Friend —
I have bad news. Of the 13 bills we told you about earlier this week that would set Pennsylvania back decades in our fight against climate change and efforts to clean up our air and water, 6 have already passed.
That's why I'm reaching out for your help, friend. We need to scale up the pressure on our lawmakers to ensure that they know how terrible these bills are, and we need to do it quickly. We need phones to be ringing off the hook in legislative offices. We need to whip up all the support we can possibly get. We need to get the press involved. We need to ensure that our voices are heard loud and clear.
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Thank you, friend — we couldn't do this work without you. We'll keep you updated as things progress.
Molly Parzen
Assistant Director
Conservation Voters of PA

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This is unreal, friend.
There are a whopping 13 extremist anti-environmental bills up for consideration in the state House and Senate this week. From preventing Pennsylvania from improving our air quality, to making it harder to enact much needed environmental regulations, we can’t let these attacks on our water, air, and land become law.
Send a message to your state senator and representative right now urging them to vote NO on the bad baker’s dozen of bills moving through the House and Senate. [[link removed]]
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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 >> [[link removed]]
Here’s the rundown. First there’s legislation in the Senate:
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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. [[link removed]]
Thanks for all that you do.
Katie Blume
Political Director
Conservation Voters of PA
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