Friday, September 15, 2023

Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.15.23

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania!

Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct. 2, 3, 4  [Unless Sooner Recalled]

-- Committee Schedule

House next voting day September 26, 27; October 2, 3, 4, 16 [Unless Sooner Recalled]

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 


-- DEP Publishes Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy Changing Permit Review Process; Opens Comment Period Setting 9 Public Hearings  [PaEN] 


-- Public Source: ‘It’s Just Too Close:’ People Living Near Natural Gas Drilling, Industrial Facilities Suffer As State And Local Governments Fail To Buffer Homes


-- The Derrick - Makayla Keating: Residents In Village Of Reno, Venango County Still Reporting Problems With Water Supply Contaminated By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater; Late Mayor Of Sugarcreek Boro Praised  [PDF of Article]


-- Growing Greener Coalition Opposes Senate Amendment Taking $150 Million From Game Commission Fund That Threatens Federal Wildlife Funding  [PaEN]


-- WPXI: Multiple Ross Twp. Homes Evacuated After Contractor Hits Natural Gas Line In Allegheny County


-- NRCS-PA Conducting Rapid Flood Disaster Recovery Needs Survey In Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wyoming Counties; Responses Due Oct. 7  [PaEN]


-- NRCS-PA Invites Applications For $65 Million For Conservation & Climate Action On Private Lands Grants  [PaEN]


-- Dickinson College Ranked First Among Baccalaureate Institutions In Comprehensive Sustainability Report; CMU, Penn, Penn State, Muhlenberg Also Recognized  [PaEN]


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Wins Millions In ‘Smart’ Energy Infrastructure Funding


-- EPA Issues Final Rule Strengthening State Section 401 Water Quality Certification Rule For Infrastructure, Pipeline, Development Projects  [Pipelines are the most penalized industry in PA for environmental violations]


-- The Hill: EPA Gives States More Authority To Block Pipeline Project [Section 401 Certification Rule]


-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Natural Gas Industry Says Not Enough Pipelines Could Cut Off Expansion Of Natural Gas Supplies  [Pipelines are the most penalized industry in PA for environmental violations]


-- The Allegheny Front: Ohio Attorney General Investigating Disputed Public Comments That Urge Natural Gas Development In State Parks


-- The Allegheny Front: Chemical Companies To Pay PA $100 Million For PCB Contamination


-- Pennsylvania Coal Alliance Recognizes Companies For Safety, Reclamation  [PaEN]


-- PA Business Report: PA Coal Alliance Recognizes Companies For Safety, Reclamation


-- Shenandoah Sentinel: Coal Refuse Bank Fire Near Wilburton, Columbia County Being Extinguished, DEP Docs Say


-- Erie Times: Two 30,000 Underground Storage Tanks Removed From Abandoned Industrial Site


-- Erie Times: No Deal, How Fairview, Girard Citizens Won A Reset Of Erie County Farm Business Park Plan


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: New Sierra Club Study Highlights Industrial Polluters In Pittsburgh Region


-- Scranton Times: Scranton Offers Assistance For Flooded Properties At Pop-Up Town Halls


-- Scranton Times: Scranton Area Community Foundation To Collect Funds For Flood Relief


-- Reading Eagle: Berks County Leaders Want Response On Federal Flood Disaster Declaration


-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Fingerprints Of Climate Change Seen In PA’s Hot Summer Days


-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: What Can One Person Do About Climate Change? Part 6: Upgrade Your Home


-- PennLive: Small Earthquake Shakes Lehigh-Berks County Line; You Probably Didn’t Notice


-- The Allegheny Front: Author Tim Palmer Revisits The Youghiogheny River And Finds Many Changes For The Better


-- Delaware RiverKeeper Sept. 15 RiverWatch Video Report


-- Mountain Watershed Association Announces Return Of Free Water Guardians After-School Club For K-8 Students In Connellsville, Fayette County  [PaEN]


-- September 16 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available


-- Keep PA Beautiful News: Fall Pick Up PA Events; 2022 Healing The Planet Grants Report; Much More! 


-- PA Capital-Star: Feds Pledge More Than $1 Billion To Plant Trees In Cities; PA Projects Received Nearly $28 Million


-- TribLive: $9 Million Federal Grant To Fund Pittsburgh Forestry Efforts


-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Reaches Settlement With Timber Thieves On Preserved Property  [PaEN] 


-- TribLive: Greenfield Elementary Students Help Design Green Schoolyard Proposal


-- York Daily Record: Mill Creek Falls Nature Preserve Opens In York County With 2 New Trails, One With Waterfall


-- Altoona Mirror: Abandoned Turnpike Tunnel Trail Receives Funding To Create Recreational Opportunity


-- Warren Times: Allegheny National Forest Plans Centennial Time Capsule


-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: Fall Migration Underway; Other Upcoming Events


-- TribLive: Kiski Twp. Supervisor Drop Animal Regulation Proposal Amid Pet Alligator Escapes Due To Opposition


6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]


-- Reuters: Freeport LNG Natural Gas Facility Cancels 4 Cargoes Since Feedgas Intake Fell; Still Not Commenting On Plant Operations


-- Financial Times: Why Oil Is Back To $90 A Barrel


Other States/National/International


-- AP: As Climate Risks Increase, New York Could Require Flood Disclosures In Home Sales


-- AP: Louisiana, 9 Other States Ask Federal Judge To Block Changes In National Flood Insurance Program


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Four Ways To Make PA’s Elections Better Right Now - By Committee Of 70

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PHEAA Student Aid Agency Asks For 13.2% Increase To Boost State Grant Awards

-- AP: Republican David McCormick Plans To Run For US Senate Again In PA

-- TribLive: New COVID Booster Can Update Protection From Severe Disease, Western PA Doctors Say

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[Posted: September 15, 2023]  PA Environment Digest

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