PA Environment Digest Blog: Monday PA Environment & Energy Articles

"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

July: No Days Scheduled

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

July: No Days Scheduled

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

WARNING: This Is Budget Season, Watch Out For Anything!

July 22-- In-Person. Environmental Quality Board hearing on Proposed Regulation Related To Legal Authority For Delegation Of Federal Air Quality Plans. DEP Southwest Regional Office, Pittsburgh. 10:00 a.m.

July 22-- Virtual and Last. DEP Hearing On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities. 6:30 p.m.

July 23-- Virtual Only. Agenda Posted. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. 10:00 a.m. Contact: cnrac-admin@growconservation.com. Read more here on agenda.

July 23-- Virtual. Penn State Extension Webinar On $100/Well Bounty For Reporting Previously Unknown Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners. Trinity Point Church of God, 180 West Trinity Drive, Clarion. 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Click Here to register.

July 23-- Virtual. Penn State Extension Hosts Webinar On Understanding Pennsylvania's Legacy Conventional Oil & Gas Well Problem. Noon to 1:00 p.m.

July 26-- In-Person. Celebrate The Bloom! On The Prairie At Jennings Environmental Ed Center. Slippery Rock, Butler County.

August 13-- Senate and House Agricultural & Rural Affairs Committees Information Session At Penn State Ag Progress Days. Red Barn Annex, Ag Progress Days Site, Pennsylvania Furnace, Huntingdon County. 10:00 a.m.

-- July 21- Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 12 to 18 - Uncontrolled Shale Gas Wastewater Release For 34 Hours; Abandoned Conventional Wells Top 300; 107 New Brownfield Sites [PaEN]

-- DEP: Shale Gas Well Control Problem Caused Uncontrolled Release Of Wastewater For Over 34 Hours At Repsol’s Broadleaf Holdings Well Pad In Troy Twp., Bradford County [PaEN]

-- Courier Times: Bucks County Residents, Sen. Santarsiero Say DEP Isn’t Doing Enough To Make Energy Transfer/Sunoco Define The Extent Of Petroleum Pipeline Leak And Clean It Up [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 19 [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On 4 Water Quality Permits For Texas Eastern Appalachia To Market 3 Natural Gas Pipeline Upgrade Project In Adams And York Counties [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets July 31 Hearing On Requests To Withdraw Millions Of Gallons Of Water Per Day, Including 11 For Shale Gas Development, 2 Gas Power Plants [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 103 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 19 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

-- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: Solar For All Program At Risk In PA If State Lawmakers Don’t Act Soon

-- Registration Open! Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 21 [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension: Geothermal Energy And Agriculture In Pennsylvania

-- Penn State Extension Energy Essentials Newsletter: Meet The Penn State Extension Energy Team