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--

-- Quarterly Report: DEP Issued 77 Notices Of Violations To Conventional Drillers, 8 To Shale Gas Drillers For Attempting To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them

[“Warning: The average person is likely to be shocked at the number and extent of the violations documented by DEP day in and day out.”]

-- AP: Commonwealth Court Blocks Publication Of DEP RGGI Regulation

-- PA Senate Fails To Override Gov. Wolf’s Veto Of A Resolution To Kill RGGI Regulation; Moving House Bill To Block Next? [PaEN]

-- PEC Blog: Pennsylvania Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increased 9.6% In 2021 [PaEN]

-- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Why PA Natural Gas Might Not Be Poised To Come To Europe’s Rescue

-- Guest Essay - Sen. Yaw: Closing Of Bradford County LNG Project A PA, U.S. Tragedy

[Actually, The Company Did Nothing With State Approvals Since 2019. DEP’s Air Permit Was Extended Twice. Real Story Here]

-- Delco Times Guest Essay: Biden, Wolf Are Captive To Radical Environmentalists - Lowman Henry, Lincoln Institute [RGGI] [Critical Of Biden For Saying Putin Should Be Removed For His War Crimes In Ukraine]

-- PennLive Guest Essay: Republicans Are Spreading Misinformation On Inflation, Energy Policies - Carl Hisiro, Fmr Assistant Counsel PUC, Fmr Chief Deputy Attorney General For Republican Attorneys General

-- Republican State Treasurer Garrity Calls For Biden Administration To Support American Energy Production

-- PA Capital-Star: PA’s Gubernatorial Candidates Feud Over How To Reduce Pain At The Pump [Here’s an idea-- transition away from fossil fuels]

-- Tribune Democrat Editorial: Republicans In Harrisburg Using Ukraine To Promote A Climate-Denialist Agenda

-- PA Capital-Star: Republican Opposition To Wolf Regulations On Carbon Pricing, Private Charter Schools Could Shape Coming Months

-- DEP Approves Sunoco's Mariner East Pipeline Marsh Creek State Park Lake Restoration Plan [PaEN]

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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