PA Environment Digest Blog: Tuesday 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]

Senate Voting Schedule 2025

December 8, 9, 10

-- Committee Schedule

Senate Voting Schedule 2026

January 6, 26, 27, 28

February 2, 3 (Governor’s Budget Address), 4

Budget hearings will be held February 23-26, and March 2

March 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25

April 20, 21, 22

May 4, 5, 6

June 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30

House Voting Schedule 2025

December 15 [non-voting], 16, 17

-- Committee Schedule

House Voting Schedule 2026

January 6 (NV), 26, 27, 28

February 2, 3 (Governor's Budget Address, 4

Budget hearings will be held February 23-26, and March 2

March. 23, 24, 25

April 13, 14, 15, 27, 28, 29

May 4, 5, 6

June 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

September 28, 29, 30

October 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21

November 9, 10

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

TODAY 9:00: Agenda Posted. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee, Subcommittee On Future Planning. 9:00 a.m. Contact: Lindsay Byron, lbyron@pa.gov or 717-772-8951. (formal notice)

December 1-- DEP hearing on a revised Title V Air Quality permit for the Monroe Energy LLC Trainer Refinery in Trainer Borough, Delaware County. Read more here.

December 2-- DEP Hearing On Revision To Title V Air Quality Permit For a Glass Furnace At The PQ LLC Facility In Chester, Delaware County. Chester City Hall, One 4th Street in Chester. 7:00 p.m. Read more here.

December 2-- DEP hearing on proposed revisions to the Title V Air Quality Permit for the Delaware County Regional Water Quality Control Authority wastewater plant in Chester, Delaware County. Read more here.

December 2-- DEP hearing on proposed revisions to the Title V Air Quality Permit for the Constellation Energy Generation Co. Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Limerick Township, Montgomery County. Read more here.

December 2-- DEP hearing on a revised Title V Air Quality permit for the US Steel Fairless Steel Plant in Falls Township, Bucks County. Read more here.

December 2-- NEW. Chesapeake Bay Program Executive Council meeting. National Aquarium in Baltimore. 1:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Click Here to register to join via Zoom. [Agenda includes revised Chesapeake Bay Agreement.] Read more here.

December 4-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. LTBA. Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov.

December 5-- Virtual. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee, Subcommittee On Future Planning. 9:00 a.m. Contact: Lindsay Byron, lbyron@pa.gov or 717-772-8951. (formal notice)

December 11-- DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting. 10:00 a.m. Contact: Todd Wallace at twallace@pa.gov or 717-783-6395.

-- DEP Settlement With Energy Transfer/Sunoco, Atlantic Richfield Imposes $3.3 Million Penalty, Including $1 Million Community Improvement Projects For Polluting Allegheny River [PaEN]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Energy Transfer/Sunoco, Atlantic Richfield To Pay $3.3 Million Penalty For Decades Of Oil Pollution In Allegheny River

-- PUC: Most PA Electric Utility Consumers To See 3.7% To 10.6% Increase In Electricity Prices During The Next 3 Months Starting Dec. 1 [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Electricity Costs Set To Rise In Most Of PA Next Month Due To A.I. Data Center Demands, Backlog Of New Generation Sources [Duquesne Light: Customers Facing ‘Astronomically Higher Bills’]

-- Morning Call: PA Electricity Rising Dec. 1: PPL, Met-Ed, PECO Customers Will See Higher Bills

-- PennLive: PPL, FirstEnergy Raising Electricity Rates Dec. 1; PPL Seeking Additional 7% Increase; A Real Concern For Many

-- WHYY: Philadelphia Gas Works Residential Customers To See Monthly Bills Jump By About $6

-- PUC Invites Comments On Model Tariff For Connecting A.I. Data Center To The Grid

-- PUC Commissioners Agree On Need To ‘Get It Right’ On Reforming Grid Connection Process For Solar, Renewable, All Energy Sources To Protect Consumers, Grid Reliability [PaEN]

-- Green Building Alliance/Resilient Reading Host Dec. 9 Roundtable On Reducing Energy Costs, Adaptive Reuse Of Buildings [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Federal Energy Efficiency Tax Credit Ended By Congressional Republicans To Expire Soon