PennFuture recently unveiled a report highlighting 26 policies or actions that Gov. Tom Wolf and his administration can reasonably take on their own to protect Pennsylvania's environment, conserve Penn's Woods, advance cleaner and more efficient energy policies, and much more. The report was a collaborative project involving most of PennFuture's policy, legal, Energy Center and outreach staff, and also benefited from valuable input from several allied organizations.
There are significant steps that the General Assembly can take to strengthen Pennsylvania's environmental policies, and PennFuture will work with Republican and Democratic members from both the House and the Senate on their behalf.
However, the report illustrates the important steps that the Wolf administration can take on its own to move environmental, conservation and energy policy forward. The 26 steps that we recommend include a wide range of administrative actions, policy changes and proposed regulations. Some steps, such as the recently signed moratorium on further leasing of our state forests and state parks for gas development, can be fully achieved within 100 days. Others, such as a regulation to limit methane emissions from the natural gas industry, can be initiated with significant momentum.
Over the coming weeks, we will showcase many of the 26 recommendations throughout our blogs. We look forward to your input and help in spreading the word.
Here is a full link to the report: http://pennfuture.org/UserFiles/PDFs/GovWolfPolicyRecommendations_201501.pdf
