Tell Your Representative: Don’t Allow Rollbacks of PA Environmental Safeguards

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is expected to take up a proposal in the near future to roll back crucial health and environmental protections from gas and oil drilling that have been on the books for nearly thirty years. This rollback would allow companies to spray toxic fracking wastewater in communities across Pennsylvania and pose other threats to our health and environment

Send a message to your state Representative today at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=35927 telling him/her to vote against this legislation that will undo thirty years of protections from drilling.

This proposal is Senate Bill 790, and if passed into law it would roll back safeguards for our health and environment in outrageous ways, including:

• Allowing drilling wastewater to be spread on roads as a dust suppressant;
• These wastewaters contain salt, radioactivity, and organic contaminants and tend to make their way to nearby streams, creeks, and groundwater, posing serious threats to our environment and public health.
• Weakening reporting standards for oil and gas spills;
• Allowing oil and gas companies to replace drinking water they contaminated with replacement water that doesn’t meet Safe Drinking Water Act standards;
• Preempting local ordinances meant to protect our environment and local communities from the threat of drilling–a rollback that the state supreme court already found unconstitutional in 2013.¹

The state Senate has already passed this disastrous proposal and sent it to the House for a vote, which could happen as early as THIS WEEK.

Email your state Representative today and tell them to oppose Senate Bill 790.

Then forward my urgent alert to your friends and family and ask them to take a stand against this horrendous rollback today.

We can’t let politicians in Harrisburg undo 30 years of environmental protections from oil and gas drilling.

1. Michael G. Connelly & Justin G. Weber, “An update on Pennsylvania’s oil and gas law – Act 13 – after Supreme Court Decisions,” Pepper Hamilton, LLP, October 10, 2016.