PA Dems Water Down Bill Raising Bonding Rates for Conventional Wells

Last summer Pennsylvania House Bill (HB) 2644 was passed into law, becoming Act 96 of 2022 (see New PA Act 96 Helps Boost Plugging Orphan Wells – Left Goes Nuts). Part of the new law keeps the right to raise bonding amounts for conventional wells with the legislature rather than allowing PA’s unelected Democrat bureaucrats in the bowels of the DEP’s Environmental Quality Board (EQB) from doing it. The radical Democrats who control the PA House (with a razor-thin, one-seat majority) introduced a bill a few weeks ago attempting to undo HB 2644 (see PIOGA Responds to Bill Raising Bonding Rates for Conventional Wells). That bill, which was going nowhere fast, has been watered down in an attempt to get it to pass.

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