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

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

-- DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County   [PaEN]

-- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells

-- Guest Essay: PA Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Blog: More Carbon Dioxide Is Good, Less Is Bad - By Gregory Wrightstone, CO2 Coalition  [PaEN]

-- Triumph Township, Warren County Advertising For 100,000 Gallons Of ‘Salt Brine’ To Dump On Township Roads  [PaEN]

-- Financial Times: Few U.S. Companies In Position To Fully Capitalize On New Solar Tax Credit Rules, Experts Warn

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Central PA Is Among The Nation’s Worst Air Pollution - By Evangelical Environmental Network  [RGGI]

-- StateImpactPA: In PA, Climate Change Threatens The State Tree, Bird And Fish; Work Is Under Way To Help The Native Species

-- PA Business Report: PA Business Leaders Warn Latest Proposed EPA Standard For Particulates Will Sting

-- Chesapeake Bay Program: Independent Study Evaluates Why Progress In Achieving Bay Water Quality Goals Is Lagging 

-- Republicans On Senate Environmental Committee Report Out Bills To Narrow Grounds For Appealing DEP Actions, Stream Cleaning, Take ‘Protection’ Out Of The Dept. Of Environmental Protection  [PaEN] 

-- Senate Republicans Move Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Waive Any Permitting Requirement, Add Cost, Time, Complexity To Regulatory/Permitting Bureaucracy  [PaEN] 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: 60+ PA Business Groups Urge Action On State’s Permitting Reform

-- PA Chamber Of Business & Industry, 67 Other Business Groups Call On Lawmakers To Enact Permitting Reform [SB 350]

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[Posted: May 14, 2023]  PA Environment Digest