Sunday PA Environment & Energy Articles - NewsClips: 2.22.26

“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]

"It is never too late to do the right thing." -- Nelson Mandela

Senate Voting Schedule

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

-- Committee Schedule

House Voting Schedule

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

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

February 26-- Senate Appropriations Committee budget hearing: 1:00 - Department of Environmental Protection.

March 2-- House Appropriations Committee budget hearing: 1:00 - Departments of Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources. Click Here to watch live.

March 3-- Senate Appropriations Committee budget hearing: 1:00 - Public Utility Commission.  

March 5-- House Appropriations Committee budget hearing: 1:00 - Public Utility Commission. Click Here to watch live.

March 18--  CANCELED. Rescheduled for April 30. DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting. 10:00 a.m. Contact: Todd M. Wallace twallace@pa.gov.  (formal notice)

April 16-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting.  Penn State, State College.  10:00.  Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov. 

-- Sunday - PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 2.22.26

-- 207 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA  [PaEN]

-- Stories You May Have Missed In Last 2 Weeks:  PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic  [PaEN] 

-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults  [PaEN]

-- In Case You Missed It: A.I./Data Center Articles - NewClips From Last 2 Weeks - February 16 & 23   [PaEN]

-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 7 to 20 - Conventional Well Owners Abandoning More Than 1 Well A Day; No Approval For Disposal Of Shale Drill Cuttings  [PaEN] 

-- Post-Gazette: PennDOT Begins $100 Million Federally-Funded Plan To Add Electric Vehicle Charging Stations In Neighborhoods Statewide 

-- Post-Gazette: How Washington County-based Corsa Coal Company Exec Bribed Egyptian Officials As The Company Collapsed Into Bankruptcy

-- PennLive: PA American Water Issues Mandatory Conservation Order For 42,000 Customers After Treatment Plant Problem In Cumberland County

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: 15% Higher Pittsburgh Water Authority Bills Coming Next Month

-- WNEP: Aqua Pennsylvania Lifted Boil Water Advisory After Nearly A Week In Shenandoah

-- Post-Gazette: Decades After Betrayal, Displacement, Seneca Nation Seeks A Voice In The Future Of Kinzua Dam 

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster’s Philip Witmer Becomes One Of Few To Complete 8,000 Mile Border-To-Border Triple Crown Hiking Challenge In Calendar Year

-- PennLive - Claudia Dimuro: Bats, Terns And Other Species You Might Not Realize Are Endangered In PA 

A.I. /Data Centers

-- In Case You Missed It: A.I./Data Center Articles - NewClips From Last 2 Weeks - February 16 & 23   [PaEN]

-- Scranton Times: Lackawanna County Communities Told By County To Address A.I. Data Centers On Their Own [PDF of Article]

-- Scranton Times - Chris Kelly Opinion: Lackawanna County Commissioner Gaughan ‘Grandstands’ On A.I. Data Centers, While Colleagues Sit On Their Hands [PDF of Article]

-- TribLive: Gilpin Township Begins Drafting Zoning Regulations In Response To A.I. Data Center Trends In Armstrong County 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader: Gov. Shapiro’s GRID Standards Address Mounting Concerns About A.I. Data Centers 

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: PA Doesn’t Need To ‘Bend Over Backward’ To Lure A.I. Data Centers With Giveaways; Strict Standards Needed To Protect Communities, The Environment To Outlast Boom; ‘Unless A.I. Kills Us All’  [PaEN] 

-- TribLive Editorial: State Making Fiscal Commitments In The Dark On Tax Exemption For Data Center Equipment 

-- Bloomberg: Proposed Ohio Natural Gas Power Plant Backed By President Could Become Biggest US Power Plant Polluter

Other States/National

-- Financial Times: Why Rivers In Northern Alaska, Siberia Are Turning Orange Like Abandoned Mine Drainage [Spoiler: Global Warming] [PDF of Article] 

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Post-Gazette: Tuesday House Special Election In Allegheny County Among Keys That Could Shape Power In Harrisburg

-- Morning Call: Bucks County DA Investigating Quakertown Police Response To Anti-ICE Student Protest That Ended In Violence, Arrests 

-- PennLive/Inquirer: Quakertown H.S. Students Bloodied, Handcuffed During ICE Protest [Video] 

-- WESA/Spotlight PA: Shapiro Wants PA To Be A ‘National Leader’ On Home Construction

-- AP: President To Raise Global Tariff To 15%, After US Supreme Court Decision

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