PA Environment Digest

Here are the Senate and House Calendars and Committee meetings showing bills of interest as well as a list of new environmental bills introduced--

The House will return to regular voting session on September 13 and the Senate will return on September 20.

The House will return to the Special Session on Transportation Funding on September 13 and the Senate on September 20.

Updated: House (September 13): House Bill 80 (Vitali-D-Delaware) expanding the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards and authorizing a carbon sequestration network; House Bill 894 (Phillips-R-Northumberland) establishing a Lyme Disease Task Force and assigning responsibilities to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources without funding; House Bill 2405 (DePasquale-D-York) which would increase the solar mandate provisions of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards and provide for carbon sequestration facilities.

Updated: Senate (September 20): Senate Bill 1394 (Eichelberger-R-Blair) requiring permits fees for non-coal mining operations to be set by regulation; House Bill 444 (M.Smith-D-Chester) setting standards for high performance green buildings without funding; House Bill 786 (George-D-Clearfield) establishing a State Energy Office within the Department of Environmental Protection without funding; House Bill 1394 (Houghton-D-Erie) providing for the splitting off of farmland for the production of alternative energy; House Bill 1609 (Freeman-D-Lehigh) further providing for traditional neighborhood development in the Municipalities Planning Code.

Gas Well Buffer: House Bill 2630 (Boback-R-Columbia) requiring 5,500 feet between fracking operation from a water supply.

Natural Gas Busses: Senate Resolution 363 (Corman-R-Centre) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a feasibility study of converting SEPTA buses to natural gas.

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