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--

-- Feature: 60 Years Of Fracking, 20 Years Of Shale Gas: Pennsylvania’s Oil & Gas Infrastructure Is Hiding In Plain Sight  [PaEN]

-- DEP 2021 Oil & Gas Program Annual Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Received A Record 610 Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them  [PaEN]

-- Altoona Mirror: Report Criticizes Conventional Oil & Gas Industry For Abandoning Wells

-- Warren Times: DEP Report Critical Of Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Environmental Compliance

-- MCall - Ford Turner: Pottstown Neighbors Worried By Natural Gas Odors Near Site Of Fatal House Explosion: ‘I Am Afraid We Are Going To Blow Up’

-- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Warming Water Threatens Aquatic Life In Chesapeake Bay Region

-- TribLive: Freshwater Fish Significantly More Contaminated With PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Than Saltwater Fish And Shellfish, Analysis Shows

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:

-- 48 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

-- 68 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

-- 37 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

-- 25 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

-- 3,190 New Stories In 2022 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership [PaEN]

[Posted: January 22, 2023] 

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