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--

-- The Epoch Times: Republicans Urge Gov. Wolf To Unleash PA’s Immense Natural Gas Reserves

-- Guest Essay: Are We Nuts?  American Energy Is Key To Undermining Putin’s War - Sen. Yaw (R-Lycoming)

-- Response: PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0; True Energy Independence [PaEN]

-- Response: DEP Budget Hearing: Unconventional Natural Gas Industry Didn’t Drill 40% Of The Wells It Had DEP Permits For  [PaEN]

-- Response: 12 Unconventional Shale Gas Drillers Issued DEP Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them At 35 Well Pads In 17 Counties [PaEN]

-- Response:  Financial Times: Top US Shale Oil Boss Warns Crude Could Hit $200 With Western Energy Embargo, Can’t Replace Russian Supplies Because Of  Supply Chain Issues, Demands From Wall Street To Pay Dividends With New Windfalls [Pioneer Natural Resources]

-- Response: NYT: What Putin’s War Could Mean For Fossil Fuels; EU Leaders To Announce A Proposal Next Week To Accelerate The Clean Energy Transition, ‘Reduce Permanently Our Dependence On Imports Of Natural Gas’

-- City & State PA: PA Republicans Call For Pipeline Expansions Following Invasion Of Ukraine [And Lash Us Tighter To Energy Commodities Whose Price Is Determined By Foreign Energy Markets And Despots]

-- Response: Senate Budget Hearings: PA’s Experience With New Pipeline Construction Shows State Laws Not Strong Enough To Prevent Environmental Damage, Protect Public Safety  [PaEN]

-- Republican Senators Propose Gas Drilling On At Least 22,000 More Acres Of State Forest, Mining 920 Acres Of Coal Under A State Park To Pay For DCNR Infrastructure Backlog  [PaEN]

-- AP: Attorney General May Seek Removal Of Judge In Cabot Oil & Gas Methane Pollution Criminal Case Because Of Ties To Company

-- Senators Yaw, Yudichak Request Independent Fiscal Office To Audit Modeling Done By DEP To Justify Final RGGI Regulations Reducing Carbon Pollution From Power Plants  [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.

Click Here to find your member of the state General Assembly.

Going The RIGHT WAY:

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-- 1,198 New Articles In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA 

[Posted: March 6, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

3/7/2022