TELL DEP FRACKING IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ISSUE
Tue, Aug 28
|Call-in number: 1 (650) 479-3208
DEP's proposed changes to its Environmental Justice policy omits shale gas development. Join the Better Path Coalition on Tuesday to tell DEP to think again.
Time & Location
Aug 28, 2018, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Call-in number: 1 (650) 479-3208
About the event
Join the Better Path Coalition on Tuesday when we tell the Department of Environmental Protection's Environmental Justice board that its proposed policy revisions that cut out shale gas development are unacceptable.
We will comment via teleconference during the EJ Board's meeting. We are asking you to make a brief statement during the public comment portion of the meeting.
Call-in number: 1 (650) 479-3208 Access code: 644 311 087
Comment period slated for 4:15, but call a few minutes early just in case.
Here are the basics. There are several problems with the DEP's EJ policy, but most of them are moot issues for Pennsylvanians affected by shale gas development. That's because the agency's list of "trigger permits" omits all but a couple related to shale gas development. A "trigger permit" is one that automatically triggers an environmental justice process when it is received by the DEP.
Secretary McDonnell…