Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.23.22

Warning! Last Voting Days This Session!  Hold Onto Your Butts! (And Tax Money!)

Senate returns to session October 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 

-- 69 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA  [PaEN]

-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students And Adults [PaEN]

-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week  [PaEN]

-- Welcome The Inaugural Class Of 35 High School Keep PA Beautiful Young Ambassadors  [PaEN]

-- Tribune-Democrat: Blacklick Creek Watershed Assn. Restoring Miners Mural, Working To Improve Blacklick Creek In Cambria County

-- DEP Declares Sunday, Oct. 23 Air Pollution Action Day For Allegheny County, Susquehanna Valley

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Health Dept. Issues Air Pollution Warning For Saturday, All Of Sunday 

-- Inquirer: UPenn Students Storm Franklin Field At Halftime Protesting For Climate, Community Justice

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Rehabbed Steel Mill Eagle Rosie Released With A 7-Foot Wingspan

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

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

-- LancasterOnline: Heating Oil Costs Up 74%, Natural Gas Up 28%, Electricity Up 10% This Winter; Utilities Struggling With Surging Prices Of Natural Gas

-- Reuters: U.S. Oil Firms Say $72/Barrel For Oil Too Low A Price To Refill Oil Reserve; Oil Trading For $85 Now

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?

Other States/National/International

-- AP: Climate Questions: What’s Going On With Climate Change?

-- AP: Climate Questions: How Much Has The Climate Changed Already?

-- AP: Climate Questions: Who Is Most Vulnerable To Climate Change?

-- AP: Climate Questions: Why Do Small Degrees Of Warming Matter?

-- AP: Climate Questions: How Does Carbon Dioxide Trap Heat?

-- AP: Advanced Plastics Recycling - Plastic Crisis Solution Or Distraction?

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Inquirer: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano’s Adviser Questions Shapiro’s Faith - ‘At Best A Secular Jew’

-- Post-Gazette: Targeted With Death Threats, Philadelphia Republican Election Overseer Al Schmidt Now Works To Restore Elections

-- The Guardian: U.S. Politics’ Post-Shame Era: How Republicans Became The Party Of Hate [Includes PA]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Spells Out His Plan ‘To Take Pennsylvania Back’

-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano’s Crass Christianity Doesn’t Represent York’s Caring People Of Faith

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano A No-Show At ReAwakening American Shows In Lancaster

-- TribLive/Spotlight PA: Most Outside Spending On PA Governor’s Race Has One Aim: To Defeat Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano

-- The Guardian: Penn State Students Outraged Over Invitation To Far-Right ‘Proud Boys’ Founder

-- Altoona Mirror: Penn State University Police Urge Residents Not To Attend Event Featuring Far-Right ‘Proud Boys’ Speaker

-- AP: Republican Voters Told To Hold Onto Mail-In Ballots And Hand Them In At Polling Place Or Election Offices [Note: Polling Places In PA Cannot Accept Mail-In Ballots, But You Can Surrender Them And Vote In Person On Election Day, Since You’re Already There]

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Shapiro’s Sound Competence Better Choice For Governor, Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Too Dangerous, Too Extreme

-- Post-Gazette/Inquirer: Inflation, Not Crime, Abortion Tops Voters’ List In U.S. Senate Race

-- Post-Gazette: Within Solid Republican, Democratic Congressional Districts, Voters Often Disagree On Key Issues, Cross Party Lines

-- MCall: Rural Carbon County Will Play A Key Role In Lehigh Valley Congressional Race

-- Politics PA: Congressional Vulnerability In PA

-- PennLive/TNS: Gisele Fetterman’s History As Undocumented Immigrant Inspires Husband’s Policy

-- LancasterOnline Editorial: PA’s Bloated, Expensive Legislature Gets Shockingly Little Done

-- WHYY: U.S. Dept. Of Education Will Investigate Central Bucks School District Following ACLU Complaint Alleging ‘Hostile’ Environment For LGBTQ Students

-- PennLive: 13-Year-Old Charged With Making Verbal Threats Against Mifflinburg Schools In Union County

-- TribLive Editorial: Gunfire Makes Us All Innocent Bystanders

-- TribLive/AP: Justice Kagan At UPenn: ‘Time Will Tell’ Of U.S. Supreme Court Finds Common Ground

-- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Don’t Let Your Guard Down Against COVID

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