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Are You Telling Your Story? 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    -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Another Hydrogen Coalition- This One In West Virginia- Launches Bid To Chase Federal Funding -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Natural Gas, WV Partner On Large-Scale Hydrogen Hub In West Virginia -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Mountain Valley Natural Gas Pipeline Says Federal Permit Reform Failure Doesn’t Change Pipeline, Still Expects To Be In Service In 2023 -- Altoona Mirror: Natural Gas Pipeline Leak Reported On Beale During Construction Project -- Altoona Mirror: Chipotle Evacuated Due To Natural Gas Leak -- Pennsylvania Holds First-Ever Online Sustainability Summit Oct. 3-7  [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Utility Scale 200 MW Solar Energy Facility Planne...

The Stroud Water Research Center announced Dr. Michael E. Mann, climate change scientist, author and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, and Director of the Earth System Science Center, is the 2022 recipient of the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence. Dr. Mann will be honored at The Water's Edge Gala on November 3 at the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science in Wilmington. Click Here for tickets and more information on this special event. Speaking Truth and Science About Climate Change Michael E. Mann, Ph.D., has spent his career investigating climate change, communicating about its reality, and highlighting the politics that seek to undermine action against it. Mann’s research on climate variability and extremes has been at the forefront of climate change science.  In 1999, he and his colleagues examined 1,000 years of temperature changes that produced the hockey stick graph, so named because of its pronounced upward curve.  The data, which co...

Are You Telling Your Story? 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   -- WeConservePA: DCNR Posts 3 Videos To Help Applicants Apply For Conservation Grants, Including Special Fall Grant Round, Watershed Forestry Grants  [PaEN]   -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Invites Volunteers To 1st Annual Jim Finley Stewardship Day In Moxie Woods, Mercer County, Oct. 1  [PaEN]   -- DCNR State Parks Back To School Environmental Education Newsletter  [PaEN]   -- ClearWater Conservancy Awarded State Grant For Streamside Forest Restoration Projects In 3 Watersheds In Centre, Huntingdon Counties  [PaEN]   -- MyChesco.com: Bristol Borough To Receive $110,000 State Grant For Watershed Restoration Project   -- Patch.com: $255,000 Grant To Slow Flow Of Mill Creek Erosion In...

Are You Telling Your Story? 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   -- Gov. Wolf Touts PA's Leadership In Clean Energy Transition At Global Clean Energy Action Forum In Pittsburgh  [PaEN]   -- DCNR Fall Foliage Reports Begin Sept. 29; Start Planning Your Trip To Experience PA's Colorful Autumn Now  [PaEN] -- DCNR Blog: Be Part Of A Citizen Science Project To Help Track Bird Migration During The Fall Migration Round-Up In State Parks  [PaEN] -- Celebrate Riparian Buffer Month In October With Penn State Extension, Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, Local Groups - By Kristen Koch, Penn State Agriculture & Environment Center  [PaEN] -- EXTENDED: Federal Office Of Surface Mining Accepting Applications For Watershed Cooperative Agreement Mine...

By Kristen Koch, Penn State Agriculture & Environment Center Riparian buffers, or streamside forests, are one of the best ways to protect and improve our local streams. They prevent erosion, reduce flooding, provide habitat for wildlife in and near the water, create recreational opportunities, and filter pollutants.  They deserve to be celebrated! Penn State Extension and the Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center will once again be partnering with the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council to celebrate October as Riparian Buffer Month.  This is an opportunity for individuals and organizations to build awareness and familiarity of forested riparian buffers while sharing the applicability of these sustainable practices in a variety of settings.  If you care about our streams, native plants, pollinators, the Chesapeake Bay, or love taking a walk in the woods, you are encouraged to take part in some way and participate in this month-long, focused effort to spread the...

On September 21, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s issued a report celebrating the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership’s 15th Anniversary that highlights Partner achievements in supermarket refrigerant management.  EPA also presented the annual GreenChill awards for achievements made during the 2021 program year This year GreenChill honored 13 supermarket industry organizations and one advanced refrigeration system manufacturer for exceptional achievements in effectively managing refrigerants and reducing emissions of ozone-depleting substances and high global warming potential gases such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) to reduce the impacts of commercial refrigeration systems on the environment. The supermarket companies serving Pennsylvania recognized by EPA include-- -- Weis Markets - Most Improved Emissions Rate. Store Recertification Excellence -- The GIANT Company - Superior Goal Achievement -- Giant Eagle - Superior Goal Achievement/Exceptional Goal Achieve...

Are You Telling Your Story? Senate returns to session September 20, 21, October 17, 18, 19      -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 20, 21, October 24, 25, 26      -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 9:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee hearing on Wellhead to Stovetop - Conveying Energy in PA. Room G-50 Irvis Building.  Click Here to watch online.  Read more here. TODAY 12:30: Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. See webpage for remote options to join the meeting.  Contact: Keith Salador, Executive Director, ksalador@pa.gov.  Read more here. TODAY 12:30: CANCELED. Senate Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure Committee meets to consider House Bill 1161 (Mizgorski-R-Allegheny County) establishing a solar energy subscription program.  Room 461 Main Capitol.  Click Here to watch live.  Read more here.   -- WESA: Global Leaders Meet In Pittsburgh In Hopes O...

By Justin Nobel This guest essay first appeared on Inquirer.com on September 16, 2022.  The deadline for submitting public comments on this process to DEP is September 19. I’m a science journalist and four years ago, I fell down the oil-field radioactivity rabbit hole.  Here in Pennsylvania, a landfill applying for a permit with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to evaporate liquid landfill runoff — called leachate — could create airborne radioactive material over people downwind. Every day across the nation, about 2.8 billion gallons of oil field brine are produced with toxic levels of salt, heavy metals, and the radioactive element radium. In Pennsylvania, levels have been recorded at up to 5,700 times EPA’s safe drinking water limit. Sludge that forms on the bottom of tanks and trucks that hold brine can be even richer in radium and can also contain exceptional amounts of radioactive lead. And with every Marcellus well, crushed rock and dirt called drill cutting...

On September 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision affirming that Pennsylvania state legislators and municipalities lacked standing to challenge the Delaware River Basin Commission’s regulation banning fracking within the Basin.  The Court also rejected arguments that the trust created by the Environmental Rights Amendments to Pennsylvania’s Constitution was injured by the fracking ban.  In rejecting this argument, the Court explicitly relied on a joint amicus brief from Clean Air Council, PennFuture, and Widener University Commonwealth Law School. In February 2021, the DRBC banned high-volume hydraulic fracking within the Delaware River Basin. The ban reflected the Commission’s determination that fracking “poses significant, immediate and long-term risks to the development, conservation, utilization, management, and preservation of the [Basin’s] water resources.”  The Plaintiffs—two Pennsylvania state senators, the entire Senate Republican Caucus, a...