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This is unreal, friend.
The state legislature is planning votes on not one or two, but 13 extremist anti-environment bills in the next 72 hours.
Many of these bills are identical to ones that were vetoed by Governor Wolf last session. But polluters and their allies in the legislature are trying once more to make it easier for them to pollute our air, drinking water, and public lands.
In total, these bills would undercut the ability of state environmental agencies to do the kind of oversight that’s needed for drilling and hold polluters accountable and would give polluters even more power to rewrite the rules to benefit their bottom lines.
We know we can beat many of these bills, but we need you to speak out against them. Tell your lawmakers to put people over polluters by voting NO on these dangerous anti-environmental attacks >>
Here’s the rundown. First there’s legislation in the Senate:
- A slew of anti-regulatory bills that would allow companies to not be held accountable to environmental protection regulations and prevent the Department of Environmental Protection from doing its job.
- One bill that would block the state from taking badly needed efforts to limit carbon emissions from the energy sector.
- Other attacks include a bill that would block towns and cities from banning polluting energy sources from new construction.
- The last bill we’re concerned about would delay rulemaking that would protect the environment and limit public participation by no longer requiring state agencies to post changes to the PA Bulletin.
As far as the House goes, they’re planning a drilling regulation rollback that weakens protection of public resources, allows more spills to go unreported, and allows untreated drilling wastewater to be used as a dust suppressant on roads. There’s also a handful of bills that would establish an Independent Office of the Repealer that in reality is governed by a politically appointed committee, remove paper Public Notices without a new system in place, and add exorbitant fees for electric vehicles further harming a shift to more EVs.
Taken together, all 13 of these bills would set our state back decades in our fight against climate change and to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink. Pennsylvania has the most premature deaths per capita caused by air pollution of any state and consistently ranks in the top 5 states when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions — and these issues typically impact low income and communities of color the most. But Big Polluters care more about their bottom line than cleaning up the air, and are trying to pass many of these bills for the second year in a row to protect their profits.
Add your name RIGHT NOW to send your representative and senator an urgent message to vote against all 13 of these toxic bills.
Thanks for all that you do.
Katie Blume
Political Director
Conservation Voters of PA
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