Peco extends natural gas lines to Chester County customers who long to tie into the Pa shale boom


The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Andrew Maykuth reports:

A utility’s announcement that it’s about to rip up a neighborhood’s streets typically generates dread among the locals.

But the mood was festive Monday in a section of Tredyffrin Township, where Peco Energy Co. had a ceremonial groundbreaking to mark the site where it will dig trenches in seven streets over the next three months to bring natural-gas service to 160 homes.

“This was a long time coming,” said Melinda Taylor, a resident of Saunders Drive in Wayne and one of the principal organizers of the effort to enlist Peco to extend gas service in the neighborhood of mid-century homes.

The Saunders-Wayne project is the largest of 10 new gas-main extensions  Peco has approved this year, after the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission signed off on a pilot project designed to reduce the upfront cost to customers of extending gas mains into a new area. The new gas mains reach 290 customers, of which 93 have signed up for service.

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Energy and enviro legislation on the move in New Jersey

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A-793  Andrzejczak, B. (D-1); Land, R.B. (D-1)
Requires Dept. of Agriculture and DEP to work with US
Army Corps of Engineers to establish joint permit application process for
aquaculture projects.
Related Bill: S-316
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Senate (35-0)
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Received in
Assembly
   Nov 21, 2016     –        2nd reading on concurrence
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Assembly (72-0)
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Sent to the Governor
A-794  Andrzejczak, B. (D-1); Land, R.B. (D-1)
Requires Dept. of Agriculture and DEP to adopt
coordinated permit application and review program for aquaculture projects.  Related
Bill: S-317
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Assembly (72-0)
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Sent to the Governor
A-1954  Coughlin, C.J. (D-19); Benson, D.R. (D-14)
Makes changes to funding provisions for financial
assistance and grants from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.  Related
Bill: S-1237
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Assembly (72-0)
A-2375  McKeon, J.F. (D-27); Gusciora, R. (D-15)
Revises “Electronic Waste Management Act.”  Related
Bill: S-981
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Substituted by
another bill: S981
A-3549  Johnson, G.M. (D-37); Zwicker, A. (D-16)
Exempts hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles from certain
labeling requirements.  Related Bill: S-2098
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Substituted by
another bill: S2098
 A-3918  DeAngelo, W.P. (D-14); Eustace, T. (D-38)
Establishes NJ Solar Energy Study Commission and
modifies State’s solar renewable energy portfolio standards.  Related
Bill: S-2276
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Posted; not
considered: Assembly


  
A-4127  DeAngelo, W.P. (D-14); Muoio, E.M. (D-15)
Increases civil penalties for certain natural gas or
hazardous liquid facility safety violations. Related Bill: S-2673
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Assembly (71-0)
A-4350  Eustace, T. (D-38)
Precludes DEP from imposing certain certification
requirements on installers of individual subsurface sewage disposal systems.
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Proposed for
Assembly intro
AJR-131  Andrzejczak, B. (D-1); Dancer, R.S. (R-12)
Designates month of September of each year as
“Organic Farming Month.”
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Proposed for
Assembly intron
S-487  Oroho, S.V. (R-24); Sarlo, P.A. (D-36)
Excludes corrugated containers sold by the
manufacturer from definition of “litter-generating product”; exempts
such sales from user fee imposed under “Clean Communities Program
Act.”
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Senate (35-0)
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Received by the
Assembly
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Referred: Assembly
Environment and Solid Waste
S-981  Smith, B. (D-17); Bateman, C. (R-16);
Greenstein, L.R. (D-14)
Revises “Electronic Waste Management Act.” 
Related Bill: A-2375
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Substituted for
another bill: A2375
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Assembly (60-12)
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Sent to the Governor
S-2276  Smith, B. (D-17); Bateman, C. (R-16)
Establishes NJ Solar Energy Study Commission and modifies
State’s solar renewable energy portfolio standards.
Related Bill: A-3918
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Posted; not
considered: Assembly
S-2422  Madden, F.H. (D-4)
Requires recycling of scrap tires and licensing of
scrap tire haulers.
Related Bill: A-4093
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Senate (21-12)
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Received by the
Assembly
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Referred: Assembly
Environment and Solid Waste
S-2731  Greenstein, L.R. (D-14); Bateman, C. (R-16)
Authorizes New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure
Trust to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure
projects for FY2017.
Related Bill: A-4326
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Senate (33-0)
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Received by the
Assembly
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Referred: Assembly
Appropriations
S-2732  Codey, R.J. (D-27); Gill, N.H. (D-34)
Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects
approved for long-term funding for FY 2017 to include new projects and revise
allowable loan amounts.
Related Bill: A-4327
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Passed by the
Senate (32-0)
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Received by the
Assembly
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Referred: Assembly
Appropriations
S-2803  Gordon, R.M. (D-38)
Creates New Jersey Crude Oil by Rail Safety Task
Force.
Related Bill: A-4031
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Introduced in
Senate
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Referred: Senate
Transportation
SCR-39  Smith, B. (D-17); Greenstein, L.R. (D-14)
Amends Constitution to dedicate all State moneys
received from settlements and awards in cases of environmental contamination
for certain environmental purposes.  Related Bill: ACR-127
   Nov 21, 2016     –        Public Hearing
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE IS IN RECESS
The House will reconvene on
Tue. Jan 3, 2017 at 12:00PM
·       
House Calendar
·       
Tabled Bill Calendar
·       
Uncontested Calendar
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Will Trump Bedminster golf club be the new Camp David?

Kathleen O’Brien reports for NJ.com


He went there to prepare for a presidential debate, and returned last weekend to conduct interviews of possible cabinet appointees.


Will President-elect Donald Trump use his Bedminster golf club as his administration’s version of Camp David? Or as Kellyanne Conway, one of his top advisers, called it on Twitter, #CampDavidNJ?



Trump National Golf Course offers the president-elect 434-acres of bucolic Somerset Hills scenery, proximity to New York City, high-end suites for overnight stays, a helipad, and privacy.
What it doesn’t offer right now is much in the way of presidential-level security, experts say.
Experts predict security around and within the golf resort will be significantly beefed up if Trump continues to make regular visits there.
Everything from access roads to phone lines to even the maids and kitchen workers will be freshly scrutinized with an eye to protecting the president.
“We’ve never had a president in modern history who comes to this job with so many physical and financial assets across the globe,” said John D. Cohen, of Rutgers University’s Institute for Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security. 
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Preventing pols from diverting enviro settlement dollars

Environment New Jersey Director Doug O’Malley explains how a bill amending the state’s constitution would prevent the current (and future) governors from diverting environmental damage settlement dollars from cleanups and restorations to unrelated budget purposes.


The legislation, SCR 39, is moving closer to final legislative votes in the Senate and Assembly. If it passes before the year’s end, it could go to the next general election ballot if passed again in the 2017 legislative year. 


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Big project protects shore towns and fish-spawning lake

A “state-of-the-art” flood-control culvert, the centerpiece of the $7.4 million restoration of Wreck Pond in Spring Lake, NJ, has been completed, state and local officials announced yesterday.




Tim Dillingham, executive director of the American Littoral Society was among participants who met on a very chilly Spring Lake beach yesterday morning to mark the occasion.

We met up with Tim later in the day. By then, he had thawed out and provided project details in the video above.

Related story and video:
High-tech tunnel completed at Wreck Pond

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Questions Surround Proposal for NY to Buy NJ Water




As drought conditions worsen in North Jersey, the water company, Suez, has caused a ruckus with its proposal to buy up to 5 million gallons of water a day from New Jersey’s largest reservoir and send it to New York. 


Erin Delmore reports for NJTV NEWS. 


Related: N.J.’s largest reservoir drops to lowest level on record

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