To the editor:
The recent election resulted in major wins for Democracy and for our environment. A pro-environment majority in the PA State House will hopefully result in advances in environmental policy such as passing community solar and environmental justice legislation. In addition, our new governor-elect, Josh Shapiro, is an advocate for the environment who has been holding polluters responsible for their actions and putting our most vulnerable communities first. I trust he will continue along this path and protect our rights to “clean air and clean water” as guaranteed in our State constitution.
For far too long our communities have been under siege by the oil and gas industry by fracking and a failure of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to regulate and protect us. The Republican controlled legislature has blatantly allowed them to destroy our environment. Under Republican control over the past fifteen years funding for the DEP has been drastically cut thereby allowing only minimal oversight of the polluters. Hopefully a new day is on the horizon and we can trust our elected government to do the right thing from now on.
Thank you,
John Hahn
Shohola, PA