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The Senate was the only chamber in session this week.

As 2021 is winding down, the House of Representatives and the Senate were in session for the final week of the year. Both chambers will be back in Harrisburg on January 4 for one session day...

Government transparency and the public right to know is a standard to which we hold public officials accountable. Recent examples in Pennsylvania illustrate the consequences when that standard is not upheld. Earlier this month, the discovery that the Pennsylvania Department of State had failed to publicly advertise a proposed constitutional amendment referendum to extend legal recourse for victims of sexual abuse resulted in the amendment proposal becoming ineligible for a statewide ballot. The...

jwhittaker@post-journal.com AP Photo Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at a campaign rally for Pennsylvania candidates in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. HARRISBURG — State Senate Republicans are continuing their fight against Gov. Tom Wolf’s attempt to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In a party-line vote, the state Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, chaired by Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Bradford/Lycoming/Sullivan/Susquehanna/Union, sent a letter to the state’s Independent...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Congress addressed the issue of interstate transport of air pollution in the Clean Air Act by enacting a “Good Neighbor Provision.”  That provision requires upwind states to eliminate their contributions to air pollution in downwind states.  EPA has promulgated various rules to implement the Good Neighbor Provision, beginning with the NOx Budget Trading Program and including the Clean Air Interstate Rule and, most recently, the ...

A recent study has found that improved air quality from the US Clean Air Act has saved around 1.5 billion birds. Before the 1970 Act, ozone pollution had been damaging their respiratory systems as well as their food sources. This pollution is most harmful to small migratory land birds, which make up 86% of all North American species. The improved air quality and reduced ozone pollution that followed the 1970 passage of the US Clean Air Act and later amendments have saved the lives of 1.5 billio...

PITTMAN PRESENTS TO ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY BOARD ON RGGI By Josh Widdowson Dec 15, 2020 1:54 PM With the 60-day public comment period underway regarding Governor Tom Wolf’s executive order for Pennsylvania to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, state leaders are wasting no time in voicing their concerns over this matter. One is Senator Joe Pittman, as he presented to the Department of Environmental Protection’s Environmental Quality Board (EQB) with his main focus b...

Clean Air Act, designed for humans, saved billion-plus birds Updated Dec 10, 2020; Facebook Share While the federal Clean Air Act was enacted to protect humans from air pollution, it also has saved birds. The cleaner air resulting from the pollution regulations has saved 1.5 billion birds, nearly 20 percent of all birdlife in the U.S. today, according to researchers at Cornell University and the University of Oregon. “Our research shows that the benefits of environmental regulation have like...