While PA Environment Digest’s priority is to highlight positive examples of environmental and energy leadership, 2022 is an election year which demands accountability to voters.

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips-- 

-- PA Capital-Star: Advocates Say Proposed Constitutional Change Targets Pollution Regs, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan

-- Creating New Brownfields: Oil & Gas Well Drillers Notified DEP They Are Cleaning Up Soil & Water Contaminated With Chemicals Harmful To Human Health, Aquatic Life At 272 Locations In PA  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal: New Abandoned Wells - More Concerns Emerge Over Pennsylvania’s Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN]

-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: PUC Reverses Decision, Reduces Sunoco Mariner East Pipeline Penalty For High Noise Levels, Exacerbating Emergency And Fire Hazards To $3,000 From $51,000  [Read Original Decision]

-- Post-Gazette: House Energy Committee Voted To Kill Oil & Gas Methane Reduction Regs, Now $500 Million In Federal Highway Funding Is At Risk

-- Scranton Times Editorial: House Committee’s Vote Against Reducing Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Another Example Of Pandering To Industry

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes - Rep. Metcalfe’s Antics Will Cost PA Dearly [House Committee Vote To Disapprove Oil & Gas Methane Reduction Regs]

-- Scranton Times: Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Environmental Hazards In Scranton School District

-- Warren Times: 20 Years Since Ecoterrorism Attack On U.S. Forest Service Research Station In Irvine, Warren County

Want to have a positive impact on issues like this?  Tell your Senate and House members they need to act to protect and restore Pennsylvania’s environment and support the tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians who do-- not slide backwards.

Click Here to find your member of the state General Assembly.

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[Posted: August 28, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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