Short Week - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available - 6.13.25

“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]

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Stories You May Have Missed Last Week: PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic  [PaEN]

19 Projects Recognized With 2025 Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence  [PaEN] 

PA Sea Grant: Virginia Friedman From Abington Friends School In Montgomery County Will Be Part Of A Shipboard Science Program On Lake Michigan This Summer  [PaEN]

DEP: Widespread Non-Compliance With Environmental Laws Continues In Conventional Oil & Gas Industry;  3,108+ Abandoned Wells; At Least 85% Conventional Well Owners Fail To Submit Production, Waste, Well Integrity Reports  [PaEN] 

DEP Reviewing Permits For Drinking Water Treatment System To Provide Water For 21 Homes In Dimock, Susquehanna County Whose Wells Were Contaminated By Shale Gas Drilling 20 Years Ago [PaEN] 

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 14 [PaEN]  

Plum Borough Zoning Hearing Board Voted To Deny Penneco Environmental's Application For Another Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Allegheny County  [PaEN] 

$100/Well Bounty Established For Previously Unknown Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Conventional Well Owners Under New Program Funded By Oil Region Alliance; 4 Penn State Extension Workshops Set  [PaEN]

Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition Launch Initiative To Defend The Delaware River Watershed From Oil & Gas Fracking  [PaEN] 

Protect PT, Partners To Host June 25 Webinar: 5 Years Later - A Progress Report On PA's Grand Jury Report On Fracking  [PaEN] 

DEP’s Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets June 25 On Well Development Pipelines; Wastewater Management Practices; Future Well Plugging Funding Needs  [PaEN] 

25 Environmental Groups; Local Government Associations Oppose House Bill To Fast Track Large-Scale Energy Generation, Storage Projects Proposed By Gov. Shapiro  [PaEN] 

Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects  [PaEN] 

Gov. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I. Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040  [PaEN] 

DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For 72 - 2.5 MW Diesel-Fired Emergency Generators At New Amazon Data Services Data Center In Bucks County  [PaEN]

Better Path Coalition: Data Centers - Dirty Energy Deals Anything But Cheap [PaEN]

PUC Releases Electric Utility, PJM Summer Readiness Reports: Sufficient Generation Capacity, But Extreme Demand May Result In Energy Shortfall  [PaEN]

Pittsburgh Business Leaders Deliver Letter Urging PA’s US Senators To Preserve Federal Energy Tax Credits And 100,000 Jobs In Pennsylvania  [PaEN] 

EPA To Repeal All Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, 2024 Mercury & Air Toxics Standards For Fossil Fuel Power Plants  [PaEN] 

Call For Nominations! PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Karl Mason And Walter Lyon Awards  [PaEN]

PA Trout Unlimited, 17 Other Environmental, Conservation Organizations Expressed Opposition To Proposed DEP Changes To Spill Reporting Requirements  [PaEN] 

University Of Maryland Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card Shows Declined Health From 2024, Presents Long-Term Improvement  [PaEN]

Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition: Rare Earth Elements Study At Passive Mine Drainage Treatment Systems; Controlled Burn All Female Crew; Statewide AMD Conference [PaEN] 

PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill To Roll Back Environmental, Health, Safety Regulations By Doing Nothing And Avoiding Accountability  [PaEN]

Republican Sen. Hutchinson Introduces Bill To Abolish DEP Climate Change, Recycling Fund, Coastal Zone Advisory Committees  [PaEN]

Nearly $10 Million Invested To Protect 2,672 Acres Of Prime Farmland On 25 Farms In 18 Counties  [PaEN]

Natural Lands Preserves 72 Acre Forest Along Kittatinny Ridge; First Success Of Carbon County Open Space Grant Program  [PaEN] 

DCNR Celebrates Naturalistic Fish Passage On The Susquehanna River At Shikellamy State Park In Northumberland County  [PaEN] 

PA Environmental Council: Artists-In-Residence Announced For Reflections Through Art - Susquehanna River Water Trails Project [PaEN] 

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

Penn State Extension July 2 Webinar On PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Private Wells - Key Influencing Factors  [PaEN] 

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[Posted: June 13, 2025]  PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Digest Will Be CLOSED June 14 to 19.

“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

June 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30

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

June 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

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 

June 6-14-- Lancaster County Water Week

June 6-14-- Delaware County To Host 4th Annual Sustainability Conference

June 16-- House Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee meets to consider House Resolution 221 (Shusterman-D-Chester) designating June 16 to 22 Pollinator Week in Pennsylvania. Room 515 Irvis Building. 11:30 a.m. Click Here to watch online.

June 17-- Virtual. Physicians For Social Responsibility PA Webinar On Exploring Knowledge Gaps In Environmental And Occupational Health Issues Affecting Communities, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

June 17--  In-Person. Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: Ripple Effects Environmental Literacy Convening To Offer Hands-On Learning.  Williamsport 

June 18-- In-Person. Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Environmental Justice Areas - What You Need to Know Workshop.  Burgettstown Public Library, Washington County.  6:00 to 7:00 p.m. 

June 24-- Agenda Posted. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. 9:00 a.m.

June 25- Agenda Posted. DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting. 10:00 a.m.  Read more here on the agenda.

June 25-- Protect PT, Partners Webinar: 5 Years Later - A Progress Report On PA's Grand Jury Report On Fracking. Noon.

-- Short Week - June 13 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available  [PaEN]

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

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

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

-- News From The House & Senate - June 13  [PaEN]

-- The Feds - New Administration - June 13  [PaEN]

-- Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar of Events - June 13  [PaEN]

-- Grants & Awards - June 13  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 14 [PaEN]  

-- DEP Posted 96 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In June 14 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- Plum Borough Zoning Hearing Board Voted To Deny Penneco Environmental's Application For Another Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Allegheny County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For 72 - 2.5 MW Diesel-Fired Emergency Generators At New Amazon Data Services Data Center In Bucks County  [PaEN]

-- The Allegheny Front: New Coal Mine Expansion Has Residents Nearby Worried In Westmoreland County 

-- EarthJustice: 12 Groups File Lawsuit Challenging President Issued Unlawful Exemptions From Mercury, Arsenic Standards For 68 Coal Plants By Email

-- Penn State Extension Hosts July 1 Webinar On Private Water Supply Education & Water Testing [Free Water Test], Noon to 1:00 p.m.

-- Penn State Extension Hosts July 23 Webinar On Private Water Supply Education & Water Testing [Free Water Test], 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

-- June 13 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation 

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