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Senate/House ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Both the Senate and House have adjourned for the year, barring an emergency. All committees and legislation will dissolve when this two-year legislative session ends on November 30.
The General Assembly is scheduled to start its new two-year session on January 1 when it restarts and bills need to start over.
The Senate Republicans and Democrats have chosen their leadership, but given the recent election results showing House Democrats with a slim majority the House leadership has not yet been finalized.
Watch for the naming of Committee chairs in the next few weeks, with members of committees after that.
Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro began his transition process and watch for him to name transition teams for each state agency to identify priority issues the new administration must address in the first few months of their term.
Transition - Governor
-- AP: Gov.-Elect Shapiro Opens Transition, To Stay AG Until January
-- WITF: Gov.-Elect Shapiro Lays Out Transition Plans, Policy Goals In First Press Appearance
-- PA Capital-Star: Shapiro, Davis Vow To Build An Administration That ‘Looks Like Pennsylvania’
-- City & State PA: Shapiro Begins Gubernatorial Transition
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Gov. Shapiro Could Set New Tone With Legislature On Climate
Transition - Senate/House
-- Spotlight PA: Democrats Win Control Of State House After Picking Up 12 Seats
-- AP: PA Democrats Win Enough For Narrow State House Majority
-- Spotlight PA: Democratic Takeover Of State House Will Be A Little Messy To Start, Here’s Why
-- MCall - Paul Muschick: How Democrats Winning State House Could Get PA Government Back To Normal
-- Altoona Mirror: Republican Defeat In State House Dooms Their Plans To Change State Constitution
-- PA Senate Republicans Announce Leadership Team For New Session: Sen. Kim Ward Makes History As First Woman Elected Senate President Pro Tempore [PaEN]
-- AP: PA Senate Picks First Woman As President Pro Tempore
-- PA Capital-Star: With New PA Senate Leadership, What Are Lawmakers Prioritizing When They Return To Session?
-- PA Senate Democratic Caucus Elects New Leadership Team [PaEN]
Environment & Energy NewsClips--
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: Will An Act Of ‘Spite’ By PA House Republicans Cost The State Hundreds Of Millions In Federal Transportation Funding? [Blocking Methane Limits On Oil & Gas Facilities]
-- PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: New Nuclear Power Faces Old Skepticism: Can It Deliver On Time And On Budget
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA House Resolution Would Investigate Expanding Nuclear Energy
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Natural Gas Promotion Needs Review
-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: White House Must Not Double Down On Anti-Drilling Agenda
Top 10 Headlines From Harrisburg Last Week -----------------------------------
Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else--
-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week [PaEN]
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-- 72 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN]
-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students And Adults [PaEN]
-- This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues [PaEN]
Check Calendars For Events Near You!
-- Check The Calendars For Events Near You: PA Parks & Forests Foundation’s Events webpage and DCNR’s Calendar of Events.
Air
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: Will An Act Of ‘Spite’ By PA House Republicans Cost The State Hundreds Of Millions In Federal Transportation Funding? [Blocking Methane Limits On Oil & Gas Facilities]
-- Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project Calls Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Good First Step [PaEN]
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Proposed Federal Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Would Solve State Issue
-- Pittsburgh's Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts Dec. 14 Webinar: Making The Connection - What The Donora Smog Disaster Can Teach Us 74 Years Later [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell’s Petrochemical City In Beaver County Finally Gets Cracking
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shell Ethane Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Now Operational
-- Shell: Shell Chemical Appalachia Begins Operators At Polymers Plant In Pennsylvania
-- Public Source: Citizen Scientists Prepare To Monitor Shale Ethane Plant In Beaver County
-- Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar [PaEN]
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Hydrogen-Powered Locomotives? Wabtec’s Latest Partnership Could Make It Happen
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Proposed Federal Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Would Solve State Issue
-- EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide [PaEN]
-- Reuters: In Colorado, Oil Drilling Companies Capping Old Wells To Reduce Methane Emissions [With Their Own Money]
Allegheny National Forest
-- Warren Times: North Country Trail Chapter Has Ambitious 2023 Planned In Allegheny National Forest
-- Warren Times: Proposal Pitches ‘Small Scale Resort’ Cabins, RV Sites For Kinzua Beach
Alternative Fuels
--ChargEVC-PA: Public Utility Commission To Explore Rate Design Solutions For Electric Vehicles
-- WTAJ: Tesla Electric Vehicle Causes I-80 Traffic Delays After Catching Fire In Clearfield County
-- Wheeling News-Register: Rare Earth Metals To Be Extracted From WV Coal Waste Impoundments
Awards & Recognition
-- Bay Journal: After 35 Years, Chesapeake Bay Commission Director Ann Swanson Hands Off The Baton
-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Receives Northeast Environmental Partners Award
-- Williamsport Sun: Ashley Wilmont Competed With U.S. Women’s Fly Fishing Team
-- Warren Times: 2022 Audubon Nature Center Photo Contest Winners Announced
-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Christmas Tree Begins Journey To White House
Biodiversity/Invasive Species
-- MCall: PA Officials Launch Survey To Determine Costs Of Invasive Species
-- Penn State: Berks Center Examines How Telephone Poles Can Help Stop The Spotted Lanternfly
-- Native Meadow Will Benefit Environment In New Caln Township Meadow Park In Chester County [PaEN]
-- Delaware Watershed Activists, Businesses, Residents Commemorate Loss Of 250,000 Atlantic Sturgeon In Procession Around Philadelphia City Hall [Video Available]
-- WHYY: Environmentalists Protest Projects That Impact Endangered Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon
-- Penn State: To Prevent Next Pandemic, Research Suggests We Need To Restore Bat Habitats
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Light Pollution Raises Exposure Of Birds To Toxic Chemicals, New Study
-- Patch.com: Protecting The Environment: Radnor Recognized As An Audubon Bird Town
-- Time: Healthy Biodiversity Is The Reason To Fight Climate Change
Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
-- NextPittsburgh: Discover Locks, Dams And The Death Star In Charleroi On Monongahela River
Federal American Rescue Plan Funding
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: DCNR Outlines Plans To Invest $100 Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funds In State Park Infrastructure
-- Citizens Voice: Luzerne Levee Fee Will Not Increase In 2023, But Federal Rescue Plan-Funded Rebate Will End
Budget
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: Will An Act Of ‘Spite’ By PA House Republicans Cost The State Hundreds Of Millions In Federal Transportation Funding? [Blocking Methane Limits On Oil & Gas Facilities]
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Natural Gas Promotion Needs Review
Chesapeake Bay
-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Now Accepting Applications, Holding Info Sessions
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 29 Webinar On The Roadside Guide To Clean Water - Recognizing Efforts To Keep Your Community’s Water Clean [PaEN]
-- Native Meadow Will Benefit Environment In New Caln Township Meadow Park In Chester County [PaEN]
-- Bay Journal: After 35 Years, Chesapeake Bay Commission Director Ann Swanson Hands Off The Baton
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Citizen Action
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Natural Gas Drilling Ban Supporters See Wider Effort In Allegheny County Towns
-- StateImpact PA - Reid Frazier: CNX Fined $200,000 For Natural Gas-Related Spills In Greene County [Note: Conventional oil and gas drillers reported illegally spreading 977,671 gallons of untreated drilling wastewater on Pennsylvania roads in 2021. DEP did not penalize one. Read more here.]
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18 [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Posts 63 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Nov. 19 PA Bulletin - Regulations [PaEN]
-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Needs To Address Its Continuing Oil & Gas Well Abandonment Problem, Here’s How - By Sierra Club
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now - By Edward C. Ketyer, M.D., President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community - By Rev. Wesley Silva, former Council President Marianna Borough, Washington County [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk - By Nicole Deziel PhD MHS, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities - By Joan Casey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- YaleEnvironment360 - Jon Hurdle: As Evidence Mounts, New Concerns About Fracking And Health
-- Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar [PaEN]
-- Pittsburgh's Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts Dec. 14 Webinar: Making The Connection - What The Donora Smog Disaster Can Teach Us 74 Years Later [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell’s Petrochemical City In Beaver County Finally Gets Cracking
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shell Ethane Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Now Operational
-- Shell: Shell Chemical Appalachia Begins Operators At Polymers Plant In Pennsylvania
-- Public Source: Citizen Scientists Prepare To Monitor Shale Ethane Plant In Beaver County
-- WHYY: Community Benefits Agreement Talks To Start In 2023 For Former Philly Refinery Redevelopment
-- EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide [PaEN]
-- DEP To Hold Virtual Public Conference Dec. 7 On Expansion Of Tunnel Ridge, LLC Underground Coal Mine In Washington County [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project 2022 Annual Report - 10th Anniversary, A Milestone Year
-- Celebrating The Seneca Nation’s Efforts To Strengthen The Next Generation Of Freshwater Stewards - By Tara Muenz, Stroud Water Research Center [PaEN]
-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Now Accepting Applications, Holding Info Sessions
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 29 Webinar On The Roadside Guide To Clean Water - Recognizing Efforts To Keep Your Community’s Water Clean [PaEN]
-- Native Meadow Will Benefit Environment In New Caln Township Meadow Park In Chester County [PaEN]
-- Penn State Extension Report On Private Water Supply Education & Water Testing In 2022 [PaEN]
-- 10th Annual Delaware River Watershed Forum Unites Conservation Organizations, Advocates In Philadelphia [PaEN]
-- LancasterOnline: Farmland Trust Leader Martynick To Receive Delp Award From Lancaster Chamber
-- Nov. 18 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]
-- TribLive: Major Cleanup Effort Transformed Kiski River From Eyesore Into Destination Spot
-- PA Resources Council Collects 383,175 Pounds Of Household Chemicals In 20th Season [PaEN]
-- Master Watershed Stewards Help Purge Plastics On The Lower Susquehanna River [PaEN]
-- StateImpactPA/Inside Climate News: Microplastics Pervade Even Top-Quality Streams In PA, Study Finds
-- Keep PA Beautiful Marks America Recycles Day Nov. 15 With Cigarette Litter Recycling, Composting Program [PaEN]
-- Warren Times: ‘Warren Hooligans’ Again Do Their Part In Roadside Cleanup Effort
-- ABC6: Meet The ‘Litter Lifters,’ A Team Keeping Streets Clean In Chester County
-- MCall: PA Officials Launch Survey To Determine Costs Of Invasive Species
Climate
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: Will An Act Of ‘Spite’ By PA House Republicans Cost The State Hundreds Of Millions In Federal Transportation Funding? [Blocking Methane Limits On Oil & Gas Facilities]
-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Needs To Address Its Continuing Oil & Gas Well Abandonment Problem, Here’s How - By Sierra Club
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Commonwealth Court Hears Arguments On Legality Of PA Program To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants [RGGI]
-- PA Capital-Star: PA Appeals Court Hears Oral Arguments In Fight Over RGGI
-- Post-Gazette/CapitolWire.com: Commonwealth Court Hears Arguments About PA Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
-- Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project Calls Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Good First Step [PaEN]
-- DCNR Discusses Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage Efforts, Announces $6 Million Investment In New Carbon Capture Research Facility [PaEN]
-- PA Capital-Star: Core Samples Get A New Home To Help DCNR Understand How PA’s Geology Could Support Carbon Capture, Sequestration Efforts
-- PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage [PaEN]
-- MCall Guest Essay: We Need A Climate Policy Without The Politics - By Anthony O’Brien, Lehigh University Professor
-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Climate Science Education Standards Must Be Developed By Unbiased Education Professionals - By Dr. Gregory Foy, York College Professor
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: The High Costs Of An Accelerated Green Energy Transition
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Hydrogen-Powered Locomotives? Wabtec’s Latest Partnership Could Make It Happen
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Proposed Federal Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Would Solve State Issue
-- Reuters: In Colorado, Oil Drilling Companies Capping Old Wells To Reduce Methane Emissions [With Their Own Money]
-- Time: Healthy Biodiversity Is The Reason To Fight Climate Change
-- AP: Report: 90% Of U.S. Counties Hit With Disasters In Last Decade
-- AP: World Population Hits 8 Billion, Creating Many Challenges
Federal Climate, Energy Law
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Hydrogen-Powered Locomotives? Wabtec’s Latest Partnership Could Make It Happen
COP 27 Climate
-- Environmental Health Project Statement On U.N. Framework Convention On Climate Change (COP27)
-- Inquirer Guest Essay: Here’s What Pennsylvania Can Learn From A World Climate Meeting
-- Inquirer Guest Essay: From The U.N. Climate Conference, Advice For Philly As It Adapts To Global Warming
-- Inquirer Guest Essay: How Philly Can Stay Ahead Of The Curve In Addressing Climate Change
-- AP: U.N. Climate Deal: Calamity Cash, But No New Emissions Cuts
-- NPR: Did The World Make Progress On Climate Change? Here’s What Was Decided At Global Talks
-- Financial Times: U.N. Agrees To Climate Fund For Poorer Countries But Backs Down On End To Fossil Fuels
-- AP: U.N. Climate Talks Drag Into Extra Time With Scant Progress
-- The Guardian: COP27: Water Scarcity On Agenda As Climate Talks Enter Second Week
-- Financial Times: Fossil Fuel Producers Flex Their Muscle At U.N. Climate Summit
-- Reuters: Big Gas Company Chiefs Bill Themselves As Climate Leaders At COP27
Coal Mining
-- DEP To Hold Virtual Public Conference Dec. 7 On Expansion Of Tunnel Ridge, LLC Underground Coal Mine In Washington County [PaEN]
-- Reuters: EU Supports UN COP27 Call To Phase Down All Fossil Fuels
Compliance Action
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- DEP Assesses $200,000 In Penalties For Drilling Wastewater Spills By CNX In Greene County [PaEN]
-- StateImpact PA - Reid Frazier: CNX Fined $200,000 For Natural Gas-Related Spills In Greene County [Note: Conventional oil and gas drillers reported illegally spreading 977,671 gallons of untreated drilling wastewater on Pennsylvania roads in 2021. DEP did not penalize one. Read more here.]
-- U.S. Dept. Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years [PaEN]
-- Erie Times: Erie Coke (Coal), Ex-Plant Chief Indicted On Charges Of Violating Federal Clean Air Act
-- DEP Took Action On 816 Permits, 96% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,186 Inspections; Responded To 6 Environmental Emergencies Last Week
DCNR
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: DCNR Outlines Plans To Invest $100 Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funds In State Park Infrastructure
-- DCNR Announces A Total Of $5 Million In Funding To Help Close Gaps In D&L Trail
-- MCall: New State Funding Will Help Close Lehigh Valley Gap In D&L Trail
-- DCNR Discusses Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage Efforts, Announces $6 Million Investment In New Carbon Capture Research Facility [PaEN]
-- PA Capital-Star: Core Samples Get A New Home To Help DCNR Understand How PA’s Geology Could Support Carbon Capture, Sequestration Efforts
-- PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage [PaEN]
-- Nov. 18 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]
-- NextPittsburgh: PA Outdoor Economy Experts Explain How Recreation And Job Growth Go Hand-In-Hand
-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Spending On Outdoor Recreation Is Boosting PA’s Economy
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: PA Outdoor Recreation Sees 4% Increase In Jobs, Report
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Outdoor Recreation Drives PA Economy
-- DCNR: Fish Passage Construction To Begin At Shikellamy State Park Dam On Susquehanna River In Shamokin Dam
-- DCNR Seeking Public Comments On ATV Regional Trail Connector Pilot Study Deadline Nov. 18 [Background]
-- PA Environmental Council: Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Annual Gathering - Celebrating Transitions
-- Warren Times: North Country Trail Chapter Has Ambitious 2023 Planned In Allegheny National Forest
-- WESA: McKeesport Will Move Section Of Great Allegheny Passage Trail To Riverfront, Expanding Scenic Views
-- Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia: Recap Of 2022 Circuit Trails Semi-Annual Meeting
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Pennsylvanians See Improved Wildlife Habitat As Important Result Of Prescribed Fire, Study Says
DEP
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land [PaEN]
-- DEP Assesses $200,000 In Penalties For Drilling Wastewater Spills By CNX In Greene County [PaEN]
-- StateImpact PA - Reid Frazier: CNX Fined $200,000 For Natural Gas-Related Spills In Greene County [Note: Conventional oil and gas drillers reported illegally spreading 977,671 gallons of untreated drilling wastewater on Pennsylvania roads in 2021. DEP did not penalize one. Read more here.]
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18 [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Cryptocurrency Data Mining Operation On Shale Gas Well Pad In Elk County [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Replacement Projects Affecting Cambria, Fayette, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lebanon Counties [PaEN]
-- DEP To Hold Virtual Public Conference Dec. 7 On Expansion Of Tunnel Ridge, LLC Underground Coal Mine In Washington County [PaEN]
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- York Dispatch: New DEP Regulation Targets PFOA/PFOS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In York County Drinking Water
-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Needs To Address Its Continuing Oil & Gas Well Abandonment Problem, Here’s How - By Sierra Club
-- DEP Took Action On 816 Permits, 96% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,186 Inspections; Responded To 6 Environmental Emergencies Last Week
-- DEP Posts 63 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Nov. 19 PA Bulletin - Regulations [PaEN]
Delaware River
-- 10th Annual Delaware River Watershed Forum Unites Conservation Organizations, Advocates In Philadelphia [PaEN]
-- Celebrating The Seneca Nation’s Efforts To Strengthen The Next Generation Of Freshwater Stewards - By Tara Muenz, Stroud Water Research Center [PaEN]
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Philadelphia To Exempt New Cobbs Creek Golf Course Project From Anti-Erosion Regulation
-- Delaware Watershed Activists, Businesses, Residents Commemorate Loss Of 250,000 Atlantic Sturgeon In Procession Around Philadelphia City Hall [Video Available]
-- WHYY: Environmentalists Protest Projects That Impact Endangered Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon
-- Delaware RiverKeeper Nov. 18 RiverWatch Video Report
Drinking Water
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: Will An Act Of ‘Spite’ By PA House Republicans Cost The State Hundreds Of Millions In Federal Transportation Funding? [Blocking Methane Limits On Oil & Gas Facilities]
-- York Dispatch: New DEP Regulation Targets PFOA/PFOS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In York County Drinking Water
-- On-Demand: Environmental Health Project PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ And Health Impacts Webinar, What Frontline Communities Need To Know
-- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Meets Dec. 9 [PaEN]
-- Penn State Extension Report On Private Water Supply Education & Water Testing In 2022 [PaEN]
-- Delaware County: Setting The Facts Straight About Delaware County And Aqua Pennsylvania And The Sale Of Wastewater Infrastructure
-- TribLive: Some Westmoreland Water Authority Customers Warned Of Potential Health Risks, But No Corrective Measures Required
-- PA American Water Charitable Foundation Awards 2022 Workforce Readiness Grants
Economic Development
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell’s Petrochemical City In Beaver County Finally Gets Cracking
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shell Ethane Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Now Operational
-- Shell: Shell Chemical Appalachia Begins Operators At Polymers Plant In Pennsylvania
-- Public Source: Citizen Scientists Prepare To Monitor Shale Ethane Plant In Beaver County
-- Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar [PaEN]
-- The Hershey Company Reduces Environmental Impact Across Its Value Chain
-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Spending On Outdoor Recreation Is Boosting PA’s Economy
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: PA Outdoor Recreation Sees 4% Increase In Jobs, Report
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Outdoor Recreation Drives PA Economy
-- PA American Water Charitable Foundation Awards 2022 Workforce Readiness Grants
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Hydrogen-Powered Locomotives? Wabtec’s Latest Partnership Could Make It Happen
-- DCED Awards $338,174 Grant To UGI Utilities For Construction Of A Natural Gas Regulation Station In Monroe County
-- Wheeling News-Register: Rare Earth Metals To Be Extracted From WV Coal Waste Impoundments
Education
-- Celebrating The Seneca Nation’s Efforts To Strengthen The Next Generation Of Freshwater Stewards - By Tara Muenz, Stroud Water Research Center [PaEN]
-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Now Accepting Applications, Holding Info Sessions
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 29 Webinar On The Roadside Guide To Clean Water - Recognizing Efforts To Keep Your Community’s Water Clean [PaEN]
-- Native Meadow Will Benefit Environment In New Caln Township Meadow Park In Chester County [PaEN]
-- 10th Annual Delaware River Watershed Forum Unites Conservation Organizations, Advocates In Philadelphia [PaEN]
-- Penn State Hosting Dec. 10 Educators Workshop On Pennsylvania KidWind Challenge In State College [PaEN]
-- Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land [PaEN]
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now - By Edward C. Ketyer, M.D., President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community - By Rev. Wesley Silva, former Council President Marianna Borough, Washington County [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk - By Nicole Deziel PhD MHS, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities - By Joan Casey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- YaleEnvironment360 - Jon Hurdle: As Evidence Mounts, New Concerns About Fracking And Health
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Natural Gas Drilling Ban Supporters See Wider Effort In Allegheny County Towns
-- Penn State: Can Low-Grade Geothermal Energy Be Recovered From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells?
-- Pittsburgh's Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts Dec. 14 Webinar: Making The Connection - What The Donora Smog Disaster Can Teach Us 74 Years Later [PaEN]
-- Penn State Extension Report On Private Water Supply Education & Water Testing In 2022 [PaEN]
-- Penn State Latinx Agricultural Network Earns National Award For Uplifting Latino Community
-- MCall: PA Officials Launch Survey To Determine Costs Of Invasive Species
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Registration Open For Youth Rivers Conservation, Fly Fishing Camp By Cumberland Valley Chapter TU
-- Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar [PaEN]
-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Climate Science Education Standards Must Be Developed By Unbiased Education Professionals - By Dr. Gregory Foy, York College Professor
-- Penn State: To Prevent Next Pandemic, Research Suggests We Need To Restore Bat Habitats
-- Penn State: Berks Center Examines How Telephone Poles Can Help Stop The Spotted Lanternfly
-- PA American Water Charitable Foundation Awards 2022 Workforce Readiness Grants
-- Post-Gazette: Innovative Seneca Valley School’s Design Hailed As Invention In And Of Itself In Butler County
-- Delaware Watershed Activists, Businesses, Residents Commemorate Loss Of 250,000 Atlantic Sturgeon In Procession Around Philadelphia City Hall [Video Available]
-- WHYY: Environmentalists Protest Projects That Impact Endangered Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Light Pollution Raises Exposure Of Birds To Toxic Chemicals, New Study
-- Warren Times: 2022 Audubon Nature Center Photo Contest Winners Announced
-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Bittersweet Vine Gets Name From Its Inner Bark
Emergency Response
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- MCall: Hundreds Of Bethlehem Residents Able To Return Home Hours After 6,000 Gallons Of Gasoline, Diesel Spill
-- DEP Took Action On 816 Permits, 96% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,186 Inspections; Responded To 6 Environmental Emergencies Last Week
-- WTAJ: Tesla Electric Vehicle Causes I-80 Traffic Delays After Catching Fire In Clearfield County
-- AP: Report: 90% Of U.S. Counties Hit With Disasters In Last Decade
6th Oil/Natural Gas Price Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables
[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]
-- PUC Alerts Consumers Utility Natural Gas Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 128%, Electric Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 34%; Both Driven By Cost Of Natural Gas On World Markets [PaEN]
-- PennLive: High Prices, Volatile Markets Make For Uncertain Heating Season Across Central PA
-- TribLive: Falling Gasoline Prices In Great Lakes States, Oil Prices Drive National Average Decline
-- Canary Media: Charts: Winter Heating Bills To Rise Thanks To High Natural Gas Prices
-- NYT: An Estimated 40 LNG Natural Gas Tankers Still Sitting Off Coasts In Europe, Asia Waiting For Higher Prices Before Unloading Their Fuel
-- Bloomberg: Shale Oil, Natural Gas ‘Fracklog’ Is Back As U.S. Companies Hoard Pre-Drilled Wells That Could Be Brought Into Production
-- Reuters: U.S. Natural Gas Prices Up Only 1% After Paring 8% Gains On Texas Freeport LNG Delay Rumors
-- Reuters: Texas LNG Natural Gas Terminal Targets Mid-December For Restart
-- Baker Hughes PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Same As Last Week - 22
-- Modern Diplomacy: EU Leaders Accuse U.S. Natural Gas Producers Of Profiteering
-- Financial Times: U.S. Oil Prices Fall 10% In The Week As Demand Worries Rise
National/International
-- Reuters: EU Supports UN COP27 Call To Phase Down All Fossil Fuels
-- AP: UK Increases Windfall Tax On Profits Of Oil, Natural Gas Companies
-- Reuters: EU To Proposed Natural Gas Price Cap After Nov. 24 Meeting
-- Bloomberg: EU Details Proposal To Cap Natural Gas Price At Major Global Hub
-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Jump 11% As Cold Snap Forecast Boost In Demand
-- Bloomberg Guest Essay: Europe Isn’t Ready For Long-Term Commitment With LNG
-- Bloomberg: European Energy Prices Rise As U.S. LNG Plant Set To Stay Offline
-- Bloomberg: Texas LNG Natural Gas Exporter May Extend Freeport Plant Outage Thru December As Work Continues On Repairs, Regulatory Approvals
-- Reuters: U.S. Regulator Releases Report Blaming Texas LNG Natural Gas Blast On Inadequate Operating, Testing Procedures
-- Reuters: U.S. Energy Regulators Unanimously Approve New Louisiana LNG Natural Gas Terminal, Expected To Begin Shipping 2027
-- Bloomberg: Race Is On To Be Next Big U.S. Supplier Of LNG Natural Gas To Fuel-Starved Europe
-- Bloomberg: Europe’s Dash For Energy Means Rigging Up LNG Plants At Sea
-- Bloomberg: Where European Energy/Natural Gas Infrastructure Is Vulnerable To Attack
-- NYT: Europe’s Energy Risks Go Beyond Natural Gas
-- E&E News: Congressional House Republicans Prepare Big Energy Package For 2023
Energy
-- Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land [PaEN]
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now - By Edward C. Ketyer, M.D., President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community - By Rev. Wesley Silva, former Council President Marianna Borough, Washington County [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk - By Nicole Deziel PhD MHS, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities - By Joan Casey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- YaleEnvironment360 - Jon Hurdle: As Evidence Mounts, New Concerns About Fracking And Health
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Natural Gas Drilling Ban Supporters See Wider Effort In Allegheny County Towns
-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 15 On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 3 Oil & Gas, Three Mile Island Withdrawal Renewals [PaEN]
-- TribLive: Allegheny Twp. Ink Fracking Lease With Olympus Energy For 27.7 Acres Of Tredway Trail In Westmoreland County
-- Penn State: Can Low-Grade Geothermal Energy Be Recovered From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells?
-- DEP Provides Notice Of Using Coal Ash As Fill For Solar Energy Facility At Scrubgrass Generating Company, Venango County [PaEN]
-- PUC Alerts Consumers Utility Natural Gas Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 128%, Electric Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 34%; Both Driven By Cost Of Natural Gas On World Markets [PaEN]
-- PennLive: High Prices, Volatile Markets Make For Uncertain Heating Season Across Central PA
-- Canary Media: Charts: Winter Heating Bills To Rise Thanks To High Natural Gas Prices
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Commonwealth Court Hears Arguments On Legality Of PA Program To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants [RGGI]
-- PA Capital-Star: PA Appeals Court Hears Oral Arguments In Fight Over RGGI
-- Post-Gazette/CapitolWire.com: Commonwealth Court Hears Arguments About PA Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
-- Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project Calls Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Good First Step [PaEN]
-- DCNR Discusses Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage Efforts, Announces $6 Million Investment In New Carbon Capture Research Facility [PaEN]
-- PA Capital-Star: Core Samples Get A New Home To Help DCNR Understand How PA’s Geology Could Support Carbon Capture, Sequestration Efforts
-- PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage [PaEN]
-- MCall Guest Essay: We Need A Climate Policy Without The Politics - By Anthony O’Brien, Lehigh University Professor
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: The High Costs Of An Accelerated Green Energy Transition
-- Utility Dive: State Regulators Urge PJM To Adopt ‘Circuit Breaker’ To Prevent Extreme Prices In Emergencies [Extreme Weather, Cyberattacks]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: New Nuclear Power Faces Old Skepticism: Can It Deliver On Time And On Budget
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA House Resolution Would Investigate Expanding Nuclear Energy
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Hydrogen-Powered Locomotives? Wabtec’s Latest Partnership Could Make It Happen
-- Dept. Of Energy Announces $13 Billion To Modernize, Expand Power Grid Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
-- Bloomberg: EU Details Proposal To Cap Natural Gas Price At Major Global Hub
Energy - Federal
-- E&E News: Congressional House Republicans Prepare Big Energy Package For 2023
-- Dept. Of Energy Announces $13 Billion To Modernize, Expand Power Grid Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Energy Conservation
-- Post-Gazette: Innovative Seneca Valley School’s Design Hailed As Invention In And Of Itself In Butler County
-- Help Wanted: Sustainable Energy Education & Development Support In Wayne County Seeks Executive Director
Environmental Health
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now - By Edward C. Ketyer, M.D., President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community - By Rev. Wesley Silva, former Council President Marianna Borough, Washington County [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk - By Nicole Deziel PhD MHS, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities - By Joan Casey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project 2022 Annual Report - 10th Anniversary, A Milestone Year
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- York Dispatch: New DEP Regulation Targets PFOA/PFOS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In York County Drinking Water
-- On-Demand: Environmental Health Project PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ And Health Impacts Webinar, What Frontline Communities Need To Know
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Proposed Federal Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Would Solve State Issue
-- Reuters: In Colorado, Oil Drilling Companies Capping Old Wells To Reduce Methane Emissions [With Their Own Money]
-- EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide [PaEN]
-- Penn State: To Prevent Next Pandemic, Research Suggests We Need To Restore Bat Habitats
Environmental Heritage
-- Pittsburgh's Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts Dec. 14 Webinar: Making The Connection - What The Donora Smog Disaster Can Teach Us 74 Years Later [PaEN]
Environmental Justice
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities - By Joan Casey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- WHYY: Community Benefits Agreement Talks To Start In 2023 For Former Philly Refinery Redevelopment
-- EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide [PaEN]
EPA
-- Reading Eagle: Cleanup Of Toxic Materials Continues At Former Exide Lead Battery Plant In Berks County
-- EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide [PaEN]
Farming
-- LancasterOnline: Farmland Trust Leader Martynick To Receive Delp Award From Lancaster Chamber
-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Now Accepting Applications, Holding Info Sessions
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 29 Webinar On The Roadside Guide To Clean Water - Recognizing Efforts To Keep Your Community’s Water Clean [PaEN]
-- Penn State Latinx Agricultural Network Earns National Award For Uplifting Latino Community
-- Penn State: Berks Center Examines How Telephone Poles Can Help Stop The Spotted Lanternfly
Fish & Boat Commission
-- DCNR: Fish Passage Construction To Begin At Shikellamy State Park Dam On Susquehanna River In Shamokin Dam
Flooding
-- Native Meadow Will Benefit Environment In New Caln Township Meadow Park In Chester County [PaEN]
-- Citizens Voice: Luzerne Levee Fee Will Not Increase In 2023, But Federal Rescue Plan-Funded Rebate Will End
-- AP: Report: 90% Of U.S. Counties Hit With Disasters In Last Decade
Forests
-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Now Accepting Applications, Holding Info Sessions
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 29 Webinar On The Roadside Guide To Clean Water - Recognizing Efforts To Keep Your Community’s Water Clean [PaEN]
-- Nov. 18 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Pennsylvanians See Improved Wildlife Habitat As Important Result Of Prescribed Fire, Study Says
-- Republican Herald: Penn State Schuylkill Students Conduct Tree Inventory On Campus
-- PennLive: This Year’s Christmas Trees Will Cost The Same As In 2021, Auctioneer Says
-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill County Christmas Tree Begins Journey To White House
-- Penn State: Berks Center Examines How Telephone Poles Can Help Stop The Spotted Lanternfly
Forests - Wildfires
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Pennsylvanians See Improved Wildlife Habitat As Important Result Of Prescribed Fire, Study Says
-- The Guardian: U.S. Forest Service Burn Boss Arrested For Controlled Burn Gone Wrong In Oregon
Game Commission
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Game Commission Announces Major Changes As Firearms Hunting Season For Black Bear Approaches
-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Hunters Share Their Tips For Bagging Deer On State Game Lands
-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Pheasants Escaped Game Commission Farm During Snowstorm, But PA Has More
Geology
-- DCNR Discusses Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage Efforts, Announces $6 Million Investment In New Carbon Capture Research Facility [PaEN]
-- PA Capital-Star: Core Samples Get A New Home To Help DCNR Understand How PA’s Geology Could Support Carbon Capture, Sequestration Efforts
-- PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage [PaEN]
Grants/Funding
-- DCED Awards $338,174 Grant To UGI Utilities For Construction Of A Natural Gas Regulation Station In Monroe County
-- EPA Accepting Proposals For $100 Million In Recycling Infrastructure, Education Grants Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
-- Dept. Of Energy Announces $13 Billion To Modernize, Expand Power Grid Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Green Infrastructure
-- LancasterOnline: Farmland Trust Leader Martynick To Receive Delp Award From Lancaster Chamber
-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Now Accepting Applications, Holding Info Sessions
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 29 Webinar On The Roadside Guide To Clean Water - Recognizing Efforts To Keep Your Community’s Water Clean [PaEN]
-- Native Meadow Will Benefit Environment In New Caln Township Meadow Park In Chester County [PaEN]
-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Receives Northeast Environmental Partners Award
-- Republican Herald: Penn State Schuylkill Students Conduct Tree Inventory On Campus
Hazardous Sites Cleanup
-- Reading Eagle: Cleanup Of Toxic Materials Continues At Former Exide Lead Battery Plant In Berks County
Hazardous Substances
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now - By Edward C. Ketyer, M.D., President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community - By Rev. Wesley Silva, former Council President Marianna Borough, Washington County [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk - By Nicole Deziel PhD MHS, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities - By Joan Casey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project 2022 Annual Report - 10th Anniversary, A Milestone Year
-- EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide [PaEN]
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: Will An Act Of ‘Spite’ By PA House Republicans Cost The State Hundreds Of Millions In Federal Transportation Funding? [Blocking Methane Limits On Oil & Gas Facilities]
-- York Dispatch: New DEP Regulation Targets PFOA/PFOS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In York County Drinking Water
-- On-Demand: Environmental Health Project PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ And Health Impacts Webinar, What Frontline Communities Need To Know
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Proposed Federal Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Would Solve State Issue
-- Reuters: In Colorado, Oil Drilling Companies Capping Old Wells To Reduce Methane Emissions [With Their Own Money]
Help Wanted
-- Help Wanted: Sustainable Energy Education & Development Support In Wayne County Seeks Executive Director
Land Conservation
-- LancasterOnline: Farmland Trust Leader Martynick To Receive Delp Award From Lancaster Chamber
-- Lehigh Valley’s Wildlands Conservancy Receives Northeast Environmental Partners Award
Land Recycling
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Regional Development Corp Donates Land At McKeesport Park For Use In Great Allegheny Passage Trail
-- WHYY: Community Benefits Agreement Talks To Start In 2023 For Former Philly Refinery Redevelopment
Littering/Illegal Dumping
-- Keep PA Beautiful Marks America Recycles Day Nov. 15 With Cigarette Litter Recycling, Composting Program [PaEN]
-- EPA Accepting Proposals For $100 Million In Recycling Infrastructure, Education Grants Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
-- PA Resources Council Collects 383,175 Pounds Of Household Chemicals In 20th Season [PaEN]
-- Master Watershed Stewards Help Purge Plastics On The Lower Susquehanna River [PaEN]
-- StateImpactPA/Inside Climate News: Microplastics Pervade Even Top-Quality Streams In PA, Study Finds
-- Warren Times: ‘Warren Hooligans’ Again Do Their Part In Roadside Cleanup Effort
-- ABC6: Meet The ‘Litter Lifters,’ A Team Keeping Streets Clean In Chester County
Mine Reclamation
-- TribLive: Major Cleanup Effort Transformed Kiski River From Eyesore Into Destination Spot
-- DEP Provides Notice Of Using Coal Ash As Fill For Solar Energy Facility At Scrubgrass Generating Company, Venango County [PaEN]
-- Wheeling News-Register: Rare Earth Metals To Be Extracted From WV Coal Waste Impoundments
Oil & Gas
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18 [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Cryptocurrency Data Mining Operation On Shale Gas Well Pad In Elk County [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Replacement Projects Affecting Cambria, Fayette, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lebanon Counties [PaEN]
-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 15 On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 3 Oil & Gas, Three Mile Island Withdrawal Renewals [PaEN]
-- Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land [PaEN]
-- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- DEP Assesses $200,000 In Penalties For Drilling Wastewater Spills By CNX In Greene County [PaEN]
-- StateImpact PA - Reid Frazier: CNX Fined $200,000 For Natural Gas-Related Spills In Greene County [Note: Conventional oil and gas drillers reported illegally spreading 977,671 gallons of untreated drilling wastewater on Pennsylvania roads in 2021. DEP did not penalize one. Read more here.]
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now - By Edward C. Ketyer, M.D., President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community - By Rev. Wesley Silva, former Council President Marianna Borough, Washington County [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk - By Nicole Deziel PhD MHS, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities - By Joan Casey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health [PaEN]
-- YaleEnvironment360 - Jon Hurdle: As Evidence Mounts, New Concerns About Fracking And Health
-- PA Capital-Star: Pennsylvania Needs To Address Its Continuing Oil & Gas Well Abandonment Problem, Here’s How - By Sierra Club
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Natural Gas Drilling Ban Supporters See Wider Effort In Allegheny County Towns
-- Baker Hughes PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Same As Last Week - 22
-- TribLive: Allegheny Twp. Ink Fracking Lease With Olympus Energy For 27.7 Acres Of Tredway Trail In Westmoreland County
-- Penn State: Can Low-Grade Geothermal Energy Be Recovered From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells?
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: Will An Act Of ‘Spite’ By PA House Republicans Cost The State Hundreds Of Millions In Federal Transportation Funding? [Blocking Methane Limits On Oil & Gas Facilities]
-- Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard [PaEN]
-- Environmental Health Project Calls Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Good First Step [PaEN]
-- MCall: Hundreds Of Bethlehem Residents Able To Return Home Hours After 6,000 Gallons Of Gasoline, Diesel Spill
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell’s Petrochemical City In Beaver County Finally Gets Cracking
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shell Ethane Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Now Operational
-- Shell: Shell Chemical Appalachia Begins Operators At Polymers Plant In Pennsylvania
-- Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar [PaEN]
-- Public Source: Citizen Scientists Prepare To Monitor Shale Ethane Plant In Beaver County
-- Environmental Health Project 2022 Annual Report - 10th Anniversary, A Milestone Year
-- PUC Alerts Consumers Utility Natural Gas Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 128%, Electric Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 34%; Both Driven By Cost Of Natural Gas On World Markets [PaEN]
-- Canary Media: Charts: Winter Heating Bills To Rise Thanks To High Natural Gas Prices
-- PennLive: High Prices, Volatile Markets Make For Uncertain Heating Season Across Central PA
-- DCED Awards $338,174 Grant To UGI Utilities For Construction Of A Natural Gas Regulation Station In Monroe County
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Proposed Federal Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Would Solve State Issue
-- Williamsport Sun Editorial: White House Must Not Double Down On Anti-Drilling Agenda
-- Reuters: In Colorado, Oil Drilling Companies Capping Old Wells To Reduce Methane Emissions [With Their Own Money]
-- Bloomberg: Shale Oil, Natural Gas ‘Fracklog’ Is Back As U.S. Companies Hoard Pre-Drilled Wells That Could Be Brought Into Production
-- AP: UK Increases Windfall Tax On Profits Of Oil, Natural Gas Companies
-- Reuters: EU To Proposed Natural Gas Price Cap After Nov. 24 Meeting
-- Bloomberg: EU Details Proposal To Cap Natural Gas Price At Major Global Hub
-- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Rise Most In A Week Since August On Texas LNG Terminal Delay
-- NYT: An Estimated 40 LNG Natural Gas Tankers Still Sitting Off Coasts In Europe, Asia Waiting For Higher Prices Before Unloading Their Fuel
-- Bloomberg: Race Is On To Be Next Big U.S. Supplier Of LNG Natural Gas To Fuel-Starved Europe
-- Reuters: Texas LNG Natural Gas Terminal Targets Mid-December For Restart
-- Reuters: U.S. Regulator Releases Report Blaming Texas LNG Natural Gas Blast On Inadequate Operating, Testing Procedures
-- Bloomberg Guest Essay: Europe Isn’t Ready For Long-Term Commitment With LNG
-- Bloomberg: Where European Energy/Natural Gas Infrastructure Is Vulnerable To Attack
-- Financial Times: U.S. Oil Prices Fall 10% In The Week As Demand Worries Rise
-- Reuters: EU Supports UN COP27 Call To Phase Down All Fossil Fuels
-- Reuters: Big Gas Company Chiefs Bill Themselves As Climate Leaders At COP27
Pipelines
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18 [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Replacement Projects Affecting Cambria, Fayette, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lebanon Counties [PaEN]
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
Permitting
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Cryptocurrency Data Mining Operation On Shale Gas Well Pad In Elk County [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Replacement Projects Affecting Cambria, Fayette, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lebanon Counties [PaEN]
-- DEP To Hold Virtual Public Conference Dec. 7 On Expansion Of Tunnel Ridge, LLC Underground Coal Mine In Washington County [PaEN]
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18 [PaEN]
-- DEP Took Action On 816 Permits, 96% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,186 Inspections; Responded To 6 Environmental Emergencies Last Week
-- DEP Posts 63 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Nov. 19 PA Bulletin - Regulations [PaEN]
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Philadelphia To Exempt New Cobbs Creek Golf Course Project From Anti-Erosion Regulation
Public Participation
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Cryptocurrency Data Mining Operation On Shale Gas Well Pad In Elk County [PaEN]
-- DEP Invites Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Replacement Projects Affecting Cambria, Fayette, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lebanon Counties [PaEN]
-- DEP To Hold Virtual Public Conference Dec. 7 On Expansion Of Tunnel Ridge, LLC Underground Coal Mine In Washington County [PaEN]
-- DEP Provides Notice Of Using Coal Ash As Fill For Solar Energy Facility At Scrubgrass Generating Company, Venango County [PaEN]
-- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18 [PaEN]
-- DEP Posts 63 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Nov. 19 PA Bulletin - Regulations [PaEN]
-- CANCELED: PUC Nov. 17 Hearings On Philadelphia Natural Gas Works Weather Normalization Price Changes
-- EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide [PaEN]
PUC
-- PUC Alerts Consumers Utility Natural Gas Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 128%, Electric Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 34%; Both Driven By Cost Of Natural Gas On World Markets [PaEN]
-- Canary Media: Charts: Winter Heating Bills To Rise Thanks To High Natural Gas Prices
-- CANCELED: PUC Nov. 17 Hearings On Philadelphia Natural Gas Works Weather Normalization Price Changes
--ChargEVC-PA: Public Utility Commission To Explore Rate Design Solutions For Electric Vehicles
-- Post-Gazette: Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak For The Last 13 Days At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Failed, Gas Is Again Escaping [PaEN]
-- AP: Leak At Pennsylvania Natural Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane
-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Natural Gas Leak In Cambria County, Thought To Have Been Stopped, Is Leaking Again
-- Utility Dive: State Regulators Urge PJM To Adopt ‘Circuit Breaker’ To Prevent Extreme Prices In Emergencies [Extreme Weather, Cyberattacks]
Radiation Protection
-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 15 On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 3 Oil & Gas, Three Mile Island Withdrawal Renewals [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: New Nuclear Power Faces Old Skepticism: Can It Deliver On Time And On Budget
-- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA House Resolution Would Investigate Expanding Nuclear Energy
Recreation
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: DCNR Outlines Plans To Invest $100 Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funds In State Park Infrastructure
-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Spending On Outdoor Recreation Is Boosting PA’s Economy
-- NextPittsburgh: PA Outdoor Economy Experts Explain How Recreation And Job Growth Go Hand-In-Hand
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: PA Outdoor Recreation Sees 4% Increase In Jobs, Report
-- Scranton Times Editorial: Outdoor Recreation Drives PA Economy
-- DCNR Announces A Total Of $5 Million In Funding To Help Close Gaps In D&L Trail
-- MCall: New State Funding Will Help Close Lehigh Valley Gap In D&L Trail
-- DCNR Seeking Public Comments On ATV Regional Trail Connector Pilot Study Deadline Nov. 18 [Background]
-- Nov. 18 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN]
-- Williamsport Sun: Williamsport To Host 2023 Endless Mountains Adventure Race
-- Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia: Recap Of 2022 Circuit Trails Semi-Annual Meeting
-- Warren Times: North Country Trail Chapter Has Ambitious 2023 Planned In Allegheny National Forest
-- Warren Times: Proposal Pitches ‘Small Scale Resort’ Cabins, RV Sites For Kinzua Beach
-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Regional Development Corp Donates Land At McKeesport Park For Use In Great Allegheny Passage Trail
-- WESA: McKeesport Will Move Section Of Great Allegheny Passage Trail To Riverfront, Expanding Scenic Views
-- PA Environmental Council: Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Annual Gathering - Celebrating Transitions
-- Citizens Voice: Earth Conservancy Unveils Plans For Off-Road Park In Luzerne County
-- TribLive: Allegheny Twp. Ink Fracking Lease With Olympus Energy For 27.7 Acres Of Tredway Trail In Westmoreland County
-- NextPittsburgh: Discover Locks, Dams And The Death Star In Charleroi On Monongahela River
Recycling/Waste
-- Keep PA Beautiful Marks America Recycles Day Nov. 15 With Cigarette Litter Recycling, Composting Program [PaEN]
-- Warren Times: Warren County To Shut Down Remaining Recycling Sites
-- PA Resources Council Collects 383,175 Pounds Of Household Chemicals In 20th Season [PaEN]
-- StateImpactPA/Inside Climate News: Microplastics Pervade Even Top-Quality Streams In PA, Study Finds
-- EPA Accepting Proposals For $100 Million In Recycling Infrastructure, Education Grants Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Regulations
-- IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN]
-- Post-Gazette/Capitolwire.com: Will An Act Of ‘Spite’ By PA House Republicans Cost The State Hundreds Of Millions In Federal Transportation Funding? [Blocking Methane Limits On Oil & Gas Facilities]
-- York Dispatch: New DEP Regulation Targets PFOA/PFOS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In York County Drinking Water
-- On-Demand: Environmental Health Project PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ And Health Impacts Webinar, What Frontline Communities Need To Know
Renewable Energy
-- DEP Provides Notice Of Using Coal Ash As Fill For Solar Energy Facility At Scrubgrass Generating Company, Venango County [PaEN]
-- DCNR Discusses Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage Efforts, Announces $6 Million Investment In New Carbon Capture Research Facility [PaEN]
-- PA Capital-Star: Core Samples Get A New Home To Help DCNR Understand How PA’s Geology Could Support Carbon Capture, Sequestration Efforts
-- PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage [PaEN]
-- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Commonwealth Court Hears Arguments On Legality Of PA Program To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants [RGGI]
-- PA Capital-Star: PA Appeals Court Hears Oral Arguments In Fight Over RGGI
-- Post-Gazette/CapitolWire.com: Commonwealth Court Hears Arguments About PA Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
-- MCall Guest Essay: We Need A Climate Policy Without The Politics - By Anthony O’Brien, Lehigh University Professor
-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: The High Costs Of An Accelerated Green Energy Transition
-- Penn State Hosting Dec. 10 Educators Workshop On Pennsylvania KidWind Challenge In State College [PaEN]
-- Dept. Of Energy Announces $13 Billion To Modernize, Expand Power Grid Funded By Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
SRBC
-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 15 On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 3 Oil & Gas, Three Mile Island Withdrawal Renewals [PaEN]
-- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Meets Dec. 9 [PaEN]
Susquehanna River
-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 15 On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 3 Oil & Gas, Three Mile Island Withdrawal Renewals [PaEN]
-- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Meets Dec. 9 [PaEN]
-- Master Watershed Stewards Help Purge Plastics On The Lower Susquehanna River [PaEN]
Sustainability
-- The Hershey Company Reduces Environmental Impact Across Its Value Chain
Wastewater Facilities
-- Delaware County: Setting The Facts Straight About Delaware County And Aqua Pennsylvania And The Sale Of Wastewater Infrastructure
-- WESA: ALCOSAN Spends More Than $1 Million Fixing Sewage Leak Near Sandcastle Water Park
-- PA American Water Charitable Foundation Awards 2022 Workforce Readiness Grants
Water Resources
-- NextPittsburgh: Discover Locks, Dams And The Death Star In Charleroi On Monongahela River
Watershed Protection
-- Penn State Master Watershed Stewards Now Accepting Applications, Holding Info Sessions
-- Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 29 Webinar On The Roadside Guide To Clean Water - Recognizing Efforts To Keep Your Community’s Water Clean [PaEN]
-- Native Meadow Will Benefit Environment In New Caln Township Meadow Park In Chester County [PaEN]
-- 10th Annual Delaware River Watershed Forum Unites Conservation Organizations, Advocates In Philadelphia [PaEN]
-- Celebrating The Seneca Nation’s Efforts To Strengthen The Next Generation Of Freshwater Stewards - By Tara Muenz, Stroud Water Research Center [PaEN]
-- Bay Journal: After 35 Years, Chesapeake Bay Commission Director Ann Swanson Hands Off The Baton
-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Statement On 2022 Chesapeake Bay Dead Zone Survey Results
-- TribLive: Major Cleanup Effort Transformed Kiski River From Eyesore Into Destination Spot
-- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Meets Dec. 9 [PaEN]
-- Penn State Extension Report On Private Water Supply Education & Water Testing In 2022 [PaEN]
-- Master Watershed Stewards Help Purge Plastics On The Lower Susquehanna River [PaEN]
-- StateImpactPA/Inside Climate News: Microplastics Pervade Even Top-Quality Streams In PA, Study Finds
-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Philadelphia To Exempt New Cobbs Creek Golf Course Project From Anti-Erosion Regulation
-- Delaware RiverKeeper Nov. 18 RiverWatch Video Report
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Wildlife
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Game Commission Announces Major Changes As Firearms Hunting Season For Black Bear Approaches
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Big Turnout Expected As PA Firearms Season For Black Bear Set To Start
-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Hunters Share Their Tips For Bagging Deer On State Game Lands
-- York Daily Record - Brian Whipkey: Pheasants Escaped Game Commission Farm During Snowstorm, But PA Has More
-- DCNR: Fish Passage Construction To Begin At Shikellamy State Park Dam On Susquehanna River In Shamokin Dam
-- Delaware Watershed Activists, Businesses, Residents Commemorate Loss Of 250,000 Atlantic Sturgeon In Procession Around Philadelphia City Hall [Video Available]
-- WHYY: Environmentalists Protest Projects That Impact Endangered Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon
-- Williamsport Sun: Ashley Wilmont Competed With U.S. Women’s Fly Fishing Team
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Registration Open For Youth Rivers Conservation, Fly Fishing Camp By Cumberland Valley Chapter TU
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Pennsylvanians See Improved Wildlife Habitat As Important Result Of Prescribed Fire, Study Says
-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Light Pollution Raises Exposure Of Birds To Toxic Chemicals, New Study
-- Patch.com: Protecting The Environment: Radnor Recognized As An Audubon Bird Town
-- Warren Times: 2022 Audubon Nature Center Photo Contest Winners Announced
Opportunities
-- Help Wanted: Sustainable Energy Education & Development Support In Wayne County Seeks Executive Director
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[Posted: November 20, 2022]
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