PEDF Loses PA Supreme Court Case to Block DCNR Budget

The only thing the so-called Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation (PEDF) “defends” is their own twisted philosophy of trying to gouge out the eyes of the oil and gas industry in PA--even at the expense of de-funding their own beloved PA Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). In two PA Supreme Court rulings, one in 2017 and another in 2021, PEDF won the right to limit how revenues from oil and gas drilling on state land can be used. The PA legislature reworded its budget directives and began using those revenues to fund day-to-day expenses at DCNR. PEDF sued again. Commonwealth Court rejected PEDF's arguments against how the legislature allocated the money, and two weeks ago, the PA Supreme Court upheld Commonwealth Court's rejection. Translation: PEDF just lost a major case they've been waging since 2017 to block drilling on state-owned land (by blocking how royalty revenue is used).

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