SB790 is the bill passed by the PA Senate that would allow conventional drillers to spread their toxic wastewater on unpaved roads, a practice that the DEP halted last year. It also provides other benefits to conventional drillers, including the loosening of reporting requirements for spills.
Berks Gas Truth collected more than 1000 individual and 100 organizational/business signatures on a letter it submitted to legislators and Governor Wolf after the Senate rushed the bill from the Appropriations Committee to a floor vote with no debate.
We have received hundreds of additional individual and organizatonal/business signers since we submitted the letter on 10/29, so we are submitting an updated copy to members of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee before they consider the bill on January 13. View the full letter with all signers here.
Organizational and Business Signers
Berks Gas Truth
350 Bucks County
350 Philadelphia
Academy of the Performing Arts, State College
Active Community Training
Advocates for Behavioral Change
Allegheny County Clean Air Now
Aquatic Research & Communication
Ban Backyard Fireworks
Ban Michigan Fracking
Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (BCMAC)
Better Path Coalition
Body Synergy
Breathe Easy Susquehanna County
Breathe Project
Bucks County Concerned Citizens Against the Pipelines
Bucks County Sierra Club
Bucks Environmental Action
Bucks POWA
Bullfrog Films, Inc.
Camp White Pine
Camphill Village Kimberton Hills
Center for Coalfield Justice
Center for Holistic Therapy
Chester County Marching Forward
Citizen Voices Radio Show
Clarion County Democrats
Clean Air and Water Council
Climate Reality Project: Susquehanna Valley PA Chapter
Collenbrook United Church, Drexel Hill
Complete Equine Health Service
Communities First Sewickley Valley
Concerned Citizens for Change
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability
Defend Ohi:yo’
Delaware Riverkeeper Network
Don’t Gas the Pinelands
Downingtown Friends (Quaker) Meeting
Earth Rights Institute
East Goshen Safety & Environmental Advocates
East Run Hellbenders Society
EcoJustice Working Group, Thomas Merton Center
Edgmont Community Safety Group
Elk County C.A.R.E.S.
Environeers
Erie Conservation District
Every Mother is a Working Mother Network
Exact Solar
Five Elements Farm
Friends of Crystal Cave Road
Friends of the Harmed
Friends of the Sock
Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition
Goshen United for Public Safety
Greater Wyoming Valley Audubon Society
Green Party of Allegheny County
Green Party of Butler and Venango Counties
Green Party of PA
Grid Magazine
Hanover for Progress
Hay Creek Watershed Association
Hemmabast-SylvanSun Farm Co-Op
Hershey Indivisible Team, Living Our Faith of St. Joan of Arc Church
The HUB for Progress
Hungarian Evangelical and Reformed Church, Bethlehem
Indivisible Berks
Indivisible Chester County
Indivisible Poconos
Indivisible We Rise – West Central PA
Indivisible: Narberth and Beyond
Ironwood Forestry
Izaak Walton League Allegheny County chapter
Janvier Ott Inc
John Herr Photography
John Moyer, L.P.C.
Juniata Valley Audubon Society
Juniata Watershed People Before Pipelines
Justice League – Activate!
Kalinoski Photography
Kettle Creek Adventures Lodge and B&B
Knapp Time Acres
Lancaster Against Pipelines
LAWPA
Lawrenceville Clean Air Now
Lebanon Pipeline Awareness
Lenape Associates
Little Mill Creek
Living Care Home Services
LogosPlus
Magnani Insurance Service Inc.
Marcellus Outreach Butler
Merchant Services Group
More Power Marketing
Moving Toward Healthier
Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa
Murraysville Watch
Natural Touch
Neighbors of Overbrook
Nine Mile Run Watershed Association
Nittany Valley Environmental Coalition
Northampton Community College Climate Action Network
Northcentral Pennsylvania’s Alternatives to Violence
One Earth Song Project
PA-7 Citizens for Equality Action
Paradise Gardens and Farm
Patriots From The Oil & Gas Shales
Payday Men’s Network
PennFuture
Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
Physicians for Social Responsibility—Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh 350 Petrochemical Action Team
PLGAS
Pneuma Institute LLC
Poetry & Pictures Inc
Poole Resources
Potter County Rights of Nature
Potter’s Farm
POWA
Progressive Faith Coalition
Project CoffeeHouse
Protect Elizabeth Township
Protect Franklin Park
Protect Orange County
Protect PT
Put People First! PA
Reading for 100
Reed Group
Resolution Media Fund
Responsible Drilling Alliance
Riegelsville Concerned Citizens against PennEast.
ROCIS (Reducing Outdoor Contaminants in Indoor Spaces)
Sandy Holm Farm
Schuylkill Pipeline Awareness
Shawnee Preservation Society
Stinnett Engineering
Stop Fracking PA
Sugar Hollow Natural Berries
Sunrise Lehigh Valley
Sustainable Monroeville
Syrena Law
The Alliance for Sustainable Communities Lehigh Valley
The E.P. Systems Group, Inc.
The Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart
The HUB for Progress
Tioga County Indivisible
Transition Cheltenham
Tuesdays with Toomey: Allentown
Unitarian Universalist Pennsylvania Legislative Advocacy Network
Upper Burrell Citizens Against Marcellus Pollution
Upper Northumberland County Democracy in Action
Uwchlan Safety Coalition
Voice of Justice
Voice Of Westmorland
VOW
Vox Populi
We Speak for the Trees
West End Progressives
West Pikeland Township Environmental Advisory Council
Westmoreland Marcellus Citizens’ Group
Williams Twp. CCAP
Women for Justice
Women of Color – Global Women’s Strike
The Wordsmithy
Wyoming County We Care