Thursday, June 5, 2025

Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.5.25

“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

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


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 12-- NEW. 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.



-- Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Reported Smoke Coming From A Furnace Unit At The Shell Petrochemical Plant; No Explanation Yet For The Problem  [PaEN]


-- TribLive: Allegheny County Health Officials Investigate Elevated Sulfur Levels At US Steel Clairton Coke [Coal] Works 


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: US Steel’s Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Resumes Normal Operations After Equipment Failure Causes Emissions Spike


-- KDKA: Residents Express Health Concerns After Elevated Sulfur Levels Reported At Clairton Coke [Coal] Works


-- Inquirer: Wildfire Smoke From Canada Will Likely Last The Workweek In Philly


-- EPA Fire And Smoke Map


-- AP: What It Takes To Clean Industrial Soot And Grime From Church Murals In Pittsburgh


-- The Heinz Endowments Now Accepting Applications For $6 Million To Help Nonprofits Facing Hardships Due To Federal Funding Losses  [PaEN] 


-- E&ENews/Politico: Pennsylvania Lawmakers Go After Local Shale Gas Drilling Restrictions   [Cecil Twp., Washington County] 


-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports First Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Increased 2.9% Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024  [PaEN]


-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Renews 2 Shale Gas Water Withdrawal Projects 


-- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee


-- TribLive: US Army Corps To Give Update On Parks Twp. Nuclear Waste Dump Cleanup Today At Public Meeting In Armstrong County


-- Milton Standard-Journal: Abandoned Mine Pools Reimagined As Assets For Geothermal Energy, Other Uses


-- PUC Chairman Stephen M. DeFrank Confirmed By PA Senate For Second Term; Darryl Lawrence Confirmed As Consumer Advocate  [PaEN]


-- AG Sunday: Darryl Lawrence Confirmed By PA Senate As Utility Consumer Advocate


-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Pittsburgh Begins Installing LED Streetlights


-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Pittsburgh Water Authority Files For New Rate Increases To ‘Catch Up’ With Its Aging System 


-- Applications Now Being Accepted For The Giant Company, Keep PA Beautiful Healing The Planet Grants To Support Tree Planting Projects  [PaEN]  


-- The Nature Conservancy GSI Impact Hub Helps Municipalities, Practitioners Quantify The Benefits Of Green Stormwater Infrastructure  [PaEN] 


-- June 26 In-Person Lake Erie Environmental Forum Features Native Plant Conservation Experts At Presque Isle State Park, Erie  [PaEN] 


-- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: Amidea Daniels, Fish & Boat Commission Educator, Strives To Connect People To Natural Resources Through Creative Efforts Like Women’s Programming, Trout In Classroom  [PaEN]


-- Water At Risk: Clean Water, Shared Commitment - Behind The Scenes In Monroe County - By Carol Hillestad for Brodhead Watershed Association  [PaEN]


-- Protecting Clean Water Together: More Than Just Water: Mill Creek Flows With Community, Connection, Conservation In Monroe County - By Carol Hillestad for Brodhead Watershed Association  [PaEN] 


-- LancasterOnline: Free Native Trees, Shrubs Available During Lancaster Water Week Starting Friday


-- York Daily Record: Discover Susquehanna Riverlands State Park, Named One Of USA Today’s Best Views In America


-- Penn State Extension Spotted Lanternfly News: Permit Training For Businesses; Control Options; Checklist For Travelers; Build A Circle Trap 


-- PA Firefly Festival Firefly News: Send Us Your Firefly Stories; Firefly Naturalist Training Available; Summer Book Recommendations; Lights Out For Lightning Bugs!  


--  Centre Daily Times: The Buzzing Is Back; What To Know About 17-Year Cicadas In Centre County


-- TribLive: Canada Geese Treated At Youngwood Wildlife Rehab After Suffering Fishing Line Injuries In Westmoreland County


-- LancasterOnline: 2 Eaglets In Lancaster County Livestreamed Nest, Take Their First Flights


-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Coyote Sightings At Wissahickon Valley Park In Philadelphia Prompt Reminder That It’s ‘A Wild Place’ 


Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart/Data Centers


-- Post-Gazette: New Ardent A.I. Data Center Opens In Allegheny County, But Doesn’t Have Its Computers Yet


-- PennLive: Middlesex Twp., Cumberland County Adopted New Zoning To Allow Hyperscale A.I. Data Center Development


-- Post-Gazette: PA Lawmakers Pushing For A.I. Companies To Take Root In PA [Pushing Legislation To Drop Regulations]


-- The Center Square: Virginia Data Center Electricity Demand Part Of US DOE Order Requiring PA Peaking Power Plant To Remain Open


-- Utility Dive: Electricity Consumer Groups Urge FERC To Improve Load Forecasts Now Riddled With ‘Uncertainty And Lack Of Transparency’  [Data Center Demand, Unnecessary Rate Increases]


International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas

[Energy Independence Means Renewables]


-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Aging PA Power Plant Ordered To Keep Running On Eve Of Shutdown; Environmentalists Say There Is No Energy ‘Emergency’


-- Reuters: CEO Seeking To Build Pennsylvania LNG Gas Export Terminal Meets With White House To Ship To Asian, European Markets 


-- Reuters: Energy Transfer Seeking US Government Permission To Continue Exporting Ethane To China, Our Economic And Military Competitor [Major Ethane Pipeline Operator In PA] 


New Federal Administration


-- WHYY: Congressional Republican Budget Bill Would Slash PA Schools’ Savings From Planned Solar Energy Projects By Cutting Tax Credits


-- NPR: FEMA Was Starting To Fix Long-Standing Problems, Then The New President Came


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- WITF: PA Senate Committee Advancing Election Bills, Starting Small

-- WITF: PA House Passes Private Cyber Charter School Reform That Could Save Public Schools $616 Million, Unclear Future In PA Senate

-- Gov. Shapiro Files Lawsuit Against USDA’s Unlawful Termination Of Local Food Purchasing Assistance Program That Benefits Food Banks, Farmers 

-- AP: Pennsylvania Suing USDA Over Cutting Funding To A $1 Billion Food Aid Program For States 

-- Post-Gazette: Richard King Mellon Foundation Pledges $2.6 Million For New Job Training Opportunities

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Job Corps Center Closure To Have ‘Lasting Consequences’ On Region’s Workforce; 438 Students Affected 

-- TribLive: PA Member Of Congress Summer Lee Grills US Education Secretary On Diversity Equity Inclusion Policies

-- WHYY: Congressional Republican Budget Bill Would Slash PA Schools’ Savings From Planned Solar Energy Projects By Cutting Tax Credits

-- MCall Guest Essay: Congressional Republican Budget Bill Will Cost 43,000 Lehigh Valley Residents Their Health Insurance - By Jane Berger, Moravian University

-- AP: Congressional Republican Tax Bill Will Add $2.4 Trillion To The Deficit, Leave 10.9 Million More Without Health Insurance, CBO Says

-- AP: President’s Tariffs Would Cut US Deficits By $2.8 Trillion Over 10 Years, And Shrink The US Economy, Raise Inflation, Reduce Household Purchasing Power, CBO Says

-- Inquirer: Gov. Shapiro: The Federal Administration Doesn’t Know How To Govern

-- PA Capital-Star: 81 Years Later, A Small Normandy Town Remembers The Sacrifices Of PA’s 28th Division  

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[Posted: June 5, 2025]  PA Environment Digest

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