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Joint Senate/House Conservation Committee Releases Annual Report
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The Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee has released its 2011 Annual Report, just days after the 42nd observance of Earth Day.
The 17-member committee, a bipartisan, bicameral legislative service agency of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, is chaired by Rep. Scott E. Hutchinson (R-Venango).
"It seemed entirely appropriate to release the annual report around Earth Day, the worldwide observance of environmental stewardship," Rep. Hutchinson said. "The Committee is helping the General Assembly to look at long-term strategies for environmental stewardship and helping to build a proactive, rather than reactive, vision for handling Pennsylvania's environmental agenda. "This report details key activities and achievements of the committee in its efforts to serve the General Assembly during the past year."
Among the issues the committee took up in 2011 chronicled in the report are:
-- an examination of the economic and potential public health impacts of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation;
-- the committee's ongoing studies into sustainable forestry and forest resource management, as undertaken by the committee's long-standing Legislative Forestry Task Force;
-- a fresh look at the recycling and reuse of waste tires in Pennsylvania;
-- an examination of the issue of mandatory waste collection and illegal dumping in Pennsylvania; and
-- the possibilities of the use of slate waste products in highway construction.
The report also lists some issues which the committee may take up in the future, logs the committee's activities and services from the past year, lists all of the available committee reports, and provides information on the committee library, website, environmental issues forums and its monthly newsletter - the Environmental Synopsis.
A copy of the report is available online.
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