Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.23.22

Are You Telling Your Story?

Warning! Last Voting Days This Session!  Hold Onto Your Butts! (And Tax Money!)

Senate returns to session October 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 

 

-- 69 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA  [PaEN]

 

-- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students And Adults [PaEN]

 

-- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week  [PaEN]

 

-- Welcome The Inaugural Class Of 35 High School Keep PA Beautiful Young Ambassadors  [PaEN]

 

-- Tribune-Democrat: Blacklick Creek Watershed Assn. Restoring Miners Mural, Working To Improve Blacklick Creek In Cambria County

 

-- DEP Declares Sunday, Oct. 23 Air Pollution Action Day For Allegheny County, Susquehanna Valley

 

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Health Dept. Issues Air Pollution Warning For Saturday, All Of Sunday 

 

-- Inquirer: UPenn Students Storm Franklin Field At Halftime Protesting For Climate, Community Justice

 

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Rehabbed Steel Mill Eagle Rosie Released With A 7-Foot Wingspan

 

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]

 

-- LancasterOnline: Heating Oil Costs Up 74%, Natural Gas Up 28%, Electricity Up 10% This Winter; Utilities Struggling With Surging Prices Of Natural Gas

 

-- Reuters: U.S. Oil Firms Say $72/Barrel For Oil Too Low A Price To Refill Oil Reserve; Oil Trading For $85 Now

 

American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.  What’s Your Community Doing?

 

Other States/National/International

-- AP: Climate Questions: What’s Going On With Climate Change?

 

-- AP: Climate Questions: How Much Has The Climate Changed Already?

 

-- AP: Climate Questions: Who Is Most Vulnerable To Climate Change?

-- AP: Climate Questions: Why Do Small Degrees Of Warming Matter?

-- AP: Climate Questions: How Does Carbon Dioxide Trap Heat?

-- AP: Advanced Plastics Recycling - Plastic Crisis Solution Or Distraction?

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Inquirer: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano’s Adviser Questions Shapiro’s Faith - ‘At Best A Secular Jew’

-- Post-Gazette: Targeted With Death Threats, Philadelphia Republican Election Overseer Al Schmidt Now Works To Restore Elections

-- The Guardian: U.S. Politics’ Post-Shame Era: How Republicans Became The Party Of Hate [Includes PA]

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Spells Out His Plan ‘To Take Pennsylvania Back’

-- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano’s Crass Christianity Doesn’t Represent York’s Caring People Of Faith

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano A No-Show At ReAwakening American Shows In Lancaster

-- TribLive/Spotlight PA: Most Outside Spending On PA Governor’s Race Has One Aim: To Defeat Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano

-- The Guardian: Penn State Students Outraged Over Invitation To Far-Right ‘Proud Boys’ Founder

-- Altoona Mirror: Penn State University Police Urge Residents Not To Attend Event Featuring Far-Right ‘Proud Boys’ Speaker

-- AP: Republican Voters Told To Hold Onto Mail-In Ballots And Hand Them In At Polling Place Or Election Offices [Note: Polling Places In PA Cannot Accept Mail-In Ballots, But You Can Surrender Them And Vote In Person On Election Day, Since You’re Already There]

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Shapiro’s Sound Competence Better Choice For Governor, Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Too Dangerous, Too Extreme

-- Post-Gazette/Inquirer: Inflation, Not Crime, Abortion Tops Voters’ List In U.S. Senate Race

-- Post-Gazette: Within Solid Republican, Democratic Congressional Districts, Voters Often Disagree On Key Issues, Cross Party Lines

-- MCall: Rural Carbon County Will Play A Key Role In Lehigh Valley Congressional Race

-- Politics PA: Congressional Vulnerability In PA

-- PennLive/TNS: Gisele Fetterman’s History As Undocumented Immigrant Inspires Husband’s Policy

-- LancasterOnline Editorial: PA’s Bloated, Expensive Legislature Gets Shockingly Little Done

-- WHYY: U.S. Dept. Of Education Will Investigate Central Bucks School District Following ACLU Complaint Alleging ‘Hostile’ Environment For LGBTQ Students

-- PennLive: 13-Year-Old Charged With Making Verbal Threats Against Mifflinburg Schools In Union County

-- TribLive Editorial: Gunfire Makes Us All Innocent Bystanders

-- TribLive/AP: Justice Kagan At UPenn: ‘Time Will Tell’ Of U.S. Supreme Court Finds Common Ground

-- Altoona Mirror Editorial: Don’t Let Your Guard Down Against COVID

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[Posted: October 23, 2022]  PA Environment Digest