Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.18.21

Senate returns to session October 18, 19, 25, 26, 27

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session October 25, 26, 27

     -- Committee Schedule

     -- Update: House Session Schedule For 2022

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

 

TODAY Off The Floor: Senate Appropriations Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 777 (Langerholc-R-Bedford) exempting certain additional vehicles from the emissions testing program; Senate Bill 603 (Brooks-R-Crawford) requiring Lyme disease education in schools. Click Here to watch online.

 

-- October 18 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN]

-- DEP: Radioactive Gauge Has Been Recovered With No Radiological Release

-- Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Critical Of DEP For Working With Penn State On Independent Studies Of Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater They Had Been Aware Of Since August, 2020 [PaEN]

-- WESA: ‘Orphaned’ Oil & Gas Wells Are A Problem In PA And There Are More Of Them Than We Thought

-- Marcellus Shale Coalition: Increased Pipeline, Export Capacity Solution To Global Energy Crunch

-- ScrantonT Editorial: Criminal Charges Hold Mariner East Pipeline Accountable

-- CONSOL Energy Sets Goals Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 50% By 2026, Achieve Net Zero Emissions By 2040; Coal Mining Produces More GHG Emissions Than Natural Gas Production In PA [PaEN]

-- WHYY: Eastwick Residents Could Be Philly’s First Climate Migrants As Plan Unfolds To Move Them To Higher Ground

-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: 13 Projects Across PA Get $4 Million From Feds For Water Cleanup

-- AP: 2 Tornadoes Confirmed In Western PA Over The Weekend

-- LancasterOnline: How Lancaster County Is Struggling To Build Denser Housing

-- AP: Nun Imprisoned Over Peace Activism Dies In Montgomery County At 91

-- TribLive: Westmoreland Land Trust Hosts Road-Rally Fundraiser

-- Sinnemahone Ultra Trail Run Participants Braved Weather To Finish Triple Crown In Cameron County [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Eels In The Susquehanna - A Surprising Success Story

National/International

-- NPR: Sen. Manchin’s Objections To A Clean Energy Program Threaten Biden’s Climate Promises

-- Reuters: Coal Prices Surge; Power Squeeze Hits China’s Economy, Global Supply

-- WSJ: Behind The Energy Crisis: Fossil Fuel Investment Drops, And Renewables Aren’t Ready

-- NPR: La Nina Is Coming, What That Means For Winter Weather In The U.S.

-- Financial Times: Climate Change-Related Flooding Could Leave Billions Of U.S. Municipal Debt Under Water

PA Politics

-- Spotlight PA: Things To Know About Nov. 2 Election - Deadlines, Mail-In Ballots, More

-- ErieT: New Ethics Complaint Against Republican Cong. Mike Kelly Cites ‘Luxury Trips, Transportation, Dining’  [Kelly filed multiple lawsuits trying to overturn the November election]

-- WESA: Global Leaders Gather In Pittsburgh This Week To Discuss The Rise In Extremist Hate, Find Solutions

-- AP: Park City Mall In Lancaster Evacuated After Gunfire

-- TribLive: Doctors Share Patients’ Excuses For COVID Vaccine Refusal

-- YorkDR: Two-Thirds Of PA Counties See Decrease In Cases, See Which Ones

-- WITF: Inside Hershey Middle School Where Everyone Wears Masks, And It’s Not Really An Issue

-- CourierT: Schools Face Food Delays Amid Shortages: ‘We Are Definitely Struggling’

-- WESA: Pittsburgh Public School Enrollment Dropped 20,000 Students: Where Did The Kindergarteners Go?

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[Posted: October 18, 2021]  PA Environment Digest