Wolf Really Didn’t Wise Up, He Just Took Half a Loaf re Drilling Regs

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PA Gov Tom "half a loaf" Wolf
Yesterday MDN held out hope that PA's far-left Governor, Tom Wolf, had actually wised up with respect to blocking new drilling regulations for conventional drillers in the state (see Wolf Wises Up – Agrees to Block/Rework Conventional Drilling Regs). We thought perhaps the Wolf was learning to moderate his hard-left stances and work with the more reasonable Republican Party to advance the state. Ha ha ha. We should have known better. How very Pollyanna of us. We spotted an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that gives us the real reason Wolf agreed to sign off on a deal to block new Article 78 regulations for conventional drillers: Because if he didn't, Republicans AND Democrats were waiting to block ALL of the new drilling regs--including regs for shale drillers. Members of his own party told him they would vote to override his veto, if it came to that. Wolf knew he had lost the fight and rather than go down to defeat, he grabbed onto a half a loaf--allowing shale regs to advance--to salvage what little reputation he has left...

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