It has been just over a year since Andrew G. Place made his final remarks as a member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, completing a five-year term.
His seat on the five-member panel has been vacant ever since â and may remain that way as long as Gov. Tom Wolf continues his bid to bring the Keystone State into the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, effective at the end of this year.
RGGI is a compact in which participating states would impose a carbon fee on electricity production and require fossil fuel generation to purchase allowances. Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia have agreed to cap and reduce power sector carbon dioxide emissions.
According to a Feb. 18 email filed with ADEM by Josh Stewart, an ADEM employee at the Decatur branch, the brush fire began Feb. 13 and the landfill manager was “unsure how the fire started because that area of the pile wasn’t actively receiving waste thereby ruling out the possibility of a hot load.”
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Government transparency and the public right to know is a standard to which we hold public officials accountable. Recent examples in Pennsylvania illustrate the consequences when that standard is not upheld.
Earlier this month, the discovery that the Pennsylvania Department of State had failed to publicly advertise a proposed constitutional amendment referendum to extend legal recourse for victims of sexual abuse resulted in the amendment proposal becoming ineligible for a statewide ballot. The error set back the amendment process by more than a year.
The administrative oversight caused then-Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar to resign and caused victims of childhood sexual assaults renewed pain at the delay in justice. The error, discovered by SpotlightPA reporting, was a painful example of the damage caused by failing to adhere to the rules of public notice.
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In a publicly-released letter to Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell today, the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association criticizes the DEP for failing to answer questions regarding the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and failing to properly advertise the virtual hearings on the controversial plan by Governor Tom Wolf for joining the multi-state compact.
PNA acknowledges that it did incorrectly comment that it appeared that DEP had not published any notices when twelve notices were released, but blames that on DEPâs lack of response to its inquiries, and claims the ads should have been published in all 67 counties, since all of the state is affected by RGGI. The group lists 41 counties where there were no notices published, including Armstrong, Cambria, and Westmoreland. It says the stateâs Air Pollution Control Act requires public notice to be provided âin newspapers of g