PA Environment Digest Blog: 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--

-- Environmental Health News: Public Health In PA Ignored During Fracking Rush - Report [PaEN]

-- FracTracker Alliance: Dimock Residents Working To Protect Water From New Threat: Fracking Waste

-- New Ohio River Valley Institute Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owner Diversified Energy Lacks Resources To Plug Wells, Including 22,507 Wells In PA [PaEN]

-- Dog Whistles: House Republicans Pass Bills Adding More Bureaucracy To DEP Permits Reviews; Pretending To Increase Natural Gas Production In PA [PaEN]

-- Charleston Gazette-Mail Guest Essay: Natural Gas Is Energy Future - PA, OH, WV Shale Gas Coalitions

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Dear Republican Cong. Smucker - Proliferation Of Natural Gas Production Has Resulted In More Methane Emissions - Michael Wright, Climate Psychology Alliance Of North America

-- TribLive Letter: Local Energy Choice Means Progress On Environment, Economy - PA Chamber [Except communities are banned from making a clean energy choice under this legislation.]

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Polluters Can’t Regulate Themselves [That’s What House Republican Bills Would Do]

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: PA State Government’s Refusal To Pay Legal Stormwater Fees Unfairly Burdens Residential, Commercial Ratepayers - Capital Region Water

-- PA Capital-Star: Report: Allegheny, Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia Counties Get ‘F’ In Air Quality

-- DEP Signed 2 Consent Agreements With PBF Petroleum Terminal On The Schuylkill River In Philadelphia For Storage Tank, Clean Streams Law Violations; Penalties Total $1,050,000 [PaEN]

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Petroleum Terminal Fined $1 Million For Leaks Into The Schuylkill River

-- TribLive: Fmr Pittsburgh Water Authority Supervisor Pleads Guilty To Federal Clean Water Act Violations Related To Sludge Releases

-- TribLive: Lawmakers Calls On DEP To Again Reject Driller’s Application To Draw Water From Big Sewickley Creek For Fracking

-- AG Shapiro: Republic, BFI Waste Services To Pay Restitution To Consumers Wrongfully Charged For Waste Container Removal Fees

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