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Pa Environmental Quality Board votes to join initiative to limit state s CO2 emissions
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Editorial: Sunshine Week exists to keep government on all levels accountable
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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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Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at a campaign rally for Pennsylvania candidates in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018.
HARRISBURG State Senate Republicans are continuing their fight against Gov. Tom Wolf’s attempt to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
In a party-line vote, the state Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, chaired by Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Bradford/Lycoming/Sullivan/Susquehanna/Union, sent a letter to the state’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission urging its review of concerns expressed by numerous commentators, including those from organized labor leaders, business leaders and elected officials over the past year who have weighed in against the “CO2 Budget Trading Program,” proposed regulation – #7-559 (IRRC #3274).
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Congress addressed the issue of interstate transport of air pollution in the Clean Air Act by enacting a “Good Neighbor Provision.” That provision requires upwind states to eliminate their contributions to air pollution in downwind states. EPA has promulgated various rules to implement the Good Neighbor Provision, beginning with the NOx Budget Trading Program and including the Clean Air Interstate Rule and, most recently, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). These rulemakings address the interstate transportation of ozone. CSAPR is updated regularly to align with the current ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). In response to various legal challenges and to update CSAPR with respect to the 2008 ozone NAAQS, EPA amended CSAPR in 2016. In 2019, the D.C. Circuit in
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