘Savings’ From Federal Leases As PA USDA Office Remains Open

-- WESA: From Classrooms To Farms, AmeriCorps Cuts Hit Pittsburgh