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--

-- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Left PA Full Of 200,000+ Possibly Harmful Old Wells, Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Brings New Hope Wells Will Be Plugged  [Proposal To Increase Bonding]

 

-- Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Pay Only $46,100 Of The $10,600,000 It Costs DEP To Regulate That Industry; Taxpayers May Be Asked To Pay The Difference  [PaEN]

 

-- Delaware Valley Journal: Mariner East Pipeline Construction Complete In PA, Company Says  [Article Leaves Out Record $24 Million In DEP Penalties; 48 Environmental Crimes Charges Brought By State Attorney General]

 

-- StateImpactPA - Susan Phillips: Mariner East Pipeline Is Finished, After Years Of  Environmental Damage, Millions In Penalties, Criminal Charges, Construction Delays

 

-- House Republicans To Wolf: PA Has Energy Role On World Stage [Drill More, Build More Pipelines, Although PA Hasn’t Been The Problem]

 

-- Beaver County Times Guest Essay: PA’s 2022 Energy Potential: What It Means For The Future Of The Keystone State [Boosting Investment In Natural Gas Infrastructure] [PA Hasn’t Been The Problem With Pipelines]

 

-- Fox News: EQT Says Natural Gas Prices Surging Due To Lack Of Adequate Pipeline Infrastructure [Tension Over Russia, Ukraine Leaves U.S. Natural Gas Prices At Risk Of Escalating - Which Is Good For EQT, Bad For Consumers]

 

-- AP: ‘Irreversible:’ No Easy Fix For Water Fouled By Natural Gas Driller In Susquehanna County  [DEP Confirmed At Least 380 Water Supplies Fouled By Gas Drilling] [DEP Received 1,049 Water Supply Complaints From Gas Drilling Since 2016]

 

-- PA Cap-Star: Can Carbon Capture Fit Into PA’s Climate Solutions?

 

-- WTAE: Millions Approved To Train Laid-Off Coal Miners, But 4 Years Later No One Has Been Trained

 

-- AP: Coal Miners, Families Testify Against WV Bill To Ax Injury Benefits  [Watch For It In PA]

-- WHYY: Researchers Cite Widespread Lead Contamination In Water At Philly Schools

 

-- KYW: Philadelphia Residents Still Without Heat, Running Water Week After Water Main Break

 

-- PG/NYT: Republicans, Toomey Stall Critical Vote On Federal Reserve Nominees Over Climate Issues

NPR: Accusations Of ‘Greenwashing’ By Big Oil Companies Are Well-Founded, New Study Finds

 

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.

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[Posted: February 20, 2022]  PA Environment Digest