This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues

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--

-- Representative Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drillers Compares Their History In PA To The Holy Bible - But He Left Out Some Parts [PaEN]

-- Rep. Metcalfe: Declares Lame Duck Wolf’s Final Fake Budget, ‘Environmental Crusader’ Legacy As Absolute Failures [Should Give Taxpayer Funded Grants To Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drillers To Plug Wells Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Abandoned?]

-- Sen. Yaw: PA Shouldn’t Rely Solely On $395 Million In Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Funds To Plug Wells Abandoned By PA Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drillers [Should Prohibit The State From Owning Renewable Energy Credits To Generate More Money?] 

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Natural Gas Industry, Some PA Lawmakers Trying To Block Clean Energy Options - PennEnvironment

-- PennLive Letter: Republican Bills Rob Clean Energy To Fund Cleanup Of Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Conventional Drillers

-- The Guardian: Rightwing Lobby Group ALEC Driving Laws To Blacklist Companies That Boycott The Oil Industry Thru Energy Discrimination Elimination Act [Watch For It In PA]

-- PBS - Jon Hurdle: For Low-Income Pittsburgh, CleanAir Remains An Elusive Goal

-- AP: Senate, House Have Record Cash Operating Surplus Of $233.6 Million Just Sitting Around

-- WITF/PennLive: Tens Of Thousands Of Bees Stolen From The GIANT Company Cumberland County Pollinator Project

 

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[Posted: February 13, 2022]  PA Environment Digest