PA DEP Gives Away $600K for Woke EJ; Next Day Claims “Funding Gap”

Did we nail it, or did we NAIL it? Two days ago, the Josh Shapiro Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) puffed out its chest to announce it was donating $600,000 to 12 leftist organizations to promote "environmental justice" (EJ) in Pennsylvania (see PA Gov. Shapiro’s DEP Blows $600,000 on “Enviro Justice” Grants). EJ is anti-drilling advocacy under a different name. We observed that it's interesting how the DEP cries poverty at budget time and then finds money lying about it can blow on favored leftist programs later in the year. Yesterday (one day after announcing $600K in grants), the DEP Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, Kurt Klapkowski, told the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board there is a “very significant budget gap” in the funding needed for the Oil and Gas Regulatory Program again this year. Voila. MDN the oracle.

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