Anti-Marcellus Josh Shapiro, currently Attorney General, soon to be Governor
In June 2020, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (Democrat) announced an indictment of Cabot Oil & Gas for allegations of methane migration going back more than a decade, long before he was elected as AG (see PA AG Charges Cabot with Enviro Crimes for Long-Settled Dimock). Shapiro’s indictment was a bogus charge, an attempt to turn a long-settled accident into a crime--all for political gain. Shapiro recently won the race to be the state's next governor. Bashing the Marcellus industry as AG gave him credibility with the wacko left in his own political party. A few weeks after Shapiro’s shameless and bogus indictment in 2020, Cabot (now Coterra Energy) signaled it would fight him tooth and nail in court (see Cabot Signals They Will Fight PA AG Sham Dimock Indictment). Here's the next chapter: Shapiro is about to force Coterra (still under indictment for multiple felonies) to pay for a new municipal water system in the middle of nowhere for 20 homes that already had methane in their water for generations before Cabot showed up to drill.
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