PA Gov. Wolf Instructs DEP to Draft New Regs Following Act 96

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, controlled by the extreme left in the Democrat Party, allowed PA House Bill (HB) 2644 to become law without his signature (see today's companion story, New PA Act 96 Helps Boost Plugging Orphan Wells - Left Goes Nuts). Wolf took a big hit from the lunatics in his own party following his inaction on 2644. Now he's trying to make up for it. Over the weekend, Wolf published a notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin to justify his action of allowing 2644 to become law (now called Act 96), and to instruct the state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) to enact new regulations clamping down on how it regulates conventional oil and gas wells to prevent new abandoned wells. In other words, expect the DEP under Wolf (and Shapiro, if he wins in November, God forbid) to generate all sorts of onerous new regulations in the name of preventing new orphaned wells from popping up.

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