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--

-- Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Companies Accelerating Pace Of Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them Threatening To Put PA’s Taxpayer-Funded Well Plugging Program Even Further Behind [PaEN]

-- Exceptional Value Water Quality Designation, State Forest Land, River Honors Were Not Enough To Protect Loyalsock Creek From Natural Gas Drilling & Pipelines In Lycoming County - By Friends Of The 'Sock [PaEN]

-- House Environmental Committee To Hold Sept. 20 ‘Wellhead To Stovetop’ Hearing On Natural Gas In PA; Will They Mention $70 Million In Pipeline Penalties Assessed So Far?  [PaEN]

-- House Republicans Introduce Bill To Prohibit Financial Institutions From Protecting Their Investments From The Risks Of Climate Change, Discriminatory Practices, Poor Business Ethics [PaEN]

-- Republicans On Senate Committee OK Letter To IRRC Disapproving A Final Manganese Water Quality Standard Protecting Public Health  [PaEN]

-- Sen. Yaw: [Republicans] On Senate Environmental Committee Oppose Manganese Regulation

-- PA Capitol-Star Editorial Cartoon: PA’s Other Fossil Fuel

-- Post-Gazette: July Outage At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Released 11 Tons Of Pollutants, New Information Shows

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Allegheny County Health Dept. Urged To Do More After July 4 U.S. Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Outage

-- Post-Gazette: Second Ex-Pittsburgh Water Authority Official Sentenced To Probation In Sludge-Dumping Scandal

-- WHYY: Philly’s Mill Creek Community Mourns Loss Of Beloved Parks And Recreation Employee Killed By A Bullet Friday

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.

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[Posted: September 11, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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