Allison Acevedo
The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) has a department within its department called Environmental Justice. In March 2017, then-Acting (now full) Secretary of the DEP Patrick McDonnell went on an environmental justice "listening tour" (see PA DEP Conducting “Listening Tour” for “Environmental Justice”). So what is so-called environmental justice? As near as we can tell, “environmental justice” means asking poor people or minorities (African Americans and Hispanics) if they feel like they've been abused by the oil and gas industry in any way--and if they have a beef, the DEP will “do” something about it. The reason we bring all this up is because the DEP has just appointed a new Director of Environmental Justice--Allison Acevedo. She's a former tax and labor attorney from Philadelphia. We hope her appointment is largely ceremonial--a do-nothing job. We fear the opposite...
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