FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \u2013 May 25, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contact: Karen Feridun, Berks Gas Truth, 610-678-7726, berksgastruth@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thousands Tell PA Senate They Don\u2019t Want Radioactive Waste on Their Roads<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Wake of House vote, Berks Gas Truth Submits Letter & Petition on HB1144 to PA Senate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This morning, 81 organizations, institutions, and businesses and more than 3,342 concerned citizens called on state senators to vote no on a bill that would roll back rules on conventional drillers, many that have been in place for decades. The letter<\/a> and petition<\/a> organized by Berks Gas Truth was originally sent to members of House, but was resubmitted with additional signatures in the wake of the bill\u2019s passage in the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the bill is full of bad provisions, the group focused on the same issue it focused on in the last session when a similar bill, SB790, was making its way through the legislature. Last year\u2019s bill would have reinstated the practice of road spreading of toxic, radioactive drilling waste on unpaved roads. This year\u2019s bill would allow the waste to be spread on paved roads, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year, the group presented a letter to the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee the morning of its consideration of SB790. The Committee amended the bill to remove the road spreading provision. Today\u2019s letter updates and appends that letter to express that much attention has been given to the contents of drilling waste since last year and concerns for potential impacts to water and air quality, human health, and safety have only increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe people spoke clearly last year and the Committee, and ultimately Governor Wolf who vetoed the bill he rightly considered to be a bad bill even without the road spreading provision, heard them. This time, the House moved the bill very quickly. With only a short time to circulate the letter and petition, we exceeded the number of signatures we\u2019d gathered last time and received even more prior to delivering it to the Senate this morning. Let\u2019s face it, \u2018I\u2019d like toxic, radioactive waste to be spread on the roads where I live,\u2019 said no one ever. Unfortunately, sentiments expressed by the people are of no interest to the members of the House who passed this bill. Let\u2019s hope our senators are more responsive to the people they were elected to represent,\u201d said Karen Feridun, Founder of Berks Gas Truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \u2013 May 25, 2021 Contact: Karen Feridun, Berks Gas Truth, 610-678-7726, berksgastruth@gmail.com Thousands Tell PA Senate They Don\u2019t Want Radioactive Waste on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fracking-waste","category-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastruth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}