-- 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
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
TODAY’s Calendar Of Events
WARNING: This Is Budget Season, Watch Out For Anything!
TODAY 11:00: In-Person. Hollow Oak Land Trust Bugfest At Montour Woods Pavillion In Moon Twp., Allegheny County, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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-- Agenda Posted. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. The Nature Place Rookery Room, 575 St. Bernardine Street in Reading, Berks County. 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.
-- Utility Dive: Bipartisan Group Of 9 Governors, Including Gov. Shapiro, Say PJM Interconnection Facing ‘Unprecedented Crisis Of Confidence’ And Want A Hand In Filling 2 Vacant Board Seats [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]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 19 [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 103 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 19 PA Bulletin [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]
-- TribLive: An Inside Look At Plum Borough’s Controversial Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Allegheny County
-- The Allegheny Front - Kara Holsopple: New Online Tool Launches To Help Identify Chemical Exposure To Oil & Gas Operations, Industrial Pollution
-- Environmental Council Of The States: EPA Budget Cut 23%, Staff Cut 23%, Reductions In Grants Supporting State Administration Of Federal Programs, Water Infrastructure Funding [PaEN]
-- PUC Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $188,500 In Penalties For PA OneCall Violations
-- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Cleanup Work At Contaminated Jackson Ceramix Superfund Site In Clearfield County Underway
-- TribLive: Windmill Turbine Blade Accident Prompts Closer Review Of Large Loads On Rt. 982 In Derry Twp., Westmoreland County
-- DEP Sets Aug. 25 Hearing On Revisions To Perkiomenville Quarry Noncoal Mining Permit In Montgomery County [PaEN]
-- DEP, PEMA Announce Matching Funding For More Than $6 Million In NRCS Flood Recovery Projects In 9 Counties Related To Damage From Tropical Storm Debby In 2024 [PaEN]
-- Tribune-Democrat: Anniversary Of 1977 Johnstown Flood That Killed 140 People, Recent Disaster In Texas Prompt Thoughts Of Safety
-- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County Property Owners Struggle To Recover From Tropical Storm Debby Damage That Left Tons Of Rock, Dirt On Their Property
-- Scranton Times: Two PA American Water Dam Rehabilitation Projects In Lackawanna Get Low-Interest PennVEST Loans
-- Post-Gazette: How Pittsburgh’s Plastic Bag Ban Changed Shopping Habits
-- Post-Gazette: Facing Crop Losses, Farmers Are Turning To Deer Hunters
-- WJAC: Experts Warn Of Increased Risk For Lyme Disease, Other Illnesses As Tick Populations Surge
-- Courier Times: West Nile Virus Detected In Bucks County: What To Do About It
-- DEP West Nile Virus Detected In These Counties
-- The Derrick: DiscoverE Bug Camp At Oil Creek State Park Is Hit With Kids [PDF of Article]
-- The Derrick: Oil Region Alliance Receives America250PA Grant For Allegheny River Kayak Sojourn
-- Republican Herald: Blue Marsh Federal Recreation Area Swim Beach To Reopen Saturday
-- DCNR Celebrates Induction Of Bear Meadows Natural Area In Rothrock State Forest Centre County Into The National Old-Growth Forest Network [PaEN]
-- Beaver Times: Western PA’s Frogs Are The Stars Of Frog Week 2025; How To Watch, Listen And Learn More
Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart/Data Centers
-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: President Came To Pittsburgh To Promote A.I. In Pennsylvania; Here’s What You Need To Know
-- Indiana Capital Chronicle: A.I. Data Centers Are Using More Power, Regular Consumers Are Footing The Bill [In PJM Grid]
-- York Dispatch: York County To Host $5 Billion A.I. Data Center In Peach Bottom
-- Williamsport Sun: Sustainability Questioned As Tech Sector’s Use Of Electricity Grows
-- TribLive: New Report Lauds Pittsburgh Region For A.I. Talent, Innovation
International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas
[Energy Independence Means Renewables]
-- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.15 Ohio- $2.97 PA- $3.23
-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Stays At 17 For 3rd Week
-- Tribune-Democrat: President’s Tariff Pressure Pushes Asia Toward American LNG Gas To Ease Trade Tensions
New Federal Administration
-- Environmental Council Of The States: EPA Budget Cut 23%, Staff Cut 23%, Reductions In Grants Supporting State Administration Of Federal Programs, Water Infrastructure Funding [PaEN]
-- AP: EPA Eliminates Research & Development Office, Begins Layoffs
-- EPA Reduces Workforce By Nearly 23% - 3,707 Employees, Eliminates Office Of Research & Development
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected
-- Post-Gazette: As State Budget Negotiations Drag On, PA Lawmakers Put Big Spending Bill On Shelf
-- TribLive/AP: US Education Dept. Will Release Some Frozen Grants Supporting After-School And Summer Programs
-- Dept. Of Labor & Industry Reports June PA Unemployment Ticks Up 0.1% To 4% In June
-- TribLive: New Report Lauds Pittsburgh Region For A.I. Talent, Innovation
-- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader Guest Essay: Rich And Powerful Are Taking From The Poor - By Lt. Gov. Austin Davis
-- Post-Gazette - Adriana Ramirez: The Republican Betrayal Of Rural America
-- MCall Guest Essay: Surrendering Common Sense, Decency And Democracy To Join MAGA - By Bill White, Long-Time Allentown Morning Call Columnist
-- Republican Herald Editorial: President Finally Realizes Russian Despot Isn’t Reliable
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[Posted: July 19, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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