PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2023

. -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission May 4 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Projects, Including 12 Related To Shale Natural Gas Drilling [PaEN] -- Independent Regulatory Review Commission Approves Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Environmentalists Being Kept (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

As we celebrate Earth Day with a focus on the importance of investing in our environment, I’m delighted to showcase Reading’s leadership by example.” “My Drawing on the energy management consultant’s recommendations, the city recently launched several actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Gettysburg Interfaith Service Offers Hope Amid Despair -- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Shapiro Climate Change Panel’s Secrecy Arrogant And Unacceptable -- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Free Green Building & Design Summer Institute For High School Students June 12-23 [PaEN] -- CNX, Sapphire Technologies Partner To Develop New System To (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

All-State Fishing Team -- Environmental Justice Champion In PA: Veronica Coptis, Center For Coalfield Justice -- Registration Open For Schuylkill Sojourn June 17-24; Sojourn Steward, Sojourn Diversity, First-Time Sojourner Scholarships Available [PaEN] -- DCNR Bureau Of State Parks Offers Special Environmental Education Activities For Earth Day In (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

A snapshot of recent progress on wildfire policy On Earth Day 2022, President Biden signed an executive order committing his administration to “Strengthen America’s Forests, Boost Wildfire Resilience, and Combat Global Deforestation.” But there’s still a long way to go.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Earth Day: Water At Risk: 'Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness' - Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment - By Carol Hillestad for the Brodhead Watershed Association [PaEN] -- City & State PA: Q/A With Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

In October 2022, DEP assessed a $670,000 against Shell Pipeline Company, LP and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLL for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

-- Pennsylvania's Clean Energy Economy Grew To Over 92,700 Jobs Since COVID Economic Crisis [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pennsylvania Jumps To Top 10 In Clean Energy Jobs -- York Dispatch: 2nd Solar Energy Facility Proposal Advances Toward Vote In Dover Township -- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Why Your Electric/Natural Gas Utility Bill Has (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Leib, Pittsburgh -- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan -- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI] -- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Get $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

A Lake Erie Project May Soon Find Out -- PA Capital-Star: Bipartisan PA Bill Would Authorize [Real] Community Solar Projects, Green Light More Than 230 Projects In 48 Counties [At No Cost To Taxpayers] -- PennLive Guest Essay: Clean Energy Makes Economic And Environmental Sense For Pennsylvania - By Greg Alvarez, Energy Innovation -- TribLive: Commonwealth (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: April 25, 2022] PA Environment Digest News From PA House & Senate House Environmental Committee Meets April 26 To Consider Solar/Wind Energy Bonding, Windmill Interference Bills House Environmental Committee To Hold April 25 Info. PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A March 2022 article in the Journal of Economic Literature took a careful look at the impact of the Clean Air Act on jobs. The figures for green jobs compares with “467,000 in mining, 200,000 in electricity generation and several hundred thousand elsewhere in manufacturing and construction related to fossil fuels.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2023

Passes Ban On Single-Use Plastic Bags; 16th Municipality In PA To Pass A Ban -- TribLive: Aspinwall Cleans Up Through ‘Green Streets’ Program -- TribLive: Leechburg Recycling Center Volunteers Carry Heavy Burden -- Beaver County Times: Earth Day Celebrated At Sisters Of St.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2023

Rieger, Southwest PA Grassroots Town Halls -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Government-Corporate Partnership Improved Life In A Mon Valley Town Around U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2022

House returns to session April 25, 26, 27 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session May 23, 24, 25 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- 75 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students And Adults [PaEN] -- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

Martin Produces Whale Of A Guitar For Earth Day As Lehigh Valley Company Continues Environmental Tradition -- Post-Gazette: Earth Day Celebrations Kick Off With Events Across Western PA - Planet vs. Plastics Theme -- Erie Times: Report: Great Lakes Beaches, Including Presque Isle, Suffering From Plastic Pollution -- Republican Herald: Hegins Twp.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Fortunately, I don’t have COPD and I didn’t contract asthma when I was young, perhaps partly because I grew up in a home with an electric range. But a study published in the December 2022 issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health calculated that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2022

Casey: Announces $2.1 EIA: Ban On New Natural Gas Pipelines Would Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Natural Gas Combustion 4.4% Lower In 2050 PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- City & State PA: Sen. Of Revenue Reports March State Revenues Were $659.1 Million, 13.5% More Than Anticipated; Year-To-Date Revenue Up $2.7 Million, 11.6%

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Of Conservation Districts: Highlights Of County Conservation District Activities In 2022 -- 49 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Wolf on April 21, 2021 (Earth Day) they would reject all future nominees to the PUC until he withdraws his executive order joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. 18, 2022, by the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee. Coleman Jr. DeFrank Stephen M.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Yaw Again Proposes Taxing Tavern “Skill Games” Gambling, Calling Them Part ‘Of The Small Business Economy’ -- Scranton Times Editorial: ‘Skill Games’ Are Gambling, Regulate Them -- Responsible Decarbonization Alliance: Happy Earth Day!

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2024

Million For 2022 Cambria County Gas Storage Area Leak -- Tribune-Democrat: Equitrans To Pay More Than $1.1 Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1 Million Penalty For Equitrans -- WJAC: DEP Fines Equitrans Gas Company $1.1

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

EIA [New Appalachia Gas Wells Producing Lowest Since June 2020] -- Bloomberg: Ransomware Cyber Attacks On Industrial Firms, Natural Gas Sector Increased By 87% In 2022 -- PennLive Guest Essay: Philadelphia - Don’t Miss The Big Picture On LNG Natural Gas, You Need An Export Terminal - By Sen. 14 -- Save Pennsylvania’s Forests Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

In a 2022 state senate hearing, DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn responded to the proposal to lift the moratorium by saying, “The companies aren’t choosing to do what they could do today.” A 2022 study by the Yale School of Public Health raised concerns about health impacts on children living near fracking sites. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2022

2 Proving To Be Mild In Hospitals, Despite Uptick In Cases -- TribLive Editorial: Indoctrination, Controversy And Education Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 24, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- TribLive: Donations Exceed $875,000 For Those Affected By Plum Boro Natural Gas House Explosion -- TribLive Editorial: Plum Boro Neighborhood Where Natural Gas Home Explosion Occurred Emerges As Village Of Importance -- Scientific American: Gas Stove Pollution Lingers In Homes For Hours Even Outside The Kitchen -- Fortune: Gas Stove Pollution Harms (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2022

Warns Pennsylvanians Of Spring Flooding, Urging Homeowners To Consider Buying Flood Insurance [PaEN] -- Delaware RiverKeeper April 22 RiverWatch Video Report -- April 23 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available -- WHYY: Philly Embraces Sustainable Fashion This Earth Day -- WHYY: Could Planting Gardens Be The Key To Preventing Shootings?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2022

Million In Grants For Electric Vehicles, Clean Fuel Transportation Projects [PaEN] -- PennDOT, DEP Support Petition On Issuing A PUC Policy Statement On Electric Utility Rate Design For Electric Vehicle Charging [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT In Rare-Earth Mineral Partnership That Would Build Refining Plant In Appalachia -- Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

TODAY 10:30: DEP To Showcase Reading’s Local Climate Action For Earth Day. Contact: Adam Walters, adwalters@pa.gov or call 717-214-6548. Click Here for more on the agenda, available handouts. Reading City Park. TODAY 11:00: DEP To Announce Environmental Education Grants For Northeast Region.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Rural Communities On The Front Lines Of Solar's Growth -- Sen. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law -- WESA: PA Public Transit Will Ride A Wave Of New Federal Cash In 2022 Other States/National/International -- The Guardian: Methane In Earth’s Atmosphere Rose By Record Amount Last Year, U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2022

House returns to session April 25, 26, 27 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session May 23, 24, 25 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 10:00: DEP To Announce 2022 Black Fly Suppression Program. City Island, Harrisburg. TODAY 12:30: Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Of Health To Drop Out Of Public Forum On Shale Gas Health Studies -- Post-Gazette: Rice-Backed Landfill Gas Firm Archaea Energy To Become Part Of BP In $4.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2024

Million For 2022 Cambria County Gas Storage Area Leak -- Tribune-Democrat: Equitrans To Pay More Than $1.1 Million For 2022 Cambria County Gas Storage Area Leak -- Tribune-Democrat: Equitrans To Pay More Than $1.1 Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2022

EIA: Electric Generation From Renewables To Keep Rising Leading To A Decline In Natural Gas Generation; CO2 Emissions Keep Going Up [PaEN] -- Reuters: U.S. 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. -- TODAY 9:30 a.m.

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