Saturday, December 3, 2022

Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 12.3.22

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Senate session schedule-

     January 3, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31

     February 1, 27, 28

     March 1, 6, 7, 8

     Budget hearings: March 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 and April 11, 12, 13

    April 24, 25, 26

    May 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10

    June 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to voting session January 3 [Democrats, Republicans Fighting Over Schedule]

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

 

-- Incoming Shapiro-Davis Administration Names Members Of Environment/Energy Transition Advisory Committee  [PaEN]

 

-- Bucks County Beacon Guest Essay: Environmental Issues Helped Power Democrats To Victory This Election -  Conservation Voters Of PA

 

-- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: EPA Says PA’s Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan Falls Short, Again

 

-- National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Announced $33.8 Million In Chesapeake Bay Nutrient, Small Watershed Grants; 31 Projects Will Benefit PA  [PaEN]

 

-- Headwaters RC&D Council Accepting Applications For Sinnemahoning Watershed Grant Program In McKean County  [PaEN]

 

-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill Headwaters Association ‘Legends’ Celebrate 25 Years Of Service

 

-- WHYY: EPA Pushes For More Pollution Controls In Delaware River To Protect Endangered Atlantic Sturgeon

 

-- Bloomberg: Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Area Leak In Cambria County Probed By Federal PHMSA Investigators 

 

-- Reuters: Natural Gas Flow Resumes From Equitrans PA Site After November Leak

 

-- DEP Announces VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities Are Final And Effective Dec. 2, 2022

 

-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 26 To Dec. 2  [PaEN]

 

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

 

-- LehighValleyLive: DEP Requiring Allentown Company To Submit Cleanup Plan For 6,000 Gallon Fuel Spill In Bethlehem 

 

-- Group Against Smog & Pollution: Allegheny County Health Dept. Imposes $458,225 In Penalties Against U.S. Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works During 1st Quarter 2022

 

-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: U.S. Steel Fined $458,000 By Allegheny County For Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant Air Violations

 

-- LancasterOnline: New DEP Standards To Reduce Pollution Coming From Lancaster County Trash Incinerator

 

-- Beaver Times: Group Against Smog & Pollution Threatens To Sue Beaver County Landfill Operators Over Air Permit Delays

 

-- DEP Invites Comments On NPDES Water Quality Permit Renewal For Little Blue Run Coal Ash Disposal Area In Beaver County  [PaEN]

 

-- DEP Posted 80 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Dec. 3 PA Bulletin [PaEN]

 

-- Erie Times: Erie County Water Company Customers Notified Weeks Late Of Low Chlorine Levels In The System

 

-- Altoona Mirror: Altoona Water Authority Repairing Pipe Leaking Abandoned Mine Drainage Into Two Drinking Water Reservoirs

 

-- LancasterOnline: Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant To Test Warning Sirens Wednesday

 

-- Misericordia University To Host In-Person Ocean Sustainability Symposium Dec. 9 Focusing On Pennsylvania's Impacts On Marine Life  [PaEN]

 

-- Warren Times: Audubon Nature Center Hosts Little Explorers Look Under The Snow Dec. 10

 

-- Depts. Of Agriculture/Military Affairs Kick Off Trees For Troops Donation Weekend

 

-- Appalachian Trail Museum Accepting Nominations For Appalachian Trail Hall Of Fame Thru Jan. 31  [PaEN]

 

-- DCNR Discusses Nearly $14 Billion Economic Value Of PA’s Outdoor Recreation Industry

 

-- DCNR: Laurel Run Dam Removal Underway In Plains Twp., Luzerne County

 

-- Dec. 2 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]

 

-- Warren Times: Railroad that Died Nearly A Century Ago Now The Bike-Hike Trail

 

-- Fish & Boat Commission: No Invasive Carp eDNA Detected In Follow-up Sampling In Erie’s Presque Isle Bay

 

-- Fish & Boat Commission: 2023 PA Fishing License, Permits, Gift Vouchers Now On Sale

 

-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Surprise! Lake Erie Anglers Find Brown Trout - If They’re Lucky

 

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

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

 

-- WSJ: Gasoline Prices Are Dropping: Here’s How Much Lower They Might Go; Regional Differences Will Continue

 

-- Bloomberg: EU Agrees To Set $60 Price Cap For Russian Oil Exports

 

-- Reuters: G7 Nations + Australia Agree To $60 Price Cap On Russian Crude Oil

 

-- Reuters: Texas Freeport LNG Natural Gas Plant Delays Restart After Explosion To Year’s End

 

Other States/National/International


-- The Guardian: U.S. Justice Dept. Sues City Of Jackson, Mississippi To Restore Clean Drinking Water


-- Bloomberg: EQT Gets Antitrust Request Over $5.2 Billion Appalachia Natural Gas Deal


-- EPA Announces Proposed Renewable Fuel Standard Program For 2023-25


-- Financial Times: U.S. Says Chinese Solar Companies Have Been Evading U.S. Tariffs


-- AP: Negotiators Take First Steps Toward Plastic Pollution Treaty


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Shapiro-Davis Names Members To 7 Transition Advisory Committees

-- City & State PA: Everyone Gov.-Elect Shapiro Has Named To His New Team So Far

-- Spotlight PA: In Tussle Over Which Party Controls State House, Parties Clash Over Math, Precedent

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: How Changing Circumstances, Timeless Values Shaped PA’s New Legislative Voting Districts - Mark Nordenberg, Fmr Chair Of Legislative Reapportionment Commission

-- York Dispatch: What Can We Expect From PA’s New House Freedom Caucus; Chair Of New Group Didn’t Respond To Requests For Comment, Nor Did Other Members

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: Republican Candidate For Governor Has Conceded, Why Hasn’t He Called On His Supporters To Drop Their Challenges?

-- AP: Philly DA Sues To Stop Republican State Lawmakers From Removing Him

-- Erie Times: Nearly 500 Votes Were Discovered To Be Uncounted From November General Election In Erie

-- Centre Daily Times: PA Had 116 COVID Deaths, 1,269 Hospitalizations, 10,730 New Cases Last Week; Mercer County Remains At High Rate Of Communication For COVID

-- WHYY: Commonwealth Court Dismisses Anti-Mask Mandate Lawsuits Against School Districts

-- PennLive: PA Registers Highest Flu Count In Years, With Surge Weeks Early

-- WPSU: Penn State May Create Visitors Code Of Conduct In Wake Of Canceled Proud Boys Founder’s Appearance

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[Posted: December 3, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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