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--

-- Gov. Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions [PaEN]

-- DEP Concerned About Impact Of New Law Blocking Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding On New Federal Well Plugging Funds, Regulating Waste Injection Wells  [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Laura Legere: As PA Faces ‘Looming Crisis’ Of New Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, State Law Will Freeze Well Bonding Rates For A Decade  

-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: PA Bill Jeopardizing Millions In Oil Well Cleanup Funding To Be Passed By Governor, Say Sources

-- Guest Essay: Gov. Wolf, Don’t Give Money To The Oil Industry - By Rev. Mitchell Hescox & Kim Anderson, Evangelical Environmental Network [PaEN]

-- Sen. Yaw To Deny Counties Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue If They Make Only 99% Of Their Land Area Available For Shale Gas Development [PaEN]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: A Shale Gas Well Met An Abandoned Conventional Well A Mile Away - How Did It Happen?

-- Public Source: Since EQT Shale Gas Well ‘Frack Out’ In Greene County Community, It’s Been Oily Showers, Mysterious Smells And Thirsty Pets

-- New Lawsuit By WV Landowners Targets Alleged Fraudulent Transfer Of Oil & Gas Wells From EQT To Diversified Energy To Evade Cleanup Obligations

-- The Allegheny Front: Natural Gas Industry Campaign Re-Brands Gas As Climate-Friendly To People Of Color

-- TribLive: Westmoreland County Authority Water Still Contaminated With PFAS In McKeesport

-- PA Capital-Star: Environmental Watchdogs Petition DCNR To Remove $5,000 Access Fee On Oil & Gas Well Database

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

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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Going The RIGHT WAY:

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[Posted: July 24, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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