PA Environment Digest Blog: Saturday 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!

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

July 28-- In-Person. Penn State Extension $100/Well Bounty For Reporting Previously Unknown Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners. Mercer County Extension Office, 463 North Perry Highway, Mercer, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Click Here to register.

July 28-- Virtual. Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services & Ohio River Valley Institute Webinar: SLAPP Suits: Legal & Communication Strategies To Protect Your Voice In A Legally Risky Environment. Noon to 1:30 p.m.

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.

-- PA’s Penncrest High School Envirothon Team From Delaware County Takes 7th Place In International NCF-Envirothon In Canada! [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 26 [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Permits For Daylighting 5.33 Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 78 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 26 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: EQT Faces Criminal Charges Over Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Well Leak In Cambria County

-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Activists Pledge To Resist Any Federal Effort To Lift Shale Gas Fracking Ban In Delaware River Basin

-- PJM Interconnection Issues Hot Weather Alerts For Mid-Atlantic, Southern Regions July 26 & 27, And For The Entire Service Area On July 28 [PaEN]

-- PUC: Brace For Higher Electric Bills As A Result Of Soaring Power Use; Consumers Should Review Energy Options [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: FERC Orders Significant Changes To PJM’s Grid Interconnection Process To Speed Connections

-- Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Is Being Whipsawed On Energy, We Need A Comprehensive Strategy - By Kate Harper and Conor Lamb, Co-Chairs Of Energy Future PA [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front - Julie Grant: Federal Cuts In ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Casts Shade Over Pennsylvania’s Solar Boom

-- PA Turnpike Solicits Proposals For Stationary Inductive Charging For Electric Vehicles In Dauphin County

-- Altoona Mirror: Center For Rural PA Report Examines Losses From Natural Hazards In PA Totaled $3.6 Billion, 441 Deaths From 2001 to 2021 [PDF of Article]

-- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Weather Spikes Cause Concern For Our Future [PDF of Article]

-- LancasterOnline: Penn State Study Shows Lancaster County Well Sampling Found PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

-- Delaware River Basin Commission Holds Aug. 6 Hearing, Sept. 10 Business Meeting [PaEN]

-- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Now Accepting Applications For Clean Water Fund Grants: July 31 Info Session

-- DEP Sets Aug. 28 Meeting/Hearing On Waste Permit Modification For ERSI Construction/ Demolition Waste Landfill In Taylor Boro, Lackawanna County [PaEN]

-- KYW: Bucks County Town Spraying Mosquitoes To Curb West Nile Virus Spread

-- DEP West Nile Virus/Jamestown Canyon Virus Maps

-- Centre Daily Times: Whitehall Road Regional Park Has Finally Opened, What To Know

-- Williamsport Sun: From Dump To [Baseball] Diamonds: ‘Leading-Off’ Ceremony Held For Incoming Baseball Complex In Williamsport

-- WHYY: No End In Sight For Constant Flooding Of FDR Park Road In Philadelphia

-- WHYY: Jersey Shore Leaders Call For Restoration Of Federal Beach Replenishment Funding

-- WTAE: Prairie In Bloom After Controlled Burn At Jennings Environmental Ed Center In Butler County

-- Scranton Times: Bee Bandits Steal Thousands Of Insets From Keystone College Apiary

A.I. /Data Centers

-- Citizens Voice: Talen Energy To Buy Nearby Salem Twp. Gas Power Plant In $3.5 Billion Deal To Lock Up Power For Data Center Plans In Luzerne County

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: We May See A Pittsburgh Renaissance That’s Really A Renaissance [Concerns By Environmental Groups Not Entirely Misplaced] - By Oliver Bateman, RealClearWire

-- WHYY: New Castle County, DE Residents Fight Back Against Proposed A.I. Data Center

-- Post-Gazette/Bloomberg: CEO Of Utility Giant Southern Co. Warns Of Revolution If Power Costs Associated With A.I. Demand End Up On Backs Of Utility Customers

-- WSJ: The New Microchips Designed To Solve A.I.’s Energy Problem

International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas

[Energy Independence Means Renewables]

-- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.15 Ohio- $3.10 PA- $3.20

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs At 18 - Up One From Last Week

New Federal Administration

-- PA Capital-Star: Fmr EPA Officials Say President’s Climate Proposal Will Gut The Agency and Make It ‘Irrelevant’

-- WPost: DOGE Builds A.I. Tool To Cut 50% Of Federal Regulations, Supposedly No Longer Required By Law

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- City & State PA: What We Now Know And Don’t Know About The PA State Budget