Environmental protections built into natural gas drilling legislation that passed the state Senate on Tuesday convinced some environmental groups to endorse the bill with reservations even as others rejected it wholesale as a giveaway to the gas industry.

The environmental rules were often overshadowed in recent months by sparring over the bill's more controversial impact fee and local zoning provisions.

PEC today released the following statement on the pending HB1950 Conference Committee Report:

The enemy of the good is the perfect, and while this legislation is not perfect, the people of Pennsylvania are better served by passage of this bill now than to wait another year or longer for something stronger.

The Pennsylvania Environmental Council,
Duane Morris Government Strategies LLC and
Duane Morris LLP

Present

A Pennsylvania Legislative Briefing

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 
  

Paul M. King, President of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, is pleased to announce the promotion of Janie French to the position of Director of Water Programs, Statewide for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, effective immediately.

$25 for one ticket       $50 for three tickets

PEC sent the following message to the Governor and Leadership in the General Assembly today:

After several years of work and debate, Pennsylvania stands close to passage of meaningful updates to the decades-old Oil & Gas Act.  On behalf of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), we are writing to urge you to quickly reconcile and pass thesecritical protection provisions before the end of the year.