PA DEP Sec. Quigley Wants to Create “Environmental Justice” Office
The PennFuture Secretary of the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection, John Quigley, continues to promote a hard-left agenda inside a once-great agency. Any time a Democrat like Quigley pairs the word "justice" with another word, like "environmental", you know it's a bad idea. Quigley is promoting the concept of creating an "office of environmental justice" within the DEP. What does that even mean? Is Quigley implying we currently have environmental "injustice" running rampant through the Commonwealth? Quigley also wants to use revenue raised from an obscenely high severance tax on Marcellus Shale drilling to fund more DEP inspectors to hang out at drill pads. Must be Quigley didn't get the memo from Wolf that ALL of the severance tax money, if Wolf is lucky enough to get such a tax passed (very much in doubt), has already been promised in a quid pro quo agreement to teachers' unions that helped get him elected...
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