PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

Forty-three years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. Unit 1 at Three Mile Island continued to operate until it was shut down in September, 2019 as a result of competition with natural gas-fired electric generation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

.” - - Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [It’s Not A Suggestion] House next voting day April 8, 9, 10 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day April 8, 9, 10, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- 89% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Don’t Comply With Well Integrity Reporting For 34,455 Wells; No Other (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2024

WEDNESDAY Noon: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee informational meeting on electric vehicle infrastructure. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online. -- WVIA: Bernie McGurl, Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. - More Than Anticipated: Up $76.1

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Governor’s Race -- Erie Times: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Calls Shapiro The ‘Extreme’ Candidate -- Politico: Republican PA Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Threatens To Renege On Testifying Before U.S. House Panel Investigating The Assault On U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Pleasant Twp., Shapiro’s Budget, But Now The Hard Work Begins - By Mark Singel -- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Still Too Early To Let Guard Down On COVID -- WPost: Investigation Into Assault On U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated: House Budget Hearing Schedule - April 11, 12, 13, 14 Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated Senate Budget Hearing Schedule - April 11, 12, 13 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- April 3 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PJM This (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

Shapiro Announces SBA Low-interest Loans Available For April 2024 Flood Survivors In Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Washington, Westmoreland Counties [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission, PEMA, Other Partners Make Available Flood Loss Reduction Assistance Resources For Local Officials [PaEN] -- Inquirer Guest Essay: Drenching Rains Come (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

. -- Keep PA Beautiful: Sheila Shea, Fayette County Recycling Coordinator Recognized With Community Pride Award [PaEN] -- DEP: No Applicants Have Asked For Their Money Back Yet Under The PAyback Permit Review Money Back Guarantee Program [PaEN] -- DEP Set To Receive $2 Billion+ In Federal Funds Over Next Decade+ For Oil & Gas Well Plugging, Clean (..)

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) .

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

School District In Violation Of Clean Streams Law After Chemical Leak Into Stream, DEP Says -- LancasterOnline: Long’s Park Adding Wetlands To Improve Water Quality -- Marcellus Drilling News: Shale Gas Companies Play ‘Dirty Pool’ By Reactivating Expired Leases By Claiming They Are Part Of Back-dated Pooling Declarations [PaEN] -- PUC Approves 48.9%

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works] -- Post-Gazette: FirstEnergy Seeking Ratepayer Surcharge To Keep Two Coal-Fired Power Plants Open In West Virginia -- PennLive - Letter: We’re At An Energy Crossroads - By Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition -- PennLive Guest Essay: How Nuclear Power Saved Christmas And The PJM Electric Grid - By Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Greenworks Law & Consulting LLC The following article first appeared on LinkedIn November 19, 2022 -- On November 3, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Wolf quietly signed into law resurrecting the prospect of liquified natural gas ("LNG") export facilities at the Port of Philadelphia. By Lauren M. Williams, Esq.,

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2022

Will Hash Out Clean Energy Details With Global Leaders In Pittsburgh Sept. Will Hash Out Clean Energy Details With Global Leaders In Pittsburgh Sept. Will Hash Out Clean Energy Details With Global Leaders In Pittsburgh Sept. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C temperature target, and one that more than 130 countries have adopted, albeit mostly as squishy political declarations, not yet legally binding or implemented. Fossil enterprises and political leaders in major fossil producers ranged from politely dismissive to openly contemptuous.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. As of May 2022 , there are 163 operating coal-fired power plants in Japan. Civil law cases. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Casey Backs Abortion Rights Bill -- TribLive: Casey Says He Supports Codifying Abortion Rights Into Federal Law -- York Dispatch: ‘ Devastating’ Death Leads Dallastown H.S. Team To Join Suicide Prevention Battle -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Why Don’t More PA Towns Have ‘Do Not Knock’ Solicitation Laws -- City & State PA: Sen.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

Wolf Vetoes Bill Prohibiting Communities From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Address Climate Change [PaEN] -- AP: Gov. In the meantime, security of oil and gas supplies will continue to pose a challenge for Europe, and also for other regions, he said.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2022

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Spreading Hate: White Supremacist Groups Send Propaganda Throughout Lehigh Valley -- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Man Accused Of Planning To Kill Democratic U.S. Wolf Announced PA Received $26.5 What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

DEP Electric Grid Resilience Plan Meeting. House returns to session September 12, 13, 14 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session September 19, 20, 21 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 10:00: Virtual. federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Program] 10:00 a.m. Click Here for remote options for joining the meeting.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You Can Still Feel The Buzz -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Comcast Promises Energy Efficiency Improvements In Its Vast Cable And Internet System -- Scranton Times Editorial: State Should Accelerate Its Electric Vehicle Game -- Gov. Trillion Tons Of Greenhouse Gas -- The Guardian: Fury Over PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ As U.S

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

Million [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: Below The Surface, Pittsburgh’s Water System Getting A Massive Makeover -- EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totalling $7.3 Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park , Centre Hall, PA. to 4:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Cartwright Introduces Bill To Improve Readiness For Extreme Weather -- PennDOT, DEP, PPL, Partners Hosting 8 In-Person Stakeholder Sessions On State Plan For National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Starting Oct. Don Ritter -- Post-Gazette: Canadian Nuclear Fuel Firm Buying Into Westinghouse Electric Co.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2022

-- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 9:30: Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 692 (Bartolotta-R-Washington) would establish erosion and sedimentation permit requirements in law under the mistaken notion DEP’s existing permit is not based on existing statutory authority which it is-- the (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

With respect to the RGGI carbon pollution reduction program , it relates to controlling pollution from electric generation power plants, it has no relationship to increasing natural gas production itself. Wolf have all called on the General Assembly to toughen laws regulating pipelines to no avail. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Senate Climate, Energy Bill -- New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Bill Signed Into Law; PA Groups React [PaEN] -- White House: Climate, Energy, Healthcare Law - By The Numbers -- AP: What’s In New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Law? -- Financial Times: A Guide To The U.S. 17 Native Plant Sale 10:00 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

million for assisting workers and communities impacted by electric generation or manufacturing plant closures, including training projects, extended unemployment benefits and investments in projects to redevelop the closed plant sites. . -- $62.5 At least $12.5 The Senate is scheduled to be in session the week of April 4. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2022

House Republicans Pass Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability [PaEN] -- Independent Fiscal Office Projects Up To $24.3 What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Fitzpatrick Hails Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill As A Win For PA -- Inquirer: The Infrastructure Bill Is Big, But It Won’t Transform America’s Focus On Cars National/International -- The Guardian: Military Deployed As Canadian Pacific North-West Grapples With Devastating Floods [Is PA Ready?] -- The Guardian: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Click Here for a copy of the appeal.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2022

Marina White Stepping Down As Chair Of Philly’s Republican Party -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Could The Primary Election Signal Rock Bottom In PA Politics? Capitol, Efforts To Throw Out Nov. 2020 Election -- WITF: How Republican Candidate For Governor Mastriano Promoted Election Lies Between Election Day, Jan. 6 Assault On U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2022

Wolf To Unleash PA’s Immense Natural Gas Reserves -- PG: Overnight Gasoline Spike Pushes Prices In Pittsburgh Closer To $4 -- AP: Fire Out At Ukraine’s Key Nuclear Power Plant Amid Russian Attacks American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 15, 2022

TODAY 10:00: House Consumer Affairs Committee hearing on House Bill 1789 (Sankey-R- Clearfield) further providing for price and other disclosures related to competitive electric and natural gas shopping. Click Here to watch online. Room 205 Ryan Building.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Instead, the U.S. But despite producing enough food to support its 1.3

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

It has therefore drafted a proposal(2)- a Delegated Regulation - which sets out screening criteria for investments in nuclear energy, effectively declaring nuclear energy part of the sustainable finance taxonomy. There are no good arguments to call nuclear a sustainable investment at one time and not sustainable a moment later.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2021

[ Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else ] What a difference 11 weeks makes! billion extra to put into the state budget because of the American Rescue Plan signed into law March 11 and the May state revenue numbers reported last week showed lawmakers an extra $2.9 percent, but starting to drop; Gov.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2015

However, what is often overlooked is the impact of nuclear power on our water systems, especially in drought prone areas. Many leading energy experts often deem nuclear an acceptable form of sustainable energy. billion gallons per day in the US if developers continue to build new power plants with evaporative cooling, an amount.

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