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--

-- Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards [PaEN]

-- Bill Goes To Governor Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Senate, House Again Fail To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding  [PaEN]

-- Senate Committee OK’d Bills Rebranding Fossil Fuels As ‘Low Emission,’ Eliminating Incentives For EVs; Fails To End Ban On Raising Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding; Reports Out EHB Nominee Sarah Clark  [PaEN]

-- Senator Yaw: LNG Exports Critical In Preventing Emissions Backslide  [Real Story Is LNG Exports Keep PA Natural Gas Prices High, Which Is Where Industry Wants Them As Business Media Keeps Reporting]

-- WSJ: Tougher Federal Rules On Methane Leaks Coming, But Conventional Oil & Gas Wells That Are Responsible For 80%+ Of Leaks Might Catch A Break  [PA Examples]

-- DEP: PA General Energy Cited For More Water Pollution Violations, Blocking The Whole Width Of Loyalsock Creek At Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County [PaEN]

-- Public Herald: Public Records Show PA Has 10,543 Injection Wells Where Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Often Used For Enhanced Recovery Of Oil & Gas

-- A Study Finding Microplastics In 100% Of Exceptional Value, High Quality, Class A Trout Streams Sampled In PA Is Disturbing To Wildlife Advocates  [PaEN]

-- TribLive: Weather Conditions Prompt Allegheny County Health Dept. Air Pollution Warning For Tuesday

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Health Dept. Extends Air Pollution Warning For Mon Valley Through Monday Morning

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: U.S. Steel Cuts Back Emissions In Allegheny County As Air Quality Warnings Continue

-- WHYY: North, West Philly Continue To See Higher Concentration Of Lead Exposures, Despite Citywide Decline

-- Inside Climate News: PA’s Dairy Farmers Clamor For Candidates Who Will Cut Environmental Regulations

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: October 30, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

10/31/2022