Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.7.22

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 Collects $147,250 Penalty From Rice Drilling B LLC For Erosion & Sedimentation Violations In Greene County; DEP Found Rice Had Hundreds Of Other Violations, Including Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them [PaEN]

-- Recycling Program, Managing Electronics Waste On DEP Citizens Advisory Council Agenda For Oct. 18  [PaEN]

-- Schuylkill River Greenways, Partners Award $362,756 In Schuylkill River Restoration Fund Grants  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster County Community Foundation Announce More Than $100,000 In Lancaster Clean Water Fund Grants  [PaEN]

-- Forests For The Chesapeake Bay: Monster Trunk Talley Photo Contest; Oct. 28-29 TreeLay; Riparian Forest Buffer Summit

-- Delaware RiverKeeper Oct. 7 RiverWatch Video Report

-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For Small Business Advantage Grants For Natural Resource Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Pollution Prevention Projects  [PaEN]

-- PA Capital-Star: PA Missing Out On Millions As RGGI Battle Drudges On

-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Shell Ethane Cracker In Beaver County Will Start Up Soon, We Answer your Questions

-- UPMC Pledges To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 50% By 2030, Announces New Sustainability Leadership  [PaEN]

-- TribLive Letter: Permitting Reform Required For Renewable Energy In Race Against Climate Change - Citizens’ Climate Lobby

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Massive Solar Project To Help Power U.S. Steel Plant… In Arkansas

-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Solar Should Be Bigger Part Of Energy Puzzle, But Only Part

-- October 8 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available

-- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In September  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Issues 2nd Weekly Fall Foliage Report - 4 Counties At Peak Of Color  [PaEN]

-- Reading Eagle: When Will The Peak Colors Be Best For Leaf Peeping?

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Where You Can Find Fall Foliage, Pumpkin Festivals In PA 

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster Farmland Trust Celebrates Preservation Successes, Sees Urgency With Encroaching Development

-- DCNR Ecological Restoration Efforts Aim To Preserve Historic CCC Camp In Michaux State Forest, Cumberland County  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Allegheny County Awards Grant For Bike Trail Design Through Verona, Oakmont, Penn Hills And Plum

-- Post-Gazette: RiverLife Begins Project To Create Park ‘Unforgettable Experience’ Between Downtown Pittsburgh’s Sister Bridges

-- Game Commission: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Cases In Fayette County Result In Special Regulations 

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: Explainer: Caps And Corridors - How Can Europe Contain Natural Gas Prices?

-- Financial Times: EU, Norway Agree To ‘Joint Tools’ To Tackle Europe’s High Natural Gas Prices

-- Financial Times: U.S. Says ‘Nothing Off Table’ In Response To OPEC+ Oil Cuts [Including Refined Fuel Export Limits, More Sales From Strategic Reserve]

-- AP Explainer: How Will OPEC+ Production Cuts Affect Oil Prices, Inflation?  [Spoiler - Prices, Inflation Go Up]

American Rescue Plan Funding

-- Williamsport Sun: Levee To Receive $4 Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funds From Lycoming County

-- $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

-- Erie Times: Crawford County Man Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol Claimed 2nd Amendment Rights Were Violated, He Lost

-- AP: Proud Boys Member Pleads Guilty To Seditious Conspiracy Criminal Charges Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol [Philadelphia Has A Chapter]

-- Spotlight PA: Where Candidates For Governor Stand On College Funding, Transparency, Debt Forgiveness

-- Politics PA: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano: ‘Sexualization Of Kids, Pole Dancing And Other Crap’ Will Be Forbidden In Schools On Day 1

-- City & State PA: Fetterman Pulls In $22 Million, Dr. Oz Raises $17 Million In Last Quarter

-- MCall: Lehigh Valley Congressional Candidates Trade Attacks Before ‘Lively’ Audience

-- PennLive: Democrat Daniels Says She Can Overcome Funding Disadvantage In Race Against Republican Cong. Scott Perry

-- Politics PA: PA House Preview - Montgomery County

-- Politics PA: PA House Preview - Delaware County

-- Politics PA: PA Senate Preview - North

-- Dept. Of Revenue: Taxpayers Affected by Hurricane Ian Have More Time To File Tax Returns

-- TribLive: 15-Year-Old Charged In Kennywood Amusement Park Shooting In Pittsburgh

-- PennLive: 1 Injured When ‘Dozens’ Of Shots Fired Near Harrisburg Playground: Police

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County COVID Numbers Drop, But Long COVID Remains A Problem

-- PennLive: Monkeypox Case Confirmed At Cumberland County Elementary School

-- WHYY: ACLU Files Federal Complaint Alleging Central Bucks Schools Created A ‘Hostile Environment’ For LGBTQ Students

-- York Dispatch: York County School Board Member’s Exit Speech: Bible Is ‘Scientifically Proven’

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County School District Votes To Keep ‘Indian’ Mascot Without The Logo

-- NPR: At Conservative Grove City College, Anti-Critical Race Theory Still Looms Large

-- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PA State-Owned Consolidated University Sees Upside To Its Enrollment Decline

-- Post-Gazette: State-Owned California U’s Enrollment Fell 17% This Fall But Accounts For All Freshman Enrollment Gains At New PennWest University

-- AP: Philadelphia Apologizes For Experiments On Black Inmates In 1950s, 1970s

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