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--

-- Bradford Era: 24-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline Ruptures, Explodes In McKean County Causing Wildfire; Force Majeure Declared In 2 States  [PaEN]

-- Bradford Era: No Cause Identified Yet For Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion In McKean County

-- S&P Global: Federal Pipeline Safety Agency Delays Methane Emission Rules From Gathering Pipelines

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: EPA Don’t Allow States To Review Natural Gas Infrastructure Projects Under Section 401 Of Federal Clean Water Act - Laborers’ International Union of North America  [Here’s PA’s Experience With Natural Gas Pipelines  ]

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: DEP Investigating EQT Shale Gas Well Residents In Greene County Claim Is Contaminating Their Drinking Water

-- WPSU: EPA Asks Big Dog Energy Bitcoin Mining Operation In Clearfield County For Information  [DEP Issued Company 9 NOVs For Attempting To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them ]

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s Too Dependent On Natural Gas, It Didn’t Have To Be - Squeezed By Wild Market Volatility - Larry Schweiger, Fmr Western PA Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation President

-- Republicans On House Committee Approves Letter To IRRC Setting Up Their Disapproval Of Final Oil & Gas Facility Methane Reduction Regulations; Failure To Adopt Will Risk Millions In Federal Highway Funds  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Allegheny County Executive Defends Decision To Veto County Parks Fracking Ban; County Council Will Attempt To Override The Veto

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: How Far Will PA Republicans Go To Limit Constitutional Rights? - Patrick Beaty, Fair Districts PA  [Is PA’s Environmental Rights Amendment Next?] 

-- Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay Model Missing Huge 5 Million Chicken Operation In PA And Their 5 Million Pounds Of Nitrogen Leading To Questions About Model’s Accuracy - By Karl Blankenship

-- WESA: After Years Of PFOS Contamination At Pittsburgh Airport, Nearby Drinking Water Still Hasn’t Been Tested

-- FOX43: Toms Creek Flows Milk White After Stone Quarry Malfunction In Adams County 

-- Petition To Eliminate $5,000 Fee To Access Public Information In DCNR’s ‘EDWIN’ Oil & Gas Well Database

-- Coalition For Delaware River Watershed: Pennsylvania Falls Short In Funding Commitment To Delaware River Basin Commission  [PaEN

-- S&P Global: PA’s Legal Wrangling Over RGGI Creating PJM Market Uncertainty

-- Scranton Times: SUV-Hating Climate Group Says Scranton Among Its Targets

-- MCall: Pack Of 40 Dirt Bikes, ATVs Disrupt Traffic On I-78 In Lehigh Valley; State Police Asking For Help To Identify Drivers

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: July 17, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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