Yesterday, Governor Shapiro announced that his administration will file a lawsuit to unlock $1.2 billion in suspended federal funding owed to Pennsylvania agencies, arguing the Trump Administration has failed to comply with multiple court orders. These frozen funds for Pennsylvania include critical environmental and health initiatives that are vital to restoring God’s creation and defending the life of all God’s children from harmful pollution.

On Wednesday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the PJM Interconnection, Inc.’s Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI) proposal to “fast track” natural gas power plants at the exclusion of renewable and other clean energy projects, leaving them stuck in the permitting queue. In response, Carolyn Heckman, Associate Director of Pennsylvania Policy for the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), released the following statement.

Today, joint Congressional Review Act resolutions were introduced in the U.S. House and Senate that would rescind an outcomes-based methane pollution fee designed to incentivize large oil and gas operations to install readily available and cost-effective innovations to plug natural gas leaks and meet industry-set goals for capturing wasteful methane emissions. In response to these resolutions, EEN President & CEO Rev. Dr. Jessica Moerman issued the following statement.