Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.8.22

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Senate returns to session October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, November 15 [Adjourn for year]

     -- Committee Schedule

House returns to session October 24, 25, 26, November 14, 15, 16 [Adjourn for year]

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

 

-- DEP Adds Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. 12 EQB Agenda  [PaEN]

 

-- Bay Journal: With 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goal Out Of Reach, Region Plans For What's Next At Oct. 11 Executive Council Meeting - By Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN]

 

-- October 24-- House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee hearing on “fossil fuels - driving America’s economy and quality of life.”

 

-- Bills Establishing Incentives For Using Fossil-Fueled Vehicles Introduced In The House, Senate; Eliminates Support For Hybrid, Electric Vehicles  [PaEN]

 

-- WITF Smart Talk: Zero Emission Trucks Would Make Central PA Healthier; Asthma Prevalent In Harrisburg Region 

 

-- WHYY: Admissions Of Children With Respiratory Illnesses Up At Delaware Valley Hospitals 

 

-- Observer-Reporter: Looking For Answers - Residents Await Results Of Shale Gas Drilling Health Studies 

 

-- Post-Gazette: Hydrogen Sulfide [Rotten Egg Smell] Levels In Mon Valley Surpass State Standard Near Pittsburgh

 

-- DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities  [PaEN]

 

-- MCall: With Winter Approaching, Heating Oil Prices Are Rising, Should Customers Lock In Now Or Wait? [Heating Oil 49% Higher Than Last Year]

 

--  City & State PA: Legal Challenges To RGGI Keeping Millions In Carbon Allowances From Flowing To PA

 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Meet UPMC’s Sustainability Cochairs And How They’re Approaching Going Net Zero [PA’s Largest Non-government Employer]

 

-- The Hill: Fetterman, Dr. Oz At Odds Over Natural Gas, Environmental Concerns

 

-- DEP Awards $3 Million To Restore Watersheds Statewide By Reducing Water Pollution  [PaEN]

 

-- Pittsburgh Section-American Society Of Civil Engineers:  Federal Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary Celebration Oct. 15 In Pittsburgh

 

-- Reminder: Bucknell University River Symposium Abstracts Due Oct. 16

 

-- Apply Now For Institute Of Conservation Leadership Delaware River Watershed Professionals Of Color 2022 Cohort  [PaEN]

 

-- WHYY: PA Task Force 1 Assists In Search And Rescue Operations Following Hurricane Ian

 

-- EPA Seeking Nominations For Local Govt. Advisory Committee And Small Communities Advisory Subcommittee, Deadline Oct. 31

 

-- DEP, Partners Join In Luzerne County Litter Cleanup, Call On Pennsylvanians To Help Pick Up Pennsylvania This Fall  [PaEN]

 

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Pick Up Pennsylvania Targets Local Litter

 

-- DEP Posts 61 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Oct. 8 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

 

-- Penn State Growing Impact Podcast Highlights Relationship Of Wetlands And Climate Change

 

-- Monterey Pass Civil War Battlefield Park Trail System Project In Franklin County Recognized With 2002 Spirit Of South Mountain Award  [PaEN]

 

-- South Mountain Partnership Announces $50,000 In Mini-Grants To Support 8 Local Recreation, Restoration, Education Projects  [PaEN]

 

-- South Mountain Partnership Now Accepting Research Grant Proposals  [PaEN]

 

-- DCNR Seeking Proposals For A 4-Season Recreation Adventure Center Concession At Denton Hill State Park, Potter County

 

-- Oct. 7 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN]

 

-- Post-Gazette: Traveling The Great Allegheny Passage Trail By Motorized Wheelchair 

 

-- Warren Times: Lumberjack Competition In The Heart Of The Allegheny National Forest

 

-- Inquirer: On Native Ground: As ‘Land Acknowledgments’ Proliferate, Indigenous Peoples Want Actions, Not Words

 

-- Warren Times: Audubon Nature Center - A Gentian Conservation And Conservation

 

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Conservation is The Key To Preserving The Earth’s Natural Beauty - Aarushi Dedhiya, Former PennLive.com intern

 

-- Penn State Birdsong Research Reveals Rare Hybrid Coupling By Rose-Breasted Grosbeak And Scarlet Tanager

 

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

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

 

-- Scranton Times: Gasoline Prices Rising Again In NE PA 

 

-- MCall: With Winter Approaching, Heating Oil Prices Are Rising, Should Customers Lock In Now Or Wait? [Heating Oil 49% Higher Than Last Year]

 

-- Baker Hughes PA Natural Gas Drill Rig Count At 23 - Same Number For Last 8 Out Of 9 Weeks

 

-- Reuters: U.S. Oil & Gas Rig Count Falls For First Time In 4 Weeks - Baker Hughes

 

-- Bloomberg: Oil Up 16% This Week, Biggest Weekly Gain Since March On Supply Fears As OPEC+ Decision Tightens Markets 

 

-- Financial Times: The New Oil War: OPEC+ Moves Against The U.S.

 

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Biden’s Drawdown Of Oil Reserves Has Weakened America, For His Party’s Benefit

 

-- Bloomberg: Desperate Europeans Return To World’s Oldest Fuel For Warmth - Wood [Just One Consequence Of Dependence On One Fuel - Natural Gas]

 

American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.  What’s Your Community Doing?


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Politics PA: PA Senate Preview - Southwest

-- The Hill: Fetterman, Dr. Oz At Odds Over Natural Gas, Environmental Concerns

-- Post-Gazette: Political Newcomers Key To The Battle For Control Of Congress

-- USA Today: Republicans Want To Win School Board Seats, They’re Winning In White Counties By Running On Race [PA Included]

-- TribLive: Experts Say PA Supreme Court Vacancy Should Be Filled Quickly

-- Centre Daily Times: PA Counties At High COVID Community Transmission Rises From 4 To 7  [Bradford, Elk, Mifflin, Snyder, Sullivan, Warren, Susquehanna]

-- MCall: PA COVID Update: State, Lehigh Valley Cases Dip Below High Transmission Threshold

-- WHYY: Admissions Of Children With Respiratory Illnesses Up At Delaware Valley Hospitals 

-- Altoona Mirror: Fentanyl Epidemic Can’t Be Dismissed

-- Inquirer: High School Football Game Canceled In Chester County Due To Threats

-- TribLive: Butler Man Stormed Onto School Bus And Threatened Students, Police Say

-- WHYY/Billy Penn: Why Gun Owners Of America Keeps Winning In Philadelphia, Blocking Local Firearms Regulations

​​-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Pennsylvania's SCI Chester Gets A Scandinavian-Style Makeover And Shows How The U.S. Penal System Could Become More Humane

-- Post-Gazette: Pitt Students Protest After Sexual Assaults On Campus

-- TribLive: Community Colleges Tapped To Address Cybersecurity Talent Gap

-- Post-Gazette: Robert Morris University Receives $18 Million Gift For Business School

-- PennLive Editorial: Too Many Americans Are Pitched For Battle Over Something As Simple As Pronouns

-- PA Municipal League, PA Economy League Study Of Municipal Tax Structure - I’ts Not 1965 Any More

-- Post-Gazette: Live! Casino Pittsburgh Property In Westmoreland Acquired As Part Of $1.81 Billion Deal

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[Posted: October 8, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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