Tuesday PA Environment & Energy Articles - NewsClips: 10.14.25

“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]

Senate Voting Schedule

October 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29

November 17, 18, 19

December 8, 9, 10

-- Committee Schedule

House Voting Schedule

October 27, 28, 29

November 17, 18, 19

December 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

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

TODAY:  CANCELED. Environmental Quality Board meeting. Next scheduled meeting Nov. 12. Check webpage for options for joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Laura Griffin, laurgriffi@pa.gov  or (717) 772-3277. 

TODAY 12:30: Updated 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.  [Agenda- Act 54 Longwall Coal Mining Damage Report - Read more here.]

TODAY Thru October 16 -- PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference In State College  [PaEN]

October 15-16-- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Annual Conference In State College 

October 21-- Agenda Posted. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. 9:00 a.m. [Agenda- Climate Change and Extreme Weather]

October 22-- House Energy Committee holds hearing on regulation of A.I. data centers by the Public Utility Commission.  Room G-50 Irvis Building. 11:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch live.

October 22-- Agenda Posted. DEP Cleanup Standards Scientific Advisory Board meeting. 9:30 a.m.  [Agenda-- PFAS Team Update, Chromium rulemaking]

October 23-- Agenda Posted. DEP Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board meeting. 10:00 a.m.

October 23-- Virtual. Dept. of Agriculture Controlled Plant & Noxious Week Committee meeting to consider adding 6 plants to Noxious Weed List.  1:00 p.m.  (formal notice & agenda)

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Network Files Lawsuit Challenging DRBC Gibbstown LNG Gas Export Facility Dock Permit  [PaEN] 

-- Environmental Groups, Citizens Request DEP To Hold Public Hearing On The First Title V Air Quality Permit For Tenaska Natural Gas Power Plant In Westmoreland County  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawal Requests For 11 Shale Gas Development Operations, 2 Power Plants  [PaEN] 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Oct. 29 Hearing On Proposed 2026 Program Fees And 15 Water Withdrawals, Including 3 For Shale Gas Development  [PaEN]

-- PennLive Guest Essay: The Climate Crisis Isn’t A Hoax - But Big Oil Wants You To Think It Is - By Shawn Crowell, Student, Cedar Cliff High School, Cumberland County

-- TribLive: US Army Corps Of Engineers To Conduct Emergency Exercise At Parks Township Nuclear Waste Dump Oct. 15 In Armstrong County Related To Site Cleanup

-- TribLive: North Belle Vernon Abandoned Coal Mine Subsidence Damaged House, Owners Say In Westmoreland County 

-- PennLive: East Pennsboro Twp. Opens New 2.47 MW Solar Energy Facility In Cumberland County

-- TribLive: Greensburg Salem School District Hires Energy Savings Company To Draft Middle, High School Efficiency Plans In Westmoreland County

-- Post-Gazette: White Powder Found In Envelope At Peoples Natural Gas Was Flour, Employees Briefly Sheltered In Place 

-- Inside Climate News: Maryland’s Conowingo Dam Settlement Reasserts State’s Clean Water Act Authority, But Revives Dredging Debate

-- Indiana Gazette: Aultman’s Run Watershed Assn. For Restoring The Environment Celebrates 25th Anniversary

-- Williamsport Sun: Trout Unlimited Abandoned Mine Cleanup Of Area Waterways Aims To Help Trout Population [PDF of Article] 

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Toward Cleaner, Safer Philadelphia Waterways; Climate Change, Ancient Infrastructure Make Region Vulnerable To Catastrophic Flooding - By Nathan Boon, William Penn Foundation

-- Morning Call: Boil Water Advisory In Hellertown Boro Extended Through At Least Tuesday In Lehigh Valley

-- Penn State Sustainability, PA GreenGov Council Kick Off 6 Webinar Series Oct. 17 With Building Sustainability, Resiliency In PA With Microgrids, Noon.

-- WESA: University Of Pittsburgh USEFULL Take-Out Containers Replacing Single-Use Options To Cut Waste 

-- York Daily Record: A.I. Robots Are Now Sorting Your Recyclables At Penn Waste’s Facility

-- DCNR Oct. 9 to 15 Fall Foliage Report Finds Warm Weather Seems To Stall Foliage Transition

-- PennLive: 3 PA Hikes Give You A Great Bird’s-Eye View Of Fall Foliage

-- DCNR Names Shawn Kulick Assistant Park Manager For Laurel Hill State Parks Complex In Southwest PA

-- Tribune-Democrat: Windber Approves ATVs On Borough Streets

-- Warren Times Editorial: Tourism Growth Is Impressive

-- Governor’s Advisory Council For Hunting, Fishing & Conservation Seeks Candidates For Fish & Boat Commission Board 

-- The Allegheny Front: Climate Change’s Impact On Native Brook Trout In Tributaries To Monongahela River 

-- WHYY: In The Delaware River, Climate Change And Invasive Species Threaten Shad, ‘America’s Founding Fish’

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: American Shad Once Fed George Washington’s Troops, Now Levels Are ‘Not Sustainable’ In The Delaware River

Train Derailments

-- University Of Pittsburgh Awarded Federal Grant To Study Long-Term Health Impacts Of Norfolk Southern Train Derailment 

A.I. /Data Centers

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Plan To Turn Old Pennhurst State Hospital Into A.I. Data Center Outrages Neighbors In Chester County

-- Scranton Times: Amazon A.I. Data Center Campus Construction In Salem Twp. On ‘Rapid Pace’ In Luzerne County [PDF of Article] 

-- LancasterOnline: Here Are The New Rules Proposed For A.I. Data Centers In Lancaster City  [PDF of Article]  ​​

-- The Center Square: A.I. Data Centers And Water - The Next Frontier 

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: How Could A.I. Data Centers Impact Air Quality? 

-- PennLive Letter: Gov. Shapiro’s Natural Gas Claims For A.I. Data Centers Don’t Hold Water - By Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition 

-- Spotlight PA: How Gov. Shapiro Wants To Reshape PJM Regional Grid Operator As Prices Rise

-- PUC Chairman Stephen DeFrank Elected Vice President Of Organization Of PJM Grid Operator States 

-- Inside Climate News: PJM Grid Operator Pursues Rule Change To Meet A.I. Data Center Surge, Critics Fear Natural Gas Suppliers Would Benefit From Fast-Track Process

-- Utility Dive: Investor-Owned Electric Utilities Call For Ending ‘Overreliance’ On PJM Capacity Market

-- The Center Square: Leaving PJM Grid Operator A Solution For Surging Electricity Prices Or Power Move? 

-- Beaver Times: PA Lawmakers Want To Block A.I. Chatbots From Harvesting Consumer Data

-- York Daily Record Editorial: Gannett Media Partnered With A.I.-Powered Answer Engine Perplexity; Here’s Why It Matters For Local News

-- Inquirer: A.I. Industrial Revolution Has Begun, History Suggests It Won’t Be Positive For The Middle Class

International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas

[Energy Independence Means Renewables]

-- AAA Gasoline Prices:  National - $3.08  Ohio- $2.77   PA- $3.26

-- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs - 17 - Same As Last Week

-- Bloomberg: JP Morgan: US Can’t Generate The Power It Needs Without Wind, Solar

-- Bloomberg: IEA Raises Its Estimate For Record Oil, Natural Gas Liquids Oversupply In 2026

Federal Administration

-- NYTimes: Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside To Die’ Under President’s Policies

-- Post-Gazette - Adriana E. Ramirez: President’s Administration Is Loving  Coal, But Killing The Miners [Coal Miners Stage Protests]

-- WHYY: Releases Of A Toxic ‘Forever Chemical’ To Be Monitored More Closely By EPA

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Post-Gazette: State Budget Impasse Triggers 125 Furloughs In Westmoreland County And Questions About State Treasurer Stacy Garrity’s Loan Program To Organizations Impacted By State Budget Crisis

-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill Nonprofits Scrambling As State And Federal Funding Stalemates Drag On

-- Spotlight PA: 1,000s In Berks County Face Food Aid Loss Under New Republican Food Stamp Rules; Here’s What You Need To Know

-- PennLive: ‘We’ve Got To Go Back To Being a Big Tent Party’: DePasquale Outlines Plan For PA Democrats 

-- PennLive: Stockard Channing Voices Democratic Ad In PA Supreme Court Election 

-- WITF: Democratic Party’s Momentum Builds In Ephrata, Lancaster County With First Full Slate Of Candidates Since 2001 

-- PennLive: Big Decisions, Little Access: Behind The Doors Of The PA Capitol’s Mysterious Senate ‘Rules’ Committee Room

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Joins Multi-State Lawsuit Over President’s Deploying National Guard In Cities

-- Inquirer: 2 Top Tech Executives In Shapiro Administration Are Out As Tech Troubles Pile Up

-- Post-Gazette: Will Pennsylvania’s 3 Month State Budget Stalemate Affect Gov. Shapiro’s Long-Term Ambitions?

-- PennLive: Report: PA Is The Only Northeast State With A Growing Economy

-- TribLive Editorial: Increasing Grocery Prices Hurt Everyone

-- PA Capital-Star: Duplicate Mail Ballots Are Issued To Dozens Of PA Voters, But Errors Would Not Result In Anyone Voting Twice

-- WITF: Voters’ Outlook On President’s Economic Policy May Be Slipping In PA, F& M Poll Finds

-- Post-Gazette: Buying Out James Franklin’s Football Contract Will Cost Penn State $50 Million; Misplaced Priorities Amid Campus Shutdowns

-- Post-Gazette: Penn State’s Decision To Fire James Franklin Is ‘Way Out Of Character’ In University History

-- Post-Gazette: Penn State’s WPSU Public Radio Station May Stay On Air After All In New Deal To Transfer Ownership To WHYY 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times Leader Guest Essay: Punishing Tariffs Have Created What Some Are Calling ‘Farmaggedon’ For US Agriculture

-- Wilkes-Barre Times Leader Editorial: $100,000 H-1B Visa Fees Are A Distraction From Real Reform

-- WFMZ: ‘No Kings’ Protests To Be Held In Northwest PA

-- Altoona Mirror: Blair County ‘No Kings’ Rally Set For Saturday In Downtown Altoona

-- PennLive: More ‘No Kings,’ Pro-Democracy Protests Planned In Central PA

-- Morning Call: ‘No Kings’ Protests Scheduled For This Weekend In Lehigh Valley

-- WHYY: What To Know About Philly’s ‘No Kings’ Protest On Saturday

-- Find A ‘No Kings’ Protest Near You

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