PA Environment Digest Blog: June 23 - Short - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available

“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]

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Stories You May Have Missed Last Week: PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic - June 23 [PaEN]

Cecil Twp. Zoning Hearing Board Dismisses Range Resources Validity Challenge To 2,500 Foot Setback Ordinance For Shale Gas Wells In Washington County [PaEN]

Marcellus Drilling News: Commonwealth Court Overturns Elizabeth Townships’s Approval Of Olympus Energy Shale Gas Wells, Infrastructure In Allegheny County [PaEN]

Protect PT Will Appeal EHB Decision To Allow CNX Resources To Drill Shale Gas Wells Just Hundreds Of Feet From Homes In Penn Twp., Westmoreland County [PaEN]

Independent Fiscal Office Estimates CY 2025 Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenues At $235 Million, $70 Million More Than CY 2024 [PaEN]

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 21 [PaEN]

Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved 38 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In May; 225 In 2025 [PaEN]

DEP Soliciting Bids To Plug 15 Orphan Conventional Gas Wells In Clinton County [PaEN]

PUC Pipeline Safety Programs Earn Top Marks From Federal Evaluators

Pittsburgh Business Times Guest Essay: RISE PA Decarbonization- Investing In Industry Plays To Pennsylvania’s Strengths - By Dennis Affinati, IBEW Third District; Tom Gilbert, PA Environmental Council; Stefani Pashman, Allegheny Conference on Community Development [PDF of Article]

PJM Issues Alert Requiring All Electric Generators To Operate At Maximum Output For Monday, June 23; No Customer Action Required At This Time [PaEN]

PUC Highlights Ways To Stay Cool As Heat Wave Arrives, While Also Addressing Widespread Storm-Related Power Outages

PUC Approves $750,000 Penalty On UGI For 2020 Pipeline Rupture In Monroe County That Killed A Woman, Injured 2 Others

Penn State Extension, PA Farm Bureau Host October 10 Energy & Agriculture Conference In Harrisburg; Sponsorships Available [PaEN]

PUC Approves Next Phase Of State Act 129 Energy Efficiency Program

Cameron County Chamber Innovation Center Kitchen Switches To Electric Induction Stove, Energy Star Appliances With Help From West Penn Energy Fund [PaEN]

Gov. Shapiro: Wait Times Cut For Permits Even Further; DEP Reduced Permit Backlog By 94%

Environmental Quality Board To Hold 3 Hearings, Comment Period On Proposed Regulation On Legal Authority For Delegation Of Federal Air Quality Plans: July 22, 24, 29

State Conservation Commission Invites Proposals To Provide Financial, Technical Assistance For Implementation Of BMPs On Farm Operations In Chesapeake Bay Most Effective Basins [PaEN]

Guest Essay: Agriculture Conservation Assistance Program Making Clean Water Possible On A Gettysburg Farm And Across Pennsylvania - By Becky Nas, 4th Generation Farmer [PaEN]

DEP Healthy Waters Chesapeake Bay News: Bay Awareness Week; More County Projects; Funding, Technical Assistance

Natural Lands: 11,020 Native Trees Planted At Peacedale Preserve In Chester County Reforestation Effort [PaEN]