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PA Environment Digest

Will Be CLOSED June 14 to 19.

“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 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 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

June 6-14-- Lancaster County Water Week

TODAY 10:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee information meeting on natural gas 101 - from generation to distribution. Room G-50 Irvis Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

TODAY 11:00: Agenda Posted. House Energy Committee hearing on House Bill 502 (Steele-D-Allegheny) establishing the Reliable Energy Siting and Electric Transition Board [part of Governor’s Lightning Energy Plan]. Room G-50 Irvis Building. 11:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

June 10-- Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 12:30 p.m. Check webpage for options for joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Ian Irvin, Executive Director, iirvin@pa.gov or (717) 787-8171. Read more here on agenda.

June 11-- Agenda Posted. House Energy Committee hearing on House Bill 502 (Steele-D-Allegheny) establishing the Reliable Energy Siting and Electric Transition Board [part of Governor’s Lightning Energy Plan]. Room 515 Irvis Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

June 12-- House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee hearing on the abandonment and plugging of oil and gas wells and House Bill 364 (Vitali-D-Delaware) restoring the authority of the Environmental Quality Board to increase plugging bonds for all oil and gas wells to what it costs taxpayers to plug them. Room G-50 Irvis Building. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

-- June 9 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 31 to June 6 - Horizontal Drilling Spill; ‘Control Issue’ Blows Drilling Mud Out A Flare; Failure To Notify DEP Of Spills; More Abandoned Wells [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 7 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 73 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In June 7 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

-- Spotlight PA: PA Republican Senate Leader Says No Action On Bipartisan Bills To Boost Electricity Production Until PA Supreme Court Decides On Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Rule Case

-- WHYY - Susan Phillips: First Amendment Battle Pitts Philadelphia Gas Works Against Climate Advocates In Rate Hike Case

-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Pennsylvania Has Failed Environmental Justice Communities For Years; A New Bill Could Change That

-- Beaver Times/Inside Climate News- Jon Hurdle: PA Fracking Company Surrenders Water Permits, Can’t Get Enough Water Out Of Big Sewickley Creek In Beaver County

-- PennLive: Sinkholes Have Caused Millions In Property Damage; Is The State Doing Enough About Them? [Buzzi Unicem Cement Pumping Water Out Of A Quarry In Northampton County]

-- Scranton Times: Ex-Amity Landfill In Taylor Applies To DEP For Liner, Leachate Collection

-- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Celebrating Juneteenth & Solstice Around The Watershed

-- WESA: Pennsylvania Researchers See Tick Population, Related Diseases Ticking Up